THECorYRIGHT, 18?8, BT Tni SPORTINS LIFE PcBLiramo Co. SPORTING LIFE.ENTIRED AT PHH.A. POST OFFICK As sucosn CLASS HATTIB. VOLUME 10, NO. 19. PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY 15, 1888. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.

returned covered with glory. The boba were pro- which is a legal holiday in this State and mus t that year. In 1882-83 ho played with the fame club noutsced the finest in tbe land. be considered hereafter in making the schedule and Wfcs deservedly popular with his fellow-plajera GENERAL NEWS. T. J. Coakley, ot this city, an excellent third base- BASE BALL HEWS. Manager Leonard, who is a member of the schedule NO BLUNDER. and patrons of the g^nio in Detroit. Nut b- ing on tbe man and a g'.od hitter, is open for aii engagement with committee, aayn that he has a schedule already com­ reserved list of Detroit he Joined the Cincinnati a minor league team. lie can furnieh excellent pleted which should be satisfactory to all club*. It is Unions, plaving 35 gam^s with that club during the references iu reg«nl to his ability as a player, ar.d can for 112 games eight games at home and eight abroad season of 1884, ranking ^o. 8 in batting at the close be addressed care of Secretary Bowo, of the Star Asso- with each club. In this connection I will pive the of Ihe sermon. This was hia lattytar on the dia­ The First Rowing Regatta ciafi^n. The Cincinnati Team Off population of each of the cities which comprise the The Minor League Res­ mond, and when he retired he conU look bick with The local professionals will go into active practice International Association: Buffalif, 225,000; Rochester, pride to his excellent record und the m my friends he the first of hext week. 13o,000; Albany, 100.000; Toronto, 125,000; Syracuse, gained, both in and out of the profreslon, who will of the Year. Knneae City would te pleased to secure Manager for the South. 70,000; Troy, 65,000; Hamilton, 40,000; London,40,000. ervation Clause learn with sorrow of his death. Impaired health Hackett'e services for u xt season, but Syracuse will making* prand total of about 800,000 people to draw compelled him to give up base ball, and fur the past be more than pleaned to retain him. G. WHIZ. from. The distances of tbe cities are as follows: two years he has been engaged with his brother From London to Hamilton, 65 miles; Hamilton to William in business, in which he was quit* succeasfuJ. The Pool Championship De­ NO U& OUE. Base Ball Reviving in Toledo Toronto, 38 miles; Toronto to Buffalo, 112 mile,*; Defined by Col. Rogers, Chair­ Martin Powell was a modtl man, a kind friend, a de-* Buffalo to Rochester, 68 miles; Rochester to Svracnse, voted Catholic, loved arid respected hy all. The cided Bicycling News A The Proposed Oil Region League Won't Engagements An­ 81 miles; Syracuse to Albany, 148 miles; Albany to man of the Board of funeral ceremonies were at Ht. Bernard's Churchj Materialize. Troy 5 miles. Total from both extremes, 517 miles. and the interment at St. Beru;ini's Ometery. Htgft The roster of the Rochester Club Is Ihe same a-j last Mass of Kequiem was cele'-ratetl ou TtieiHlny morning* Turfman Dead, Etc. OIL CITY, Pa., Feb. 9. EditorSpORTiNGLiFE: nounced, Etc. week. There still remains to be signed a third base- Arbitration. The flora] tributes were beautiful designs. A cross, It is a settled fact that there wiil be no Oil man and another battery. Manager Leonard's surmounted by a lyre of white lillies, from George H. Region Base Ball League in the field this season. chances of getiing the man of his choice for third Crocker, a diamond of ivy and paimes with white CYCLING NEWS. The Bradford Sunday News sizes up the situa­ TOLEDO RKPIVrVTTS. base are, at present writing, rather dubious; still PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10. Editor SPORTING lillies iu the centre from his ball friends and othurs. tion correctly in the following manner: he has hia line out for a man who was engaged last A FRIEND. Information for Wheelmen From Official Putting in Big Licks for Admission to the mil by a prominent League club. Manager Leonard LIFE: In reply to your favor of yesterday "Alt the cities that are interested in the proponed Ohio League. thinks thirteen men are enough to start the season touching Mr. Caylor's criticism of the 10th Sources. League have been heard from, and «s a rule they arc "SOUTHERN SPRING TRIPS. Special to SPORTING Lira. with; he condemns the practice of some managers in article of Qualified Admi ^ion, I woul I say: Special to ?PORTIXO LIFT:. confluent that their respective towns will not have a signing eighteen or twentv men, only to release one- Their Advantages and Disadvantages Com* club, and if they had, not enough support would be TOLEDO, 0., Feb. 11. In all probability, He misquotes, unintentionally of course, by BOSTON, Fob. 11. The following official L. A. third of them before the championship series has fairly meuted Upon by Hall Players. extended to make it a nlnomiiif succees. Ben Able, in Toledo will be represented in the Ohio begun. substituting the word "these" tor "then" at the VI. news comes from tho League headquarters the Titupvillo IfmiM, siys that an oil region circuit ia State League this season. Zanesville shows The Londons have to date engaged twenty men, and end of fifth line of section 2, as follows: "A re­ DBS MOINES, Ia., Feb. 7. Editor SPORTINQ in this city: not meeting with much support, and believes that are still scouring the country for pitchers; can you serve list of players not excee ling fourteen in LIFE: Base ball news is fearfully scarce in thia Tiiusville will have no club. Oil City will have no no disposition to do anything, and as Toledo From Chief Consul BMwell, of New York: "I have is anxious to be admitted, she will place blame player a for demanding a large amount of ad­ number these under contract," etc. neck o' the woods. B;»so ball interest is plenti­ received ami accepted th-j resignation of Haymond S. club for the simple reason that her citizens would be vance money under euch. circumstances? The writer compelled to witlfc thieo or four miles to witness a a team in the field (is soon as any of them. The Kala- If he will consult THE SPORTING LIFE of ful enough, but real interesting news is very Coon, Troy, N. Y., as secretary-treasurer, aud he has mazoos are warnly in favor of Toledo, and will vote knows positively of several jvtayers In this association scarce. Some weeks ago there was an article in placed in uy bannated by the managers of Presque Isle Park, an island fitnplover pets any reluru for his money? THE SPORT­ "That the secretary of each association party nedy and Van Dyke some days ago, and both Boston, Mass, liis successor will bo elected at the next shottld become loosened. Corry can't be relied upon ING LIFE Millenium plan would do away with exorbi­ because her citizens are kept hasy tnrnlns out rail­ in tho bay, which id the most popular resort of North­ of tho second part shall on or before Mie 10th are loud in approval of the spring trip in the *n muti meeting of the New York State board of officers. western Ohio. Steamboat transportation has also tant advance money, a* well as many other evils. South. Van, especially, thinks it is almost In tho meantime, all communications for or relating road sandw'ches, and therefore would not have time to day of October of each year transmit to the sec­ attpnd a l>all game. Warren will not enter fur various keen promised, free. ZEPHYRS. to thfi secretary -treasurer's office may be sent to me, Jack Creegan, of last year's Rochesters, is stated to retaries of both the associations parties of the necessary to begin the season right to take a trip reasons, but the principal one Is tbe fact that her Jackson, Midi., and Dayton, 0., each have a team of, say, one month. Van thinks that a short »Ed will have prompt attention." ready to go in the State League, and if Zanesville have signed to play second base for Elntira this sea- first part, a reserve list of players, not exceeding From Chief Consul U. SI. Welch, of California citizens will not subscribe tnwards a fuud, and the second reason in thai the Y. M. C. A. people and the will come up lo ihe scratch, the League may be made COD. Creegan is a gcod player and will be a favorite fourteen in number then under contract with sojourn at Hot Springs will do a club more good "Mr. H. C. FiDkler, chairman of the Jlaciog Board, up of ten clubs, Toledo and one of the two mentioned with KJQiira people. than anything that could happen to theiu. Ted having: resigned as a member of th.it body, Mr. A. S. liquor dealers will have enough field spoils without each of the several club members of the party of boiheriui? with the Natk-nal game. Jamestown could to compose the two additional ones. President Mc- The Ninth Ward Stars, who won the Amateur the second part," etc. says: "Tho gang ought to go South and get Ire-land encoeeda to the poatti'tu ot" chairman, and Mr. Dermith writes me from Columbus that Toledo's League pennant in 1886, without being defeated iu a B. A.Smytbe, uf San Francisco, bus been appointed easily pluce a nine in the field, but they are more Mr. Caylor "wants to ask any lawyer who waked up before the championship season opens* interested in quoit pitching and matching pennies." chances are good. A representative of the Toledo Club single championship game, aud who won tbe pennant to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. again iu 18M7, loosing but one game, claim to be the reads this letter how many men he understands A few games before the season opens here » So far as Oil City is concerned, we would cer­ is visiting all the teams in the State thid week, hav­ Tinkler." ing been up to Circlevilie, and on his return, if all is amateur champions of "Western New York. Such can be reserved by a minor league." which you know is backward in the South lim­ From Chief Consnl M. H. Van Slcklen, of Illinois: tainly have a club if grounds could bo secured favornble, the new club will be organized. players as Georpo Weidman, Paul Cook, Billy and I don't know whether 0. P. C. (stands for bers a fellow up a little gets the fat off him, "Mr. II. J. Mock, of Cambridge, Henry Cuiiuty, is inside the city limit*. The town, however, is "Watch" Burnbam 13 in the city. He said to me to­ Tom Callihan, Tommy K^arnes, Jack Creegau, etc., hereby appointed local consul for Illinois Division at ar« graduates of tbi? club. 0-Phi-Cleide a brass wind instrument) will etc. Take the latt year's club, for instance* growing so rapidly that there is not now an day that in his opinion Toledo will take the place of They took this trip, and when they came back the above place. Tho Park House, Sandwich, UK, la Kuupas Citv next year in ihe Ameiican Assocation. There ie nothing new in the Collins matter and will classify uie as a "lawyer." However, I may ftpp-.iuted L. A. W. hotel, No. 2S. Bates, $1.50 per available lot in the cit}7 for a base ball park. not be- until the Arbitration Committee decides who have earned 'be title by a very ective practice they were in good shape, and played a better Our old ground bus been sold to a syndicate, We'll be satisfied with ua Ohio League team just at *ay." present. J. Us AND. fthull have Colling. The Rochester management think for more years than I care to admit. If so, I game of ball to start witli than any club in the Fiom Chief Consul M»-aley, of Maryland: "I have which is now erecting tube works on it. The that their claim ia perfect and that the Arbitration League. Yuu remember how they trounced St. Paul, thin duy appointed the Cautonsville Hotel, Canton?- would answer that the section, when conectly quoted, location of this place ig somewhat peculiar. THE FIRST TO START. Committee will awaid him to Rochester. DR. means juat what it sayt: A reserve list made up of not don't't you?'' I think the boys are right,, and that A Tille, »[J.t aa an L. A. W. hutel. Regular r;»tea, 81.40 trip of about a month is a good thing for them, but per day; to I*. A. W. membf is, ou presentation of The bosinOfH portion of the city is on the North side more than fourteen pliiyera fr.*m each club. As the ol the Allegheny river, between two big hilli, ami ia The Cincinnati Team Off for tbe Sonny THE RIVAL COWBOY CLUBS. Lumber of club members vanes with the differont thero are KG wiiny club* take the same idea that it is membership ticket, $1 per day," pretty hard thickly'populated. Some years ago there was an in­ South. leagued, it was deemed better that tbe aggregate of picking and apt to prove a fnilure finan­ clined plane built up the hill known a* dark's Sum­ The President of the Western Association each reserve list mnain unspecified acd be the subject cially. Gymrtaaium work is well enough, but it TEEMKB "WINS. - mit. A mile race track was built up there :ind for a Special to SPORTING LIFE. Defines His Position. of a simple sum in multiplication. doesn't fill the bill, inasmuch as it dorA develop th» while tho place boomed. After the novelty wore off, CINCINNATI, Feb. 11. Tho Reds are en route Mr. C. makes a bitter rhetorical attack npon the player in all ptrte. It is not likely that the Dw Outrowlnj; >IcKay and the to New Orleans and Jack O'Connor was the sociation, and holder of the Western Association "awkward, bungling blnndera" of the Arbitration Com­ Mile Pull on Rough Water. railroad was taken down and transferred lo T&maqua, only member of the team that did not mittee. Now, really, he ought to move out on the favor it. He eajs he's "had enough of Southern trip* Pa. Wo have good ball grounds on thfi hill now, franchise in Kansas City, in a letter to a St. road, where they get tbe newspap< ra, because (here to )»st him some time." Special to SPORTING LIFE. but there is DO way of getting up, except by climb­ go. He alone remains unsigned and his action Louis coteruporary, makes some interesting per­ has been no such committee for the last two and a half Teach ears that the only thicg that maJe him "hot" PONTA GERDA, Fla., Feb. 11. The first race ing the hill for a distance of half a mile, oud I in returning to -President Stern tho ticket he sent sonal explanations, and defines the situation of years. "The Board of Arbitration" is the name, style in my test tetter and the only thing that wasn't pretty «f the rowing series between T«emer, McKay venture to Fay that any man would have all the him from St. Louis to Cincinnati indicates that and title of the tribunal that is now the supreme near right, waa that I said Sutcliffc "licked" him. enthusiasm taken out of him before he had climbed affairs at*Kansas City as follow?: court of base ball. But Mr. Olla Podrida Caylor don't Peek-a-Boo says "Sut" hasn't any show at all agaiuit »nd Ha mm took place yesterday afternoon. ho intends to go to Kansas City, but just what "I organized and incorporated -under the name of 100 feet oo a hot summer day. Tbo present driv­ will be done in his ca«e is a matter for future mind these little inaccuracies. He never does. He ia him in the ring. Large crowds were in attendance. Teemer ing park is located on the South side and the treasurer the Kansas City Base B.ill Club, transferred the fran­ utied to them. Van Dyke and Kennedy will not enter the Y. M. 0. tripped weighed 170, Ham in 17G and McKay 168 of tho company has fixed up a playing ground ou consideration. There were sixteen in the party chise held by me in the Western Association, secured I am sure my colleagues on the Board will join me A. gymnasium, as they were refused admittance by pounds. The race was conducted squarely and it, tut it is so far away from the business portion that left in a Pullman car over the Chesapeake our players, procured new grounds, and will next wovk iu saying that wo make no pretensions to perfection "thu powers that be;" why, I know not, unless it fa begin the erection of a fine and commodious grand because they don't want any "professional" talent gave general satisfaction. The water was rough of tho city, that it would never pay to locate a and Ohio. Fourteen players: Smith, Mullane, Yiau in our English composition. We try to write our laws League club there. There is no hope for a club Hurt, Si-rad, Baldwin, Keeiian, lleilly, UcPhee, Fen- Btaiid. In( doiii£ this I have not asked for one dollar iu oa plain aud conciat- diction as Ibo hurry and flurry there. They will go into the Turners' "gym" and and some fears were entertained for the safety here this year at least. H. C. It. nelly, Tebeau, Corkhill, N;col aud Kuppe!, also Man­ contribution or aid from the public, and, in addition, of our very busy conferences permit. The draft of practice there. Kennedy will stand lots of oxercise, aa 0* the oarsmen. At 4:32 the signal "Go!" was given. ager >'climelzand litn Slulfoid, Jr., of the Timea-Sfar offer to protect the stockholders to the extent of ?8,000, each article is submitted to the B< ard and amended, he is very heavy, weighing nearly 200 pounds, whereas AH three started exactly even. For the first quurter­ wbuh waa the amount actually subscribed under a A CATCHER'S IDENTITY. ami THE SPORTINO I.ire. until it is supposed to express tbe views of tbe majority. he shouldn't weigh over 175 to 180. mite Teemer m»de 32, McKay 34 und Hamm 30 strikes. The Cuvingtou Stars have reorganized for the season capitalization of $25,000 two years ago by the old as­ At every meeting these articles are read over and im­ Tun Dyke Lae gone into the Nickel Plate shoe store McKay soon led Hanini and Teemer. At the half-milu sociation. I wHl pl:>y ball ia the Westein Association, What ainrphy is it That the Houston Club cf '88. They have fourteen members to select a team proved in form, even when not altered in tubstnnce. of 01; as. Kabler & Co., where he will remain till the fianmi made a wonderful ppurt aud passed McKay to to play the Ciucumatis ou April 10. The club will a^k will accept or consider no compromise or consolida­ There is always room for such improvement, just as season open?. the lurnicg poiat, which he rounded at 4:43. Teemer Has Signed at Big Figures? Mr. Scbmelz for tbe services of Keenan to catch Ram- tion, and if by good ball p!ajiug we cannot secure new sweepings can always btuah r.p new dust. Even Teach ia still looking for advance money from St. followed ten seconds later, McKay a few seconds be­ HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 4. Editor SPORTING sev, as the club h.is uo catcher. Wallace Taylor, of patronage enough to meet any or all obligations, will the much landed Tripartite Agreement and tho first Paul. He says bid clttb will go South in the spring. hind Teemer. Ihe turn wiw one-and-a-Iialf milea tho CtAhigton Staia, has an offer from Lojtansport, be the lua*r to that extent at the close of the season, By the way, Teach ha§ been practicing in a hall her* from the finish. On tbe homeward stretch Teemer led LIFE: There has been a great deal of interest National and Snpplemental Agreements', written manifested lately by the stockholders of the Ind., to play there this season. He h »s sent his terms. "You Fay Can two clubs professionally exist iu Kan­ when 0. P. C. (Old Particepa Criminis), was secretary and says he tins "a great arm." five lengths, while llnnim and McKay made a hard Jimmy Day, of Covington, has signed a contract to sas City? I answer emphatica'ly, No. But with a of the Board, were altered, emasculated, amended and Season tickets will soon bo put before the public and truggle for etcond place. Near the finish Teemer Houston Club as to what Murphy they have se­ play Lall for Lafayette, lud. Lou Meyets has asked tail-Glider iu the American Association and what I improved at every meeting of their authots. Indeed, will be made so reasonable that they should, and no diopped back within a length of HcKay, but on a cured as catcher: They have bceft laboring un­ Charleston for his release. KEN MI;LFORD, Ja. hope a top club in tho Western Asstciaticn I do not a comparison of those original instruments, and their doubt will, be rapidly sold. It is the duty of every purt reached the line with a thirty-eight stroke at der the belief that they had got Murphy who four the result, and unless they allow tbe club in the many crudities, tautological defects, parentheses in lover of tho National game in Des Moiues to take one, 4:52. McKav six accoml* later, Hamm two seconds be­ MIIXEK SIGNS. American Association here the privilege of 25 cents parentheses, provisos on provisos, etc., with their docu­ 90 boys Bave up your dimes, and when asked to tako ft hind McKay. The prize fur the race was $400. supported Titcomb last season with the New admission I feel tbe more certain of the finul out- ticket go down in your jeans and fork out the "where­ Yorks, until they saw ,in answer to a corres- mentary successors will certainly not result legally The Obstreperous Pittsburg Catcher Car­ Cume. I have never had much faith iu the future of or rhetorically to the discredit of the latter. withal.1" The Cuban Wins the Fool Championship. fw^dent through the columns of THE SPORTING the American Association owing to their past actions, So although Olympus Parnassus Caylor hath, from Kennedy says he'll bet Bitty Alvord a five cent cigar LIFE recently that Murphy, :fce one they sup­ ries His Point A Statement From Smith. firiil ( n:n m<'r^ thnn ovr r'-nvinc*3'! thit they are that he hnsn't been inside of a gymnasium all winter. peciftl to SPORMNO LIFK. frpijiKnt cectarizinir, worktKl himself itit;< u I.trazea * r > '. ' Al. posed they had, had been reserved by Xi3V? York. Special lo SFOKTIXG LUTE. NEW YORK, Feb. 11. Tho game for the pool cham­ PITTSBURG, Feb. 11. Another striker has ^ave located a depot in Des MoineB pionship of tho world. 8150 a side and the silver tm- \V'e have the signature of D. J. Murphy, which was .on, Lathrop jc Co.'a, 607-0 Jl tr . 1. !,.»,.- itF-,.,. ..Vlr,, ..,.,,^- t.,,,,.-,. o-M..I», rt ,1,- ftftlYH I ttt n r-.Titi-.-u-t .if n iii-inr..1v fcth^ml flii.i wlitilir-r lU"*tf,:c-s etud i fcfj t>. Lu co :. with the Gas City team, fact that thii many-head-"' -' creature, ties, on tLo twenty-fecoud, the twenty-eighth and the hitter of tho Houston (.Hub, is receiving loiters daily receiving, il U ijul, a? much as Fred Carrol!, niufcs, him[,ly btc;tust3 Lhoj olairuud we W;TC the refuse with his wriggling tail a' rk, has in his from diffeiont station*, asking for his terms for this wbo draws about $2,800. Miller received $200 of the League. Thus they were actuated by a preju­ hunt for blemishes in ? from which The Fover as Virulent na Ever Mr. Cox'fl thirtieth innings. D'Oro won the match in the laiity- dice atainet us over which we had no control. , firet game, with the clo§e ecore of 16 to 15. He was coining BPSSOU, but Harry knows a soft thing or two advance money. His acceptance uf a contract was the he has been excluded ,v,,,.... ^,ut one "alleged" Fre-Mlmcy The Coming Season, Etc. carried away in the arms of hU friends. The full when he signed with Houston this season. direct result of* Dirqctur lUnry Brown's step. The latter "I do not wish to appear egotistical, hut in all the fault, and that made glaring only by a perversion core, is: Joe Maurer, Fort Worth's third buseraan, is took charge of the strike >esterdny morulng, sent for fights made for recognition I fought single-handed of tho text. TORONTO, Feb. 8. Editor SPORTING LIFE: M alone 62,67,18,18,61,64,74,61,61,61,44,15,8, 6«, rusticating in Ihis city and practicing daily with Miller, ashed him his terms and agreed to sign him. and alone, no one (teeming it cf sufficient iatereit to 0. P. C. Oh Trendre Conge and go West. Permit Base ball begins booming in the Queen City and 9, 0, 30, 16, 51, 65, 67,19, 0, 30, 44, 63, 66, 61. 52, 63, 11. Howard and Lobach to get fa trim for the approach­ Miller 8nys Brown is a vhi'e man. It ia denied that lend a helping hand, and when I secured a franchise me, Mr. Editor, if you still survive, to subscribe my­ there is every prospect that the season of 1888 I) Oro 0,6, 61 70, 0, 8, 7,16,0, 0,63, 65,61, 26,61, ing season. Gulvm has signed, bu* officials say ha will come to in the Western Association and they saw me in a self. Yours revengefully, JOHN I. ROGERS, will be the most successful of any that wo have ft, 62, 63, 64, 12,16, 61,61,64,61. 18,64,46,61, 36,67. Houston Is fast completing her grand sta-id, to terms ilfia evening. He will receive $3,000. position to control it, a howl went up, but instigated Chairman B. of A. « . have in preparation for the Cincinnati^ when they Pop ^mith made a clear ttatemeut of his case by a class who never go down in their pockets when ever experienced. The town is all on the qui playing a loeiug game, but always on top when there five for ball news and many are the predictions Death of a Well-Known Turfman. come here, March 6 and 7, and a large crowd wil'l to-day. lie said that the Boatun management, or witness Houston do up Ren 'Mtilford'a pets. rather President Soden, certainly did not treat him is a division of tho ppoils to be made. The crowd THE SCHEDULE MAKERS. as to the probable strength of our nine the com­ Special to SPORTING LIFK. No paper ie gobbled up faster than THE SPORTING right In making public the fact that he was corre­ holding tbe American franchise claim thousands uf dollars as represented in their ranks, but with one or The Joint Meeting at Buffalo A Com­ ing eoason. The worst specimen of all the ST Louis, Mo., Feb. 11. James Lucas Turner died LIFE when it arrives hero, every Wednesday, and sponding with them regarding an en£Veoie.nt. JJ0 crank species, the base ball crank, is developing Of pneumonia yesterday at his farm near St. Louia, at not a aiogle copy is procurable after that day. CAASI, says they first opened up negotiations. Director two exceptions they have named parties who two years promise Arrived at Talk With Dele­ the age of 33 years. He van a well-known turfman, Billiogs told a Boston friend of Smith's to write to ago took one sharp of stock for $100 and expected gates. with surprising rapidity. One meets him every­ thdt to run a club forever. They are individually and his breediDg-farm was one of the beet in the i: AROUSED. Pop and tell him that the Boston management de- where with the same old question: "What do fitate. Among bis lioreea was tho celebrated Aristides, sirtd him to correspond with them. All was to be wealthy, some of them, but are not giving up BUFFALO, Feb. 8. The League and Associa­ you think of our team?" There is not a minor who was one of the fastest horses in hia day. His two strictly confidential. He kept his part of the pro- their cash for base ball, except es they did two years tion joint schedule committees adjourned at the Base Ball and Other Sports to bo En­ ago, and when approached never forget to refer to league city in the country to-Jay where nlles r.nd a half, made at Lexington, on Ma; 13, 1876, grnmme. Genesee House at nine o'clock last evening, after more interest Is taken in base ball. HOYT ID 4:27^1 still remn-.DS the best on record. The de- couraged Two Organizations Formed. Smith's brother wrote him recently thcit Director tbeir contribution. They had actually subscribed, a two days session. Until late yesterday after­ when Whitfield went to Cincinnati, almost 53,000, but was it last year when we won the ceaeed leaves a wife and five children. WILKKSBARRE, Feb. 8. Kditor SPORTING Billings told an intimate friend that he intended to noon it looked very much as if tho work of the sign Smith aud Clarkeon before spring. millions in promises, but do not understand mo to championship? Why, the town fairly went LIFE: After lying dormant through the winter intimate that they cannot raise the money necessary committee would be of no avail, but at last ac­ the approach of spring has freshened up the LATER. Boston has again offered 81,000 for Smith, basd ball crazy, and during the last weeks of tho sear- Death of the Senior McAullffc. which will probably be accepted. Galvin will sign to put a club in the fie!d. No doubt they can ana counts a compromise wa3 reached and a plan for sou uothing'else was talked of on tho street, fn the Special to SpoiAtNQ LIFE. spirits and awakened new interests in sporting Monday. will, but when they fall short when paying off salaries, the formation of the two schedules was worked cars, at tbe hotels, in fact everywhere. Such base ball NEW YORK, Feb. 11. Cornelius MrAuliffe, father circles hereabouts. Not alone has base ball etc., they will find they aro not so willing to put up. excitement was never known here, and it is coming I intend to mabe no protest against the franchise or out, which made the number of conflicting dates of Jack McAuliffe, the light-weight pugilist, died taken the initiative, but other sports as well have HOLDING OUT. acceptable to both parties. over to this season and will keep right up to a boiling yesterday at hie homo in Williau sburg, L. I. The renewed the waning life, and the coining sum­ American Association hero. They can put in as many pitch. Ae in 1887, so in 1888, "Olympic" and "G. deceased was born in Ireland, but bad been in this The Indianapolis Players Very Tardy in clubs as they see fit, and if we cannot live, success to There were so many interests to be protected Whiz" are getting off their guns in their accustomed countiy nearly a quarter of a century, several years mer promises to be one of the most lively in the our competitors. I ask no favor*; will run our club in the various cities, on account of conventions, style. I do not propose to do any preliminary blow* of which time he served as an enlisted soldier in the annals of this valley. Signing fur tho Coming Season. on business principles; Kill personally foot all losses ing about our team. Toroutoiiians have eviry confi­ Special to STORTING LIFE- State fairs, centeHnials, race meeting?, etc., that army. Two associations have been formed. One, the and ntyer equeal. Yours, G. E. MENQEJ." the work was found more difficult than was an­ dence in Manager Cuuhnian uud are aa'.isfied tbat the . . Riverside Park Association, of Wilkesbarre, INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 11. A special despatch material he bas auinteed will bo iu the race from be­ CHEERFUL BAKNES. ticipated, but the result reached was mu­ ginning to end. Those correspondents who liav* The First Law of its Kind. 'hiob, with a capital of $20,000, have secured to the Cincinnati Enquirer from this city fti tually satisfactory, a'nd the joint com­ Special to SPORTING LIFE. t * finest piece of ground In this locality, which will Thursday stated that the local management was taken paiticular occasion to intimate that wo have a .urned into a half-mile track, blcyclo track, base He Considers the St. Paul Team as First- mittee adjourned well pleased with what weak team will bo Badly disappointed. TSENTON, N. J., Feb 11. The New Jersey Assembly beginning to grow a little weary over the tardi­ class, Notwithstanding Adverse Brunell's statement that the Toronto players had to has passed a bill inflicting a fine or imprisonment for .tall grounds acd other sports of a genernl nature. It Criti­ had been accomplished. C. H. Byrne, of Brook­ Is situated* within five minutes' walk fr»m the centre ness of the old players signing for the coining cism. lyn, chairman of the Association committee, wait ten days for their salaries at the end of last season detaining homing pigeons. This is tho first instance season. Rumor has is prcternaturally false, aoti I challenge him to prove on record of legal action for the protection of the of tbe city and will be reached by two Hues of street it that Denny is dissatisfied ST. PAUL, Feb. 6. Editor SPORTING LIFE: aftor the meeting, said: "Wo are especially and the charge. Salaries were not only promptly paid growing sport of homing. cars. has announced his intention of remaining Carnival being over we now have time to place satisfied with the outcome of the meeting. It throughout the season, but tbe men received cash Tbe Base Ball Association, with a stock capital paid in California this summer. This is denied by presents from President Cox aggregating hundreds of up of $2,000, and without any expense (with tbe ex­ the management, which claims that the great third our thoughts otherwise, mine, of course, being was the first time the two committees ever came Canoe Club Election. ception of securing players), starts under the most towards the festive game of base ball. Manager to a mutual agreement that was satisfactory, dollars. A member of laat j ear's team writes me as Special to SPORTING LIFE. .boseman has assured them that he is perfectly satisfied follows: "Ho (Cox) ia one of tho fluest men in tho favorable auspices. The idea that we would probably and will be on deck in the spring. About two weeks Barnea was approached by your correspondent and we only did it this time by making a good base bull business to-day; A Hays libe^l, as playera NEW YORK, Feb. 11. The Yonkora Canoo Club has not have a club this season has created a demand for ago Manager Spence forwarded contracts to all Ihe many concessions and sacrifices on each sido. Among lected tho following officers: Commodore, Gabriel anil geemei very enthusiastic over the prospects who have played in Torouto in 188G and 1887 vili say. one, uud now that all preliminaries have been settled players remaining unsigned, and up to date not ooe of his team. The men selected include Earle, the principal features we had to look after were the Probably Vouch, Darling, Alberts, Decker, Crane, Beeve; vice commodore, Talbot Sirapson; secretary and a rousing season ia looked for. Players are being of them has signed and returned the same. It is said llepublican National Convention in Chicago, the Cin­ treasurer, Paul Rossiere; purser, Jerome Simpson. Carroll, Quest, Pickett, Sowdera, Duryea, O'Keilly, Stattery. Sheppard, Traffley aud Gilmau will remember looked up, and in a very short time I hope to be able that Myera and Shomberg rach want a raise of $300, Shafer, Kemmler, Murphy, Andereon and Morrlsney. cinnati Centennial, the Louisville and Cincinnati his kindness." to give you a full list of the club. L, and that Aruudel, Healy, McGeacby, Bassett and one race meetings, the Western Pennsylvania Fair at Tho initial season of the International Association or two others also will insist upon a substantial in- It is a fair fielding team, aud the men have better bat­ Pittsburg, tbe Indiana State Fair at Indianapolis, THE DOUBLE-UMPIRE SYSTEM. ting records than the last year's nine, though 1 am is going to be a brilliant one. Tho admission of Troy JERSEY CITY JOTTINGS. crease in their salaries over the amount they received afraid the weuk point fc in that vital locality, the box. the Baltimore and New York and Brooklyn race and Albany was n politic stroke. They BM both big last season. tracks, and tho double interests in Philadelphia and An Argument for Its Adoption by tho In­ . Duryea is » good man and will hold hia own. Sowders, towns, and have already demonstrated their ability to A New Battery of National Reputation a younger brother of the now notorious Billy, is an New York aud Brooklyn. The Leojiuo meeting will support a professional club. Troy, years ago, WHB tha ternational Association. Secured. :PIayers for the AHentown Club. unknown and may be all right. Anderson, if I re­ be held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on tho home of tho famous Haymakers, and was for a long SYRACUSE, N. Y., Feb. 9. Editor SPORTING Special to SPORTING LIFE. member hi* ftork in the Milwaukee team, is very hard first Monday of March, and the Association at the while represented in tho League. Its people, there­ JERSEY CITY, Feb. 5. Editor SPORTING LIFE: Clarendon Hotel, Brooklyn, on the name day. Until fore, are juat now hungry for baso ball aud nuxio-'S to I*IFE: At the Empire cigar store tho other eve­ ALLENTOWN, Fob 11. Manager Malone, j-esterday to handle, poor support causing him to lose heart and then we arc pledged to tho most prufound secrecy." Everything is booming here for the season of signed Adam Kiefer, of Indianapolis, for toe Alien- do careless work. He is a good hitter. patronize a profess oual club. The Fame may ning a very prominent supporter of the National '88, and from present indications we ought to Mr. Sthmelz, of Cincinnati, before going home, said: bo said for Albany. 1 am confident thai game discoursed as follows: "The International town Club. Kiefer is-highly recommended fcy com­ Viau, who has been at St. Paul since his return from "If any paper could got tho schedules it wonH be tho take tbe Central League pennant.. Our latest petent judges as a fine young backstop, strong thrower, the coast, left to-night for Cincinnati, where he will tho sportsmen of that city have not for­ Aesociation would make a popular move by Enquirer, but thero is no possible way of any news­ gotten their old-time love of the gftrno. London, too, acquisitions are two famous plajers, Charles heavy hitter and fleet runner. He played wilh the be found next sfason. He said he did not half try to paper getting them. The conflicting dates were adopting the two-umpiro system. In addition Union City (f nd.) team last season. Mr. Malone will pro­ pitch while out with the Phillieu. Duryoa has gone will make a good ball town, and, in fact, posdessea Reipschlager, catcher, and "Shadow'* Pyle, arranged as satisfactorily as possible, but tho members many advantages for that purposes. Tho citizens ot to the regular staff, three umpires could bo ap­ bably complete his team next week b- signing A. I. to his farm at Osnge, Iowa. of the committee do not propoba to fcive occasion for pitcher. Everybody has nc doubt heard of Paine, a promising young pitcher of Boston, who ia \Yilmot has not yet returned from Los Angeles. the Forest City have always favored tho game, the pointed in each League city to officiate in base doing this work all oter again. It is u wonder we got population la large enough to make tho chance of "Reip," the old Metropolitan player. At one highly recommended by several of the Boston players, That boy will make his mark with the Senators this through decisionSj the regular umpire to call the balls time, as a catcher, he bad few, if any, superiors, season. His batting and base-running are immense. a^ soon as we did." a decent gate reasonably secure, and iu addition and strikes. The extra umpire could be selected Hurry Wrinrht said: "This is the first convfntion of to thi-i there are several flourishing towns within and I think he can still demonstrate that he can A Ball Player Maimed. Manager Bartu-s has secured eome new men, whom this kind that I have attended where it seemed so fcy the captain of tbe visiting team. The sys­ bold any of tho swift pitchers of the present time. A ho thiuks of aigning and whose names I will divulge ca^y distance which will furnUh their quota to wUnen Special to SPORTING LIFE. in my next. TAT. hopeless at the start, aud where tvo so readily arrived an Aaaociation game. A. J. S. tem would become popular beyond doubt. I few words DOW of Pyle, the ooce-stnr pitcher of the MANSFIELD. 0., Feb. 11. Jamee Beatty, a young at an agreement at the end. I cannot conceive how a witnessed two of the Detroit-St. Louis cham­ Newarks. Although having been badly punished by more equitable arrangement could havo been reached. man employed in the Crawford & Taylor cracker fac­ THE OHIO PENNANT. TROY'S NEW CLUB. pionship £4tne3 last year, in which two men were by some of our Western clubs, I think the restoration tory at this place, had the four fingers of his right There were so many conflicting interests that it used, Mini I must «ay it was really a pleasure to seo a ot tbe "three-strike" rule will, to a great extent, was almost impossible to reach the conclusions we hand mangled by the cogs of a form machine, Thurs­ Kalamazoo Calculates to Have a Say In Interesting Facts About it From the Mana­ giwe played with so little growling and kicking by assist him. Let us w»it and see. As a pennant win­ day afternoon, iu such a manner that amputation was did." tho pi ay or*. No man can stand behind the plate and ner we are quite unlucky, but as for turning "out" necessary. He was a local ball player of great promise Its Disposition. AH of the members of tho committee expect that ger, Ted Sullivan. give satisfactory decisions <>n tho bases." This seems players we are PB fortunate as any Tiernan, for In­ and had signed with the Mansfield team for the next KALAMAZOO, Mich., Feb. 8. Editor SPORTING wheu the League and Association meet March 5, in TROY, N. Y., Feb. 9. Editor SPOUTING LIFE: to be tho sentiment hereabouts, ami people are anx- stance; I would also name O'Brien. For gentlemanly season in the Ohio League. LIFE: Now, that Lima, according to its corres­ New York, their reports will bo adopted. They are From surface indications it seems that Troy is lons to aeo tho idea carried out. "Rasty" Wiight, who ball players, I class them among any other two men pledged not to give the schedule' changes till then, so will play cencro Held for Syracuse next season, in the profession. pondent, will beat Kalamazoo out for a place, the speculation as to the probable make-up of the sched­ to have a boom in base ball the coming season telle an excellent story about the famous The "polo" seems to have met a very sudden death itirby Secures a Berth. all-absorbing question naturally arises where ules is useless. that will surpass all previous years. The city Pan O'Leary. In '83 Dauiel was managing the in this city notwithstanding our having a good team Special to SPORTING LIFE. will Kalamazoo stand. We had fondly based has bad no ball since the League club went out Tolfdos, of which Wright, Rainey, Jay Faatz, Stfm- and a team that won a majority of games from the ST. Louis, Mo., Feb. 11. John Kirby, the well- our hopes upon beating the League baby out, A NOTED FLAYER DEAD. New York cracks. The interest gradually died away known local pitcher, will olay with the Memphis of existence, and with a new generation uf myer nnd McDonald, of San Francisco, were mem­ but now that all our hopes and aspirations have patrons the city promises to be one of the best in bers. The club waa doing a nice "quiet" business until now there is no league or team. FIRST BABE. Southern League team, next season. He is to receive The Ex-First Baseinan, Martin J. Powoll, and funds were exceedingly low. O'Leary was ap­ a salary of $2,100 or £300 per month. His arm was been sha'tered by the prophetic correspondent, we do tho International Association. The people and lame hist year, and he fulled to do good work with humbly ask the ftforeeaid P. C. to name Kalamnzco's Goiift to His JLoiiK Best. proached one evening by one of tho boya who struck SCRANTON SOLID. place in the struggle. Please, Mr. Correspondent, put press havo offered every encouragcmen. to tha the festive Daniel for sumo of the "teedful.11 The Indianapolis and Cleveland, bat he is now in good FITCHBURG, Mass., Feb. 7. Editor SPOUTING new club, and seem more than pleased to havo condition. JOE PKITCHAED. us above Mansfield, for we never could stand the hu­ player was requested by O'Leary to accompany him New Offlcersg^Elected The Team Chosen miliation of being last. LIFK: It is ono of tho saAdcst duties I could baso ball in their midst once more. on a short "constitutional," and tho pair wended by Manager Crane. And now the Canton correspondent jumps upon me perform in making known to you tho death I have leased tho old League grounds, which Iheir way to a certain popular resort where they THE INTERNATIONAL SCHEDULE. of Martin J. Powoll, tho well-known player, who eated themselves at a table. They had no sooner be­ SCRANTON, Feb. 9. Editor SPORTING LIFE: for not placing Canton in the list of possible winners, for space and surface equals any in the country. and justly, too. Canton has a fetruiig team and will no passed away at his homo in this city on Feb. 5, New seats will be added to the cues already there and come seated than four or five of tbe other players At a meeting of the subscribers to the stock of Leonard's Plan Prepared Interesting Mile­ doubt make all her opponents hustle to get a bal 1. annteml in, apparently by accident, although, in fact, the new association held Feb. 3, the following of consumption. He was thirty-two years of the grand stand remodeled. age Statistics Rochester Club News. from her, but iu "Leonard's"' letters he compares tho There was au error in your issue of laet week, stat­ they had been "laying" for Daniel on the same mission. officers were chosen for the ensuing year: Canton team with last year's Kalamazoos. Now, age. lie began his base ball career in 1870, The boys seated themselves around the board ind ROCHESTER, N. Y., Feb. 8. Editor SPORTING playing with tho amateur Grattan Club. In ing that Tn>y had difficulty about its grounds, but such Frank M. Aylesworth, president and treasurer; there are only two of last year's team, Aldrich and is not tho case. The giounda were based last Novem­ O'Leary, pulling two silver dollars from his pocket, LIFE: Now that the circuit of the International Whalen, while the rest are all new men men secured 137V he played with the Rollnones, as catcher Informed hia hearers that tho "cart wheels" repre­ Arthur J. Stone, secretary, ami John J. Flana- Association haa been completed, the next im­ ber, and from parties v.ho have treated the club \vith sented the awets of tho Toledo Association. The ghan representative to the Central League. Secretary because they were bail players, hitters aud gentle­ and first bascman. His first profes?ional en­ the utmo£t,])bcralitv. portant meeting will be the meeting of the men. We bave the record of all our team aud wo The club will opon in Philadelphia, April 7, playing "aaicts" were imraed :ately "blown in." After tbis Stone has appointed Harry Loader as his assistant. know that the team of '88 compaied with that of '87, gagement? were with tho Lowells and Holyokos pleuwnt duty had been performed Dan informed tho Tho association waa named The Scranton Base Ball schedule committee at Buffalo March 17. Last in 1878-79. In 1878 the Lowclls belonged to in Trout on, Newark, Jersey CUy, Brooklyn and is immeasurably stronger, Yet it is said.that Wheel­ Scranton, opening at home witn Williams Colleg* boys that, although there wa9 no cash in tho treasury, Club. season the schedule was very defective, the ing has secured the "cream" (?) of the league and the National Association, and contained some ftn order on the association was good at Mr. The Scranton team for 1888 will be as follows: Jersey clubs getting the worst of it, and all clubs about April 25. Brown's merchant tailoring establishment and Ewald and Murphy, catchers; Jacobs, Scherer and will have a sore walk-over for the pennant. Now, excellent players. Powell played first baso for The following players have signed with Troy: t Smith's jewelry fit ore and fit He- Burkett, pitchers; Manager Crane, firs* base; Carey, suffering to some extent. The making of a there are just as good players in the Ohio League that club, and took part in fifteen championship Catchers, W right, Banning and Kurppert; pi'chers, schedule is always a difficult matter, as there are of '88 as there were in '87, and Wheeling has not se­ gdmes, ranking No. 14 in baiting at tho close of the Keefe, Seerin^, Gentleman and Kcatiug; first bate, Glnty'0, tho gents* furnisher. The orders were second base; Springer, short stop; Say, third base, and cured the cream, either. G. REUSALEM. Bade out and handed tho boya and in a few days Galligan, left field, Manager Crane is after a fine generally too many "axes to grind/* but with a * season. Out of a list of 118 playt-ru In the Association, Phil Baker; second base, John Troy; third buse, Janie* Wrtght, Rnmwy, Faatz and Slemmyer made their centre, and also a right fielder, and expects to have close circuit and a fair committee, it should this his fielding average was .044. While a member of the Ilalplu; centre field, J. Millman; right field, Geo, Appearance, decked out in elegant shape in new thorn bagged In a few days. year be an easy thing to frame a schedule that AHentown Briefs. Holyokes, he won nuuiy a game by hf& batting. Iu Kelly. Tho left fioHer I have not engaged as yet. clothes and gold watches, etc., and without a solitary Thin appemrs to be a fine team (on paper), and we ALLENTOWN, Pa., Feb., 11. Editor SPORTING LIFE; 1880 he played with the famous Nationals of Wash­ AVhlle writing about base ball I wish to diverge ft nickel iu their popsession. The club went under, are anxiously waiting for the opening of the season would be satisfactory to all. A resolution was The AHentown Club have re-lewed tho Fair Grounds ington, a club which at that time v.ns 0110 of the best little in favor of Sir. Leoti Vinu, of thia year's Cincin­ and attachments awaitod O'Leary on every corner. to see whether Manager Crane's judgment In regard passed at tho Toronto meeting last fall that for the coming season. The location i* excellent. Man­ in the country, and won tlie Natiocal Association nati Club. 1 see there are a gruat many people Wright says that I)un remarked that "he van never to a good team proves correct. H. Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse play in the agers Maloue and Powers,, of the Jersey City Club, championship that year. In 1881 be plrvyed the early turoughuut the couulry who are underestimating hU o attached to a tow a in bis lii'e.1 ' McDonald, who - Canadian cities on Queen's Birthday and will go to Eaattm soon for the purpose of working up part of the season with the National*, and ability aa a pitcher. The Cincinnati peupte will find, la DOW in California, did not receive a cent fjr hia THE Chicago League team will report at Hot Springs, Dominion Day, and that the Canadian clubs sentiment favorable to a club at that place. As tht>re finished with the Dt-troits, playing fifty-five when it cornea down to regular championship work, ervi'-fH to the club. Ark., on March 3, for its usual annual course of spring has been no professional club there siuce 1882, it is gntut-s with the latter club, ranking second iu batting that Viau will demonstrate that ho ii ouo of the b«w George K. Krazer, of the Star AssocNtio*. took his training. Aa heretofore, a series of exhibition games play in these three cities on Decoration Day and believed their efforts will prove successful. The home in the League list of players. Anpot:. the great Chi­ pitchers iu the American Association. faiuooft bob, "Tbo Fniior," Lo U- AlUny ca.nival uud Kill be placed during the sojourn of tbe player* tfcer* Fourth, of July. But now there is Labor Day, club ia «tUl negotiating with Beveral excellent player* cago capiaiu, took tint liouorti u uliampioii batter VOUH truly, T. P. SVLLIVAM. THE SPORTTNQ LIFE. Feb. 15.

