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EVENING TRIBUNE,
GALVESTON, TEXAS—SATURDAY,
JUNE 11,
1392.
BISMARCK OF BASEBALL
SUMMER AMUSEMENTS.
TRICK BICYCLIST DAN CANARY.
THE OLD MAN DEFIES HOODOOS.
SPECTACLES AND ROOF GARDENS.
O. P. Caylor.
PRESIDENT HOWARD PERRY.
NOTES OF MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
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NOTES OF THE TROTTERS.
SPORTING NOTES.
CHECKERS AND CHESS.
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How New Yorkers Will Make
Merry in the Hot Months.
The Phenomenal Powers oi
Captain Adrian C. Anson.
Thousands of Performers Participate in
tlie First, the Second Are Like Dreams
of Starlit Fairyland—Fifty Excursions
for Fifty Cents Apiece—A Floating
Theater.
The Harvard-Yale Cup.
The University Track Athletic cup, won
HARVARD-YALE CUP.
victory. As the cup,
Something About the Famous Old Trot-
ter Death Recently Claimed.
The great Rarus, once king of all trot-
ters, died the other day at Robert Bonner’s
farm in Tarrytown, N. Y., and his remains
now rapose beside those of the famous
White.
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2.. 13 to 6
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PRESIDENT HOWARD PERRY,
leyan university, Middletown, Conn., was
treasurer of the college boating associa
tion, managed several crews, and’ was a
prominent figure among the university’s
athletes.
He studied law and was admitted to the
bar at Philadelphia, and was for sometime
in the office of the Hon. B. H. Brewster.
Later he entered the department of j ustice
at Washington and is now one of its valued.
attorneys. For a long time he was secre
tary of the Columbia Athletic club, and as
sisted in the formation of the Amateur
Athletic union. He is well informed on
athletic rules,. records and history, and
makes a very capable president of the
A. A. U.
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RARUS.
Dexter. Rarus was 25 years old, and for
the last two years had not been in harness.
He was bred by R. A. Conklin, of Green-
point, L. I., and won his first race at Hor-
nellsville, N. Y., in August, 1874, when
seven years old. His best time for a mile
then was 2:45%. In 1375 and 1876 he swept
everything before him and reduced his
record to 2:20%.
In 1877 Rarus defeated Sam Purdy for a
$10,000 purse in a race to wagon, and also
worsted the great Goldsmith Maid, Nettie,
Lucille, Golddust, Hopeful, Great Eastern
and other famous trotters of the day, low-
ering his best time for a mile to 2:15%.
During the season he won nineteen races
and was considered king of free-for-all
racing. In 1878 he began trotting against
time, and at Buffalo, Aug. 3, he eclipsed
all previous records by trotting a mile in
2:13%, and was crowned king of the turf.
In October, the year following, St. Julien
wrested away Rarus’ laurels by covering a
mile in 2:12%. Maud S succeeded St. Julien
as the world’s fastest trotter and was in
turn dispossessed by the present turf queen,
Sunol, 2:08%. The stallion record is held
by Palo Alto, 2:08%. Rarus was a geld-
ing. In six years he trotted 185 heats bet-
ter than 2:30 and won fifty-five races.
T. E. JEFFERIS.
not very much more remarkable than that
of Jefferis, for the reason that Spooner’s
record was made on an indoor track while
Jefferis pedaled his century .over a seven
mile stretch of the Raleigh road.
Jefferis is not a long distance rider of
any experience and has very few century
runs to his credit. With more faithful
training and longer practice he should da
even better work.
Manager Frank Bancroft, of the Cin-
cinnati club, thinks that rain should not
end a ball game, but that the match should
be continued next day, just as a horse race,
when stopped by darkness, is continued.
Black.
1..B takes Q
2. .K to Kt sq
3. .Q takes Kt
White—Nine pieces.
White to play and mate in six moves.
SOLUTIONS.
Checker problem No. 168:
Black.
1.. 14 to 10
2.. 6 to 9
3.. 10 to 1
4. .12 to 28, and wins
Chess problem No. 168:
White.
1.. Q to Kt 7 ch
2. .P takes B ch
3. -Kt takes Kt ch
4. .Kt takes Q mate
Jefferis, the Southern Champion.
