VOLUME 34, NO. 11. PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 2, 1893. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. A RIVAL FOR THE H THE WORK OF REORGANIZATION WILL BE THE GAS BELT LEAGUE PROGRESSING. OF INDIANA, President Fogel Will be Able to Call Such a League Now Being Organized the Delegates Together For Confer For Next Season An Eight-Club ence in About Two Weeks Six ol Allair With lore or Less Trolley the Eight Clubs Needed in Line, Line Backing the Probable Outcome,
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 28. Editor Muneie, Ind., Nov. 27. "Editor "Sport- "Sporting Life:" President Horace Fogel, Ing Life:" A Gas Belt Base Ball League of the reorganized Atlantic League, to-day Is assured for next season. All the pre spoke most encouragingly of the outlook liminary details have been, arranged. The for the organization. Said he: "The At cities included in the League are Elwood, lantic Base Ball League has nearly com Alexandria, Marion, Anderson, Muneie, pleted its circuit for next year and will- Fairmount, Kokomo and Richmond. The be ready to hold a meeting for permanent plans for the organization are thought to organization in about two weeks. Si(x of be such that the league will be success the eight clubs have been organized, with ful from the beginning.- In each of the good business men and plenty of capital cities the ball grounds are to be located back of them, and the other two are now ou the electric line of the Union. Traction under process of formation. The policy Company, and teams can travel between, of the new administration is to go slow, cities readily and at comparatively small get good men and plenty of capital back expense. The railway company will, it is of each club, so there will be no break said, bear the expense of preparing the down at any time during the season to grounds in this city. The local organi disrupt the organization. That has been zation at each point is to gather up the the great fauIFljeretofore with most minor necessary players and manage the af leagues, and the Atlantic League means fairs of the club. The salary limit will be to profit by that experience. When finally $500, and it is thought plenty of good ma completed the Atlantic League will have terial can be obtained at that price. The one of the best circuits ever arranged for season will opea about May and close Sep a minor league, with good cities, all its tember 1. Hubs well backed financially, a short, in expensive circuit, and a salary limit which will be strictly enforced. Catcher Fred Jacfclitzsch, ol Philadelphia, ADVANCEMENT, EH? Frisbee©s Case as an Illustration of BONNER©S BOOST. How the Intent of the Drafting DUNGAFS DAY. FARRELL©S FANCY. Law is Frustrated by Farming. Tlie Hartford Scribes and Fans The injustice of the farming rule is seen "Want Barnie to Get Him Back For The Crack Western League Batsman A Very Prophetic Eye Not Needed Once More to Have a Chance in the to Discern Future Greatness in in the case of outfielder Frisbee, of the Next Season. Major League. Jimmy Hughes. Bostons. Frisbee was turned over to Tom Loftus, of the Grand Rapids team in the Hartford, Conn., Nov. 28. Editor "Sport It is a long lane that has no turn and Jimmy Hughes was singled out by Duke ing Life:" The local enthusiasts are anx Sam Dungan has at last been rewarded. Farrell as one of the future pitching Western League, along with $1000, in the ious to have Billy Barnie secure Frank No fielder in the Western League has been great, on the day of Jimmy©s debut as a deal for backstop Sullivan. This ex Bonner for second base of the 1000 team. of more value to a team in the past four major League twirler. Hughes opened change of dollars and one human being When Bonner was sold to Washington one seasons than the bald-pated one, but each the season of 1898 in Washington, shut for a likely player gave Frisbee a right of the local writers remarked in connec fall he has out the Senators, and twirled a one-hit to file a large and vociferous wail, and tion with the transfer that it would "re BEEN OVERLOOKED game. This lone single safety was of he is backod in his grievance by some quire some mighty fine engineering" on the by the agents who were purchasing play the doubtful order, a line drive from Mc- National League managers, who are de part of Barnie "to reduce the wrath of ers for major League clubs, and was also Guire that Stenzel dropped after a hard sirous of signing so promising a player as the people here who pay money at the passed coldly by when the drafting com run. "That new red-head of Hanlon©s the athlete who was relegated to the Grand, -gate." Bonner©s success in that city made menced. The only way to account for this pitched a fair ball, but he will probably Rapids farm. In other words, the Boston, him exceedingly popular with the people, is that when once a man has had a trial go akiting before he goes down the line Club handicaps the future of one good who regarded the infield as perfect. Then in fast company arid fails to hold up his on the other ten clubs this season," said player for the sake of experimenting with when the sale took place and Bouner went end they do not stop to think that he may Jack Doyle after the young Carlifornian©s another. In the obscurity of a minor to Washington the "inconsiderate cranks" improve, and the impression, prevails that debut at National Park. "Don©t be tell league Frisbee may run to seed and his could not be appeased, for the deal did he is an old fellow. Now, Dungan may ing yourself lies, Jack. That lad will be hopes of a future be blasted by the selfish not find a responsive chord with them. be bald and old enough to vote, but he pitching ball when some of our pitching ness of grasping magnates. And this is Hartford lost by the sale in more ways is still a young man and is good for many stars are working their arms in tank called advancing players in their profes than one, as the writers "got after" Bar years of service in the diamond by reason water towns," was Farrell©s prophecy. sion, in the very words of the National nie in a warm style and the attendance of his good habits. He has always been Farrell saw a great pitcher in Hughes, on Agreement! Out upon such perversion of was affected. The fans here claim that A TOP-NOTCH HITTER, the strength of Jimmy©s one game in law and justice. New York "Telegram." notwithstanding his turn down by Irwiii but when he first-joined the Chicago Club Washington, and his prophecy was real he is still a great player, and they are the outfield was a new position to him aud ized ere half the season was over. Brook Quite a High-Roller. correct in their estimate of his ability. naturally he did not shine as a gardener. lyn "Eagle." Since playing the position regularly Dnn- Backstop Al Smith, of the Orioles, la among the talent now in Washington for Which American Association? gan has improved wonderfully aud now Just One Little Thing. covers a world of ground, is one of the the fall race meeting. Alec had a swell Manager Selee is authority for the state best throwers in the business, and also "There isn©t a great deal of difference commission down on the Jeffries end of the ment that the National League circuit will has the faculty of picking the ball out in the curves and speed of League pitch Jeffries-Sharkey s©aughter a la Armour be reduced to eight clubs before another of the sun, so Chicago will doubtless use ers.©© says catcher Uobiusou, of the Balti- stock yards rules, and also pulled clown season opens. He also predicts that the him in that left garden, where the sun has mores. "It©s the knack of putting a ball .f 1000 of his own coin, which he wagered at League and the American Association will,IjMHI! used many a player to make u failure, where the batsman is not looking for it odds averaging 100 to 75. Washington work in harmony. Boston "Herald," etroit "Free Press." that makes a pitcher successful." "i©ost." f SPORTING- LIFE.
established. "The old Brotherhood man. and hope that yon will slick." "Stick," says Ebbetts, "you© know what aught a lesson which. I think, has not a porous plaster can do, don©t you?" That been forgotten," said he. "Knowing ends the incident. FOUR CLUBS this failure men will not put money into are hanging around like fish hawks over BROOKLYN©S PRESIDENT DISCUSSES his venture." freshly drawn nets waiting for the ex BY NO MEANS YET AN ACCOMP plosion that they expect will come at the National League meeting, for it is be- THE SITUATION. lieved>by some of these organizations that LISHED FACT. FOSTER©S FACTS. there is going to be a smash-up, whether or no, and that certain base ball magnates Nobody in Brooklyn Worrying Over seeing nothing ahead of them but failure, He Speaks ol Syndicate Ball The the Club©s Status in the League or are going to sell out at the last moment Only Part ol (lie Necessary Amount Over the Antagonism in Certain to whoever will bid the highest price for Proposed Rival American Associa their players. Who in thunder would want Quarters. to continue in the National League with Pledged and Eren That Attached Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 28. Editor "Sport the almost positive assurance that he would tion and Brooklyn©s Claims to the ing Life:" Everybody gets interviewed in have only two years to live, knowing that to a Very Serioas Condition as to Brooklyn nowadays. That is, everybody his assets that is to say, his releases of \vlio wants to say anything about base ball. players would not be worth as much by League©s High Consideration, Between one crowd, that persists in get one-half at the expiration of a year. There the Stability ol the Investment. ting Brooklyn out of the Lerurue, and En- are a lot of good men who will bring a other, that is determined that Brooklyi. fair price for their services during 1900. President Ebbetts. of the Brooklyn shall stay in, there is food for gossip for Whether they would bring the same price According to latest. Washington .ad Club, roused by the attacks both covert all of us. at the end of 1900 is quite another ques CHARLEY EBBETTS tion. - © vices. the purchase of the W.asliington and .overt upon his organization, came was Interviewed the other day. Ke snid A GRAVE QUESTION;©.. Club, member of ..the National League, to the front the other day with an inter exactly the same things that everybody By the way, that is going to be a knotty from the Wagner brothers by a syndi else has said: to wit, that Brooklyn had a problem to solve when the League gets view upon the present critical condition few dollars invested in the sport; that it to a rinal breaking up, if it should. Will cate of local business men will be con-. of affairs in the upper strata of the Na wasn©t going to quit base ball in a hurry, a new organization be formed which will summated before the end of the year. And that there would be a club in the go in and help itself liberally wherever it tional game. Said he, among other City of Churches just as long as there w.r.s can, or will there be some kind of a pro We are told that over $20,000 of the things: "I don©t think there is any prob a National League. Brooklyn can©t be tective law passed which shall entail a $30,000 asked by the Wagners for -a forced out this year, aad e very t hi us may man©s property rights long enough to al ability of Brooklyn being dropped by the happen before next year. low him to get some sort of protection©© quitclaim -deed has been subscribed, League, nor any intention to force the THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT More than one magnate is interested in and those at the head of the move say club out. Our contract with the Nation is the very direct intimation that Messrs. that question, for if I am cot much mis $25,000 more is easily in sight. Further Ebbetts and Abell are persona grain to taken there are a few who are of opinion al "League does not expire for two years the remainder of the League, and that they that they are going to get a good ball club more we are informed that the syndi without paying much money for it. It cate will raise $50,000, all of which will to come, and it was entered into when will be allowed to stay if they will prompt wouldn©t be strange if they worked on Brooklyn was a city in itself. The con ly get rid of Messrs. Vonderhorst and Hun- that idea. In fact, it would be quite a be deposited in bank, and then they will Ion, who are now under the ban. I won send a representative to the coming solidation of the two cities should not der what that came off. Are all the old surprise party if they worked on anv other. associations in the League getting "bust - . . JOHN B. FOSTER. League meeting to look things over be affect it in the least, to my mind. ed" since these recent confabs, at which fore putting up their money. All of BROOKLYN©S CLAIMS. new combinations were patched up? It which is good, if true but the consum "Why should Brooklyn be dropped? certainly begins to look that way. JENNINGS© JOLLY. QUO VADIS? mation of the sale is, everything consid Haven©t we always tried to furnish good This lying-down of the wolf and the lamb The Great Brooklyn Player Talks of ered, a matter of grave doubt. base ball? Haven©t we always shown is very spectacular, and all that, but just the Proposed New Association and where it is leading to? What are we going of His Own Desires. that we had the elevation of the game at to hear next? It©s like reading chapters out heart? The game became rather dull in of new base ball history to hear that Von Hugh Jenniugs, of the Baltimore team, derhorst and Haulon are not wanted. who is passing the winter in Philadelphia The Negotiations For the Sale of the Brooklyn in 1898. We were nearly as There was a time when they were svaut- under treatment for his arm bv the fa Club 10 a L/ocal Syndicate The good as other teams, but the patrons of ed so badly that the National League re mous Dr. White, of the University of mained awake nights wondering now it Pennsylvania, the other day said some nice Hurdles to be Cleared, Ktc. the game clamored for better ball. Some could get their assistance. things of the proposed Washington, D. C.. Nov. 27. Editor NEW ASSOCIATION. thing had to be done. What then? We A LOT OF FENCE TIMBER "I have been let into soifle of the se "Sporting Life:" Michael Scan loir -and consolidated with Baltimore, brought the has been cut in the, League for the last crets of the new league." said Jennings, t©hose associated with him in the effort month and there have been some very "and you would be surprised at the back to purchase the local base ball franchise best players into the Brooklyn team, and clever carpenters at work putting it up as ing pledged to the promoters. I am not met last Thursday at the office of Frank gave our city better satisfaction for their fast as they could. Some old grudges are at liberty to say who these men are, but B. Raymond. About $20,000 out of the money than they have had for some to be paid and some good old friends are if things progress as anticipated, these $50,000 desired has been raised. Not .one to be sacrificed that certain of the good men will come out into the open and theu time. If other teams had done likewise and wise men may hang onto a portion of of the subscribers \vas willing o have the magnates will discover something that his name published. .Subsequent- -meet the ideal in base ball would have been their power and influence. But that©s part will set them to guessing. Now, do yon of the game. I suppose. The only thing suppose the promoters would abandon ings are to occur at the call of A Mr. reached. that has prevented much more throat cut their business and use their time and Scanlon. ting is the fact that the chief villains have money pushing along the league if they MUST BE A CINCH. AS TO NEW YORK©S CLDB. been banded together for the last eight were not sure that the money would be Mr. Scanlon said to-day that the whole "We made money in Brooklyn last years where they couldn©t be brigands, forthcoming when needed? A©proposition sum needed to purchase the club would year, and what is more the balance in even if they had the desire. has been made to me to manage the Mil be raised, provided the Wagners can de BROOKLYN IS COMFORTED waukee Club and 1 am considering it. Baltimore was on our side. Our feeling liver the goods. Assurances will be re by one thought, advanced by some opti THE LEAGUE©S PLAYERS. quired that the Indianapolis agreement toward New York has always been mistic person, and that is, that the League "Of course the players are not under will never dare to permit the city to get contract now anrl we have a right to shall continue in force the allotted ten friendly. Why, the better the team New away, knowing that it would be the think and talk and to negotiate. If We years, and that Washington shall not York has the more will our patrons a strongest kind of a base on which to jump were to do these things while under con be dropped in the arrangement of a cir in and perfect the organization of another tract the present magnates might make well as the followers of the game in cuit for the two ensuing playing sea association that might give the National trouble for us. The players would be with sons. The Wagners will have to secure New York be pleased. Keen rivalry be League just as much trouble as some of the new Association in sentiment and those that have gone before. For it is a would go with the new organization if this agreement from the League at the tween the two boroughs brings greater fact that it takes very little cash to pro given satisfactory guarantee of perma next meeting of that organization. interest into the game and tends to les voke a great deal of disturbance in a base nency. They would go, too. without much When all the arrangements for the ball league, and mines have been washed of an increase of salary, i think an in deal are completed the representatives sen the discontent among those interested away just because the hose was turned crease of $500 would get about ail the of the syndicate will attend the National in the sport. New York should have a the right way at the righf time. men ia the business." League meeting at New York, and make THE BROOKLYN PLAYERS HANKERS FOR BALTIMORE. all the necessary guarantees for carry good^eam, and we will are taking the matter stoically enough. Jeuuiiigs continued: "My ambition Is to ©*" GIVE ANY ASSISTANCE I believe that one or two of them, at play and live in Baltimore. That is my ing out their part of the deal. in our power to improve its team, or any least, has had an offer from the new Asso present legal place of residence and that FLYING HIGH. ciation, but they are not in very much of is where, of all. cities. I want to live and Washington©s representative business other team in the League. New York a hurry to sign with another organisation. work. I don©t like Brooklyn at all. There men are behind this movement to give could have had McGraw, Robinson and as pay days come with a great (leaf! of is such a large floating population th
management as yet. It is just this way. it is the Congress street ground, so much 1 like the Western, or rather the AiLori- talked about, is not known. can. League. Walt Wilmot-ls a uic? uiou 1 IN NEW YORK THE INTER-STATE to play with. the situation is also doubtful. It is said "Then a man has other advantages by that Tom O©Raurke has been induced to staying in the American. Of course, in withdraw from the project, owing to a WISELY MAKES NO CHANGE FOR my case, they are greater tn;;u in most DEVELOPMENTS OF A WEEK Tammany threat to secure a repeal of the players©. There is a month less duty in COli- Hortou Jaw. which gives O©Rourke and his the spring and one less in the fall. If 1 friends their pugilistic bonanza. The New NEXT SEASON. stay in the Western I can put in these CERNING IT. York "Clipper" also says: months attending to my business, winch We have been informed by a gentleman who has grown to such proportions th:it I stands high iu the Tammany Society that would not abandon it for the best ba*e neither Senator Sullivan uor Tom O©Rourke will Charles B. Power, the Able President, ball sit in the country. Of course, \vhile Reports From Ail Points in the Circuit be connected with any American Association I am away my partner, Harry Rinehart, team to be located ill this city. "In fact.©1 Re-elected For Another Year The watches matters just as well as i would, Claimed by the Projectors o! the continued the gentleman, ©there will be u» but still he needs help at the busy times." Ame, ..ii Association team .©coated on Man MENEFEE hattan Island next year, nor for some time League Circuit is Also to Remain looks in splendid health. The old-timer New American Association What thereafter, for that matter." would be a strong man for the Chicago However that may be. it is declared to team. He is one of those strategetic Has Been Revealed to Date, be a fact that up to Monday of this week twirlers, ever on the alert to turn a trick the New York promoters had failed to lo in the game. In addition, he is a clever cate a desirable site for a ball park. The Inter-State League has listened to batsman and can play the outfield better Below will be found the news and gos IN PHILADELPHIA than many men who are now drawing coin matters are absolutely stagnant to all ap the voice of reason and has definitely of the realm as regulars in that part of sip of a week regarding the recently pearances. Nobody interested in base ball decided to make no change where no the field. organized American Association; also and known to be able and willing to invest necessity for any change exists. At the NUGGETS. in the came will confess to having become Jim Brady, the local player, has gone on special correspondence relating thereto a party to this new scheme, although it is League©s adjourned meeting held at the stage. He is doing a club-swinging from the various cities claimed to be in known that Mr. Hough has broached the Cleveland on November 25, Charles B. and bag-punching uiru. Brady joined a matter to a number of people. It is be Powers, of Pittsburg, was re-elected show for the Pennsylvania circuit, starting the circuit of the new organization.: lieved in some quarters that the thing is in at McKeesport. being kept open until a certain League president, over William Meyer, Jr., of Umpire Swartwood leaves soon on an magnate can so arrange his affairs as to Fort Wayne, Ind. No changes were other hunt. Swarty is one of the grittiest THE GENERAL SITUATION. permit him to jump into the breach should made in the circuit for 1900. It com goers after the inhabitants of the woods. things shape up properly. Nothing i? A friend tells me that he often returns President Quin Says It©s All iThat known as to where the ground is to be. II prises Toledo, Columbus, Dayton, from an all-day jaunt with blood pouring Could be Expected. can be stated, however, that the old Ath Youngstown and Mansfield, O.; Fort out of cracks and blisters on his feet. A President Harry D. Quiu, of the new letic ground cannot, for certain reasons, b« Wayne. Ind.; Wheeling, W. Va., and big man is pounded up by pedaling over American Association, announces that secured, and that the ground at Twenty- New Castle, Pa. The only other bus hills and hollows. "Big Ed" punches out everything is moving as smoothly toward ninth and Columbia avenue, which was 18 and 20 miles a day. the complete organization of the Associa considered available, is so no longer, hav iness transacted was the selecting of a W. Harry Watkius could not keep out tion as could be expected under existing ing been sold for building purposes lasi committee consisting of I. Mautner, of of base ball. On leaving here in the conditions. The lack of news, he says, is week. spring he wagered a friend a new hat that A POOR OUTLOOK. I©"ort Wayne; Gus Doeright. of Youngs- due to the imperative necessity for se But oven were these three all-importanl he wofild not be in the base ball business crecy; and the slowness in completing or town: and C. J. Strobel, of Toledo, to re by Oct. 1. By the way, did I tell you cities in line, where is the fourth club in ganization, which is more apparent than the East to be located? If the situation in vise the by-laws. The league will meet the tribute as to Watty©s cunning paid real, is the result of a decision to await by Captain Kerr soon after those option Providence be as forbidding as our Provi* in Cleveland at the call of the president the result of the League©s effort to re dence correspondent last week stated it t« proceedings? "Mr. Watkins," said he, "is duce its circuit and the outcome of the during the later part of January or the too shrewd a man for base ball. He should be, evidently the East is still the greai probable big war between the League and stumbling-block for the proposed new lirst of February. be a broker." Mr. Kerr was not speaking its former satellite, the American (late in a sarcastic vein. He meant every word. American Association. James F. Nellis. the local paragrapher, Western) League. has been elected president of the Western President Quin is inclined to regard the SMARTING SCANLON. PITTSBURG POINTS. Pennsylvania Basket Ball League. This alleged League-Western embroglio with sport has been popular about Pittsburg suspicion. In his opinion the attempt He Denies President Quin©s Cha A New Plan of Action in Pirate Con that is now being made to place in Chi for two winters. A better season than cago a club under the auspices of the of "Laying Down." trol is Necessary President Rerr ever is expected. It©s a fast game and develops many exciting phases. American League is simply an effort to The veteran base ball man, Mike Sc Debating on the Situation. Now that it seems certain that William kill in its incipiency the work of the men. Ion. of Washington, is much exercised o Pittsburg, Nov. 27. Editor "Sporting B. Ewiug will not be the whip of the who are striving to form the new Ameri President Quin©s remark that "he (Sc? Life:"-^-As you have already observed, the Reds© coach next season, there is a re can Association, which is intended to be Ion) had laid down like an old lady," as scheme of the Pittsburg Club owners to vival of that fag end season report about the only worthy rival to the existing Na ported in ."Sporting Life" recently, as v elect C. B. Power president and manager Buckingham being a possible handler of tional League. be seen by the following letter to the of the club has ceased to exist. I had only the Buccaneers. No one can learn any In Mr. Quin©s opinion, the Chicago itor: | time last week to send you a few lines by thing definite as to the affair. It may be scheme is simply a bluff to scare Anson Washington, D. Ciii»JSTov. 