a* the game which decided the championship In standard. By what standard shall It be decided by ie*«re the season is half <'Ver, and the vacant ppace in BuBtou'o favor. I rode from the grounds to the depot BALT1MOREJ5ULLETIN. what the League chargpa or by what all other organi­ ST. LOUIS SIFTISGS. he coffers of the (lift rent cluba would be large BASE BALL. with Harry aftor tha fame and ha brought up the zations charge? That ia the sticker, aud in the mean­ enough for Charley BrioJy to hide his burly form iu. subject ol a championship game &r every available [anagfr York's T,abors in Behalf of Albany time it *is understood the Association claims that, like A Chat With Powers—Kffects of Manage­ However, we will lor.k at the bright aide of the new day of the seasoa, and warmly advocated it. —The Raised Tariff Movement Considered moat thinga, ita value is to be decided by jtisi what it rial Treachery—Association HeiwI Wear ntcrprise. There are, n,* doubt, a gr^at mauy ptople From Kvery Standpoint. | tring*. Aud really now, perhaps tbe individual units —Outlook for the St. LonU Western Team, u St. Louis who wilt n >* put up halt"a doll >r to see a CAYLOR'S_COMMENT. Prior to last season L*»gue cluba were prohibited by BALTIMORE, Feb. 10. Editor SPOHTINQ LrpE: constituting the public had beat forbear kickmmnd Etc. , ;t*wus of ball, aud ih1; Western League c!iil>a will . utch huir nileafrom placing outside club*, or exhibition allow the trst to be nwio. If high tariff is a auccew heir quarters, A great m ifiy peoplu will attend all Kevietving the Byrne Interview and Criti­ ;aru«s OB their own ground^ during the championship When winter softens up and people begin to certainly no one has a right to begiudge the base ball ST. Louis, Feb. 9. Editor SPORTING LIFE: I f the gmncd of both tho Western League au;l Ameri- cizing the Statements Made—The Cmljel s*»son a provision made iiecwsary by the percentage express the hope that its backbone is broken, owners the additional profit if they C,"." legitimately Your St. Louis readers have been informed by an Association o'ub*, and if tho new c »mei3 put up aa Taken up for the League—The Associa­ division of gate receipts, whereby every League club hey also begin to talk more animatedly of base make it, and if it fails, then tbo public wins aa'1 tli*» wire that a Mr. Hezekiah Niles a Philadelphia good a gHme as the older or^aiii/.a'ioti and win halt tb« >ec«oie interested in the patronage tion Chase After Mills Futile—The Salary of e¥«ry other »all and discount the approach of the vernal baj*e ball iwoule muat revert to the old price. It will 'Poorer" has entered suit against THK SPOUT­ t'Dtests, they will be received with opeu arms, i hop» League club. It followed, accordingly, that all not take long to he new club had curne to etay. Limit Rule. League-Association ganie.-t played during the cham­ :eason. Those who are in the business begin to ING LIFE for tho small sum of $50,000 just be­ CINCINNATI, Feb. :tir themselves, especially if there are any MAKR THE TKST, HASH! 8. Editor STORTING LIFE: pionship sen3on were played upon Association grounds, trims- and realty the base ball people cause you saw fit to publish the news of the day. where tbe guarantee system m*wie it a matter of uo have more at stake than The Davpnport, Iowa, Club was ansious to secure When I nicked up THE SPORTING LIFE out actions to complete before the opening of the the units of the yreat public. Pussibly April, probably Hezekiah is very modest in. his demand. I be servicua uf Ctiail»y Krvhinojer, 'the catcher, but hero lust Tuesday, the first gluncja of my eagle ioucern whatever to tho other Association clubs. My season. Aa the Baltimore Club U to occupy its May and c*rt:tinly June impression is that tlie Aftwiciaiion clubs were more wilt decide the matter, and would advise him to ask for damages to the erms could not be a^reM upon. T.im York, of tn» eye fell upon a startling head-line on page one to Id grounds for a part of the season at lea^t, and when ii is considered the bnse ball pe >pte take all the amount of 5250,000, as it would make him look Llbauy r!t:'«, also a>kt-d for Krobnseyer's terms, and auxioua for these games than were the League clubs, risk uf financial failure this effect: "Uyrne Talks." Could this bo true, umt naturally so, for the Inrgur half of the profits fell, as tbe club personnel is complete either by con- aud the public none, it may still more ridiculous to the public. Should "Zeke" he left-handed g« utlc-man may be found in New not be out of place to advise patience, especially when Tork Slato next se.tson. said I to myself. Haa the brains of the Associa­ of course, to tho homo club, who had no traveling ex­ ract or reservation, there is not much to do. we kuow win the case, which I am positive he will (?), penses how'fallible i» human pre-judgment, find Jtick Gormiitt may play with tho Albany Club next tion really spattered itself in public print for to meet. Indeed, ihis milking process of A-^o- L'om York, however, is verv busy over matters that there can be no real dead certainty without trial. and obtain the full amount he "demands" he ;iation citiea by the League clubs, spoken of so wtrmly easun. York DH« l>»on negot at'ng with him. the edification of the reading world. Might it jertaiuing to his Albany Club. Bo you know All tbe srtine, it may be stated, there has bean found will not be obliged to work a lunch route again Curt Welch and Bill Gloat*.n will leave hare about >y Mr. Byrne, nually became so unprofitable to tbe but one mnu not be some mistake? Could it bo that some League 10 had something like over four hundred letters who ia not a "dettd-head" who thought next summer. I Murch 15 for Philadelphia. They are both in pretty cluba that they wouldn't visit an Association differently fromthe writer of the above letter, aud lie ex­ one ha«l been mistaken for Byrne? But DO! The city during the chfimpioucfhiu seaauii without a very n response to that little epistle of his in TUB ;<>od sliupp now, and it will take but very little work pressed bimaelf as "not caiiug a d n what was charged CHARLEV POWKRS SAYS THAT VIAU IS ALL RIGHT, j n the gymnasium to get both uf them in the pink ol first paragraph settled that. Th« description decided guarantee, So It waa that those mid-season IPORTIXG LIKE? So you see that he is pretty well o long aa Mr. Association-League he got plenty of base ball," and, by the w ay, Charley Powers, of Newcastle, Penna., onditiou. of the man who talked was too clear to admit of games became very unprofitable >ccupied. He has received rsome assistance in 10 said he waa just about tig well pleased in reading .0 both aides and were gradually dropped entirely. arrived in town last Tuesday evening from San | Ail repoits from Lon'sville aud Cincinnati to the a mistaken identity. "The indefatigable presi­ naking up his team from John Morrill, of the about it iu THE SPORTING LIFE as in seeing it played Francisco, and left this evening for his Penn- i ;ontrary, t'am Smith, Li.uisviiles new first barman, The Northern .limits of the League circuit makes it and, by the way again, ho is a man who haa plenty o^, dent of the Brooklyn Club, who has come to be nectssary each year that tho teams in Boston, 3o8tou9y and from Secretary Leadley, of the sylvania home, where he remain till tho opening eclttn* that he is to receive $2,200 from the Louie- salt and sprinkles it about quite freely, and some of illeCl-jb for next season's work. Mr. Phelps may decidedly the teadiny MAGNATE of the American Jhicago aad Detroit go away from home in Detroit?, among others. He is trying to select t on the Orioles' tail. of the Western League season, when he will re­ :he spring of the year for practice games. T. T. T. iave toM Mr. Smith that he would get a better show Association, although he by no means exhibits lis material with unusual care, and really ex- turn to the West and umpire for the Western u Loni<-vil)e U^an be would iu Brooklyn, aud thure any predilections that way; in You will notice by the arrangement of tho spring jcots to have a fighting fact it is rather games of the Boston and Detroit cluba that this tnilk- chance for the pennant, League. Mr. Powers waa accompanied from 3 no tilling jiirt what kind of ransic I poured into to the contrary, fur he has been forced into the ng process ia not entirely exterminated iu spite of the even in tho first year of his new team, and has LOUISVILLE LACONICS. California by Mr. aud Mrs. Tony Mullane and he big Wcatwruer's car while tning to bag him for he Brooklyn team. He received but $200 advance prominent position he now occupies; certainly, :ntltfaiigau!e assertion of this Association magnate. no doubt whatever of being able to "knock out" A New Candidate for the Presidency—A Leech Maskrey. Mr. and Mrs. Mullane went he has not sought The Cincinnati and Louisville clubs, as well aa the Ted Sullivan's Troy representatives. money from Mr. Phelps, while I offered him 8100 it. It is, in fact, the old story There Dishonest and Impracticable Scheme— straight through to Cincinnati in order to more :bin twic« tlmt amount, whicli wasquit-J aa of the quiet, able and energetic worker in an A'hletica and Baltimorea, have arranged for a seriea of will be sotue hot times between those two clubs and make connection with the Cincinnati Club, which milking matches with The Lookout for the Team, Etc. nducement si illlie signed \vitli the Colonels. lam organization beiii£ left by his companion mem­ Lefigue cluhs, atid even the heir heelers, and boih Tom nud Ted will be fortunate leaven for the South in a few days, and Maskrey pro­ Brooklyn Club has been challenging the New Yorkers t they can confine it within legitimate bounds. So LOUISVILLE, Feb. 7. Editor SPORTING LIFE: f th« opinion that Mr. Phelpa overstepped the limit bers to do all the heavy and arduous work of ceeded to either Lorjsvi'le or Milwaukee. i a little in theSiuiib ctse.if in no otlifr. to null its te»t3 aix or seven timva. Pritchstrd says Voa iur old outnulder and captain, The presidency of the Louisville Club, which "How do you like the coast, and are you of the opinion j the club or association he happens to belong to, ior Abe, on his triumphal return from Europe, will John Rvan, of OivV land, Cal., was wanted by the 9t DAVE ROWH seemed to be certain some time ago to full to the tbat base ball was overdone out there thia winter?" I Ouia Whites, rut h'» refused to come East. Ryan ia while those less competent are content to share stop over in New York sever*! days and try to arrange a to manage Kansas City. Dave made himself very [ot of Mr. M. H. Daridpon, the present secretary was askt-d ot the Western League umpire. j aid to be the **time)iest" Infer on the coast. the honors without bearing the burdens of re­ a series of games ia th».upring witli the New Yurks. "I must say that wo were well treated in C.ilifor-- I Chris must bo fairly bursting with milk, and he doasn't popular with patroua here and put up a pretty good and treasurer of tlie team, is now a somewhat John Kirby, tbe old Maroon pitcher, is auxiona to sponsibility." game. He was ambitious while here of becoming a nia and I like the people first-class. Tbe rainy to South with a club in order to show ball peopl^ that ask Brooklyn to relieve him but &ov3 10 the Imted mixed question. A new name is very promi­ weather interfered considerably with our arrange* League to pet squeezed. He was stripped pretty dry rhort atop, aud appeared iu that position with must ex­ il-* arm ia in better condition now than it ever haa cellent results, considering the little practice he had. nently mentioned. At first it was thought that oicuta, but then we have no room to complwin when jeen since he hu* been playine jTiifessiorially. Kirby That's him. That's Charlie. Nobody who is last fail by MJlknmid Stearns, but since he has been speaking from a financial standpoint. In regard to Feeding a few months iu Gerniiu clover on tuff Kliiue !)ave and Barnie didn't "hit it off" very well to­ in case it did not 50 tj Mr. Davulson President ertainly looks good, at he has been taking good care up to snuflf will fail to recognize him. If a gether, and some of tho boys anticipate a little fun ia the Nwtioiml game beiujc overdone, I can't say tliat I f himself this winter. blind man should be introdued to that descrip­ ho hat) btcocje "froah" occe more, aud haa come horn? Phelps' brother, Mr. John Phelps, would be think the peouln were given too much like any good family cow to be "milked." he excitement of championship battles during the ball, but they Rfn Mulford, your able Cincinnati cirrespondent, tion in a dark alley at midnight during the old coming season. When Lave gets his talking machine asked to take the place, but now there seems to wtre not satisfied with a portion of the ball that waa las bough! a now baby and ho wants a name for it. t>e some doubt ab>ut it. Neither Mr. Davidson given them, all of which haa been published iu age of the moon he would at once extend his Take it all in all, it strikes me that tho Association u order aud well lubricated there ia-uo stopping him THB : would suggest that tlie new arrival be called "Hil- abort of beheading him, and Barnie iau't very slow iu nor Mr. Phelps has any desire for the place, and SPOKTINO LIFE." entum" Mulford. A piu hero. Land and exclaim without hesitation: "Why, 19 an all-tired poor magnate in the indefatigable man "1 see that Viaii, the new pitcher signed by Cin­ ftom Brooklyn, who has been forced forward ao mnch that line either, BO, perhaps, it will lead to occasional in fact I believe they would prefer to remain in Ariie Lath am is now a single man. He remarked Indelatigable Magnate Byrne, how do you do?" oratorical displays that won't be the least of the eu- cinnati last fall, did not chow up aa well aa some of i o me tho oihnr day: "I hope that Eddie Von der Ahe If friend Bryno should ever be against hiu will, if he works as he talks without their present positions. the rest of the Eastern twirlera. In fact, he w*s called upon to thinking first. Bis fussing and funWng about the ertainmeata givon by Kansas City and the Oriolba. will Hguin publish his score b. ok next season, which collect upon his life insurance policy I really When a dentist probes around sound teeth tbere is The new man mentioned is Mr. C. E. Wood. drubbed protty severely at timea. Do you consider will be certain to contain a short ske'cli of each one of League will not help the Association much or give it him a failure?" can't imagine NO SQI'EAL Mr. Wood is the local buyer of tobacco for th* the players. This will read beautiful: Arlie Lattam, what the Association would do. any greater degree of dignity in the opinion of the "A failure! Not by any moans," aaid Mr. Powers. I But stay. President puMic. Neither will hia barking be taken up by the Tom the patient, but the instant he strikes a rotten mmense establishment of the Lorillard Brothers. ur thirl basumau, ia now in hia 27th year; first &aw Stern, of Cincinnati, told 'Thia young man haa an older head on him than moot tie light in MussHcl'Udftta, U. 8. A. Has be*ju mar- the Cincinnati papers last week that the majority of tbe other and lesser magnates. Half of hie :ilace with ati exposed nerve there are writhiugs aod He waa an officer of the old Eagles, a semi-pro­ people give him cie'iit for. I have watched hia work fuusiu^ ia grounuless. Nobody I believe but Mr. Cunturtions that givn the whole rottenness away. The ied twice aud HO m iny timoa divorced. Now aiugle, American Association lacks a head and he is in fessional club which existed here before the days in the Northwest and I kuow that he is a first-class ut willing to marry.'* Rogers has claimed that tho Association cannot hold ramie spasms over last week's reference to boozing of the Association, and was an athletic organiza­ man. He did not care to go into the box and do hia favor of paying A. G. Mills, the League chief, their franchise in New York hold it as the man causes the exclnuiatiou: "Ah, indeed, is it as bad aa John T. Manner, who ha* signed with the Dallas, tion of which Louisville was proud. He has al­ level boat during unfavorable weather, or at any Toxas, Club, objfCts to be mi; culled ''old." $10,000 yearly salary to take up the affairs of held the bear he caught, until he called up some hat?" The ba*o ball people here, high and low, are othvr time, in fact, and then show up in Cincinnati friend to help him 1ft it go. That plea th;it Kansas so agitated over the raised tariff, and »re so persistent ways been fond of the game, rarely missing one The Strombeig-Fahey diamond ring case has been the Association and give it weight, wisdom and with aaore arm in the spring. IIo had nothing to ettled at last. William J. Fahey was charged with, dignity. Can it be possible that Mr. Stern has City is a League leaving has been au exploded chest­ n asking and writing requests to have their different clayed here. He is thoroughly posted, and en- lose while on the coast, and I, for one, think that he nut for a fortnight, and several of the ideAless corros- news ventilated through the groat base ball paper, uely conversant on all rules governing the National 'Dibezzlinje a diamond ring, v.ilu*d at $90, from Ex- failed to properly appreciate the indefatigable displayed good aense in pitching so that he would run 'resideut \Villi>tm Stromborg, on tho 10tU of in^t Da- poudouts of THE SPOUTING LIFE last month showed up .bat many are almost offended at so lit'le space having >astime. Hia friends say that he possesses brilliant no risk of disabling himself. His work in tbe Asso­ worth of magnate Byrne, who, by the way, its fallacy by reciting the names of cities once League >oen given to it in this correspondence. Something executive ability, and has just tho temperament to ember, full particulars of which havo been published ciation will speak for itst-lf, and I believe that the 'n THE SPOBTIXO LIFE. The defendant haa been dis- has been forced into his prominence? There is members that the Association h;id taken up and vice ias been said ou this subject already, but it is com- make aii excellent president for our local club. It is youngster will fool some of those know-alls that pre­ versa. Yet Byrne chewa it all over ou his side again ilained that it has b-en too briefly treated. 0«e per- stated Ihat President Phulps and his harged, but wi;h tlie understanding that the solitaire more forcing done in the Association somehow brother John are dict his downfall." waa tu be returned to Sir, Strombertr. than is really pleasant to contemplate. I had occasion aud at the same time forgets to im-ntion that the As­ istent spokesman ot a large circle of patrotis, who are, mth in favor of Mr. Wood's election. It this be true sociation took up Indianapolis, Louisville, St. Louis f course, among (he larsro mass of constant readers of le will fin rely be elected, aa they easily control a ma- NOT SATISFIED KNIFING ONE ANOTHER, Herbert Montgomery, wh;> signed conditionally to apeak of it some linieAtro aLd illustrate it with a It is quite the thing nowadays for a ball player with tbe Bro*na, is quoted ua saying that he will not diagram atory. The writer of that dispatch wonder and Cleveland after they had been dropped by the *HB SPORTING LIPS, uud who have been anone the Ority of the stock. to be Ltague, just as the League picked up Washington and nost regular attendants of games, haa been told to dissatisfied with the club that reserves him. To hear »lay professionally tl>e coming season, and ho doesn't h«»w many of your correspondents could name the in­ AN UNFAIR AND IMPRACTICABLE SCHEME. one of these disaatisfieiball players talk, one would ;are whether he is blacklisted or not. defatigable fellow speaks of the position into which Indianapolis after the Association dropped them aa put Some inventive genius unprofitable. In thia later day of reasoning aud tuir- has discovered a plan by believe that he would rather play anywhere than in A weekly pap^r tlmt makes it* appearance in St. Byrne hug been forced. What position?* A good story THE POPULAR VIEW which the Louisville Club may get around the fifty- Jouis every Sunday remarks that nothing has been mindednf-flaa onesided, twisted, distorted argument >n paper, as understood in his circle, and the foltow- the city that holds his services. "If I could only get could ba related that would be apropos to the stiliject cent-admission price, and has proposed it for the con­ away irom my club if I could only buy my release aid lately in regard to the new grand stand at Sports­ one which would go back to the day when iu base ball, founded upon a narrow partisan feeling ng is thv> communication. To give all the different Zack for the Association sideration of the club's officials. I will explain it to why, I could get double the salary from another party, man's Park. It would be A good idea for the sporting Phelps w;i8 elected chairman of the Association and or for the League aa against the arguments aod views expressed would occupy more TUB SPORTING LIFE and general interest of base ball, will not meet with gen­ see what it thinks of it. It is who now stands ready with his money in his hand. oaitor of the aforesaid journal to invest five cent* even fut t her to the circumstances which origiuated pace than can be spared,ao it is hoped the matter will aa follows: The by-laws of the American Association every week in THE SPOUTING LIFE mid keep posted. eral coiuuieudaUou. lereafter be allowed to drop with what follows. The It IB r< ally a shame that I am obliged to be tied down the Office of chairman. do not limit tbe number of pasites a club may issue, here, when I can get more money elsewhere. I will Lou Sylvester is ntill in th-city and unsigned. Here opening of the gates is the only decisive solution of the stipulating ouly that all over twenty-five must be s a good outfield* r lor a titg club. Besides being ft irublem, after all, and the only one that can convince resort to law before I will stand such an imposition. But that ia not the province of my letter this week. Why don't we hear some of the indefatigable Leagne >aid for to the visiting club at tho rate of fifteen cents This is a free coiiLtry, and I am a free man. 'Now, plendid bull playpr S>1 ia ;i yntlemanly fellow. It IB riitht-r to analyze a few of the statements made magnates howling and spitting words of defiance at thu ho base ball authorities, and no one can certainly each. In this way the Louisville Club can get around "Dug" Crothers, the pitrln-r, ii in training. He haa tell the result when it \a a well-known fact that to a why is it that I cannot do «s I please?" by tbb indefatigable magnate of ibe American Asso­ Association. They don't do it. They go right al.iiiff :he fifty-cent tariff unless some legislation is adopted The above remarks are heard but too often over the m joyed a lucrative position since the cloae of last ciation. He wont out of his way to slur the corres­ nttending to their own business, saying not a word ertain extent the masses are sometimes fickle. Tlie by which the pass e-ysteui is further restricted. A ieagon, and not being in unud of advance money, he universal outspoken discontent over this tariff busi­ country. Ball players are dissatisfied. But why? The pondents of TUB SPORTISO LIFE, and therefore I may but attending to butanes* and milking the Association mtroii goes to the box office and purchases a ticket question Is (in easy one to answer. They have been ias refused all t/ffere fur next se;is.m. "Dng:> will be a be excused if I take np the cudgel. This indefatigable citiea till ox-Brother Byrue shrieks [u condemnation. ness in Baltimore has been heard before concerning ;oating fifty cents. He receives the same, but with it trong one und.T the threa-rttnkes-a'id-out rule. other matters, and when it came to the test tho most tampered with by the very men that have agreed to maguate, who has been/creed tu his high and mighty Before the echo of the shriek dies out this indefatiga­ a chock rtpreoenting fifteen cents. When throe of keep their bunds off them. And thia practice will havo Jack Gleason will certainly be found on the diamond position, says: "'1 bese frequent mistakes, however, do ble Atlas of the Association finds himself in Buffalo violent were among the first to relent. What ia now ihese latter are gotten the holder, by presenting them again next season. The Leavenwortli (Kansas) Club iistory may be repeated, but it ia ouly fair that that to be legislated against in such a manner tbat it will some good, f-r I imagine- if it was not for tlmr fre­ sweetly smiling in the preaence of those three sleek with au additional five cents to tbe ticket seller, cnn be stopped. Latham remarked to me the other day would like to secure IIH services to play third and quent recurrence many of THE SPOBTIKO LIFE corres­ League generals, Wright, Watkins and Phillips, and *rge public in this city who are the real jind gener- urchase a pa>s which admits him to the grounds, captain the team, and they have made him agtod offer oua supporters and readers of TUB SPORTING LIFE that he would like to buy his release from the Brown pondents would have little to write about." He should co-operating with theju iu the joint arrangement of Jn this wav the price of admission ia reduced to thirty- Stocking Club. He said that he could command a to go there, but Juck dr-ires to get into fa-it company, have added ih« explanatory note that "this is sar- the two schedules and, perhaps, squeezing things to­ should be given a hearing. So here is the letter: five cents. The Louisville Club, it is urged, has a where he properly l^ion^a. "I have believed that the Association waa merely much larger salary than was ever paid to him by Mr. kasm." It is. however, characteristic of the man wbo gether so that a day or two during the juint seasjn perfect right to do thia, and will, it is claimed, carry Von der Ahe duuble the salary, in fact. I asked him It is a rather cold Jay in August when Dave Row* calls reporters "yon d d newspaper fellows" in rhe day may be leit oi»en to allow a little mutual milking to be making an experiment with the raised admission the scheme through, unless prevented by aomo un­ s lei t to suck the hind toat. fie will captain, manage har^e, and would eoon drop back into the old and how he knew this, and alio reminded him of the fact time uud calls un them at their office in the evening. done. Just stick a piu here aud see if I am iiot right. foreseen circumstances. that a player under contract with one club could not nd attend U the centre gard- n for Kansas City next You s"e, Magnate Byrno has a very f-oor opinion of the amply proved 25-cwnt ratej Now, however, that I am Now, my opinion is tbat thr* plan la not feasible. It season. He ought to be rn.ide th« official scorer, too, credibly informed that the doubling up process will be approached by another club manager. Uo answered general abilities of a SPOETINQ LIFE correspondent. Bpfore I pass from the paiuful and forced position does not look like it is strictly honest, aud 1 do not be­ that a certain president in the Association and the so that he would be kf ;it busy. Dave ia of the opinion Probably if ihey had betn forced into their indefati­ in which Byrne finds himself on account of the "less rtm through the season, I would like to explain how lieve that those conducting the affnirs of the Louis­ hat Uncle George ShanVr in not a b ick number, and so fur as Baltimore is concerned it is received, and president of a Western club, too waa anxious to se­ gable prominence as correspondents they would have competent" magnates of the Association, I desire to ville Club will attempt it. Should thoy, however, do cure nis services, and that these cff.-rs had been made the old gentleman may play in the cyclone village the more and better topics to write about. briefly take up what I alluded to above, viz., the sug­ low it must necessarily work to a great disadvantage, so, I think that the Association would call a meeting, coming season. The Orator ought to be made to keep )oth from the public, as well as managerial, etaod- by tbe aforesaid president. The Browns' third base- gestion that A. G. Mills be made present of the Ameri­ and forbid its further practice. man also remarked that if such and such a club waa lis cap on his head while lie is on the field, and then This indefatigable martyr facetiously mentions a lot can Association. I kuow thai Mr.Stern is an ardent ad­ x>int. I note that the Louisville public is bewailing he crowd will not «ct onto his age. He cau pass for a ,he raise in the rate, and I believe very justly, for that RAMSEV AM, RIGHT. willing to pay him such a big fat salary, that Mr. Von of midlakes supposed to be mistakes which after­ mirer and believer in Mr. Mills. Sir. Stern asked rne der Ahe wouldoe obliged to hold out better induce­ cid any where with his cap on. wards turned out either downright blessings in dis­ city has always been recognized aa a low tariff town, Why dou't you say something in THZ SPORTING last week about Mr. Mills and wanted my opinion as LIFE about Ramsey?" remarked a friend to me the ments thin ever before to get him to sign a contract. "Dave Foutz mud a a barrel of money out in 'Frisco guise or were, to say the least, no mistakes at nil. to whether he would ac:ept the position at a salary of but on the other hand, if they have cause to whimper his winter," remarked one of tlie Browns to me the we may well cry aloud, for while tho Louisville jjublio other day. If this practice of one" club approaching a player whilu But in his z?al he seems to have forgotten a few things. five or ten thousand dollars. The Commercial-Gazette "Why should he is uudt-r a contract with another club is not what other day. "Be-,idef» the cash tbat he placed in tbe Ho does not say a word about lave iu the past years had I say anything about Barasey?" the attempt to force miuJe him say boldly that the Cincinnati Club would ''Why don't you know that they have it reported in may be properly called "knifing," why then I am 'ery isnk.'.-;-fli3 credit trom biiso hall games, he knocked Wiman and the Mots out in 1S85. There is nothing give 81,000 toward a (-alary of any that much from VALUE RECEIVED Cincinnati, badly mifetaken. If thin tvuctice is kept up from year out a tew hundred blulline; aud outholding other peo- eaid of that fumona blacklisting Sr. Louis and other cities that his arm is amendment passed at each club to induce Mr. Mills to accept tho Associa­ ror their base ball expenditures, this city, up to last gone fur good and that he will never again be the to year, and the salaries advanced, what iu tho name plo. Oh, Dave is a smroih oi,e." Cleveland a year ago by a vote of one aye to seven tion presidency and guide it in itscouusela. Mr. year, has been treated to farcical performances by sphinx in the box that he formerly was?" of common sense is to become of the National game? KU" Wiiliamson's burly toim has been missed around xioei*. He tails to speak of the outrageous decision ia Stern has exactly sized up the needs of the Association trained tai^aders^n/l; -tQ^'TiobSUpstanding oar puo_ There ia certainly Jake Schaefer's billiard par lord Curing the past win- ---'-- - - - m M buns ball laws were This waa news to me that in other cities thfey re­ an end somewhere, and it will be an ablc^ Ujjplfisfa bnun tlmt ia not ac narrow- lie has gjTven its support ia a lavish manner. Now, garded Ram^evas phtyed out. It is trv.o ihat ~ju»t ho- reached abruptly one of these days, unless tho laws as »r. Ed'a St. Louis friends hope that he.will remain u tit Louis next winter. JOE {-BITCHA.&D. . __ ... _.. ______7>J;W!?|T?r!tff^MKff*t!M" u^RTlook be^onTi seii-in-fyfeet. . waeir"~io.o fur-a-loug-time ni'':l'^l l'ii"'J^*tin'arMiiij|^ ~~" JWJ?1 1iiWHi6USSft-h4&-Hrni received a severe set down for the guidance of all are paid more atten­ , « . _,,._ . -Cb.it, o.nd which action A. G. Milk declared to Mills h,w that head, but $10,000 * year would ill-treated, pat roue find the home team putting up a atr»in which incp\rft^i'a^tl him for a week or ten diys, tion to. be the most high-handed outrage ever perpetrated INDIANAPOLIS MENTION. in not buy its use for the Association. He ia better game of ball they regard it as a pieca uf iojus- but he completely recovered and pitched some gamea THE GOOD (?) b.«e balL,.6ave Hie reinsUtcment by the League of the tice to be forced OLD TIMES. out of active base ball forever. I think into paying double rates for an after­ us good as any in which he had formerly twirled. I Two clubs in one city under different management Manager Spence Negotiating Cleveland contract breakers. He mentions the I may s«y this without disapproval from him. Mr. noon's entertainment until sufticient.time has elapsed with the may assure the batters of rival teams that they need j creates a friendly rivalry and wakes things up gen­ Flayers What the Men Say, Etc. League's blunder of receiving Lucas and his crowd of Mills is at the head of one of the largest private manu­ to balance the tail-eudi-r years. They think Ibey not build their hopes too high on the belief that erally. During the time that Lucas was ut the head rebels into their fellowship a very decided and co-tly facturing businesses in New York City, which is worth have been badly treated and recall the old proverb Kainaty's arm iq gone. It never wjis in a better con­ of the Maroons the rivalry between the Association INDIANAPOLIS, Fob. 0. Editor Si'ORriNGjjiFKt blunder hut fails to re-count how the A^sociition, to him a small fortune. He l«ft the League with c»u- 'eaten bread soon forgotten.' A great roauy of our dition. There is not tho sign of a strain or sprain The work of signing the players of last year's after a big blow and bliu-fo-r over it, got humbly and Lt-ague cluba wua anything but a friendly one. down Hiderable disgust, and lie has during tho lust few years ball patrons have jet to learn that there is no such th*re. Ramsey's injury consisted merely of a twisting Von der Atie looked cross-eyed at Lucaa, and Lticas leaoi is occupying nearly of all Manager on their marrow-bones and kissed the hand that emote been greatly disappointed with some of the loose, un- thing aa sentiment in base ball and that brotherly of one of the muscles, such as any man is subject too, I ooked wall-eyed a Von der Ahe. They both wanted Spence'a time just now. With the exception them. I httvo no patience with these fellows wbo can business-like, selfish and in some few cages dishonest feeling is an unknown quantity go far as the Ameri­ and was no collapse of the arm. lie received th© best : of never fcnter into an £> fight, buttme was afraid unit the other did not want Boyle, argument through the papers, or mothodp, which have crejit into professional base ball. can Association goes. I don't believe our people of medical attention and was soon completely cured. : to get into any trouble. I managed, by keeping quiet Shreve and Moffitt none of the old men take up a discussion on basu ball laws or legislation, There are one or two magnates in tbe Association with would be so emphatic or pronounced against the raise The return to the old rules will render him wonder­ and telling no talfs, to enjoy the friendship of* both save signed, but Mr. Spence assures me that without yelping a few barks at the League, a practice whom I know,3Ir. Mills would not like to associate in if the management had come out in a manly way and fully effective next season, and opposing batters had of them, and the way they used to "back-cap" while the boys are rattier slow in falling into they have indulged in since 1882. Yet alter the yelp­ admitted they had each a base ball souse. While he has not lost his interest in favored the advance and claimed tetter beware of his curves. other waa very amusing to a man up a tree. Lucas line the best of feeling for Indianapolis ing is over they crawl up to the League in the privacy the sport and its current history, hn gets to see very that increased expenses, etc., had forced tbem to that prevails f EVER-HOPEFUL BOTTO. used to say that Chris waa the tinfoil 08' a limburgfr ,mong the player?, and expects to be in excellent of joint legislation and lick them all over with their few games. All his leisure ia devoted to the New York conclusion, but they did not do so. On the contrary, cheese, and Chris said that Henry Was a damphooland fawning tongues. What volumes of rant, roaring and the claim has been made through our local press tbat I met Johnny Botto, the fat and good-natured direc­ shape within a short time. None of the men Athletic Club, of which he is now the same great lead­ tor of the Louisville Club, yesterday. Col. Botto al­ an Indian. Tho Browns' pre.-ident declared that his rot bun been chattered out to the public at the League ing head that he was to base ball several years ago. last year was a profitable one and that the Baltimore club could wipe up the ground witb the Kerry object to coming to this city. The only differ­ by a few of these Association barkers; and, yet can representatives fought to the titter end the high tunff ways has an abiding faith in the Louisville Club. He is never very sanguine, but at the same time he never Ptttchere, while the Maroons' president claimed tbat ences between the management and the unsigned any one namo one single instance in which the Asso­ President Ward, of the Brotherhood, severely resolution in tho convention; while the correspon­ the German team could not even amuee his b >ys in a ciation hns defied the League and carried out its defi­ dents of TUB SPORTING LIFE have with one accord and desponds. Ue never tbiuka the team will win the men are questions of salary and these are of handles the League ''magnate*1 ' in your last issue, ia championahip, but he is always quite sure that it will game of ball. A series of games waa arranged by no particular consequence. For several weeks ft ance to success? reference to their sudden conversion to the limit rule. wilh apparent truth placed the Baltimore Club with Gus Schmelz (who waa then at the head of the Ma- the advocates of the measure. The effect of the be at least as good as third in the championship race. weekly paper of New York haa kept stand­ It has just dawned upon the outside world that the "Well, Colonel," L asked. "What do you say about ruoos) and Mr. Von der Ahe, and aa soon as the ing a four line panigr*ph (o the effect that If Byrne could disctins any question without drag- Brotherhood, so far as their j«pp3Bed greatest victory change will be keenly weather of the spring of '86 waa ginc in his jealousy of the League, he would be able the LouUvilles for next year? How are they going to j>)eatant mough the Denny will not consent to play here this Reason, ts concerned, were neatly trapped by the big-luaded FHLT IX THE BOX OPPICB. come oul?" fun began. Both cluba enjoyed a large following and Tho statement is wholly without foundation. Deony to make stronger points, and might be> expected to League men. Let me, however, drop a This the players wore cheered to bring his indefatigable mind to btar upon statements word in Ward's la rn guess it is almost a dead certainty. "Come out right along in the front, aa they always tho echo whenever a good has never said he would not come hy'e. His letters ear, and he may depend upon it ihat I am right. That Baltimore is a 25-cent town and the bleaching boards do. You can depend on the Louisvillee next season." play was made. The Maroons won the flrat game, to personal friends id Indianapolis an show that ho which would suffer scnitiuv successfully. For instance, pretense of the 82,000 enforcement of and their friends threw he makes this statement: "The old championship the limit rule ia pay the salaries. Of course the grand stand business ''How's Rameoy's arm? I have beard a report that up their hate, umbrellas, the is willing to play with the Hoosit-rs and fully expect* the promulgation of contracts ia fraudulent. I know it is a considerable item, but it is the lower element that in other Association cities they say it is gone?" cushions on the seata, and everything except their to do so. Aa a matter cf fact, Diiimy will be one of schedule used to consist of 112 games, you remember, was not practiced by the American Association supports dinners. The Leaguers won the second game with and ball players were carted from one end of the last the game as it does the theatre in thia city. "What nonsense! His arm is all right. He will keep the first men to aig". There was only a small dif- year. Secretary Wikofi approved a number which By the lower element I moan the middle and lower the men fanning his curves next season as usual. Be- apparent ease, and tbe players on that t^arn com­ lereuce between his figure* and the amount the man­ country to the other playing exhibition game* in had over $2,000 marked in the instrument. I menced to wear their hata on their light which they had 110 interest. The Association made a think classea. With tho majority of these people a quarter eidts, Ramsey is keeping himself in excellent trim, ear and sleep agement expected to pay him. A contract haa been Nick Yonng'a books would show a similar state of af­ for base ball looks ae big a* a cart wheel. With some and we look for him to do his greatest work next with a chew of tobacco in their months. Tliey walked sent the great third baseman aud the sam» sensible change and increased its number of games to fairs if they could be uncovered. I agree with upon the public thoroughfare, keep its men employed in games in which their work Ward of them (non-worker^ to get the first 25 cents means year." while the Browns will be signed as soon as it is received. He did not counted, and that it is oot fair to evade an issue which tho League to hustle to get the ^econd means to labor and they "What about Hecker? Will he be any good as a sneaked up alleya and wended their way through the ask for a great incre^Sf, and in my opinion the man­ in which the public was interested; of pretended to meet honestly. It cannot do base tunnel in t>rder to keep their facea course that was a mistake, too («arka?m); but when it ball won't labor. This is where the drop will be keenly pitcher?" hid away from the agement will gladly pay it to him. In a letter to became known any good. Still, Ward must admit that the danger- felt, and (if expression goes for aught) much more "I can't say, but I am quite confident that he will. vulgar gaze of tlie public. The Maroons won the friend here, received last night, he says he will sign that League clubs could not milk lino in salaries has been passed. A halt and third game, and joy and good feeling American Association cities any more in the way of retreat keenly than tbo management now imagines. Nothing Hecker'a arm is strong and he ia likely to do great wag the order of with Indianapolis at a certain figure, and I am in­ mnet be sounded if disaster would be averted disaster short of phenomenal ball by the home club will keep the work . You can't tell.'* the day at Cass and Jefferson avenues,while the Grand clined to think that his contract will be promulgated exhibition conie.-ts, it was quietly determined to in­ to the game generally, and avenue boys' facea wore aa long as a telegraph crease the League schedule of games." consequently to the profes­ daily business of tho open stands to anything like a "What are Mack, Browning and the rest going pole. within tbe next iwo wtx-ks. Denuy has thousands of sional player also. I am sincere when I say I see but two paying business. Nail a spike in here and send it to to do?" Just mention the Maroons at that time in the neigh­ friend* iu this city, and tho greatest living third base* solutions to borhood of Sportsman's Park and Now wben "Byrne Talks" why doesn't he talk the problem. One is the graded talary me by ajtiil at my expense, first day of June, if I am "The beat work of their lives. They are all behav­ the ppeaker would man will be here in due time. truth andsensy talk proposition, and the other is THE SPORTING LIFE Mil­ wrong. Nor will the open blands ba the only fall off. ing themselves finely during the winter, and they die an unnatural, but quick, death. At the opening oi Glaescock, writing to J. H. Martin, of this city,say« by the record. Is it bectuse he lenium Plan. The latter would meat every phase tho fourth game Comiakey told his wants to give the poor uut-of-meat correspondents ol of The will go on the diamond next season in thorough trim. boys that they **I never felt better in my life. I see Manager THE tho question, but, as I said before, I do not now see GRAND STAND WILL TUMBLE, They had all better look out for the Louisville Club. muat not lose for.r straight. He pleaded and prayed Spence has arrived in Indianapolis. In my opinion SPOUTING LIFE material to write about by set­ how it can be adoped, with such solfiehnesa with the boys before the park waa ting before them very vulnerable asflertionb? Fur this at the but it won't make so much dust. Tho drop here It will keep the others guessing.'* reached, and they he is a fitst-claas man aud will help the club very indetatigable magnate foundation of both professional bodies. Tbe only way will be brought about by the inability on the part promised each other that Kirby's curves should be much. I would be glad to see him successful with tho in the above statement has cer­ this selfishness can be removed for the Introduction of NOTES. aolved, and they spoke the truth. Mappis was put in to tainly uncovered the callous part of his body by so of many of ita patrons to provide daily. It ia a recog­ Ramaey sports a new plug hat. enterprise aud 1 shall do all in my power to help him. the Millenium Flan is by a disastrous Beuson. Every nized fact that it is with bate ball as it ia with many catch Kirby in the fourth game, and to this 1'act iu a I think all of the boys will like Mr. Spence and will recklessly throwing toi^lher his alleged (aoe Stack- lover of the game will hope to see such an event Work will soon be begun on the Louisville grounds. largo degree the Maroons owed their first defeat. honsfc) facts. Let us look at them and compare them other amusements 'the more you get the more you Youug Ed Bowman, the pitcher, will probably sign play better ball nndor him than any manager we havo warded off. The graded salary scheme is r-ne of the want.' Hence our grand stand contains the same old After their first whipping the League boys lo*t all over had. Mofiltt will make a great record nextyearj with the facts official rconlsi It was my too frequent good points to the pUn, however, and maybe that could with some good club in a few days. heart. They were defeated before thoy went upon reference to the official records, you will remember ball fiends day after day and seriea after series and The annual election of the Louisville Club occurs I think. He is iu the gymnasium here every day and be brought forward successfully in one more season, they are not all season-book holders either. Now take the field, while the Browna were boiling over with ia showing up remarkably well. He ia In good form which got me disliked and made me "objectionable" so that a safe business baais might once this month. J< A. to Byrue, Vun der Ahe and Barnie. But I can't help more be a regular and force him to become only an occasional, . ^ confidence, and the Maroons Buffered defeat after de­ and is taking excellent care of himself." reached. I will, in my next letter, deal with this and he very Boon loses interest aud becomes a non-at­ feat. It was now the time for tbe Browna to vacate Baaaett has alto bet-ii heard from, and the gentle­ it. Official facts somehow carry with them a cold in­ plan moro fully. defatigable front, before which such wild hair-lipped tendant. These are certainly facts that have been OHIO LEAGUE NEWS. the alleys and tunnels, and allow the Maroons to se­ manly second base man will cover that spot for Indian­ proven over and over again. Nor ia he lost only ao crete themselves. The series waa talked over by the apolis again next year. He has not signed yet, but h« ravings at* those above must give way like snow be­ Four Delinquent DIembers of the clubs; they also fore an April sun. So Til cling to the records if they THE SPORTING Lm: has a big sale through the West far as his toll is concerned. He ceases to be a shouter Clubs—Schedule Commit­ quarreled on one or will give the management no trouble. Dave Rowe wai At Hawley's. in this city, they sell five copies of THE and puller for the home club on th* outside, aud hia tee and Other Matters. occcaaiona, aud I believe that one scrap resulted here a few days ago trying to arrange dates with kill or bttuieb me. Now the Browna have things all their SPORTING LIFE to one of any other sporting paper. At influence in thia connection is gone. As long as he Conrlhius, Feb. 9. Editor SPORTING LIFE: own way, as Manager Spence, but accomplished nothing. Menges, Dayton my old home the news privileges are ab­ can be kept iu his old seat on the staud every day, he the Browna and Whites are both owned and con­ of the Kansas City Western League Club, also wants In 1882, the first yoar of the Association, each sorbed by tho Wolf Brothers. They soli Only three of next year's Columbus team are trolled by Mr. Von der Ahe. Rivalry in St. Louia League club played 84 games and each Association twenty copies must necessarily defend the club'a shortcomings, in opening dates, but Manager Spence will not take hia .but I could not get a copy of any other base l»all paper order to account for his daily attendance. By driving now in the city. They are Johnnie Handiboe, ia a thing of the past at least, for a while, yet I hope team out there without a handsome guarantee. While elub played 80 (we the championship tables). In 18&£ don't keep them. Dayton has had the day ia not far distant when another club will be each League club played 93 games and each Associa­ no club for a these old patrons away is created a sentiment against Billy Rourke and Milt West, and all three are Bowe was here be slated to a fri<*ud tbat he would b« year but its interest in the game does not flag. In both the club aud tbe management it may be that taking their regular exercise, in the shape of established within her limits. The old town needs a back again within two weeks, and expected to open up tion club plnyed exactly the same number. In 1884 spite of the assertion from Brooklyn that some of the shaking up. each Association club played 110 games and ea^t the sentiment is unhealthy, but it ia tbere all the long walks, preparatory to getting into active negotiations for the purchase of Bassett. The genial correspondents of THE SPOHTINQ LIFE have not much same, and is sure to rebound with the full force of a ASSOCIATION HEAD GEAR. manager lacked tbe nerve to make thia proposition to League club played 112 games. In 188o both bodies material to write about I feel like complimenting trim. West was the last man to sign, and he played 112 gumos. lu 1886 and 1887 the League in­ you blizzard against the box office* Nail apike number Did you ever notice tbe size of President Stoarna" the local management, and it is well that he did not on the last number. Especially was Brunei!, Chad- two in here on same conditions. Now comes held out for a long time for hia terms. It is not hat? Hia head is not too large, but he always wears a mention the matter to any of tlie home officials. If creased their games to 128, and the Association, by be. wick, Mulford, Pritchard, "T. T. T.,M Palmer, ginning its season two weeks earlier, began to piay Stack- THB IMPORTANT QUESTION thought that he got all he asked, but the man­ dicer about one-quarter too small for hia cranium. Rowe wants to die a violent death let him come back house and Ward entertaining, A copy of THE SPORT- to which the public, and, I confess myself, axe await­ agement split the difference liberally with him. Zach Phelps wears an old-time "plug" that waa in and ask Manager Spence to release Basaett to the new 140, Ihe extra 12 games being dihtriboted over the ex­ IMJ tra ten or twelve davs of the Association champion­ LIFE lasts me a half day. Pretty good for five ing an answer. 'Why are we asked to pay double use during the late rebellion. Joe Doyle told me on American Association Club. "Bassett will play second cents. West is a great fielder, and an unusually hard for Indianapolis," says ship. Now, the Brooklyn magnate knows At well a-* I charges, and what new attractions do we get for the and safe hitter. Ilia one great weakness ia lack of the dead qafet that Zach'a hat waa once the property Manager Spenco, "and a propo­ or any other Association man knowa that in 1866 and money?