Thomas E. Jefferis, champion 100 mile
road rider of the south, resides at Louis-
ville and is one of the most remarkable
wheelmen south of the Mason and Dixon
line. He is only 5
ft. 5 in. tall, but
with six weeks of
rather careless
training he defeat-
ed the best road
riders of the south
at Memphis not
long ago in the
fast time of 6h.
49m. The Ameri-
can record for the
distance is5h. 39m.
53 4-5s., made by
F. E. Spooner at
Chicago in June,
18 9 0. Spooner’s
feat, however, is
A Safe Ring to Fight In.
The recent invention by Eugene Van
Schaick, George E. Sterry and C. L. Ham-
mond, of the Manhattan Athletic club, of
a ring in which pugilists can meet without
danger of being knocked against ring posts
and severely injured, has apparently filled
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A One Legged Athlete.
Alfred Klesse is said to be a marvelous
gymnast. He has only one leg, but notwith-
standing this defect he performs some won-
derful feats on the horizontal bar. Young
Klesse lost his leg last November by being
run over by a street car in Cleveland while
on his way to the turning teacher’s school
in that city. He is a native of a small
town near Leipsic, Germany, and came to
this country to enter some of the excellent
schools under the auspices of the turner
societies of this country, so as to perfect
himself as a teacher, but of course, now
that he has lost his leg, he can never be-
some ateacjaei'-
York Athletic club, is a well known young
EW YORK spends
more money on
amusements than
any city in the
world except
Paris. Of legiti-
mate theaters she
has thirty-six, not
i n c 1 u d ing the
score or more con-
nected with dime
museums. These
theaters -will seat
59,350 people. Besides these there are ten
high class concerts and music halls, count-
ing the Madison Square garden with its
three rooms for musical performances as
one. The combined seating capacity of
these is 19,950, making a total nightly pro-
vision by theaters and music halls for
79,300 merrymakers.
But strange as it may seem, it is per-
fectly safe to say that not one-half of the
people who pay for amusement are in-
cluded in the theater and concert goers.
Other plans for making afternoons and
evenings pleasant there are without num-
■ her. Gardens where lunch and beverages
are served while music and performances
are in progress; low class “concert halls,”
where smoking and beer drinking are per-
mitted; lectures, fairs and kindred schemes
absorb by far the greater portion of the
dollars paid for admission fees to places of
amusement.
With the summer’s coming, of course,
many of the theaters close, although a sur-
prisingly large number succeed in making
money during the hot months, and for the
man with fresh ideas for amusing the pub-
lic the paradisean season commences. The
circus cannot be counted as among the re-
sults of his thinking, for it is as well es-
tablished in the public favor as is the the-
ater itself. It is given every year nowa-
days in the great Madison Square Garden
building, where the vast amphitheater of-
fers better play for the mass of horses and
performers than any tent could, and where
the spectators have all the comforts they
could find in the best of theaters.
key won the championship. But they
show the lack of a head; moreover, they
show the burden of the disturbing hand of
President Von der Ahe. That functionary
may be a shrewd baseball financier, but he
is no more fitted to control a basebail team
than your Shanghai rooster is qualified to
chaperon a brood of young ducks. 'What
Mr. Von der Ahe doesn’t know about man-
aging a baseball team would, if it were
prepared for publication, keep a fast press
running day and night for a month.
There has already been developed a most
deplorable unevenness in the strength oi
the twelve League teams. St. Louis, Louis-
ville, Baltimore and Washington, it seems
to me, will be found in the end to be a class
bythemselves, and “out of sight” as viewed
from over the shoulders of the leaders.
There is of course talk about- some of the
stronger clubs chipping in a few choice
collections of strong players to strengthen
these weak brethren; but there is alsc
some gossip occasionally of men like Jay
Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt and William
Waldorf Astor giving away their wealth
to their friends and neighbors. When 8
successful baseball “magnate” contributes
a player to a more unfortunate club, it
will do no harm to look carefully into the
affair and learn what it is that causes the
successful and overgenerous magnate’s
desire to get that player off his salary list.
Baseball, as it is carried on just now, is
not an eleemosynary institution.