24. Friend Rich. wire, announcing that the slated candidate ail wind, though when it originated cir and his friends to the point of preventing had decided cumstances in a measure, pointed a trifle them from starting their proposed new TO WITHDRAW. close to probability. Chicago Association club. This, says Mr. Mr. Kerr gave out this information. Jeerus Williams© rash step going to Quin. will fail, as Anson is onto the game; Next day Mr. Power, presented the news work was the basis of lots of gags among in fact, Mr. Quin says, the League mag paper lads with a type-written t-nueinont, his friends. A lad who gets the limit the nates will be beaten at their own game. saying that he could not accept the tender, Says he: proper time comes I nil bo in it again. second year he is in the League certainly no stranger to you or the game, and I objjecl as he had made other arrangements. The does not need to do anything harder than "We are prepared to put a team into Chicago to being called down relations between Messrs. Kerr, Auten at any cost, and tbe American League knows \iu such untrue fashion, sell filters. Yours truly. M. B. SCANLON. and himself, he declared, voul.l remain "Bones" Ely has been out hunting. Up it. I ©am convinced that as soon as the league the same. The re-election of Mr, Pow circuit Is reduced tbe American Leaguers will setting cotton tails is an art with the seize tbe Cleveland and Louisville territory, drop News totes. er to the presidency of the Inter-State veteran, though he is sportsman enough President Quin claims ©. lo haye received often League indicates what he meant by oilier to acknowledge that he feels like cashing Chicago and leave the League to fight it out arrangements. with Anson in tbe Windy City. The National from three separate syndl, t wfao are anxioul in and quitting the game whenever one and American League magnates are playing a to operate an Association club ai phfcqrt.oiphia. THE PRESENT SITUATION. of those fan tails get iip with a biff bang. shrewd same, but they may be beaten out by Stockholder Phil Auten, \ of the plttsburg Ciub, There has been a rumor alloat that a Extra seats have been put on Exposi tbe equally shrewd American Association pro has asked the Chicago repf t tl> t te emphat. three-year contract figured In the matter, tion Field to accommodate the demand for moters." ically that be will have A conne)?tlon wb.atevei but then this city is not?d for manors. Thanksgiving Day game. Some people pre with Anson s new ChicaglL Qlub Upon© whom the executive title will fall dict a 12.000 crowd. D. C. and A. C. is Herman Long intimates I tbat be; will be wlth now is a difficult question to ans-ver. Mr. the favorite bv 2 to 1. CIRCLE. AXSON©S AFFAIRS. the Chicago team of the I Amerj C{j n AssociatioB Kerr wants to avoid that publicity in base nest season. Long is anxi* t j[ Jn Chicag8 ball. He is determined on that point. The Ex-Captain Said to Have Finally under any conditions, as tl at t,jt^ ,^ h,s home b Therefore another man must be considered DOINGS LN DENVER. Bill Joyce who was couA tef] on t take ch who will conduct the club©s open affairs. Chosen His Ground. of the St. Louis team jnl the Aj)nerican Ass*. The matter can be held off until Dec. 12. Everett and Wilson Enter Into From Chicago comes assurance that ex- ciation, covering first basL has 5et.iared thai A KIRK STORY. captain Anson has finally secured a ground U Charles E. Flinu. the well-known base Business Williams Becomes a Col for his new Chicago club. A Chicago real ball man who is one of Pat Donovan©s in lector and Bicyclist. estate firm is ready to turn over to the timate friends, has just returned from a Denver. Col.. Nov. 20. Editor "Sporting Auson syndicate the base ball grounds visit to Donny. The pair were in Boston Life:" William Everett. first baseman of used by the Columbia Giants last season. tion is a balloon league and up it for several days for the express purpose the Cbicrgo National League team, and They are located west of Wentworth ave one sticks a pin in it. Barne of taking in the Harvard-Yale game. Parke Wilson, catcher and general utility nue, between Thirty-eight and Thirty- twoto have years his hence."outfit in as strong le""""^"" Stopping at the La Touraiiie one night ninth streets, and are adjacent to the man for New York, have formed a part An interesting bit of news from the . . nson Flimi retired early. nership and gone into the grocery business Wanderers© cricket grounds. On the west camp is the announcement of the arrival \_ f Donovan came into the room about 11 on Washington avenue, near Five Points. the field is flanked by the railroad tracks baby girl in th>e Ansoii family. It was this ex P. M. As he entered the door the clang Everett will join the Chicago team in the of the Western Indiana system. In speak pected event, it will be remembered, which pre- of a gong on a nre truck was heard on the spring, and will play the season through. ing of the general base ball situation Auson veuted Anson©s attendance at the New York street. Wilson says that if a return to New York is©reported as saying: meetiug of the Association. Papa Anson Is "Sav, Flinn, there©s a fire." promises nothing but the bench for the "It the National League drops Brooklyn what very proud of. and happy over, this child, the "All right," blurted the half-asleep Pitts- svmmer, he is likely to remain in Denver. a chance it will be for our new American Asso probable solace of his declining years. burger. Last week Jaines Williams, the Pittsburg ciation to jump in." "For 25-cent ball?" "No, "Fire, we have them in Pittsburg." third baseman. went to work for the winter J dou©t© think so. The existing prices are fair Donny hurried to the window. He quick for Charles Reilly. the third baseman who enough. Brooklyn would be a great town for us. FORT WAYNE SAD ly bounded back gasping for breath. The played with Kansas City last summer. Wil Tbeu there would be a rivalry between the Na apparatus had stopped underneath. The liams is collector for Reilly. who is en tional League and ours, which would boom base Over the Unexpected Defeat of Meyer Lawrence boy was perturbed. gaged in the business of putting in patent ball. That is needed to keep the game alive. by Charley Power in the Battle For "Flinn," he howled, "get up, the hotel We can get great backing iu the West and in water filters. Williams celebrated his ac Chicago here, such as the National League never the Inter-State Presidency. Is on tire." quisition of a job by buying a bicycle. His could control. All we are doubtful about now is "Can©t be," retorted the Pirate follower. first ride was against a gutter wall, and the Eastern part of our circuit. If that braces Ft. Wayue. Ind., Nov. 27.--Editor "Sport "Read the rules. They say in case of fire he took about half the skin off one of his up we are to go on. Tbe west is perfectly ing Life:" The defeat of Mr. Meyei-, of the porter will notify all guests. We are hands. He thought of going on the track solid and prepared now. As owner of some 130 this city, for the presidency at Saturday©s paving for that privilege, I guess." next year, but on Saturday he took a head shares of Chicago ball stock J will welcome n Inter-State League meeting, iu Cleveland, The Pirate leader fairly shrieked: "Yes, er and has given up the racing idea. new league as the best means of booming the was a surprise to his friends here, as it but mebbe the porter has flunked." businessr The game of base ball at the present was supposed that the best Charley Pow Fliuu could hardly restrain his merri time lacks that which is sought to be supplied er could get was a tie vote. But Power ment. He knew Donny©s dread of hotel TIP TO TOPEKA. by the promoters of the new Association. I refer won by 5© to 3. Frank Torreyson is the fires and kept pegging away: "I have no to the honest and businesslike competition which man who is supposed to have shifted, and is so necessary in all lilies of business. In my the opposition to Power swears vengeance trunk like you." Organizer Tom Hickey TeAls What opinion, all that tbe National League lacks to Donovau was a sight. The picture of is to be Done to Organize the Pro make it a successful enterprise is a rival or 011 him. and there is loud talk of organiz consternation he beat a path between posed Local Club. ganization, and if I am not very much mis ing a new circuit. What it will amount the window and Flinu©s bed exhorting all taken, this will be forthcomiug iu a short time." to time will show. the while. Topeka, Kan., Nov. 26. Editor "Sport LOCAL APATHY. Finally the gong rang, indicating a re ing Life:" The following is an extract There are no recent developments in re tirement of the tire fighters. It was a from a letter written by T. J. Hickey, of IN THE EAST. gard to next year©s team iu the way of relief 1o Donny. St. Joseph, in regard to organizing a club signing players. There seems to be a The fire well, it was two squares away, here for the proposed new Western Asso The Situation is Still as Unpromising disposition on the part of the local mag an awning, by the way. ciation: nates to leave everything as it is until af Flinn also visited Lawrence and In "I would suggest that a committee of as Heretofore. ter New Year. Secretary Louis lleilbroner, spected the two drug stores owned by the about four be sent about the city with a In the East the situation does not. from of the St. ©Louis Club, has returned home Pittsburg chief of last year. paper and sell stock at $10 a share, and all that can be gleaned, appear to be any for the winter. Louis espressos himself MBNEFKE©S PREFERENCE. let those who can take several shares. more promising than it was some weeks as well satisfied with the treatment, he re The veteran, John B. Menefee. was hail- It will take some work, but can be ac ago. although we have no doubt considera ceived at St. Louis, and speaks in glowing rd while he was chasing along Fifth ave complished, if undertaken, and as the ble work lias been put into the effort to terms of the Messrs. Kobisou, Captain TV- nue on Saturday night. Jack had only a time for meeting is so short, it would complete this end of the circuit. beau, and, in fact, all of the©members of few moments to catch his train to that be necessary to move at once. Then, when IN BOSTON the team. home of players, McKeesport, but he Took you have sold about $1,000 worth of stock but little is heard of the project, and if A PROMISING PLAYER. a chance and chatted for a few seconds. call a meeting. \ » the effort to enlist capital is still being Ft. Wayne will probably send forth one "Yes. I was pushing them over the plate "I notice the suggestion that the jump pushed it is being done very secretly. of he,r promising amateurs into the profes last season," .said he. "I beJteve I told to Denver is too long, but you see it is Tom McCarthy has nothing new to give, sional ranks next season in Vince Kob- you early in the spring that my arm was such a good town it pays to go there, and, but it is said lor him that Tom Lawson, bins, a pitcher of more than ordinary abili as good as ever. That was a fact. I besides, they will be required to pay ths the "copper king," is ,McCarthy©s friend ty. Ex-Manager O©Meara says he is plenty could not have pitched such a poor game visiting club an extra per cent, to be and will put up all the necessary funds. fast enough for the Interstate or any for Chicago has drafted me for p,>00. 1 agreed on later, on account of the It is said that McCarthy also "has his minor league, having everything in hia Uare not come to terms wltli tUe Chicago expense of go lug groun/j^elected and secured, but whether repertoire conducive to a winner, SPORTING LIFE. Dec.
would still be the object of seduction tional©- Agreement no information was just in time to be entwined in what may vouchsafed. and probably will turn out to be a positive by every other league in the country. INVADER COMISKEY. disaster. President Franklin, of the Buf The inevitable and fatal result woaid Charley Comi&key. the man who is slated falo Club, however, seems to approve of A WEEKLY JOURNAL to invade Chicago and compete there with the proposed move and to regard the prob be such an increase in the salaries of the National League said after the meet able consequences lightly. He is reported Devoted to the few good players it would be vital ing: as saying: .-©.-© BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING ly important to hold that the Ameri "There is nothing in the National Agreement "I don©t know the first thing about the troa- relating to territory, and in placing a team in ble. All 1 know is that I received a letter AND GENERAL SPORTS. can League would be financially sub Chicago the American League or myself does from President Johnson on Saturday, saying merged in short order. not violate any law governing base ball. The that he had just returned from a hunting trip Trade marked by the Sporting Life Pub. Ca National League©s constitution contains a para and that things were not heading as he had Entered at Philadelphia Post Office graph relating to territorial provisions, but wished, and that it would probably be necessary © aa Second Class Matter. that governs only the National League, while to call a meeting much earlier than March, the The force of this must become ap it does not involve the rights of the American regular time. League. The American League team will be "As to the statement that the Western League Published by parent to the dullest mind when it is located on the south side, and I will give was promised an opening in Chicago as far remembc-red that only by constant year Chicago people a team of which they will be back as two years ago, that I cannot swear proud, and 1 expect to build up a patronage to. as I was a member of the Eastern League THE SPORTING LIFE PUBLISHING CO, ly reductions of the salary limit thanks which will be a credit to the national game." at the time, but I do know from reliable in 34 South Third St., to the aid of the National Agreement Mr. Comiskey did not deign to explain formation that the American League fully ex pected to have a club in Chicago next season, Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. has the American League been able to what is to become of the St. Paul Club, and without fighting for it. Of course Presi which he so recently proclaimed from the dent Johnson has full JK>wer to go ahead and exist at all; and that-to-day the limit house-tops was to be positively run another complete details so tharafre on the outside know SUBSCRIPTION KATES: is so low for the high grade of players year by him. little of the trouble which has suddenly come JOYFUL JOHNSON. to the front, but you can rest assured that at One Tear...... (£2.00 employed, and the disparity ,between Six Months...... 1.25 President Ban Johnson, who is steering the meeting soon to be Held all of the Western National League and American League the Western League through this perilous League magnates will stick by their associa Single Copy...... 5c. new departure, said: tion. Foreign 1©ostage, «1.O4 Extra per Annum. salaries is so great, that the American "After asking us to bring an American "Would I like to see a Western League club PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. in Chicago? Well, I should say I would. That League is full of sullen, chafing ball League team to Chicago Mr. Hart wanted us city and several others can stand both a Na players eager to break the National to play our fames on the grounds of the Chi tional and Western League club within its cago ball club, which .are located on the west borders with non-conflicting dates, which would League chains, which hitherto alone side, but we demurred, believing that our or both suit the people and make the American ganization should be distinct from the Na next in Strength to the National without any have been able to keep them in distaste tional League club in the city. Mr. Hart stated harm coming of the scheme, and at the same ful servitude in the American League. that we could not secure any patronage on the time would be the means of giving the people south side, but we believe that we can. as a variety of base ball. Give them but the opportunity and see there are more games played in that division of "It may be-news to some that I received an what would become of the well balanced the city every Sunday which draws anywhere offer from Western parties for the purchase of AMERICAN LEAGUE WOULD from 4000 to" 6000. We have thereto decided the Buffalo Club and franchise. This came American teams, and where the clubs to locate an American League club in Chicago shortly after the close of the season, but the regardless of protest or consequences." would land financially with salaries out bid was so ridiculously small that I never took WRECK ITSELF. Mr. Johnson refused to discuss the less the trouble to answer their letter." of all proportions to the draw-ing ca rosy side of the picture the certain war with the National League: neither would Fatal Consequences Absolutely Certain pacity of a purely sectional circuit! he talk of the National Agreement point UNFOUNDED CLAIMS. brought up by Comiskey. 3 PRESIDENT KILLILEA. President Hart Explains His Deal to Follow the Proposed Willlul If the American League had ample the much-quoted Milwaukee magnate, of ings With Johnson et al. capital and was battling for a National course had something to say anent this President Hart, of the Chicago Club, who and Dnsanctioned Invasion ol Chi circuit the chance of war might be grave move, which he was inclined to seldom takes any notice of personal at view rather lightly. Said he: tacks, has for once been angered by the worth taking, as in the event of suc "It will never come to a fight between the criticism he has been subjected to in con cago by the Minor League, cess the reward wpuld be commensu American and National Leagues. 1 believe the nection with this Chicago invasion and big League will permit the American League has taken pains to set himself right before rate with the risk. But the Chicago to lodge a team in .Chicago, and think a ma his local public. Said he the other day: ccording to all reports the American jority of the members of the National League territory alone will not compensate for agree there is room in that city for two clubs. "Without further discussion of the right or te Western) League has decided to even a tithe of the damage sure to result In placing an American League club in Chi the wrong of the American League©s proposed ce a club in Chicago with or with- cago, however, I would not like to antagonize move I will say flatly that I have been mis from occupation. Even in peace and the National League or violate the National represented by the American League. Never t the consent of the Chicago Club, or under the most favorable conditions Agree Bint in any manner, because without once have 1 "promised that I would give the the National League.- This amounts that, base ball, either as a sport or a busi consent of the Chicago Club to the placing of a there would be no reason to expect a ness, could not exist. The National Agreement minor league team in this city. Only once was affords an absolute safeguard of the honesty the subject even considered. That was two successful issue for an American of the game, and is indispensable from a busi years ago. when I was considering the pur c* not likely that the Chicago League League club in Chicago inasmuch as no ness point of view, though it might be abused chase of the Cleveland Club. That, by the by the people in authority." way, is a bit of unwritten base ball history. Pr will- consent to share its territory minor league club has, in the long his 1 carried the negotiations for the purchase of s Jt any otheE-fri.Vh jf^specially not in Neither Mr. Loftus or any of the other the Cleveland Club up to the point of making tory of base ball, ever yet succeeded American League magnates will -believe several trips to Cleveland, finally taking my tk. CH-ace o a rebellifus attitude and in establishing itself in a big major that there is anything in the rumor con lawyer up there. My plan was if 1 bought and even if the necting Tom Loftus with the management the* Cleveland Club to pool the players of the a hTf^jl^decln ration; league city. In a state of war with of the Chicago National League Club. It Chicago and Cleveland teams and place a .Chicago Club f-aould by any possibility either the National League and its al is believed that the American Leagtie team here in the Western League also. Natur on this proposition, would regard such a move by Loftus, with ally I talked over the matter with Mr. John be brought int lies, or the proposed American Associa out consultation with his fellow Western son. But the Cleveland deal fell : through, it is almost hnn. Egan and Shanahan besides heavy ir.re in October nnd was retired for a hitting, the team, by the way, leading iu few games in favor of Bob Mctlale. CALIFORNIA NEWS. this respect, :;nd you will find the pri SAN FRANCISCO mary reasons for their success. gave indications at times of wresting GLUTTONS FOR WORK. ihe lead from the champions, doing some One other reason must not be forgotten, fine playing at home, but failing to put END OF THE LEAGUE CAMPAIGN which materially helped them to quit in up the old invincible game on the road. WILL MANAGE THE CINCINNATI REDS first place was their constant desire to About the middle of the season the home practice. Every day. with the exception team took on a tit of sluggishness ftud OF 1899. of Monday, found them at practice, not their indiscriminate work pulled them ANOTHER YEAR, only In fielding but at base-running, and. down from the first position. The entir principally, batting. They succeeded iu team seemed to go to pieces, even th The Sacramento Team the Three-Tim earning the reputation of being the most pitching department failing them. Th An Official Announcement to That successful hunters in the league, and many crack hitters lost their eyes and the :n a pitcher was "sent in the air" by their field would err at the most inopportun Pennant Winner Briel Review o nasty, aggravating bunching of success times. Harris tried improvement afte Effect Made by President Brush ful bunts, or as Crazy Schmitt terms San Jose and Watsonville dropped out, bu a Season Only Partially Successful them "buntations." This proves the old he did not get the best of the selections adage, "that practice makes perfect, Babbitt was among the homeless one A Hard Blow to Dissenting which Is confirmed by the many errorles at the time, yet Harris overlooked him But Nevertheless Beneficial. games played by the team, not to meutio It was only after the crack player wa Porkopolitan Scribes. the games participated in with one an signed by Santa Cruz that the Frisco man two errors. nger pronounced Babbitt the greates The California League©s 1899 cam FINE SUPPORT. player in the league. The question of the Cincinnati team paigu came to an end November 20 witl Then, again, it Is worthy of note o THE HOME TEAM management has been definitely settled, proved disappointing. Their playing wa; (Sacramento the champions for the thirc another factor In the club©s success, viz. and settled contrary to the wishes of successive time. San Francisco tin the united support of the local press an a bit streaky and they managed to hole the loyalty of the cranks. This sort o three positions during the season. The; most of the Cincinnati newspapers. ished second, Santa Cruz third and Oak action was the means of much encourage held the lead at two .different times, bu land fourth. Below will be found a re meut to the team, and a great disparity fell into third place about July. Then thej Owner John T. Brush, of the Cincinnati view of the campaign from San Fran to the way the ©Erisco team was treatec began climbing up again, and for a few Club, on Saturday last announced posi by, its supporters at home, both press an weeks before the end worried the leaders cisco and Sacramento©s stand-points: public. Possibly if the San Francisco team by running dangerously close. About Nov tively that Ewing would be retained as had met with such hearty approval bj 5 little hope remained for Frisco to finish team manager for another season and THE CHAMPIONS. its followers the players would have hat on top. Their spurt was too late to even that Robert G. Alien, who had been more incentive, as well as encouragement make it interesting. The Chief Factors in the Success o and a different tale might now be told Iberg and Sullivan played well through boomed for the succession, would be with ©Frisco either in first place or giving cut the season, and, as a resuit, will b permitted to remain with the Indian the Sacramento Team. the Gilts a hard battle for the much-cov tried in the Western League next season Sacramento, Nov. 24. Editor "Sporting eted base ball honor. Many a game th Fitzpatrick did not- keep his form well apolis Club all of which will be nuts Life:" While the season has uot yet coin* locals pulled out of the fire by the "root and at times exploded. Conrtney turue< for Harry Weldon and gall and worm to a close, there Is uot an lota of u doub ing of the home crowds," encouraging th out to be a good first baseman and seem as to the pennant winners of the Califoruii players into playing an up-hill game, to b ed to hit fairly well. Brockoff did no wood to Mulford, Grillo and Zuber. League for 1899. The Gilt Edge Club finally added to the "won column.