* la the Baltimore Club fifty per cent stronger head work on the bases. Johnnie Handiboe, the kid of a break-neck song-and-dance team. sition to buy his release would not be entertained for 1887 the Association clubs, on account of their ability Will you please ask Stackhouse to write me and le tlian last year? I think not, for if it is it will win the twirler, is a general favorite, and it will break my President Von der Ahe wears a celluloid hat in sum­ a moment." to play Sunday championship me know exactly what paper, "not far from Chicago,' pennant in a walk, and its moat sanguine admirers mer aud a derby and plug during tho fall and winter The contract for tbe grand stand has been awarded games, had two open heart if he don't prove the continued success that I to Thomas Morse, of this dates during the season to every one which the League I am to "do" base ball for? I don't know and it is make no euch claim for it. Has the management gone have all along predicted for him. The last numbyr of Chria is always particular to have his name and the city, and work will be com­ had, in spite cruel in him to keep me in suspense...... ! see Byrue to any lavish expenditure to strengthen the team (as number of his house printed on the inside of big menced within the next three weeks. President of the extra 12 games, which wero neu­ THE SPORTING LIFE shows that he stood at the head "cady." Biudh says the building tralized by the lengthening of their season. He was writing letters all last week, and I didn't get one has Mr. Byrne, of the Brooklyns, who has put out some of a list of twenty pitchers in the Ohio League last will be a dandy, aud a great knows, too, that every Association club was auxioua to ...... Mnlford says his two boys look almost like 920,000,1 thick, and who is entitled to the raise)? By F. H. Robfaon, of Cleveland, weara a slouch "bon­ improvement over anything Indiana[K)lis has ever had. twins. Ho drawa season, but there la no telling how so young a twirler The sale ol season tickets continues satisfactory and be "milked" by a League club on those days, and the the line on two...... Has Yon dei no meant. It has engaged no new players of any will do another seaeou. He muat not be worked eo net" at times, but his favorite is a derby. record will show thiit Brooklyn's indefatigable mag­ Abe come back from Europe? Tben get ready for thi prominence though it has some of even doubtful Jimmy Williams wears a straw hat all winter, and a the outlook for next season ia indeed very bright. hurd and must be encouraged. He possesses the speed ____ nate was about as anxious as any to have a League opening of the season...... Do you think I am inde­ utility and has goue to no extraordinary expenses. and curves to make him a second Clarkaon.and I bank fur cap adorns his knowledge box during the base ball ____ A. G. 0. fatigable? The club ia made np almost as it was last year. Not season. club squeeze the Incteal fluid from his swelling udder. greatly on his work for the success of the team. THE GAME IN TEXAS. The reason is plain: Because a League club would that the public baa much fault to find with the person­ Billy Rourke is a new man to me, and I havo no opin­ Charley Byrne ia partial to a beaver, but it must be draw moro people to an Association ground upon such Byrne this letter. 0. P. CATLOB. nel generally. Ou the contrary, it ia regarded here, ion to offer as to his merits. However, he is said to of tbe latest style. The same may be said of Mr. Abell and very properly, too, with fow exceptions, as one Joe Doyle wears a toboggan in winter and a Panami How Coaching was Introduced and Re* open days than could be attracted by any non-Associa­ guard that third and most difficult corner of the dia­ oeived in That Leitgue. tion club. If any reader of TIIR SI'OATING LIFE doubts ZANESV1LI.B ZEPHYRS. among the very best cluba in personnel in the Ameri­ mond with a bold front. If he is a succca*, he will be in summer. He travels in the North during July am my correctness in this statement, let him take the can Association, but it wan just as good, if not better, a great favorite here, for the third point waa our weak August in order to keep cool. The National sport has fixed itself firmly in echedules of tbo Association aud League for 1S86 and Aggrieved at the Action on the Question when it could be seen for 23 cents, and, the manage- place last year. Billy Baroio always wears n derby, and he keepa 11 the affections of Toxas, and with astx-club league agement admit, made money. Therefore, why are we on his head a great deal of the time. Fact! 1887; fit down aud figure out the open dates on each, of Jix*teusiou The Pennant Race. I saw President BIcDermith, of the Ohio League, booming, it is clearly a misnomer to speak of it romc'mtiering that L«apu>» club* do not dare forced to double up? The ewm and substance of the Harry Voud-rhorst loves his whiskera and a nice play on ZANESVIJ«LE, Feb. 7. Editor SPORTING LIFE to-day, and asked him how many clubs had de­ as the Lone Star State. When the champion­ Sundays; tben let him uafe permission to go over the thing fa, the Baltimore patrons think the 50-cent rate posited the $500 forfeit to finish tbe season. Silk tile, and he is real nice when fixed up. letter-books of the League aod Association clubs and I dou't see any occasion for the manner in unreasonable, and I would not be surprised if they "Well, only four have paid up, but I don't think Billy Sharsig's head ii covered with a derby aboui ship race is at its height, no loneliness will be ap­ iMie whoro tho anxiety of the milkmaid-; comes in. You which your Kakimozoo correspoudcntjumps ont< took advantage of the only course left open to them all the year round. At night Billy wears a night-ca] parent within its borders. While base ball it best to tell you who they are, for the others will so Joe Murphy says. «e, I kuow, you know, bccaune I woa in, the business. Zanesvillo. It seems very improbable that h( and wait patiently at home until the better sense ol be along soon and there is no need of advertising cranks are developing at a surprising rate in the Association mauifaets itself by allowing any club their delinquency. Zaneaville has not held back on Mr. Hfrim, of tho baby aggregation, la a man o voiooa the sentiments ot the Kalamazoo manage­ that cliO'WS to do so to return to tho old charge, or a1 fashion. He ia tho owner of a, hit for every day in the the land of sand and cotton, still tho knowledge Now, when it la borne in mind that during nil ment, whose friendship the bond business, but is ready to put up tbe for­ week, and it ta aaid that he is of the these years the Lea cue held all its annual meeting in the past has been least until Baltimore is excepted from what, ao far as feit. What they want is to give them more time to also the happy posseaaoi game is not at present very extensive. Itt July thia place is concerned, will surely pr»ve a ruinous of a very fine rod-liuod fur cape or two. in November, aud the Association theirs in December, appreciated. They have acted very nicely rate." raise a guarantee to keep the club up for the st-a- fact, up to last summer the people of Galvoston it will be further seeu how the indefatigable max- and shown themselves to bo thorough base bai son. If they can do thii, of course, they will put up WILL THB WESTERN LEAGUE TEAM PAT? were unaware that a coacher waa a necessary affliction nato na$ sprained his memory, for every increase iu men. When Zanesville asked for an extension of time Well, now, that ii ft the forfeit bond. They have been given until Fob. 20." Thin question is often heard in this city, and whili in connection with ball gam«a, and Charlie Cainpau the number of games wna provided for by each body to laiao tho necesaary money Kalamazoo voted to give PRBTTT STROfrfl STATEMENT "Who have you appointed on the schedule com­ some are of the opinion that the club will be a paying had the honor of enlightening them on that point. at its respective annual meetings, so that its schedule it to her, but we would not have asked bad we knuwn of the case and makes some fine points, and withal ia mittee?" venture, others believe that no money can possibly be The Now Orleans Club played there last summer, and committees could make a schedule and submit it at then what wo do now, th;tt several other cities haven1 thoroughly argumentative that must be admitted "I haven't appointed anyone yet, but you may say made out of-a tail-end organization, as that is jus tho count lost no time in letting loose hia (third) ba» their spring meeting. Therefore, if either body took put up their money, and Zauueville will probably be in but there ia just one view of the question that is that Columbus, Canton and Wheeling will have tho what tho White* will be to the Browns. The advance voice iu an effort to coax a man off first. The specta­ the Ifttd in this matter it wa* the Ltague, though in ahead of them instead of being Uat to come to time omitted, and although your correspondent ia with the representatives, and I hope they won't Arrange it as in the price of admisjion at the annual meeting la tors, never having heard any coaching, jumped to th« reality there has beun a peaceable and business-like We do not predict for our club the position of pennanl public in this matter in fairness it should be stated it waa last year, giving twenty or more straight Cincinnati was a good change for the Western League conclusion that Camp was intoxicated, and in a united understanding between the two bodies on all the busi­ winners, aud if we come in next to last, the place The true value of a thing is not always what ia or haa games in a city." team, as they would not have drawn a corporal's gtuin shout demanded that he be ejected from tho grounds. ness common to their interests for throe or four which Columbus has kindly allotted us, we will be been charged for it. Circumstances, auch aa competi­ "Any umpires appointed yet?" at the sumo price charged to see the Brown*. The Efforts to oxplaiu were unavailing, and the coacher years pa*t. As a further matter of fact I may (-ay content, but I will make one prediction, and that is tion, or, time for an education of the people up to the "None to announce." minor oipanizntlon may surprise ua when tbe season waa hissed throughout the game. A local paper tho right here tbat Al Spacing and Hurry Wrijtkt urged tbat tho club that beats Wheeling will be the pennant thing offered, and to get it into general use, or, a thou It will not be long now before the festive bate opens. The clubs maybe protty evenly matched ant nox t morning gave an elaborate explanation, of coach­ the increase uf championship taunes to the full limit, winners. How's ibat, "Pickwick?" I think that the sand and one other things, may act to keep the thing ball player will be on the diamond at Recreation the contests may be even more exciting than we can ing tactics. Campau was detailed to umpire the next a0 long a«o as 1883. Harry Wright will recollect talk­ time baa come for tho petty quarreling between the down in price until it bai been well introduced. The Park, in this city. Jimmie Williams' Cleveland team hope for just at present, as it looks very much aa if the game, having injured a hand. When it waa seen ht ing th«j subject over to me iu the fall of that year. I cities to be dropped, and tho sooner they begin work­ value of the thing may have been all the time double will be here for their spring practice and they have DCS Moinea Club was tho popaesajr of the pennant be­ waa Dot to play, ti delegation of citizens camo out on had tfoiio k>HHt to see him and try to secure tho release ing together in harmony tho sooner the Ohio League the price charged. It ia admitted that the made some good dates. We hope that the Columbui fore a ball Is pitched, and should the Iowa team walk the diamond and requested him to play, so they ceuld from Providence, of left-handed Iticliuv ud. The will ba put OB a aoiid bwia and become a BUCOMB. VALUE OF BASE BALL 19 EXCEEDINGLY ELASTIC team, new M it ia, will give Jlmoiie'i peta good away from the rest of the cluba, aa the Browna have aee him coach, and thereafter his coaching was tho Providence tc»ui were playing in Boatou thatdav It and difficult to n*t iu fact LM jy> weil-« tab hated Jo TOW, done for a few HUOSOD* oast, the interest wiU die out feature of the game. Feb. 15. 3

backing Maginnia aeenM to do la "backing ont." Bet­ ton In the geological survey, and Dave White. Dave stopped in New York on my way home I heard thai ting ia one of the usual arguments of a Keyurnel, I be­ CINCINNATI CHIPS. ia farming somewhere In Kentucky. There was at HUB HAPPENINGS. Mickey had been there and that when he told them BASE BALL. lieve. I'll meet Maglnuia on that ground, if he will that time no league all independent clubs and we what salary he wanted thin year, Mr. Day advised him draw a map of the situation and name his "figger." The Southern Trip ol the Beds—Reminis­ played for what money waa to be had at tbe gate. Mike Kelly 's Friendly Offices for Tom to hunt up some club that would buy his release. N<\ Meanwhile, poor Kansas City has my sympathy. "J. cences of the Pacific Coast and of » There waa the old Ludlow Club, with Charley Jones, Brown— Still Hoping for Andrews — A I didn't sign. There ia no hurry. 1 prefer to wall A.V backing ought to sink a ship or stop a Derby Tom Bond, Houck, Billy Barnte (now manager of the Catcher's Record, Etc. awhile «nd see what may turn up.'* BRUNELL'S BUDGET. favorite. Once Noted Club, Etc. Baltimore), T. Bakor, Mitt-hell, the left-handed phe­ "Jim Mutrie says the New Yorka are going to win I leave for California to-morrow morning with Sec­ CINCINNATI, Feb. 8. Editor SPOHTISO LIFE: nomenal at that lime, and others that have slipped BOSTON, Feb. 11. Editor SPORTING LIFE: tbe pennant thia year 'dead sure.'" The Irwin Decision Criticized A Plea for retary Hawley, of the Cleveland Club. Daring my For the next month base ball affairs in Cin­ niy memory. We also met the Stare, of Covington, When Mike Kelly makes up his mind that a * "Yes, so are several other clubs, the way they look the Four-Strike Kule The Conditional absence THE SPORTISO Lire, will get all the news from cinnati will doubtless be exceedingly Ky.; the Columbus (Ohio) Club, the Chicago*, Hart- man is a good ball player he will stick to at it now. I am afraid we are going to Lavo that fatal me when I slow. Al­ forda and Si Keek's Cincinnati Contract I'lan, Etc. see anything worth writing about. We ready the exodus has commenced, and one by Beds. We played from him through thick and thin. From the time weak spot at third again. Thero seems to be a fatality CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 11. Editor SPORTING may net something la tbe pitching lino before wo two to three games a week. It waa ahvavs nip and he first transferred his allegiance from Chi­ about that position in our nine. No one cau eeeiu to return. one tho players who have been wintering here tuck with the Covington Stars and the Bint*. We play it for us. Do yon knew, I think the best man we LIFE: On the first page of THE SPORTING LIFB Owen J. Pfttton, the clever little general player of will be jumping out for the towns that are speci­ could win and IOSP. The only time when we could cago to Boston, he has put in a good word could find for third would be Sutton? and Breton haa of last Sunday I found a decision of the Arbi­ the Minneapolis Club, was married a few davs ago to fied on the date lines in the contracts they hold. win waa when Mike Burke would wear an old faded for McCormick whenever opportunity afforded, no especial use for him, either. 'Sut' would be a great tration Committee, with John I. Rogers' signa­ Miss Beddy, a pretty girl of Newbnrgh, where Owen The Crescent City delegation has gone to join red shirt, and we all put our confidence in Mike and His pleadings for rtie fat Jer&ey twirler have pluyer for New York, lie hasn't forgotten hjw to ture beneath, whiah gives pitcher AY. F. Irwin lives. that shirt. All of Cumminsville remembers that shirt. been in vain, however, but he has had better field yet, find ho can hit the bull, too. And, by the Kansas City expects to get a League pitcher for the their fellow Pelicans, and day after to-morrow When we would meet the Ludlow team they would way, there isn't going to bo so much batting this year to the Manchester, N. H., Club, not because coming season. A glance over the fieM inclines one the Cincinnati Reds will tollow them towards snow ua under. We could do nothing with them, atd success in recommending Tom Brown. The left- as there was last. Although the new thrte-atrikea of Manchester's prior engagement, but because to believe that the man ia Ed Daily, of tho Washing- the Gulf, to remain away for nine long weeks. when Ike Stars, of Cuviogton, would meet them (the banded fielder owes it to Kelly that he is to-day rule will make it much easier fur me, I am very aorry of its priority in committing an illegal act tons. F. H. BauNELL. Ludlowa) the Luds would get downed. Once we a member of the Boston Base Ball Club. His they adopted it. It ia a Iwd move for the good of th« Not until the last day of March to they expect played the Beds. paying advance money. To me is also referred to return, and when they make their appearance contract has not been signed yet, for the mail game. We will simply havo a pitchers' gmue a^aln. the official opinion of the Board of Arbitration, GALVESTON IN LINE. OLD CHEROKEE FISHER can't get to California and back in a day. The No one wants that. As I look Ht ft, the batemaff ia in an exhibition game that afternoon they will going to be at the pitcher's mercy, and tnal is exactly was pitching and little Davy Pearce catching. They wire has done the business. A week ago to-day, figred by Secretary Byrne. The opinionation A Complete Team Already Secured Sta­ not be raw recruits, but veterans well seasoned the opposite to what we want. Insttud of more bat­ had us 7 to 1 up to the eighth iuniug. When we Treasurer Billings telegraphed to Brown, at San part of it runs this way: "A ball player seek­ bility of the league. by their jaunt through the States far below came into our turn at bat Mike and his red shirt were ting, the new rule means leas." ing employment has a right to send hia terms to Francisco, for his terms. They cane on Mon­ OALVESTON, Mason and Dixon's old imaginary line. If there and his first bat. He had a long hickory club, MINOR MATTERS. as many clubs as he desires, but the club first Feb. 3. Editor SPOHTINQ LIFE: which weighed a whole pound and a half. The first day, and before the once famous Association The Island nothing happens to prevent, I expect to make Our players are being gathered in 0110 by one. Ed accepting his terms haa the prior claim. Mr. City haa been rather slow in getting ball pitched Mike swiped for two bases. Booth came player saw the sun set in the Pacific that night, Tate has contracted to play ball for Boston another its team together the trip to New Orleans with "the boys," and Irwin'n letter to your club (t?andusky) of Dec. for the coming season, but it is next. Another two-bagger. Eastman got a aiugle, be had been notified that he was a "bean eater" year. His pupers call fur the limit. La^t ye«r ho now complete. B. F. Sullivan, of St. Louis, see them fairly started in their preliminary while Mike got home on Booth'a hit. Then Cherokee drew 81,750 from the triumvirs' hunk 10, 1837, named suitable advance in connection will for 1883. acronnt. Thia manage and captain the nine, and comes well work. Well, 0. P. Caylor dropped in on us cot rattled, and he went up to the home plate year he will get 82,000. "Dimples" doe-* not livo up to with the amount ($150) per month for which ho Tom Brown was released by Pittsburg and recommended as a crack first has em an and last week en route to Iowa, and he spent a few and shook the ball under Beaver'a nose. That scared hia incuuif. Last year ho saved a good little pile on a was willing to play, and that wiis a part of the Poarce, and got him rattled, too, and he commenced to was not eood enough for the Hoosiers to reserve, Si,750 salary. Thin year the always-good-natured pitcher. The following men comprise the nine: days among old home friends. At lunch at the St. terms he exacted. Tho contract tent him by Nicholas uue day, Ople and President Stern got to talk­ throw the balls meant for Fielda at aecond boae away and now Boston signs him. Why? Because back stop will bank a cool thousand if hu keeps up hia John Green and Samuel Landis, of Philadel­ over his head. Then it came the Sandusky Club was not accompanied by any ing of old times here when the authorities made a de­ Drain'a bat. Jack got a Mike Kelly gays he is a "hustler from away last year's rite. Yet Tato WAS uevt r happier ana phia, pitchers; Ed Tray, of Detroit, Henry Fa­ three-baser. Two runa in Bnrkw'a making three. never played tetter ball in his life than Uet yeur. advance, and as it was not in compliance with his termined effort to stop Sunday ball playing. It was back," a ball player all through and a winner. bian, of New Orleans, and F. Miles, catchers; B. beld illegal to charge admission lo the grounds, and Dean followed with a clean hit. Waterman gut a hit; Tim Keefe eavs he never made or wrote the remark terms, he was not bound to sign Boll, a two-baser. Wheeler gut a baae, Dean scoring. There is a very amusing side to Brown's engage­ F. Sullivan, first base; Joe Bowie, of Kew Or­ the gates were thrown open to the public. A contri­ about Mike Kelly not being in the habit of saying a it. The Manchester Club contract sent bution box waa placed conveniently Then it was my turn. I never could hit Fisher. I ment. The triumvirs have hired a man not on good uord about ball players in penerul, which waa leans, second base,- Harry E. Smith, Cincinnati, near the entrance, him was accompanied by what he seemed to and a sign was displayed over it reading: was afraid of him, but I went, aed the first ball ho their own personal knowledge of his ability as printed over his signature in the New York Sporting third base; Frank McLaughlin, short atop; I). pitched I threw the bat at it. I felt something hit, Times. think asuifao'e advance and he signed it, and a player, hut aolely on the judgment of Kelly. That Goodenough, right field; P. I. McGraw, Hamil­ j FOB THE BENEFIT and I ran. Booth was at first, and he urged me on to In a couple of weeks John Morrill will have com­ that is a valid contract." Here is a legality is something new for Boston, hut if a player, with I OF THE second. Then it waa I ran. The centre fielder run- Kelly'g refutation, cannot pick out a good mau what pleted a term at BO ant & Stratton's commercial col­ niton an illegality. A contract held to be goo'i because ton, Cun., left field. Centre will be filled from riog towards the old brick yard fence, so I the batteries. The men have all good records as all- ! PLAYERS. } skipped on are direct >is gulug to do, who never pluyed a game of lege. of violation of tbe ruU-s. Advance money was declared to third base; got there just as tbe ball got to Nichols, hall iu their livea. Not an hour after Director Billings Scarcely a day passes ou which Tim Mnrnan doea not to be illegal two seasons ago. loan understand h'>w around players ami come highly recommended. While who W«B playing there. The ball struck my shoulder, it is too early to claim them for pennant winners, we Everybody was expected to put something into the telegraphed Brown an acceptance of his terms ho said droii into my office, and be id always ready to discuss Irwiu could not be bound by Saudugky's terms, be­ box. After tbe fir*t free game the box was so heavy and fell between his feet; he did not know where it tome: "This is going it bliud on my part. I don't base ball matters. Tho other day ho gave us a littfe cause net suited by them, but cannot understand what think they will laud ns near the lop. wa*, and I ran in home, making the wiuniug Dowio covered second base here laat season for the with wealth that Ople and Brother Aaron broke a sus­ run, seem to know tho fltat thing about Biown. But 'Hell' talk on the value of hitters, und lie sttid if he waa right the Arbitration Board haa to take cognizance of pender apiece getting it into the office. Collar but­ amidst fhe wildest excitement. Caleb Doddwurth, a saycj he ia a good ont', and I guesa he knows. Any­ running the Boston nine he would mike up the In­ the payment of advance money in deciding a case. Island Citys and was hv far tbe best all-round player man who seldom laughs, was throwing hie hat in the in the two local teams, being a fine fielder and base- tons, puol cbecks, poker chips and a thousand or more how we have engaged him simply because Mike field in thia Way: Wise on first, Morrill on second, Tho payment of advance money is illegal. How, there­ copper cents were among Iho treasure. That settled air, and it landed iu the grand stand, and some fellow wanted us to. He is responsible- for him, Nash on third and Sutton at short. "That would giva fore, can Sanduaky lose a man because it uid'ut con- runner and a sure hittor. Goodenough and Miles are got away with it. He wont home bareheaded. aud if Brown from tbe West*-ru League aud played last &ea^ou with th«< box bubiuess, for the next Sunday Brother Aaron That don't turn out well, why, Kelly will be left with the you Boms hitters. I tell you 'old Sut' can use the wot to break tbe rules. The time service is going on peeled off his coat, pulled up his shirt sleeves, and night we had a feaat at Hen Gode 1 man's. Then we real ot UB." stick yet, and it you put him at shore and keep him gain. I urn not the champion of the Sandueky Club, tne Galvestons, niakiiu Irne records here. had a game witli Iho Hartfords. Bob Tho Beach Park is being enlarged and sodded heav­ everybody had to drop their contributions into his Fergueou was Later that same day I was hurrying up atreet, when there he will do good work." but of base ball in an bumble way. Neither do I say hand. Said 0. P.: then manager. They President Suden pulled rue into a doorway, and the My atimirutioti for Hike Kelly's common sense ! tfaat Buffalo got Jack Clmpman, because Buffalo bad a ily, ami n new grand si aud will be erected for ladies and escorts in tbe southwest corner, near the entrance. "Once in a while you'd see a fellow slip up with his RUNG IN A LIVELY BALL first break he made was: ''What do you know about increasing. If ho w*s not a pretty level-headed follow tronccr "pull" than Manchester, or that Manchester land closed tight over something, aud when he saw on ns, and when they were at and on Brown? I don't aeem to remember auy such his friends would have givc-u him a worse disease than got pitcher Irwin becuuee its ''pull" was stronger than The leant will be called to meet on March 1 aud go bat onr fielder? aat on into practice for a muuth, the first Sunday in April Ur. Stern he'd quit and go into his pocket again. the fence, BO they could get ihe ball quicker when it player. Is he a good one for UP, or isn't he?" the Charley-horse long aco. How Mike keep* from Bufialo. But there are surface indications to that Mike Arnold was right there, aud every mau who put So you see the directors are, as Mr. Biilinga said, having the "swelled head" is a conundrum. But he ia effect, and certainly the opinion is in tbe line of being the opening day. went over. They had only the one lively ball. So I Tbe uniforms will te of dark blue and maroon, the n a cent was given the fire over into the bleaching gave Eastman a knife. He put it iu hia shoe, and gO:Ug it a little blind. If Brown proves to t>e a valu­ the fame old "Kell." tultificatii>u. Everybody kuows that advance mouey )oards." when we went to the field able man, all well aud gooJ; but if he does not come Boston will do its share toward* adding volumes to to paid. Why uot wipe its prohibition off the books. capo, belts aud stockings bein^ of maroon and tbe after our inning we passed bhir la and pauts blue. The word "Galvestun" will be The attempts to shut down Sunday base ball playing the ball out to Eastman. He tlit the cover, and, aa up lo the work, they will not be down iu the mouth, the literature of the Naiioual game. Tim Mnruan But while it ia ou them, how can a decision be based in Cinciunatti have been spasmodic aud luck had it, a ball was hit to me at second. I raa and for they are eimply making an experiment. All the will have a valuable compilation of base ball matter Bjxm an illegality? If I am wrong, I am wrong bard. embroidered on theshiit front. iu type very soon for a reference hook; Jake Morse la The League will furnish regular umpires, and pay TAINTED WITH MORE OR LESS BLACKMAIL. stepped on it, threw it to Drain at first and put the man indications are that it will be a successful one. John GIVE US BACK THE FOURTH STRIKE. out. Jack locked at the ball and threw it to the um­ Morrill ie rather non-committal, but save: "Bruun at work ou a history of the irame; and Tack Drohan, them $75 a mouth and traveling expenses. None of They proved futile because public opinion could not is to write a book for Mike Kelly, I want to send up a short howl in favor of a return the staff have been selected yet, but the directors have see the justice iu allowing the ovei-the-Rhlue con­ pire, who saw the rip and called for a red dead. After did some good playing agaicst us, andoug'bt to make on "What I know lo four strikes and five balls before the playing season that we had them more even, and when the game was a good man for us." Tim Kcefr, who ha* just returned about base ball.1 ' plenty applications for positions. cert halls, the hill tope and the theatres to run unmo­ Al Reach says he wonld "not release Andrews lor a of 1838 begins, and in doing so I am acting as an agent The team here will be the "Joints" of the Tezaa lested, while base ball wad alone marked for condem­ ended it stood, Hartford 26, Blue Stockings 18. But to his home, over in Cambridge, from S^u Francisco, of the public, which wauls to aee more buttiug and the Hartforda never knew thNational League on and what is more, the hard-hitting third baseman will "bicycle" pitchers in the universe. And I'd send up good fab ape. that level alone the abolishment of Sunday games. pitching for Columbus. But we got two men on bases ting a little, and he gets more anxious to do well in this same shout if I owned the Cleveland Club and and one man out, and all hopes died when I came to fact, gets over-anxious and then ho can't do any- play for the Boston nine in '88. Houstuu, Austin, Dallas and Galveston have com­ Tbat is one reason why I'd like to see Cincinnati in Director Conant is very busy nowadays. He haa to knew that every one of its pitchers were "bicycle" pleted their team, but San Antonio and Furt Worth the League. Now a word about "independent writ­ bat. But I surprised the natives by getting a clean thiag. I've teen Kogor Connor, even, troubled with pitchers, because I'm after the general good. I assert home run. I drank wine that evening, hut never that disease." look out for that grand stand in the morning, and ia are still scrambling for players. ing." Why write down the most innocent ot all the afternoon you c»n find him on the Brighton ro& Andrews for Hor- of the strikers has later vie wed a hundred men since the rales were from all over tbe State ever Sunday during the aum- "Bummy" lias already returned to warm it. He has A FEW BRIEFLET9. nung without a good bonus. Harry M'tight evidently gained his point and the wearisome strike of hanged, and eighty-nine of the hundred think that a mer. ___ I. 0. N. 0.1. not yet completed arrangements for taking his Sham- The Beds are to wear their navy bine uniforms1 thinks the Philadelphia team can get along without certain members of the Pittsburg Club will, to mistake was made when the pitching rule was re mod- rock-McMicken Star Combination South. "Leftv" while in the South. They have arrived and Grandpa Andrews. He propo&es that Boston give Nash and all appearances, soon be at an end. 'Tis a consum­ tied. My hundred men Include maLagcrs, players Marr will he a member of the team and perhaps Gilks 83,000 for Andrews. Very j-rt-tty from Patriarch and laymen. All were of the best class, and the best WHEKUCNG NEWS. Hawley got one of thorn out of tbe box to show me mation devoutly to be wished. There are few and Crow ell, the Cleveland duo ot pitchers. A half yesterday. Across the shirt inscribed in red letters is Barry 'a point of view, but euch a deal will never come persons who are not tired. The management of them put their objections in the most effective way. Spring Dates Arranged Captain Stapleton's dozen Roastologiste or more the name Cincinnati. The pants are padded. Bed to maturity. Nash will continue to guard the third. "The changes were against the interest of the game has agitated the strike as much as possible. It Views, Etc. GATHERED IS CHESTHUT HALL belts aud stock logs complete tbe uniform, which ia at bug. There la one trado which might be tried. Un­ and not relished by tbe public which want to see," say less Sutton should bo needed in the infield, which is was a good advertising scheme and they havo James this morning, and when the roll was called "Bid" once striking and out of the ordinary lucally speak­ A. Williams, of Columbus, and Chas. H. Mortou, WHEELING, W. Va., Feb. 7. Editor SPORTING ing. extremely doubtful, tm>re will be no regular place for been working it to death. Their salary list will of Akron, men well known wherever a bane ball is LIFE: Manager McPhee, Jim Keenan, "Bed" Mack. Elmer Smith and Buckenberger, in a letter of Bob Clarke were numbered among them. Before the Harry Weldon will not go South, but he expects to him on the nine, now that Brown has been engaged. be at least $9,000 more than last year, but fifty tossed "plenty of lively work on the bases. The more return «'Sut" is a good mau, but if he cannot be used here he en that get to first the more base-running there is, Jan. 29, states that he has arranged the follow­ parting Jimmie Peoples dropped in. He wat panting to duty about the ISth. The boys of the Turn­ cents all around will make this up and more, ing dates for the Wheeling team: With Pitts- like a porpoise. over Club will give him a royal welcome, for Harry ia would certainly be worth more to some other club. and while the base-hit-on-balla ought to have been numbered among its moat popular members. How would this go Horuuug aud Sutton tor An­ too. killed, as it was. the four strikes should have been let burg, April 5 and 6; Buffalo, April 11 and 12; "I'm in training," he explained, "and want to work down to 165 pounds before I leave for Brooklyn. I Let me extend the right hand of fellowship to L. J. drews? There is only one other way to get Andrews; Yesterday President Niinick telegraphed from alone." St. Paul, April 13 and 14; Cleveland, April 16; Kleio, who id to keep THE pay big mouey for him. I trust that for the good of the game and.ln answer walked out through Clifton down to Chester Park and SPORTING LIFE'S consti­ New Mexico that he hid decided to give Carroll All these will be played on the home grounds. back to-day. Next week I expect to go into the gym- tuency posted about the fracaa between the rival cow­ THE SMITH DEAL SIDE-TRACKED. his price, and the big catcher would to a request from the paying public that the pitching boy teams. come into rule will be changed to Its 1887 form before the season On the 9th and 10th the local nine will play nasinm." The deal to put "Pop" Smith, of Pittaburg, In Bos­ the fold. Carroll's price was generally under­ Cleveland on the Columbus grounds, which that "Alien do you report?" To-night George Washington Bradley, Will Widner ton seems to move very slowly. In fact, it appears to of 1888 begins, with the exception of the base-on- and ''Shorty" Fuller shook the stood to be $2,500, but members of the team say batls. Let that be named as it is. And this is not on Association club has secured for April practioo, "Haven't heard a word from the club, bnt expect to duat of Cincinnati be in danger of being tide-tracked. A letter received go about March 15." (mud would be nearer the truth), from off their feet by Mr. Soden from President Nimict, way down in he draws more. His plain statement that he account of the good it will do the Cleveland Club, but and on the 17th, 18th and 19th Wheeling will and departed for New Orleaiffe to join the flock of Pe­ the game. It was the most natural thing iu the world for the New Mexico somewhere, sajs that he will wait until would remain io California aud play fur $2,000 a j-ear cross bats with Toronto at Pittsburg. The re­ boys to get to talking about ball playing on the Pa­ licans that hope to keep the Southern League pennant tbe March schedule meeti; g before he does anything sort of frightened the management, and they gave in THE LATEST THING IN CONTRACTS. maining April dates Manager Buckenberger cific slope. "Biddy" McPhee got aa fine a lot of right in the Crescent City for another j-ear. about releasing Smith. Possibly, after all, Smith may to him. There are rumors that Fred will nut algn I can see a good deal of virtue in the conditional notices from the 'Jfrisco papers as any Eastern pil­ Tony Mullane is back from California. He arrived block the deal himself. He write' to a friend here unless the full amount la written iu the contract, but contract plan inaugurated, as I believe, by Harry expects to fill shortly, the Minneapolis Club home to-day. being among tbe canditates. grim, and he declared he never played as poor ball In BEN MULFORD, JR. tliut ho tl, ka liis release can boLuuglit forSl,5no, and they ore likely without foundation. President Ward Wrlght, of the Philadelphia Club, It means the pay- his life as he did iu California. ouy the release, hr will p'ay here is mistaken, so it is sni-1. ' ' Ibat Xi fag of reasonable salaries, which grow larger with It has been suggested that the prospective Itowu South I did splendidly, but - cent leas. If lie "'cans tuaf, he fered to give Carroll H - trni the balj ^larger" work^ jBuch^ a plan should aid the game, I was pretty AX IMPORTANT MOVE. Ohio League champions open tbe season in a rocky o.tt oaths ajqie." *~ - - - _ -ftsras advance rooirey.J > . ""teE^TJh the'Tou^ngstefV-'.Ul'y laul, tutihinsure ib~* gen­ ^Vme'^wltir^mne sdtebted frooT'local talent "Where's that pretty miner's daughter yon were Probability of the American Association the fifi. he w ill have to sign at. i eral base ball expert full pay for bis services. We all which will play abroad this year, snch as tbe fullow- going to bring home with you?" he was asked. Presidency Being Tendered A. G. Mills. "BROWNIE" HOLDS THE CATCHERS' RECORD. MILLER REFUSES AN OFFER. know how uneven and badly balanced salaries are, ing: WestUke and Duun, Chicago; Barkley, Pitta- "Bid" never blushed. He ouly laughed at the libel. No better backstop ever stood behind tho plato than To-day George Miller refused to sign for $2,100, an and there Is not a true friend of the game in existence burg; Glasacock, Indianapolis; Miller, Oniaba; White, "The place to find minors' daughters," chipped iu There ia a scheme on foot in the Association advance, according to Phillips, of 5500. Miller said who would not put his shoulder to big Lew Brown. That is strung. I know it, but it is a wheel which was Louiaville; Crogan, Chicago; Moffet, Indianapolis; Jim Keenan, "is around Pittsburg." to offer the presidency to A. G. Mills, of New the truth all the same. I don't pretend to gay that that he did nut know wl:eii he wuuld si^n, and did not attached to a check chain. In many Hoes of work George, last year's New Yorka. A good team and hard California ball tossers are evidently of a smaller York, formerly president of the National League. Lew Brown wai the best catcher we have ever seen, think lhat $500 would catch him. He had the club in salaries are high because talent is scarce, work is dan­ to beat. calibre than those in the East, and Red Mack opened a hole now and would eiay out until ho secured hia gerous, and other irregular causes. The regular This will leave Wheeler Wikoff as secretary of but you can go through all tho list of them from A It is generally conceded that our own "Parson" up a new box of anecdotes of bis sojourn on the coast the Association. Mr. Mills left the League to Z and you can't pick out a better back stop than price. Phillips eays be will go right she id and buy a auaes of competition and scarcity of great talent baa Nicholson will finally wind up in the St. Louis as a member of one of Jim Hart's combinations. new catcher and make up the team without Miller. West­ when Lew Brown. In his time he faced two of the speedi­ forced base bull salaries up. But cool demand on the ern League team. He is a good one, physically, "The boys enjoyed themselves lhat time, I tell you, its self-stultification difgusted him. He est pitchers who have ever stepped into tbe box I | The latter will be reserved, bnt will not draw his re- part of tbe player in demand has helped the advance. mentally and morally, bnt he entered the American «nd I recall one incident when the manager of the is a strong man in every sense of the word, and nteau Tommy Bond and Jim Whitney and they never I erve salary of S1,(MK) tmlrss he plays. According to The ball players most active in asserting their values Associaliou just about a year too suon. Should thia Haverlys was nearly wild. About every man iu our would supply to the Association what it has Phillij'6, Galvin will sign fur the amount offered, pro­ and rights are tbe beat paid ball players. That's cer­ found a better target to shoot at than "the horse," prophecy prove not a prophecy, however, we will be team got into a game of cards one night, and they never had, a competent head. He is now a as "Brownie" waa called. You don't hear much of vided he gets advance money, but Galvin dtniea tbig, tain. Aud it is a matter of conjecturo whether these played right ahead until the next day. They didn't and says that he wants tbe salary. I heard a story to­ the first to get up on our hind legs and howl. stockholder in the Otis Elevator Company, of Lew now, because tor a couple of seasons be has been ten are not better to tnemselves than to their clubs. If you want to see our geniul secretary look funny, stop for breakfast, and toward noon, when that Cali­ out of the base ball circle; but he don't waste awny a night that Galvin had signed two weeks ago, but th» The youngsters who "come" fast are the men who do just ask him what the Armour Dressed Boef Company fornia manager saw that the game waa still progress­ New York, and manager of the company, with bit, and can be seen as big as life any day bc*iud tbo fact has been kept secret for "business purposes." If the phenomenal work, and the beet of it is done at know about base hall, and what Buckenberger has ing, be had a fit.1' a salary of $10,000 a year. He has time to bar at Joo Goaa' sporting house, which his wife still j this ia a fact thia Is ihe second time the management comparatively low prices.^The conditional contract plan lately learned concerning tenderloins, chops, and the "They can't get out to the grounds to-day," he has played thia trick on the uewepapor men. Ifl being tried among these men. Elmer Smith came work for the Association, and would probably runs. like. Charley only got hia envelopes slightly mixed. moaned to Hart, "and here I've billed the 'Kid \Vou- do so if rightly approached. Said one prominent "Don't let them forget me," said Low to me the WHITSKT JfAV RETIRE. Into star parts under it. Gilk? became stronger by its Staple ton haa been here aince Christmas, aud is der' to pitch. He is a phenomenal." means. Madden flourished under it. Louisville will in the affairs of the Association but recently: other day. "I have been resting for a couple of*yeura There Is really a possibility of Arthur Whitney re­ already anxious for the season to open. Ho has an "'That's all right," was Hart's reply. 'You bring on now, and I don't know why I couldn't play bull us tiring, and he may not play ball this season. Arthur try It on Elton Chamberlain, and two Cleveland men ardent longing to show "Krank" and the rest of the your wonders. We'll be there.' " "We have never had a man who waa able to pilot Will profit largely under the plan if their season of well as ever. I think I could, anyhow, and I'd like wants about S2,800. claiming that the club should pay benighted inhabitants of Celeryville, that Wheeling "And we were. the Association aa those who have had in charge the to try it. You know I did some little catching a lew the expenses ot a clerk which he must engage to take 1888 shows good work. Of course, it is easier in tho will not be relegated to any such position as fourth welfare of the League. The Association has had years ago And, matter of remuneration for services to go up than THAT 'KID WONDER' say, they make mo tired nowadays his place during the ball playing aeasou. Arthur will place. He Bays that Flanagan won tho penuant for 'as paralyzed. I never saw the team hit as hard. glorious chances of taki':g first rank among the ba^y by the way they blow about a catcher who plays a few not be giveu this amount, and he miy stay at home. down. But there is no good reason why it should be. Kalamazoo by his fine pitching; that the team's ball organizations of the country, and it surely would and out of Ilarry Wrlght's encouraging plan we may There we were played out and kept awake ouly by soak­ games. If a feller catches fifty games oft' the reel If ho does, Kuehne will cover third; Smith, short; strength lay largely in the infield, which cornea al- ing our heads, but no 'phenomenal' ever ran up have attained that honored place had it a man at its they blow about it as though it was sametbing cover Dunlap, second, and Barkley first base. The manage­ get to a system of paying well for good work and pay- moat intact to Wheeling, and that the manager i* head with energy and an ability to direct its affairs- done before. Ing poorly for poor work, generally. And the reason against harder slugging. In all that trip there was Why, I believe I've pot tho record iny- ment says Arthur seldom talks about signing until one whom all his players respect and like. He only ono game we had to play hard to wiu, and that one who could a'Jvise us when our interests were at s«lf. Let me tell you what we did in 1877, wheu we March. They feel confident that he will come back. $n the matter cornea out more strongly when wo con­ thinks that Otterson's play will bo a revelation to stak*, and could clearly interpret every intricate point won Ihe championship. I caught one hundred and sider that the good work comes from good care and was against the fireenhood & Morans, with Morris and in the laws which POP AND BOSTOSTOWK. West Virginians, especially in his base-running. Carroll iu the points. Dave Foutz pitched for us aud govern the two great organizations. thirly-five garner, and the records will show it.' ; habits, and bad work from carelessness and bad habits which he avers was the best by far in the team last It is highly essential, as the Association is in a pecu­ "Then you must have caught in about Manager Phillipe created considerable talk to-day In nine cases out of ten. we knew that if that gamo was to go to our credit we every game by announcing that he had received a letter from year. I wculd remark here that the little short stop wouU have to hustle. Somebody bluffed Foutz into liarly trying position, that such a man should be se­ the Boatous played?" KANSAS CITY MEN AND PLANS. was not eeen at his best rather at his worst while cured. If the chief magnates would put their "That's just what I did. We played 137 games. I President Soden stating that Pop Smith had written to betting on our team and he finally staked all he bad Director Billings snyine; tliat he would play in Boston Pave Bowe was here last Sunday on business for the in Wheeling last year, and even that waa not so $40 ou the result. Say, you ought to have seen 'His shoulders together and contribute liberally, unques­ caught in 135 of them all through and in pirt of the 9«w Association team in Kansas Ctty. lie made ar­ bad aa the "best" of some others I could mention. tionably one could be secured who for years as the pre­ other two, but I don't care anything nbjut thain. Tom for 82,500. But infistnuch as Smith had said recently Scissors' fire the balls across the plate. Every ball to Pittsburg newspaper men that he would sooner play range men IB to see are Fielder Alien's release from the Look out, Kalamazoo! We're "laying" for you. whUtled 'Yankee Doodle' as ft whizzed past the Cali- siding officer piloted the League through many Bond was my pitcher and he had teen in every gamo Cleveland Club, and may call for Mike Morrison be­ PICKWICK. stormy periods. He is conceded to bo the until we got down to Louisville, I think it was. Wi.l in Boston for g'2,000 than in Pittsburg, he did not fornians' ears. I'll bet old Dave waa saying 'This is to greatest man think ho would buv the veteran's release. Soden also fore" the ranks are filled. Dave talked but little about save my forty cases' every time he let 'ex go. And he ever known in the history of White had been sent for and met us there. He was Kansas City, but seems satisfied that his club has the WAVERING BINGHAMTON. the National game. The gentleman I refer put in to pitch a game atd his brother Jiui, tho Deacon, paid that he had offered Nimick 51,000 for Smith's re­ saved 'em, for the score was 4 to 0 iu our favor when to ia Mr. A. G. Mills, of lease about two weeks ago and had not received any whip hand of the situation iu Cowboytown. There is the last man was out." New York. Wbile Mr. Mills started in to catch him. But Jim gave it up after ualf no lack of "sand1' or cash in the new club, and the is drawing a salary of 810,000 a year, besides having a tho game was played an$ I had to finisa it out. Will reply as yet. Phillips thinks Smith has put his footin A Central League Club Not Yet an Assured Jack O'C'onuor, the Reds' clever young catcher, Is Hand willbo retained by Piltsbuig. I understand best men in the market will be secured. Freeman, Fact Financial Problems. the only Bed now who is without the ft Id for " Long large interest in the Otis Elevator Company, yet he White pitched oue other game and this time I took the Fort South, Ark., phenomenon, a pitcher of whom ban the time that would be necessary to preside over Jim's place behind the bat during the g*mp. In that the veteran is very indignant at Phillipa for hi* BINGHAKTON, Feb. 8. Editor SPORTING LIFE: John" Keilly signed a Cincinnati contract on Monday the interest of tlie Association. If the right ioflu- step. It puts Smith in a bad light. a good deal was said, has been signed, and Dave ex­ afternoon. every other game we played during the season I was be­ pects to have a good team. He will play In centre Will Binghamton have a base ball club? This "We were through business in five minutes," re­ ences were brought to bear te surely could ba pre­ hind tho bat. Why think a man C;in't catch mure than MEW BfSIXESS. ield, and be its captaiu. Jones is wanted for left, and is a question which is of considerable import­ vailed upon to take the office. It would bo a great two or three games at a stretch now? They tell abjut Having been formally accepted to membership of th« marked President Stern to me, evidently pleated at tho advantage to have a man of Air. Mills1 ability Alien or Qeorge Shafer for right. Bowe would like ance at present to the lovers of base ball in this result of the interview. and ex­ tho pitching being harder to catch now. Lot me tell B. B. R. A., that is having received my receipt from to have secured O'Connor and Kappel from Cincin­ perience as a leader in onr legislation, and wo could you something that is straight nml goes. I have Mandigo, 1 suppose I am alljwed to make a few sug­ city. At this writing nothing definite can be "He said what he wanted and I told him what I'd do well afford to nati, but will not do so, and expects to get Davia from and that was all there was of the conference," was his pay him a handsome salary to act a« caught some pitchers and seen «ome others, all pretty gestions for the good of the order. In the first place'I Baltimore; Porter, Toole, Peeples, Greer, Hankinson learned. It seems that when Manager Baldwin such. He was the founder of the National Agree­ good ones, too, and you can bet OD this, and win every want to complain of tbo mild initiation. Every first- further comment. O'Connor will doubtless be here ment, His and Phillips, from the Brooklyn Club. Dave left on took charge of the club he was promised finan­ this week, and he