The death of Hubbert Collins, of the
Brooklyn team, and one of the best players
in the profession, from typhoid fever last
week is a sad lesson. It shows the crueltj
of forcing ball players to play champion-
ship games in the dangerous weather oi
April. While Collins gave up his life by
reason »f exposure to wet and cold upon
the ball field, many more players have at
the same time laid the seeds of disease in
their systems which will bear serious fruit
in the near future. The 1st of May is early
enough to ask these young men to take up
their profession on the diamond, dr to
tempt spectators to expose themselves to
the elements for the sake of enjoying the
sport they love next to their lives and (fre-
quently) to their wives.
Business Men on Wheels.
The men who are now using bicycles as
a business conveyance make no change in
their dress. Guards consisting of steel
springs tighten their trousers at the ankle,
thus preventing any disarrangement by
either the wheel chain or pedal. In Wash-
ington, Connecticut and many New Jersey
towns the bicycle has been brought into
use quite extensively by business men, and
gradual improvements of the highways in
all sections of the country will undoubt-
edly do considerable toward making the
bicycle very popular for business purposes.
How the Famous Fancy Rider Won Re-
nown with His Wheel.
Dan Canary, the famous fancy bicyclist,
who claims the trick riding championship
of the world, is a handsome and graceful
young man of twenty-eight years. At an
early age he displayed a fondness for trick
riding and soon made a reputation at his
home, Meriden, Conn. He made his first
public appearance in 1880, and was the pio-
neer trick rider of America. In 1882 he won
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John McCarthy, of Brooklyn, has bought
Ben Davis, 2:19%, by Great Tom, from
Budd Doble’s stable for a road horse.
Axtell is said to be getting into great
shape at Terra Haute, and Doble is confi
dent that he will trot below the record
when he meets Allerton.
There is a colt in training at Fleasanton,
Cal., of rather remarkable breeding, being
by Director, 2:17, out of the thoroughbred
mare Aurora, dam of that good race horse
Guido, holder of the record of mile heats,
1:41% and 1:41, by Thad Stevens. He is a
trotter and very promising.
A provision attached to the conditions oi
stakes of the Kentucky Trotting Horse
Breeders’ association reads: “The right re-
served to reject any entry.” This means
that there are a few men the association
wishes no business relations with, and nc
entries will be accepted from them. There
are also horses known to be dangerous on
the track and they are not wanted.
The Central Missouri circuit has seven
members, embracing Canton, Monroe, Shel-
bina, Macon, Hamilton, Cameron and St.
Joseph. The circuit begins at Canton the
first week in August and ends at St. Joseph
the second week in September.
Arthur Wallach, son of the late Lester
Wallack, is the father of a brand new ten
pound baby, which he has named after
his illustrious grandfather.
England has revenged herself. The Play-
ers’ club, of New York, rejected the appli-
cation for membership of Rudyard Kip-
ling, the story writer, and now the Garrick
club, of London, has refused to admit Au-
gustin Daly, the American theatrical man-
ager.
Lew Rosen and Edward Holst have
formed a playwriting partnership.
The new comic opera, “The Isle of Cham-
pagne,” is spoken of as a success.
Rubinstein has again changed his mind
and refused to come to America after all
the contracts were signed.
Fanny Rice, Mrs. Alice Shaw and a dozen
other stage favorites have gone to Europe
for their summer vacations.
J. K. Emmet, Jr., is as great a lover of
i horses as his father was. In July he pro-
! poses to utilize his vacation for a 360 mile
wagon trip.
Fanny Davenport averaged receipts of
$7,500 during the past season. Her profits
amounted to $80,000.
Leander Richardson, editor of The Dra-
matic News, has sued George P. Rowell &
Co., for $20,000 damages. He claims that
the advertising firm misrepresented the
circulation of his paper.
Nelly McHenry has a pretty summer
home in the Highlands of New Jersey,
where she will pass her short vacation.
Charles Hoyt, the dramatist, was a del-
egate to the Republican state convention
of New Hampshire.
David Belasco’s “unknown” collabora-
teur on the play with which it is proposed
to open the new Empire theater in New
York next fall is said to be Franklin Fyle,
a well known newspaper man.