© strengthen the team any. Muller playec shares the honor along with the Baltlinon Such support is what makes a winning miserable ball early in the season and w-is Club by dint of hard, conscientious bal team. Well, what©s their loss is our laid off for a while. Upon his return t CINCIMATI CHIPS. playing, of being a "three-time penuan© gain. J. H. L. the game he played most brilliantly,. both winner," and the rag will again wave ovei in the field and at the bat. Bancroft©s Tourists Now in the Sunny our lot. where many a hard-fought gamt Reilly played in hard luck. He lost hi has been played. It was not a foregone PACTS FROM ©FRISCO. eye about the middle of the season as the South The Trip Likely to be Ex conclusion as to the winner until a fort result of being struck in the head by tended to Cuba The Reds© Train night ago, as San Francisco persisted ii The Just Ended Campaign Regarded pitched ball, and besides could not guarc ing Ground Next Spring, Etc. holding on with a tenacious grip; but li as a Dismal Failure. the third bag properly. He was removec Cincinnati, O., Nov. 20. Editor the last Oakland series we scooped in al San Francisco, Nov. 27. The sis-club to second and recovered himself some The games, with the exception of the tiet league was uot a brilliant success, and i what. Krug did all that was expected "Sporting Life" Mr. Bancroft©s team of. one, while ©Frisco lost two to the exilec was necessary to finish the schedule with of him. Hilderbrandt was disappointing Red Troopers are now iu the Sunny Sand Crabs, thus almost cinching tirst but four clubs in only three cities. The and Pyne kept up. a fair record. South, in search of shekels and glory. place for our team. season of 1898 was a dismal failure, and THE OAKLAND TEAM They played at Memphis last Saturday SOME HARD LUCK. the blame for which was saddled upon the was a tail-end factor from the very be find Sunday, and during their two Now that the fray is over, when the Call shoulders of those conducting the affairs ginning, but they did especially well days© sojourn in the Bluff City the Red fornia League season Is about to close of that concern. All the result, by the the last two mouths, when their play was Troopers accumulated 22 runs and when each player will pack his glove, bat way, of bad management. of second place order. They managed to uud suit away until the bugle blasts for THE CAMPAIGN OF 1809 spurt now and then but the attempt to enough coin to pay a fortnight©s ex the opening game next season, a resume of was a great improvement, however, despite finish near the top was taken on too late. penses in the South. Memphis was the season©s work of our team the writer the fact that there were the most adverse The team was materially strengthened beaten 11 to 5 and 11 to 7. The Cin deems would not be amiss. When the sea conditions confronting the league, whei when Watsonville was forced to retire, but cinnati excursionists also played at BOU opened we were of the opinion that we Watsonville and San Jose were forced to the Dude s manager overlooked some trick Greenville, Miss., Vicksburg, Miss., and had a winning team, but along comes the retire. A little later on Santa Cruz dis that cost him the second position at least. opening of the Eastern season and calls continued to play games at home, owing Hardie and Douovan were retained, de Baton Rouge, La., reaching New Or away Hughes and Lockhead to the Nation to the falling off o" attendance. Under spite the fact that there was faster talent leans yesterday. Monday and Tuesday al League, while the Eastern League the circumstances, the founders of the going to waste. It was a friendship prop were spent in hunting in Arkansas. ..Himtched Mcaney, our hard-hitting out- new league fared exceedingly well. The osition on the whole, and Ewing©s phil THE REST OF THE TRIP. tielder. Then Walker resigned and Kid general play was a little better than anthropy caused the team©s downfall. 1©eeples, piqued at uot being able to play previous seasons. The fielding averages Hsrper pitched wonderful ball, but the It is more than likely that after a and do as he liked, was released. Naturally were high, as usual, and there was a fair support given him was not in keeping with stay of several weeks at New Orleans all this demoralized the team, and from increase in batting. his good work. Two weeks before the a trip will be taken to Cuba before the the lofty pinnacle of first place we sank CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE season closed he was released, but wa team returns to Cincinnati some time hopelessly into the rut of last place. was experienced in the selection of the um immediatelv signed by Sacramento. Borch- after the holidays. The South has had HARD TO GET STAUTKD. pires, and several men were tried through ers, too. wa©s doing good work for the team, little base ball for the past few years, Then Harvey was signed in his old posi out the season. Levy would have improved but was unable to win single handed. and the advent of a team made up of. tion. McLnr.ghlin placed in Peep IPS© place, with a little more experience with the rule Steffani was called into the game late in while Truck Egan was added to till Lock- book. Cahill would have made it go had the season, but did not do as well as was National League timber will have the head©s shoes iit short, and Hennie Stulz he not made a specialty on diamond disci expected of him. Moskiuian tried the box effect of stirring, up the latent enthusi was asked to take care of the second sta pline. Graves broke in late, but was satis for a while, but was sent oiit to left asm and making the trip of the team a tion. Of course it took time to perfect factory, notwithstanding the fact that he field later and filled that position well. profitable one. No less than three catch team play, all the while the team persist was off on balls and strikes. The king Schmeer covered the short position fairly ers and three pitchers were taken on the ed in losing a great majority of the game pin of all the umpires was John O©Connell. well, but was erratic at critical times. In trip, insuring good batteries in all the played. Luck was against them, and try He gave entire satisfaction throughout the preliminary practice he was a sensational as they would, they could not make them season, although he had a close call with player of the highest order. games to be played. The team lines up selves into a winning combination, and on his position when the Oakland team tried THIRD BASEMAN LANG as follows: Hahn, pitcher: Gonding, .June 1 they were safely ensconced in last to oust him. sulked throughout the season, and was catcher; Beckley, first base; McPhee, place, with an average of .33.©*. They had THE RECORD. guilty of engaging in dirty ball. He be second base: McCormick, shortstop; good pitchers, good tielders and were bat The teams finished iu the following order: came so unpopular with the fans that he Kahoe. third base; with Leever. Tanne- ting as strong as their opponents: yet the Won. Lost. Played. Pet. was obliged to resign the captaincy of tiill and Lattimer in the outfield. bird of victory could not be induced to Sacramento ...... 45 :©0 75 .000 the team. Besides his playing generally light on their banner. Something was lack- San ;>©raiH©iseo ..... 44 :«) 8;? . was not of the highest order. Dunleavy AS TO NEXT SEASON. Ing on the team. They had no general. Santa Cruz ...... 85 4(i 81 .432 It is learned on good authority that Oakland ...... 42 47 S!> .472 played the centre field early In the season Kach player at bat and in the field was Games played Nov. ©M uot counted here, as but was removed into the infield when the Cincinnati Club has as good as de- playing the game according to his ideas; the ivsnlts would not change the standing of Francks was forced to retire. He hit ided to have the team train at Colum consequently there was no team play. the toauis. pretty well, and covered second base In a bus. Ga.. again next spring. In fact the They were like a ship without a rudder. Early in November the locals gave up pleasing manner. Hammoud caught almost club made all those arrangements last THE TURNING POINT. hope of seeing the San Francisco team fly the whole season and his work was ad spring while the team was at Colum- About this time Manager Kripp announc the pennant for 18!l!>. After the series of mired by all. His throwing to bases was ed to the cranks that he had signed the Nov. T> the Sncramentos practically cinched always a pleasing feature. Towards the Lius. Because of the poor showing the very man for the place, in the person of the flag, making them three times© winner end of the season he improved wonderfully Eleds made in the last race there has Michael O©Connor. who in addition to being of tbe coveted trophy. in his stick work. :>eeii some opposition against Colum a good general, knew how to hold down THE CHAMPIONS SANTA CRUZ bus. It has been urgued that the first base, besides being able to "hit won out on their merits, by outpointing was a disappointment. They opened the raining grounds were responsible for some." In due time Sir Michael arrived the balance of the tennis at every turn. season with a rush and had the rest of the :he team©s-poor showing. Because the and assumed the reins of captaincy. He The Brewers played an uphill game, com teams frightened to death by their super took hold of these players, infused some mencing their good work about the middle ior ball playing. San Francisco and Sac :eam gained :i better position the year Ringer into them, shifted them around in of the season. At the start they did not ramento fell before them at every turn, and jefore when it trained at San Antonio, their positions, instilled them with team seem to be in the race at all ©and their the outlook for the Bathers was more Texas, and a still better one the two piny, both at bat and in the field, besides :>oor stick work was a surprise. Last than rosy. Donlin was their main strong- vears that it visited New Orleans, it teaching them a "few tricks of the trade," season the team from the Capital city led liold at that time, and his work in the las been urgued that it would be ad as \\ell as some of its science. In a short :he league in batting, and as the make-up >ox and at the bat was the one thing that visable to return to either one of these time he succeeded in making them a win ©or this season was hardly changed it was iept the team going at such a pace. When ning team, accoinplifih-ing a triumphal :hought that they would again slrr.e as the mighty Mike was called East the cities. If Ewirig has anything to say march of ascendency from the rut of last champions at the bat. The pitching de- L©rabs were snd, but, promised not to let about training ground next spring it U place until on Sept. 1 his efforts were lartment was in good order throughout the :iis absence dishearten them. There came lot likely to be Columbus. Buck is very CROWNED WITH SUCCESS vear, but the players did not take on their day, however, and down went Santa superstitious. His failure to come up by installing them on the top rung of the jatting clothes till the middle of the se>a- Cruz. They struggled hard to keep the old o expectations with his team last year pennant ladder, winning 27 out of :jr> ion. Harvey pitched wonderful ball, and nvincible work going, but they seemed to games played, most of them from the clubs mist be blamed on something nnd Buck >esides was the best hitter in the league. ose their grip completely. Baltz would vill not shoulder the blame, so Coluin- occupying the leading positions. The plav- rlis good work won for him a position in sulk and purposely throw a game. Clark ers possessed the latent ability but it took he National League, and the writer is at first base was awful, while Williams and bus will have to. Mike to bring it out for them. Of course confident that Harvey will prove a valu Arrenelles played like a couple of school NEWS A©ND GOSSIP. the writer does not wish to infer that all able acquisition to the Chicago Club. loys. "Fatty" Kleiber was then tried at Selbach, of the Reds, ranks among this was accomplished by O©Connor uu- FIRST BASEMAN O©CONNOR short, and his good work won for him the nided and alone, as he had an able second s one of the best ball players we have eading position among the Infielders of the he first ten sacrifice hitters of the In Matt. Stanley, another old head on the :ut this way. He seems thoroughly con eague. His stick work was fair, but Tut- league. He also ranks high as a base team. Quite the contrary, each of the versant with every point of the game and ;le let him go. When Watsonville and unner and run getter. He will prove players did his best towards gaining the lis knowledge of the sport was indeed a San Jose fell by the wayside, Whalen, An L valuable man for the club that gets coveted goal, and space would not permit great help to the Brewers in their fight drews. Dalrymple and Babbitt were grab- lim from Cincinnati next season. me to extol the good deeds attained on or the pennant. Egan played a great >ed. The latter proved a wonder to the Heine Peitz is again able to be* about the ball field by each individual player. jame at short and his good stick work won earn. but. Whalen was too slow and Dal fter being laid up for a month with Suffice it to say that everyone on the not a few games for the Senators. Stultz ouldn©t hit. Morrow also got in on the team used his best efforts and endeavors, )layed au erratic game, at second, and leal, but his work never compared with n injured ankle. wMh one object in view, viz., to win games hough his blunders the champions lost Pace©s. The latter was released, but no Not more than twenty-five of a total and, above all, to win the pennant. quite a number of games. Doyle pitched Tpparent cause given by Tuttle for the ac- lumber of 250 players in the League STANLEY©S VALUE. veil during the season and alternating in ion. Andrews was taken in to do s<.i-.Tie lave been signed for next season. This Next to O©Connor©s generalship Harvey right field as he did, proved a valuable f the pitching, but his work .was not in- hows that the majority of the magnates and Doyle deserve the most credit b©v nan to Sacramento. It is said that he their brilliant pitching, not forgetting the incible. Strieb was the best all-around ire not afraid of the American Associa- will play in© Louisville next season. Shee- Mayeron the team, but quit the club when ion making inrc.-..ils on their talent. old reliable Matt. Stanley, whose head work lan at third played a good game, but he ruttle discontinued to piny games at home. behind the bat steadied the twirlers and uked iii experience. The expert rates MINOR MENTION. aided in bringing to them most of the lim high, as an infieider. Shanahan and Santa Cruz and San Francisco met twen- Why Sonr. Magnates Get Rich. success attained. .Then add to this the I ©IcLaughliu played fair ball in th«r out- y times and thirteen of the games fell to The. pooular man is seldom the one that crack fielding of. McLaughlin, Stulz, Shee- eld. The latter met with an accident he home tifcju.titou. FOBKSTf D. LOWUY. I ccumui.*©.es a large bank account. I LIFE. ried him over, at least until Mr. Dreyfuss© start. It is not so difficult to arrange plans are matured. If the Colonels© presi two playing circuits, apportionately dent stays in base ball, Harry will remain equal in drawing powers, as some crit CASTraGlOliCHOR right at his side. They are a mutual ad REACH AND ROGERS miration society. The president says Har ics imagine. The obstacles are not in ry Is the best man in bis position in base surmountable, if fair dealing guide the ball; in fact, the best that ever was. He BIG work. The four clubs to be transferred WITH i VIEW TO REIAlfflG IH attributes the drawing powers of the team FAVOR to the new Association and I do not away from home to Harry©s advertising know which they should be would ac BASE BALL; abilities, and considers him the most im quiesce the more willingly and for less portant of the team©s staff. This is a recognition .of merit by the president that financial inducements the stronger the seemg to have also been impressed upon circuit of which they are to constitute: Louisville Parties Seeking a Place others. Col, Rogers Shows How the Thing one-half. The use of compulsory or A WILD RUMOR, oppressive, much less confiscating meas in the American Lsagaa Contingent The press during the past week has been Should be Done Decently and Equit ures, to effect such transfers, must not alive with stories to the effect that the be considered for a moment. Louisville players.would be sold to Chicago A FAIR COMMITTEE Upon the Withdrawal or Absorp- and paper teams have been made up tha©t ably, With a View to Shutting Out a could devise a fair circuit and make a would be sure to win the pennant. There fair adjustment of the money valuations i tion ol the Louisville League Club. is absolutely nothing in any of this. The Hostile League For Good and All. of the inequalities if any caused by Louisville officials themselves are absolute ly in the dark as to the disposition of, the such transfers. With "two such major From Chicago comes a bit of news players and have no settled plans for the Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 28. Signs are organizations, occupying territory ap future. My own opinion is that Cincinnati not wanting that the League magnates proximately equal in drawing powers, calculated to endorse the statement of and New York will ha©Ve the preference If are viewing the proposed new and hostile and numerous minor leagues, headed by "Sporting Life©s" Louisville correspon it is decided to sell the players individually. American Association with some con the Eastern and ©NVestern, under the dent to the effect that efforts will be It is hoped, however, to keep them together cern, and are figuring how to cut down palladium of a revised national agree and merely change the name on their shirt ment, there is no vulnerable or weak made to give the-Falls City an Ameri- fronts and notwithstanding contrary re their "own circuit to a war footing of ports thi$ i§: yet a probability. So much eight clubs without giving the would-be spot on or within our frontiers to terup.t canhlvftagviie .club, should the -Louisville so, in fact, as to regard it almost certain. rival league any advantage. It is gen hostile assaults." , Natio^uirl:League, club fall, by ;th.e way THE DREAD ©ALTERNATIVE. ,.©--© ALL IT NEEDS. , erally-admitted in League circles that a If some such plan is not adopted there side, as . seems most, probable to ..the If the Cincinnati Reds had Fred Clark in PLAN MUST BE DEVISED left and Leach in third, making Fred, the will be nothing but continuous trouble excited Louisville mind. Formal appli to cut the circuit before another season in Colonel Rogers© opinion. He con boss of the gang with his snappy up-to- rolls around. The question is how to do cation has been made to..President John- date game, those red legs would come as tinued: "But let the organization be on near flying the flag as any, but there is it to advantage and at least expense. any other lines unequal, unfair,, lop sou,; ,pf the American League, by a other good material among the Colonels Colonel Rogers, of the Philadelphia Club, sided or so that one league shall be par Mr. Hucker, of Louisville representing that would go a long way toward helping the lawyer of the League© believes he amount in government or in territorial other teams get near the top. For instance, has solved the difficulty in the only attractions then monopoly, while de a syndicate of wealthy men, including Hans Wagner at first base would leave the way It can be solved to the satisfaction the owner of the "Courier-Journal" Phi Hies with nothing more to be desired. stroying friendly competition, will cer MISLEADING TALK. of all parties in interest and settled for tainly incite, if not invite, the bitter for the purchase of the. Grand Rapids The utterance of President Ban Johnson, all time. In discussing the matter the rivalry oMIoemeu. Some such policy as team and franchise and for its transfer of the Western League, in effect that Louis other day Mr.- Rogers said: "I am not I have outlined must be adopted two an advocate of the ©lex talionis© or of its to Louisville. The matter has of course ville was not desired by his league, and years hence. Why not anticipate the that it was a poor town, is doubtless for kindred adage, ©the end justifies _the inevitable and experiment it now? It been taken under advisement by Presi the purpose of discouraging an Association means.© Revenge is ignoble aucl desired team here until his own league has the results had better fail of fulfilment _if would, I believe, placate those. now dent Johnson for consultation with own town for its own. Helfable information threatening to invade our territory by injustice or oppression is a factor in concessions, in the acceptance of which er Lot©tus, of the Grand Rapids Club, to the effect that Comiskey will abandon the effort. These axiomatic principles and the other American League mag St. Paul and come to Louisville has reach some of them might share, or else re ed, here, and he will be warmly welcomed. have ever dominated me, even when move the excuse for their continued ex nates. Further developments depend In the meantime the remarks of President their application to base ball legislation istence. In any event it will be states upon the action of the National League Johnson referred to has had the effect op has been met by misrepresentation, posite from what he intended, and a move obloquy and threats. But a truce to manship to do now what we must do as regards the Louisville League Club. ment was started Saturday to invite Quiu©s the past and its©lDffensive personalities. later on, and to so do it that it will mer crowd to consider Louisville as available The problem of the present is it the approval of honorable and fair- ground. How far this will reach remains minded men." for the future to determine. One thing the reduction of the National SAUNERS SAY. Is certain, Louisville will have representa League membership from twelve to tion in some of the larger leagues next eight clubs. A 10-club circuit, while oc NOT WITHOUT HOPE. a© Proposed Retirement Re- year, and no uneasiness need be felt in casionally spoken of, is, at its best, but a greeted Efforts Being Made to that score. temporary make-shift, as in 1889, and East Liverpool Expects to Get Into Keep ©Him in the National League LONGEST POLE. not worthy of present consideration. The the Swim Again and Keeps the In A League player recently, in speaking of A Genera.! Review. the proposed new American Association, ideal number is eight, and only eight." terest Alive. Louisville. Ky., Nov. 27. Editor gave it as his opinion that little trouble PREDICTIONS FULFILLED. East Liverpool, O., Nov. 25. Editoi "Sporting Life:" The decision of Pres would be encountered in securing all neces Mr. Rogers continued: "At the Indian "Sporting Life:" Though not so promi ident Drejt©uss to abandon Louisville sary players, provided salaries at proper apolis meeting in December, 1891, Mr. nent in a base ball way as formerly, still, has. caused widespread disappointment proportion was offered. Let a player hear Reach and I fought against consolida the Ceramic city which makes half th* among, the: faithful few, and has set all a larger salary would be offered in the new tion for two days after every one else dinner and toilet ware of the country is fiiildptn to wondering© what the toW©ii league, all the men of the older organiza by no means dead to that form of sport tion would jump over one another to get had yielded to the majority. We then We have still been able the past season tc will do for base ball next season, and In the fold first, regardless of consequences. predicted everything that has since hap hold the undisputed championship of thia what will become of the favorite play There isn©t much sentiment among ball pened. Those predictions were chiefly: section of the base ball world. With the ers who have for so many years hailed players, and -they are going where they "1. That 12 clubs would make an un prosperity now upon us we hope to start a from Louisville. It is to be hoped they can get the most money. wieldy and top-heavy organization, with new era in 1900 which will restore us to will be gathered in some tirst class city A VINDICATION. an expensive traveling circuit and pro the old-time glory of the famous Crockery and the team kept intact, or better still. In speaking the other day about the bat longed absence from home grounds, and Cities and Eclipse Club. to have them kept in Louisville. The ting record of Davis. the new right fielder with too many tail-enders and non-draw OUli PROFESSIONALS of the Colonels, lately secured from Minne ing clubs. are taking things very quietly at home1 only hope of this is for some other loyal apolis, Secretary Harry Pulliam said he •"2. That the partisanship evoked by the and keeping themselves in good shape for citizen to come forward and buy out was entitled to every hit be made. There rivalry of two associations of approximate the coming season. George Carey, the Mr. Dreyfuss and this ought not be im has been comment somewhere that Davis equal©strength was too important a money hard-hitting first baseman, of Minneapolis, probable. Unless some other clubs agree had been helped around the bases con maker to be banished from our business. is located at Seventh and Jackson streets to retire it is entirely likely Louisville siderably by Nance, whose own batting It incited discussion in the newspapers, with his charming wife, and is putting in must continue to remain in the League. record had suffered, and who made some on the streets, in clubs and workshops and his spare time in helping out the great All this, however, will be settled at the Qftv odd sacrifice hits, all of which went wherever men do congregate as to1 the rush of house painting, at which he is League meeting, and until then all con to the benefit of Uavis. This critic seems relative merits of the opposing teams, quite an expert. George is a great jollier to lose sight of the fact that Davis had and tbe more frequent and discordant the and is the life of the base ball gang who jectures are idle. first to reach the initial bag before he debates, and the more heated the parti gather nightly at Billy Davidson©s bril A SENSIBLE CONCLUSION. could be sacrificed, and the fact that he sans, the more rapidly and more musically liantly lighted billiard parlors, and is never It is an open secret among the mag made more runs and more hits .than any the ©turnstiles clicked.