will mayhap sign before the team retirement from baso ball affairs was caused time, that when Tom Bond was at his best, and be was claes eecret society has a good bumper. Now, where I finoday afternoon to visit hia brother Jack at Buffalo by the reinstatement of tho Union contract-breakers, a in '77, he was pitching swifter ball than was ever live, overlooking the sacred precincts of Chestnut cial support, but as this is not forthcoming, it ia starts for New Orleans Friday night. Not long ago measure which he bitterly opposed. We want Mr. knd tbe other Association men at the Joint meeting of a question as to whether Binghamton Ed. A. Luc'.ui, who is now in the Post Office, was telling pitched before oraiuco. There ain't one of them that street there are dozens of goats, kept just for this pur­ the schedule committees. will bo Mills as our presiding ofiiccr, uiid you can rest as­ could touch him. Why, he uaed to smash the boards pose. Thtir timo is all filled except one, and he is just represented on the diamond or not. Since Mr. me of sured of this fact, that a strong light will be made to WLLL THERE BE TWO CLFBS IN KANSAS CITY? on tho back stop right ftlong. No other pitcher ever tho one wo want. I t-uggeat that lie be engaged. H« Baldwin was appointed manager he hae received AN EARLY GAME OF REILLY'S secure him." did that.1' has all the icquisites, speed, good curves and head, and It is still suspected here that the two teams in ..'hlch tale might be repeated hero with great pro­ President Kansas City will amalgamate and that Menges' 81,500 letters from players all over the country who Stern, when questioned in reference Here is a little sermon for tho catchers who want to would niafce a good man. There is no danger of him priety. Said he: "It was back in '77, when the Reds to the matter, said he strongly lay off every other game, and think they mubt have getting away, for he perfumes himself freely, and can Western League bond will be forfeited. But such a wish to play here, but he is not iu a position to niga were unde: Wayne Neff's presidency. Will White had favored it, and move seems improbable. Charley Mortou declares them. There IB but one obstacle, and this ia money, that the Cincinnati Club would willingly con­ $3,000 foe tho little work they do. be heard squares away. Don't think I am recom­ just been brought here by the Deacon, and early in KEUFi; THAW'S Ol'T. mending a goat without a record, for ho hns been shot that no such deal will be made, and that the Western and money he mnst have. The required amount is the soring we patched up a picked nine to meet them. tribute $1,000 toward his salary. He added: league team, with Mantling aa manager, a 25-ceut 82,000, $500 of which must be given aa a guarantee, Tim Koefe looks a little heavier than whon ho left at twice"for stealing newspapers from vestibules, and and §50 for the Arbitration Committee- of tho National Caeay Wheeler pitched, Lou Jlyers caught, Reilly was "Thia matter will be brought up nt our meeting in ua for tho Pacific coast. He reached his home in Cam been under are for oating tin cans and climbing trees. tariff and a team likely to fight among tbe leaders ou first, Alec Voss played second, Jack Shoupe was on March, and some plan will be devised to secure the from the start, has by far the best of it. We ahull see League, and the balance to he used in advancing to bridgo oftrly in tlio week, glad to get there. IIu had He will sign cheap for the first year. I snggjst that players. Mr. Baldwin signifies his willingness to give third, Andy CummitiKs was at short stop, while in the services of Mr. Mills. Mr. Wikolf will still be retained not been in town long before wo sat down for a little he to signed. What do my colleagues say? vhat we shall see. There can be DO truth in the re­ field there were 'Spike' Brady right, Billy Nieman as an officer of the Association, as there would be an port that an effort will be made to force ont the West­ §500 of this, which leaves $1,500 to be collected. Now chat. NATURAL GAS SMOKE. the question is, can thia amount bo raised? If it can, left, and myself centre. I know I was ninth in the abundance of work for him as secretary, and by this "I think Boston will got Clarkaon," was almoet the ern team. Organized Injustice has its limits, and such batting list, but made the first bit off of White. I means many of the burdens incumbent upon the offico Fop Smith Is a poet and did not know it. Ho ground a move is over the limits by a good deal. From this we will hare baso halt, and if not.we will have to con­ first thing Tici taid. away at thid littlo gem yesterday: tent ourselves the coining season with lawn tennia tried to steal second on the Deacon but found Barnes of the president would be removed. While it must be "Then you believe John is determined to stick to bin bill it would seem that the Western team is in the Debt there ready to shake hand* with me. Bob FergUJon, conceded that Mr. Wikofl has been a fuithful oflicer to There was a man in Pitttburg town Condition unless it is geographically handicapped, and tag, and have tbe pleasure of having Kliuira re­ decision that he will pluy in Boston or nowhere?" joicing over our downfall. Let us hope for tho better, who had been infusing young blood into Troy, saw the Association, yet ho haa proved lacking in some of "Most certainly I do. John is uot dejioudcnt on Who was effeminate and tony; though the cla?s of visiting teams ought to give the that game aud he was an interested observer of the requirements that are so essential to tho interests Tho only «-jng that he could sing Association call enough to even up the difference in and that before my next letter this little difficulty will base bull. We arc both Cambridge boy?, you know, 1 am uianag.r be settled. Beilly's play. of the organisation. The Association made ;i forward aud 1 undorslaud John pretty woli. If he duu't wear in naiuo ouly. tariff. "'He's a good man,' he avowed, 'and if I hadn't Dan stride in securing so competent a corps of umpires for Many improvements on the grounds are con­ a Boston uniform you won't aee him ou tue diamond The boys all like mo pretty well, LITTLE PIECES OP NEWS AND COMMENTS. Broutliers I'd take him in a minute.' " next season, and with such a man as A. G. Mills at Iho this year. But I tion't think thero in any dangc-r of his Bnt tho reporters all tell mo to go to well, templated for the coming season, among which willbo So you see what a narrow escape "Long John" had head of its affairs it would soon gain dictatorial pow or The movement In favor of offering the presidency the placing of boxes iu the urand btand. quitting, because Al Spalding knows how the matter I am not happy tho '.ruth I must toll, of tbe Association to A. O. Mill-* grows ID favor in tho from becoming a Trojan. Alec Voss, who played sec­ iu the base ball arena.1 ' siands. Wheu the tituo comes he will release- Clarksou 1 am manager in name ouly. Manager Baldwin is deserving of much thanks from ond in that game is the only one of the original West. Such a man would he of inestimable value in tbe baso ball lovera in this city tor his untiring efforts to boston, but John's release will come high. I Dan Suilivau looks happy behind Jim. Galviu'e bar the councils of the Association. He stood firm to in trying to secure us R base hall club. BAND OF BLUE STOCKINGS A GEORGIA LEAGUE. shouldn't be surprised if tipftldiug \viuitod £15,000 for in the mornings. League promises, with Mr. Hoot, of Providence, when McGucken, of the Bingbumtom of'84 and '85 has who is itill playing ball. I don't think, in fact, I it, aud Boston will pay whatever the price ia, too. Swartwood saye three years is long enough for all the rest were at treason. Wheeler Wtkoff wpuld sent his terms to Manager Baldwin, and will be signed know a historical sketch of the old Cumminsville Maii Starts the Ball Call for a Meet­ That ia my opinion, aud I certainly- expect you will man to play l.all in one town, but still ho would hav» be a model secretary and cliquUm would be speedily to play left field, as noon a* satisfactory arrangements Blues has never been written, and not long ago I ing* have Clarbaou here before tho League season opous." rather played ball in Kaunas City than Brooklyn. Wiped out. "Wi.iU do you think of Bjstun for Tim Keefe? can bo made. Little "Mac" has won many a game for asked Voss to put on his thinking cap and spin out a .MACON, Ga., Feb. 6. Editor SPORTING LIPK: I Galviu id hunting a house, uot the oue the clnb C'aylor rather misunderstood me. I should not like Bingbamton by his timely hitting. few reminiscences. He cheerfully complied and wrote: bave understood that you would uot grieve to death it promised to give him once, but a place to live, hifl to teo an Association club iu New York that wasn't A series of spring exhibition games should he ar­ "I have just filled my Missouri 'dugean,' and given As Macon has been without a club to repre­ you should hoar that Jutm B. l»uy contemplated bt-11- family physician having declared the present residence able to hold its own in popular esteem. But I do ranged between tho Intc-rnational and Central League a few puffs to aid me in my recollections of the old sent her in the Southern League for the past ing your release to Boston." unhealthy. President N'imick. writing on tho 2d,sayi want to see a team of the first class there. I have days aud the good times we used to have. In the win­ year or two, our citizens have "It would be good iiewa for me. The aume reasons he will remain at Silver City for about three week> told my suspicions about Brooklyn's wishes, and the clubs. been at a loss for Tho plajera who are wintering in this city are J. ter of '74 I was In Cincinnati, and about Christmas some amusement to while away the tedious sum­ that Claiksou had for wanting to come here hold yet. powers here say that I am wrong. Nevertheless I took it into my head to pay a visit to my sister at equally with me, This is my home too, and for that Vogcl, tho Hochcster man, who caused considerable B. Munyan and "Jerry" O'Brien, both of whom ;have mer afternoons. Lack of good management and till suspect. signed to play with Columbus for tho coming season. Coversville, N. Y. 1 remained there until spring, when reason Boston 1« prefvrublo to Ni-w Yoik for me. trouble between Kalamazoo and another team by To Ken Malford I would say that Pittsburg, of all Flauagau goea to Wheeling, W. Va., Fred Ely plays the boys at the stock yards Ad Boll and experience, and consequently wnnt of sufficient Then too, I believe it is well to change about. I signing two contracts, has evidently teen at tho same other cities, seems to be best located for the proposed in Syracuse, Don Caaey poos to Newark and Dan to Bob Wheeler, brother of Harry, now of the patronage from the local public, killed our South­ have been J:i Now York u long time, first with tho kind of work this year. Ho recently labored nnder meeting of tho N. B. B. B. A. It is central to Cast Philadelphia. Charley Whitney ia as yet unsigned, Waterhury Club wrote me to come home and ern League club, but did not eradicate the fi:ver from "Jlets" and then with the New Yorks, and it would the impression that he had signed as manager of Aus­ and West alike, and we must have the Eastern men and Jask Laviu will probably aigu with Manager join the 'Blue Sox.' So I came. We started in the a few aident admirers, of the game, who have been be better nil around for me to make a clutugo and tin, and signed several players. Looking over hi! at our next gathering. Let it be Pittsburg by all Baldwin. F. F. season of 1875. 'Doc' Maley, the old coroner, was chafing at the loss, aud devising 6'jme means for a come to Boston. Kew Yoik is all right, but L'ostuii contract carefully, he found that he had signed to leans. president, while our directors were Caleb Dodsworth, substitute for quite a while. Their ideas htivt? finally is bolter. It is natural for mo to fctl that way, HB pitch for Ito-jston. Last year Vogel was a pitching Charley Morton punctures Jim Mutrie's fable about this la m> home. The Outlook at St. Joe. Henry Godtlman, Ad Roll, Clark Bates, Bob Wheeler, concentrated upon a Georgia Leagno, to be formed of And what is more, 1 would like bluff. Hew York having first call on ex-Yale pitcher Hutch* Morg Sbaw, to bo on a nluo with John ClwrlTwon." Yeakle will play ST. JOSEPH, Beareaford and several others. Oh, we six or eight of the most populous and energetic cities at Tort Worth for S95 '. month. fneon's services for 1888. Hutchineon writes tj Mor­ Mo., Feb. 6. The question ao often had a number of directors, and a jolly good crowd of the State. The plan as now proposed in lor each "When Jim elntrio was hero s<>aio time ago, he Jimmy G-ilvin's friends are urging him to ki^s Big ton, sayiug: "I do uot think that I shall play ball heard theae da}§ is, "Arc we going to have a baseball they were, too. In the team there were Jack Drain. club to have two professional butter KB, tho higho^ told mo ho thought yon hart b-.eu tampurud with Minnie and get the £10 prize. next Eenson, but if I do it will be in a Deti Mo in en club bore- next eeisou?" I expect I have hern asked now on the Cincinnati by MOIUO ono of the three gf-iulemeu vho run the Mi'KC Mau»oll has been reported as visiting friend* that hulf a police force, first base; Amos salary uot to exceed 8100 i>er mouth, und to complete Uifoim." dozen times por day (moro or leee) during Booth, also ou the police force now, was general utility the team with the best local talent of each city whore a IJustoii Club. Ho B.IVS you have been Uld ihttt if hero, but ho has uot apt tared iu any of tho old haunt! Pitcher Chas. Sj rague, of the Chicagos, has been or­ tbe papt two mouths. My answer to all is the same, mau aud captain; I played second base; Mike club is located. The proposition bus been circulated you liaiig off, ami nmko tlitiu believe in New York dered to report v jZ.:_»I don't know, but I hope so." And the inva­ by Captain Ausou at Hot Spring* BURKE, among tho press and \arioiidly com:uimted uu, and it that you Vi'ill not play there, so as to help Boston Secretary Scandrett was much improved to-day. Harch 1. Sprague will show up iu fino condition. riable rejoiiHler of ray question i«, "Well, ao do I." THE RED SHIRT MAN, buy ^ouv relfftso, you cnn get big money hero.11 His pbvsicisua think tncy have the fever checked. That, to was short stop, and a dandy at Ibat time. Mike Is In seems to have been favorably entertained, as a call To "Mat" I would say, aneot the story about tho my mind, thowe the feeling of the people to­ has been issued for a meeting, to be held in this city "Ti>at is nil luo result of some one's imagination. The horuy-haijdcd, who threatened Willianuvn and Cause for Mr. Steams' resigning tho presidency of tho wards the game and. and if such men as C. C. Burns, Albany now, running a fish market. Old Fred Water­ In all the timo I have Leen playing ball neither one Fllniwith a worm reception for deserting tho Brother­ hia brother, man was our third baseman, aud he did well, aa old as on Feb. iJO, for the purpose ot organizing a Georgia Detroit Club, that as far as I was concerned the talo D. D., and EH!ott Marshall, would lnke League. It is a matter of speculation a* to what tho of the Hoston directors have over spoken to me ab-^ut hood, have forgiven them, and wilt not demonstrate. Was original, and came from what I considered good hold of tho thing, I am sure Uiarels no doubt bnt what he was. Our outfield was Bob Wheeler, left field; Vlayinc with Boston. When I was playing with the It is poa>il.!e, however, that the hoodlums will remind tne club Ad Roll, centre Deld (Ad was a dandy, and could sprint result of the meeting will be, and developments are authority. But it must be wrong, since Mr. Steams would succeed, provided the League would awaited with interest. Tho proposed nucleus of the Troy Club jeara ago, George Wright usked mo one day them of their fttep. himself writes me denying the truth of it. pay some attention to salmies, aa it did lu 1S86, when at a 2:40 gait), and Dave Eastman, right field (now on how I would like to plity in Boston. That ia tho only Aucnt tho schedule, Horace Phillips says overy club our club, tho lowest salaried one in the League, came tho police force at Hamilton). Dora Dean, 0. P. C.'s local club is composed of quite a numttr of promi­ "J. A.," THE SPOBTIXO LIFE s Maginnis who writes 'Pudden,' nent business men, some of whom wero ardent sup­ timo (*ny ono connected with tlu Bubton Club ever got the witk at home it wante-J. Tdere are few con­ from Louisville, can get "nailed to the cross" more BO near winning tho pennant. A meeting of the was our pitcher the only oue we had mentioned tho matter lo me. Thin does not niter tho flicting dates. He says tho meeting was very harmo­ League aud George Miller, of Covingtou, was one catcher, and porters of our old League club. The newspapers have limes without equirmiug thaii auy one within my view is called here for Fob. 12, after which I can also manifested an interest in the scheme, which will fact that I should like to como to Itatuii. and I don't nious. . ______CIRCU. r recollection. I've nailed him probablv say more as to St. Joseph's prospects of bav­ oh, ve gods, think of it! Al Jennings was our other . several times, but he'd catcher. Yes, we had three catchers Boxy, be a very material aid. Their disirgaid and bitter soo KB they need mo in Now York. Thoy have get •e ver gjyin' a word. His last break is; "I am oack- in? a club iu '83. Charlie Lord's many friends would old boy, Welch, Ed Crane, George anil Titcumb. Ed Crauu is LATBAM is faid to bo still anxi.jns to get away from lrk« to sco him manager of the club, if we bave Ben Somcrs, Joe's brother, alio caught for us. Then abuse of the old team helped, run it to tue wall moro tngg Kansas City againm Cleveland. Tbe tJowtoys will one. than, anything eke. XULXU. a great pitcher. Welch baau't B^ia-l yet. \Yh«u I St. Loiila. His inoihor-iu-l-iw lives there, you know. beat the Fonut City boys out iu the race." The only Uo haa loU uf e^paricucettnd would make a good uiitu. we boil two 6uL» Vivian I'agiu, recently at Washing- THE SPORTING LIFE. Feb. 15.

on their team, who, by the record, no modesty which is natural to great men. It will be re­ quote from one of Irwin'a letters to us, "you find only led him in hia position last year, but NEW YORK NEWS. membered that in tbe early days of the National WASHING ION WHISPERS. great many kinds of people to deal witb in base ball." ako at tbe bit aud In base-ruuuing. And yet he has Agreement Mr. 81 ilia represented tbe League as chair­ Correct, Irvy, old boy. We c»u help you prove it. BASE BALL. man, and Mr. Caylor the Association as secretary. In Nick Young's Reply to Ward—Base Ball So ibe nice U to be between Kalamazoo, Columbtu o play on, feeling tbis injustice. Tbat jovial, Meuant Baae Ball Interests Kevive in Gotham—.Jim in Ye Olden Time— The Coming League and Sundiuky. Tnauks for tbe good opinion all sueu little gentleman, Aittiur Irwin, and bis interesting Mutrie'g Two Teams and His Own Bold speaking of tbe grand work accomplished by Mr. family, are the guests this week of Hon. Jere Denuy, Mills, see bow carefully Cajlor refrains from men­ Race. to bave uf our team. Front—Waiting: for Yon dor Ahe—Tim and We bave bonked a few spring games and are hop­ CALIFORNIA^ NEWS. a prominent politician of Oakland, who, with bis hos­ tioning himself. Had he been a disiugeuuons person WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. ]0. Editor SPORTING pitable wife, are making the distinguished Philadel­ Tommy—Some Brooklyn News. be would bave said: ing the weather will give ua a show this year. The Winter Season Not a Financial Failure phia^ most comfortable; in fact, the lute batting of NEW YORK, Feb. 10. Editor SPORTIKG LIFE: "If tbe Arbitration Committee (?) bad an A. G. LIFE: When I dropped into League headquar­ J. H.C. — Tho New 1'ovk-Brownfi Fiasco— A Lot Jere'a pretty place hang<* on the outside. Andy Piercy, Mills on it or an 0. P. Cay lor on It, these awkward ters Thursday I found President Young engaged We have not put on our spring top coats as bin utters would not need pointing out." Again, THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE. of Interesting Gossip. whoso lesseeahip of Alaaieda Athletic Park expires on yet, but we havo begun to talk base ball seri­ in sending out his weekly budget of contracts the first, wisely gives up the place. He will be suc­ "Mr. Mills drafted tho original of ihe National Agree­ approved. I asked him if ho had read John SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29. Editor SPORTIMG ously just thesatue. The local papers are be­ ment tbe Tripartite Agreement," (1 HS-isting). "All Still Hopeful of Securing Eight Clubs—A ceeded by tbe'Olympic Club, the wealthiest of its kind Ward's letter on tlie subject of League contracts, LIFE: Tho early part of this week saw an exo­ in the world, who, with the co-operation of Charles S, ginning to recognize that the enthusiasts are that baae bull interests owe to the benefits of that Schedule Suggestion, Etc. in which the latter claims that the fall amount dus from this goodly city of ours of many dis­ Keat, K.-q., aud the Bay City Wheelmen, will organize even at this early date looking around for base bulwark of tbe game's a ifety it owt-a to A. G. Mills" (and me too). ''Ami the National Agreement also paid each pla)- er should appear in the contract. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 6. Editor SPORTIN« tinguished players, the contingent now remain­ a purely amateur league and play tbere during tbe ball gossip and newsy items and more cold season. Admission to these gumes will be by invita­ came as a whole from Im lawyer-like pen" (aided by Mr. Young answered that he had read Mr. LIFE: The Southern League is now in better ing being Foutz, Maskrey, Mullane, Wood, type is devoted to the National game in conse­ tion only, but as every ono worth knowing ia either a my lawyer-like prn, lor I am a lawyer). Now comes Ward's communication, but did not think it re­ shape than at any time since its existence. We Irwin, WilHamson, Ward, Car- quence. Our own Truthful James has at last the most charming feature of Cay lot'a letter, showing Brown, Denny, friend or member of tho club such invitations will be quired a reply from him. Said he: "The Na­ bave six good clubs to begin the season with and roll, Fogarty, Dairy mple, Cancel and Manager most numerous. shaken off his polo and toboggan cares and now tbat demure and coy aa he was, or seemed to be, be each club is well supported financially, with could uot do violence to bis feelings and support the tional Agreement, which is the law of base ball, Hart, and, with two exceptions, these players By tbe way, I was pleased to read tbat Fergy gives his whole and undivided attention to baae ample population behind it to warrant good, pay. Mulone hid "caught on ; for tbe season, as manager whole truth. These are bis words: "/had the pleas­ is too plain on that subject to need comment. their intention of remaining until ball and fairy stories. Mutrie looks back upon have signified of the Allentown Central League Club. "Forg" was ure of skiving on tbe joint committee at that time, and There stands the $2,ODD limit clause, which pre­ ing patronage, and its present make-up is the who have gone away had. to en­ his brief polo experience as a frightful night­ was secretary of tbe board while Mr. Mills was its March. Those an immense favorite out here. If you run across him sents me from approving any contract setting same, in all probability, that it will commence rigorous weather ever experienced on the streets of your City of Brotherly Love, tell mare, and I am informed that his midnight rest chairman. I write, therefore, witb a full knowledge dure the most forth a larger amount. It may be true that the the season with. However, since 'a six-club and I fear they will do much him that, although net "in hurnesg," yet many of his is even now disturbed by an occasional ghostly of what I am saying." There is a charming pa­ on the coast, thos, too, in the description of the events that war­ £2,000 Hmit is practically a dead letter, but so schedule cannot be made without causing lay­ up the reputation of our cli­ old California Club are regular patrons of the game. vision with a polo stick in its hand. Said our towards breaking Jim Chesley, bis pitcher, ia cashier of tbe Chronicle^ ranted Mr. Mills in resigning from tbe League oog as it remains in the National Agreement I offs we are still working for two more cities, at mate. It is claimed by many that the season and Charlie Stowart, bookkeeper for Charlie Neal, great manager this morning: in a manly, dignified way. How complete the pic­ will decline to approve any contract uot drawn in ac­ it is a well-known fact that an eight-club league has been a financed failure, owing chiefly to bad Senator Fair's secretary. Majendie is an able jour­ "Yes, I am glad polo is down it was not well ture would be, could we hare been told of the nmuly, cordance-with that instrument." Continuing, he said is the only one that can be smoothly scheduled. weather, and that a lack of public interest in nalist, Jack Itic" same old Jack and B^.b Blakkton done, but it is over anyway. Why, I would dignified and honorable way tbe Association "resigned le entertains the highest regard for Mr. Ward, aud Nashville has been in the Southern League since from Caylor," anil showed him through the do*-r in exhibition games was another prominent factor. is captain of the Oakland G & M. team. Montague, rather manage ten ; base ball teams than six considers him a credit to the baae ball profession. In its formation, and though everything looks un­ I think is dead, French resides in Baltimore, and old, famous parlor "F," at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ;his case, however, he has made a bad break, for he Suppose we look into the matter a little and see Billy Duffln^ton is with the new Amateur League. Dolo dudes. Why they worry the life out of a Wo all remember tbat day, sitting about the great bar uiows perfectly well what it provided for on this sub­ favorable now that she will come in this season. if it has been the failure claimed. I am assured Jack Puaue is a prosperous Carson merchant. Ab, man. They used to follow me from my house to room and lobby, waiting to he*r the verdict on Caylor, ject in the National Agreement. still President Wilson has not abandoned all by one of the New Yorka that each of them but that was a dandy team, and many a good time the grounds, and from there down to my office, and seeing a weak, trembling soul approach ua and While he waa talkiug, ihe energetic little president hopes yet of having that city wheel into line be­ its netted $312 on their trip out, before they struck bave I bftd witb them. WALLT WALLACE. and I never had a minute's peace. My door sinking into a chair, cry out in agony "Boys, continued to sling ink over stamped envelopes, which fore the season opens. If we had Nashville and bell was continually being jingled at all hours all oviT they fired mo out." contained official announcements to tho various club San Francisco at all, and while here none of As I read Caylor's letter, I found that in "John managers. When the name of Harry Wright was Montgomery in, this League ought to rank third them realized Jess than $50 per week. The COWBOY SQUABBLES: of the night by some slender-limbed dudes in B. Day the game has one of tiie 'whitest1 men I reached Mr. Young paused and remaikod that it was in the base ball leagues of the country. Browns all made big mouey, and in the silk hats and paste diamonds, who wanted to ever met." It is rather alagKoriog is it not, to know ust thirty years agu since he first became acquainted Richmond, Va., has made application for two games against the Kew " Yorks their Trouble In Store for the I>ocal Minor League astonish the polo world with their marvellous that these words were penned by the same band that with the well-known llarry. Tlie meeting occurred membership, but it is too far out of the circuit playing for $15 a week. On that sum those ft 1 Iowa for ytara past in the columns of THE SPORTING LIFE at a cricket uiatuh played up in Albany, between twi> gross total certainty was $1,350.00 ; Team—An Effort to be Made to Oust it— haa held "Jobn be day" up to ridicule. What must a unless one of the other Virginia cities should and the Giants could have bad tho same terms, but manage to dre?s much better than I can aud they put [earns represeutiug ri-spectivtly tlie State and city of A Chat With Whitfleld, Etc. on more Ings than a political heeler in one of our man like A. G. Mills think of a person who besmears New York. Mr. Youug played "long leg" on the State also come in. Norfolk, Petersburg or Lynch- that Waiter Applwton wanted, and did "stand in on a KANSAS CITY, Feb. 7. Editor SPORTING him with fulaomi flattery, whose presence is offensive burg ought to support a ball club, especially dtvy" of a certain percentage, which yielded them a uicital iu&tUntions." team and Harry Wri«ht bowled for the City eleven. LIFE: There is nothing new to report in base J suppose you are through with polo then forever?" and association dhagrecable to him. The contest was for tbe championship, and great Norfolk. If Richmond could induce one of lu-r a IB tar trifle Icsa than the amount secured by St. Louis. The Ha* O.P. Caylor ever read the famous letter written the week, everything being quiet, was asked. interest was manifested by the large crowd in attend­ cities to come in I think both would be admitted. testimony ot" Brown and McGuire, which I have read ball circles for to H. D. McKnigbt, coming from a certain "lawyer- The time, however, is short, and they must be up and in THK SFOETISG LJFK, also gtvea the lie to these ab- "Oh, no! Not by a blamed sight; I am through with ance. At a critical point iu tlie game Harry Wright from the fact that Manager llowe has gone East it for this winter. Noxt winter it will be au entirely like pen," asking as a personal favor to the writer, weut to bat aud struck the bail fair in tho nose as doing if they have any Southern League ambitious. Burd rumors aud these phiyert were at Central Park and to secure the signatures of the players upon, tbat the Association send some other person besides The Southern League has always been late in get­ not at tbe League Grouuds. During the week ending different game, and run on entirely different principles. they would say in the classics lifting it over Nick which Kansas City has an option. He promised Next winter an eight-clubbwd leanuo will be formed Caylor to represent it on the Arbitration Committee? Young's head and beyond the fence. The "long leg" ting its affairs shaped. This ia owing to the fact thai on the 21st iugi., it rained quite bard, but on laat Sun­ Tbat would be pleasant reading, would'nt it? the cotton crop (the mainstay of the South) is handled day, although tbe w father was thre ateuing, yet it did to let Kansas Cityans know of every engagement embracing Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn aud five was obliged to claim "lost ball" which fntitled the New England cities, aud it will be a great thing.'1 It's all very funny, to be sure, but then as I said be­ striker to score six runs without further effort. Harry iu the winter months aud makes them the busiest ao4 not actually raiu, and very many weut to the League made, but as yet they have received no informa­ fore, my friend 0. P. Caylor is always funny, likewise most important of all tho commercial year with of seeing the tie dtcided be­ MUTEIE'S BASE BALL PLANS. Wright'a playing on ihat occasion waa remarkable, Ground-' in anticipation tion from him. The season being so far ad­ all appertaining to him. GEO. E. STACKIIOVSB. aud tbe victory which the city team finally won waa Southern merchants and leaves them but little time to tween the Giuuts and Browns, but the game was not vanced, a good many are inclined to think that "What are you doing in a baati ball way?" was asked think of base bail. This fact is not generally under-* played, greatly to the chagrin of the public ami the ruler of the Giants. laigfly due to his superior work witb the bat. Tho the American Association club will stand but official score shows tbat be scored sixty-three runs in stood by tbe Northern base ball scribes, and not being players. There are many ugly rumors concerning the "Now you are on the right track. I am doing lota in shaoe as promptly as other leagues, many of them little chance of competing successfully with the CHICAGO SCRAPS. that day's play. This bit of reminnceuce recalls to defection of the managers flouting on the air, but I and am going to do lots more not Lot'* wife, but some mind tbe fact that President Youug at'Ler\\rnri1s became sail in and havo our League dead and buried ore thli have no proof aa to the truth or falsity of them, and other strong teams of that organization, owing thloga which will keep the base ball world guessiujc. quite a famous base ball player, aud in 1869 was re­ time, as mauy of them have been doing this eeaaon, can only lall back upon a local exchange, a reprint of to Manager Rowe's inability to secure a team I am just fixing up uiy colt team with which I am Fred Pfeft'er and the Chicago Score Card The Cincinnati Enquirer has been especially wide of going to invade the laud of the John Die Uebs. This garded as one of tbe surest bitters and most daring which is UB foil owe: equal in strength to any of the already estab­ Privileges—A Windy City Opinion of Tim base-runners in the business. tbe mark in its long range shots since Chriatmns. WELL-FOUNDED team, as you have mentioned before, will be made up was a game of ball at Sportsmen's Park last lished teams. I may be mistaken, but never­ Keefe Cliicagotms Now Think Clarkson AN OLD NATIONAL INCIDENT. There from young players or men we bave signed thii Sunday between two nines made up or urofesiionato "Both teams had won a victory, and the ba«e Will Not Play There—Personal and Other As the new Nationals are about to start on an ex­ ball enthusiasts were eager to see tbe deciding theless venture the assertion that the baby of season. The players will be aa follows: wintering here. It was the firnt game here under tb» the Association will not be the tail-etider this Catchers, Browu aud Murphy; Craue, George and Mention. tended Southern trip, 1 am reminded of au incident present revised rules. The general verdict of all th» gam*. It was no fault of the players tbat it did that occurred in Cincinnati while the "Old" National* nut take place. They were willing euough, but the the place every one presumes Titcomb, pitchers; 8lattery will play left field; CHICAGO, Feb. S. Editor SPORTING LIFE: players I have talked with is that a mistake haa been season. That's Foster, centre field; Cleveland and Haifield will were making their famous Western tour in 1867. managers r.f the grounds, which are superiuteuded Kansas City will occupy, but it is not only pos­ Fred Pfeffer has had time for but little else than made ia changing back to threw strikes. They all alteruate at third ba&e and short stop, and our glori­ Tbe Cincinnati team waa tben composed of Harry seem to think that the pitchers will control the situa­ under ihe California League management, were ad­ sible, but quite probable, that when the carda riyht field. Talk about your receiving the congratulations of his friends in Wright, pitcher; Ed*rd, right field; Howe, first base; ders*1 to baring it played. ous Tier DUD will cover tion again. Most pitchers havo become used to th« are cut Kansas City will turn trumpa and show Keltys, look at that young slugger. Tie will do work this city since he signed a League contract a Neff, short stop; Johnson, left field; Swartz, second one step delivery now and have become as speedy M "Tbo weather looked threatening and it might have baae; K«-mper, third base; Rogerson, catcher; Crooke, been supposed that tbe muuagemeiit decided not to a full hand. with one of tipalding's black tipped bats that will week ago Monday. Pfeffer is a dressy, popular when tlie hop-skip was allowed, and the K&me will bo make old Ansou, Connor and Tbuiupson feel blue aud fellow, and when you see him on the street or at centre field. The Nationals were Parker, left field; a pitcher's pame again this season. Last Sunday*g bave a game aa it might not draw a crowd. At any At a recent meeting the following well-known lonesome. Brown will do very little cutchiug on the McLean, right field; George Wright, second b*se; rate one ot the managers was OB the grounds as early base ball men of this city were elected for the any place of amusement you never see him with game indicated this plainly. One side made only three trip for he don't need much early practice, utid will Fox, third baae; dtudley, centre field; Fletcher, first hits and the other but four. One pitcher struck out aa 9 o'clock, and he telephoned to the private bead- other than good people. I met him at the base; Smith, short stop; Berlhrong, catcher; Billy quarters of the baae ball players tbat none would be ensuing year: President, old reliable J\ J. look after first or second base. The other pitchers eleven batsmen, and only one man was sent to base oa Heitn; vice president, the dispenser of silk um­ will look after the positions not mentioned. 1 am un- Grand Opera House the other evening for a mo­ Williams, now teller iu the cash room of the United balls, and it only required one hour and thirty minntef -flayed. This intelligence the California Lengue jieo- where we will make onr first States treasury, pitcher. When George Wright plo failed to learn, or had 110 desire to inform the brellas, J. Gruber; treasurer, J. W. Speas, and dtcided as yet just ment and asked bioi what the outlook was for to play the game. stamping grounds iu the ?outh. Grounds have been the score card privileges this year. "First stepped to the plate in the first Inning to face hia Our exhibition season commences Sunday, Feb. 18^ newspaper offices, aud the consequence was tbat a secretary, "W. S. Clongh. These officers are well- offered to us at New Orleans, Charleston and Gal- brother's delivery quite an am us ing dialogue ensued: very few of the base ball patrons were aware of the known business men of enterprise and are ever ready rate," waa the reply. "I have only made a with the Cincinnatia. Most of the local players hav« veston. We will leave New York the laat wenk of "There you are, are you?" sai'i Harry. reported that they would be here by that time. fact. to invest their money to make the club a e access. A this month, as I wish to bo in the S'.mth aud ready preliminary ekirnmh siuce I closed the contract "I'm here," replied George, tapping the borne base "The coniipquence waa tbat thowiands of people bttter lut of men it would havo been difficult to elect. with Mr. Spalding and I have already secured Sportsmen's Park is being re-painted aad many to begin playing on March 1. We will visit many of with tbe end of bis bat, "and I don 1! want any of other things being done to put it in shape for th« boarded the cars leading tr> the grounds, and the man­ Jim Whitfleld does not appear to have lunch to say tha Southern cities and beat up tbe Mississippi over $2,000 for the setison. I aball remain your nonsense, so just give us a ball, will you?" agers, Hoeiup that a crowd was probably iu siglit, rieiit in regard to the new club. It would apptar so to the here for a week or ten days to continue opening. Valley ou our way back. We will not get Barry fired in two or three wild pitches which It was clearly demonstrated last season that our cue of thyir directors, who hud visited the grounds, outside world, but, nevertheless, Jim Whitneld's back to Gotham until about April 10. The old-timera at work upon the card, and from present prospects I niaue George dauce around pretty lively to to the various newspaper offices and bulletin boards to opinion is solicited on all matters pertaining to the should any that I will have a rattling good thing in games paid better early in the season they did at tn« will remain at the Polo Grounds and knock anything avoid. Finally he sent one over the base finish, and I advocate commencing our championship notify tlie public tbat a game would take pluce at 2:45 club, and he haa more to s*y than a great many have iuto a cocked bat tiiat comes this way duriug April. it." Pfeffer hits a pood address, ia a good talker and and George drove it along the ground o'clock. Thrt emissary, after telling the clerk at the any idea of. Very few are also aware that he can very widely known here, so that I think nnder his season earlier and finishing earlier. We ought to be-> I have tried to get on games with the Athletic, Bal­ so hot that the infielders gave a free pass and George gin April 4 aud finish Oct. 1. The cotton and other Examiner off.ce, that the game would positively be wield a Faber with as much deadly effect as Dan timore aiid Brooklyn clubs, but those American Asao- management the score card should prove a source of took second. BIr. George Fox, the famous slugger in ctilied at 3:45 o'clock, borrowed a piece of chalk and Brouthera can a Spaldiiig bit, hut it's a fact, and increased revenue to the club, and of a very neat little Southern crops are being rushed in so fast by Oct. 1 ciatiou learns \\ill not bite for a cent. I urn still those days, presuming on a short acquaintance with that tbe young men can't possibly get off to attend tbo trotted atout, to make the statement on other black­ should he at any time lose his present lucrative posi­ hopeful of getting ou a series with St. Louis and I income to the second basemati bmi-elf. tbe eider Wright, addressed him as "Harry," and re­ boards ubout town. tion, any one of the daily papers would willingly add Aa to the card cutting any figure in Fred's contract games. I would like au expression from the other a up i lose the other games at the Polo Grounds will be quested him to give him a knee-high ball. Harry was Southern League cities on this point "This, of course, aroused the interest of others, and him to their staff of reporters. Jim ia quite popular contests with the Jersey City, Newark and the various with the Chicago Club well, 1 suppose the fellows accommodating, and Fox lifted tbe ball far over the the const qnuuce was that a great stream of people and AS clever as popular. who have stated such to be the tact kiiow what they I would like to call down the rumor that is going college ninea. We will have Keefe, Welch, Gore, centre fielder's bead tor a home run, sending George the rounds that the local club ia going to give Jack weut to tbe giv.unds. If they expected to see a game Mr. A. V. McKim, who figured so prominently in O'ltourke, Dorgaa, Conuor, Richardson, Ward and are talking alxmt. The truth is, however, that Pfeffer Wright in ahead of him. The Nationals filially won they were disappointed, for tbe sight that met their base ball for the past tbree seasons, baa completely captured, ttie snap simply because Spalding knew him Sneed to Atlanta. Secretary Kaufmann did promia» Ewing at the Polo Grounds and I guess a team can be the game by a score of 63 to 10. George Wright Sueed to Atlanta at one time, and he would have been gaze whm they passed the grounds was one of dis- withdrawn and now does not possess a single enure in arrange,! from those players that will make any team to be peculiarly adapted to tbe work, and because he scored 2 outs and 8 runs, and Fox made fcj.poiutiiieiit. They were confronted with closed either of the bace ball organizations of this city. brlieved that Fred could put more money into It released to that city at once If asked to do so, but the that comes this way wish it hadn't.1' no cuts and 7 rnus. The game lasted three nlatter has brought out such a feeling against releas­ gates. The Washington Club ia quite anxious to secure big than the people who have had it for two who ac­ OS THE RAMPAGE. hours and a quarter. Pop Chadwick, ing that crack player among the stockholders that '*An Exttminer reporter was on tho grounds and dis­ Jim Davis. They offer to exchange Jimmie Duimelly years past have done. One thing I think companied the Nationals on tbat trip, paid the covered them to be in no condition to play ball. and to give in addition their check for §200, whicji It was just'before the dawn hour, and the horizon I can confidently atate, and that is that Pfeffer pays President Hart could not think of releasing him now. following compliment to Harry Wrigbt: "Tbe Sneed will play with tho "champs" this year under Aroond the base-runners' lino from third base to home will be refused with thanks, as Davis haa tho reputa­ eastward h adjust put ou a hectic flush. A closely as much in fact a little more for the privilege than chances are that tho Nationals have played the was one lavg-o puddle. tion of being a hard hiiter, while Donnelly, though muffled figure WLW hidiug behind a meat wagon, near hia predecessor paid, and that hisa^sumlnir control of the shade of the championship pennant, and will help strongest club (Cincinnati) they are likely to meet on the Pelicans to nail that bunting so high upon th* "Several of the New York players were on the he be an exceedingly clever fielder, is very weak at one of the Nortb River piers. The top part of ihe sun tbe buBim-se was a si tuple straightforward Iran-action, their tour. Certainly they will encounter no such dif­ ground-) looking rather glum am) acting as if they the bar, and above all, Kansas City wants hard hitters. would soon peep over the Long island hills, but it iu whichJ?'red receives no concession in the price ho s! a ft that it will take the other teams at least until ficult pitching as tbat of Harry Wright's, .who only 1889 to got their claws upon it. CBEOLX. thought that some crooked work had b«.en done. One The chances are nothing will roault from Washing- hadn't yet. The mysterious individual had his coat paja for the privilege to bridge over any difference of wants well-tiaiiied support in tbe field to be the of the Giants was very positive that the grounds were tor's proposition, although same has been referred to collar around his ears, and bis derby hat well down opinion that may have existed between himself and moat troublesome pitcher iu tho country. His thor­ hesefl. 'For,' said he, 'these grounds would uot re­ Manager Kowe, who, most likely, will refuse to accept. over his eyes. Tho chilly wind blew up from the Nar­ Scalding ati to the value of his services. ough good humor and excelleut judgment makes him DEFIANT LOWXXI* tain the email amount of water that fell during the rows and painted crystallized frost on the stranger's Stackh»ua« says in hia laat week's ecreexl that some from. The Cincinnatis may THE NBW CLUB'S PLANS OUTLINED. strawberry whUkflra. This is not a detective, dime- quite a model to copy la-it few days.' There mny bo more trouble in store for Menges than of our Western writers are assailing the character and congratulate themselves upon having such a player to Confident of Her Xew Team's Strength— "He meant by saying this that the grounds were novel, blood-curdling *tory, but a plain, slightly ability of Tim Keefe. Softly there, Goonie. I do not The Bc-neQt Ball, Etc. that genial bein<; anticipates. The new club officials varnished fuct. The figure was evidently train tuom.'1 hosed, or that a stream of water was plajed upon them are goiug to make strenuous efforts to oust Mengea know what our dyspeptic fiiend of the Free PreM may Harry is equally as popular to-day and I borrow Feb. 8. Editor SPORTIX* BO &i tu form puddles in order to keep the game from waiting for somebody. A stray cop moved out of a have scribbled in connection with New York's LOWELL, Mass., and his powerful Western Association club. They in- 'Pop1' Cuadwick's expression regarding him and trans­ tbat "Whew's" letter in last being jilnyed. corner wet grocery etore, aud "Move on" was th» cry crack pitcher, but if it is Mat wbom Stack GLub. Life: To say teuj to bring the matter before the Arbitration Com­ that parted hia still damp whiskers. The stranger fer it to the Philadelphia "Another of the Giants, in explaining, said: 'Just mittee at its next meeting, and tho representAtiveswho teiers to he wants to draw tbo line at Detroit in speak­ week's SPORTING LIFE gave the lovers of tha k at the apam ab-iut third aud first base. Kvcry- looked at the guardian of that part of Gotham, and ing of Western writers. Eh, Pritcbard and BUilford, LATTER DAY NEWS. gamo here a sudden shock, is putting it mildly. will attend tbe meeting wiil base their claims on the seeing tbat detection was sure, looked the cop straight These old stories are so interesting that I am quite n e ia deep in water. Do you kr - ><; It's ground that tho We-tern Association club in iu a direct am I not right? I urn quite certain that no Ch|pn£O To think that wo had gotten together a No. 1 wiiLjjld not reach > .' violatI'' '~' -ia-tia-tve aud moved his Imt back on liis I utnu,of f>f l"Vv forgetting tbo current news. Tho Washington^ have amative^OM> - TJM-^*ftg*rirs3- .tnt^icTanTfuTcoprt^T ~id Shoclrtor 'tufa T£?