The Dramatic News, conducted for many
years by Leander Richardson, has been
sold to a syndicate, which will be known as
the Dramatic News Publishing company.
The play in which Jennie Yeamans, of
“Blue Jeans” fame, will star next season
is to be called “12 p. m.” It was written
by her husband, Mr. Dillingham, the New
York correspondent of the Chicago Times.
Al Lipman, for several years leading
man of “The Burglar” company, will star
in a comedy known as “By Proxy.” The
piece has been successfully tried.
A new opera, “The Robber of the Rhine,”
the book of which is by Maurice Barry-
more and the music by Charles Puerner,
was elaborately produced recently at the
opening of the new Fifth Avenue theater,
New York city.
Miss Minna K. Gale, for many years lead-
ing lady for Lawrence Barrett and after-
ward for the Booth-Barrett company, will
not retire from the stage on account of her
recently announced engagement to Mr.
Archibald C. Haynes, of the Equitable Life
Insurance company. Miss Gale will con-
tinue to star in Shakespearean roles at the
head of her own company.
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DAN CANARY.
the amateur championship of the United
States. Warren Wood then challenged
Canary, and the two met for world’s honors
and $250 a side. Canary won, and has since
claimed to be champion trick and fancy
rider of the world. His claim, however, is
disputed by such talented riders as Maltby,
Barber, Kauffman and Nash.
In 1885 Canary went to Europe and re-
mained four years, giving exhibitions in
nearly every large city. Canary does not
seem to know the meaning of the word
fear. In October, 1890, he rode coolly down
the steps.leading to the Capitol at Wash-
ington, and one day at San Francisco he
stripped his ordinary bicycle of handle
bars, small wheel and backbone and ran
down a flight of fifty-two steps as calmly
as though riding along a board floor.
Another of Canary’s feats is to balance
himself on his wheel upon a chair, which
is placed at the top of three tables. At
Madison Square garden not long ago Ca-
nary thrilled the spectators by riding
from the top of the garden to the floot
down a plank a foot wide. Of all his op-
ponents Canary says that Barber is the
only one he fears.
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White—14.15*, 16, 28, 30, 32. .
White to play and win.
Chess Problem No. 169—End game.
Black—Ten pieces.
Turkish war, is counterfeited with much
firing of musketry and cannons, and with
the somewhat inconsistent addition of 600
girls more or less in tights. As many men
will swell the total of performers to 1,200.
At Eldorado, probably the most beautiful*
and elaborate pleasure grounds in the
world, the noted Kiralfys have brought all
their art and ingenuity into play in the
presentation of an Egyptian spectacle of
unequaled splendor. At West Brighton,
Coney Island goers may see Venice, the
"bride of the sea,” mimicked at enormous
cost and with elaborate displays of fire-
works. The three spectacles employ more
than 4,000 people.
But these by no means conclude the list
of amusements which New Yorkers may
indulge in this summer at a moderate cost.
There are fifty-four excursions which may
be covered, the round trip for not more
than half a dollar. The longest of these is
from New York to Poughkeepsie bridge
and back on a Hudson river steamer. This
costs the full fifty cents. The shortest is
from New York to Fort Hamilton’s frown-
ing gray stone walls on the Narrows. The
full expense of this round trip is fifteen
cents.
A gigantic plan is in preparation, which
contemplates the expenditure of half a
million dollars. This scheme is probably
the most remarkable of them all. I am
not at liberty to give its details, but it con-
sists in brief of a floating theater. Nego-
tiations are in progress for the purchase of
a big sound steamer. If they fall through,
a boat will be especially constructed. She
will sail from New York every evening at
7, sometimes going up the sound, some-,
times sailing on the Hudson. A first class
light opera company will give perform-
ances on an adequate stage on board. On
shore arrangements will be made for the
display of splendid fireworks. The fittings
of the ship will be bewilderingly luxurious.
The same capitalists who have put up their
money to carry" out this scheme have in
mind the construction of a floating hotel
as well.
This will sail every night at about the
same time the marine theater will, and
will cruise slowly around until 11 or there-
about. Then it will tie up in some quiet
spot for the night, landing its guests at
the Battery at 9 the next morning. This
will give tired business people an oppor-
tunity to get fresh, pure, sea air and
thorough quiet from the uproar of the city
without giving up their work.