© at a loss for a good story to aid in passing nates that they desire Mr. Dreyfuss to other player in the Western League is suf "3. That consolidation would crush par the time pleasantly. continue among their number, and if ficient argument In itself to show the tisanship and set up indifference in its "WM." MERCER. strength of the player. He believes he Is stead., That consolidation would kill com whose name, by the way, is William Bart- not at Louisville, they hope he will con going to add a good deal of strength to petition and rear monopoly on its grave, ley Mercer, is located at 122 Sixth street, tinue his identification at some other the Colonels next year. out of which, ghost-like or © Phoenix-like, taking things as easy as the ladies will point. I©o further this he will have ihe JOHN 3. SAUNDERS. hostile competition would rise, ©threaten allow. Win says he Will put in a couple indorsement and assistance of certain ing to devour.© of months at his trade of packing in the magnates in his efforts to buy out a potteries after Jan. 1 to harden himself club in a larger city. Notwithstanding FACETIOUS HURST. ©©How true all this was is shown for spring work. Mercer feels rather un the treatment he : received prior to the by the present deplorable condition of certain U>i' next season as to how the deals opening pC the present season instead of How the Sarcastic and Pugnacious the National gan:e the direct result of In Washington will affect his standing with, Ex-Umpire Nipped a Rick in the the Amalgamation. the team. The fact has many times been now trying to get rid of him every PRECEDENT IGNORED. commented upon here during the past sea effort is being made to have him remain Bud. son that his team played much steadier iii the League. Not a. great deaf is beini; ; ©We pointed to the great local rivalry Billy Diggins and Sandy Griffin, former between the Philadelphia and Athletic a©tid better ball when he was captain. Win said about it. but it will not create much Wilkesbarre players, are well©known to nie undoubtedly possesses strong talent as surprise to those on the inside to bear of local fans. One clay last season Digglus Clubs and pleaded for its indefinite con a loader and may make his mark in the n deal similar to Pktsburi* being shortly was in a jovial frame of mind and told tinuance, but were laughed at and told future, . A VERY. enacted and this time it will be sure to go several reminiscences of his playing days that as we had had no experience in ex through. to Howard Lerch. of the Buffalo Express. clusive territorial control of our city, BROWN©S BOYS THAT THROW-DOWN. He told a good one on Sandy Griffin, who our theories and our fears as to what The Louisville president was very much was once playing in a game umpired by would follow such a monopoly were Expect to Put a Good Ball Team put out at his treatment by President Tim Hurst. Griffin made a partial swing groundless and chimerical. Yet I repeat, Kerr at Pittsburg. He got a cold throw- at the ball when it came over the plate. down. All he wanted was a bill of sale, "One strike!©© called Hurst. every prediction has been long since Providence. R. I., Nov. 28. Prospects for suoh as is common in any commercial "What for?" asked Sandy. verified and I doubt if any one. ©familiar a successful base ball team at Brown Uni transaction. He had the money with him "Because you went too far," answered with base ball history, now denies such versity next spring are very bright. to pay the cash. Kerr acted© the baby Hurst. verification." Enough of last year©s team are still in straight through, and he has not raised Sandy repeated the same act on another THE REMEDY. college to furnish a nucleus for a strong himself in the estimation of some people. doubtful ball a moment later and had the Colonel Rogers then outlined his plan teaim Of last year©s nine there are left Newspaper criticism has a heap to do with second strike called. Again he asked the for the restoration of the old time con Le Stage 01. catcher and captain of the It, though. Charlie Powers opposed it bit reason, and Hurst replied: ditions. Said he: "The important ques 00 team: Chase 01, catcher; Clark 01, Mno- terly, Harry Pulliam says Powers wants "Because you went too far again!" kinuey 02, Richardson. P. G., outnelders; Patsy Donovan©s job, which has been Sandy made a move toward the third tion at this time confronting us is, Bacon 00. ss. ; Detmers 00, Ib; Paine 02, promised him, and saw this job fleeting one. which was a splendid ball, and Hurst How can the National League reduce 2b; Wheeler 01, Eaton 01, Washburu 01, away with a change in ownership. He got exclaimed: its club members before the expiration pitchers. The new men include: Whitte- bitter towards the Colonel©s president. "Three strikes: you©re out!" of the ten years© agreement in Decem more 03, Woodman 01, Dillon 03, catchers; However, if they only knew him, they "What for?" asked Griffin. ber 1901? The answer, in my opinion, CotQn 01, Pertilla 01, Saunders 03. Tobey would welcome the Colonel©s leader. They "Because you did hot go far enough this is: Add four to the existing twelve 03, Folev 03, pitchers: Ray 02, Barry 03, don©t make them any "squarer." Straight Hussey 00. Bush 00, 2b; Cuddy 03, Tobey time!©© calmly replied Sir Timothy. clubs and equitably divide the sixteen 03. Barrows 03, Crane 00, ss; Patto©n 00, forwardness and reliability are his syno And Sandy went sheepishly to the play into, two organizations, distinct as re nyms. The Pirates missed the chance of ers© bench. Wilkesbarre Record. Bumstead 03. Aldrich 03. Kendall 02, 3b; "their illyes for a pennant winner by not gards officials and schedules, but under Clift 01, Phillips 03, Bavlis 03, Taylor 03, helping the deal.. Mr. Dreyfuss thinks a central governing power, created by Gilbert 03, Hill 02, outfielders. P.iftsljurg a live city, likes the people and Entitlefl to a Prize. a revised national agreement, to avoid would have become a resident there. May Here©s a funny one told by Ed. Grillo, game conflicts and to settle quarrels Tribute to Lajoie. be he" will yet. Of Cincinnati. As is well known, all rain about players, etc. The principal cities "Speaking of Lajoie," Bernhardt, the PULMAM©S .FUTURE. checks have the following printed on them; should be apportioned between both., Phillies© big pitcher, says: "He©s the best Secretary Pulliam won©t be without a "Not gdod after five innings have been man. pn second i ever saw. Nothing gets job, no matter how the crow flies. That played." A stranger from the country and where capable of supporting two away from him, for he©s got a hand as big Chicago^ story is said to be true, and he was handed a rain check at th< bleacher clubs,, as in Chicago and Philadelphia, as two of mine.©© and Bill, held out his own can be a big man "there©ll he ©will say the turnstile. He read the above aii.d then, territory should be so divided. very respectably developed bunch of live. words Freedman recently ©wanted to know turning to the gatekeeper, sa©J: "Well, FAIR DEALING THE HUB. " ©Zing©© comes Mr. Ball, out goes the bi? when hj^Mme was out In Louisville, but sir, what will I do. alter the.n,th Inning?" "An attempt to make one a minor mitt, rind Mr. Ball©s flight is through. I arry \^^Btick to the bridge that has car- An explanation was necessar/. league would prove abortive from the tell you, he is a great player." 8 LIFE. Dec- 2, than to make it "four strikes and out" Hartzell, Louisville ..... 14 1 1 £3 O©Connor, St. Louis...... 65 4 0 91 instead of three. Such a change would Hughes, Brooklyn ..... 21 4 0 38 not be such a radical one. and it would VALUABLE FIGURES. Griffith, Chicago ...... 25 0 38 surely do more to improve the batting Elberfield, Cincinnati ... 30 4 0 44 than any other change. Cross, Philadelphia .....109 24 3 190 THE REAL SITUATION. Cunningham, Louisville . 35 3 1 1 48 MORE OFFICIAL STATISTICS BY Dillon, Pittsburg ...... 26 5 0 0 36 Some idea of ©the misunderstanding Miller, St. Louis, Cinn... 74 14 6 0 120 of outside writers as to the geographical Casey, Wash., Brooklyn. 120 15 8 1 178 conditions of the Greater New York PRESIDENT YOUNG. Flemming, New York... 17 1 0 0 19 was shown by the remarks of your In Long, Boston ...... 95 28 11 6 208 Bergen, Boston ...... 55 4 85 dianapolis correspondent last week. Criger, St. Louis ...... 53 4 2 85 As a Means ol Focussing Public Atten In referring to the alleged report that The Correct Record For the Season Dolan. Philadelphia ..... 45 4 0 71 the Brooklyn Club would be frozen out Callahan, Chicago ...... 30 5 3 0 49 of the League because only one team Wills, Louisville ...... 21 1 0 29 tion Upon tiie Great Sport Ttie o! 1899 ol the Single and Extra McCormick, Chicago .... 78 14 2 2 120 should represent each city, the Hoosier Tebeau, St. Louis...... 55 10 4 1 91 writer quoted from the League rules Lewis. Boston ...... 21 1 2 0 27 New York End ol the New Associa that no team shall play within five Base Hits Made by the National Donahue. Chicago ...... 58 9 3 0 85 miles of another, and then he informed Harley, Cleveland ...... 117 15 9 1 178 tion in Stagnant Condition, League Players. Sullivan, Cleveland ..... 104 12 2 0 134 us that "it is quite certain that Wash Tlernan, New York..... 29 4 2 0 43 ington Park in Brooklyn is not five Kelly, Louisville ...... 66 9 2 3 90 New York. Nov. 27. Editor "Sporting miles from the polo grounds as the Washington, D. C.f Nov. 27. Editor Tannehill. Pittsburg .... 23 6 3 0 44 crow flies." It is ten miles from the Woodruff, New York. ... 10 1 2 2 20 life." The rumors of a shake up in the "Sporting Life." In compliance with Bernhardt, Philadelphia . 9 4 0 0 17 League monopolized whatever of base Harlem River to the Battery and then your request I have prepared and here Orth, Philadelphia ...... 8 3 1 1 21. ball gossip that went the rotifds last a few miles from the Battery across with enclose a statement showing the Magoon. Chic, and Bait. 82 11 4 0 119 week. If the instigators of the alleged the East River to Washington Park, number of two, three and four base hits Dunn, Brooklyn ...... 24 4 1 0 36 and as the Polo grounds are on the Steinfeldt. Cincinnati ... 69 16 9 0 128 new combine sprung the latest sensation made during the season of 1899, of all Kennedy, Brooklyn ..... 18 5 4 0 40 with a view to finding out the effect, they banks of the Harlem it is a pretty big players having a batting record of over Fifield. Phila. and Wash. 12 1 0 0 14 certainly learned that any attempt to five miles from there to Washington .200, as shown by the official record of Leever, Pittsburg ...... 25 6 4 0 49 reduce the circuit by any means, save Park, as the crow flies or any other way. each of the 916 official scores furnished ttlartmann, Now York .. 35 2 5 1 58 W. F. H. KOELSOH. Athertou. Washington ... 47 0 6 0 75 by purchase or voluntary withdrawal, by the scorers of the twelve League Get tig, New York...... 20 3 0 0 26 will meet with considerable resistance. clubs. Yours truly, McAllister. Cleveland ... 85 4 8 1 121 The talk of disciplining © N. E. YOUNG, President and Secretary Blake. St. Louis...... 58 8 4 2 94 NEWS OF NICHQLS. Tucker. Cleveland ...... 189 15 5 0 134 HANLON. McGRAW AND TEBEAO Roach. Washington .... 17 1 0 0 19 The Great Pitcher Mourns the Death Official Record of Extra Hits. 2 0 0 19 met with the derision that it deserved. Tavlor. Cincinnati ...... 15 0 16 That crafty leader and prominent figure of His Father He Talks of Himself 2- 3- T*tn Cai-sey, Cl., Wash., N. Y. 14 1 0 B.H.B.H. B.H. H.R. B. Doheiiy, New York...... 25 2 0 0 29 in base ball, Ned Hanlon, has thrown and His Team. Delehanty. Philadelphia. .160 50 9 9 335 Duncan, Cleve., Wash.. 28 4 1 hot shot into the camp of the alleged Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 24. Editor Burkett, St. Louis...... 194 10 7 286 Powers, Louisville, Wash. 35 10 2 61 purifiers of the game, and the remarks "Sporting Life:" Charley Nichols, the Hickruan, Boston ...... 16 7 0 41 Irwin. Cincinnati ...... 57 6 S 97 of Oliver Tebeau on this subject were famous pitcher, who has been the main McGraw. Baltimore .... .140 3 1 179 Clarke. Boston ...... 44 3 2 64 I>ajoie, Philadelpbia .... . 83 11 6 174 Hardesty. New York.... 16 0 0 16 spicy and amusing. Pat hit the mark stay of the Boston Club for ten years, is Keeler, Brooklyn ...... 187 14 1 259 Bates, Cleveland. St. L.. 14 2 0 16 when he said: "1 am quite sure that in Kansas City, where he was called by the Barrett, Cinciunatl .... . 28 0 44 Gettman. Washington ... 13 1 0 15 John McGraw is of more value to base illness of his fatfier. an Illness which re Wagner, Louisville .130 13 7 291 Dowling. Louisville ..... 24 2 1 31 ball than all the magnates in the Na sulted In the death of the enthusiastic lit Williams, Pittsburg ... .152 27 9 331 Loekbead. Cleveland ...112 8 1 135 tle man who has been the city©s typical McBride. Cincinnati . . . . 71 5 'i 112 Hawley. Cincinnati ..... 17 3 2 29 tional League." It has been a great base ball fan for many seasons past. To Beaumont, Pittsburg ... .124 7 •A 187 Seybold, Cincinnati ..... 13 5 1 fault, this latter-day effort of magnates the people of Kansas City Charley Nichols Teuney, Boston ...... 108 18 1 270 Decker. Louisville. Wash. 23 8 2 49 to shine in the public eye and some of will always be known as Kid Nichols, the Da vis. New York...... 114 4 1 ISO Phillipi. Louisville ...... 22 6 0 32 them do not seem to take a tumble. Just boy who used to pitch for the Blues back Clarke, Louisville ...... 11 B 207 Young, St. Louis ...... 25 3 2 45 Stalil, Boston ...... 154 17 8 2S1 Willls. Boston ...... 2o 4 0 33 think of In 1888, and yet the Kid is now grown to 2 107 be a man, whose fondest hopes are center Flick, Philadelphia .... .130 14 2 222 O©Brien, Pitts, Baltimore .4 8 3 A THREAT Breitenstein, Cincinnati. . 30 1 1 45 Teaser, Brooklyn ...... 8 0 1 0 11 made by magnates to turn Hanlon. Mc ed in the 10-year-old daughter, who is one Seymour. New York.... . 45 3 2 2 65 Connor, Chicago ...... 39 1 0 56 Graw and Tebeau out of base ball unless of Boston©s school children. Grady. New York...... 79 17 9 2 14S Wrigley. Brooklyn. N. Y. 9 2 2 0 19 TALE OF HARD LUCK. Keckley, Cincinnati .... .129 23 18 3 241 Weyhing. Washington ... 22 3 1 0 31 they desist in abetting rowdyism! Why "We had a lot of hard luck in the Boston McFarland, Philadelphia 2 22 10 2 154 Kitson, Baltimore ...... 19 1 0 30 not turn all J^e live players and success team last year," said Mr. Nichols yester Keister, Baltimore...... 134 21 15 3 233 ful managers out and put automatons in day, "but you may depend upon it that Frisbie, Boston ...... 42 5 1 0 55 the field. Then there would be uo,dis the Boston team will be right in the race Heidrick, St. Louis..... ,©l58 21 15 2 253 AS TO ACCIDENTS. putes over salaries and the umpire©s life and fighting for the pennant again next Donliu, St. Louis...... 67 10 5 .6 126 year. The boys dropped oft in their bat Kelly. Brooklyn ...... 133 27 12 6 247 would be a joy instead of a burden. ting, and It was there that we lost the Chiles. Philadelphia ... ..71 25 6 3 151 Noteworthy Decrease in the Mat(er Besides under such conditions the mag McCreery, Pittsburg ... .117 20 3 196 of Personal Disasters and the Keiv- pennant. Think of Jimmie Collins making 1 175 nates would get all the notice they desire but one hit in ten games, and of Tenney Lange, Chicago ...... 106 22 son Therefore. and they would have no difficulty in hold Thomas, Philadelphia .. .101 10 5 0 196 going a whole week without a hit. Cau Freemau. Wash...... 116 20 26 25 334 In the past two years there has been a ing the centre of the stage. No, it is not you beat that for hard luck? The men Wood. Cincinnati ... . 44 8 1 fc©5 noticeable decrease in the number of ac such men as the trio mentioned who were all trying hard enough, but they Holmes. Baltimore . .132 31 4 232 cidents on the nelds of the National have hurt the game, and to raise such an simply could not find the ball, and when Daly, Brooklyn .... .119 24 9 5 214 League. Ten years ago accidents were issue was in line with they rounded to it was too late to do any Colliflower, Cleveland .. . 23 3 0 0 26 comparatively common. Collisions were good." Ketcham, Louisville ..... 19 1 0 0 20 frequent in those days, and many a man THE SERIES OF BLUNDERS IN GOOD CONDITION. Everett, Chicago ...... 143 16 4 1 191 made by magnates in recent years. "How Is your pitching arvnV" was the Ritchey, Louisville ...... 140 17 6 4 208 who played base ball a decade ago now McGraw is a villain, we are told, and his natural question. Brodie, Baltimore ...... 132 29 1 3 205 is carrying- scars or deformities as re 5 0 74 minders of some sudden and stunning meet methods must be changed and yet he was "Just as good as ever," replied the young Smith, Bait, and Brook. 43 8 ing with a fellow-player. The decrease praised from one end of the circuit to man who has stood for years as the most Doyle, New York...... 116 14 7 3 177 Zimmcr, Cleve." and Lou. 82 11 7 3 137 iu accidents of this kind is due to im the other for his successful handling reliable pitcher who ever stepped into the Crawt©ord, Cincinnati 29 2 8 0 57 proved team work. Outnelders understand of the Baltimore Club last season. Arid box. "I had my share of hard luck, and McCarthy, Pittsburg ... 133 19 19 4 244 each other better than in the old days. the same men who are advancing the I lo^t six games at a critical time, but I Bradley, Chicago ...... 30 6 2 2 50 Each man knows just what is the limit disciplining plan predict that he will be was not discouraged. I knew that I would La Chance, Baltimore... 103 11 I 190 of his territory and acts accordingly when come around all right." Hamilton, Boston ...... 82 1 1 101 a ball is knocked in his direction, beveral put in charge of a strong team in this The great pitcher says that all the for 60 5 2 0 76 city next year. , The attack on McGraw Fultz, Baltimore ...... of the Reds were mer Kansas City players. Long, Hamilton, Hoy, Louisville ...... 164 16 12 5 252 DISCUSSING ACCIDENTS reminds one of the old story they tell Bergen and Frisbee, will undoubtedly be Foster, New York...... 73 12 16 9 136 5 235 in the dressing room the other day, and about Abraham Lincoln, who, when in in the games with Boston next year, al O©Brien, N?w York...... 145 18 8 the above points were brought out. "Pink" formed that General Grant was drinking though Frisbee may be farmed out for a Mertes, Chicago ...... 86 16 17 9 205 part of the season. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols McGuire, Brook.. Wash.. 85 15 5 1 134 Hawley was the only player in the party heavily, asked his informers to find out Mercer, Washington ... . 99 4 8 1 135 who could confess to never having been what brand of liquors Grant indulged in. will probably spend a week or more in the Barr.f, Washington 59 8 5 1 94 in an accident on the diamond. Smith ami city, and then will return to Boston for 42 6 3 0 63 Selbach evidently had the most exciting The martyr President then remarked: the winter. Crisham, Baltimore ..... "I wotild like to send some of the gener Schroecengost. Cl.. St.L. 104 14 8 2 164 experiences of any of the players present. Selbach. Cincinnati ..... 117 12 3 213 Smith, however, came out of these little als some of that same brand." Wallace. St. Louis...... 119 29 14 12 267 affairs without any marks. "When I was AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OMAHA OVERTURE. Van Haltren, New York.. 155 22 4 2 219 with Kansas City," related Smith, "I had plans are either being mapped out on Ryan, Chicago ...... 125 20 10 3 207 Elmer Foster for a running mate in the tho quiet or the new league project To Make Its Re-entrance Into Profes Jennings, Brooklyn ...... 52 5 10 0 92 Sheckard, Baltimore .... 128 10, 10 3 208 outiield. One day a line hit was batted has gone back some. Tom O©Rourke sional Ball Via Tom Hickey©s New 10 2 3 82 to the outfield between our respective ter Cassidy, Brook., Wash.. 44 ritories. Both started for it, full speed. says that the local promoters have not Western Association. McGann, Brook., Wash.. 109 16© 10 7 213 been able to locate grounds on Man Omaha, Neb., Nov. 27. Editor "Sporting Sciiriver, Pittsburg 63 1 120 Just as we were about to collide 1 saw hattan Island. "We have found a good Life:"- It looks very much as if Omaha Donovan. Pittsburg ..... 142 10 1 184 Foster. It Green, Chicago ...... 112 13 6 192 WAS TOO LATE site on the west side above 200th street,,, would be within the professional base ball Dinneen. Washington ... 32 0 36 to turn aside. I partially turned my body, but we have not yet decided whether" ranks again next season. A meeting was Wolvertoh, Chicago ..... 90 13 1 153 and Foster crashed into my back with his we care to go up that far," said Mr. held last week by a number of gentlemen Farre.ll, Brook., Wash... 59 11 2 107 face©. He was knocked unconscious. His O©Rourke. Perhaps by looking over who are anxious to see the game rehabili Smith, Cincinnati ...... 80 15 1 129 nose was broken and he was unable to tated there, and the unanimous verdict Quinh, Cleveland ...... 146 22 1 212 play ball again that year. On another that section of tho city known as Inwood was that the city was never in a better Cross, Cleveland, St. L.. 135 19 5 208 on the extreme west side uptown condition for professional ball than it is Leach, Louisville ...... 94 13 4 154 occasion I had a similar narrow escape, A SUITABLE GROUND just now. The Chance. Chicago ...... 46 6 1 68 continued Smith. "I was with Pittsburg could be found. This section is on the REMARKABLE INTEREST Ely, Pittsburg ...... 124 15 3 190 at the time. A ball was hit up in short line of a branch of the New York Cen manifested in the local amateur games Sheibeck, Washington ... 22 4 0 33 left field. Glasscock. who was our short tral Railroad that starts from Thirtieth during the past summer is taken as a cri Jones. Brooklyn ...... 91 7 2 125 stop at the time, arid 1 started for the terion that the fans are ripe for some Stafford. Wash., Boston. 68 10 4 113 ball. Again I looked up just before we street and Tenth avenue and connects Robinson, Baltimore .... 83 16 0 121 met I turned partially. Glasscock struck with the main line at Spuyten Duyvil. thing better, and that a professional club Sullivan, Boston ...... 17 2 2 29 rav hip and his body shot four or five feet would be about the tiling. The Western Goeckel, Philadelphia ... 34 3 0 43 This location could be reached from© the Association is already in process of reor 0 19 into the air. He fell to the ground in a West side easy enough but would be Harris, Baltimore ...... 15 2 heap and I thought he was killed. How ganization, and, as any that could be de McPhee, Cincinnati ..... 82 15 1 137 ever he came around all right, and was vi-ry inconvenient for eastsiders, vised would be incomplete without Omaha, Clark, Pittsburg ...... 60 15 0 120 0 74 able to plav again next day. In neither of and it would be a two-fare trip to the it is an assured fact that Omaha will be Sugden. Cleveland ...... 66 4 these collisions was 1 injured." Cincinnati grounds. If the new club must go to one, if not the most important, city in the McKe-an, St. Louis...... 