*$1^inTrf-vJlS--tte**-*t^ teaffi wnfen We"exp&tetHKiula1 scncTachrMo^ro^ ^ »d that luHSe w.s i y-&jy« "case they will demand the Arbitration Committee to highest doyree of respect for Keefe and for Recife's The pl;iyi>i6 are kickers because they o-nsid uot draw his pugnacious spirit to the winds. ability. If it were practicable to s*cure bis services on for auy advance money. He will probably get u fur- our rival's spinal columns when they sized up enj-*iu Heuges from playing here, but what tbe result "Hello, Jim," said ho, "what are yon doing here?" K/uyh from tbe A^ricultur al Department without down the gute receipts, aud they Imve good reason for will be Is a mere matter of conjecture. I looked up th« Chicago Club next aeason, I venture to say that our aggregation, have all our expectations objecting, us it was the laat game jf the series and "I am waiting for Cliris Von der Ahe," said the pay during tbe base ball season, and return to his Jim Whitficld this morning and questioned him upon Keofe would be as well received here as Clarkeon knocked iuto a cocked hat by "Whew/* telling would naturally draw, even though the weather was mysterious stranger. "Telegrams from the West tell would were the latter to return to-morrow. department work next fall. the subject. In reply he said: "I would rather not mo that tbe St. Louis baso ball light will arrive to-day The contracts of Tato and Tom Brown with Boston us we have a third rate team, which is weak at inclement. say anything in regard lo our intentions until the Speaking of Clark son, I bave been aaked repeatedly "Thtrt* is no possibility of a deciding grime between from Europe, and I «m waiting for him. See this roll if I did not think that Jobn would meet Spald­ are promulgated. Tlie latter ia ono of the cleverest short and second, haa inferior batteries, and can­ proper time as it may create some ill-feeling towards ot manuscript? That's a challenge. Chris bag been base-ruuuera and hitters in the League, and the Bos- thu two clubs, as a majority of the players leave for Cne the new club, but being perfectly willing to accom­ ing in New York City next month and not hit a balloon, is rough. And then to pile on Eiwt in a few days. exhibiting himself before thecrowued head* of Europe sign a Chicago contract. Frankly, I do tous did not go far out of the way when they picked modate THE SPORTING LIFE at all times, I will deviate aa en American product, different in many respects him up. the agony by telling us that our bitter rival, ABOUT EVERYTHING AND BVBBYBODY. from my heretofore firm resolution and answer auy not tbink BO. I am acquainted witb tho Manchester, will win the pennant hands down. from pugnacious Sullivan and Buffalo Bill. He is influences that are being brought to bear upon the star In commenting upon the various League teams, Hart claims to have made money, and if the weather fair questions you may put." now coming home in tnumth, and I am on his track. President Young says the race this year promises to be Oht oh, "Whew" eays we have somepoor strikers. will only continue pleasant the ulayers above named, "Then t«ll me, Whitfield, what are your Intentions?" twirler to make Boston Ids home from tbis time on, As eoon as he puts a foot on Manhattan I-land I and I believe those influences will prove potent. nnusually interesting, a-i moat of the teams look strong I fail to see them, surely not one of last season** with a "fill-in" of locals, will make expenses, at least, "Well, we are goiug to allow matters to continue ahall challenge him to put hia St. Louis champions np and pretty well matched (on paper). New York, champions that will be found with us next seat-on can at Central Park during the balance of their stay until the Arbitration Committee meets next month, Until a few weeks ago I tried to believe ihat John against my Giants. I want to play them St. Louis might be induced to change hi« mind and comeback, Piltsburg aud Indianapolis have unquestionably b* called soch, and of tbe new men, Barney McLaugh- There i* no truth in the report that VanHaltrcii, since when we will bo on hand to present our case. Mr. J. fellows three, five or a dozen games iu April, and my strengthened, and Washington, Chicago and, in lin, Jack Grady, Poihemug and Campion, are pretty he shut tut tiie Browns, purchased that silk hat be­ J. Heiq^auJ our attorney and myself will attend the but I do not think eo now, and look to see him pitch boys will knock the tar out of ihem." well, anywhere elae than in Chicago next season. fact, all the clubs are in excellent hefty with the aah. In Barney McLaughliu we think cause nf a swelling iu nis head. Ned Williamson tuic meeting. We will go with onr guns loaded and expect Von der Ahe had not arrived at this writing, and shape, providing tbey sign all the men they have in we can safely say that we have as good a second bam- Howard Juhnson, Esq., th« wc-11-knawn dramatic au­ lo meet witb success. Of course you know our object In a little leas (ban four week's time, our ptajera will according to a letter to President Byrne, of the Brook­ begin to diop in at headquarters from all over the reserve. There are tbe Philadelphia*; tbey do not man as there is outside of the two big associations, and thor, Htlilete, and thoroughly good fellow, are doing at tbe meeting, which is nothing mora or less than to lyn Club, he does not expect to reach this side of the claim to have many star players, but they play such a Toffling, if last season's work is anything to goby, the Bunion and Pythias act in most approved style pre^*nt ilen^ea and his team from playing here. The country and soon after March 1 will depart under An- pond befort tbe latter part of the month. He canuot son'a charge for Hot Springs. The boys aie at boino steady, even game, that it is doubtful to tell when will do as good work as any short stop in tbe LeagU6( Ned has been an honored guest at San Quentin on a National Agreement has been violated, and I feel con­ escape tho stranger, however, as every loop-hole of they are beaten. They never give up the game until so on the whole, although friend '-Whew" hit tb* number of occasions, and is having here, with his fident our claim will be confirmed. It has come to be there, ibe climate seems iu every way beneficial, and escape from Gotham has been closed, and Jim bas the tbe baths are just what they seem to want to tone their last hand baa been pnt out. BOB LABNEK. nail on the head in regard to the strength and weak­ many friends, a royal tood time. Last Monday he wa- a matter of business, and we intend to transact our keys. ness of somo of the teams, I think he has greatly un­ the rwcipi^nt of a massivo gold-headed cane. Ward, affairs under business principles and adhere strictly to them up and put them in good condition for the work TOMMY AND TIM. ahead. derestimated the strength of the champions, and h* who with a knight of tbe quill has been bnuting them at all times. It is dollars and cents in our PORTLAND AMUSED will not be tho only one that Cudworth's chippies will among.- 1 the wild celery swamps of the Sacrnratnto pockets to oust Menges. The opportunity presents Those two names sound near enough alike to belong Preaidcnt Spalding left for a month's trip of tbe to twin brothers, but they do not. They are about South, including a voyage to Cuba, on Saturday last. At the Criticism of Her New Manager and give a surprise party to. & large pin can be placed Valley, has kept tbo larder of iny cottage plentifully itsolf and we are going to grasp it. We would be on this assert ion. supplied with choicest game. He is loth to quit the chunifs excuse the expression should we not make tbe same sizo, but oh, how different! They passed for He will arrive in New York in ample time for the Flayers. twins on a visit to tbe Bermuda Islands three years meeting there on March 5. Tho masquerade ball in aid of the association waa a finest preserves in the world, so do not look for liim an effort to clear tlie fiold, and every sensible man PORTLAND, Me., Feb. 8. Editor SPORTING graud success socially and financially, and a neat sum E*stwtud for some weeks yet. Jere Denny, "tbe will endorse our sontiments. Now, remember, I duu't ago, but tbat in all. Tim is the handle to Eeefe, and W. E. Goodiug, manager of the Minneapolis Base Eoterbrook follows closely on Tommy when that player Ball Club, waa in thU city, Tuesday, on base ball busi­ LIFH: Now that *ed m on me Thursday aud say v.'o will be victorious, but we are g!'ing to make a of the most brilliant affairs that has taken place her* WA had our annual coiifnb and retrospection of every­ fauprome endeavor to have everything our own way iu signs his full name on n sheet of paper. Both are ness. sized up the New England League teams for the busy Joe Walsh, abort stop of the Omaha Baae Ball Club, in several years. Hon. Frank W. Howe, the presi­ thing concerning bu§e ball, from way beyond his old Kansas City this season. What, compromise with modest, retiring individuals. Keefe has been coming season, it would be wise for tho directors dent vt tho club, led tbe grand march, and tbe fol­ Eagle d-AVs, down to the preseut time. I found the Meuges? Well, not if we know ourselves. We will dodging the local reporters during the past week. He is in tbe city. Joe is a Chicago boy, and ia visiting of the his folks here. of our team to discharge Myers, cancel the con- lowing base 1*11 player* were present: Manager! great player, with bright eyes, ruddy cheeks and mhg- not entertain a proposition for a moment. We have Bays bo is afraid that if ha talked with one McQunniglc, of Brooklyn; Blurplty, of Lynn; Cud- nificent i'h) sique, the very personification of robust nothing to luse, as ilenges could not possibly have us scribes about his trip to California and his intentions Tho Milwaukee Clnb is building splendid new tracU he has made and start afresh. **Whew" his neck. grounds, on the line of tbe new cable road, whlcb will that Myora is only "a fair ball worth. <-f l.owell; Gid Gardner, of Washington; health. Ho desires to be on a winning team, and from shut cut, and if tbo worst conies to worst we must only the rest of the pen pushers would jump on has decided George Toffling, Henry Burns, Morgan Murphy, Dick what bo says I think it will require extra induce- consent to tho Western Association Club playing here. Yours truly consequently has* been unable to see Keefe, cost 318,000. player and haa clearly under-estimated the The match game of racquets at Anson's Court, be­ Burns Dun Burke, Louie Guiuasao, Jack Grady, Bar­ mt'DtN, in the face of » liberal offer to stay here, to got That, though, is possible yet hardly probable." and others, who say they have seen him, gathered no strength of hia adversaries." That settles it! ney McLaughlin, Jo* Snllivau, Pat Hartnett, Tim him to return to Indianapolis. Jerry, Williaaigou "How about the men tbat wi'.l comprise tha new words of wisdom from the great pitcher's lips. That tween Frank*Lane and Sam Morton and Pfeffer and Kyaa, on tbe 7th iust., resulted in a tie five gamei We can't afford to be content with laat piaoe, Shinuick, William Campion and a host of lotser light* and Wanl, are all "hot" about the '*three strikes" re­ team?" will do Tim, and now for Tommy. Somebody told me who enjoyed themselves till the wee hours of to* storation without the balance of tho rulo, giviug the "Oh, that will be arranged. Toil «oe, several of Its tbat there has been a walking match at Ma^ieon each. and I think it would bo a pious idea to havo this W. B. Harrington, manager of the Lima, Ohio, morn. batsman the privilege of asking for a high or low ball, players who aro at our disposal are InciineJ to thiuk Square Garden, but as I have not seen it myself I man from Havcrhill pick out a team ior us. I Morgan Elurphr, of last season's champions, Is win­ and claiDi that they will again have to stand like a lot that because they aro coming West they are entitled can only give hearsay. This man tells me Club, was in the city last week and ordered uniforms know that for tha lost two years in his estimates of Spalding Brothers. Billy says he will have the tering iu Boston.' He looks well, and it is not at all of dtimmys as in '86, aud §ee the battery do the work. to incre;ieod salaries, and some have the audacity to that on Tuesday he went up to tbe Gar­ Portland has been placed nowhere, but somehow or doubtful but what he may be seen in a Lowell uni­ Verily, a game played under the Ward niles of 18S7, ask above tho limit by several hnndred dollars; but den to see the horrible Bight, and that finest suits in the Ohio League. The Western Association will hold Its schedule other got in near the top. Thero'a hick in the third form next season. will go on record as tho acme of our National sport. there is one tiling certain: if wo want th«m, they must he ran across a little Incident. Tommy Eattrbrook time, and "WbowV* forecast may strike us this time. l>anny Burke, the clever back 'atop with the horn* Much bas been written and read of the rough man­ play here, or not play ball this season. Rowe has waa tbe re, aad outside of the pedsEsterbrook attracted meeting at Chicago, March 10th. Eni Hengle will bave full charge of the "Western I am aupeiatitioua, and, knowing that tho base ball team last season, Is at home at Whitman, Mass. ners and arbitrary dealings of Auson, until the taken hold of tho management of the club with n feel­ the most attention and admiration. The ladies smiled cranks of Uaverhill have always been dead maahed on P. Grady, of laat season's Dover (N. H.) Club, is impression prevails, at least out hero, that ho is more ing that inspires me with hope, and I am willing to and waved their handkerchiefs at Tommy, but he did Association baae ball club here. Em is well liked by all the players. He is a Chicago boy and haa had Portland, I vote to consider "WhewV edict. home for the winter. He is a clever pitcher and good bear than man. I have never been able to onderetand wager that we will not bring up the rear end of the not respond. He waa after a different kind of game, It is seasonable, too, and tbere is lots of time to nndo sticker and will be found higher next season. It, for when he was on tbo slop* I found him bluff, procession, evon though we have but six weeks within and preferred coon to chippies. That old fake "Hit considerable experience as a manager. making handsome uniforms for tho mistake ot* hiring Myers and annulling the con­ Connie Obearn, of this city, is a coming man. H« hearty, "hftil-tellow-well-met," and enjoyed his society which to bring mutters to shape, and to-day not a man the coou and yer get a cigar, and hit it three times for Spalding Broa. are tracts of the fakes ho bas signed, and instead secure The col­ Detruit and Cincinnati, including Norfolk blousoa. held down third base for tho Big Eapids (Mich.) Club immensely. A number of Lia playera ou ihla trip, yet aigiied." a half a dollar" attracted the ball player. "Whew" for a manager, and relying on his iutimato last season in clever style. Ho would be a good man wli^u interrogated about It, said:--"Ans has no uae for ored gentleman's head wagged merry in a slit in the All tho clubs of the Western Association have filled KKWS ITEMS. up on playera and are ready for tlie campaign. I seo knowledge, ateor clear of bumplayoia aud luabors as for tho New England League. the newspaper men and don't bother with lh<'m, so centre of a big cloth. The head was defiant and well. Mni'tin Doyle writes that his arm Is In splendid con­ The announcement that young Nichok baa signed seemed to invite aa attack. Several dudes tried to hit from one of the Kansas City papers that the American thfy get hack at him on every occasion, and that's the with the Armourdalo, Kansas, Club is incorrect. Nick Last place, fellow citizens, won't do and you know ill dition and, under the three strike rule, to keep an oy« -?on the head, but did not. Esterbrook hung hid £9 dicer oa Association club tbere aro going to try and oust secret of h^ unpopularity onpaper." Ned William has several offers, but his paruuts refuse to allow him Menges arid his Western Association club. The West­ Everyone .whom I supposed know anything about boae on him. He is practicing at Hoosick Falls, N. T. always "warms up" on the subject and relates many a peg and throw that fur-Hoed coat on the floor, aud ball, bas toM me that this man Myers was an old ball It ia with regret tbat I announce the death of on* to leaving bis parental roof. asked for some bulls. He was given a handful. Tho ern Association is entitled to full protection under the incidents of tho kind-heartedness of the great captain, Hasanmear made arrangements with Klein Bros., player, and I imagined be was capable of selecting a of tho directors of the club, in John F. Call ah an especially towards young players. Auson is uminently first shot cracked the coon on top of'hia head and he National Agreement, and I question if Menges will a wlioleealo cigar house iu this city, and until the quietly submit to beiug bounced. II A BUY PALUEB. team fast enough for this League. Lowell loses one of the most enterprising of its citi­ a family man, a kind husband and indulgent father looked weary. Ball number two landed on the same It's kind of tongh so late in tbe BOMOU and after zens. He was universally respected aaa is sincerely season opena will dispose of the celebrated "Sporting cocoanu r, in spite of the coon's antics. The third shot aud with my fellow-scribe, Tim Muroan, I am g)ad ol Life" brand of cigars. Ilia many friends wiah him making up onr minds that the present year was to see mourned by a largo circle ot friends. MEBHIMACK. this opportunity to a td an humble tribute :o his sterl­ also hit tht bull's eye, so to speak, and then there was AN INTEKSTATK ROW. us take a good place in tbo race, to have onr hope* success. a commotion. Tommy was uot tired a bit and wanted ing worth. I met Father Durkee, looking halo anc Great work IB expected of onr crack Western Asso­ dashed to earth by this onslaught. OMAHA SATISFIED. genial, tho other day and he requested me, when ] to keep it up. Tommy finally concluded that be had A Decision of tlie League Disregarded by I am sorry "Whew" did not give the figures of the ciation battery Conway aud Gunaon, but I rather had enough, but only after the coon»had threatened to next wrote you, to ask Mr. Chadwick, when in the think Swartzel and Reynolds will make some of tho the Danville Club. Bcores between the opposing clubs for tbo games to be Represented at Last Upon the Diamond vicinity of the San office, to pass in hia regards to resign his position if Esterbrook waa allowed to throw played next Bimimor, and be also neglected to publish Northwestern clubs howl. In McCarthy we have the at hia head again. CRAWPORDSVILLE, Ind.,Feb.7. EditorSponr- by a Strong Aggregation of .Flayer*. genial Sam Yates. Durkee, although "in the senran<3 most promising ''kid" pitcher in the profession. the summary of the final standing and averages of the yellow" and occasionally laid up with rheumatism, is An effort waa made to aecuro Frank Bancroft, of BROOKLYN ARRANGING DATES. IXG LIFE: The Fisher trouble seems to have playera for the eeason of '88. Probably it was an over­ OMAHA, Feb. 6. Editor SPOUTING LIFE: an almost constant visitor out at the League grounds Providence lame, for manager, but to no avail. C. H. Byrno and bis mau Friday have leturned from taken on itself some of the peculiarities of the sight on bis part, and this gentle reminder will induce Omaha has at last gotten a team together that Ho retains a vivid recollection of his visit lo The American Association people will proceed at Buffalo and express themselves as highly delighted at celebrated ghost of Banquo, in that it will ''not him to do HO next weok. she feels proud of and in fact any city would be New York twenty years ago, and of hia capture once with fitting up the old League ground for the com­ the outcome of the conference between tho League A man at my elbow remarks: "That is there by the base ball boys of that period down." The matter was determined at a meet­ likewise if they had them. And Manager ing soaeou. A new roof will ornament the grand and Association schedule committees. The Brooklyn ing in the early part of January and Craw- nonsense," but it isn't. Could you apply such a sug­ (many of them now affluent cltizena), and tho splen­ stand aud other needed improvements will be made Olub is already arranging its April games and so far gestion to tho mau who Bits in front of you at tbe vSeloe cannot bo complimented too highly for the did time they gave him. Edward E. Conn, your re­ on the grounds ami surroundings. has got nine on the list. Tbe club will probably do no fordsville was given his services. This meeting theatre and tells you the whole pi«ce from first to laat good judgment lie has shown in securing the presentative from Southern California and manager Manager Rowe will select the uniforms, etc., while traveling at all during April. The guinea already was held in Bloomington, 111., and was attended act beiore tho first scene ia ou? I guess not. men ho did. Tho team eo far is: Pitchers, of the Los Angeles Club, dropped in on me Thursday East, and will send samples of same home as toon as arranged are as follows, all at Washington Park: by the representatives of all clubs in the Inter­ I truat the Boston triumvirs will flro BurduCK, Sut- Lovett, Burd-ck, Caspian and Johnny Flynn, looking as handsome and chipper as of yore. He has possible. The color has ~ not yet been determined April 1 and 4, with Newark; April 5, with Williams ton and Morrill at once, and pass a voto of thanka to brought up with him his Nonpareil team, under tlie College; April 7, with Yalo College; April 8, with state League. Mr. "Whew,"' of HaverJiill, for his (suggestion. and if thw don't mako some of the heavy wil­ upon. Manager Miller appeared for our club and captaincy of Joe Quest. I had qi:ita a plr-asunt Jim Davis, who will gnird third base for the Ameri­ Jersey City; April 10, with Amlierst College; April 12, Since Haverhili has uo team in tliL* League this low wiolders in the Western League fan the air greeting from Quest, who has changed but little. can Asfcociation clnb, was a member of tbe Kansas with Princeton College; April 14, with Syracuse; April presented his claims to the services of Fisher in season, I tbink it would be a wise idea to appoint it will surprise their many Omaha admirers. So This id tbo nine that made monkeys of the Haveilyg City Unions in 1884, but participated in one game only. 15, with Troy. such a manner, and agreeing to furnish affida­ "Whow" an arbitrary committee of one for tbo beat far only two catchers havo been signed, namely ID three straight on their last trip South. Len Stock- coucorueJ, \V. CLtrroRE Ted Sullivan secured him from one of the defunct A REPLY TO CAYLOB. vits of two reputable citizens of this place, if interests of all parlies Wilson and Cooney; of tho champion Oshkosh well has signed with Stockton for $200 per mouth aud Northwestern League teanii. an advance bonus of tbe same amount, Stockton, 11 Oaylor's remarks in reference to me last week necessary, that the meeting, without a dissent team last season, but both are said to be every­ Manager Kowe will probably sign his old etacdby touched a tender spot, and 1 have not got over my mad SA ND USKY SUBMITS, money and enterprise go for anything, will carry the and friend, George Sbafer, while in Philadelphia. The ing vote, decided that Crawfordsvillo should day men, and as good as any in the business. pennant of the California League at the ond of the yet. This discussion between Cay lor and myself have the player in question. In accordance O'Coiiiiell T.'ill hold down Qrst bag; ho has been very "orator" would make a good man for the new club, started in a joke, but he has made it look too serious But Not Without a Kick Against the De- ensuing senson. Quest bas made a neat turn in Los the president successful, having boeu with tour championship teama, and his engagement would bo received with much ap­ for that. I simply called him to task for casting with this decision of the League tiislou in Irwin's Case. Angeles 'gilt-odged real eatato. When they do pro vnl. told Mr. Flaher to sign a Crawfordsville contract. viz., Bidileford, Lawrence, Portland aiid Oslikosh. W« like a man down there, they like him veiy much. ridicule on the Reporters' Association. He intimates SASDUSKY, 0., Feb 7. Editor SPORTING LIFE: have three men to pick from for second bine, WaUh, Ed B. Menges has encavrrd a Mr. Banna, from St. that 1 am not capable of fencing witb him, aud besides Fisher called ou Mr. Miller, our manager, and affixed Dairy m pie pursues the quiet, even touor of his way Lonis, who will act as nocretary for his Western Asso­ bis name to the necessary document, received his ad­ The agony is over. Our name is Dennis, with Measitt and Miller, nil flrbt-clasa mon. Donm, of last amongst relatives and friends in our Athenian city, makes some personal references which I do not like. ciation team. Mr. Barooa haa already entered his new vance money and departed. Tbe amount which Dan­ a capital D. Irwin goes to Manchester, all be- soatioti'a Oshkosh learn, v.1 ill pity third, and is one ot the sylvan Oakland, and pays bur little attention, I saw Mr. A. G. Milia yesterday, but he did not incite tho finest in that position. Fur tho outfield we have vocation. what appears below. I admire Caylor at times. He ville bad paid him waa leturned them and all seemed theso short winter days, to base ball, contenting bim- The Timm publishes likonrsses and records of Men­ "aerene." This morning, however, the draft sent to oauso we did not send suitable advance. We Hums, Anuis, Campnu1* and Lon Sowders. aelf with a rest and retreat, from which in the spring, writes well, but generally selects a topic which will accepted IrvrinCi terms on tbe 12th, Manches­ Sowdora Is Manager Seleo'a htest acquisition to th» ges' team, which aro perused with interest by local amuse a few but in distasteful to the majority. I do Danville was returned by their manager, who klrtdty he will emerge like utito a refreshed giant. Charlie enthusiasts. Informed Miller tbat he proposed to fight the thing ter's acceptance was dated tho loth; our's reached team, and it gives general Ean^fwciion here, as he fe Giinzel, with his pleasant, honest face, is also, witb his uot write this now simply because it has taken me this Several young players will most likely be purchased, out. him on tho 13th, theirs on tho 17th. So suitable wll known, haying played iu Ihis cily in 1884 with iamily, domiciled in Oakland. Tlu> grout catcher, ho long to cet real mad. Last week's SPORTING LIFE was tho EviiusvHIo ttam, aud wns considered one of th« who aro both promising ant! reliable. The new team read in this vicinity with great interest, especially by In the face of the decision above noted, such a pro­ advance knocked us out. Perhaps it did. To a who hits proved of such inestimable \aluo to tho Na­ will be made up principally of old heads. KLEIN. ceeding has so ranch assurance about it that it may be 1 eavicHt iu that team, which contained such men M tional League and world's champions, Is an ardent yours truly. Caylor's screed knocked me all iu a heap. man up a tree it looks funny, to gay tho least. Lofty Marr, Brood Hillery and Thompson. Have you ever noticed that when a man has become termed tbe "galliot" piece of business on record. disciple of tbe rod ami gun, and with his friend Ward, The outcome of the whole matter, in tbe light of the We offered to send him his suitable adv&nce if ho Manager Selee hw several «ood offers for Carnpana Las been having royal sport. John, with hia talented A Temperate Reply to Criticism. identified with tho glory, the ups and downs of our tie is League's decision, is a foregone conclusion. Danville would state tho amount wanted, but Irwin did au-i ho will, in all p-obttbility, bo sold, which will bo re­ end entertaining wifo, with others, honored my cot­ PHiLADfLPiirA, Feb. 0. Editor SPORTING Lira: In National game, ho takes it very haid when gretted, as he is H first-class uu>n. tho criticism of the correspondent to THE SPORTING dropped and learns that the world lias many other has as much claim on Fisher «a afie lias to tbe electric not want to sign hero, BO, of course, wo could tage with ft visit iHst evening, and we bad a light plaut here and no more. What a great misf not hnvo sent him what he would havo RliUer will captain tho team elnco Omaha hai Jolly good time. I'm doing all I can to keep LIFE from Haverhill, Wass., the position he places little plans just his size, which can be thrown iu the waived till claims on -Shannon, now of tbo Kalamazooa, the Portland Clnb surprtsos and plaaicB me both. In river aud never be missed. tune it ia tbat when a patient is sick bo "kicka" considered suitable advance, even bad it been him on tho coast as long as possible, ao have put him BO against taking medicine. Perhaps, Danville did his entire salary. Bach a howl ua li-t scat up Maimper Poleo is tryiir.r to secure another catcher, 'onto" a place in fllariu County where quail abound, the flr.it place it pives us a chance to climb a little Probably one of the funniest letters Cnylor has ever npiuely, Getzcdi'i old receiver, Gastfield, oJ last s**- higher, n juwition wy couldn't If he plared ui where written waa that of last week. Of course Caylor is not know that Miller is a German. H« i?, however, when we act-opted his terms )i*4 not boon lizard and also a friend wh j ia tho owner of ifouie crack Gor- and tbere is more "fight" in him to the square inch since my o« wcmU accept my figures.*' to briar his ttmm herp April 1 for two weoks' prac­ release, to all of which tho wily manager turns R deaf '88 clorit-s, ho will have a different opinion of myself (and do you know there ia no such thing as the "Ar­ tlan bitration Committee" in existence?) is wonderful, but badly as Danviil», but we iiitend to "knock them out," Kicked on tho contract (yet he is no faring chicken, tice, a^ tno weather is much milder here ia that ear. Ward's argument is that after «ix years' service tin J my ivutn. The players of the Portland Club are tb;in iu Minnesota. new t» thu New England Le&pi:c (with the exception what amuses and startles people is the way he, hoping Fisher or uo fisher, tbat is, if but perish tbe an be played in our League last year and expected to Iu a club or city, a cknngo is equally beneficial to tho thought. PUNCH, manage our team tbis season), in fact kicked ou every Dick Dwyer, the old reliablo first h-weman, is run­ jns-nagemoiit and player, and a retention uf the latter of Stiue), but area gentlemanly set of player OE or to make hiom-If prominent, tries to hatig on to ihe hat coat-tails of a gentleman like A. G. Mills. Tbeie is cl«use in the contract, and kicked on enough more to ning in tbe nivil e?rvire on tho Union Pacific, nud after that time works harm to both. The New York off tbo field aud will till their poniiioiiB with credit to gc\rrtl good offers for this acajou, but says be wttl to the entire League. U. C. MTKRS, ono distinguishing feature about Caylor which nil who A if i) still ta vet only one umpire Hoovsr h« hc«n build an entire new document. And tt is left to such Clnfck could they get him, would give an onorinoua a IUDU tv wy what uc luDfaiUtn nuUMb ndvaac*. To tn>aw for Jack GUuucocir, and yet tho> haw a nun LUoagsr Purtiwiti B. B. A, know biui have recognised. It ii that element of engaged by the luternftttoual Allocution, Feo. 15. TBTE 5

of your correspondents can produce. Will yon let vlded the salary wu satisfactory.*1 Washington THE Newark base b*l] team has been completed. It the Western League averages because the secretary DM them try? N Capital. now consists of: Pitchera, Robert Miller, Henry i not yet made them up. We do not know whether b* THE SPORTING LIFE. My team is M follows: Keefe and Clarkson, pitch­ MANAGER MUTHIR, of the New York Clab, Is nego­ Dooms, Norman Baker; catchers, W. J. Colllna, Joseph ' will ever attend to his duty. BASE BALL. ers; EwJng and Kelly, catchers; Connor, first l>ase; P. Siilliran; first base, James Fields; second baae, P. J. ! tiating with the New Orleans Cluh for the use of the A. B. C., St. Joa«ph, Mo. A player of that nan* PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT Hardie Richardson, second base; Deuny, third base; grounds in the mornings during March. McGraw; third baw. Charles Jones; abort stop, Leo played in a few games with the Browns a few yean Ward, short stop and captain; Tier nan, left field; Fo- CATCHER TBAY has signed with the Galveaton team. Smith; left field, W. Johnson; centra field, Dennis ago; in 1885, we think. g»rty, centre field; Ewiug or Kelly, PHILADELPHIA POINTERS. right field. Benjamin Sullivan, late of the Emporia Club, has been Caaey; right field, John Coogtn. j Mpas, Henderson, No. 202 South Ninth Street, Philada. Very respectfully, J. B. DAMON. N. C. Wo don't recollect, « w» selected to manage the Galvestou Club. THE Ten Eycks, »ml-professlonal champione of the receive many auch every day. If received they w*ra BY THE The Spring Series for the I*>cal Champion­ Eastern District, have organized for thi« season with certainly forwarded. The Men Wbo Manage Teams. MANAGER DAVE ROWB says that if the Board of ship Not Yet Agreed Upon Ail Anagram AibiiratuHi does not slop the Western Association team the following strong team: J. Livingston, F. Daley j WINSTON BIRD, Atlanta, Ga. (1) No. In 1886 h« and J. Fletcher, pitchtre; Sporting Life Publishing Company, News, Notes and- Gossip. A list of managers signed by the clubs of the they will take the matter into the courts. A. Krank, W. Wolf and pitched five games against St. Louis and won thro* off various organizations is not only of interest to A. Platz, catcherajjj. Strauss, J, Young and J, Kennedy, thorn. (2) 1885. There is a hitch in the arrangement of the WM. HYNPHAN, pitcher, aud Chris Hutt, first base­ on the bases; X. Pla'.z, short atop; 0. Kost, M. Garms ; To whose order aH Checks, Drafts, Money Orders, man, are open for engagement local spring series between the Athletic and the general public, but to the many players who with aome good club. and J. Mtiyers, in the field. John W. Dolan is the . FLYMN, New York (1) Portland. (2) It is so re­ and Remittances must be made payable, have not secured engagements; so here it is: Address, 2547 Mutter street, Philadelphia. * manager. ported, (3) Tbat is an open question. (4) About tfc* Philadelphia cluba over the question of dividing middle of March. POSI OFFICE BOX, 948. NATIONAL LEAGUE. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. THK stockholders of the New Orleans Club have the receipts. The Athletics demand half of the caned President Toby MANAGER POWERS, of the Jersey City Club, has Boston John Morrill. Athletic Wm. Shareig. Hart. Our ruined correspon­ arranged with the Now York Clnb to open the season INTELLECTS BONUS, N. Y. City. (1) Yes. (2«4 entire receipts, while the Philadelphia only dent, J. W. Hearn, made FBANCIS C. BICHTKR, Ertitor-m-Chief. New York James Mutrie. Br'klyn W. McGunnigle. the presentation. at Jersey City on April 7, on which occasion there will 3) Not yet decided. (4) We must decline to express want to divide the gate receipts, leaving each Phil*. Harry Wrigbt. Baltimore Wm. Baruie. PRESSURE is being brought to bear upon the Wash­ be music and a good time in general. Among the an opinion. TERMS: club to retain the money taken in at the grand Washi'n Not yet selected. Cincinnati Gus. Schmelz. ington Club to have pitcher Jim Whiney made captain clubs ihat the Jersey Citys will play at home during W. W. ELLIB, Celina, 0. Weber, 20 games, fielding Subscription, per annum (postage paid)...... 82.35 stand on its own grounds. This seems to be a Clticago A. C. Anaon. Cleveland J. A. Williams. and general director of the Washington team. the early spring are Brooklyn, Athletic, Princeton, (right field, short atop and pitching) average, .750; ba*> Six months...... " " ...... 1.S5 small matter to quarrel over, yet, neither side Ind. Harry L.Speuce. St. Louis Jus. A. Giftord. IN SPEAKING of Hankinson's reported determination Syracuse, Amhtrst, Williama and probably Boston and ting, .402. Pittsburg 'Horuce Phillips. Louisville John Kelly. Three months...... " " ...... 65 seems willing not to go to Kansaa City Manager liowe said: "1 do Philadelphia. Louis A. HAUBIENB, Janesville, Wis. Carnthert, to make any concession. Man­ Detroit Wm. H. Watkins. Kansas City Dave How*. not care, no one will he forced to go with us.*' Single cupies...... " " ...... 6c. ager Shirsig saya the Athletic Club will not re­ "MANAGER HARRIS, of the Haverlya, of San Fran- who will receive $5,000 from Brooklyn, the coming 1NYAK1ABLY IN ADVANCE. SOUTHERN LKAGUTfi. WESTERN ASSOCIATION. PITCHER HnsroM writes us that he has not signed ciaco, offered Gauze! $1,200 Jan. 25 to stay in Calif.-r- scaaon. Meninhiw Jas. Woods. Chicago Sam Mortou. FOftF-TON POSTAGE 5% CE.NT8 1'JfTRA PER ANNUM. cede from the position it has taken, even at the with the London Club. Nevertheless, Secretary White nia and catch lor the Haverlys this year. Ganzel ADMIRER, Notre New Orleans Ab. Powell. St. Louis Tom Loiius. Dame, Ind. There is great room risk of not playing the series at all. If the promulgated his contract with that club last week. agreed to accept if he could get hia wife to leave De­ for a difference of opinion and we prefer not to gift Mobile Walter Guldsby. [Kansai Citv J. Manning. troit and move to tbe co*st. He telegraphed to her ours. above difficulty is adjusted, the series will begin Cbarlesti n Jaa. Powell. .Omaha Frank Selee. THE New England League will pay good salaries ADVERTISING RATES: to first-class, experienced umpires next season, and about the matter, but she refused, ao the deal fell (FIXED AND FINAL.) April 18, and only eight games will be played. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIAT'N. St. Paul A. H. Barnes. R. H. C., Richmond, Ya. We never heard of anch applicants will no well to address Secretary Steyeus. through and Ganzel will stay with Detroit at $2,500." person in any connection whatever witli the Browns. AN ANAGRAMATIC HRTHOD OF DETERMINING THE Toronto Chas. Cnsbman. "Miu'ap'ls A, M. Gooding. Chicago Times. TRADE ADVERTISEMENTS. Hamilton H. O. Fisher. DIRECTOR CONVERSE, of the Pittsburg Club, will lo­ W. 0. ESTES, Bingham School, N. 0. 1m. 40*. by CHAMPIONSHIP. Milwaukee Jas. Hart. One insertion.,..,...... ,.2O ceuw per line, Nonpareil Locdou Pliil Poweia. Dea Monies ('has.Morton. cate permanently iti New York, hut will at the same THE Tiger Baae Ball Cluh, of New York City, has Stuyvesaut at Sheepshead Bay, Sept. 21,1880. fix mouths...... 17J4 " " " " The Athletics have eighteen men xtnder con­ Syracuse C. W. Hackett. NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE. time retain his interest and position in the organiza­ organized for the season of 1888 with the following THORNTON, Newark New York-Detroit at NOTT tion. officers: James Dunn, president; M. Welsh, treasurer. One year...... 15 " " " * tract and the team is complete. It never oc­ B'uffalu Jack Chapman. Lynn Geo. Brackett. York, May 30,1886; 25,062 people. curred to Secretary Kames until the other day Rochester H. E. Xeonard. Manchester J. L. ('Union. THE old Union base ball park at St. Louis may be The club have already signed John J. Ward, John Griffin, James Beard, Joseph Ramsey and Edward B. D., Philadelphia. On telegrams and Devlin* SPECIAL ADVERTISING. that the club had just eighteen, which he con­ Troy T. P. Sullivan. j Worcester W. Burnham. used for athletic meetings, hix-day walking matches confession. Albany ThoH. aud other ^porting events next season. At least that's Dale. At the laat meeting of the club it was decided Excliangt-s, Waiiis, Breeders' Carda, Saiea, siders a very lucky number. About the same York. JLowell Jaa. A. Cnd worth. PEAROE, Port Richmond, L. I. See list of managers Sitnutiuus 01 H«lp Wa-ited, per word, CF.MSAL isTEifeTATK. Salem Harry Putuam. the outlook. j to keep THE SPORTING LIFE on file in its rooms in consequence of its authority this igftue. initial or number tor each »nd etery iuser- time it occurred to him there were just eighteen Dubuque C. R. Qm-.de. 'Portland H. C. Meyers. THE Birmingham Club has relinquished all claims , upon base ball. letters in the words "sure pennant winners," and Decatur Mike Hurley. | CEMTRAL LEAGUE. to pitcher Downs and the Newark Club will now get , A BASE BALL plavera' social and beneficial club has W. D., Moosic, Pa. There was no throwing match. JKfT" No advertisement inserted for Ies3 than .25 c. upon the first attempt he worked out the follow­ Davenport W, H. Lucas. Newark Chris. Meisel. iiim without the intervention of the Arbitration Com- j been formed in San Franciaco, aud the following D. F. C., Canton, 0. We know of no such record. J9&ir~ Cash must accompany order. Peoria Jas. Flyun. Scranton Sam Craue. mittee. I officers elected; D.S. McNeil, president; William Wil­ J. D. O'BRIEN, Milwaukee, Wis. No. ing anagram. If there is anything in an ana­ son, vice president; ALVKHTISKRS sh.mld forward their favors so as to Danvi!!, L. O. Platt. Jersey City Pat Powers. THE Boston Herald last Sunday printed an elaborate B. Nichols. secretary; M. Kelly, J. A. M., Harrisburg, Pa. Andrews. gram then the Athletics should be solil for the | treasurer. The following leach us by 3 P M. Saturday, asthispaiier goes to press CrawfordsviH" At Miller. M'ilks'h'e Notyetsolected eight-column review of the National game, replete ! were elected honorary members: Jerry Denny, J. M. Ward. George Van M., Scran tun Sam Crane. EVERY SATCROAY AT 5 P. M. pennant, as will be seen below: Rockford W. H. Alien, Alloutown Fersy Mttlone. with interesting facts and figures. J. C. Moony is tbe Seward. Blo'm'nt'n E. A. Woehner Elmira H. T. Smith. author. Haltren, William Brown. Fied Carroll, Tom Brown, GCuuing. OHIO LEAGUE. Bioghamton L. Baldwin Arthur Irwin, James A. Hart and D. L. Foutz. PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 15, 1888. M*n6fteld F. H. O'Brien. BINGHAMTON, N. Y., may sacrifice its place In the WhitacRa. TEXAS LEAOVE. Central Ball League because of inability to pay the re­ A GOOD many clubs will now do willingly what a CRICKET. HatEhEwa. Wheel A.C.Buckeiiberg'r. Austin Juo. J. McClosky. New York legislator last year thought should have Kalamazoo Morris O'NeilJGalveston Ben quired guarantee and raise advance money for ita Pool-man. Sullivan. players. been done under penalty o'f the law. This Sol on in­ BiErbauor. Sand u sky Not yet selected1 Dallas Cha*. LevK troduced a bill in the legislature to compel all baae THE TOURING CRICKETEBS. RiNg. Columbus Jas. Curry, INDEPENDENT CLUBS, THE Atlanta Club is negotiating with Manager ball clubs to furnish patroiia of "free seats" with a 4O,OOO ZiNu. Lima W. L. Hnrrington. Cuban G'uts J. K. Govern Bancroft. At this late day he would be about the suitable protection from the aun. The bill's object, it Their Return From the West Indies Th* Canton Wm. Zecher. most available man the club could get to secure a setma, was purely one of a sanitary kind. Our im­ Final Game Played. G Amble. team for it. pression ia that the bill did not return from the com­ The American cricketers have returned from MatTirnore. | Sets Himself Right. GEORGE W. BURNHAM will manage the Worcester mittee to which it was referred. [Hub thn coming season." Philadelphia Press. No; the West Indies. During their trip they played LETTER LIST. Welch. NEW BEDFORD, Feb. 9. Editor SPORTING LIFE: As Jov, QUEST and hia Los Angeles team played Jan. 28 eleven games, won five, your Washington correspondent reflects quite severely Mr. Walter Burohaui, quite a different person, will and 29, in San Francisco, Cal. The visitors had as op­ lost four and two were "We have in our care letters or telegrams for Glb>on. manage the club. i WeyhiNg. on my abilities as a manager, I beg to send you a copy ponents In the first game the Pioneers (champions), drawn, one of which was in their favor. At laat the persons named below, which will be promptly LyoNs. of a letter received from N. E. Young this A. M.: CONWAT and Twitchell have signed with Detroit. who were strengthened by Ned Williamson and Tom advices they were playing in Barbadoes. Thil forwarded upon receipt of a self-addressed StovEv. "F. C. BANCROFT: The item in last week's LIFE Eight men are now still unsigned, nainc-ly, Beunett, Brown. A bad muff by Smith in the ninth inning match resulted in a draw, rather in favor of th« Baldwin, stamped envelope: LarR'kio. was not inspired by me, but on the contrary meets my Getzein, Brouthers, Richardson, Bo we, helped th*> Loa Angelea nine t3 a victory by a score of home team, as the UWited States, when stumpa White and Hanlon. 5 to 4. WilliamsoTi, Bill Brown and Van Haltren Geo. Shafer. |Oas. Gcwmpr. GleaSon. unqualified disapproval. * * * I .always regaided yon as a capable base bill manager. THE first schedule of the season announced was aa played in the second game with the Greenhood and were drawn, had 150 runs to make and only W. H. Mainly,Bloomington ManagerShenando&h Club. LOCAL JOTTINGS. usual that of the Intercollegiate Association. Morans, who won easily, 9 to 1. seven wickets to do it with. Fwfty Malune. Yours, N. E. YOUNCJ." Not !Tayl««r Shafer. The Young America Base Ball Club has made many conferences nor much wire-pulling were needed H. C. M«yers. Pitcher Comment ic unnecessary. I believe I have no cause IT THK Southern trip is undertaken by the Wash­ From Barbadoes the team went to Jamaica^ Knouff. arrangements to settle their Win. Earle. Pitcher Kilroy. with the Philadelphia Club to play to be ashamed of my record in tbe past. dates. ington team President Hewitt will accompany tho boys where they played four matches, the St. Elisa­ Pitcher Xi hols. iStort stop Esterday. their games at the Philadelphia Ball Park next Yours truly, F. C. BANCROFT. PRESIDENT STERN, of the Cincinnatis, is said to be not instead of attending the March meeting of the beth Club, the Kingston Club, Kingston Garriao* W. A. 1'urcell. T. P. Sullivan. summer. The former will not make any dates altogether pleased at the work of the Association League, as he feels the necessity of a little recreation. and the San Antonio Club being their adver­ Witlie Riley. Hardie Kenderson. until after tho League schedule has been made An Emphatic Contradiction. schedule committee, especially that portion of it apply­ Mr. Burkert will look after the busineea part of the ing to holiday games. trip. Mr. Boughton, one of the directors, will repre­ saries. The first game in Jamaica was played Manager Hazleton Club. Burke, of Scran too. public, as tbey will not be allowed to use the TORONTO, Feb. 8. Editor SPORTING LIFE: The Wm. Maule. Eobiuson, of St. Louifl. statements made by yt-ur Cleveland correspondent re- THE Albany Club claims Ed Fu«selback. As the sent tho club at the meeting iu this event Ted Sulli­ at (roshen againU the St. Elizabeth Club, one of Poter Wood. Pitcher Small. grounds when the Philadelphia Club is sched­ gaidiag E. S- Cox and tho Toronto Base Ball Associa­ club, however, failed to abide by Fuaselback's con­ van will leave fur the South the latter part of the the best on the islands, containing the Isaac an4 Ales. F< reon. Robert MdJue. uled to play at home. tion are absolute falsehoods. The association has been ditions as to the amount of advance money required, month to perfect all the arrangements. Farquharson brothers, who played in this city C. W. Ettiuger. Chas. Lovis. Manager Dave Rowe, who is now in New York indebted to Mr. Cox fr^m the very day he became it cannot hold Fusselback. "BALL players don't get married any more that Is in 1SS6. The home team batted first and nod* president, that was in 1?8G, for large amounts, and at the papers don't put it that way. At leaat once a week Pitcher Micklejohn,Patton.!L?n Baldwin. hunting up the Metropolitan players who have THE New Yorks will open the season with what 67, Duhring getting eight wickets'. The visitor* 51 r. Velvo. I Manager SLamokiu Club. this moment is indebted to him to the tune of 8(5,000. they call a college week that is, they will play a I run across a paragraph like this: 'Buddy Gilsey is been ai-sigued to tho Kansas Cily Club, is expected in followed with 102, Bixby, who was in for on« A. W. Hull. iJohu Clements. this city to-day or to-morrow to negotiate with George The contracts with the players called for their services game each with six of the leading college clubs daring the latest to join the ranks of tho Benedicts.1 Or thia: X. C. Mucon. J<-s. Kftppel. up to October 15, aud a week before that day every the 8rst week of the season. * Jimmy Swift, the Lulus1 famous short stop, and MUa hour and three-quarters, leading with 26, Shafer acd Eddie Fu-selbach. Bertie McHaffy, one of them had been paid off, although they played Tire Gnlvestoo, Tex., Club claims Pat McGra, the b. and a. daughter of Reginald On the following day the St. Elizabeth eleven The formation of the Camden County Amateur Baae of McHaffy, have signed to THAT LIBKL SUIT. no game after September 29. B. H. BENXETT, Hamiltou, but as hia contract with Newark ia in the da battery work in the great Ball League was completed at a meeting held Thurs­ game of life.