Taken all in all it may be safely asserted
that more than 100 different forms of
amusement -will be nightly available to
the residents of the big city during the
summer months. Edward Marshall.
THE POSTLESS RING,
a long felt want. The new ring, which is
called the Sterry postless ring, is not post-
less literally, but the iron rope supporters
are so shielded by the taut, ropes that a
boxer cannokpbssibly be knocked against
or strike them.
The new ring was used at the recent
Kelly-Plimmer fight and proved very sat-
isfactory. Many pugilists have been in-
jured by contact with the wooden posts
that have so long supported the ropes
guarding the ring. Probably the most
conspicuous incident of the kind was when
Tom Sayers struck one of the posts and
broke an arm.
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ON THE MADISON SQUARE ROOF GARDEN.
The most remarkable and successful
novelties of amusement which have ap-
peared in New York during the last few
years are roof gardens and outdoor spec-
tacular performances. Both were born in
that city so far as America is concerned.
The roof garden made its advent with
the famous Casino—home of light opera,
That graceful, Moorish building was
topped with a fiat roof, railed in with
dainty arabesques and walls and towers.
Palms and flowering plants were grouped
artistically about, and everywhere, above,
below, on every side, were glowing col-
ored lights. Under the waving palms, in
dark corners and cozy nooks, tables were
placed, and everything worth eating or
drinking was served, while in a hidden
spot an orchestra played. The roof gar-
den was immediately connected by stairs
and elevators with the theater below. One
price of admission gave access to both.
The Casino roof garden became one of the
most popular resorts in New York on fair
summer nights. Everybody went there—
society people, business people, professional
people. It- became the favorite loitering
place for men about town who wanted to
sit down and see pleasant things while
they smoked their cigars. It became the
favorite loitering place for every one who
was able to pay fifty cents to gain access to
it. The lights, the music and the crowds
of beautiful women and well dressed men
made it seem like fairyland.
Although I have written of the Casino’s
roof garden in the past tense, it still exists,
but another scheme for pleasure on a roof
has been perfected which is novel to New
for the second time by Harvard in contest
with Yale recently, is of sterling silver and
sixteen inches
high. The trophy,
which is said to be
the most beautiful
one ever competed
for by college ath-
letes, is Grecian in
form and gen-
eral treatment.
Around the body
of the cup are bas-
relief figures rep-
resenting classical
sports, the seals
of Harvard and
Yale and the
Greek word “Ath-
lonika,” meaning
which was offered by the alumni of both
colleges, is to be contested for nine years
before it finally becomes the property of
the victorious college, the rear bears nine
wreaths, upon which will be engraved tne
name of each year’s winner, and a tenth
wreath for the name of the final victor.
The contests close in 1899.
The Man Who Will Train Sullivan.
The fight between John L. Sullivan and
James F. Corbett for the championship oi
the world and a comfortable fortune in
stakes and wagers, will be the most not-
able pugilistic contest since Sullivan
whipped Kilrain.
Consequently the
recent selection of
Phil Casey as Sul- J
livan’s trainer ere- !
ated much inter-
est in the sporting
world. Casey has
for many years
been the ch ampion '
handball player of
the world, but he
has no reputation
as a 1 ■■
is a magnificent
specimen of phys-
ical excellence
himself, however, piiil casey.
and Sullivan’s friends seem confident that
the big fellow will be handled as well as he
was when Wrestler William Muldoon pre-
pared him for his winning battle with Jake
Kilrain.
Casey was born in Ireland about forty-
eight years ago, and is nearly six feet tall
and weighs 210 pounds. He is an ex-ali^^
man of Brooklyn, and is the founder
leading spirit of the Brooklyn Handb^H
club.
Column ol
Racy Comment on the National Game.
Surprises of C?ie Season—The Clubs
Are Unevenly Balanced.
APTAIN AN-
SON, the Bis-
marck of baseball,
is not a supersti-
tious man. Base-
ball players as a
class believe ir
hoodoos, mascots
charms, spells and
signs with a sin-
cerity which ii
otherwise applied
would make them
all rich. But the
patriarch of the
national game has
just shown his
utter contempt foi
the most terrible bugaboo in the whole
category of superstition—he is playing ball
with thirteen men in his team, and he won
thirteen successive victories with those
thirteen men.