6 3 05 "Post." new body. At this early date a circuit DeMont, Chi., Bait..... 126 20 1 191 n far away place, however, Inwood comprising Omaha, Denver. Lincoln, Sioux Cooley, Philadelphia .... 90 12> 1 148 might not be such a bad place. City, St. Joseph, Des Moines, with Tope- Duffy©, Boston ...... 126 25 5 220 A POUR STRIKE RULE. ka, Pueblo, Cripple Creek, Davenport and Corcoran, Cincinnati .... 128 13 0 175 MEDICO M©JAMES. Some critics always oppose any Peoria to draw from, has been favorably Stenzel, St. L., Cincin. 31 11 1 57 changes in the rules that handicap the O©Brien, Washington .. . 107 10 6 166 mentioned. The first six cities a-re Bonner, Washington ..... 70 20 2 130 Why the Full-Fledged Doctor Still effectiveness of the pitchers. Tim Mur- ASSURED FACTORS, Dahlen, Chi., Brook.... 85. 20 4 168 Plays Base Ball For Hire Merely a nane is said to be in favor of decreasing and this means that two more will be se Dowd, Cleveland . 142 17 1 198 the pitching distance so ns to lessen the lected to make a paying and eligible cir Collins. Boston 121 26 4 228 Matter of Cash. batting. Time and experience have cuit. As soon as an understanding is ar Hemphill, Cleve.. St. L.. 53 4 2 87 Dr. McJames, pitcher, medico, philoso rived at by the parties at work on these Anderson, Brooklyn .... 94 14 4 165 pher and dialectitian, with a Major Ran proven that light batting is not popu six towns, a meeting will be called for Slagle, Washington ..... 138 17 0 196 dolph Gore Hampton dialect, will be a full- lar and therefore legislation with a view the representatives of each, at Omaha, and Piatt,-Philadelphia ..... 29 2 0 39 fledged wielder of the scalpel within a year, to stimilate batting has had the call. a temporary organization effected. As yet Padden, Washington .... 93 23 2 165 as his next and final term at the South They have increased the pitching dis Warner, New York...... 68 8 0 87 Carolina School of Surgery expires next it is a trifle early to enter into details, Peitz, Cincinnati ...... 61 15 1 101 tance, brt the pitcher is in a way still but it can be safely said that the outlook Nops, Baltimore ...... 25 3 0 31 April. The physician©s father is one of tho autocrat of the diamond. It is no is flattering for a ©good, fast professional Bowerman. Pittsburg ... 84 18 3 159 the most eminent medicos in South Caro wordor that any sugge tion to put the team here next season. Madison, Pittsburg...... 26 3 0 44 lina. "I reckon I will stick to base ball pitcher in his old place Wilson, New York...... 71 12 0 113 aftah I receive man diplomat!, sah. There©s An All-California Team. Clingrnan, Louisville 78 16 2 131 a right smart amount of money in pitching HAS FALLEN FLAT. Gleason. New York..... 138 11 0 181 ball, sah, but aftah I have saved a few There wits a ti: e when, under the Now that the big Leaguers have returned Lowe, Boston . .. 132 4 4 186 rules it required four str<::es to retire to the coast, an all-California team has thousand, 1 will retire, sah. and get mar been organized, viz.: Catcher Chance, Tavlor, Chicago ...... 26 9 0 50 ried to one of the fairest flowers that a batsman, and if there is any change Childs. St. Louis. .... 101 1 159 blooms in Dixie©s garden, sah," says the "hat would prove beneficial the restora pitchers Hughes and Knell, first base Douslass. Philadelphia 59 6 0 89 Lange, second base Reitz, third base Smith, Pittsburg .... 9 0 20 medico. Washington "Post." tion of the four strike rule is the one. Hulen, short stop Lockhead. outflelders Reltz, Pittsburg...... 29 0 43 "We want more batting an* it is hard to Mertes, Van Haltren r.nd McCarthy, -San Lauder, Philadelphia .... 126 3 190 Bill Lange was chosen to referee the Root- find a better way to accomplish this Francisco "Bulletin." Dexter, Louisville ...... 72 1 87 Greggains light, but be declined ^^ timnka. 9 Harry Quin©s new association will make Baltimore last season. 1 am glad to see a start next season. that Mr. Patterson has stated that he FAVORS CLEVELAND. followed the rules in his computation, GLEYELAPGHATTER President Ban Johnson, of the Amer and had it not been for the rules the ican League, is known to be favorable© showing of the Baltimore team would to Cleveland, arid it is the general belief have been greAitsr by far than it was. SOME BIG PROBLEMS FOR THE MAG here that this city will be represented STATUS OF THE PROPOSED ASSO BURNS© HARD UXES. in that thriving organization in 1900, If It will be very in-tevesting to note, if NATES TO SOLVE. the twelve-club League is dismembered. CIATION CLOB. there is a change in the management The preference of the Cleveland fans for of the Chicago Club next season, wheth a manager would be Tom Loftus, of er the new incumbent will do better un The New Association Popular in the Grand Rapids, although, perhaps, Com- A Snre Thing i! the Rest ol the der the same cireum&ts.nees than did iskey would be almost as welcome. Lof Mr. Bums. I doubt very much if Mr. Forest City Lottos, Too, Would tus managed one of the most Eastern End Shapes up Satisfac Burns© successor can do better than was PROSPEROUS AND POPULAR done. If Mr. Burns desired he coukl team ever representing this city. He tell a most interesting history of his be Very Welcome There league had the right idea of catering to the torily Hypocrisy ol the Present stewardship. Tom Burns is very popu public, instead of cursing it, and under lar in this part of the country. More Circuit Reduction Gossip. no circumstances told the people (whose Howl Against Syndicate Ball, Etc, than one base ball m.an will tell you quarters and half-dollars he was after) that when it comes down to base ball that the affairs of the club were none of there are few men in the count.ry who Cleveland, Nov. 20. Editor "Sport Boston, Nov. 28. Editor "Sporting- can give Tom any points. ing Life:" Exactly how the National their concern. It is little wonder, in Lift.©." The American Association can SPOKES FROM THE HUB. League will reduce its circuit to eight view of the subsequent developments, depend upon Boston as one of the clubs One of the local constant readers of cities if nobody is bought out and 110- that the patrons of the game in Cleve in the circuit provided it can show a "Sporting Life" is bewailing the fact body sandbagged out of existence is a land have a very select spot in their strong circuit. As far as can be known that he finds so little about the Phila hearts for Tom Loftus. but little progress has been made in the delphia Club and its prospects of late problem that sorely perplexes Cleveland OFF-SIDE PLAYS. fans. President liobison has said more "Chief" Zimmer says that the offer of way of circuit building since the meeting from the pen of the editor. BoKtoniaua than once, that under no circumstances $3000 he received to play on the Chicago in New York. Nearly three weeks have have been enjoying, very evidently, the .would either the Cleveland or St. Louis Association team in 1900 is still open. passed and no organization has yet rich jollies about the Phillies, and seem clubs Jack Glasscock, who played on the been perfected. It is safe to say that to be unable to get enough of a good CONTRIBUTE ONE PENNY. Cleveland team full 20 years ago, has no meeting will be held until the League thing. toward a fund for buying anybody out. has met the week of December 10, but Frank Selee is still on the hooks about been visiting friends and relatives here. his location in Worcester. The writers President Soden has made the same as Lave Cross© pigeons are making some will the Association be ready at that sertion on behalf of the Boston Club. time? The movement is still a West in that city who think that Frank Leon fine records in the short-distance races ard did nothing else than "sell railroad There appears to be no reason to doubt with which the Cleveland Homing Club ern one, and that strength has not ma the purpose of several of the club own terialized in the East that was expect tickets" last season are woefully mis is closing the season. taken. Mr. Selee says that Leonard de ers to shake off four cities and to shake Cleveland©s trio of third basemen, ed. It is admitted on all sides that no them off at once, but the way this shall better time could be had for a rival serves all the credit in the world foi Tommy Leach, Billy Bradley and Lave league that, the present, yet there has the way he handled the team. be done will probably require another Cross, met at one of the theatres the Billy Hamilton©s leg has come around session, rivaling, if, indeed, it does not other night and talked over their sea not been a rush to take advantage of exce©ed the the opening any more than there was in in great style. He is refereeing roller son©s experiences. 1890. polo games, and is as lively :\.s a cricket FAMOUS FIVE-DAY MEETING The firemen of the city are much put DECEIVING THEMSELVES. is in his movements. of last December, when some of us had out over Cuppy©s change of plans. The Most ludicrous is the idea that the Young Ganley, who was in the out to send home for more "expense landlord pitcher is a great favorite at American. Association is all moonshine field for Brockton and Albany, may be money," and when all, or nearly all, of every engine house in the city. and that its projectors expect to be in the Western League next season. He us exhausted our supply of dreams and Mclvean is one of the heaviest stock bought out by the League. Inasmuch hit for about .300 while in Brockton. guesses long before the iinal adjourn holders in the Business Men©s A. C.. as the League magnates are not buy Fred Tenney is making great time ment. Perhaps the newly organized which has just been organized. ing out undesirable members of their with his perambulator, and if there is "Big Five" will come to the December In a letter to a Cleveland friend the own organization there is very little any one in the country in it with him at meeting with some cut and dried plan other day "Cy" Young said he would likelihood that the League people would this line of business just now he does not for getting rid of soon go to Hot Springs for the winter. raise a finger to check the movement know it. CLEVELAND AND LOUISVILLE Money sufficient to put an American of the Association. A Washington That Portland ©longshoreman, Conroy, Association club on its feet in this city in the West and Baltimore and writer recently scoffed at the idea of is a man worthy of a place somewhere could be raised with little effort. Ed, an American Association club in Bos next season. They think him a most some other city in the East, but from McKean has been importuned again and this point of view it will take a very ton and said it was all a big bluff. likely player up that way. again to open a book to receive sub Yes, it is just as much a bluff as An- JACOB C. MORSE. smoothly framed resolution to get the scriptions. ELMER E. BATES. necessary number of votes to make it son©s Club in Chicago, Quid©s in Mil law. The owners of the Brooklyn and waukee, and the others in the West. KELLETS^IDEA. Baltimore teams, for instance, might TOM MCCARTHY AS TO RUNS. has come to an agreement .with his The Brooklyn Captain T links Well have something to say about abandon backers just as a joke, and had it re ing, either of two cities in which hand The Value of K.eeping Down the Op duced to writing, and has shown a of AVashiiigton and. Would Gladly some profits were made in 1S99 and posing Team©s Score Shown in Cold typewritten lease of the grounds just Swap From Brooklyn. DAMON JOHN T. BKUSH, Figures. for fun. Oh, it is the old story, one Baltimore, Md., Nov. 28. In speaking ol of Cincinnati, will scarcely support any J. Earle Wagner*s recent public announce An interesting table is appended, show must go away from home to get the ment that he would pay $1500 for Joe legislation calculated to hurt the purse ing the number of runs scored by each news. Boston is strictly in the Ameri Kelly©s release to the Washington flub of Pythias Frank DeHaas liobison. It League team during the season just fin can Association, and will fail to fall that famous player said to-day: "If Wag is easy enough to see how the circuit ished, and the average number of runs into line only if the circuit cannot be ner can fix a dicker with Hanlon, then I can be cut and adjusted to suit all con scored to a game.. The. same record shaped. It may be news also to this will jump at the chance of coming to Wash made by each team©s opponents iu the ington and taking charge of his team- cerned when the 10-year agreement games played together is also< shown. writer to know that "Anse" has been shall have expired in 1901. how it is in correspondence with McCarthy, and Washington is one of the .most valuable Boston succeeded in keeping their op cities in the League, and with a team that to be done before without disrupting the ponents down to an average of only 4.26 has pledged himself to come to> Boston will win half the games the owners will League itself is a problem too big for iims to a game. This means that Boston if necessary to push the affair along. com money. I a humble critic of the game to itackle. had to average less runs to a game in McCarthy greatly appreciates the of PREFER WASHINGTON A DIFFERENT SITUATION. order to win than any other club in the fices of the veteran, but is confident he to any city in the League, because I have League. Brooklyn was very close to Bos many friends in that city, and if I played The men behind the new League or ton, only 10 points separating them. can make both ends meet all right. Association do not appear to be partic FREEDMAN©S MANIFESTO. there I would be convenient to my home Philadelphia©s opponents averaged near Now we are told that the new League in Baltimore. Brooklyn is a tame sideshow ularly active at present. Perhaps, as I ly a run to, a game more than Boston©s to the big show across the bridge, and suggested last week, they are waiting or Brooklyn©s opponents. In other words. combination will make it warm for the you cannot drive a native of Manhattan on the National League and will bestir Philadelphia had to make nearly one more managers who uphold improper conduct Island across the bridge to a bull game themselves after the annual meeting of run in every game they played on the and who are engaged in syndicate ball. if you guaranteed him a round trip in an the national organization in New York average than Boston and Brooklyn in or Such a stroke at the latter strikes me automobile, a season ticket, and a per Dec. 12. I have no means of knowing der to win. as rather funny. Syndicate ball what centage ©of profits. They are like a jumping When it is realized how many games is the New Y©ork Club but an example horse that sidesteps the water; that is, the exact sentiment of the patrons in are lost by the margin of only one nfn. of syndicate ball? Where draw the they won©t take the bridge jump, and we the game in other cities, but 1 can speak it will be seen what a factor this was in have to depend on the Brooklyn people for for those in Cleveland with reasonable deciding the" championship. Just what line? It smacks of syndicate ball if support. But the burg of steeples and fidelity and speaking for them 1 can proportion of this is due to poor fielding a party who ©is interested in one club baby carriages will never be washed out say that arid what to poor pitching is impossible has as much as one share in another. by a AN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION to determine; but both together are re Entire aloofness should characterize FLOOD OF SPORTING BLOOD. sponsible for the runs made by opponents. the different League clubs and then Croquet, pinochle and bean bag rank be club would receive a very warm welcome The table: there can be no charge of combinations. fore base ball in the calendar of sports in in this city. The conditions and re RUNS SCORED BY OPPONENTS. Naturally a man who is interested in Brooklyn. After winning nine out of eleven member ©I am assuming to speak for Average games "on a western trip We returned and another©s club beside his own will stand opened to a few knots of Steepletown Cleveland alone are vastly different Clubs. Games. Runs, per gamp up for both organizations through thick than in 1900. wrhen the Players© League 1. Boston ...... 152 sports at 25 cents per head. It was a 2. Brooklyn ...... and thin, and stand up for the head of loser©s end reception they gave, a sort of was formed. Then the National League :i. Baltimore ...... the team, right or wrong. And such Louisville crowd on a rainy Monday, after had not been rent by internal dissen 4. Louisville ...... people want to abolish syndicate ball! losing a do/en straight. If we were in sions or handicapped by mutual owner 5. St. Louis ...... Well, let. them do it. but before they Washington after such a winning trip the ship of clubs. Had the revolt occurred 0. Pittsburg ...... town would have turned out and given 7. Cincinnati ...... go let them clear their own skirts. Syn us a special holiday. And yet they talk under circumstances such as now pre 8. Chicago ...... dicate ball was an evil never dreamt vail it would quite likely have been of crowding Washington out of the circuit £). New York ...... of when the twelve-club league was if the League reduces to eight clubs. When OVERWHELMINGLY SUCCESSFUL. 10. Philadelphia .. ... 11. Washington ...... launched. they talk to me about giving Washington The National League in Cleveland at THE SCORING RULES. the frigid end of it I feel like hissing ©eni." loast is not what might be termed a 12. Cleveland ...... RUNS SCORED BY CLUBS. What writer will not agree that those popular organization to-day. The people Average scoring rules will need the widest revis refuse to listen to the explanation that Clubs. Games. Runs, per game ion for next season? I agree Avith COMRADESJIVER. "mutual interest," or. if you please, 1. Philadelphia ...... 152 909 Brother Patterson. that the official "syndicate .ball." is unavoidable for the Brooklyn 148 86©.) score should show the number of times The Famous Shooter, Tom Marshal!, 3. Cincinnati . 150 860 fnoment. They simply insist that it ex 4. Pittsburg .. 149 8H4 5.60 men reached bases on hits, balls and hit and the Kqually Famous "Bid" ists, and that it ought not to. They 5. Boston . . ., 152 839 5.5? by pitched balls. Why, bless you, that McPhee Were Boys Together. point to the fact that just as a portion 0. Baltimore .. 149 817 5.48 is fully as important as the base hits© 809 5.47 When "Bid" Mcl©hee and Tom Marshall, of the base ball public in Cleveland 7. Chicago . . . 148 computation. Give us a base stealing the two-time winner of the Grand Amer 8. St. Louis . 151 802 R.315.2© had become 0. Ixjuisville . . 153 806 rule that means something, so that a ican Handicap, clasped hands at the Cin RECONCILED TO THE TEAM 10. Washington 152 738 4.8P man who takes a chance will get credit cinnati Gun Club grounds the catcher and thrust upon us last season the uses 11. New York 150 712 4.7f for so doing. A passed ball or a wild third base-man of the old©Keithsburg Ball and abuses of syndicate ball found its 12. Cleveland ...... 154 523 3.4C pitch should never affect a stolen base. Club met. They were boys together. Mc exemplification in a sudden draft upon That was one of the silliest things ever l©hee has won undying diamond renown, and Marshall is the wonder of the shoot the local team for three of its star LATE CONVERSION. introduced into scoring, and it is no ing world, as well as Mayor of the. Illiiioia players Gross, Shreckengost and Sud- wonder that rule was not widely fol city that, was Bid©s boyhood home. hoff to strengthen the other end of Mr. Brush©s Cry Against Syndicate lowed. Suppose a scorer is convinced "I©ll never forget one game in which Bid the combination. Under these circum Ball Distrusted. that the runner would have made his and. I played," said Marshall during an ex stances, ! and many others not over The moves of John T. Brush are beina base even had there not been the wild change of reminiscences, "It wire before looking the watched with great interest. It. was Bros! pitch or passed ball, what is there to the days of musks and pads, and a foul GIFT OF FAVOR1TK TLA^RS who fathered syndicate base ball, and, tha© prevent him from scoring a stolen base? had smashed him in the nose. While we to New York, the taking awa.» t all accomplished, ©we are told that Brush is- And that is certainly within the spirit were patching him up I heard one girl iu holiday dates and the wholesale trans to unsyndicate base ball. In connectior >f the rule. Had the rules of scoring the crowd say: ©Oh, it didn©t hurt .him with the talk about ridding the game oi any. He©s a professional;© That remark fer of games to other cities it is not syndicates, it would be interesting to know been built on sensible lines last season became fi club standby, and whenever any to be wondered at that the National what Mr. Brush and his companions in the list of stolen bases would have body had a linger knocked out we used to League is not in favor here and that tend to do with their holdings in the New neant something, and not been the farce spring the estimate of that fair fan, who on every street corner and in every York. Cleveland and St. Louis Clubs. ;hey were. A great deal has been said imagined that a professional couldn©t get public place the hope is expressed that Boston Herald. , an eight-club League, unless it were PUBLISHED strengthened in every department ex ______. . MONTHLTT. ST. LOUIS SIFTINGS. cept probably behind the bat. LAVE CROSS© SUIT. No. 2. Indian Clubs and Dumb Bells. A midwinter revel for the base ball 4. How to Become a Boxer. FRANK DE HAAS ROBISON ENTERS cranks will take place December G in 6. How to Play Lawn Tennis. By Champion Campbell. Judge Flitcraft©s court. Lave Cross© suit 9. The Athlete©s Guide. How to Run, Sprint, Jump, Walk and Throw against the Philadelphia Base Ball Club 12- Association Foot Ball. [Weights. SOME DENIALS, for $300 back salary will be on trial. In 13. Hand Ball. teresting features of the occasion will 14. Curling. 16. Skating. A very practical book. By Champion Geo. D. Phillips. be John I. Rogers© deposition, in which 18- Fencing. He Has No Intention Whatever he tells picturesquely what he thinks 20. Cricket, Guide. By Geo. Wright. about ball players, and testimony against 21. Rowing. By E. J.©Giannini, Champion Amateur Oarsman. Drilling Oat ol Base Ball the Philadelphia Club by Pat Tebeau, 23. Canoeing. By C. Bowyer Vaux. Jack O©Connor, Theodore Breitenstein, 25. Swimming. By Walter G. Douglas. 26. How to Hay Foot Ball. By Walter Camp. ager Tebeau Also Pats in-an Oar and other National League players win 27. College Athletics. By M. 0. Murphy. tering in St. Louis. Cross played with 29. Exercising with Pulley Weights. H. S. Anderson. the Philadelphia Club in 1897 and his 30. How to Play Lacrosse. By W. H. Corbett. The Club©s Plans For Next Year. contract read that he was to secure a 32. Practical Ball Flaying. By Arthur A. Irwin. $300 bonus if he played well during the 37. All Around Athletics. 39. Lawn Bowls. By Henry Chad wick. St. Louis. Mo., Nov. 27. Editor season. When pay time rolled around 40. Archery. By James S. Mitchel. "Sporting Life." President Frank De Cross was told that he could not get 42. How to Use the Punching Bag. H?as Kobisou, of the local club, has his bonus. Meanwhile Cross was traded 55. Sporting Rules ; for discus throwing; etc. been kept busy of late denying foolish to the St. Louis Club. He won the suit 58. Bowing. Latest rules and regulations. in Justice Cline©s court. The new hear 62. Military Cycling in the Rocky Mountains. Bv Lieut. James A. Moss. reports. Regarding that alleged recent 66. Technical Terms of Base Ball. IU. S. A. secret meeting of League magnates he ing is on the Philadelphia Club©s appeal 72. Physical Training Simplified. No Apparatus. said that at the tine of said meeting he to the Circuit Court. 74. Official Ice Hockey Kules; portraits and records. was hunting and was never farther A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. 77. Wrestling. George Reach, a son of Al Reach, the 82. How to Train Properly. away from Cleveland than seventy-rive Philadelphia base ball magnate, was a 84. The Care of the Body. uiiles. Regarding the Cincinnati story visitor in St. Louis Friday. Young Mr. 8". Athletic Primer. How to make athletic tracks. that he and his brother Stanley Reach is not connected with the national 88. Official Roller Polo Guide. NO LONGKK CAHKD 89. Indoor Base Ball. for their base ball interests and would game, but assists his father in the sport 90. Official Golf Guide. seekv to get out of the game entirely, ing goods manufacturing business. 91. Warmau©s Indian Club Exercises. Mr. Robison wired to this city an em 92. Official A. A. II. Rules. 93. Athletic Almanac for 1899. phatic denial, stating that there was 95. Spalding©s Official Ba*e Ball Guide. not one word of truth in. the report. BILLIARD NEWS. 96. Y. M. C. A. Official Handbook for 1899. Mr. Robisori states that he has been m 97. Spalding©s Lawn Tennis Annual. base ball too long to be driven out now (Continued from Tenth Page.) 98. Official Rowing Guide. that the clouds are gradually clearing. 