* Verily the noble game is rapidly ac­ bitted a second time, scoring 85, an4 day night. The organization Secretary-Treasurer. hands of thf secretary of the Central League it is not will consist of four clubs quiring a literature of ita own." Philadelphia North the United States won by four wicketfl. TnE SPOETING LIFE is, indeed, prospering the Eurekap, Alerts, Camden likely that Pat will go to Cit.vs and Harris', all of John B. Sage's Scheme. Texas. American. On Jan. 19 and 20 the Kingston Club defeated exceedingly, all things considered. Though not Camden City. The B^«non will be opened April 15. "KEEFE said, when requested for the last time to "MADDKN comes to Boston and goea to Director Tbe gymnasium at ^Ninth und Arch streets has al­ John B. Sage, thn famous publisher of base ball pitch, that be would Co- the visitors by 103 runs, Lees, Moon and Mar­ yet five years old it has in that comparatively not pitch in auch cold weather if naut'a office to aUn. Kelly comes to town and shows ways boen popular with bull player§, Lnt now that specialties, in another column advertises a splendid he was paid §5 for every shall doing some brilliant batting. The former, ball that he threw over the up at Director Billinga' office aud signs. Morrill and brief space of time achieved the leading position Umpire Billy >IcLean is the proprietor it is more of a advertising scheme in hanger*, which we commend to plate." San Francisco Chronicle. it will be remembered, played here in '86, doing favorite resort than ever before. A number of ball base fall clubs and managers. They should not fail some of the others will co to President Sodtm's office to in the sporting journalism of America, in point t-> secure samples. Mr, £aj;e a'so want^ canvassers in THE Dallas Club, of the Texas State League, has sign, and thus we see the team organized under three the best work for hia team. The score was: pUyersare now training there. signed these players: J. B. Pelleford, F. R. Burns, J. of power, influence and circulation. But one The Philadelphia Club has not beard from pitcher every city that ha* a base ball club. For further par­ heads, for each man has his favorite players, and each Kingston, 300; United States, 197. On the fol­ ticulars see advertisement. H. Pohanuan, Charles Levis, Wm, Whitaker, Wm. H. player looka to the man who signed him aa his per­ lowing days the Garrisons were encountered and thing was needed to fill THE SPORTING LIFE'S Ferguson at all, hence there is 110 truth in the report Hemp, F. J. Fahey, James Welch. that that pUtyer has submitted an uUiiuatum to the sonal friend and manager. No club In the country is defeated by four runs and nine wicketa. Scon cup of happiness to overflowing, and that Notes and Comments. THE London Club has had contracts with tho follow­ run in auch an unbusinesslike way, and uo club can club. ing players promulgated: T. Garrisons, 145; United States, 149. WalnVj was a libel suit something that no first-class George Shafer will probably play in Kansas City. VAN HALTREN is a plasterer by trade. J. O'Noil, Larry Corco- expect to be a success with thia triangular sort of man­ ran, J. F. Quinn, Wm. Hnsted, Levi Lovely, Yal. aging." Boston Referee. bowling and Coatea* batting were the features < Dave Rowe thinks well of the "Orator" and had him CATCHER TATK has signed with Boston. journal can afford to be without now-a-days. Kowins, W. A. Beid, Emil Geis*, W. A. Kelley. Tne attention of base ball playera Is called to the the play. in Lincoln last season. HUB COLLINS haa re-signed with Louisville. At last we have the libel suit! But our happiness Manager Gtssaor, of the Mt. Carnwli, haa signed Coit'MBiA COLLEGE students have chosen the follow­ new Kangaroo baoe ball shoe advertisement of Spald- The final match of the trip took place at Pod is somewhat marred through the triviality of Kurtz anil Fair hu rat, of last season's Mahauoy City AL &KACH arrived in New Orleans Wednesday. ing officers for their base ball club: President, S. 0. ing Bros, in another column. This ia an absolutely Antonio, the visitors scoring a tremendous team. DON'T fail to readF. A. Smith's ad in another column. Herriman; vice president, B. B. Sloan; manager, L. C. flrt;t~cla*9 shoe at a reasonable price. The firm says: the alleged libel, the libellant, and the amount Reamer; treasurer, Joseph Taylor; secretary, D.Le Boy "We desire the measurement of every base ball tory over the local team. Although they play This ia Harry Wright'a opinion of scientific or TIM KEEFE is coaching the A in ho rat College ball but ten men, they amassed the enormous of damages claimed. Hezekiah Niles, an ob­ "place" hitting as given to FerguHon, of the Boston team. Dresaer. player in America, and upon receipt of same will totaj make a special last which we will Keep for 356, Coates getting 134 by brilliant batting i ^ scure, inconsequential local base ball reporter Herald. "I think that scientific batting ia a possibility SHORT STOP COLTER has accepted the Albany Club's THE most surprising engagement of the season is future to our players, and ao ia bwavea; bat there is precious terms. that of Tom Brown, late of the Pittsburg and Indian­ orders. All shoes ordered of us are subject to the Etting 60 by capital cricket. The Port Anti (hence our grief), objects to being desig­ little hope of either at present. I have a theory that, apolis clubs, to play right field for Boston. Thia approval of purchaser, consequently the risk is ours. nios scored 69 runs. THE salary of League umpires will be $1,500 and ex­ Give us a trial order." George Gore, Manager Wat- nated as an inferior writer and a as the weather grows warm and the boys have their penses. means that Mike Kelly will have lota of catching to The total figures for the trip show Coates to hair cut ehoit and fall off in their batting about the do next season. kins and other noted lights give the shoe unequivo­ PITCHER MAINS, late of Portland, has signed with crank, and proceeds to, unintentionally same time, there is a relation between the two of some PRINCETON has of laat year's cal endorsement. have done the best batting, Palmer the best Elmira. team Brown lee, catcher, perhaps, prove both assertions himself by kind. But what it is and what is the good of the in­ Mercur and King, pitchers; Wagenhurst, third ba^e; EVER since the effort made to plant another Southern bowling. formation ia beyond nly ken. Tbero may have been a LONO JOHN KTTLLT signed a Cincinnati contract last Price, short stop; Dnrell, right field; Reynold, left League Club in New Orleans, the club of that city haa rushing into court with a modest claim of period when I wag regarded u a scientific butter my­ Monday. fi>ld. The team will be us good, and probably better, shied at shadows. The latest instance is given by a Byes. $50,000 for a slightly damaged reputation, in- self, but there are few, if any, left to tell the tale." THE Lima Club has signed pitcher Miller, late of than last year's. Crescent City exchange, as follows: "The Arbitration The Notts and York secretaries hare resolved by If etead of fighting out a self-invited battle with Casey is reported as coaching the Williams College Newark. THE Delaware Club, of New York, has been formed Committee has passed upon the Texas League Club in to 16 that the leg before wicket rule shall remain M New Orh-ans matter. An official communication, re­ the pen, of which he claims to be a trenchant team. NATI KILLOGG'S contract with Buffalo haa been pro- and the lollowing officers elected: Edward Maher, it is. The Chester Club and the Brandywine Club, of West mulga'cd. president; Frank Merritt, secretary; Frank Simons, ceived by President Hart yesterday, s*ys the Texas The most famons cricket ground in the world, Lord1! League can place a club in New Orleans wielder. Seriously, now, Mr. Niles has placed Choitcr, have applied for admission to the Interstate CHARLIE BBIODT is quietly living at his home, Troy, treasurer. They have secured Peter Troy, brother of only with the In London, has consent of the Southern r^.,,,,. <>"! rhat after just been enlarged by the j League. New Ywrk. John, -i such more land at he;*y 1* himself in a most ridiculous position. For some conspntlR oncegiy_ei^ League cannot Tbe Boston Club is aald to still cherieh hopes of _io the crack oyt£e'dor:_ajafl hgaryt*- getting Andrews. If it does H mast bacg byaTtry , "rcTvlvB it. There will .f;y~be any i^exas" years he has "roasted," lampooned and libdlsd hittii;^ ; last season's Rutland Club, slender thread, el*e why was Tom Brown signed? Indianapolis. i« atill League club in thia city. & Shaw'8 team at Sydney on the 15th, 16th an with impunity very many people of rary- Surelv, Hornnngand Johnston would not l^ displaced, AND now a "friend11 of Kelly is to write his personal without an eugugement. He ia an expert boxer, and by 153 rune. Score: New South Wales, 153 and 21^ ia matched to tspar Pete THK Charleston Atew- Courier pays this compliment ing degrees of importance in tha base ball There is not a diasatisned player in the Athletic reminiscences. McCoy on the 14th, and Jack Englishman, 87 nud 129. Steele, of Boston, on the 19ih. to Cttpiniu Young, president of the Charleston Club, tpam, LONDON and Syracuse are reported as negotiating who l.aa -lone A match between Mr. Vernon'n t**m unri oight««« world, as well as members of his own profession. MRS. JOHN M. WARD, formerly Helen Daurray, ao much for base ball in his section: The Monntam League, a local social organization of with Sjlvester. will "\\Hintut detracting anything oT Northern Tasmania, at Launceaton, ended OQ Jam. have a successor as a theatrical trophy-giver to Iwwe from others who have Never was he backward in advancing his professional base ball players, will be given a benefit THE Lowell Club will take an April trip as far South contributed to the ways and means of having profes­ 15 io a draw. The Englishmen scored 195 and 27 Id* ball clubs. Miss Susie Kerwin, of the Wilbur own opinion, of entering into controversies, of at the Waluut Street Theatre on the evening of March as Washington. Opfra sional ball in Charleston, 3 wickets, while the Colonials put together 162 In th«il Company, will give a solid silver trophy to the club it is no exaggeration to say 19. Bobby Matthews selected that date because "A that the one mau in Charleston to whom the public first inning. Mr. A. Stoddart made 91 for Mr. T«r- harshly criticising, whether competent for the DAVE fiowE is in New York gunning for the Metro­ winning the world's championship this year. Dark Secret" will be played that night, which he con­ politan players. are indebted for keeping the game alive more than any non's eleven. Mr. Vernon'a teum beat a local twenty* task or not; and never was he at all chary of the siders the most appropriate play for the organization JAMES H. KELLY, formerly manager of the New Ha­ other ia Captain Tom Young, who haa spent liberally two at Latrobo, Tasmania, on Jau. 17. by an Inning that could have been secured. UMPIRE DOESCHGR is attending to hn hotel in the ven Baae Ball Club, ia an applicant for appointment and 108 runs. sort of language he employed, or considerate of suburbs of Troy. of his means to keep the game going, and who haa Manager Shanig ba* mode dates wilh the Yale, upon tho International League staff of umpires. He shouldered a very large part of the pecuniary responsi­ the feelings of his helpless victims, who, unable Princeton, Amherat and Willmma College teams. Thia DELPHIS DEXTRAQI is wintering at 13 Hicks street, is recommended by a number of League players, bility to keep up the club for the coming season." New Bedford, Maaa. * among the number being Anson, of the Chicago^. to retort in kind, had to grin and bear. For will enable him to giTe King, Gamble, Whitaker and OUR bright Syracuse correspondent, George H. Geer, Mattimore, trials in the box. DAVENPORT, It ia reported, has signed "Trick1 THE RING. years has he pursued with persistent CLARKSON being asked whom he thought the beat who haa signed to play short field for the Rockford Mr. Dcescher will probably be secured to umpire the McSorley as captain. pitchers in the country replied that Koofe waa his Club, will doubtless prove a decided acquisition to that a gentleman now a member of THE spring aeries of games between the Athletic and Phila­ NEW YORK'S new third base man Cleveland, is i first choice, with Verguson, Getzein and Whitnoy com­ club, judging from his excellent record, which is as HOME AGAIN. LIFE staff, and but a few weeks ago he printed a delphia clubs for the local championship. No better native of Washington, ing next, bnt not in that order of excellence, as he follows: With Syraceao Stars of '82, as first baseman; one could bo secured. was undecided which of the latter three waa the beat. Sullivan's Manager Back From England column attack on this person THE Manchester will probably release Ed Boyle, fielding average, .980; batting, .360. With Stars ot '83, in a New Manager Sharaig is after Borchfrs, the California aaya a Boston exchange. THE NTational League, American Association, Inter­ as^hort atop and pitcher; fielding, .910; batting, .365. What He Has to Say. York cotemporary, over his own signature, pitcher. Borchere would undoubtedly greatly national Association, Central League, New England With Muakegon, Mich., T84, short stop and pitcher; strengthen the Athletics in the bos, nnd that ia where THE Boston Club voluntarily raised Dick Johnston'i Harry Phillips, Sullivan's manager, ha> re­ every line of which contained a malicious salary from 81,750 to $2,UOO. League, Ohio Lt-ague, Western Association, Southern fielding, .908; batting, .325. Stars of '84, as short stop; the local club needs str«ngtbeninsf, if anywhere. The League, Central Inter-State League and Texas League ieldiug, .940; batting, .335. Norwich Central League turned to his home in Montreal. When inter­ libel. Compared with this article, THE people of the slope consider Borcbers a better pitcher WILLIAM NEITZ and Steve Hathiaa are th« latest are all under the protection of the National Agree­ viewed the other day by a Montreal reporter h» additions to the Albany team. team, '86, short stop and pitcher; fielding, .920; bat­ BPORTISO LIFE'S alleged libel of Niles than Van Ilaltren arid one of the best ever developed ment. ting. .375; Lockport team, '87, short stop; fielding, .922; said: "We have made about $25,000 each. I in that section ot conntry which produced DcLny, PORTER is quoted aa faying thathe would rather play THE Maine Agricultural Society has made the Salems batting, .360. is but as a mole-hill to a mountain. Fogarty, Cairoll, Van Haltreu, the two Browns, and ' in Milwaukee than in Kansas City. loft Sullivan in the hands of four trainers Ned an advantageous offer to play two games in Bangor IN A letter received from Tom Brown, who ia win­ Holske, of Boston; Jack Ashton, of Providence! \ And this is but one instance of many. oiher stars. SCCRETAEY SCANDRETT. of the Pittstwrg Base Ball duriug the State fair, on the 29th and 30th of next For "The Btte* Ball Scorers' Association of Philadelphia tering in San Francisco, he states that he has several CIu!», is very ill with typhoid fever. August, and have give them the privilege of selecting offers Jack Barnett, of New York, Sam Blaoklock, of years Hezekiah Niles has meandered about, which was organized, it is t-aid, lor next season bnt is as yet undecided where to for the purpose of AND so Dave Rowe will once more meet Von der their own opponent*, which will probably be the Port­ go. "The London to prepare him for the fight with establishing a more friendly spirit of profegsiunal report that I am to be married," be con­ figuratively speaking, with a chip on his inter­ Abe and Barnie upon equal footing. land team. tinues, '4s correct. I do course between base ball wiiters of thia city, and at th* not intend to go East again Mitchell. We will toss for the location of ths single. I thiuk shoulder, inviting a knock-off and consequent same time »ff»rd ao opportunity for discussion A NEW ORLEANS firm haa pnt up a silver cup for the JERRY DENNY writes Irom Oakland, Cal., his home, it will tend to make me play ball the fight and it will probably take place in France and coming season. I do not suggestions on the best mode of scoring, seems to bare Southern League clubs to coolest for. as follows: "All tho boys have started for the East intend to drink anything The assault with the pen. And yet, at the first blow, strong, bnt keep myself in good condition, and then I fight will be for $2,500 aside. I expect tog* beeu the cause of mating uo little ill-feeling between MINNEAPOLIS has signed Myer Robinson and J. Ster­ except Arthur Irwin and hia family, who are stopping am aure I can hold my back in about three weeks. I asked the Prinec this literary bully throws up his hands and some of the organizers. Thli it unfortunate. News­ ling, two promising young Detroiters. at my house. Their little boy, Herbert, haa been very own. I have done it and can do it again. I am not so old and stiff that I have got of Wales what he thought of Sullivan. 'He ll paper men are as touchy as other people when THE Washington team will in all probability change pick. Mr. Irwin and family expect to start for home quits, and, notwithstanding a ready (?) pen they to step down and out just think they have been misrepresented, and also are the color of their uniform this season. in a few weeks." yet.11 This will be pleasant the quickest big man I ever saw,' ho replied* and the columns of a newspaper, or perhaps news to Boston with which club Brown has signed quick to resent cenbure, even though it be THE only one-eyed player in the profession la pitcher 'He ha; got the height and the weight to reaoh couched in MAINEB, the once famous left fielder of the old St. since writing us.______several of them, at hia command, rushes into polite language. It would n fleet to the credit of all Louis Browns, has signed with Dallas. Irwin, whom the Arbitration Committee haa just over Smith, has he not?' I remarked. His Hoyal awarded to Manchester, Deapite the fact that he haa court for redress, like any ordinary citizen with­ parties concerned if they should bury the hatchet, for­ BOB FERGCSON will umpire the exhibition gamea Highness smiled in answer, but did not want to give and forget." Philadelphia Record. but a single optic, he watches the bases extremely out other recourse. Bah, if ever there was a on tbe Brooklyn grounds this spring. well, letter in fact than many pitchers with the usual QUESTIONS ANSWERED. say that the American boy would probably whip ONLY two natives of Cincinnati wear the Beds' uni­ complement of orbs. the Englishman. The rumor that I had fallen case of "jackass in a lion's skin," here it is. COMPLETED CANTON. LINCOLN H. MILLER, Milwaukee, Wis. (1) Not form, namely John Reilly and Will Hart. IN SPEAKING of Nilea* suit against THK SPORTING; out witb Sullivan is all moonshine." Neither the libellant or his suit next season. Bases on bulls were scored aa base hits '' is worth the The Acquisition of Catcher Sharp Rounds THE regular baso ball season will open in New Or­ LIFE, the Cincinnati Times-Star says: ''And Hez leans on Sunday, Feb. 12. with Cincinnati. latit season. Hit by pitcher counts as an error for the tpaee consumed above, and the matter would Up the Team. wants fifty thousand cases for a little tjaing like that. pitcbor and the batsman is exempted from. & time at Shoulder Hits. PENDERQRASS, of Troy, for two seasons pitcher ol When the caee in ended it is doubtful whether he will not be referred to at all here, but for the fact CANTON, 0., Feb. 8. Editor SPORTING LIFE: bat. (2) Fielding Add pnt-outs, assists and errors Jake Eilrain has announced that he will retire the Uticaa, has been negotiating with London. have the price of a three-cent ferry ticket to Camdei together, giving you total number of chances offered from the prize ring on hie return to America. that we wish to note the compliment Mr. Niles We have at last our nine complete. Jos. to divide with his legal adviser." THE Pittabnrg Club haa come to catcher Fred Car- and then divide the nrmber of chance* accepted by Jack Knifton, "ihe eighty-one tonner," wants to has paid THE SPOUTING LIFE. His suit is Sharp, our last year*8 catcher, is the last man roll^ terms and signed him at hia figure, $2,500. PRESIDENT MURPHY, of the Lynn Clnb, has pur­ this and you have the percentage. Batting Divide flght Sullivan, on the same terms offered Smith, or h* tributo to its immense and wide-spread circuli signed. He is to play left field and oatch. His "COMINO players" have the call just now. Oh, how chased a honse just outside the grounds, which he will the number of hita by the times at bat. (3) Smith, will flght him in the prize ring for £200 a side. contract was sent to him the other day and is soon how soon some of 'em will be "going!" fit up aa a boarding and lodging house, place a house­ Ward, Bastian, Glflspcock, Rowe, Irwin, Williamson, keeper in charge, and In an eight-round contest at Minneapolis, Feb. 16^ tion and its influence in base ball and sporting THE Cincinnati;* have made arrangements with require his players to make Kuchne, Sutton, Wheelock, Farrell, Wise, Dealy, expected back at any moment. With Sharp that their home the coming season. Manager Brack­ Tommy Burke of Colorado, was knocked ont by Du circles. A man may not care what is said about signed the nine is ready for the fray. We Gaffney to umpire their spring exnibiton gamea. My ers. Wolr, "The Belfast Spider," in the fourth round. ett will also have a room in the house. SCHOLL, Brooklyn Tbe Atlantic team of 1874 was: him in a paper of limited circulation and purely thought Sharp waa not to be had this year, aa ELMER SMITH has a prodigy in Pittaburg, who, he Charley Qrovan, a batcher from Cincinnati. wm« saya, ia a wonder young Kurtz. THE ex-Napoleon of baae ball, Henry V. Lucas, is Bond, pitcher; Farrow, catcher; Deblman, Clinton He is a pitcher. aaiti knocked out in three rounds by Billy 0'3rien. a White local scope, but in a paper like THE SPORTING the Charlestowns signed him to play for them, to be proapering excetdin^ly as a railway passen­ and Ferguson on the bases; Pearce, short stop; Booth, Plains, N.Y., blacksmith at High Bridge, N. Y., but he sheared his release CLARKSON thinks that with himself, Smith and ger agent iu Minneapolis, and to be rapidly getting Feb. LIFE even so small a matter as the alleged libel from thorn to sign with us. Andrews, Boston would have a championship team. Hodu?, W. West, ontfielders. In 1875 Fergu-on went 9. The fight waa for a purse of $175. This makea nine of our old la->t year's team signed for into smooth"financial water again. He is said to have to Hartford, and the Atlantic* then were: Roseman, this pooi Niles complains of hurts. Mr. Niles this seasou, and only two men will be n«w to the eyes MANAGER MALONE has signed pitcher Burke for tbe made arrangements with all the Northwestern base Billy Gilmartin and Denny Crowley, two New York pitcher; Barlow, catcher; Crane, Pattcrson arid Nich- light-weights, fought ISroniidain Weatchoater ceanty, has our thanks for the compliment conveyed of the Cantonians Pechiuey andFitzsimmoiiB. These Allentown Club. Burke hails from Frederick, Md. ball clubs for transportation next season. ola, bftneuoen; Kemler, short stop; Pabor, Clack, Boyd, two will bo paired aa a battery and a good one they PERRY WERDEN, the well-kiK>*n ball player, was A FITCHBUHO, Maaa., correspondent writes OB: "Ed. Cassiday aud Clinton, outfielders. N. Y., on Feb. 7. Crowley could not respond whea and the valuable incidental advertising afforded ought to' make, as both are old in tho harness. married in St. Louia, Feb. 7, to Miss Mamie Hardy. Cogs well, Boston's old flrj>t baseman, time was called for the seventeenth round and Uw is fast declining. A SunscaiBSR, Davenport, la. (1) Willard Mains, referee gave tho fight to Gilmartin. through his suit. Well, I see the Columbus correspondent has placed THIS is the worst winter California ball players He fell and hurt hia shoulder some years ago, and it of Windham, Me. (2) He was not given a record in our team in second place for the pennant. Well, we have experienced for yean. Nearly every Sunday it appears his shoulder was not set right after being The fight between Keddy Gallagher and Sam BlttU the official averages because be did not pitch in came off at Cleveland, Feb. 7. There was no knock­ A Cheerful Prospect. will not brag of wbat we intend to do, but we will try has rained. thrown out of place. It now soema to be withering enough games. (3) He is very speedy, but very wild. atid not disappoint "Jotow" if we can help it. away and is fast pulling him to his loug home/* out, but GulIaurke, the promising young short stop of II R., Piifebnrff, Pa. We were mistaken. The lust season's Mt. Carinel team. AT WEDNESDAY'S meeting of the new K«DMH City Giay and John Deatty, two Lowell welter-weigh^ third base. Negotiations are now pending with nn- critics) have been making up bull teams (on paper) Club, a letter from the secretary of the Washington Eagle Club it; not located over Ziuuteroittu's salcou, They wore matched to fight to a finish fur 6300 a std«, othtr catcher of national reputation, who will doubt­ and each one claiming his combination; to "boat Ihe TOM BURNS ia vtry anxious to play with the Boston Club was read, containing an offer to trade Donnelly but at 2221 Ridge aveuua, Philadelphia. with two-ounce gloves. The fight lasted just one less be signed. The management owe much to Frank world." My knowledge of base ball matters ia 8ome- team, while Manager Barnie is determined that he for Jim Diivis. Communications were alao rettd from INDIANAPOLIS, Philadelphia. Tho official average! minute end twelve seconds, when Gmy got in a half J>nS' ane, of the Decalura, for getting the team what limited, but I ahculd like U. uun.e a tenin of ttn shall play iu Baltimore or nowhere. Charlie Briody, Dtaly of Washington, and W. Lynch, of the National Le:i^n^ were pull.shed iu Vol. 10, No. surging Ifft-lmud upper cut which lilted Beatty off together, and we Uiink he bos secured the pennutit men who, in a series of fifteen gamea, could win a ma­ IN TALKING with Knowles, he said tbat he had not of Carliuviilo, 111. The latter says li« has * pile- 3, of THE tipoimva Lira. his feut and tent hun tu the flvor insensible. Only Ovt winner. CULvcsi'ox. jority over any other aggre^aUon of ten men that MBJ objection to goiug to Kausa* City, pro­ noiueiiftl buttery al ' ' " T. >' it111, iiuiuUlt, iNtf. Wo h*v« not blova wnre sUuck. 6 S:POKTHSTO Feb. 16.

George W. Pangborn secretary and delegate to the modal, I will go to Boston next season and endeavor to was between Richmond nnd Cambridge UniTewfty. congress of tho Federation. Otber business was to climb Corey Hill on a bicycle 12 limes in succession which, after a firtt-rate M'me, results! in favor of PIGEONS. limit the meinbornhip with present number and to WHEELING. without a dismount. If I succeed in doing this, either Richmond, by a goal, two tries and eight touches- on a first or second attempt, then the mouey is to be THE TURF. provide for flying members those who should have down to two tries. The gtime wag witnessed by over the privileges of the training and race baskets, but devoteJ to tbo purposes mentioned. If I fail to ac­ 3,000 people. have no voice in tho club management. The club re­ PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. complish (he feat after two trials the money is to be NATIONAL TROTTING CONGRESS. The Newark, N. J., Shooting Society, last week, FEDERATION_MATTERS. cognizes proven records only. returned to the party putting it up, aud 1 will pay all elected Ihe following »fficerp: President, Christian The American Columbian Society held Its second an­ An Important Meeting Plans to Re dis­ my own expenses." The Biennial Session of the Horsemen of Feig(!n half an inch. to be hold on Newark l«iy, July 1-5. Tho recretary or irk Ciiy, December 14 Iu21, PresiiK-ot Pumeroy says: Tbe entry In the jacobin class, at Rochester, was being laid. ered a short speech on leaving the chair and the the meet is C. V. Schuyler, Arlingtun, N. J. rThe luur days ot'etoim shortened tbe receipts mor« The Scotch athlete, "Scotty" Ferguson, well known forty-five birds, by five owners. Of the thirteen The Calumet Cycling Club, of Brooklyn, held its new officers were installed. A vote of thanks O'Connor, the Guiatimu oarsman, is practicing daily no half, tho exhibition itself was coimted as one of first prizes, eicht were awarded to A. B. Hoskins. Glen in the Rugby foot ball world, and a short-distance The b«6t ever held. Tbe cooping, the care, the display final reception Feb. 1. It will he consolidated with runner, bug and hich jumper and wrestler, is now on was then tendered the retiring members of the for h:s race with Poterson on the Alaojeda course, Riddle, Pa. The award-j to this entry were: Yellow the Kings County Club. California. His stroke ie very much admired by the of birds was unusually good. Tbe sales were more cock, 1st, 2d; hen, 2d, 3d. Red cock, 3d; hen, 1st, 2d. his way to New York. lie intends to settle in the board of review, and finally the selection of criticd. and at better prices than ever before obtained. The fllyrtie Peek is to ride Sfralnst Morgan and Wood- State?, and it Is his intention to become a member of Buffalo as the city in which to hold the nest Black cock, 1st; hen, 3d. Blue cock and hen each, 1st, side in London, in a six-day race, eight hours each Arraugements have been made fora boat race, In «x)iibitiuu tvas a tuccess for exhibitors and tbe results 2d. Splashed cock and hen each, 1st. Dun hen, 1st. tho Manhattan Club ou his arrival. convention two yeara hence was made. are already (January 28,) apparent in the increased day, she to use 20 horses. which Teetner, Hnnim aud McKay will row, on the St. Charlas Moth,of Milwaukee, and Bert Sch?l!er, of John RiviT, at Palatka, Fla., Feb. 15 aud 16, for demand for fine fowls for breeding ULd tbe table." Names Claimed. F. F. Ives, of Meiiden, has retired from the race Chicago, wrestled catch-as-catch-can,two bouts, at the The statement gives the expenses of tbe show: track, and is studying dentirtry. Now that he has Opera Ilouse, at Beloit, Wis., Feb. 7. The first fall Track Talk. purse of SI ,000. R'lit ol tho Garden...... 12,000 00 By H. A. McCoy, Baltimore, Md., Lew McComai. for given up racing he desires to be an itmateur. John Osmond his secured tbe lease of Point Breeze The Buffalo Yacht Club has decided upon the fol­ d. c. X 334. was won in one hour by Moth, aud the second bout, Gas bills...... 88 75 Tbe new officers of the Capital City Wheelmen, of after astrggle of forty-five minutes, was given upby Park under the new management. lowing dates for regattas: Club regatta, June 9; an­ Klettrit litbts...... 123 00 By W. S. Palmer, Germantown. Pa , Donegal for ash nual regatta, July 4; annual cruise, Aug. 11 to Aug. hen, res. 7248. Sacramento, Cal., are: President, John Breuuer, Scheller, who had not (he strength to longer hold out. The National Jockey Club'ti auuua! spring races will Coul and janitor's bills...... 215 36 Jr.; secretary-treasurer, H. Y. Toll; captain, C. W. Eight irnateur athletes, representing the M. A. A. commence April 26, and will continue* eight days. 20; club regatta, Sept. 15. Judge*...... 227 6 Mier. C. and the Pastime Athletic Club, both of St. Louis, John Madden, of Bethlehem, Pa., is on his way lioemcr will commence to train in April on the ~ 406 25 The Maryland Division, L. A, W., has sent an had an eight mile run, Feb. 5. Ed, Gainos got in homo from .England with his lateat purchase, the Ctiarlos river, at Boeton, and by June be ready for 675 00 official invitation to tbe League to hold its annual first by ten yards; Arthur Huun, second; Harry Uen- Doted tijt-yeai-old tte.liion Warlock. challenges. He considers Teemer the greatest sculler 260 00 THE TRIGGER. -m§iUJ££alUniec^-TjUe^to^^ 15_ JJUW-1S- Sv' lA3-~tldi-d^JJt 3,J8hpde^_ fourth; J. F. Skenett, _ The cheatnm i Tithering- made in club runs, 1,303 miles; average for club runs, are to be debarred from the tracks of the big jockey ton, the stroke ef last y tar, refuses to row. 165 shavea at 810...... 51,650 sbooterB. The first t-vent, the Poule d'E^ai, was won 45 milefl. and slippery run over the Prospect course, Fob. 4. clubs next season for having engaged in racing at the Intry fees and privileges...... 1,200 by Si«. L. Garoli, with a pc^re of 14 kille-l. Comli- The distance of about three and one-l.alf miles was half-mile tracks at Clifton and Gutteuberar. Five yachts entered the prize race of the North Admissions...... 2,133 54,883 00 ti'-ns: Two birds *-ach at 24, 26 and 27 metre?; ties, There rill be a series of bicycle races at the Elite Shrewsbury Ice Yacht Club, Feb. 10. The prizes con­ Rink, Philadelphia, next Thursday ni^ht, under the covered by the winner, E. L. Crabt>, in 3'Jrn.; C. F. At tho annual meeting of the Charter Oak Park miea and out at 28 metres, Nine out of fiftj-elght Brandt, 2d; J. H. Mellor, 3;1, and F. G. Webb, 4th. sisted of silverware. Tho winners were the Georgie, (Statement «ays...... 54,573) shooters tied at six bininj five missed their seventh, auspices of the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club and Century Driving Association, Feb. 7, the old board of directors, the Now Then and tbe Get Then-. The race wal Wheelmen. This was the seventeenth run in tho Schwalbach headed by Mayor Morgan G. Utilkley, was re-elected. aod the final result uaa that Sig. Garoli took first MedaUeries. E. L. Crabh leads, with 148 points; J. sailed over a five-mile cource in 16 minutes. Balance required to pay all...... $590 02 prize with M birds, Mr. C'obb second prize with 13, Tbe Centurv Wheelmen will hare an Indoor meet­ Executive officers will be chosen at a later day. ing at their club house on the first Tuesdny in March. H. Mellor. 87, 2d, and U. C. Ooremus, 37, 3d. The Tho Malta Boat Club, of Philadelphia, was enter­ Will 81,000 pay the cash premiums and for the Mr. Sutclifte third prizo with 12 and Sig. Corfese tho latter also leads for the novice prize in the series. The betting on ihe English Derby remains practically tained with a supper in New York City on Feb. 4 by Dedal*? It will uot be for ihe original medals. Theso fourth » ith 8 Tho second event was the Prix d'Over Tbey wilt give fencing, wrestling, tug of war aud other unchanged. The latest Loudon figures on the favori­ the Dauntless Rowing Club. Addresses were made by exhibitions. *'The Fencers' Club of Philadelphia,1 ' a new athletic tes art-: Frairs Balaam. 3 to 1 against, with no takers; were prepared aud submitted according to agreement, ture, at five birde, 25 metres, two misses out. It bad association, has been organized in thia city. Among Justice Duffv, James II. BedSeld, II. K. Connell, Cap- but Treasurer Clark had no mon*y, President 1'omeroy 81 entries and 68 shooters. The final result was the The Clarksville Cycler-, of Clarksville, Tenn., have Orbit, 7 to 1 against', and Ayrshire, & to 1 against. lain Eilwani Jlilligan and Richard Teunant. elected new offlrers, as follow*: Captain, J. R. Wilson, Its members are the following: Captain William Van b« judged to be a sure even time man, from old age. He had a record of 2:20, and wad the The Larchmont Taclit Club, Feb. 8, sleeted the fol­ honors together, thus combining the White Shoulder, American killing eight out of ton, wbilo bia opponent the board of officers for Thursday, March 22, at 1:30 p. sire of more than tire bond red horses in this and ad­ Cbiiia bill and Git-i stocks. Also Erminie and Kocket, started from the same mark. Skinner had a yard tho lowing officers: Commodore, Girard C. W. Lowrey{ brought clown only six cut of his fir^t t*n. Of the M., at the Wanderers' Club House in Toronto. best of McComb in the handicap. Over 150 men joining counties, lie sold for $300 v, hen a 2-year-old, Baby Mine and Bruser; Lady Greenboro's brotber next ten Brewer killed nine and Parsons four; of tho vice commodore, Hc-nry W. Eaton; rear commodore, The Pennsylvania Bicycle Club will receive their started. In the forty-second heat Joe Price ran from and hid owners a few years ago refused $20,000 for Chailes A. Stevenson; secretary, WillUm G. Scott; and a frill brea&t Garlield; Black Stocking and Lady third ten Brewer killed six anJ Paracus five; of the him. Baldwin; Providence and mate; Blue Stocking and fourth ten Brewer brought down eight, while hid an­ friends on Wednesday evening, Feb. 22, Washington's the 17-yard mark In 13s. treasurer, Eugeuo L. Buhhe; measurer, Erank E. Bfcy Kocket; Hambletouian and Dolly, and eleven tagonist hillfd only four. Thus Captain Brewer won birthday, from 8 until 12 o'clock, at their club house, A Detroit despatch ft^f.—Frank Davls, a sprinter, Up to date the following declarations havo been Towle. more pair* combining tho stock of the above named easily, having thirty-one birds to his score, against 3010 and 3942 Girard avenue, West Philadelphia. was arrested in Detroit on Saturday evening on a made for the Kentucky Derby: Cremore, Serenade, The Felix McKni/?ht Boat Clnb, of Pittsburg, hal and Alien's 5-10 and 4-8. In fact I am better pre­ nineteen for his orponeut. An effort is being made to have Goorgo Hendoo re­ capias ewo'n out by Schleainger Bros., who accused Leo's Bob, Goodioe, Jake Sanders, Yoii^hiogheny, awarded the contract for a handsome bout hoiis*-. The pared than ever to get pleasure from my birds flying. instated In the amateur rank?. It does not take much him of conspiring to defrand them iu a hippodrome Nanou, Head Brear, Saratoga, Word Giluiore, Charley house will have two pore ho. It is to coet £800, and Arrangements Lave been completed for the holding sprinting match, which came off- in Windsor on Fob. Stanton and Bialto at $10 each; Centipede, Barrister, tut I Buppose it will be the same old story. Where is of the big pigeon sweepstakes tournament at Long of an effort to get out of the amateur ranks, but it will be located m tha Mononfialie'a in Frankstown. go and so? Down South. Gone hue not forgotten. takes eorno high and lofty tumbling to get back again. 3. Davis ran a foot race with M. II. Harrison, of Defaulter, Eva Rogers aud Chinese Gordon tit 320 The clnb is also buying several uew shells. A spring Branch, beginning Tuesday, Feb. 14, and continuing Windsor, and losr. Tho former eayi Schlesinger Bros. each. Geo. S. Free. on the 15th, 16th and 17th. Tho various events will The Winona Cyclists' Club is a new affair just or­ regatta will be held by the arganization. I have sold all my carriers that were winners at ganized at Winona, Minn. The officers are: Presi­ bet between 8500 and $700 on him, and now claim that Mr. WesleyP. Balch, of Boston, has sold to Messrs. The Bay View Yacht Club, of Boiton, has choaen be under the auspices of tho West End Gun Club, of he threw tho race. Klttleman, the well-known New York and Baltimore and have sent for a lot to re­ Long Brunch, and supcrinten led by a committee of dent, W. H. Elmer; captain, J. B. Maifield; lieutenant, Boiton and Neeley, of New Haven, Ct., tbe fast pair of new officers as follows: Commodore, J. H. Fleming; place them. The uew birds will be here about the J. A. Merigold, Jr., secretary-treasurer, W. D. Chan­ apimter, was also arrested on suspicion, but after an bay mart-8 Faiih aud Hope. Thess animals were for­ vice commodore, Jos. Mace; fleet captain, John John- five gentlemen from outside pigeon shooting associa­ investigate n he was released. end of tbe mouth. I won tax. firsts and four seconds at tions. The etrtkes will aggregate S2,500. The princi­ dler. merly owned by Mr. William Edward?, of Oevtland,- eon; secretary, Joseph Johnson; financial secretary, Rochester with ten birds. D. E. Newell, New York pal event of tho tournament will be a sweopetake at Chief Consul F. A. El well, of the League "f The Nautilus Boat Club, of the City of Chnrches, will 0-, who raised ihem aa colte and owned them for four Edward llennessey; treasurer, Zachariah Parsons; " City. 50 birds a man for a ruaranteod purso of §1,500, first American Wheelmen of Maine, U arranging a bicycle hold athletic games at the Palace Rink, Clermont ave­ years. Faith has shown a mile ia 2:23, and Hope has measurer, Geo. Cornell; ropatta committee, John B. Have just put the birds into my new coop In tho man to be awarded $1,COO, necond mun (300 and third tour through England and Ireland in 1880. He states nue, on the evening of Feb. 21, at wjiich the following dono better than 2:28>^ in a trial mile. Both were Smith, Frederick Pfund, Win. Chandler. loiithend of mybarn. It is 23.xHft. and 8ft. high, man $200. The tournament will take place on the that probably* party of 30 wheelmeu will leave New events will bo decided: Tug of war, at 650 pounds airod by Lexingtou Chief. Information has been received in Boston by the facos the South, and is specially adapted for raising field adjoining the Pennsylvania Club house. Tho York in June, 18S9, for England. round belt, for tho championship of America; thr^e- The Mutual Driving Association, of Newark, N. J,, and J. D. officers of tho Martha's Vineyard Club that the New early youngster*. I have twenty pairs mated and shooting will begin at 10 o'clock in the morning of The Maverick Wheel Club, of Boston, has elected mile rac-.- between S. T. Freeth, N. A. C., hold its annual meeting recently aaJ elected the Yor* Yacht Squadron has accipted tho several prize* ready for breeding. A club will be started here soon, each day. No admission fee to tbe grounds will be new officers as follow?: President, A. J. Bogi'rs; vice Lloyd, P. H.; 50yds. dash, 220yds. run, GOOyd*. run, following officers: E. E. Bergen, president; William offered by the club, to be sailed for off Oak Bluffs dur­ 1 think, as tbere are several interested m Hying, and charged. mile run, mile walk, two-mile bicycle race, running Nnething, Srst vico president; Charles Leroy, second ing next summer's cruise. It is also expected that president, W. E. Guin; captain, W. G. Bell; first lieu­ high jump, all handicap. Gold medal to first and sil­ with good birds birds that have got the come in them. Philadel­ tenant, J. E. Bigelow; second lieutenant, A. M. Skin­ vice president; Alex. T. Benedict was re-elected' sec­ the squadron will make a rendezvous off Vineyard G. L. Johnson, WaUham, Mass. The North End Gun Club, of Frankford, ver medal to second in each event. There will aUo be retary, and C. F. Canfieid treasurer. The member­ phia, will give a grand tournament during May, and ner; treasurer, F. W. Moody; secretary, C. B. Fergu- exhibition sparring and club swinging. Entrance fee, Haven harbor, and arrangements bave beeu perfected I had excellent luck last season in obtaining good it iu intended to make it the most important and big- ship of tbo association number* 2"2.) member;. A com­ to furnish the yachts with water and coal. Mrds (breeders), but had no birds of my own to fly, all Bon. 60 cents each event; tug of war, 82 per team. The tug mittee was appointed to select a new track. *gest event of its kind ever held in Philadelphia. A With the dif-bandment of all the different p?ld team*, The Dark Blues of Oxford University. England, By youngsters hatching late. This year I hope to bo la by permission of the N. A. A. A. A. Au elegant Mr. J. 1. Case has announced that his phenomenal large number of prizes have been promised. All the re-organization of the League on tbe baa is of stand of colors will be presented to the club winning have already gone into training for Ihe inter-'varsity In the racing. We have no club in thifl vicinity, but with Mr. A. gelding. Jay-Eye-See, who held tho best record at ball have soon. A. W. White, Andovtr, Mass. clubs are invited to communicate at onco division government, theestabliahment by the national the greatest number of events. boat race at Pntnev. The crew is made up aa fol­ L. Lumh, secretary North End Gun Club, 47G4 Frank- body of class racing and time limits, will not the trotting for 2-i hours 10 1884, will be trained to try and lows- W F. C. Holland, liMtenose, bow; L. Frere, You will have seen my name as member of a club ford avenue. There will be every variety of shooting, The tenth annual meeting of the executive commit­ lower uot only his own record of 2.10, but that of ulilch will fly under the rules of the Homing Pigeon racing aeaaon of 1888 assume a more promising oat- tee of tho National Cross-Country Association met at Braetnoee; M. E. Bradford, Christ Church; E. G. both for teams of 10, 5 and 2, as well as individual and look? Maud S., 2:08^. Mr. Case's amort ion has mot Mr. Burr, St. John.s; H. Cross, Hertford; U. E. Parker, fanciers. It was entirely under a misapprehension sweepstake shooting. New York, Feb. 6, to consider tha coming team cross­ Robert Banner's attention and Le is ty hare Maud S. Brneenose; G. Nickalls, Magdalen; H. E. L. Pux- of ita intent that I permitted my name to be enrolled Tbere la a proposition before the N. C. U. board to country championship, in which probably 100 of tho prepared to equal, and possibly surpass, any record upon that club's list, and if such is continued in I A pigeon shooting content for (100 a side took place disqualify any amateur competing In au open race fleetest nmnern in the world among them Couneff ley, Corpus, stroke; G. E. Brjant, Wadham, cox­ February 7th, on the Cartcrct Gun Club (.'rounds, fier- that the Wceteru gelding m<*y make. To that end hall withdraw from it, and I am quite sure Mr. Eover upon the public highway over any distance under 100 nd Carter will start. The race will take place on John Murphy is to be;*in training the qu-jeu of the swain. Will also. C. W. Nasen, Brooklyn, N. Y. geu Point, N. J., between Messrs. E. Batcman and T. rnilea. The stated object of this proposition ia to put a April 28, and will bo contested by teams of twelve men, It is on the Clarence river that Hanlan and Chris­ W. Pearsall, two New Terk brokers. Bateman won turf about tho firat of March, at tbe aamn time that My last importation was a pair of white pouters stop to the growing ovil of large fields, which invari­ the first six men in each club to count. Just where BUhers begins work with Jay-Cye-Sat*. tian Neloon are to row their match, in which Ihe ex» by 17 to 15. At the conclusion of tho above contest a ably start iu short road races. from tbe loft ot George Ure, Dundee, Scotland, and the struggle will take place is nncortaiu. Different Iriaac Murphy, the colored jockey, who is said to be champion concedes Nelson 3J^ lengths' start over * fine birds. A. B. Lamberton, Rochester, N. Y. sweepstakes match was amm-red between Messrs. Tom Eck contemplates taking Crocker in hand. He couises ou Staten Island and at Joromo and Fleet wood two-mile course. Tho race i» to be for 81.000 a side Floyd-Jonee uml Oakley for $50 ft side, under the same tho one honest jockey of lt;s race-, wil! be the premier says Crocker is wonderfully fast, and could, with parks were discussed, and tho matter was left to a jockey lor ''Lucky" Baldwin agaiu Ihia year. He is and takes place on Feb. 25. Nelson B9«8te after an illness of four days, death resulting from an has five 2-year-jlds which he will race this year if At Liverpool each judge was attended by a steward At the tenth annual meeting of the Boston Bicycle work. they prove to be good lor anything. He will piobably of medium build and very strong. He has latterly who affixed tho priicu cards as the awards were made. attack of pneumonia. M* Judd was one of the direc­ Club, tho following officers were elected: President, Tho six-days' walking match started last Sunday developed into a good oarsman. tors of tbe National Rifle Association, and presented know about their valuo before ho reports for duty at The public was admitted and ttie catalogues put upon E. C. Uod^es; vico jresident, J. B. Cbadwick; secre­ nlpht, at Madison Square Garden, New York. Tho the Santa Anita stables ou the 1st of April next. Mur­ G W Keyw, '80, has been appointed manager of the ale simultaneously with tbe beginning of the judging, the Judd prize, for which meuiliern of that organiza­ tary, E. W. Ilodgkins; treasurer. C. W. Fourdriuier; contObtantR mot Friday night, and selected Messrs. Harvard Boat Club, and Ilallowell, '88; Holden, '88: tion compete aumially at the meeting at Creed moor. phy will n^t ride this year at lesa thau 115 pounds, but during tbe early hours of tbe day the avenues were captain. Dr. W. G. Kendall; first lieutenant, G. E. Barney Woods, of Williamsburg, and Charles Colvin, and he goU a salary of $15,000 a sot-ion lor making that Wood '88; Storrow, '8'J; McPherson, '89; Moore, '89; kept clear for tbe judges and reporters. Having secured a more convenient location, just op­ Smalley; second lieutenant, E. F. Myera. of the dipper, to look after their interests. On the weight Crehoie, "JO, and Slocum, '%, aro collecting subscrip­ The Crystal Palace and District Homing Society posite tho New Jorapy Central llailroad station, at Tho committee appointed at the recent meeting of aecond day tho Englishman Cartwnght dropped out, tions from tho three upper classes for Ihe Harvaid Elizabethport, N. J., tho board of governors of the Car- owing to a hemorrhage of tho lungs, and eight others Old Point Breeze Park, the trotting course famous junioa its stations for old birds Pulborougb, Chicbes- the Philadelphia bicycle clubs to draft a new consti­ for nearly half a century, has cha'igod Imudd. It was 'Varsity crew. Some of the debt of tho boat club, t*r, So. Hayling, Ventnor (race), Cherbourg (race), tertt Gun Club bavo decided to abandon their present tution, has submitted Its report to the various clubs were barred out. Albert assume 1 tho lead almost wbicn amounted to S2.187.28 last November, baa been quarters at Avenue A, Bergen Point. The club will ironi the start, and did some wonuarfal work, break­ purchased for S47,5U) by five guotlemeu aa a commit­ Granville (race). For young birds, same as old, except for consideration. Each club will take separate ac­ tee, who will reopen it under the naro» of tho Phila­ paio off, and Captaiu Pfener Las issued a call to the stu­ the races end with Cherbourg, The prizes in each race lease the new ground^ for five years, with the privi­ tion upon the report at their next meetings. The ing the record right along. On Saturday mot niug ho dents urging upon them the necessity of paying up lege of renewing for a similar period. still led, with every indication of finishing Saturday delphia Driving Park Association They will make it re £1.10 aud £1. South End Wheelmen have decided to join. a stock company, having SOU sharers at £800 each, and their subscriptions at once, as tho graduate governing All of Captain Heaton's barbs were sold at Steveus, The Remington rifle works, situated at Little Falls, night ahead of the record. Albert, Herty, Guerero, committee i» in need of ready money to carry oul itt The greatest event at the present time in the wheel­ Pauchot. Hart, Golden, Moore, StroUol, Dillon, Nore- issue only one bharet? each applicant. The owners Iiondon, on the 7th inst. N. Y., were sold at auction Feb. 1, as ordered by Judge ing world in the Stanley show, which is now being are all drivers and lovers of good hor&9 flfsh, but are ideas. A question in Knglisb show circles \i the place of Williams, of Waterlown, Jan. 21, by the receivers, Brill mac, Sullivan, Taylor, Tint, Tilly and Stout were the held at the Royal Aquarium, London, Eng. Cycling oijly men still in the race. As we go to prc-ss somo in no sense professional horseman. The uew associa­ It if wired from Australia that F.dwnrd Hanlan, In laced tan tails in Ihe exhibition. At Bingley Hall, and Russell. The bidding was etirtod at $50,000 and has, indeed, made great strides in the advaucemeot of tion was organized Feb. 6 with Joseph A. Wonderotu, addition lo his match with iiis old antagonist, B. A, Bristol and Gloucester they were in the A. 0. V. class, tho property was finallv sold to Messrs. Hartley & hours before the finish, we are unable to giro the final sport when it can, as in this instance, charter a place result. The score at 3 o'clock was as follows: Alberts, president; William F. Doakyne, vico president; Samuel Trickett, has signed articles for a match with Christian with a judge otber than that provided for the fantails. Graham, of New York, for 8152,000. like the Aqnarinm for a two weeks' show. HutiD, eecictary, nnd H. C. Webster, treasurer. Noilson, by Ihe terms of which the ex-champion un­ At Cheltenham they were disqualified whon in tbe A. elected 691; Herty. 562; Gnerrero, 451, and Hart, 524, The The Herron Hill Gun Club, of Pittsbnrg.has The meetings of the executive committee, lhe board others had dropped out. Among the subscriber to the clock are Murrell Dob­ dertakes to concede his advorscry a st.irt of three O. Y. class OB wrongly entered. At Birmingham they the following officers: M. V. Smith, president; S. S. bins, John Hunter, Charles Young, William Kt'lley, of officers and the general meeting of the L. A. W. The event of tho season so far as pedestrfauiam is lengths and a half at the beginning of a two mile were iu tbo fantail class, but competing within them- Shatter, first vice president; board of directors, Cbmles will prove the most important of aoy held since the or­ John Trainer, James Milnamow, Edward T. Dobbin*, straightaway race. The distance is short for such ft elves. Richardson, C. A, Painter, G. W. Dilworth, M. E. concerned in Great Britain, took place January 21, Christian Gallagher, Boburt Hoodjisun, Louis Jardeu handicap, although Neilson is raled as hardly more ganization of the League, and wo believe these meet­ on Victoria Park, Govan, near Glasgow, Scotland. A consignment of 300 weasels and stoats for New Ilarriffou; secretary and treasurer, Elmer E. Shaner. ings will result in tbe general satisfaction of the mem­ and others, all rich uien. Thy xruumU bought cover Iban a third-class sculler. Hanlan must bo rowing Zealand, as rabbit killers, ore to be fed en voyage with second meet of the Thia match was decided over a milo course for a sixty-tour acres ia the lower pait of the city, and it is very fast or he would not outer upon a task like this. n. Cahill won the badge at the bers of that body and its permanent welfare. sweepstakes of £25 each and a champion cup. The Bve pigeons. Unknown Gun Club, at Doxtor Park, Long IbUud, Tbe Berkshire County Whtelmea, of Pittsfield, the intention of tho new owuers to apend many thou­ Yet those who remember how handily he defeated Tbo English pigeon fancy has met with another Feb. 9, by killing seven straight birds. C. Plate, in three men were W. Cum tilings, champion milor of sands of dollars iu improving tht-ra. that famous nquatic snriuater Fred Phiisted at the be­ l«vpre loss in tho drowning of some forty-eight of Mr. Mass., have elected these officers for the coming six Scotland, F. Cannon and Arthur Noiris, of London. shooting off last month's ties, won the badge offered at months: President, E. H. Kennedy; vice president, ginning of his career feel coub'deut tbut Bullion will Eobert Fulton's best birds. The lot were entered for that time by killing t»ix out of seven birds. The trio, ia the midst of a torrent of rain, came to prove equal t^ the occasion. Kilmariicck aoJ were turned for tbo night into an J. N. Kohl/ins; secretary, S. Engl-md; treasurer, B. A. their marks shortly after four o'clock, and were sent aviary, where all but threo eettlod upon the floor. The Dresden (0.) Gun Club, at its annual election, Dewey; captain, W. H. Sheridan; first lieutenant, Can off smartly by Hunter. Norris received forty yards FOOT BALL. Tbe comn'.itteo having tho affair in charge made Tho aviary was supplied with water from a faucet. elected for the yoar: Captain Geo. Kagan, president; England; second lieutenant, K. M. Platt; bugler, F. start, Cummiugs and Canuon starting from scratch. new survey for the Nations! Rowing Course on the The pipes being frozen it was not noticed that the John Hornung, vico president; Sain W. Goaser, sec­ Divermore, Cannon got tho beat of Cumminga, whcu the latter Schuylkill Kiver during tho rtcent cold weather for water was turned on, and a thaw coming suddenly, retary and treasurer; John A. Bell, quarter master. On and after March 2,1888, the Bicycling World will ad'Mited his usual tactics of playing u waiting gnme, The Toronto Rugby Foot Ball Club has elected the purpose of locating new starting and finishing William Sands defeated William liedQeld in a pigeon bo the official organ of the League of American these officers: Hon. president, J. K. Korr, Q. C.; vice lines 200 feet lower down tho river. Tho 200 feet morning found tbo floor covered a foot de«i> with water, and lay a yard behind Cannou for threo-fourtli3 of presidents, H.irry Torranco aud A. H. S YniiKongh- aud only tbe three birds tbat bail roosted on a basket shooting match at Mount Ephrafm, N. J., Feb. 9, hav­ Wheelmen, displacing tho paper known as the L. A. the journey. Noriis had made tbe pace hot, and gained at the starting point will be found a great im­ ing killed eight birds to Kedlk'M's BO en out of ten, W. Bulletin. The proprietors of the World have been net; secreiarj-Uoasnrer, Drummond McKay; commit­ provement, since it will give tho steamboats accompa­ alive. In ths lot was seven pouters (iho Palace red kept his handicap so far, but iu thb last lap Cum- tee, W. J. Fleury, Rodon Kingsoiill, U. S. Smith, K. D. and blue); tbree of his bust black baibs, threo dun car­ for a puroe of $20. in negotiation with the executive committee of the ui.ugs came with a rush, aud, amidst the most tre­ nying races room to turn around without going riers, two almonds, fifteen jacobins, the four tuibits TheGodcrich Gun Club, of London. Ont., has elected League for somo time past, aud have finally mado mendous cheering, sailed up tho straight, looking Cartwright a-jd B. G. Muntz. through the bridge. It also almost does away with btoly pnrchnsed, the Simond's red pouter on approval the following officers: Prosidtnt, E. B. Watson; vice an offer to run tho paper and pay the League for tbe back, the easiest of winners by a dozen yards. Time, A telegram from Melbourne says the Victorian Foot that curve m the course at the start that has always It £30. The loat birds were valued at about £100. president, Jaa. Niebel; secretary-treasurer, B. F. privilege, and, scld offer has been accepted. 4m. 28^8. ______f ^ll AsBociaiion still refuses to patronize Iho team of been a great source of vexation to oarsmen. Tbe finish Wilkioflon, Mr. John A. Wells, of Philadelphia, proposes to up- KDtcli»!i foot ball players to be taktn over in April by line will, of course, bo 200 feet nearer tho Columbia Club Notes, A pigeon shootiug match for the am a tear champion­ bold the honor of his city iu a hill-climbing way. He The New York Bowling Clnb has elected those offi­ Lilly white, though the public aro favorable to tho bridge, but there will still be 150 feet between the Th» Volrnleer Club, Brooklyn, at Its regular meet- ship of Burlington county, N. J., took place at Edge- ays: "If tbo American 'Whetlmau or any one else cers: J. L. Mayer, president; M. Delanoy, vico prcti- scat mo. finish lino and the nearest pisr, while tho piers at the fag, the 6tb Ui£t., elected Chet. B. Doauo treasurer and water Park, Feb. 7, and WM won by Mark fleiiler. nUl put uf f5Q to am* travelling exyeufios aud a deut; U. A* Holte, teciettuy; U. iieU^r, The Uut grut Eugby foot tall match in Knglaud eastern «nd of the bridge nil! be SOU feet away. Feb. 15. THE LIFE.