Having thus defied the evil powers sup-
posed to be, he is prepared to fly into the
face of every other alleged baseball spook.
I have no doubt he passes a funeral while
on his way to the grounds with not the
least foreboding; sees a load of empty bar-
rels without giving them any credit foi
helping him win the next game; looks a
cross eyed girl squarely in the eyes (as
squarely as the circumstance of the cross
will permit) with no concern for the mor-
row, and doesn’t care a cigarette whethei
he sees the new moon over his right shoul-
der, left shoulder or through a mulberry
tree. Mr. Anson plays ball on a scientific
plan, and that is why he usually plays it
with so much success.
Anson is without any question the great-
est general the national game has ever pro-
duced, not excepting Harry Wright. This
credit has been set down to his account sc
often that it may at first thought seem su-
perfluous to repeat it now, but he has just
given another notable proof of the fact,
and the world never tires of praise be-
stowed where it is well deserved.
There is no one to dispute the fact that
in the “Indianapolis deal” last winter An-
son’s club was not fairly treated when the
assignment of the late Association players
was made. He wanted and seemed to be
entitled to the services of Hugh Duffy and
Charley Farrell, two of his old players,
but he got neither. Add to the loss oi
those two strong, desirable players the de-
fection of Pfeffer, his great second base
man, and he was left with a team lament-
ably weak.
But Anson never knew a time when he
was discouraged or without assurance as
wide and deep as Lake Michigan. He en-
tered the season with a whipped up team.
Snd while he was welding his material to-
gether he kept losing game after game.
At the same time, the Chicago public, re-
fusing to profit from the • many Ansoniau
lessons of the past, figuratively showered
bricks of abuse and missiles of decayed
vegetables at him from every side. The
Grand Old Man during it all suffered in
silence and sawed wood with a dogged de-
termination that boded ill for his slander-
ing fellows.
Finally he got his team to pull with
equal tension on all the traces, and things
up his way began to rip with a sound oi
execution which paralyzed the sarcastic
tongues of his defamers. Those thirteen
victories, whereby he went shoving his
triumphant way through the procession
from tenth place to third, turned shouts oi
derision into cheers of admiration.
One secret of Anson’s success in training
winning baseball teams is of course his
quick recognition of a new player’s faults
or strength, but there is more than this tc
make up his measure as a successful cap-
tain. Besides being swift to gauge a play-
er’s capacities, he never wastes time in
trying to bring out qualities which the
man does not possess. Nor will he keep a
player a day after his usefulness begins tc
decline. Such great players in their day
as Goldsmith, Corcoran, Flint, Quest,
Peters, Barnes and Gore were all quietly
given permission to hunt fame and fortune
in other cities as soon as Anson noted theii
start down the other side of the hill. Last-
ly, a player who is rebellious or refuses tc
put his heart into his work cannot remain
in Anson’s team, even though his abilities
may be unquestioned.
‘ Just now Anson’s name is once more on
the lips of every lover of the great national
sport, and the above homily seems to be
most apropos.
The Boston club appears well anchored
as the public favorite for the winner in the
first championship division. The quality
of their playing rather than their uncer-
tain lead in the race at this early date
gives a public confidence in their ability tc
pass the midsummer wire first. Yet the
Brooklyns and Chicagos at least will see
to it that the representatives of the city oi
culture shall not have a canter down the
homestretch. Indeed, there may be much
using of the whip before that interesting
place in the race is reached.
The greatest surprise in the twelve club
league thus far has been furnished by the
so called “Giants” of New York. Giants
they may be physically, but professionally
they seem to be of the nature of that na-
tion about which the celebrated traveler
and liar, Mr. Gulliver, tells us in his book.
The New Yorks certainly have in theii
team the heaviest batters of the League,
collectively considered, but for some cause
these heavy batters are not batting. Such
men as Ewing, Tiernan, Gore and Lyons
are doing practically nothing with theii
bats, and as the New York club never did
have a good fielding team, and as the pres-
ent team is no exception to the rule, thc-
natural result has been the loss of more
games than victories.