100. Official Bicycle Gui©ie. "Oh, I have your seat, haven©t I?" And 101. Official Croquet Guide. In regard to the chatter of League cir that was all he said. There he sat while 102. Ground Tumbling. cuit reduction Mr. Robison says: "I the player stood until a small-sized man, 103. Official Foot Ball Guide for 1899. Edited by \Yalter Camp; have nothing to say on the plans for not gray for his years, but oiiee merely 104. The Grading of Gymnastic Exercises. next year, although I have no idea that a pugilist, gave him his. 105. Official Basket Ba©ll Guide for 1899-1900. the circuit will be reduced, and from 100. Rules for Basket Ball for Women. all I know Cleveland will be represent It seemed as if, while playing Stark, PRICE, 1O CENTS PER COPY, POSTPAID. ed in the circuit." Townseiid was for the first time dropping MANAGER TEBEAU into his once powerful stroke and methods. Catalogue of All Athletic Sports Mailed Free. Before that, the young old Ninth warder, returned from Cleveland during the now wasted in Brooklyn, had done little past week and also emphatically denied but make against Muldaur what was the having given out any interview credit best shot of the tournament, regarded for .A.. csk S^^LIDZJVC ing him with stating that the Robisons inaccessibility, risk, distance, speed and were preparing to get out of base ball. perfect "position." It called^ for the arti NEW YORK. CHICAGO. DENVER. "I didn©t give out the story, nor did I ficial bridge, and it started his run of 15 see it; though, of course, I have heard in the twenty-fifth inning, a "double kiss," carrying the cue ball and the red across a lot about it," declared Tebeau. the table and into the right lower corner, "That paper wants to change its Cleve where lay the other white. Applause was land correspondent unless it is looking hearty from the judicious, but they are for a libel suit. While there I took few. precious good care not to talk on base ARE ILLUSTRATIONS OF ball at all." Stark and others have complained HIGHEST GRADE MATERIAL, DIDN©T TALK BASEBALL. to me of the public©s incapacity for ap Manager Tebeau continued, "I saw preciation. This is chiefly the fault of the BEST QUALITY WORKMANSHIP, several old newspaper friends of mine, newspapers,, most of which have ceased to added to YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. but not one word was spoken in regard regard education as their mission. Ama teur handicap tournaments of high grade to the Kobisons or base ball. The are always a severe tax upon the mental, PERFECT SHAPE Is a SPECIAL FEATURE. story was circulated by some fellow muscular and nervous functions. This ser who wanted to make trouble, and there ies, it has seemed to me, must have been Prices-VERY LOW. Catalogue-Free. >vas not one word of truth in it. The especially trying to Stark and Poggen- Robisons conferred with me about burg. who have had to give odds varying next season©s St. Louis Club, and also practically from seven to twenty-seven per AJ.Reach Company had a good deal to say about their cent., or as much as 300 to 219. and yet Philadelphia, Pa. Cleveland team. We look for a con have unreasonably been expected to win every game. The strain, I fancy, has been tinuance of the present twelve-club greatest on Poggenburg, who. in his vexa circuit, and efforts will be made to stroke. All through fortune frowned tion over "hard breaks," has emitted a and favored with impartial bent. If almost H.J.BERGMAN, strengthen the Cleveland aggregation." brief whistle at times, and at others heav the second count by Poggenburg was a AS TO NKXT YEA"U. ed a lengthy sigh, while not omitting a scratch, so was Stark©s last but one, DEALER IN Regarding his plans for next season pious prayer or two at seemly intervals. neither profiting more than two or three Manager Tebeau said: "I won©t do Winning a majority of his games is so points. Poggenburg was twice cheated by The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. much until after the first of the year. new an experience that his margins were his ball rolling off, and Stark, at 18 Then I will prepare for another train but 29 against Towusend, 10 against Mul in his run of 45 in the fourth inning, was ing trip to Hot Springs. I will take daur, 19 against Arnold and 25 against as unaccountably rolled into count by iiis along several youngsters and give them Keeney; and his averages but C.52. 6.52 slow ball sidling from the right cush Billiard & Pool Tables again, 6.98 and 7.14. These are common ion towards the left upper corner. a thorough tryir.g-out. I expect Childs place for one with his rare hold upon the Stark in the twelfth inning was kissed back, and I think there is a good chance cue-ball, command over the first object into count, and Poggenburg later Into a Billiard Material, Repairs. that he will display his previous great and nice drop onto the second. My per better "position" than he had planned. form. If he can get right again it will sonal impression is that it is not so easy "Draws" were costly to one. and miscues No. 1002 ARCH ST., strengthen us a whole lot. Griffin is for him to give odds in the long run to a to the other. The big fellow counted on PHILADELPHIA. still ours, according to League law. weak man as to chase, overhaul and beat his very long pulls, but missed his shorter but Mike has not yet let me know what a strong. Anyhow, like most of the other in the 10th. 18th. 19th and 26th innings, new-fangled ways of billiardizing. the pres the last ending his high run of 52. which his plans really are. He is a great ent system of giving odds is wrong, and so liad promised to make McLaughlin call player, and with him in center I would is the prominence given to scoring by "Ninety and game." Stark caromed as he have the premier outfield of them all " innings. The latter makes apparent slipped or slid in the 6th. llth. 15th. 24th A PLAYER PASSES AWAY. winners "weaken" by making them over and last innings, but did not carom rightly, Frank Graney, the well known Tex anxious as to the vanities of achievement. while the miscues that denied him count as League player, died at his home in Really, high run and average amount to at all were in the 3d, 5th. 6th and 17th. this city recently of pleurisy. He led nothing until a game is over. Winning is Eight in 234 shots can never convict cue- the first basemen of the Texas League everything. leather. Man was at fault. Poggenburg made several neat "follows!" two of which Fine Tables, Carom, Combination and Fool in 1895, when he was a member of the The game between Keeney and Poggen were very risky, but there was one that of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Make. San Antonio club. In 1896 he was with burg was a trying one. It was a long he botched, and it closed his second high Orders from ail psrts of the world promptly attrnded to. the Dallas Club and was with the Lit one, because the big card figures were all est run. which was 36. To stand it off, Over l.OOO,OOO Noise Subditers Sold. tle Rock Club in 1898. He began that the time thrusting the "average" into the Stark closed his 18th inning with left-hand JOHN CBEAHAN.Contmental Hotol,Agent,Phila.Pa season with the New Orleans Club, but thoughts of the players. The Brooklynite mtchery on his tenth shot, while inar- illness compelled him to retire from the has improved of late, but not kept pace :istic, strokeless hammering nullified his game before the disbandment of the with Stark, much less with Poggenburg. 26th and 8th shots in his 28th and 29th It is but two or three years since, in these innings, just when reaction setting in im Southern League. Poor health kept interclub deadly fights for sociability, mediately after his opponent©s run of 52, him out of the game this year. Gran Townsend was going 300 to Stark©s 270. ae seemed to be growing free or firm or COLUMBIA Bicycle. (Men©s) ey was popular with the players and The last time Poggenburg and Keeney dainty in his touch again. ©96 Model. Never been used. patrons of the game, and his© untimely played in tournament or match, the for death ended a promising career. He mer was at 270 to the latter©s 275. Now Wil! be sold for the first rea Poggenburg concedes 20 in 300, and wins Starks© score on Friday was 204, mak was an, intelligent and manly fellow ing his average 6.58 for the night; his sonable offer. and was1 always ready to do a good by 300 to 255 officially, but by 300 to 235 as far as human can ever know what total innings 172, his total points 1337, Address M. C., P. O. Box 948. turn, should have been the true score. Both and his entire average 7.77. Poggenburg, WHAT MAY BE. men played some shots wrongly, made whose final average was 9.68, had 208 inn Philadelphia, Pa. Although Manager Tebeau refuses others badly and missed yet others woeful ings in all, 1500 points in all, and an av to admit it. it may be accepted as a ly. The gem of the game was the highest erage of 7.21 for all. The high-run aver strong probability that should the run. It was only 35, but made from first age was 37.69, the order being Stark, vember 30 and December 1-2, will come League circuit be reduced, the St. to last in the middle of the table, usually Townsend, Poggenburg, Keeney, Muldaur the Daly inter-club tournament, opening about ten inches below the light-red spot. uid Arnold. As to high run absolutely December 4. Building an amphitheatre to Ixiuis Club will be a bidder for several he order was Stark, Keeney, I©oggeu- cover the southeast one-fourth of his room star players, including Fted Clarke There was no line to guide, and there were frequent drives. It was not strictly ">urg, Townsend, Muldaur and Ar- Daly will seat three or four times as many and Hans Wagner. If the latter is the "face nursing," in which Stark excels, lold, severally with 77, 72, 70, 61, as Slosson could. Invitations still will be secured, he will play first or second. but it was dextrous nursing just the same, 30 and 23. The average gait of the entire the rule, so also will be the national am If Childs is traded Hans may take his tvurney was 5.61 points per inning. If I ateur championship tournament at Madi for the drives, instead of being up and ecollect aright, this is higher than Pog- son Square Garden next February. Club place, but the chances are that the big down or around the table, were always to genburg©s general average in Class B last men have taken the matter in hand, and German will be used at the initial bag one side or the other. The next highest winter, notwithstanding that Billy Arnold the expenses will be met by subscription. and Joe Quinn stationed at second. run was 34, but it was Keeney who made soaked it" with his 1.45 against Stark. BKXJAMIN GARNO. Of course, Pat will have an eye out it. for a pitcher or two. The Pe©rfectos Like all the rest but Keeney, Poggen No game showed a vacant seat. For the is the only perfect need several additions to make them a burg was swiftest against Stark. He also ast. Slossou©s whole room could not begin, factor in an eight-club race. A team stcod the strain better. At the start, the o hold the people. Dozens went up to Base-ball Shoe, ihat finished no better than fifth in nervous Pennsylvania*! overplayed, while Daly©s. After the Oro-Payton champion Send for booklet. 1899 would be a tailend probability in tie phlegmatic New Yorker was short in ship pool contest, set for Daly©s, tm No- \V. M. , 1107 Chestnut St., 1©UiU. r LIFE. worthy opponent. Mr. Christopher Colum Du Pont 6. Padgett 3. Freed 4. Swain 4, XIaye©r bus Gottiieb. managed to rattle down 49 4, Shaw 3. out of a possiole 50. Losing .but a single Ten targets, Hnknowr, angles Baldwin 7. Dn bird the even dozen one. Had Pnrmelee Pont 7. Swain 7, Weborn G, Freed t>, Parish 5, failed on this day the result would have Mayer 4, Paget 2. been different and Captain Brewer would be looking for a cinch when he visits CRESCENT ATHLEriC CLUB. THE? DEFEAT KANSAS CITI IN THE Omaha witb two new 8600 guns. HE SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED THE IT IS SINGULAR H. L. Keiiyon Won the Final Shoot TEAM MATCH. how many of the Kansas City teen fell For the November Cup. CHALLENGE CUP. down on the very last bird. It looks The final shoot for the November cup of strange yet cone of them can be accused the Crescent Athletic Club took place Nov. Only Two Birds Aliead al tbe Pinlsb of lacking nerve at the finish. Take the 25. at Bay Ridge, L. I., and resulted in a Good Sport at the Keystone Shooting following cases: J. B. Porter lost his last victory for H. L. Kenyou. who. with his two. and three out of the last four. W. allowance, broke the limit of 25. The cup. Chris Gottlieb Made the Honor S. Alien dropped two out of his last five. however, became the personal property of © League Grounds Yandegrift Made Ed Hickman fell down on his last bird. F. W. W. Marshall, who© made the best record Score With Forty-nine Parmeiee N. Cockrill was una©ole to grass his last for the month. The conditions governing one. C. C. Herman lost his last bird the contests for these monthly cups are the Only Clean Score ia tba Club and two out of his last five. Dave Elliott that a member must take part in at least .and Bray Did Some Fine Work. failed to work his gun right on his last three weekly shoots in order to become eli Eyent Details ol the Stioot, bird. Out of the ten men on Kansas City©s gible for a prize. If a member takes part team five of them fell down on their very in more than three shoots he has the Kansas City, Nov., 25. Editor "Sporting last bird, and the team lost by two birds. privilege of selecting his best three scores The regular weekly live bird shoot of.the Life:" The Omaha ream of pigeon shots The scores follow: to count in the final record. Marshall©s Keystone Shooting League, of Philadel won a victory from the Kansas City gun OMAHA. best scores were 22. 24 and 22. a total of phia, was held oil their ground©s* at Holmes- ners in the first intercity match, which Schroeder. 12220 00202 12222 22212 22222 21 6S. E©dward Banks. was a close second, burg Junction, on N-ov. 25. The day was was finished here to-day. 21112 20112 1212J 2©122 20112 22 43 an ideal one for live bird shooting and the It was an exciting race, especially on the Bei©esheln: 202221*121 1221212122*2120 21 with 67, while H. L. Kenyon and Henry birds furnished were a goot lot. There second day, as the home team were im J0212 111-12 21210 22122 ©2112-22 43 Kryn was a tie at 66. Loundes Rhett had was a strong wind to help them, and out of proving in their aim, and lead .of eleven Bfucker. 01221 21212 *1210 21221 21102 21 63 and John H. HaHock 62; The others nine entries in the Keystone Challenge cup 20212 11021 12010 220*2 12212 19 40 in the club were KOI in the race. birds gained on -the tirst day was cut down Read..., 22222 22222 22222 22222 22220 24 In a prize handicap contest .four men event but two clean, scores were made. F. to two nt the rinish, and the Omaha men 22202 22222 20*22 22202 22222 21 45 tied. The tie wil! be shot off next Satur M. Eames and A. Geikler tied on 10 and won by the score of 439 to 437 out of a Smead.. 12121 22212 22221 01211 22122 24 day. The scores: in the shoot-off the former won. which, possible 500. 20122 11121 12112 0122© 22222 22 46 SHOOT FOR NOVEMBER CUP-25 BLCE stlli left him in possession of the <;up. THE INTERCITY CONTEST 12222 20221 22121 12221 11222 24 ROCKS. HANDICAP. This prize is shot for every two weeks and between Omaha and Kansas City pigeon 21222 21222 22201 12202 21222 23 47 H. L. Kecycn 10111 11101 10111 11000 11110 Mr. Eames was the winner in the shoot D. Kiffiball 20*22 22222 22212 11112 01222-22 Hdcp...... OHIO 10111 -25 two weeks before. Good scores were made shots began at Washington Paris 20120 22222 22222 22222 22202 22 44 L. Rhett...... 11010 11010 Oil-:: 1110011111 in this event by H. Henry, J. Vandegrift Nov. 24, and at the end of the T. Kimball 12212 02212 22122 01222 21222 23 Hdcp...... 11101 -22 and Dr. Foster, who killed 0 out of 10. day six men from each team had shot at 202*0 20211 ©0120 11122 21222 18 41 W. Marshall. .00111 Ollli 01111 10011 11011- In the second event, at 10 birds, for clob their score of 50 birds each. At this time Crabill.... 22122 22222 22222 22220 22*02 22 Hdcp...... 01111 0 -22 prizes, only one straight score was made. the visitors were 11 birds in the lead, and 22102 *2222©22221 11221 20*22 21 43 © G. Notznan. .. .01111 1111-: 0001: 10i:i 10110 J. Vandegrift brought down the entire four men on each side were left to com Parmelee,. 22222 22222 22122 22222 02212-24 I Hdcp...... 1101 -21 number and had no ties. Henry and Fitz plete on the following day. It looked very 22222 22222 02022 22222 12122 23 47 Edw. Banks. .. 10111 00111 01111 11101 11111 20 gerald had 9 birds each, Landis. Dr. Fos dubious for the Kansas City men. as the H«n-ry Kryn... 10111 01111 01011 001.11 11011 Total ...... 439 ter. H. Van Loon, E. Johnson and A. Geik visitors Imd strong cards in D. and T. Hdcp...... 000 -13 ler scored 8 each. The scores follow: Kimball, J. Crabill and Frank Parmelee. KANSAS CITY. J H. Hallock. 11100 11100 10111 10011 00111 Porter,... 211«1 22021 122122121- 11210—21 . Hdop...... 101 -IS Challenge cup shoot for the championship ol who were to shoot in pairs against Chris Philadelphia. .10 birds, SO yards rise: sweep Gottlieb. Dave Elliott, George StocUweli 21121-21122 22210 22111 20200—21—42 C. G. Rasmus. 10011 00011 01100 11000 11101 Alien..... 22222 12102 20221 111-21 22220—22 Hdcp...... 00101001 -10 stake: entrance, S2.5U. and "Cal" Campbell. 22022 22222 12022 12222 00222—21—43 Sweepstake. 25 Blue Rocks, known traps and Eames ...... -.©...... 12222 22122-10 The weather was cloudy on the first day Hickman. 2121021111 21110 "1212 1Z212—21 unknown angles Louis Hari-ison 2i3, L. Rhett Geikler ...... 22222 22122 10 and the birds of a fast lot, which accounts 22222 22112 22*0* 12212 22220—21-42 20. Platt Adams 19, Marshall 16. Norman 15, Henry ...... 02122 22222- 0 for the low and disappointing scores made Curtice... 02220 0*222 20222 22222 2222*—19 Banks 15, Rasmus 15. Wyekoff 10. Vande-Tlft ...... 22102 22211 9 by several of the home club. 02220 222*2 *2222 20222 22222—20— 39 Sweepstake. 25 Blue Rocks. Magautrap Harrl- Fester ...... 21222 22022 9 Johnson ...... 10222 10111- S THE CONDITIONS Cockrill... 22222 22222 22222 12212 22222_25 son 22, L. Hhett 11. G. W. Hagedorn 9, Platt of the match were: 10 men on each side. 22220 *22*2 22122 *2222 22210—20—45 Adams 8. G. W. Bntton 4. Firzgei©ald ...... 210*0 22221-7 Herman... 00222 22222 22222 12222 2*22*—21 Prize handicap. 10 pairs A. V. \Vyckoff. han Felix ...... 02022 22022 7 HO live birds per man, two opposing men •0122 22222 22222 22222 20220—21—42 dicap 4, broke 10; Harrison, 1. 15: Banks, Van Loon ...... *1210 *1212 ,7 shooting down their score of 50 birds, thus D. Elliot t 22212 22222 22222 022*2 22222—23 scratch. 14; Kryn. 2. 14; Kenyon, 4. 14: .1. HI. Tie- shcot for cup; three birds Earnes 3, making! nn individual match, as well as a 22222 22222 2&022 22222 222-20-23-46 Hallock. 3. 13; L. Rhett. 3, 13: W. W. Marsh-all. Goikler 0. team race. Stockwell. 22122 01221 22212 22212 21102—23 5. 12; Grant Notman. 2. 12: Plate Adams. I, 10; Club shoot for the championship of Keystone The lirst pair called to the score yester 12212 22212 illOl 20111 02112—22—45 H. C. Chapman, 5. 7: G. W. Hagedorn 2. 6. Shooting League; 10 birds; handicap rise; day was J. B. Porter and G. A. Schroeder. Campbell.. 21221 10122 12212 21222 11011-23 Prize handicap, 15 Singles and 5 pairs Banks sweepstake; entrance, $2.50. l.n©this race the Omaha man was the vic 11121 01122 1112-1 *2200 11221-21—44 19. Hagedorn 19, H. Rhett 19; Wyckotf 19. Net- Vandegrift, 30yds...... 22221 22222 10 tor, winning by one bird, the score being Gottlieb.. 22222 22222 20222 22222 22222—24 man 18, Kryn 17. Hallock 17. Harrison 16, Keu- Henrv, 30yds...... 21122 12220 9 43 to 42. The next pair drawn brought out 22222 22222 22222 22222 22222-25-49 yon 15. Chapman 9. Britton 9. Fitzgerald. 30yds...... 02112 22112-^9 Gus Lleresheim and W. S. Alien. They Match, 25 Blue Rocks Xenyon 17. Kryn 17. Landis. 30yds...... 22202 22101 8 Total ...... 437 Shoot-off, 10 birds Ki-yu G, Keuyon 5. Foster. 29yds...... 22222 21022 8 shot a- tie, as each scored 43. so that The following shows the order in which Van Loon. 29yds...... 11101 01121 8 Omaha was still one to the good. Ed. the individual matches were shot: EMERALD GUN CLUB. Johnson, 30yds...... 02121 10211 8 Hickman and G. F. Brucker were (lest Schroeder (OmahaK .43 J. B. Porter t©K. C.).42 Geikler, SOvds...... 11120 10221 8 pitted against ear-h other, and. as_Hick- Beresbeiin (Omaha)©.431 W. S. Alien (K. C.>..*3 Stevenson. 30yds...... 222*0 22220 7 man beat the visitor two birds. Kansas I an instance where two men were out hunt causes its premature explosion like draw and the guides are compelled to make out ing, one saw a squirrel in a tree and fired ing it from a boat or wagon with the reports showing the number of moose and! both barrels at a dead easy shot. He muzzle towards your body. No matter if deer killed and by whom. The penalties never touched the squirrel, so immediately it isn©t loaded there Is sure to be a charge for violations of the lav/ are very heavy, loaded to try it again. Just then his of duck shot, tearing great holes through and the violators are almost sure of de best friend who was hard by, gingerly your chest protector even if you are on a tection. I believe that a man wh^ kills a OCCIDENTS THAT OCCUR THROUGH SO picking his way through the juniper quail shooting trip. Crawling over a fence doe may escape by paying a fine, but a bushes, received the contents of a fowl©.ng and dragging the gun through is a sure heavy one, something like $500; but to kill piece full in his fancy waistooast, rid way of getting a handful of leaden pellets a cow moose will subject a man to im FAULT OF THE HANDLER, dling it to such an extent as to render landed against your breast bone. The prisonment in the penitentiary for two it unfit for appearance in select society. fact that the gun is a hammerless and has years, and no fine will suffice." The friend who was trying to shoot the the safety slide pulled back so the letters Guns Have Feeling and Resent Harsh squirrel was not looking in his direction, S-^-F-E appear in gold will not protect neither was the gun pointed that way, yet yon. If you have a gun with a positive QUAIL AUE PLENTIFUL. a smoking, empty shell indicated where automatic safety slide and you know it is Treatment Guns Get Loaded With the load came from. unquestionably locked safe, just point it Reports From the Soutli Tell of thf Another case which created wide com towards a $75 mirror, and lightly, very Abundance of Game. ment and discussion in the Society for the lightly, press the trigger. The mirror will out Human Assistance Important Prevention of Unloaded Guns Exploding immediately resemble a thirty-cent piece. This is the time of year that the huntet was the novice who went after quail. He The safety slide business will be on a vaca thinks to hie himself to the places wher« Discovery ol Scientists, fired 67 loads without hitting a single tion at that critical moment. Therefore, game abounds. Bis gun has hung on its feather, at distances from five feet to eigh let us all handle the shotgun or rifle just peg all summer and he now longs to tak* ty-six paces, but the instant another gun as though it was a demon, intent on de it under his ariii and hunt his favorite bird* The gunning season is now upon us, and ner crossed his path he had no dif struction without just cause or provoca iSo many inquiries have come in asking the open season for accidents has arrived. ficulty in sprinkling the other felllow©s tion. Keep away from the muzzle. Never where to go to get the best hunting that The country newspapers have dusted the limbs with bird shot to such an extent that look into the two eyes of the gun, always it was deemed best to send out a general old stereotyped headings, which read: the doctor removed 435 pellets of No. 9 believe the chambers contain two extra letter of inquiry and then to give the re "Didn©t Know It Was Loaded," "A Gun chilled shot. long shells loaded for bear and that the sults. Of course the South is the field of ner ©Accidentally Shot," etc., and placed GUNS AS WATCH DOGS. gun has hallucinations that you are the the hunter for small game, and it is to this them in action every week. The doc A well-known Dominie related a curious bear. section that the following refers: tor, the coroner and the undertaker experience which occurred when he was GUNS ENJOY SHOOTING. The letters, of which the following are a also enjoyed increased business in their a boy. He was living on a farm in the A queer case happened last year to a gun part, are from well-known Southern sports respective lines. © All kinds of rules have West, and part of his chores was to bring ner in Clarion county. He was hunting men and can be relied upon. So many have been pasted in gunners© hats lor observ the cows from pasture. As prairie chick squirrels and had met with good success. been received that it is impossible to give ance in field shooting, yet the number of ens were plentiful he often took his old them all at once, but they will be contin accidents do not decrease. Therefore, we About noon time he sat down to refresh single-barrel muzzle-loader, because he himself with a cold snack, consisting of ued from time to time, so that those inter will perpetuate a slight travesty on the was afraid some Of the ferocious old cocks ested can choose the section that best suita manner of handling shotguns, with a few a rasher of bacon and an egg sandwich. might bite him. While returning from a He stood his gun against an old oak tree their purpose. All