the lipt of the other actors and marking tha expres­ plexkm to alabaster, and her blood Is blue beyond Barria, ou# at cushion caroms and the other at the THE CONNECTICUT CHAMPIONSHIP. sion of their face* that Uo waa able to pick up hi* cue anything c^mceivabl« by those who are igmrant of the iMlk-line, for a smaller «t«ke -*ay 8250 a aide on each color of entirely ar»t.«ratic Mood. Her aneestry can BILLIARDS. giime. Indeed, it is juut possible that these youngsters T he Final Game*-~Ha\vkes Wins the THE STAGE. I see that one ol the magazines is writing at eom« he traced hack to WHHiim the Conqueror. Her coun­ may c »mn together yet iu one or two games before the Champions hip. r!o*e of tho season. Pollard's mistake was in making length ou actors who have sustained their n.»le<* on the try s«at, Oxfonbhire, England, ia a n-sort for the The twelfth game in the tournament for tha noblest Britons. Her stablo is full of the finest hor^-s, EXPOUNDING THE I*AW. the game for so much rnonoy. We do not, us a rule, stfti^e despite the fact that they were entering with championahip of Connecticut was played at Matt sou i e painful or deforming affliction* Char!«g M»th- and she mounts some of them auperbly for the fox favor luatchts for large sunwof money; 8250 a side ew», the elder, waj crippled for tjfe by an accident chase, while others are Rent to the race courses. She Some Plain Facts Which Experts and Pro­ should be plenty for such youngsters. Pullard, how­ Hewins' room, Hartford, Feb. 2, the cuutest! tho sp-.'Ciators seemed to with his wife, Vestris, the daucer. Ouut is no Whew! If all this ia true, won't she elevate the emblem recently won by Edw&rcl McLaughlin which evaiit we fail to see how Burris can decline playing bim. »ppred*t« it. Uiwko: WOD by a lar>;o maj irity, but stranger to (he stage, and one well-known comedian, stage, just! read as follows: the exhibition was not devoid of iuterest simply tie- now ia tliis city, at times may be noticed to writhe in (1) "All cont.sta for the emblem shall, in addi­ CMUSO the score was nit close. There were many fin* ajrony while performing, although the outward sem­ Jfartetque actress (driving to church): "Wake up that tion to the emblem, involve a money stake amounting NEW YORK NEWS, plays made by both m^a, which were duly ai>p!audt)d. blance of pain is soon hidilen behind the professional horse, cubby. I want to be in time for the wodduig; to 8100 a side. This amount ia necessary in order that grin, literally griuuing and bearing the. gout. Hnuch- but if you drive at this rate, I shall be too late for the !:"!der of the emblem may »<>t lx> challenged by The Pool Tournament—Two New Flayers Hawkos 1, 7, 1, 5, 11, 4, 6, 3, 4, 2, 4, 0, 10, 0, 0, backs are. not unknown on the fctage; Iticlurd III- anc the divorce." unskillful player?, wuu8§ only object ID challenging I>eve)ope(|— The Garden City Trouble- 1, 4. 2, 3, 4, 0, 12, 1, 4, 0, U, 3. 2, 21, 0, 7. 1, 1, 9, the }{undib{tek have butli been phijetl by gontiiue be to gain notoriety. 3, 0, 0, 9, 6, 1, 0, 2, 11, 4, 3, 1, 4, Cecil would lilts of 'News aud Comment, 5, 1, 6, 1, 1, 1, 5, Crtmel-Wek iiie.u; but aside from those parts, iheir Still another female swell on the stage, Miw (2) "The holder of thu emblem can be required to 3, 8, 9, 2, « 10, 0, 10. Total, 250. Average, 3.98. repfrtuire was small. People are prejudiced in favor Freake, daughter of Sir Thomas Freake, a wealthy sixty day a froui the time of NEW YORK, Feb. 8. Editor SPORTING LIFE: will make her professional debut next play at the expiration of Highest run, 21. of stiaitflit backs. To get back to my mutton, how­ British baronet, being challenged, but not before." Possible ties not forbidding, the playing in the Kin-sbrn-y 2, 2, 1, 6, 0, 6, 0, 2, 0. 6, 2, 24, 0, 9, 0, ever. Thursday, in London, and wilh her lather's per When it was definitely decided to hold Brooklyn ball-pool toiirn&ment will end to-mor­ I, 13, 5, 6, 6, 0, 3, 7, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 6, 0, l\ «- 0. 4^ 0, 1, 4, 5, 5, 0, 0, 8, 0, ft, State tournament, the rules we have given, row night. It is not necessary here to enter 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 1, 0, 3, Next week Mr, Jjouis J«j*ms and Sites Marie Wain- the 4, 0, 7, 8, 5, 4. Total, 18G. Average, 2.99. Highest wright will give ns tha leyili^^te at the Walnut Thia from Town Topics, and appropriate: together with tho other rules, were read at a into its cold details, for in this weather they can stage." run, 24. They will open in "Othello," which will be given, it is *'I hear Bella Rant is going on the meeting, called expressly to legalize all rules and be picked up almost anywhere. Not so with On (he 3d Messrs. Hendrick and Kellogg played a "Indeed! What line of p<*rt$?" claimed for the first time here, with entire histor­ details, which meeting was held at Palmer's what Harvey Ubert, who was a Greek philoso­ most interesting game. The f.rnii-r played the game ical correctness. New aud haudaomo scenery haa "Emotional, I believe." pher before he become a room-keeper, would call of tlu* tournament and beat tho hitherto highest run. beon prepared, and tho costumes are described as oi "Hus she any talent?" room immediately before the officials orthetnan- worth of its esoterics. He tflso tied Liawkes for first place. The sror^: HDtisiial taste, costliness anil graurie*ir, having bai-v' "I should say she hadl She has $75,000 agers of the State tournament were given full 0. and a most harrowing, heart-breaking the insides, tho tournament Iluudrlck 5, 0, 1, 1, 17, 1, 1, 0, 6, 35, 6, 0, 0, made expiesaly far this production from moaeid Paris clotuos power to announce that the tournament would To begin with 36, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, Of 3, y, 1G, 0, 3. U, 2, 'A, 0, 0, 1, 3,4. sigh." brought from the Dresden Gallery. As the jealous take place. There was considerable controversy will probably end with Frey on top, Malone, 6, 1, 2, 0, 0, 2, 15, 2, 2, 4, 17, 0. 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 3,0, mau Mr. James haa been favorably couipured to For- second; Bulbo, third; Manning, fourth, and 0, 1, 3, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0, 2, 8. ToUl, 250. Average, re? t and Mijl'ulloiigli, whilu Miss Waiowri^ht1!! D&sd*- The Boston Symphony Orchestra gave two concerts as to the propriety of making the stake $100 a this week in this city a regular performance on that, in view of Samuel F. Knight last. There is no pretense oi 355-56. Highest run, 36. tftona is said to be an ideal »u>l clutritting reuditiuu. side, but it was decided then Kel!o«. fllr. JanitM smaller and not play trifle the best player, and that the continuous 2, 3, 3, 3, 0, 3, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 0. IVtal, 147. Av­ and picturesque Meykisto, aud Miss Wain weight's organization. The concerts tire simply the beet I blem if the stake was made are far beyond anytliiug attempted by at the eleventh hour, or, if they did play, that system of counting is not at all dotriment.il to erage, 2 16-25. Highest run. 11. Gretchen is a moat delicate ami artiatie piece of work ever heard, aud The fast tcheduled £»me WHS played Monday, Feb. 8, "Virginiun" ra billed for Wednesday and Saturday, Mr. Thomas. What is more, while they are all that the game might turn out to be little mare than a his style; that Malone, as was remarked in this by the classical aud cultivated crowd, is in rare physical trim between Frail Hnwke* and John lie mlrick. T lie for­ AMERICAN DRAMA. "Inpomar" for the Wednosdny matinee and "Hamlot1 can be desired burlesque, in consequence of the inability of the letter two weeks ago, mer easily uutpliijed his opi'otit'nt mid uuo the game for Thursday. Mr. Jmnea has been greatly comruendoc the aelecti'iiia are so well chosen that the vast numbsr and fine playing form; that Balbo has been Score: Creston Clarke's AilmiraMe "Hamlet"—K of us who have not been musicallv educated can still challenging party to successfully compete with and with it tiie cl'ampwn.^iip ol iVmriecticut. ag Fi>y»mus,aud 1m Hnmlet is credited »Uh being «»f thrown out of fettle by hia long visit to Cuba, Hawkea 3, 5, 4, 1, 7, 13, 0, 12, 0, 0, a, 2, 0, 0, 3. It. Sotliem in tlie "Highest Bidder"—A force and merit. Miss Waliiwright's enjoy ourselves thoroughly. Miss Emma Juch waa the holder of the emblem, which contest should excep;ional and that Knight, who up to ten years ago 1, 1, 0, 2, 4, 3, 1, 13, 6. 1, 7, 4, 0, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 2, 0, Mad "Ophelia*'—S«cces.siul Local Plays o Opheli* has always bec-a highly praieed. There is an the soloret on Thursday afternoon, and it was worth take place in a public hall in this city, thus en­ walking a mile in Die prest-nt slush to hear her sing was handily the leader among American 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 3, «, 0, 4, 0, 12, 2, 0, 2, the Week—Another Ballet Curl to Become excellent company, incUuiing Misn Kate Nash, Mis: tailing great expense, which would naturally 1, 1, 0, 0, 6, 17, 1, 18, 0, S, 3i, 15, 3, 2, 11. Total, Schubert's "Hedge Koaes" and "Aye Maria." professional pool players, has permitted a Coontess—More Society Women Going Kittie Wilfon, Miss Amelia Saner, V. C. Moatey, Fred have to be paid by some one. It was, as al­ 250. Average, 3.57. Highest run, 31. Hubuer, Hairy Langduu, and others. himself to grow eo rusty that his touch has for­ 0, 1, 9, 0, on the Stage—The National's Success- Fifty-five years ago Wiliium McTarland was a fa­ ready stated, fixed final and irrevocable then Heudrfck 0,0,1,2, 1, 0, 6, 12, 2, 1, 12, feited its wondrous sensitiveness, while with re. 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 4, 2, 2, 15, 4, 0, 0, 3, 0, 2, 0, 0, 6, Stage Facts and Fancies. base ball," writes to miliar figure on the stage. Macready, Forrest and the that the holder of the emblem should only be A "sweot girl graduate, fond of and oi 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 7, 6, 3, 5, 2, 0, 2, 1, 2, 2, THE SPORTING LIFE for the origin of "Mrs. Giuudy.1 elder Booth had him in their time Tor friend nnd tup- subject to challenge every sixty days, and then spect to his lost knowledge of technique porter. Yet only the other day, relates a contempo­ the ingenuities of generalship his mind may be 0, 3, 0, 0, 6, 2, 3, 7. 3, 1, 0, 3, 0, 0. Total, 157. Aver- THE LOCAL BILLS. That interesting old woman first saw light in Thomas on the terms already stipulated. ago, 2.27. Highest ruu, 15. "Speed the Plow," the old comedy which rary, the i*ctor, worn out, poor, infirm and friendless, likened to an old curiosity shop, which, from WALNUT...... Louis Jamea and Marie Wainwri^ht Morton'a These were the rules under which the tourna­ After the principal mutch, Mr. Km^sbury, of New Mr. J. S. Clarke has recently been playing at his died in a Western aloishouse. Sic transit gloria mundi. amid much rubbish, only occasionally yields^ a BROAD STREET THEATRE...... "Hamlet. ment was gotten up, aad they were not only Haven, played Mr. SainUreon, of Williuiaatic, for Broad Street Theatre. In the first sceue Mrs. Ash/ real gem. It looks as if the veteran Samuel will, fifth place. Mr. Kinjfsliury cleverly outplayed hie NATIONAL...... "Monte Cristo, shows herself very jealous of Neighbor tintnrig, am Madame Modjeaka scored a triumph as Beatrice voted for as what should be the legal rulea following score: Isew York, it b«ng her debut as far as at the close, have to stand guard over the heel ol competitor and won by the CENTnAL....,...... «..Renrz-Santlt»y Co Farmer A»/tj!aIit says to her: "Be quiet, wool ye? Al­ othvr day in governing all of the contests for a term of two Kiugobury 4, 0, 3, 2, 9, 6, 10, 5, 3, 6, 1, 2,0, 6,1 Gotham is concerned, as the heroine in "Much Ado There is something peculiarly sadden­ CHESTNUT STREET THEATR*...... The Ilanlons ways din^-douging Dame GruHdff into iny «*xs. Wb* years, and not only voted for by the players Achilles. 0, 2, 1, 2, 5, 3, 10, 7, 1, 1, 10. Total, 100. Average' will Mrs. Gnuidy zay?" About Noihing." Her performance is unanimously ing in the idea that he is fated to bring up the CHESTNUT STREET OPERA HOUSE...... ,....."Fal with favor. "Madarae Modje^ka's Beatrice present at that meeting, but all present such 4. Highest run, 10, described rear, not simply in Brooklyn, but also in the 0, 1, 0, 7, 1, 1, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 3. ARCH STREET THEATRE...... "Parlor Match. ia always fucinating to the eye, distinguished by grace, as room-keepers and professionals who were in­ Saoderson-0. 6, "FalkV'is almost as familiar ns "Pinafore," and Col when Clark E. 0, 0, 0, 4, 3. 2, 3, 4, 1, 1, 0. Total, 47. Average, ELEVENTH STREET OPERA UousE..Carncross' Minstrels variety aud unfailing skill," says ihe New York Times, strumental in having the tournament take place very room where, in the days McC'aull has made a mint out of it. It i* drawing grod! were the giants of pool, 1.809. Highest run, 7. CONTINENTAL...... -.."Little Muffeta, houses this wetk, and will doubtless conliuue to.do so to quote oue critic at random. had the right to vote on the same issue, well Wilson and Ed Bryan The tie for third prize was played off Feb. 7, Whit* funny a Von Foiback aj Frank ho began to develop as a holder of balls, and aud Kjilogg being the contestants. White won ia NINTH AND ARCH MUSEUM...... Freaks, Etc next. Hopper i* just as One more actress, that ia if a ballet girl can call her­ knowing as the players did then, that if it had LTCIVM...... Wilbnr Opera Co Wilson, and as he still had a singing voice loft, he is to depend on the players alone for a tournament, where, some time before, as a player of three- seventy-nine inuiugs and made a very brilliant run of acceptable in the iart. Digb; self an actress, ia to join the aristocracy, which is a fair 44 points. Kellogg's twst run was 22 points, and h« if anything, moie exchange, considering the rush on the part of the a tournament could not take place. ball caroms, his cue bad first attracted attention Bell, admirable comedian as he is, has a hard road tc Phyllis Broughton, not far from fourteen yeara ago. For the sake played seventy-eight innings. Below will bo found Corrent Comment and Gossip. far little Klein was simply aristocracy to join tha stage, alias When the prize money for the tournament travel as Brother Pelican, the London Gaiety Theatre's front row, is to marry Syne" let us all squeeze knees PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, Feb. 11. For perfection, as much from the fact uf being little Klein of was paid out on Jan. 31, it was patched up by a of "Auld Lang White 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 2, 7, 8, 2, 6, 0,1,19, Lord Dangan, eldest BO a and heir to Earl Cowlcy, one place 1*0r Knight at the finish than week Mr. Creston Clarke ha'3 played "Hamlet as anything el». Hulert \VHko as Rotnltu and bogus resolution that the holder of the emblem for a better 5, 0, 10, 4, 0, 5, 1, 6, 0, 1, 1, 1, 44, 0, 0, o, 0, 0, 4, 1, eymg of the greatest and noblest of England's proud peers. left flank. Manning is still aspiring to second 1, 10, 0, 1, 2, 5, 5, 2, 10, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 4, 1, 1( 0, at the Broad Street Theatre, and has attracted Marion Mauola as Futtu, with Mrs. Bull as the The first Lord Cuwley was a younger brother of the would be obliged to play for the same forty days make up the strong ca.-t, and every number of ni It would severely tax a gipsy fortune­ 14, 2, 4, 0, 1, 0, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 7, 8, 0, 0, it' not the complete praise of critics and audi couqueror at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington, and after the first match instead of "sixty days" as position. tuneful Optra ia encored repeatedly. teller to foresee bow he can get it. But at thia 0,12. Total, 250. cnce, at least the most respectful attention. Th the family connections in every way are among the the rules call for. We say bogus, inasmuch as Kellogg 1, 3, 1, 0, 6, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 9, 5, 3, 1, highest iu England. Ou the whole Miss Phyllis is to is a chance for him to assign style of man Shakespeare intended the Prince o At the Arch a new version of "Shamus O'Brien that the meeting held that day was not a legal writing there 0, 1, 7, 6, 0, 1, 0, 1, 5, 0, 11, 0, 9, 5, 2, 0. 1, 3, 0. 0. be congratulated. She will not be aioue, aa among Balbo to fourth place by securing third for him­ 2, 3, 1, 3, 2, 1, 7, 4, 0, 2, Denmark to be is not clearly conveyed by th was i>role but unfilled sisterhood the fourth place had all of tho players who took part iu Chicago on Tues­ their voyage in Switzerland a most wonderful per­ and voted for any al­ because Chicago had not seen much of Frey and houses in the West, was expected have prevented the marriage of his mother am of women care for the acquaintance of the "Dolly iu the tournament been present day last. formance. While watching their antics the othe teration in the rules, their vote would have been ille­ Malone. Now that Powers has made his formal the usurpation of his father's crown by his uncle Tester" clasd, title or no title. J. B. L. Albert Frey, the pool champion, will formally open nifcht I came across Huff, the tenor of McOauH's)%h( gal and presumptuous, inasmuch as that it had already debut in the East, he is a paradox in the fact In tho Middle Ages the right of a maturet ia enjoying a holiday, as he is not in the cant o his new rooms, on Broadway, opposite the Post OOice, Footlight Flickerings. beeu decided that no alteration iu the rules should who is here has yet to come. He is man to succeed to hia father's possession "Falka."' We got to talking about orchestias and take place for a term of two years. that one New York City, Feb. 14. Ada Deavoa is playing in Arthur Rehau's Co. the jaws, but he was seldom disputed, and still less so between the acts he tuld me a characteristic anec- This was the condition iu which the tournament was unquestionably strong in facing Young Edward Woode, who has a very good knowl­ doie of that much overrated personage, Conductor E. Percy Monroe ia now sole manager of the "Zltka* to take many a dose of ''medicine" edge of the business fo/ a lad of his years, can be en­ when the heritage wri3 i. throne. When in gotten up, aud the condition under which professionals wilt have Thomas. That Inflated geutlemen's father waa baud- Co. gave their money, and the sooner alt seif-styled ex­ from the hands of experts before his system will gaged to manage or assist in the management of * this last contingency a Pretender iro?3s ,it hat boanl a L'. S. man-of-war stationed, say master on Mattie Wood joined the Jennie Yeamans Co., last perts realize this fact the better it will be for all in­ be toned down into that of a world beater. room. to be settled by sanguinary warfare which gen YrfflVf.'jears ago, near Forireaa Hoiuoe, and his son terested. week. There is that in his rnian which bespeaks that he erally terminated in the death of the heir or th Theodore osi-i t.tr triile. beneath bid father's baton U a recent addition to the Myra About two years ago when the room-keepers' tour­ Dai Packard seems to go usurper. To make the character of Kii^ He was a le^n,shabby, hungry youtb, but a gWil-yiff- nament waa inaugurated in thia city for the room- will take his doses manfully. He linist, and occasionally got a job elsewhere. One was to players business in an atmosphere of modesty. FINANCIAL. Claudius consistent with his times, young Ham _ have retired from the keepers' emblem at handicap in which the about his Richmond to take part in a contest and the Journey from alone decided the order of handicap, it was the rale Most young cueists nowadays appear to have let should have been smoothered aa mercilessl; Lyncbburg had to be made by canal. The fare was Duff Opera Co. tliat coutostd for the emblem should be played in the been born thirty years of age, at least, and they as the little sons of Edward IV of Englani some three dollars, hut for the life of him young P. S. ftlattox has rejoined Lillian rouma of this city. After the tournament was over it SPORTS IN WALL STREET. childish at about the time those were by their uncle Gloucester, and we shoulc Theodore could neither extract that amount from his busiuea manager. ,waa decided by all of the experts with the, single, ex- begin to grow A Very Dull Market and Little to Comment pockets nor raise it himaelf. He stood ou the permitted themselves youth begin to have never made the acauaintance of Ojj/t* father's Carrie Drury has joined McCarthy & McCaulTs cepTic^.°f Burris, who was nut present at that meet­ who have Upon — Signs of Coining Improvement. towpath wondering how he was to travel when he "True Irish Hearts" Co. ing, that a iniS' °'"th should he nut on the table for alt Powers does not act like one of tho However, as far as he is individually get sense. In times like these it ia as hard for a financial noticed Dr. Burton, then as he ia now, a musical en­ J. P. McSweeney la singing with the Casinoa"Made- future contests forTne (*EI$lt}m, ** it was not consid­ cognoscenti. Ho lacks the self-centered manner concerned, Mr. Creston Clarke settles th thusiast, and to him went young Thomas with a loii'* and "Marquib11 Co. ered jnat to have the playe^^in^* 1*019 witQ an writer to find anything to say aa it is for a money. Dr. Burton was of him who "knows it all." So keep an eye on controversy, and the Hamlet he gives u piteoub appeal for liis fare Goodwin resumed the road with "Philopene,1 old cluth. No one fur a tuoineut broker to find an occupation. Nn public, no not acquainted with the younp; man, yet he not oulj Myra the pool pla\er from the West. Men of his stamp are is a young man, indeed, in looks little inor last week in New England. would make any objection to BO fiir a always in danger of improving rapidly. Ju^t now market and very little news. What there has paid Ihe passage, but traveled with him and finallj special meeting of the play en was than a stripling, but a young man prematurely latter's profua* BIra. D. P. Bowers, will, we hear, close her presenl Powern c;m execute better than he can shape. Were been of the latter was of a discouraging nature. left bis protege after receiving the benefit of Burn's. What waa the result? Would ..' .vi.i.r n-j in "i-ombina- aged in his thoughts and actions by tho awfu promises ot uiuiying gratitude aud speedy repayment tour Feb. 11 at St. Loute, Mo. "j-j-^ > ..»...-r the benefit of her health. exclaimed the holder of (he en-blem. ui i »nd grip, those Tears rolled on and Theodore Thomas and hii H, 'tis not in thci>tmd!" Like Shylock, who would pamatak- war in the West is as serious as ever, and .ilktle I know that no play that Shakespeare ever orchestra became famous, and a year or two ngo Dr On Feb. 2, Aug. Pitou renewed for five years his have nothtn:: 1 of flesh, Burris wad un­ was one of a committee to "receive-" the con­ contract to manage W. J. Sc-inlan. '";-' wrote, or is supposed to have written, has raisec Burton alterable iu ! bin his right, and would ductor and orchestra at an entertainment in their Mrs. John Drew will be with Joseph Jefferson in hi stun - thor, his tempted any of tho promised reforms, an-.i v .._ "Hamlet," nor consent ouly i : Uer of the rules which had such a wealth of controversy aa honor, given by the citizens of Richmond. revival of "The Rivals" next spring. been created to guvein that tournoment. heart ia I'jui. - .:i<.<\ !.i.< r, l s,nr-r.\ The top maybe all domestic troubles nnd foreign complications is there yet an actor of rank or a Shakesperean Lizzio Xelsey is repotted to be rapidly failing will Such tools as were satisfactory to him had to be sat­ far away from him, but it cannot be lv>ng away. Not market refuses to (he least thing in hie favor id that throughout this adverse to a rise, the expert of eminence who will not quibble all the "We have met before," said the doctor. consumption, at her residence in New York City. isfactory to the experts who challenged him, aud it go down, but shows unmistakable su;n3 of way through the five acts, even to questioning **Vot is it," replied Thomas. waa so until the emblem became his property. No tournament he haa most decidedly impressed the spec- Charles E. Roche has resigned as press agent of the la tors. improvement. The bears claim this is due to the date of the first use of gunpowder by Euro "I waa saying we have met before," smiled the Boston Ideal Opera Co., and wilKreturn to journalism one did then, or does now, question Burria 1 right to doctor. "I think we were fellow passengers on a have acted as he did. That question of right alone The other new comer is the younger Lawlor. manipulation, and hint that the big houses are pean armies, basing their argument on th in a BIr. John S. Clarke has presented Edwin Bo-t! for BIcLaugh- There ia power and promise in him, also, but develop­ cniial boat joars ago when you were going to play historical theatrical por­ made Burria the owner of the emblem, compelled to stand under the market, to pre­ command of Fortinlraat at the sight .of the concert at Richmond." with a number of valuable lin, who alone could have won it, and who is a master ment is hindered by his being very fidgety. His forte traits. as yet IB action, and he has an excess of it. He in­ vent a decline, and thus hurt their market for corpse of HamUt ; "Dat may be so," replied the haughty conductor,"; of the game, became disgusted upon learning that he bonds; but there is nothing to sustain this "and for his passage meets mit so many beoploa." Fred Marsden is to write a new play for W. J. Scan- would have to play on a table furnished with an old clines to expross his thoughts through unconscious Tho soldiers' music and the rites of war "Well," rejoined the Doctor, "judging by the way lan. He has been rehearsing the Patti Rosa Co., in cloth und with such balls as might be given him t movements of his limbs. He must conquer this habit, theory. The truth of the matter is, the Speak loudly for him. you have forgotten your English I am not astonished bis "Imp." play with, whether th dy weie as large aa a pumpkin as by it ho is liable lo giro himself away. When his stock market is pretty much in the condition of ***** that you should cease to remember the man who once W. B. Murray, Frank Mordaunt and Joseph Weldou or aa small as a gooseberry. opponent is pla>in^, he himself muat needg be walk­ the iron and steel trade aud various other Go bid the soldiers shoot.' 1 did you a service.'* have been engaged to support Fanny Davenport iu That was a salutary le?aon for McLaughlin and one ing around, watching everybody and everything. "LaTosca.1 " The successful pool pL.yer uiuatloirn to t-H graciously trades. Prices are absolutely so low that real Yet to the man of even ordinary intelligence ' "Pat ia zo," murmured Herr Von Thomas, as he which he is not likuly to forget. If any of the players conversation weariec rules changed have been so upon tho anxtona seat. Added to all else, this young­ holders refuse to sell their stocks. They argue can see no reason why JffumU-t should be in intimated by his manner that the Claire Scott reports good business. ''The Poacher's who want the present him, "tlut is *o." Daughter" will be brought out by her at Wheeling favored by nature as to be endowed with an under­ ster is a tooth sharpener, tiding his lips as a whet­ any change must be for the bettor, and are con­ comprehensible. The story is consistent, and, W. V., Feb. 11. standing, we would advise them iu all kindness to take stone. This is bad, for it wears the lips. Thin-lipped tent to wait. We cannot exp.-,ct a public to aside from the ghost, not even improbable, whili I was almost forgetting my old -friend Kabnweller advantage of eo beneficent a gift, and not try any poolers are like thin-wristed caromors. It is not easy have recently had, In Chicago, 111., Feb. 4, Judge Garnett decided nol to make lasters and winners of them. Donbtless a come in on such facts as we throughout the drama there ai e a thousanc but I am reminded of him by a rumor (hat he hat to rehear the divorce suit of Annie Summervill* comic business. To attempt the latter may provo dan­ some of these adverse conditions acquired Washington Square as a site for hia prroposec gerous if not professionally fatal. few lessons in tournaments, if he is not forced too and until lines probing into the skin of humanity subtle, against Eel Chapman. soon into match-playing, will invest Lav\lor with tho change it is simply useless to expect a better theatre. Failing Washington Square, he is (catting to Independent, however, of all thia we are inclined to if you like, but striking homo in full sight of all. George K. Fortescue and F. A. Tannehill, Jr., are the championship can dignity of repose. Like Powers, be has won admira­ market. sheepe-eyea on the earth. summer in a farcical comedy the belief that if a contest for play a brief season next be played every sixty days during: the billiard season', tion from the spectators, but it has been for his apurts, advance a trifle, due to picking written by the latter. for the cold-blooded- Prices may Now, each man and woman their owa critiOj The show this week at the National waa a boomer, it is quite as much as the public will support, and may the fervor of which unfits him up of stocks by insiders, who know when cer­ ind as such I see no reason for Mr. Creston to put it in clasaical language. Cora Tacner jusl J. B. Mason will retire from N. C. Good win's suppor be more than the players should desire. It is no ness uf an effective finish. He seems weary before his at the close of the season, and spend next year at his begun, tain troubles shall cease, but we cannot enlist an Clarke to ask any indulgence from his audience catches the crowd aud the sign "standing room only" child's play to get up a public contest every sixty days jreal work has Next week James O'Neill home in Boston, Mass. Not from any quarter hare I heard praise of or ob­ outsider on adverse facta. Yet this is the time he; his Hamlet is the effort of his has been a fixture. during the billiard reason in any large city. The ex­ Nor does appears again as STonte Cristo in the play of thai James L. Aiken and Minnie Packard, both of the penses are vastly more than most experts have any jection to the system of continuous counting. How­ to buy, not sell. Last summer, when everything manhood. He speaks and acts with the air of a title. If any of you have not read Ihe great novel ol Bennett & Moulton Opera Co., were quietly married a Idea of. It is all very well for the mercantile element ever, it concerns the public room more than the tour­ greater, trade hall. People altend the latter to' see balls was rosy, railroad earnings never man who says "I have achieved!" and I fee Dumas, get it and enjoy it. The story h positively New Haven, Ct., Jan. 31. which has crept into the business, and which element nament booming, and everything bullish, stocks began convinced that when in later years he looks back fascinating. Mr. O'Neill thoroughly understands W. T. Price, dramatic editor of the New York Star will not condescend to sneeze without being paid to do "helled," and are indifferent as to how tho tally is kept. Maurice Daly tells me that the tournament has to decline; first due to manipulation, and after­ to this effort his verdict of himself will still be Dumas' hero and there is no doubt that bis and a thoughtful and accurate critic, has completed E go, to iucite on the players to a general meeting and Edmond Lfautea is one of the most impressive play called "John Brown.' alteration iu the rules with the hope that all shall be been financially ihe most successful billiard event he wards to liquidation. The stock market alwayi the same. To me his Hamlet was a revelation, and powerful characterizations upon the Amer­ grist to their mill. has taken in hand since he located In the city that discounts future events. Never follow them. It II. C. De Mille and David Belasco are to write a new that he expects the because it retained my sympathy throughout ican stage. The escape from the Chateau the latter will pro­ A tournament, however, in which money waa most needs churches and has them, and comedy for B. H. Sothern, which current week to yield an appreciable sum for the is this reason, notwithstanding the uncertainties I forgot the actor and only recognized the d'lf, a scene in which, when supposed to be a corpse, duce at the Lyceum Theatre, New York City, in May generously contributed by room-keepers, manufac­ surrounding the situation, that makes holder! Prince, and while the play lasted Hived in it, de­ Eilmond Dantes Is thrown, tied up in a sack, from 6 turers and experts is not a match game. In this case prize-winners. A. L. Fanshawe is at work on a new throe-act No family quarrel that ia pushed to an extremity hang on to their stocks. As soon as stocks be­ spite the crudities of some of the support. high rock into the sea beneath, is absolutely thrilling. to call "A Printer's Devil,1 all of the expenses will have to fall on one individual It so moved the eo«l of Larry Douovan, tho bridge comedy, which he pleases the winner. There ia nothing certain in such a con­ ever readily healed; and the litigious spirit that ha* gin to mount upwards, all these dilemmas will Steve Brodie, that Mr. O'Neill and it will deal almost exclusively with a newspaper been manifesting Itself in Chicago will end in the jumper, not to mention office. test but the fflOO, won from the defeated party, while change over night. The Western rate war can Miss Branclon's Ophelia is not very artistic, received several petitions for permission to act as sub­ the expense in any single match game nowadays i& Garden City Company aud Thomas Foloy going their but it is not unacceptable. However, I do K";! Bob Watt, of Philadelphia, has sold his four-act individual ways and thinking Ihe unamiablo thoughts be fixed in a few days, aa soon as Mr. Armonr stitute in that sack. Watch the sceno next week, and almost as great as thnt of holding a tournament. The So can the coal think Ophelia ever haa a fair show, so entire is then see the whole audience ta a man women and boy comedy drama' "Pert," to Will C. Elmendorf for Ollie printing and advertising are much the same. These peculiar to wrinkled minds. The case is one more and others get enough stock. Redpath, who has been the star of the play for two the pernicious modern doctrine the interest in Hamlet. The only Ophelia. ] howl with Joy. are facts which the players should carefully consider, change of illustrating troubles. It looks very much like an early solu­ seasons. for while the writer dues not at auy time expect to of "the survival of the fittest," npon which trade has miners are beginning ever saw who shared, or better robbed, Hamlet tion of this trouble. The On Washington's Birthday there will he an extra London opera has indeed gone down. Her Majesty's come in for his share ot the "divvy" in any contest, come to be BO generally based. Foley has in public to see they are inflicting very little trouble of his laurels, was Christine Nilsson in Ambrose matinee of "Lights o' London" at the National, always Theatre is to be transformed into an immense concert although he naturally expects to be called on to do most sympathy an uarnisJakable championship. That will on the railroad company. It is no strange thing for Thomas' Opera. I remember reading of a really a popular and most welcome of melodramas. room, capable of holding 4,000 persons, and called Uer of the work, he simply reserves for himself the right do him some good if ho can find a suitable location for the coal companies to suspend for 30 or 60 days in Ophelia. Towards the close of the last Majesty's Concert Hall. of warning players against the enthusiasm of false a new room. If he cannot, then Cain becomes a better insane and therefore fact, in Gowau's lime it was a suspension of every century a Mrs Yeibruggen, an actreas of some renown The attraction at the Grand Central Theatre in The reports that George C. Miln is about to retire gods, especially those who cannot at any time find it man than his orotber, Abel being drad, other week, but the (inmaud for anthracite has gro~wn coming week will be the Kentz-Sautley Burlesque from the stage are incorrect. In all probability he convenient to take even a driok, ualeea at the expense in the condition that proves his unfitness. Foley has in London, lost her reason owing to a disappointment of the West considerably since that day. Long suspensions of in love, and hud to bo p!aced under restraint. Having Company. This company include* quite a number of will go to England in the spring, and remain there of another. SIMUN WASP. opened more rooms in the metropolis mining have not been necessary. The latest phase of escaped one afternoon from her attendauls, she wan­ local favorites, and U considered oue of the beat va­ until after the Christmas holidays. than probably any other liYing man but Michael the strike has been th-? complete divorcement of the theatre, where, oddly enough, ihe riety combinations on the road. A special feature California POOt TOURNAMENT. Goary. I have known him twenty-four year?, or Ion? dered back to the Millie Hirschfield is a fourteen-year-old THE He is a man of forty-nine railroad and miners1 strikes. The only question at dis­ play was "Hauilet.11 As Ophelia nho had often of each performance will b« a wrestling match. Blat- girl, whom lima Di Mureka has taken in charge, with enough to find him out. pute now is shall arbitration be resorted to before the on those very board*. suda Sorakichi, the noted Japanese wrestler, has been stage. Miss Hirsch excellences. Tha haman limit is fifty. gained much applanso a view to bringing her outon the The Record at the Conclusion—Marred, by bad for three years past, miners go back or after, and while this one question The nnfurtnnate wuman concealed herself till specially engaaed by the management to wrestle every field is said to have a wonderful contralto voice. The health of Jorry Daly, Is important as recognizing labor or disregarding the Several Squabbles. has forced him into met. This is one reason why Al­ Ophelia's cue came, whereupon she rushed on the eveuins, and any local wrestler who will throw Wilson Barrett contemplates another professional it, I "cannot think the miners, who have con­ »t;izo before the real Ophelia could eater. The stage Jap in twenty mluntos time will be given a purse of In the "continuous pool" tournament in Now bert Frey has laken Jerry's room. It has bpen a good so much, will refuse to yield this final point. visit to this country, but whether he will come stand. I have known it to earn from glO.OOO to f 12,- ceded niannger was filled with astonishment and did not $200, while tho sum of $20 will be given to any one oJ York last Monday night Powers beat Knight by The combination is too strong against them. Tha In the same here next fall or wait until after the excitement 000 in a year; but not every year. A bird in the air disturb her, aud Ins feeling was changed to wonder whom this famous wrestler can&ot throw election rolls by has not jet been 150 to 54, and the champion, Frey, was beaten press, the iron men and the storekeepers and some of of time. Joo Acton will probably be one of the the presidential chirps to me that the fair little German has paid and awe as he contemplated tho thrilling rendering of space finally determined. by the "boy wonder," Lawlor, by 150 to 107. their own fellow workmen are now ranged against Verbrnggen was not contestants for the pnrso, and if these two "strang- $5,000 for it, with Ihe aid of sfriuneh friends. It has the mad scene. Poor Mrs. Blanche E. Thorne, leading lady of the "Held by Powers beat Manning 150 to their battle, and they cannot hold much longer. It it "playing" the part; she was Ophelia. A few minutes lera" meet an exciting match can be looked for. On Tuesday night something liken ine Emus wick- Bdlke-Collender tables, undoubtedly the belief ia this termination that make* Philadelphia has quite a number of flrst-claas wrest­ the Enemy" Company, was married in St. Louis, 146. The next game was between D'Oro, or with a bar long enough to take In five dollars a alter leaving the stage site dropped dead. Johnson, a well-known book­ Reading so strong. It closes to-night actually as high lers, and the Jap will bo fortunate if he ^gets through Feb. 9, to Daniel C. Balbo, as he is called, the champion, and Malone, minute in dry weather. A cl«ver cushion-caromer, sold Jan. 1, the day of the strike, and wilhin 1 maker of New York. Mrs. Johnson will retire per­ apart from hia proficiency at pool, Froy can do well as it An actor of the name of Sothern cannot fail to raise with his week's work without being defeated at least the ex-champion. At the expiration of playing per cent, of the highest point it has sold since the once. manently from the stage. there. Inteiest, atd when the Sutbern happens to be the son the third frame D'Oro put in the 12 ball. Ma- strike commenced. A great deal of Lull gossip is sure of "Lord Dundreary" and gives such undoubted proof Mr. A. M. Palmer, of the Madiion Square Theatre, Thero is talk of another bookmakers' tournament. to come out in Beading shortly, for J understand the of having inherited so much of hia father's ability as So Mrs. Langtry has buried the hatchet with N. Y., has secured the American rights to Dan (Jet'a lone claimed that D'Oro had not called it, and, If it takes shape it xvill have no connection with Ihe new bonds are almost ready tor delivery, and the Mr. B. H. Soth*-rn wbo is playing this week's en­ Charley Coghhin and, as Maurice Barrymoro is to re- "L'Arlesienne," which under the title of "Tho L»ve after a good deal of wrangling, the referee. Dr. one just hold, thns putting the latter in tha position of the syndicate are only waiting for matters to gagement at the Walnut, why his place of favor is ai- tiro from t'ne Lily's company, he will soon appear as That Kills,, had a most