The pitching is good, and when the bat-
ters strike their gait and bat out theii
measure of runs the team will begin tc
move up. Eut the jump thus far is so great
that there seems to be nothing possible foi
the Giants in the first championship ex-
cept perhaps a place. Should they ex-
emplify the old adage that every team
reaches its average level in batting before
the season ends they should prove a trouble-
some combination to the clubs which have
aspirations for first place in the second
championship division.
The St. Louis’ fortunes and misfortunes
have already settled the question of Co-
miskey’s real worth to the past successes
of the club in that city. The present St.
Louis team has in it elements of strength
superior to some teams with which Comis-
By his recent defeat of George F. Slos-
son at Chicago, Frank Ives retained the
billiard championship of America and
won $500. Ives will soon go to Paris.
Mike Kelly was a heavy winner on
Judge Morrow in the Brooklyn handicap.
Many people attribute the recent death
of Hub Collins, of the Brooklyn Baseball
club, to the effects of his collision with
Burns last season.
It is said that owing to the rapid disap
pearance from use of the ordinary or high
bicycle the League of American Wheel-
men will abolish the ordinary champion-
ship next season. The safety wheel seems
to be king now.
Arthur E. Lumsden, the famous Chicago
wheelman, will soon begin racing again.
Two years ago he was considered one of
the best riders in America.
Buffalo has a one legged bicyclist who
recently made a century run in fast time.
There are nearly 3,000 licensed bicyclists
in Rochester, N. Y.
The young woman who is to bear the
name of Mrs. Willie Windle is Nettie
Woodward, of Worcester, Mass.
M. Kennedy, last year’s amateur cross
country champion runner of America, is to
run henceforth as a professional.
The individual all around championships
of the A. A. U. are scheduled for July 16.
A. A. Jordan is present champion.
On Aug. 27 will, be held the swimming
championships of the A. A. U. The cham-
pion of 1891 is J. R. 'Whittemore, of the
Pastime Athletic club, St. Louis.
The famous trotting dog Doc, owned and
driven by little Willie Ketchum, of Bright-
on, Ont., has earned over $16,000 in three
years for his master by trotting at fairs
and race meets.
Pl
Ax.-A.
President Bartow S. Weeks.
Bartow S. Weeks, president of the New
New Yorker. He
is assistant dis-
trict attorney of
New York county
and a commander
of the National
Sons of Veterans.
His administra-
tion as president
of the N. Y. A. C.
promises to be , a
notable one, for
fbe reason that
the club is prepar-
ing to erect a new
building that will BARTOW s. weeks.
rival even the magnificent home of the
Manhattan Athletic club.
President Weeks is personally superin-
tending the choice of plans for the new
building, which, he declares, will be one
of the best appointed and most beautiful
homes for athletes in the world. Mr.
Weeks is a hard worker for his club, and
is equally popular with the social and ath-
letic factions of the organization.
O. P. Caylor Contributes a
trainer. He
-
Sketch of the Amateur Athletic Union's
Chief Executive Officer.
The present president of the Amateur
Athletic union, Howard Perry, of the Col-
umbia Athletic club, Washington, was
born at Camden, N. J., about thirty-five
years ago. He became interested in ath-
letics at an early age, and when at Wes-
IL
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SCENE AT THE FALL OF PLEVNA.
Zork, and which may rob the Casino of
?ome of its patrons. The other night a
garden was opened on one of the many
roofs of Madison Square garden, which
has, in addition to the attractions offered
by the Casino, a complete stage, with
scenery, curtain and all. On this the or-
chestra will sometimes sit as it plays; but
often it will be given over to regular the-
atrical performances of a light and airy
kind. The Casino’s roof offers a garden
between the earth and stars; that of the
big Madison square building offers a per-
fect theater, with the night sky for a ceil-
ing and the busy earth a hundred feet be-
low. This resort is modeled as closely as
possible after the cafes chantants of Paris.
The three big spectacles this summer are
located at South Beach, Staten Island, El-
dorado on the beautiful Palisades that
overhang the Hudson, and West Brighton,
Coney Island. At South Beach the “Fall
of Plevna,” a famous episode of the Russo-
RARUS WAS ONCE THE KING.
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