of the letters received of their sntanic inclinations, together with shooting trip one day he drove his team a number of golden-bordered rules for near at hand, and sat down on a mossy tell of the wonderful abundance of game, around by the pasture lot and soon had log. Hardly had he fastened his teeth stating that, if anything, it exceeds last strict fulfillment on the gunners© part if the cows moving towards home. The year, which was one of the best ever they desire quick passage to the happy in the sandwich when the gun exploded, faithful old gun was carefully placed on rending the bark asunder from the side known. This, too, in face of the severs hunting ground. It was during a meeting a nice soft pile of straw in the bottom of the Society for the Prevention of Un of the old oak, ripping a jagged furrow winter experienced. - of the wagon. There was no possible way along its side to such depth as to start the O. J. Hays, in his letter from Chase City, loaded Guns Exploding that most of the for the guii to jar off. and no straw could subject matter was expoiinded. sap flowing fiee©y. He instantly snatched Va., gives the results of some hunting GUNS HAVE FEELING, possibly pull the trigger, yet that old the gun befi.re it could discharge itself trips. One hunter, he says, flushed 11 A gun is said to have feeling, and will blunderbuss went off. tearing a great again and looked for the cause. coveys of quail in an hour and a half, each behave just according to how the spirit jagged hole through the tailboard of a Presently he detected a gray squir averaging 25 birds, and in a like number at moves. Some guns possess the demon new Democrat wagon and mowing a wide rel nimbly scampering away through the shots he got a bag of 23 birds. Two guns spirit at times and will shoot poorly, hang swath through the fur of a new milch tree tops. He readily conjectured brought in 83 birds as the result of an af fire, refuse to stand cocked, or else hold cow, which was trailing along after the that the gun, standing as it did, with its ternoon©s sport, and one within half a mile back in the trigger, and kick unmercifully wagon, nibbling at the few wisps of straw tvvo eyes looking into the leafy bowers of town got 28 birds. There is also a good with the same load that shot easily the which overhung. The Dominie could not of the oak, spied the squirrel and so took showing of wild turkey and other game La day before. All kinds of rules can be account for the gun acting so, unless it a shot of its own accord. Had the gun this region. pasted in your hat, but if the gun takes was because it reckoned the cow had no been leaning against the mossy log on H. R. Cowles, of Statesville, N. C., say* a notion into its locks to go off, no power business grasping at the straws. which, the man was seated it might have that quail are more plentiful in his sectiOB. can prevent it. There is no use trying to GREAT GUNS AT THE TRAP. shot away a couple of his ribs, or tore than ever before. avoid receiving a load of shot if the gun Even at trap shooting tournaments you off his -crazy bone. This shows the value From Athens, Tenn., comes the same has it in for you. It©s like trying to dodge are not safe from a demon gun. At the of being careful where you stand a gun, news. D. M. Owens, who is well known lightning. Cleveland tournament two years ago a even ig,.it is empty, which is most probable in that district, writes that the blizzard GUNS EXPLODE. prominent shot, after completing the day©s in this particular case. had no effect on the coveys, and that birds For some time scientists connected with events, thoroughly cleaned his hammerless Here are a few simple rules, which are as plentiful as ever. Guides can be the Society for the Prevention of Unload gun and laid it on the table, preparatory to placing it in its case. He slipped outside should be upside down in your hat. had for 75 cents a day, and teams and Jio- ed Guns Exploding have been trying to the club house for a couple of minutes to ALWAYS OBSERVE THESE RULES. tels cost not more than $2 a day. Only a discover why guns explode without any (Only in your dreams.) few farms are posted, and permits to apparent reason; why guns that have been speak to a friend; returning, he picked up his gun, just as he had left it, and raising 1. Always leave your gun dirty. shoot over them can be had for the ask discharged become loaded again without 2. Always leave it loaded, you may ing. This, instead of a hardship, is a great human agency. An old single-barrel, muz the muzzle over the head of a famous gun salesman pulled the trigger to let the ham want to use it quickly. benefit to the legitimate gunner, for it zle-loader can be left on the pegs back of 3. Always leave the safety slide up. It kills off the pot hunters. H. V. Jones, who the kitchen stove for years without doing mers down. Instantly there was a loud report and a hole was torn into the ceil is no account, and only made to look at. is one of the best-known sportsmen around a bit of harm, but the moment it is han 4. Always use a dram more of powder Dalton, Ga., sends v.ord that the birds dled, and when pointed directly at some vi ing of the house, right over the gun seller©s head. "Who put that shell in my gun?" than the directions recommend. Tue pow are plentiful down his way. Turkeys are tal part of a human being, then it will deal der makers don©t know your favorite load. also good sport, and squirrels and ducka its dose of death. You could try all day instantly yelled the owner. He knew well enough that he had left the chambers 5. Always go ahead of your gun. You can be had in abundance. to make it kill a refractory chicken m the Rabbits are to be found in plenty around barnyard, but no amount of priming or empty not over two minutes before. No are entitled to this position as a mark, of fresh G. D. caps would cause the ignition one could be found who admitted having respect. Cleveland, Tenn. So writes J. D. Patton, of the old f. g. powder snugly, packed done such a criminally foolish thing, and 6. Always climb over a fence and pull and the farmers are glad to have then- within its chamber. But just point that the mystery remained unsolved. On open the gun through, the hammers will never killed. Hickory, N. C., has long been noteO musket toward some person, and without ing the gun it was discovered that the catch on the rail. as a centre for quail shooting, and the re even cocking the hammer, or pulling the shell was not of the kind used by the 7. Always drag a gun out of a boat by port from there is most encouraging. W. trigger it will go off with a roar and a owner of the weapon. To those who have the muzzle, the same as you grab a dog J. Southerlaud states that the shooting mifzzle© velocity of not less than 1235 feet made this matter a study, it is an easy by the neck. It can©t bite you. was never better, and that guides with conjecture that the gun got that cartridge 8. Always point your gun at a friend large territorial privileges can be had at PC1 S6C GUNS BECOME INFUSED. from a handy shell box and intended doing when you sight over it or snap the hammers reasonable rates. Twelve thousand five We have known guns that rested peace- mischief. Had the owner hesitated a mo down. It shows a certain amount of re hundred acres, with the privilege to shoot fullv in cases for years suddenly become ment about pointing the muzzle towards gard for your friend. over them, and the game in abundance, is infused with a desire to explode the in the ceiling, a certain gun company would 9. Always use a two-pound trigger pull, the story told by A. T. Reunie, of Clarks- stant they were handled. There is some have lost their best salesman. as a neighbor may want to borrow the gun ville, Va. Deer and turkey are also plenti thing about a gun that reminds one of a GUNS AS ACROBATS. who is accustomed to a ten-pound pull. ful, so that any one desirous of good shoot balkv horse, only being more dangerous; Another remarkable case happened at a He is sure to kill a dog or pepper a com ing cannot go amiss. R. F. Cobb, of Tay- you "can©t tell just what minute they will tournament, in Lancaster, Pa., a couple of panions© rubber boots, if nothing more. lorsville, N. C., who owns a shooting ranch, make up their minds to go off. It is al- vears ago. A squad was at the score 10. Always shoot at every moving object has great hopes for a record season for wavs safer to stand behind a gun than shooting at targets. A balk at one of the in the woods. By observing this rule you quail. Everything necessary can be had in front of it, even if it hasn©t been near traps stopped the sport for a few minutes. are liable to kill a 10-cent rabbit most any on the grounds. "More quail than ther« a load for a ©year. We know of a stingy In front of the firing line was a railing, old time. Should the moving object be a have been in any one season for the past man who hated to buy shells. He often about three feet high. One of the shoot companion your light load won©t disable five years," is the text of H. H. Hargroves fired his gun without loading it by simply ers had a loaded shell in his hammerless him enough to prevent his hobbling home. answer. He is in the centre of a great making believe it was not loaded, and gun. When the balk occurred he opened 11. Always carry the gun over your district, Moor^sville, N. C., and knows what pointing it towards a bird "just for fun, the gun and balanced it over the railing, of shoulder when leading the way through good hunting is. to see "where he would hold if his gun was course with the muzzle pointing towards thick brush. Your friend who is following A number of other letters haye been re loaded. Often when he performed this the field The instant he stepped away may want to look at the choke in the ceived, and their contents will be made mental illusion the gun went off and killed that gun deliberately turned a complete muzzle. known at another time. But from the fere- the bird. He shot his dog once in this summersault on that rail, closed itself and 12. Always carry the gun swinging eas going the Northern sportsman can see that fired at the crowd. One of the visitors, a ily in your hand when anyone is ahead. the "fields are ripe for the harvest. Ex manner. He knew the gun wasn©t loaded, man well known at the State meets, was but he pulled the trigger to find out. It It is impossible for a twig to catch in the change. passing just in time to have the load tear triggers. simply goes to show that the gun was away his blouse, vest, trousers and shirt, hostile and wanted to do mischief. Jt directly over the pit of his stomach. He GEORGE COOPER WON was a demon gun. thought his end had come, but an examina GAME IN MAINE. GUNS LOAD THEMSELVES. tion showed but a slight scratch on the The Clinton Bidwell Live Bird We have known men who didn©t take skin No one was to blame but the gun. The Strict Manner of Protecting Big Trophy at Buffalo. care of their guns to be in constant dan The©shooter had used all due precaution; Game Commendable. ger from the abused weapon. They could he "had left the gun open and pointed the November 25 was live-bird day at the thoroughly remove every vestige of powder other way. This goes to show how danger A sportsman who has just returned from Buffalo Audubon Gun Club©s regulat and shot: in fact, place an old empty shell ous a gun is, no matter which way it is a pleasant trip in Maine for big game weekly shoot and a finer day for the sport in the chamber and stand the gun in the speaks of the strict manner in which their never©dawned. The main attraction \vas corner over night, yet in the morning they 100kU1 GUNS HAVE SARDONIC GRINS game laws are enforced, and. owing to this, the Clinton-Bidwell Challenge Trophy race would find a load of the fiercest kind of Only this year, at one of the big shooting the supply of moose and deer does not seem at 23 live birds per man. It was won by black powder, al) ready in the shell and event©s, a "didn©t-know-it-was-loaded" ac to be lessened even with the large amount George Cooper, who scored 24 out of 25. a big load of No. 4 shot. Where that cident came near occurring. One of the which is being taken out every season. In C. S.©Burkharclt and H. D. Kirkover were powder came from or how the gun ob shooters cleaned his gun at the end of the speaking of the game laws of Maine he second with 23 each. Mr. Cooper shot in tained it never could be discovered, and dav and placed it in a rack. The next says: "Even before we reached Bangor we excellent form, but many of the shooters as to the shot, it was an inexplicable morning he saw it was still there, and as were approached by a game warden, asked thought he had a big advantage, the man mystery, PS not an ounce of No. 4 shot his turn did not come for a couple of hours, our names, where we lived and what we ex agement allowing him to shoot his 25 be- had been in the house for over a year. visited around in the grounds. When the pected to hunt. Nobody is allowed to hunt fore the field had half finished, in order Scientists claim that guns have a way of time approached for him to shoot, he push without a guide: and. in fact, it would be for him to get away, while they had to getting themselves loaded without any ed his way through the crowd, picked up useless and dangerous to attempt to do so. shoot in rotation, with the daylight fast help, same as some persons do. We know his gun. which he knew was not loaded, The guides are regularly licensed by the fading away while they were finishing of a gunner who had trouble with his and proceeded to point it around the room: State1. To obtain a license a guide must their string. hammerless, and could not make it report. first aiming at the stove pipe, then at a pass an examination in woodcraft and Two target events were also shot. E. He cut open the shell, which he knew he picture, thinking all the time how easy prove himself a competent man, must pay C. Burkhardt and H. D. Kirkover divided never placed in the chamber, and found it would be to kill a pigeon Finally, as a small fee and must take an oath to do all high honors in ,each, tieing for A class the shot was in .first. The gun had made his name was called, be passed out through in his power to see that the game laws are badge with 20 out of 25. Jacobs won B n mistake in calling the combination. You the crowd, walked to the score, opened observed. class with 19. The scores follow: can take an empty gun and gather at least the gun to load it. and nearly fainted when "They keep their oath religiously. That Cooper ...... 10211 22211 12112 12112 11222 24 a dozen high grade, hand-loaded shells by two nice extra-long, heavily-loaded shells fact was demonstrated to me quite forci C Burkhardt. . 02022 22212 22122 22222 22222~,23 intentionally standing it in the corner came peeking their heads out of the cham bly soon after we reached the hunting re Kirkover ..... 22012 22222 22202 22222 22222 23 and thinking it is empty. Then sneak up ber with a sardonic grin in their eyes. gion. The first moose I saw was a cow, F D Kelsov. .212222*202222112222212022 22 and quickly grab the stock and keep the The shells did not belong to him, as he which the law forbids shooting. We were J © Ji Lodge. .22211 11102 211*1 12111 £2102 22 muzzle pointed at an old soap box you was hired to shoot another make. How did in a canoe, when the moose stepped out of E Biirkbai©dt. .02002 22202 22212 22222 22222 21 will find a loaded shell in it every -time. the gun get loaded: That was the ques the woods nearby. I saw at once that it Hamburg . . r . .12011 1111* 22122 02122 12202 21 Where that shell comes from scientists tion. The moral is Believe all guns are was a cow and the guide quickly said so, W McCarthy. .02110 22221 21021 121*2 10212 20 are trying to discover. loaded at all times. but just for sport I raised my gun and cov NoiTis ...... 02212 01222 02111 22110 10222 20 GTNS ;v xHE FIELD. ered the animal. The guide nearly jumped .7 Ashton .... .0222* 22220 22011 22222 02222 20 GUNS HAVE TEMPER. Remolds . .. . .02121 11222 20220 02201 12110 19 Accidents that occur in the field are al Any number of like cases could be quoted out of the canoe in his excitement, so 3 ",T Reid. .. .2*1JO 11011 11111 22101 11010 19 ways of the most regrettable and unfor where suns have done great damage with afraid was he that I would shoot the cow. Letfsclmer . . . .02220 02*20 12012 01211 20122 IT tunate kind. It will be found that in such out any person being to blame. A gun Each hunter is allowed to kill one moose A Henry ... .02020 22211 10221 :12122 OOw 16 cases the victim is always shot by his best has its temper same as a mule or a man. and two deer, all of which must be males. W R Eaton. .20211 00*10 21012 !lOw 10 friend. This is plain enough. Friends go If you don©t treat it right it will kick, and No game, mounted or unmounted, may be Fanning ...... 20122 11221 w 9 gunning together, enemies never do. nor often when least expected. Nothing shipped from the State without the name Warreu ...... 01222 02200 21000 QQw 8 does au ecerny go out with a frieml. Take arouses a gu»©s demoniac propensities and at tUe owner and tiie name of the guide, Norton ...... 10020 202w 4 Dec. on "Sporting Lite" on. Friday of last week. There was a time when Cleaver " Did BeEiabSe Parker ".always in evidence.! and his running mate, John Evans, were ©Al the Chamberlain Cartridge & Target Co.©s Tournament, held at Cleveland,! familiar faces at ali the trap tourna Ohio. June 14 and 15, 1899, it won First and JSecond Hi^h Average in the amatenri ments in this vicinity. Mr. Cleaver re class and First High Average in the expert class, with scores as follows: 97.88$> in EOT TOO PERSONAL BUT JUST PER ported quail almost extinct in his neigh amateur class and 90.4$ in expert class. borhood and rabbits very scarce. The Fred Gilbert, ^rtL with a Parker Gun, at Sioux City, Iowa, June 6th, 7th, severe storm last winter killed off the Stfc and 9th, shoot- W^HI^ inS at U10 targets, scored 97.3. SONAL ENOUGH. game, and Delaware sportsmen are now These Records show that the Parker Gun for close, hard, effecting an organization to raise money bhootiDg. and ability to perform to restock the best lands with quail. continuous hard work is excelled Bits ol News, Gossip and Comment bv none. William Stake, manager of the retail About Men Whom Loyers ol©Shoot department of Schoverling, Daly & Gales. New York, has gone on a business ing Know In Person or Through and pleasure tr:p to Europe. Colonel William J. Bryan was the the Medium oi General Fame. guest of the Point Gun Club at Van Buren. Ark., on November 22. and spent A cable dispatch reports Kaiser Wil- the day in shooting ducks. The number helm©s hunting trip with the Prince of of birds he brought down was not re Send tor Catalogue to PARKER BROS., MERIDEN, CONN. Wales, the Duk©e of York, the Duke of ported, but as he shoots a Remington NEW YORK SALESROOM, No. 96 Chamber St. Connaught and Prince Christian, in the gun he doubtless killed his share if he preserves of the Windsor great park. pointed the weapon correctly. The report gives the Kaiser credit for bagging ITS pheasants. 327 rabbits and A match at 10 live birds each took one partridge, using a Mauser magazine place at Norristown, Pa.. Nov. 23. be tween J. Eastburn, of that city, and DuPoNT SMOKELESS ritie. All this happened in a day©s shoot ing. Pheasants and rabbits appear quite Miss Ray Hunsinger, of Gloucester, N. plentiful in Windsor Park, but part J. Eastburn killed 9 and his fair, com ....GOT.... ridges have doubtless been cleaned out petitor scored 7. by the market hunters, as only one fel! before the unerring aim of the mighty The tenth annuai tournament of the Kaiser©s rifle. From the size of the bag Hamilton Gun Club will be held at Ham of game some persons have asserted that ilton, Can., January 16-19. the rabbits probably sat in a row to be killed, and the pheasants huddled close E. S. Rice and W. L. Shephard. of Chi together, affording a good pot shot, so a cago, the former being the well-known single bullet would hit several at once. representative of the Du Pont Powder A bag of ITS pheasants and 32T rabbits Company, have been en a quail shooting for one man in a day is only a fair bag trip with Tom Laflin at Rock Island and for a Jersey gunner, although there a,re report a fine time. some who would be contented with one lonely partridge. Had the Kaiser used F. Butler defeated Harry Dull at Nor 540 TARGETS si shotgun, instead of a rifle, he would ristown. Pa.. Nov. 25. in a 25 live-bird have bagged as many as 1178 pheasants. match by the score of 23 to 17. 232" rabbits. Ill partridges, and got At the BUDD-GILBERT TOURNAMENT at Spirit Lake, la., August 23, 24, back in time for dinner, even if his game A match recently took place at Mata- and 25, 1899, Mr. Fred. Gilbert shot DuPont Smokeless Powder and won highest average. bag was a trifle crowded. wan. N. J.. between Mayor Ellsworth Van Wickle and Dr. Richard Hagieston. J. A. R. Elliott did geat shooting at Each man shot at 10 birds, 30yds. rise. E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS &. CO., WILMINGTO-N, DEL. the live bird shoot, at Ridgewood. N. J.. The Mayor killed 5 out of 10 to his op Nov. 22. not missing a bird during the ponent©s 4. Neither had ever shot at the afternoon and winning first money alone, traps until a week or two before. or dividing it in every contest in which Some Recent Records of E. G. arid SGHULTZE he entered. Elliott©s work with the Mrs. C. W. Carson had highest aver Winchester repeating shotgun. Hazard age in Class D of the Eureka Gun Club, BELLE MEADE TOURNAMENT October 23-28, 1899: Smokeless powder and Winchester fac of Chicago, for the season©s shooting. Mr. R. O. Heikes won the Sclimelser Trophy, scoring 90 out of tory-loaded shells has been phenomenal Being honorary member, she was not eligible to the prize. Her average was 100 targets at reversed order; Mr. Heikes used E. C. powder. this season. 80 per cent, for the season, u splendid Mr, R. L. Peirce won the Belle Meade Handicap, scoring CO straight live birds; Mr. Peirce used SCHUL/TZE powder. "How did you like that dog I sold record, indeed. you?" asked the fancier: "good bunt Tom Keller, of. New York, eastern CINCINNATI TOURNAMENT, Oct. 3lst-Nov. 3d, 1899: ing dog. isn©t he?" "The best ever." re agent of the Peters© Cartridge Co.. and Messrs. R. O. Heifces and E. D. Pulford tied for First Average plied the sportsman: ©©I took him out King Powder Co., is about to start on the other day. and I©ve been hunting in the entire programme of target events; Mr. Heikes used E. C. powder, a western trip working to Cincinnati. and Mr. Fulford used SCHUI/TZE powder. for him ever since." His son Haze will accompany him to get some ideas on outside business and On November 1, Mr. Fulford broke 172 targets out of 175 shot at. Mr. Thomas Donley writes us from visit the factories and mills of the above St. Thomas, Ont.. Nov. 21. as follows: firms. THE MER1CIH "E. C" & "SGHULTZE" GUNPOWDER CO,, Ltd. I will hold my third annual tourna Works: Oakland, Bergen County, N. J. Offices: 318 Broadway, New York ment at St. Thomas. Dec. 5-8: two days The Omaha team of ten men defeated at targets, two at live birds: $1600 guar a like number of Kansas City pigeon anteed, and all surplus moneys added. shots at the latter place. November ©24 Nobody barred from pigeon shoots. and 25. by the score of 439 to 437 out of Main event International handicap a possible 500 live birds. championship. 25 birds. $20 entrance; 2t> to 32 yards. I would like to see how T. J. Laughrey. of Ligonier. Pa., was many of the American "cracks" can badly shot in the head and arms by Har» make a clean score on good Canadian ry Risheberger while hunting grouse. OVER 475 IN USE birds. Come on. you good shooters. Laughrey is a well known shot of that section. AND THE DEMAND GROWING. J. D. Gay. of Pine Grove. Ky.. reports excellent quail shooting in his locality .1. \V. Marks and Charles WiJcox, of Lan Blue Rocks are sold by all jobbers and are recognized as the best and most In one day he bagged 4S quail out of 50 caster. Pa., have returned home from a week©s hunting trip to Perry county, bring economical target on the market. shots, surely a creditable record: but ing with them the game they shot, fifty All other targets are cheaper than Blue Eocks in the barrel but more then Mr. Gay is one of the crack shots rabbits, forty-nine qunil. fifteen pheas ©expensive on the score sheet. of this country. ants, a wild duck and a squirrel. Elmer E. Shaner. manager of the In Miss Harding. New York, with Frank Savage. Jr.. as guide, is another instance terstate Association, has been taking (>( the successful lady hunter. The iu- THE CHAMBERLIN CARTRIDGE & TARGET Co., a well deserved rest in the mountains clcmency of the weather might have of Western Pennsylvania, chasing daunted n less determined woman. But CLEVELAND, OHIO. grouse and quail with a shot gun. Miss Hardiug donned the sensible garb of the favored sex started out with her gnu on ber shoulder anil kill in her heart. Second event Johnson C. Urian 9. Fisher 9, J. J. Hallowell. of the U. M. C. Co.. She returned to New York the proud pos Edwards 3. Downs 5. is again in the West, and was present sessor of a deer which she killed in Maine. Third event Fisher 9. Simon 7, Johnson 7, Hassau (5. Elwell 6. Steveiis 4. GUNS-" at the Omaha-Kansas City team match WILL K. PARK. Fourth event Urian 7. Downs 7, Edwards 7, at the latter city last week. Oliver 0, Carr 4, Brooks 4. H., B. Fisher defeated Alex Harkins CLEARVIEW GUN CLUB. SPORTING GOODS, in a match on the Clearview Gun Club Fisher Won the Cup With a Score of BISON GUN CLUB. J. B. SHANNON & SONS, grounds, at Darby. Fa., November 15. 