successful presentation Jan. H. D. Jennings, decided that D'Oro lost (he point, M ft preliminary. brighten a little before issuing the new Bured. Mr. Sothern made himself known to us as the Captain Frotenlra* iu"Ag In a Looking Glass." I sup- 27, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London, Eug. he had failed to call it. The audience, however, The gentlemen of the clubs do not seem to be asitat- fours. A great deal of conjecture la in­ red-headed lover in Helen Duuvray's Company, bet, |iuac tho alleged huff waa more or less puff. The roster of "Civil Service," by H. Grattan Don- claimed that they heard D'Oro call it. D'Oro appealed Iiiff themselves profoundly over a renewal of the dulged in as to the price these bonds will being the support of a star, he only received reflected Mrs. liangtry has such luck in iho way of free adver- nelly, is: Michael F. Pallett, manager; John F. Har- from the decision of the referee, but the Utter de­ amateur championship they instituted last May. be placed. The leading Lear organ in New York notice. Now as a star himself ho might bathe iu tiseuiout. Barrymore, T understand, leaves at hia own loy, Iminess manager; Ed H. Van Veghten, star; clared the game forfeited to Malone, D'Oro there­ The telegrams from Milwaukee relative to Jacob thinks 80 to 85 a good figure. Some enthusiasts ia glory, wore be helping to himself all the pggs in his desire, as he wishes to devote himself to hia own af­ Emily Ktan, Chas. Warren, William H. Dell, Al upon announced his withdrawal from the tournament. Schaefer's b-ilk-line run of 28-A should amuse George F. Philadelphia say they will go at 95, but the conserva­ own basket. Tho company, however, which he has fairs with a view to starring. I wish him luck. He schlichr, Josie Hall, Carrie Clara and Lillian Leach. On Wednesday evening night the referee reconsid­ Slosson at least. Even had it been made in a match, tive element believes they would fetch 90 a price moat engaged for "The Highest Bidder," is as strong almost ia a ar/od all-round fellow aud free from tiie effeminacy given up the idea of ered the decision in the Balbo-Malone dispute, and instead of in an exhibition game, and on a 5x10 table and managers. A large Miss Sydney Armstrong has would still not be a record. satisfactory to both syndicate aa one of Wyndham's or Daly's, aud the consequence wlilo'li ft* this present day is the pet conceit of the producing "The Pointsman," the melodrama by the ordered the game to be played over again on Thurs­ instead of on a 4^x9, it isaue of Illinois Central 4 p«r cent, was brought out at Is that Mr. Sothe; n's company, as much as Mr. (roo^-looking young men who pose as "leading gen- has returned day night. Meantime Malone defeated Manning 150 Of course Scliaefef has never claimed it as a record. was subscribed author of "The Great Pink Pearl," and the past nine months 100% last week, and the eutire issue Bothtrn, have taken the town by storm. Jo ir."n.H Next week, if space allows, I mean the manuscript to Mr. A. M. Palmer, who controls to 115, and Frey defeated Balbo 150 to 134, In view of what has within for iu three days, arid while the Reading bonds are Jo remark on the topic of feminine mascu­ the American rights to the play. Manager Henry C. Tho tournament proptr ended Thursday evening la occurred in billiards without protest from any quar­ not so good a security, yet they will be made attrac­ is » comedy on ths old lines linity, and that reminds me that I incMen- a tie for first place between Frey and Malone. In the ter, of what value, anyway, ia a record as to "run" or "Thy Highest Biddor'' Miner has made arrangements with Mr. Palmer to a well-earned record at any tive to the investor, and tho safety is eo well assured by Madison Mortoc, retouched bore and there by al ly gave place to a rumor that Ky rle present the piece. first gamo of the evening Powers beat Balbo 149 to "average?" There is not as to make them a very desirable bond. No matter with Miss Genovieve and Malone were then to have played the style of game that a third-rate player cannot beat competent hands and was laid apart by the elder Soth­ Jcllow contemplated matrimony Ludwig M. Ruben, a musical agent, was granted an 139. Frey what they bring now, the; will sell at par before the ern fur production. At hia death his sons found it jyttou. I hear, however, tliat Sir. Bellew has not final gamp, but Frey objected to playing until th^ dis­ with a five dollar note. Can yon Rneaa this? Let me year is out. consvienition," nnd affection attachment against Eloi Sylva, of the National Opera De Oro and Malone was settled regard­ help you with what Is neither a parable nor an among the bundle "for immediate inly a wife but five em ill plodgea of nnptual Co, Feb. 1, iu a suit to recover ?284 commission, pute between It is almost useless to attempt to describe the dull­ now th'u second Sothern presents it in his father'^ jesiJos, find that ho is on the best of terms with hia ing the game of Tuesday night, which De Ore gave apolog/. Within tho past nine mouths there was dan­ ness now reigning in Wall street. Customer* will alleged to be duy for collecting §3,900 back salary for was at once held, at ger of tho best run at cushion-carom being beuten. mask. The plot ia humorous throughout with charm­ elter half. Ilia stained-gin w attitudes and languiah- Mr. Ruben has also obtained an up under protest. A meeting rarely go to their brokers' offices. The Philadelphia tiere and there for aea'-oiii:i£. Mr, over tho footlights are only "business" Manager Locke. which the matter in dispute was submitted to Froj, The opposing player claimed no count. He has told and are fighting them­ ing bits of pailios ng glancoa attachment against Barton McGuckin, another mem­ but that Exchange has grown desperate, Bo them is Jack Uammcrton, an auctioneer^ sent into tin- lothing more. I'm glad of it. Goneviove Lytton is Manning and Powers for arbitration. Two out of three me th'it he bolifvred the striker had counted, selves to death over a resolution to prohibit trading goods and chatk'U of free. ber of the saiae company, for obtaining hiiu employ­ Tiled that Malone had won the game. This settled it, the referee decided against him for no other reason dull limes. country by hia firm to sell tho .till, so fur aa Hymen's fetters arc concerned, ment. in New Turk. It ie useless to legislate in Lawrrnce Thm-nkiilt *>rn4re, with u pretty dnnghter, lloset ho is u golden-haired, big-limbed wonuin, but if the and Frey and Malone brgan play. Frey won tho thau that tho non-striker wan so far behind that ho Legislation will not bring trade. The Philadelphia Who begins by regarding the knight of tho hammer New York 6'iiit is to be believed, tniffli-s and cliam- The roster of the John A. Mackay Company in game by 150 to Maloue 132. Following is the record could not win, no matter what thn decision. It fol­ broker forgets that the prime cause of his trouble with scorn ami cootumpt and tnds by falling in love mgne art" ruining tho fairest ekin that mortal ever Pop" and "One of Our Boys:" John A. Mackay of games won and lost: lows that to b(-at a record it is only necessary that the lies in the fact that the commission laws of that ex­ with him. The force uf the clay i* divhletl bttwcun moothod into Matches, and puffing the litheeomeaess [star), H. W. Emmett, John P. Savage, Charles Wil- Won. Lost. "Won, Lost. ton-striker shall not claim all that he thinks the change are. too heavy. This in ridiculed, but it is the Sose, prettily nnd :.rti-tically personated by Belle if her figure into rotundity. ard, Mr. Lung, Mabel Sterling, Mrs. Carrie Richard­ Malone...... 5 1 Manning...... 2 striker unentitled to. truth. It takes S5Q-to buy and sell §10,000 of Penn­ Archer, and Jack Hftmmerton and the best thai can he son, Clar* Coleman, Dolly Kline, Lntie Carapbell^juid Frey...... 5 1 Lawlor...... 3 Another lease of the room on Washington srroet, sylvania Railroad block, while 810,000 New York eaitl <>f tho latter is ihnt he iu gradually bwomine his a chorus. The tour opeua Feb. 13 at Buffalo, N/^T., Powers...... 4 2 Knight...... 0 Brooklyn, has just been secured by Maurice Daly. Central can be bought and sold for 825, and Give it up Jeiini?, and take to your native beer and Since John Ferguson was called upon to hang his hat father's double. Mr. C. B. Bishop, Mr. Herbert Archer, iref agftin. under the manage me ut of Leander P. Richardson and De Oro...... 2 4 yet Philadelphia brokeri wonder why theif Mr, Buckslone, Mida Mywbray and Miss 1'rienrt make Jay Rial. upon the everlasting peg, and the Doane Brothers "locals" are neglected. If you cannot veil the most and best of their parts and the whole pla> Pollard's Challenge. either died or went oul of business, this has been the your goods at a price, reduce them to a Mrs. Potter will ho under Ilenrr Miner's rnanagc- Manager Abbey baa signed a conttact with the oldest room iu that city. For many years it had mus with a auish and sfuoothiK-ei, which »how3 f her. Sheisdoiug fair bnsitiAes on her Southern orma of which the lad will give a series of 100 concerts lard in the hands of the billiard editor of this paper enough to make a steady mint of (he place. if a catchpenny feature, w Eu^eno Sangor,, the moH- our, but not impiovrag iu her acting. under the management of Al-bey, Sc'toefM and Gran about two weeks ago, when we published his challenge success. Get trade at any coat, aud put on your proflta Benger boy, employed hist year by tho Lyceum Theatre next (ioason. The new series will begin iu October, and to p!ay either Burris or Bnllock at balk-tin? or after yon get trade. This id the one sound principle, Company, of New York, to take souvenirs of "Tho Tho descriptions of tho new society actrem coming ho tour will include this country, Mexico, Havana iiraight billiard* for 5500 a side, waa returned to Mr. The threo-cu all ion-carom tournament contemplated end tho gentlemen who are attempting legislation Highest Bidder" to Loedon and deliver thorn from sere from England uml'jr Harry Sargent'* manage- and tlje large cities of Canada. The present Hofmauu Bollard over a week ago, fu consequence ot tho fail­ for St. Louis aitiatoura haa fallon through. The players against any oue ela*s will only BOO their mistake when door to door. Our mei-nenger service has no counter­ umjt are somewhat contradictory, I certainly heard season will cloee in San Francisco next May. The boy ure <;n the part of Burria and B a Hock to reply to the wen) all tJiaiileised wi'h the handicaps arranged by It is too late. Besides, what is tho use bothering about part in tlio British capital. hat the was rich atnl well born, and simply chose tfce will not return home at the close of hi^ engagement :halleuge. No n»e for a motnt-nt imagined that Mr. John Mould*. A new move is on foot fur six of the this question? Business, before the year in BIX months lago profession AS «u mwj^meat, or an tidjnuct to her IU sifter will be sent for and the family will take a iullocb woul-l har* accepted the challenge, and but t auinteurs of that city to go into a tournament, older, will be so good, ao brisk, so prosperous, that the Mr. Buckstone's presence at tho Vulnut rcctlh his '\nify. Nuw listen to fhi.i in a circular signed l>y ot:au:e in some quiet pi tee in the White Mountains, e\v, if any, WIT** of tho telitf that Buriia would. Bul- tht-v to arrange for the handicap and eutrauco fee governors of the Exchange can legislate all day bat father atid the eminent Kugli.sli comedian, the late ten ry J. Siirgeiil: "Mra. Churcmll-JodreH ia exceed- rhero they will upend the summer months. The boy ock is not a match player in any sense of the word. among thcamclves. It is suggested that \V* yman Mc- they can't drive the public away, no more can they Mr. J. B. liuckotoae. He was, in his last acting days, agly beautiful. Her eyts are heavenly blue, her lips i as a great desire tor hunting and fishing, and longs to lurris, on the other hai'<}, is, and it might have boon Crcery ri&*a» YOLUKICK*, THE Fob. 15. feel Msured that Mr. Conner did not give the AMUSEMENTS. amendment proper concretion in fact I will KENNEL. do my opinion of him the j^tice to say thai he BROAD STREET THEATRE. is in this case only the mouthpiece; of others. There is also Spalding's in connection with this and bis Kangaroo Ease Eall Shoe, DOGS AND THEIR OWNERS. other amendments a very peculiar circumstance. LAST NIGHTS OF Come Recent Purchases Mr. Conner's notice of amendments is dated Abroad—The Ef- Jan. 23 and ects to Date is written under an American MADE TO ORDER AND GUARANTEED. of the Adoption of Rule 2, Kennel Etc. Club letter head. Appended to it, but without date, is tb<) statement Seventeen hundred and fifty dollars for a ten-rrionths-old over the signature of Secretary Vreden- collie is the startling fact of the burgh that t week. tbe notice had that moment Of course it took place in England, been received. The envelope AS there only will buyers, including Americans, bears the post- r mirk "New York, Jan. 28, 1 p. M." Can it be give big prices. Anglomania is rife in dogdom, and a dug possible that a letter dated Jan. 23, and written imported at a large figure must of ne­ in the club office, did cessity be better than one born not reach the secretary here. Given until Jan. 28, or are we to find HAMLET. judges who know their business the clue to this and have pluck peculiar case in the recollection that amend­ enough to support their individual judgments and this ments to the constitution require thirty days' Every Evening, and Saturday idea wlii gradually die out, because the notice, lmportations ar and tho next meeting of the A. K. C. e by no means sure of winning is called for over here. Feb. 23? I simply state the facts, Matinee. others can draw their own conclusions therefrom. . PORCUPISE. EXTRA MATINEE.FEBRUARY 15, A dog of the third class is worth more money in England than here, and it would surprise Kennel Notes. book-wise Americans if they saw some of the Mr. N. Elmore's stnii beagle, Ringwood, is dead. • HAMLET, dogs that have, by judicious placing, won no The Graphic Kennels have sold the pointer dog LAST MATINEE, Saturday, Feb. 18, tnd of prizes. Here the small number of shows Donald to Jlr. J. II. Pheelan, of the Clifton Kennels. enables a mug hunter or an amateur, who runs The Indiana Kennel Club, of Indianapolis, has made AND his kennel upon "businessprinciples," by diving application lor membership to the American Kennel deep down into his bank account, to smother Club. Saturday Eve., Last Performance. Dr. R. B. Evans, of Washington, p. 0., has sold his competitors for a time. Such men, however, blacn, white and tan dog Gladstone II. to Mr. Fred Seats may now be secured for the lost representa­ have always to be buying, and the continuous Pastre, of I'ittebnrg, Pa. tion of ' Hamlet" at Ditsoo's Music Store, or Theatre outlays sooner or later make them quit the busi­ The premium li»t for the New Haven Kennel Club Ticket Office. ness. show, March 27-oO, will not be issued until after the meeting of the A. K. C., Feb. 23. ATIONAL THEATRE, . Ridge Avenue, Tenth and CaUowhill Sta. To come back to the high-priced collie, how- The celebrated fox terrier Result has been bought by N Mr. Fred Hoey, of Long Brunch, who is now iu Eng­ Beserved Orchestra Chairs Only_50Ceots. HIS cnt will give yon an idea of the outlines of our new KANGAROO BASE HALT, SHOK, which we offer to the professional players of America ver, his name is Caractacus what a name for a land. It is stated thftt the purchase was made on be­ T as an absolutely tiist-class shoe, at reasonable price. collie and MONDAY, EVENING, FEBRUARY 13. We desire the measurement of every base ball player in Anv.»ica, and npon receipt of same will make the scene of the sale was Liverpool half of Mr. John E. Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass. a special last which we will keep for future orders. All shoes ordered of us are subject to the approval of purchaser; consequently the risk is ours. GIVE 08 dog show. As The Stockkeeper has been so The Philadelphia Keunel Club hai decided to invite MITISIES TUESDAY,THURSDAY AMD SATURDAY. A TRIAL ORDEK. liberal in quotations from this column of late, I Mr. James Mortimer, of New York, to judge mastiff*, GEO. GORE, of the New York Base Ball Cluh, says:—"I am delighted with the pair of Kangaroo Shoes you have made for me. «»n not do better than return the compliment greyhounds, bulldogs and all the terrier classes, and They fit me perfectly, and I most heartily recommend them to plaverst as the best «hoe I have ever had." Mr. J. Otis Fellows' of Hornellsville, N. T., to judge W. II. WATKISS, Manager Detroit Base Ball Club, writes us as follows: "I thmk It the finest Base Ball Shoe ever placed on tha tod give the story of the sale from the columns spaniels. market, and I expect to place my order for them.'* of our Lpndon contemporary: The Miami Kennp]«, at Madeira, Ohio, last week We have hundreds of letters similar to the abov and have orders for Shoes from a great nnrubor of the leading players. "The record has again been beaten in collifdom, purchased the handsome white black and tan setter and Liverpool 1888 sbow will long be remembered as dog Horace T., A. K. C. 8. B. No. the exhibition 6,010. He i« hy ram where tbe collie, Caractacus, came out, champion Roderigo, out of Lit, winner of the cele­ PKESESTINQsTINO IS THE TIME TO ORDER. and fetched euch a great price; £3;~»0 was the tremen­ brated Grouftdale-Lit £1,000 field trial match. dous sum for which this teo-ffionths-old son of Cre- lome aud Barb KOPO was knocked down to Mr. A. H. Mr. C. J. Peshall's liver and white pointer dog Mof- Mailed free on licgsou, of Manchester, in'jniblic auction on Tuesday. fit of Naso, by champion Nick of Nas,> ex-champion MONTE CRISTO, The dog was bred and exhibited by Mr. J. J. Steward Patti M., whelped Aug. 8, 1887, was stolen from his Application. and was catalogued at £100. kennels in Jersey City. Mr. Pwliall will not offer a With Brilliant Cast, Elaborate New Scenery, Realistic "There were several claimants for him imongst reward for the return of the dog, tut will pay 1100 for Stage Pictures, Grimd Effects, Coirect Appoiut- others Messrs. Megs* n, Boddington, Wilson, Smith and the conviction of the thief. menta and Appropriate Costumes. The EU'ward visited the secretaries' office. Then c«me the Mr. A. Fro.! Nash has Just arrived in this country Entire Production Perfect fr. m England with his celebrated hull hitch chnmp'on in auctioneer's turn, and the dog was put up for sale. Every Detail. A. C. SPALDINC & BROS., Mr. Boddington muds the first move of £125, Mr. Dolores, by champion Grabber and out of champion Steward said £150, and Mr. Mejreon modestly put in Dona Sol. She bus won many prizes in England, and SECURE SEATS DURING THE DAY, 9 to 6. £175, and for some time one after the other bad a will nmke her first appearance in this country on Feb. Dibble. Wbeu £300 wasr^ached thingsseemed serious, 1 at the bench show at Nashville, Tenn. Next Week WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY WEEK, while visitors looked on with open mouths. Even the The following officers of the American English 108 Madison St., Chicago.____241 Broadway, New York. auctioneer seemed to be dazed at tho remarkable Beagle Clnb have been elected for 1888: President, LIGHTS O' LONDON. ftgure being nodded at him. 'Three hundred and Herman F. Scliellha«s; secretary and treasurer, W. H. forty,' said the late owner of the dog 3Ir. Stewart. A Ashburner; executive committee, W. S. Diffenderffer, ALNUT STREET THEATRE. bort pause, aud Mr. Mc^son volunteered another ten M. J. Gaines, Dr. J. W. Downey. The amendment to W I. FLEISHMAN...... Solo Lessee aud Manager. pounds. The auctioneer again pleaded, but alt had the constitution, making annual dues 82, has been A MOST IMPORTANT DRAMATIC EVENT, finished, and thus, auiiuSt great excitement, the ham- carried. WEEK OF FEBRUARY 13. mer fell aod Caractacus become the property of Mr. Mr. A. B. Truman, of San Francisco, Cal., sends ns Two New Stars by Two Popular Stock Artists, Hegso.i f,r £3.50. for publication a challenge to all California dogs, in­ "Cremorne, the sire of Caractacus, won at Liverpool cluding the field trial winners, for a two days' trial on LOUIS JAMES IS •VCTXTHOTTT -A.3XrY two Ye»rs ag<>, and many thought should have at one quail, points only to count, and names his pointer dog time wen the Collie Derby. The dam, Barb Rose, was Rush T. The race to be for $200 each. Ho states that AND whelped with only half an ear. There are six of the he has deposited $50 forfeit with the editor of the lame litter as Caiactacus now in Mr. Steward's posses- Breeler and Spoilsman. tfon. The dam in a vety large bitch. MARIE WAINRIGHT. Several prominent owners of 'dogs are contemp'at- MONDAY EVENING, THE BALL OF THE COUNTRY, . ing the organization of a kennel club on a liberal FEBRUARY 13, OTHELLO I quite agree with The S/ockkeeper in express­ basis, at Syracuse, N. Y. We believe it is their inten­ TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVK'G IT WILL WEAR LONGER, KEEP ITS SHAPE ALWAYS UNDER THE SEVEREST TESTS, and ing surprise that Mr. J. J. Steward, the breeder tion to hold field trials and bench shows. There are AND SATURDAY MATINEE. GRETCHEN Beyond so many excellent dogs in that city and vicinity that of Caractacus, did not know the value of the dog the promoters of this movement will find abundant WEDNESDAY MATINEE, INGOMAR Question it is Preferred by the PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS to Any Other. better than to price him at £100. material for a creditable showing. T^p: FOLLOWING . * At the recent dog show held in Liverpool, England, THURSDAY EVENING, HAMLET WILL EXPLAIN WIIY IT IS THE BEST: a ten months old collie named Caractacus was entered WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY So Result, the champion fox terrier of England, VIRGINIUS OUR SYSTEM OF WINDING makes It bound to be sold for £100. He won several prizes, and there EVENISG each ball exactly alike, for America after all. Mr. Fred Hoey were so many claimants for has been the him at the f ntered price Next Week-RICE'S BEAUTIFUL BVAKGELIXE. medium of the purchase of the that be was put up at auction, and at £350 he became and our PATENT PLASTIC track, and his destination is Mr. Thayer's ken- the property of Mr. Meg-ion, of Manchester. This COMPOSITION applied to the Bel. Rather tough on the Blemtonites fntleman owns Rutland, lor which ho gave £300* /CENTRAL THEATRE. to find V_7 inch a snag in Lucifer's road to victory, which Metchley Wonder cost him £500, and he only a few Commencing MONDAY EVE., FEB. 13. yarn makes it impossible for a single s?rantf of yarn to shift weeks before the Liverpool show gave £240fur Climax, MATINEES, TUESDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY. Itemed perpetual. who WHS beaten by Caractacns. . Mr. F. Blackwood Fay, of ihe New England Kennel THE FAMOUS ifntfer the cover, thus insuring a perfect ball. I commend to a leading dog owner of this city Club, has sold to Mr. B. W. Holmes, of Milwuimee, hie note in The Stotkkfeper respecting his sup­ entire kennel of King Charles and Bltuheim spanuls, posed portraits of his dogs. I fully agree with the exception of (King Charles) Champion Mil­ RENTZ--SANTLEY with waukee, Charley and Dolly, aud (Blenheims) Exeter A. J. REACH & CO., tile criticism, for the photographs fron which the Earl and Exeter Beauty. Mr. Holmes' purchase em­ NOVELTY AND BURLESQUE QQ. eats were made have been tinkered out of braces the fullowing: Blenheims, Joan of Arc, Exeter PATENTEES AND SOLE MANUFACTURERS of f all semblance to nature or tbe animals they are Lady, Exeter Duke nod two pups by King Victor, ex- npposed to represent. Joan of Arc. The King Cbarltses transferred from Mr. Fay to Mr. Holmes' kennel are: Royal, Nell Management of the the American Association Ball. ___ . Gwynne II, Nellie, Minnie, Floss, Ruby and six puss. "Barry" Smith isn't going to bring Plinlim- There was a meeting of the American Pet Dog Club Bon over this spring. Probably heard of the reg­ held in New York Feb. 2. There was an interesting!.-interestin ' * ^ . , ," Clubs and Managers are Invited to send for our sample line of istration rule. Mr. E. H. Moore wanted discussim relative to the proposed constitution ana'^S" rt '" ?lve * Pure« of ?50 to y Looal Wrestler whom to buy >_._. i...* ., . «_.. \ _..:*.. ™_~ *„«,.., fri,,. f itr^^ the big fellow, but no trade was made. Then he lawe, but n > final action was taken. The ' < •• A TPrt 11 n « A/\r«aisi/t*ii TI I r* I • rt Base Ball Flannels, with prices for Complete Uniforms. the classification go far as a'lopted^^,^^. prey- MATSUDA SORAKICHI, THE JAP, a price on Duke of Maryborough >oes not throw in 20 rr.iuute?, or £200 to any Wrtstlor poodles, blnck, other tr-au blnck; j,nes, Chinese; pugs, who throws the JAP in the same spftcp of time. It bs^tl to get a real crack nowadays, except at 10 to ni'.v., 18 to 251be. (bitclies not over 18!bs.); span­ COMPLETE UNIFORMS FROM $5.00 UPWARD.: a blood-thrilling price. iels. Bleuheim, Japanese, King Charles. Frincv ("buries, Kuby, all others under 2S:ba.; Terriers, Bedliugton, SIXTH ANNUAL BENCH SHOW black and tun not over 7ibc., ovei 71b8., bull not over »a.ix- "WTfir ranted.) Mr. Cugle must feel somewhat disgruntled at 201bs., Dandle Dinmont. foximder 8!t»., Irish, Maltese, the support the clubs seein to be giving rule 2. Scotch, Skje, Yorkshire blue and tan, 5 to 151U., WE REMOVE TO OUR NEW STORE, 1022 MARKET STREET, AFTER FEBRUARY 1st. I said I was going to occupy a seat in the gal­ Yorkshire othpr thun blue aud tan, same weight. lery and Mr. John Masters, superintendent of Mr. Mitchell watch how things progressed, and really Harrison's Chestnut Hill Kennels, wiitca THE SrORi- it has been very interesting to do a bit of look- INO LIFF. as fullowe: "The Cbeatnnt Hill Kennela ijig on for once in a while. We were led to un­ have sold collie bitch Gem, brrn July 12, 1884, by Black, A. ex Fairy, to J. Mr. Lloyd, REACH derstand of Minnesota. Mr. & that the registration rule was the long CO., ought for panacea which was to cure every de­ Draper, PMIcdei[jhia, collie bitr.h Queen Bees, was bred Fed. 5, 1888, to Chestnut Hill Kennela' David. FREE. ject and render the exhibiting of dog? one of the The Chestnut Hill KennelV Bonuie Brao was bred 1022 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA. pleasures of life. I am not sure but that in the Fell. 4, 1888, to their champion Dublin Scot. Mr. minds of some it would put a stop to all com- Mitchell H-irrison ban purchased for his long string, tolaints of disappointed exhibitors and every at Cnestnut flill Kennels, the celebrated young cham­ «ne was pion of Enyland, Metobley Surprise, one of the best to be made as happy as if he had won a rough-coated collie bitches ever known, born in June, Parlor Mirrors, ADVERTISING HANGERS! flrst prize. 1886, a beautifully marked black, tan and white, by Sefton, ex Lady Kutland. She, stands on the best legs Phila. Kennel Club, The indications are that all is not M and feet, well made, dense coat and frill and perfect A Splendid Advertising Scheme!! it should bead and FEB. 28, 29, MARCH 1, 2, have been under the new dispensation. We ears. Metchlev Surprise has never been de­ avings; feated, running from Ihe puppy cla*s to tho challenge AT ELITE RINK S3D AND CHESTNUT STREETS, have heard from the Boston, New Haven, Hart­ clasi without being stopped. She is the winner of 22x28 INCHES ITST SIZE, ford, New Jersey, Westminster Fox Terrier eight first prizes aud specials and three champion ENTRIES CLOSE FEBRUARY 18. With colored picture of ball players in centre and twelve spaces, five inches Club, and Cleveland clubs or their secretaries, prizes." ______For Premium Lists, Blanks, etc., apply to Undertaking to voice the sentiment of W. H. CHILD, Secretary P. K. C., ETCHINGS, square, for advertisements. Also space for schedule of home games of local club. their N. E Cor. Thirteenth Clubs, and the result is as follows: Boston and CHESS AND CHECKER NOTES. and Market Streets, Phila. A Canvasser Wanted in Every City that has a Ball Club. Jlew Haven have thrown the rule overboard in ICYCLE RACING. toto. Hartford says no dogs should be regis­ The chess match between Judd, of St. Louis, and B THE GREATEST EVENT OF THE SEASON, HE CAX MAKE A PROFIT OF $200 TOR A FEW DAYS' WORK. tered unless with authentic pedigrees, and no Hodges, of Tennessee, a Southern champion, resulted Enclose 6 cents in stamps for sample and postage to dogs should be shown unless so registered. New in favor of Judd by 3 games to 2. A SIX-MYS' BICYCLE RACE. Jersey says Charles F. Barker, the American checker champion, (Twelve hoars per day), will take place at it is not right to place mongrels on who recently beat the Scotch champion Martins, at the ELITE the game footing as pedigreed dogs. Cleveland, RINK, Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets, commenc­ Glaseow, has returned to America. ing MONDAY, FEB. 20, AND FIVE FOLLOWING JNO. B. SAGE, As a matter of course, unqualifiedly endorses tbe A che«6 tourney for the championship of the Domin­ DAYS. All the Charr.pions and World's Record PUBLISHER BASE BALL ADVERTISING SPECIALTIES, fnle. It would not be Cleveland, as voiced by ion has just been conluded at Quebec. A boy of 16, N. Holders will Compete, Including FRANK F. DING- Easels, Jt8 present spokesman, if it did not make itself McLeod, was the winner of the flrst prize. LEY, holder of 100 miles'record; JOHN S. PRINCE, 33 TJ Z» ! -A- 31i O, 3XT. "ST. » laughing-stock. The Fox Terrier Club will H. C. Brown, of Anderson, was the winner of tho bolder of 72 hours' record; S. 6. WHITTAKER. holder pay the (ee for dogs entered on its stakes. West­ chees championship of Indiana in the tonrnamcut con­ of 24 hours' road record; S. HOLLINGSWORTH, luded at Indianapolis, Jan. 14. Dr. T. F. Leech was holder of 51 to 65 miles record; T. HAKDWICK (the minster calls for further discussion. second. Kansas Cowboy), who has a record of 628 miles in 48 DOYOUWAmPICTllEOFTHE REMOVAL. The following named officers hare born elected by uours; W. F. KNAI'P, champion of Colorado, and Pedestals, Mr. Mortimer, as »n inducement to exhibitors the New Haven, Conn., Checker Club: E. B. Law­ to enter at New York, assured us over his sig­ rence, president; J. Whately, vice president; A. N. LOUISE ARMAINDO, nature that anything traveling on four legs Sperry, secretary and treasurer. The Champion Female Bicyclifet of tbe World, who It has been staled that Messrs. Hefter, Reed, Baker held tbe Long-Distance Championship of Picture could be registered, that being really the ob­ and Gnrley think of publishing a magazine in Chicago, America for four years. jection to the present rule as urged by Hartford entirely devoted to checkers. Their ability la un­ On Thursday next, Feb. 16, a Grand Amateur Bicycle I have a fine pronp engraving on celluloid of tho »nd New Jersey. Then the Westminster Club questioned, and they have our best wishes. Race Sleeting under the auspices of the PENNSYL­ delegate has proposed an amendment to the rule The Sixth American Chess Congress may now be re­ VANIA BICYCLE CLUB AND THE CENTURY Frames* garded as an assured coming event. Over $4,000 WHEELMEN, will be held in the same building, com- DETROIT CLUB which, if the amendment is carried, so qualifies has that I will send you by mail for 50c. It as to turn indignation into laughter. already been subscribed, and it will not take long to mi-ncing at 9 o'clock. Among the events will be club &c., &o. Tho secure the full amount of 86,000 required to make the races for Philadelphia Wheelmen, and two professional F. A. SMITH. amendment is to exclude dogs under twelve grand tourney a success. races open to all. P. O. BOX 948, PHILADELPHIA. months of age from the working of the rule. Tha annual meeting of the New Jersey State Chess ADMISSION...... :...50 CENTS. Remit by postal Dote or stamps (one and two coot My readers will bear me out in the statement Association has been called for February 22. It is stamps only). that I have ever fpoken of Mr. Donner in the proposed to mako an effort to gather ixty-fonr SPECIAL ADVERTISING. Old Frames Re-gilded highest terms of respect. My acquaintance players to contest for the C. H. Wateibury cup as a Exchanges, Wants, Breeders' Cards, Sales, nith him began under other first prize and 810 second prize. Situations or Uelp Wanted, etc., per word, NOISE: STJBDUERS. channels A friendly checker match of six games between BKEEDEKS'CAKDS.______than in connection with dogs, and the Initial or number for each and eveiy inser­ "John CreahftD. of tbe Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, hal "Boy Cham'pion" of England, Master Kichardson, and tion...... 02J4c. deTiaed a much-need e'l appliance Tor reducing the noise in rooms, be has ever been to my mind the Master Goulil, of Sliddlcslioronzh, was played at Har- 5~ Cash must accompany order. ENRY WAGNER, ROSLIJ.-DALB, MASS. and a ral*nt has fc-cn grani«d him for it. Almost every plajer, Homing pigeons and who has consideration fur others, will recall how much he has been beau ideal of a sporting gentleman. In tlepcol, Jan. 2, when Master Could came off the win­ &~ No advertisement inserted for less than .35 c. H game fowl. Quality made to suffer in consequence of the niauia his neiiriiboring disagreeing with him on certain subjects and ner, with the score, Gouid, 3; Richardson, 2; drawn 1 * Will those replying to advertisements below of the stock birdu shown in the work of their progeny. players have had for hammering their cues upou the floor, a* if to game. mention THE SPOUTINO LIFE? If any one deals un­ Young birds have made 525 miles, old birds haTe made beat time when they had failed to heat their anta^nnht. Creahan methods, I have endeavored to show to him that 600 and 700. All that was asked of them. Proven tops this racket bj » simple device that he attaches to the butt of The chess tournament which has been held among fairly report them to us. the cue. CAs he describes it In ft letter, aourteous treatment he extends to those who the members of tho I.abourdonnais Chess Clnb, of 9- All transfers of stock, If endorsed by both buyer records only. his invention, despite its differ from him. His affiliations with the West­ amusing simplicity, is something we uever hefor^ heard of or saw, Columbia College, has lately been finished, with tho ani seller, will be recorded free of charge. rpHEODORE P. GREEX, WOODBURV, N. J. Creahan conceired the idea because he lind failed t<» g-.-t the thing minster Kennel Club, of which he is now presi­ following result: »lrst prize, H. Breckenridgo, Law itself, or a substitute for it, from tho biliiaM nctniifact'irers.- H« CHAS. E. MASON School; second 1 Homing pigeons and fantails. Only one quality ba* decided to fix tbe price at one dollar a dozen. JV. K. flipper. dent, and the position I have taken on many of prize, E. Hymes, '91, and William Schil- BOOKS. of breeding sto'ck and that the beet money can Becnre. HAS REMOVED TO the acts of his fellow members, has undoubtedly labor, third prize. Sent, Postpaid, by Mail on Receipt of Price. A fewsnrplus birds for sale.______eaused tho relations between us to bo strained, The annual meetingof the Toronto Draught Club was Practical Pigeon Keeper (cloth)...... 81.50 BILLIARDS. 137 N". Eighth Street, heM recently, when the following officers were elected: Practical Poultiy Keeper (cloth)...... 3.00 H. PL ATT, 69 THOMAS ST., NEW YonK. but nevertheless my opinion of him has never James Uennie. president; T. J. Crai.z, 1st vice president; HEADQUAKTKUS FOR THE PHILADELPHIA. Illustrated Pigeon Book (colored plates)...... 8.OO F Having contracted with several of the meet Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. Billiard ebanged. On his part also he has on many oc­ R. Y. Grant, 2nd vico president; R. A. Fraser, secre­ Illustrated Poultry Book (wood-cuts)...... 5.00 successful flyers of pigeons to take all their surplus casions shown that, tary-treasurer; E. W. Dugan, auditor; J. Ooodwm, Tables, Carcrn Combination and Pool. as was to be expected, ho American Standard for Poultry...... 1.00 stock through 1888, will have a few young birds to Billiard Goods of every description always on hand. rises above the level of many of the A. K. C. chairman of committee. American Standard for Pigeons...... 2.00 dispose of. THE SPOUTISO LIFE bands only. ____* Over 500,000 \uise Stibil tiers Sold. delegates and recognizes that tho good of the Mr. S'.einitz announces In the January Internatirmai KUBBER STAMPS. orders from all parts of the world |ironif>tly atioudeiU) JHE AMERICAN CY&LES that he has in preparation a book on chess, treating ERMAN DIENELT, 1306 HOWARD ST., elub is the first object to be attained, no matter Two-line Stamps, name aud address...... 91.00 Philadelphia. White homing pigeons and JOHN .CBEAHAN, DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE tho matter exhaustively and completely. This au­ "Caught or Shot," with name and address...... H Continental Hotel, Philadelphia. from whom the beneficial suggestion may thor's conceded ability as an analyi.t and his well- 1,00 message birda tho specialties. Young birds for sale in known mastery of Figures, 0 to 9, each...... 10 lesson. THE SPOHTIXO LIFE bunds. " ON APPLICATION. emanate. all book-knowledge on the subject Ever-Ready Pad...... 60 should Cjiveusa book of undeniable value, whkb HAS. LIENHARD, 438 W. COURT ST., CIN- thould have a ready and immediate sale. BANDS FOR MARKING PIGEONS, 08MULLY&JEFEERY In thus defining my opinion of and position THK SPORTING LIFE Seamless. Burglar proof. For C clnnati.O. Breeder of fast, performing, tumblers DI-;ALI:U IN with Chess is a mental difciplino of tho highest order and Birmingham Rollers. Send for price list.____ The Bmnswick regard to Mr. Donner, I can certainly es­ It develops and strengthens the powers of the mind n»e upon young birds in the nest. Birds to be recog­ Balkc Collendcr C'o.'s CHICAGO, ILL. cape any accusation of personality in discussing and calls into use the faculties of imagination, memory nized as youngsters for 1888 must wear these bauds. E. NEWELL, FOOT W. 19TH ST., NEW Billiard and Pool Tables, l?ar Fix­ his proposed amendment. I refrained and analysis. The result must therefore be the Every bird wearing ft band is registered. York. Breeder of caniers and barbs. Won &T MANUFACTURERS IN AMERICA from do­ Consecutively numbered and one initial: D tures, Saloon Furniture, Check ing so last week for no other reason than that I strengthening of those powers for other purposes. No all the premiums at New York, Baltimore, Boston and young man should Single ban.!...... 05 4 bands...... 10 Rochester. A few and Cash Registers, Ete. preferred fail to become acquainted with the birds for sale to reduce stock. 1008 A11C1I STIU.KT, thinking over my own views a little game, and he can do it by joining the chess club. 40 bauds...... $1.00 100 bands...... 82.30 PHII.ATKLVHIA. more, solely on account of tbe source from which Each additional initial, 5Oc. per 100. Messrs. Burn and Guneberp, who tied for flrst place Open EXCHANGES. SPRATT8 PATENT the amendment came. I have seen no cause, in the late tuurnnment of the British Chess Associa­ metal bands for adult birds: nor can I raife in my own mind anything in tion, have played a tic match 1 to 100, consecutively numbered...... 91.OC Z. EVANS, GnHMASTOw.t, ED. McLAUGHLIN'S to dccMe, and after play­ Each initia! on band, per 10O...... CO PA., OFFERS inpport of the amendment which can by any ing five games, of which each won one and tho other Address BOOK DEPIHMCNT, D books, varnish, clear building lots, nursery stock, DOG CAKES. possibility lead me to alter my three were d rawn, agreed to draw the match and divide Kales, gasoline stoves and miscellaneous merchandise Billiard Parlors, first conceived the (takes. This tournament TBS SPOBTINO Liri PUBLISHING Co., Opinion. This was wa« open to the world Philadelphia, Pa for furniture, books, carriage, huueas, outlory, dry E'lijisaan.i1 ST. that if the rule is bad the so that now we have » double-heftded champion of the goods, pure-tired poultry or offers.______BKOAU ST. STATION, I'UILADKU'HIA OF ALL SPORTING GOODS amendment is still worse. If wholesale regis­ world. tration of dogs is advisable or necessary, then it SALES. W. PATERSON, CHICOPEK FALLS, MASS., will exchange blue owl cocks, nice birds, for DEALERS AND GROCERS, ought to bo carried out. To discriminate be­ WANTS. black, yellow or biu« Magpies. Birds must bo clean tween r G. MILLS, ALBANY, N. Y. OFFBRS FOB dogs by age alone is a virtual acknowl­ I §»!«, owls, fantails, barbs and carriers. and good breeders. ______THE HANDSOMEST OF MODERN edgement that the rule is wrong. E. II., THE SPORTING LIFE OFFICE Wants a light-blue magpie cock, a black priti K. VANVALKENBURGH, No. CnAT- DECORATIONS. DOC BUYERS' CUiDEv I Jcock and a yellow priest cock. Will pay a reasonable SKAR SEIFERT, 388 SPRINGFIELD ATB. ham, N. Y., offers one female foxhound or one Colored platos, 10O {•n»rr:iviiis9 R Under the rules » puppy can be shown in the priw for good birds, must be clean, but not plucked O Newark, N. J. Offers for sole swallows, tl collie, female, three years old, for Plymouth rocks. FIRE PKOOF! of dtSoreut breeds, price** they are | Send description of Mtda with price.______colon, trumpeters, turblts, priests and rote Jacobins. worth, and where to buy them. I open class, hence there is a possibility of his R. L. S. CLARK, 1505 GIBAHD AYKSUE, WATER PROOF! Mailed fr,r 15 Cents. I winning in such a class, and not to put him on EORGE PATERSON, CHICOPEE FALLS IBLES A WERTZNER, GEKERAL WAYNE D Philadelphia, will exchange homing pigeons of FIDELITY WALL PAI'EIl CO., ASSOCIATED FANCIERS, I the same footing as his competitors is making a Mass., want! Hotel, Baltimore, Ud. Will mpplj jhe best of itrsin« for fancy pigeon*. Mention TUB 237 B. Eighth 6t. PbU*d«lfhi*, S a, J G one good black magpie boa F shooting Ho. U North EloTOiiUi S»ri*t, 4jstin