1O2O Market St., Philadelphia. Fisher shot at 50 known and 50 un Twenty-four Breaks. McArthur Won the Live Bird Event known targets, breaking S9. Harkins The monthly club shoot of the Clear- Hand Loaded Shells a Specialty. view Gun Club drew but a small crowd to With Nine Kills. Our New Gun Catalogue sent lor the ankiue. shot at 50 known and 55 unknown, Darby, Pa., November 24, but an interest A large crowd of local shooting enthu breaking 77. ing shoot was held. The conditions were siasts attended the target and live bird not favorable to the shooters, there being shoot at the Bison Gun Clnb©s traps Nov. R. A. Welch, for several years the a strong wind, which drove the targets 24. McArthur won the live bird event, WEST VIRGINIA SPORTSMEN. crack shot of Philadelphia, has taken at a tremendous clip. which is No. 4 on the card, killing nine up his residence in ISJew York, where Before the club event H. B. Fisher and birds out of ten. The -score: They Claim Dates For Their Third he will be seen at the traps whenever Harry Uriau shot a match at 10 targets, Events ...... 1 2 3 4 Annual State Tournament. an extra fine lot of birds are pro unknown angles. At the end of the first Targets ...... 15 10 15 10 ten they were tied, with eight each, but vided. at the end of the second round Urian man Cannon .-. aged to win by one target. Bauiaan .... 11 V) V. V. Dorp. W. Wescott and others Thirteen entered in the. members© shoot McArthur . .. 10 12 porsmens ssociation: of the Florists© Gun _ Club. Philadel Foxie .... . 30 5 for the Fisher cup, which was won by O©Brian .... 10 Sisters/ille. W. Va., Nov. 23. Editor "Sport phia, went on a hunting trip in Dela the donor, who broke 24 out. of 25 targets. W. C. II. .. 0 ing Life:" Will you kindly take notice and ware a few days ago. They killed a The conditions were 25 targets and handi McCarthy .. fair bag of quail and rabbits and one cap, unknown angles. The scores: Cooper .... Fisher, scratch .. 241 Hassan, 2 birds .. 13 E\ent No. 4 was at 10 live birds. of the party,shot a cat. which he mis Uriai). scratch ... 22; Hill, 2 birds ..... 10 took for a rabbit. Klwell, 5 birds... 22! Oliver. 2 birds ... 10 Downs, 1 bird . . . . 20iStevens, scratch ... 0 The Winona (Minn.) Sportsmen©s Club Governor-elect Smith, of Maryland, Union. 4 birds.. . 171 Carr, 4 birds ..... 7 did not hold their annual side hunt this was duck shooting at Havre de Grace, Edwards, scratch. 15] McCocnell. C birds. 8 year, and they are to be credited with a Md.. one (lay this week and brought in Johnson, scratch. . 151 true sportsman©s spirit in taking this a fair bag of birds. The sweepstakes were all at unknown stand. They held their annual banquet ground, and we invite S. P. Life to make angles, ten targets. The ruen scored as and doubtless had as enjoyable a time as our tent his headquarters. Will try to dig up follows: though a quantity of game iiad been a little of the oil (V) that was copped from us John Cjteaver, of Cauiden, Del., called First event Urian 7, Fislier 7. Downs 6. slaughtered, .uuuecessarily. at«* Buffalo.rlnfffllo.© 1- Dec- SIPORTINO LIFE, 15 Wer won by R©olla O. Heskes, shooting a Remington HammerSess. Third and fourth prizes were won respectively by E. D. FuSford and Le Roy B. Woodard with Remington Guns. KT. "ST. THE RANGE AND IN THE GALLERY J. A. R. Elliott shot " Blue Rib bon" powder at Denver, Colorado, defeating Mr. A. B. Daniels for the DuPont trophy, score 98 to 97. On. July 18th he defeated Mr. Chas. A. Young, Springfield, Ohio, for the St. Louis Republic Cup, score 93 to 92. On July 21st he defeated Mr, B. O. Heikes for the Cast Iron Medal, score 95 to 94. HAVE WON VICTORY AFTER VICTORY. These matches were at 100 live birds. * Tested by the greatest living shooting experts and found perfect for On July 24th he defeated Mr. W. E. Crosby for the E. C. Target Championship Cup, score 136 to 132, possible 150 targets. October 4th at Kansas City, Mo., defended the " Republic" Cup, defeating Mr. W. E. Crosby, Information about Rifle and Pistol Shooting in our Booklet SENT FREE. score 100 to 97. EASTERN BRANCH: October 26th at Nashville, Tenn., defeated Mr. 80 CHAMBERS ST., NEW YORK CITY J. D. B. Gebow for the Championship, score 99 to 93. ""* -: THOMAS H. KELLER———"mwmte- Write for Circulars to Peters Cartridge Company 44, 46 and 48 Cedar St , New York City. CINCINNATI, OHIO. FOUNTAIN GUN CLUB. Captain Money Rilled Clean From the Twenty-one Yard Mark. The Fountain Gun Club had its second shoot for the month, at Dexter Park, L. I., Nov. 25. Twenty-one shooters lined up to the score, something unprecedented in the history of the club. Captain Albert W. Money, the veteran marksman, was the scratch man, at 31 yards, and killed all his.birds. In the sweepstake shooting \V. K. Brixey. Charley Wiugert and John Y. Vac Wiclilen divided the honors and the money. The scores: CLUB SHOOT-TEN BIRDS. Captain A. W. Money. 31yds... 11222 12221-10 William Wynn, 30yds...... 11011 11111-9 Ed. Banks, 30yds...... 22222 20121 9 Adfur Eddy. 28yds. ^ ...... 21121 H011 9 W. II. Alien. 2Syds...... 22120 12222 9 David Bennott. 28yds...... 11222 20212 9 Dr. A. A. Webber, 28yds. ... .21220 22111 9 C. W. WiHger-t. iKK-cls...... 10022 11211 8 Henry Snr.itloy, 29yds...... 22002 12121 S T. S. Blankley. 27yds...... 21102 01211 8 TIJE BAKER is not only the equal of any gun in shooting qualities, fineness of A. Crook, 2Svds...... 21021 11021-8 workmanship, and beauty of finish ; but also has safety appliances which W. L.. Gardner. 29yds...... 11102 20211- 8 Flatt Adams. 29vds...... 21110 22201 8 make it the best gun for general use. We will send you our J. V. Van Wk©Uien. 2Syds.... .02111 02011 7 Quarterly for a year, FREE, if you ask for it. W. R. Hunter, 2Syds...... 20011 02110 6 W. U. Brixey. 29yds...... 10002 10111 C> The following brands of Black Powdei G. E. Connolly. 29yds...... 22001 00011 5 BAKER GUN AND FORGING CO., Batavia N. Y. Colonel Sloane. 27yds...... 00010 "1012 4 are unsurpassed in quality at equal prices: Rellig Brings, 30yds...... 01112 00000 4 V. G. Murphy, 29yds...... 02100 20100 4 Association, tournament. B. S. Rice, Pres ALL STYLES W. Williams, 25yds...... 00011 00102 4 ident; Room 1524, Masonic Temple, Chicago, AGENTS "WING SHOT," Sweepstake at 5 birds; club handicap; two 111. moneys Bi©ixey 5, Wingert 5. Van Wieklen 5, May 14, 15. 16 and 17. Chambersburg. Pa. FOR ALL MAKES "WESTERN SPORTING," Wyrin 4. Dr. Webber 4, Captain Money 4, Banks Tenth annual convention and tournament of CHEAPER THAN ELSEWHERE 4, Gardner 4, Sprat.ley 4, Crook 2. Pennsylvania State Sportsmen©s Association, j. M. Runk, corresponding secretary, Cham Send i©or our Catalogue. "WILD FOWL," bersburg, Pa. Forthcoming Events. May . 14, 18 Missouri State Sportsmen©s 23d POWELL & CLEMENT CO., annual tournament, St. Louis. . H. B. Collins, "FALCON DUCKING." Dec. 5, 6, 7 and 8. St. Thomas, Can. Thomas secretary. 415 MAIN ST., CINCINNATI, O. Donley©s third annual target and live bird May 30, 31. June 1 London. O.. two days, tar tournament. gets; one day. live birds; $200 added. Dec. 12-15 Watson©s Park tournament. For June 5. 6. 7 Ohio Trap Shooters© League tourna programme and particulars write John Watson ment. Columbus. O. Catarrh Cannot be Cured QnentaJ Powder Mil!.3j. Station R, Chicago, 111. June 5-8 New York State Association for the with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, aa tliev cannot reach Dec. 16. Batavia, N. Y. Match for E. C. ©-up Protection t>f Fish and Game; 42(1 an he seat of the disea*«. Catarrh i* n blood or-oonsti- PORTLAND, MAINE. between W. R. Crosby and Fred Gilbert, 150 nual tournament, Utica, N. Y, H. L. Gates, n»l disease, and in order to rurn it you must targets. president. ake internal remedied. Hall©s CatJiirh 1900. June 11, 17 First Grand American Handicap nternally, n.nd sets directly ou the bli o Agents at all principal cities. Feb. 21-March 10 Sportsmen©s Show. Mechan target tournament, under auspices of Inter irfaco*. Hall©s Catarrh Cure ig not ics© Building, Boston, Mass. C. W. Dimick, state Association. Edward Banks, secretary- It »as prescribed by ODD of the ! manager. treasurer, 318 Broadway, New York. i this country fur years, and is a re:.- March 1-17 Sixth annual Sportsmen©s Show, June 19. 20. 21 West Virginia State Sports It, is composed of the best tonics Madison Square Garden. New York, J. A H© men©s third annual touruac;ent. Charleston. ueti with the best 1 lovd jiniifierp, u Dressel, secretary-treasurer, 2SD B©way.© W. Va. Ed. O, Bower, .secretary, Sisterville, lie mucous surfaces. The perfect comt April 2. 7 Grand American Handicap,© under W. Va. © auspices Of Interstate Association. Edward ingred!Bnt4 is \vlmt puninces hi: These tiny Capsizes a.r Banks, secretary-treasurer, 318 Broadway, gulls iu curintt Catarrh. St-nd for tf -est in 48 honrs without A. , . New York. STOLEN GUN. Remington haminerless ejec V. J. CHENEY & CO., Proia., Toledo, 0. nco¥lence, RfSectioasS B$FW 1 i May 7-12, Chicago. Illinois State Sportsmen©s Sold by Druggists, price 75c. in which «.:«n»raiba« Cn- l«uwi J i tor, No. 100,187. Hall©s laiui©y Pills are tUe beat. sebs and Injections fail. >« «*^ 5 16 T)ec. IF were not absolutely uniform, regular and reliable in pattern and strong shooting qualities ; and the best shells made for all kinds of shoot ing in all kinds of weather; and were not absolutely reliable in every way and the strongest shooting guns made, regardless of cost, shooters using them would not continue to establish new "World©s shooting records as they are doing constantly. A new World©s record was made during October by Mr. J. A. B. Elliott, with Winchester Factory Loaded "Leader" Shells and a Winchester "Take-Down" Repeating Shotgun. He shot five matches, each at 1OO live pigeons and scored 487 kills, an average of 97.4^, which, for this kind of shooting has never before been approached. His scores were 99 and one dead out of bounds, 1OO straight, 97, 95 and 96. Shooters, think this over. people nt Stauffers, where he had been ing country in Luzerne, Lackawanna, Wy GAME AND FIELD NOTES. stopping, became alarmed. A party was oming, Sullivan, Susquehanua and Bradford TRADE NEWS. organized and started out to ;search for Counties can be reached by the Lehigh What is Being Done hy Gun and Rifle Harps. They visited every likely place Valley Railroad. The districts back of A New Gun on the Market—Win Enthusiasts in the Field and Forest in the mountains until a late hour, and at Mauch Chunk, Penn Haven Junction, Hick chesters Booming—The Remington last, in a dense thicket, they found Harps ory Run, White Haven, Bear Creek, Han —Reports From Various Points. unconscious and dying. He was terribly som, Falls. La Grange, Vosburg, Mehoop Arms Company's Capacity, Etc. "Johnny" Storck, of Buffalo, N. Y., made lacerated and covered with blood. Close any, Laceyville, Wyalusing, Ruminerfield, M.essrs. Hartley & Graham, of 313 Broad the best bag of wild duck of tl)e season by him lay the body of a large black bear. Standing Stone, Towanda and Ulster af way, New York, are showing samples of a last week. He came back from a four Appearances were that he had wounded ford good shooting on small game. Bear new imported double gun which is bound days© trip along the Canadian shore of the bear and a struggle had occurred, in and deer are still to be found in Luzerue, to have an enormous sale. It is machine La©ke Erie, going all the way from Fort which the dog took part. Harps was car Wyoming and Sullivan Counties. made, every part being interchangeable. Erie to Port Stanley, and showed a bag ried on a stretcher to Stauffers,. where he The barrels arc plain steel, nicely linished. of 103 ducks. was made as comfortable as possible, and Mr. C. W. Grover, of Skowhegan, Me., These guns have good quality walnut hopes are entertained for his recovery. stocks, nicely checkered, bar locks, low cir Out in the extreme \Vest, across the Cas recently shot a 216-pound deer at Lake cular hammers and all closely litted. cade Mountains, certain parties have been Austin, getting the animal under singular Those who desire to handle this gun under trying to get the repeating shotgun legis A large deer was found frozen in©the ice circumstances. One of the deer©s horns a special brand can do so by ordering them lated against, and have succeeded in get of a Maine river recently. It had at was growing into the side of his head and in lots of one hundred or more and have ting it barred in the field in some districts. tempted to cross, but the ice was too weak for some days it had been going to two them come out marked as desired. It This seems to be utter nonsense, particu and it fell through. birch saplings, rubbing the horn in an will give those dealers who have some larly as in the sections referred to, or at endeavor to break it off. Mr. Grover laid cheap trade in guns a chance to furnish a least in some of them, the size of the bag Among the hunting grounds of Maine in wait for the animal three days and very superior article. It can be sold for is limited to a certain number of birds for some weeks recently © F. O. Stanley finally shot it at a distance of 150 yards. $15 or less, and costs but a trifle more each day. Why, then, should it be neces has been making the best possible use of than the cheap hand-made guns of similar sary to legislate against the use of any his automobile. It takes him to and* from In company with his brother George, style. gun, however deadly it may be, if only the his hotel on his hunting trips, or from one young John Guyer, of Dudley, Huntington * * * game wardens do their duty and see that hotel to his next stopping place. This is County, Pa., went gunning for wild tur not a use to which our continental friends keys 611 Nov. 24. During the day they be The directors of the Savage Arms Com no more than the right number of birds hold the exclusive right, says The Auto pany have accepted a site of ten acres op are killed to each gnu. If you can©t regu came separated and John failed to return posite Masonic Home, TJtica, N. Y., for late the size of the bag by having energet mobile, although we haven©t a story equal home. A searching party which was or to that told of M. Rene de KiiylT, who is ganized to-day found his dead body in the the construction of their new plant. The ic game wardens, how can anyone expect said to make forty miles on his automobile plot of land to be occupied is partly in. to stop the use of repeating shotguns in woods. A bullet had .pierced him through Herkimer County. the field©.© to a shooting lodge, put in a long day©s the abdomen. He had been calling wild * * * shooting, and then return in time for din turkeys, and it is believed ic was killed During the deer hunting season just ner. by some hunter, who mistook him. for a The gun department of the Winchester ended in the Adlroudacks 23 persons were bird. Repeating Arms Company, where the as accidentally killed by hunters. The num John Bennett, of Royal, and Dr. Picker- sembling is done, is running 12 hours a ing, of Snsquehanna, went on a deer hunt Warren Wing, the veteran hunter and day. ber of deer killed was also larger than * * * usual. ing trip near Shohalo, Pike County, Pa. trapper, of Maine, says that in all his ex They returned home with a black bear perience he has fever, known the bear It is reported from what nppears to be A report cqmes from the interior of New which weighed 250 pounds, and measured signs to be as thick as they are this fall. trutsworthy sources that inquiries have York State to the effect that duck shoot- over six feet in length. Mr. Bennett killed Ten different sized tracks have been sighted been made within the past few days from Ing at Cayuga Lake, near Cayuga village, the bear. IJe was waiting on a run way in the neighborhood of Prey©s hiil. They the New York office of the Remington Arms Seneca Falls, has been keen spjrt thus far. for deer when the bear came trotting out seemed© to be making for the mountain, Company as to the capacity of the I lion Black duck. teal, mallard and red-heads of a swamp at a lively rate. When within evidently with the view of denning for armory to TOrn out daily 180 small bore are plentiful, and some very large bags a few rods of him Bennett fired, putting viinler. rifles, 60 No. 4 lifles, 50 single barrel ham- for that section of the country have been a bullet through the animal©s heart. merless shot guns, HO double barrel ham- made. The best day©s work for one gun This has been a great season for deer merles shot guns, in addition to the Lee was made by a Seneca Falls market shoot The shooting rights on 8709 acres of land in Monroe and Pike Counties, Pa. It is guns, double Derringer pistols and Mexi er. The slaughter as carried on by the near High Point. N. C., were leased Nov. estimated that over 100 have been killed can contract which they are umv working market shooters has aroused the public, 17 by Getirge J. Gould, of Lakewood, N. J. in Pike County alone. Two sons of Stephen upon. No information is given for whom find protests have appeared in many state Mr. Gould contracts to pay an annual Luckey, of Price, one of them only 15 the guns are to be manufactured, but the papers. The ducks on the Ithaca marshes rental of $558.75. years ©old, who were on a hunting trip, stirring events in Europe and Africa sug came across two tine four-pronged bucks. gest that it is an ill-wind that blows no have thus far been very scarce. The lake Mr. Gilbert©F. Voter, who is employed Two shots rang out simultaneously, and gunners are awaiting patiently for an arc on section No. 3 on the Phillips & Range- goo©d to anybody; and it is among the pos tic wave to blow the birds in. Ruffed the two bucks "fell dead. E. D. Huffman sibilities that ©f nations will light the Ilion grouse are usually plentiful this fall. ley Railroad, in Maine, while walking killed a tine deer, and Henry Fraukenfield, armory as in times past will prove an im Four members of the South Side Gun down the track over Sluice Hill one day of Resica, shot a live-pronged buck weigh portant factor in the controversy. "Sport Club were out one day recently in the vi last week came upon two big bucks en ing nearly 200 pounds. ing Goods Gazette." gaged in tierce battle. .As this is a section * * * cinity of West Danby and bagged nine of country where deer are very plenty Mr. teen grouse. Foxes are numerous in Stone Hill, Spring The plant of the International Smokeless Voter frequently carries his rifle on his Mount. Montgomery County, Pa., and quite Powder and Dynamite Company, at South, The first report to Chambersburg. Pa., trip on the truck and this happened to be a number of tine specimens of gray and red Aiuboy, N. J., has been practically com from the hunting clubs out in the South the time he was prepared for game. He foxes having been shot and mounted by pleted and is ready for business. There Mountain since the beginning of the quickly selected the largest deer and killed local sportsmen. has been some delay, however, in starting month, when the deer season opened, has it .with a well directed shot. It was a up, the reason for which is not just ap been received from the Fayetteville, whose very large animal. Dan Cushmnn, the Maine engineer on the parent. passenger train from Carrabassett to * * * \eteran member, Harry S. Myers. shot There are guides and guides. As a rule one day a 185-pound, six-pronged buck, and Strong, takes his rifle along in the cab The heavy demand for its "Vulcan" steel it is not a hard matter for a man who these days and last week got a shot at n a doe which weighed over 100 pounds. "has been there before" to pick out a good grade shotgun, which lists at $50, has re deer. He got four shots, really, but didn©t sulted in. the Parker Company manufac guide, provided he takes his time about it. bring down his game. The deer was about Miss Esther Rowe. of Masardis, Maine, The man to avoid is the assertive man, the turing this grade in all of the different a mile below Kingfield. The crew on the gauges, 12, 16 and 20, and in all weights has an interesting pet in a young deer, man who is always talking about the quan fre.ght train fired at a bunch of three which was brought to her recently by a tities of game or fish (as the case may be) from 6Vj to 9 pounds. The gun is very deer, a few days later and also missed popular and has given perfect satisfaction.. friend at Oxbow. The animal was caught that he knows about. Such a man is as their game, although one was hit. when small and is now very well domes about much good usually as no man at all; * * * ticated. Becoming frightened one day sometimes he had far better have been left Quail are reported so plentiful in New The Marlin Fire Arms Company is run soon after Miss Kowe became its mistress, at home. He is noisy in the woods or Mexico that the citizens of Mesilla have ning 12 hours a day, and will continue to it ran to the woods near by where four restless in the boat, and a sportsman who petitioned Governor Otero to suspend the do so until after the holidays. The com teen shots were fired at it by some am knows what he wants and what he is after game laws protecting quail, as the crops pany has a large number of orders for ateur sportsmen, with only the effect of a will soon tumble to the fact that his guide were being damaged by them. Why not sporting rifles, slight wound in the leg. It returned to is N. G. One of the citizens of Buffalo have a few of these Mexican quail sent * * * the house for some food and svas received who hunts and fishes a great part of every to restock Maryland and Delaware game E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., the again as a family pet. year says that the best way to choose a fields. famous powder making concern near Wil- guide, when not recommended, ts to loofc mington. Del., which has been a private Several rabbits have been killed in the for the quietest man in the bunch; take That young man from Marmette, Mich., partnership in the past, has applied for a yards around Woodbury, N. J., residences. him on one side when you get a chance, who went deer hunting recently, and when charter, as the fir in is to become a regular and tell him frankly what you want to do, on the public road about three miles from organized corporation. The capital stock The Flying Cloud, of Philadelphia, and what you want him to do if you decide town mistook a farmer©s cow for a deer will be $2.000,000, and about all of it will, Captain A. L. Bahr. arrived at An to take him along. Such a method will and shot and killed it, will- doubtless re it is understood, be held by members of the napolis Nov. 22, from Fortress Mon- win the man©s confidence, and if you have main at home hereafter and shoot his Du Pont family. roe. bound for Essiiigtou, Pa. The made a correct selection you will soon venison with silver bullets at the meat * * * owner, James Laughlin, Jr., of Philadel find it out. market. A man who knows so little about Fred. Divine, of Utica, N. Y., has start phia, and Major D. C. Phillips, of Wash game and where to look for it as did ed on an extended Western trip looking ington, left the yacht at Fortress Monroe. A specimen of an immense elk was dis this fel©ow has got about as much busi after orders for tine hand-made fisuing The party was on a sporting expedition covered in the woods, at Rock Hill, Sulli ness carrying a gun as he would have rods. He has a new rod in a double enam and succeeded in bagging many quail near van County, N. Y., last week, where it had to attempt to command a gunboat in time el split bamboo which will be popular Mobjaek Bay, an arm of the Chesapeake. been shot by an unknown hunter. It is of war. The wonder is that he did not with fly-casters. believed that the animal strayed there miss the cow altogether and kill someone * * * T©.ridgeton, N. J., sportsmen are raising from the northern region. Game Protector in the adjoining township. The rifle experts have been doing great n purse for the purchase©of a lot of Vir Kidd is on the lookout for the hunter. work with the Kings semi-smokeless pow ginia quail, which will be liberated in the On the Gretton mail bag being opened in der of late. At Greenville, N, J., on elec tields thereabouts. In some counties of California the use Ketteriug Post Office, says the London tion day, M. Dorrler smashed all records, of the Winchester repeating shotgun has Leader, the officials were astonished to putting up 2246 in 100 shots, at 200 yards. Reuben Harps, of Wilkesbnrre, Pa., been prohibited on game shooting. It is find a live owl in a cardboard box, ad The first three men and six out of the came near being killed by a wounded bear probable that some few have become ex dressed .to a naturalist at Northampton. first eight used this powder. On Nov. 18 near Stroudsburg, Pa., Nov. 20, so says an pert in the handling of this gun and the The biro was placed in a basket and for L. P. Hauson tied the world©s record of exchange. He went out in the morning, supply of game is becoming scarce. warded. It had taken no harm from mak 240, using the Kings semi-smokeless pow but at night did not return. His dog final ing part of its journey iu a sealed mail der. The Eastern agent is T. K. Kellel1, ly showed up, torn and bleeding, and the The best grouse, rabbit and quail shoot bag. V © 80 Chambers street, New