The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 61, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1905 Page: 2 of 4
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Sedalia
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back to railroading on the Katy.
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American Association.
Wyatt Lee has made the most home
runs in the American Association this
season, nine in all.
Wheeler, third baseman of St. Paul,
made five hits five times at bat off
the Indianapolis pitchers on July 13.
Pickering were the
They
same
been doing all
Senators during
Jealous Dog Wanted Babe.
A large dog in Crewe (Eng.) recent-
ly lifted a baby from its cot when the
mother was absent, walked off with it,
and left it, severely mauled, on a door-
step some distance away.
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American League < ^es-
John Ganzell last week
join the New Yorks.
Clark Griffith decided
Catcher Slattery to his sta
Old Man Orth continue
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Mails 50 Pounds of Tubers.
John R. Dodson, an Alaska miner,
bought fifty pounds of potatoes and or-
dered them sent to Mastodon, Alaska,
by U. S. mail.
He paid $10.50 for the lot and for
.their carriage by mail into the inte-
rior of the northern territory, which
will make the “spuds” cost 21 cents
a pound laid down at their destination.
At that price he saved 14 cents a
pound on the price in the markets
there.
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Cramped Quarters and Intense Heat
Make Life Almost intolerable When
the Hatches Have to Be Closed on
Account of Heavy Seas.
game of July 15.
came under the new
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The flogging horse is one of the an-
cient grammar school customs of Eng-
land. Garrick, Addison and Johnson
were flogged on this.
Al Bridwell, is hitting the ball hard
for the Grizzlies. His fielding, which
always has been one of his good points
continues high class.
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Origins of Fashion’s Whims.
Fashions in dress often have their
origin in the wish to hide disfigure-
ment. The voluminous trunk hose
worn by English gallants at the begin-
ning of the seventeenth century w’ere
introduced, says the British Medical
Journal, by James I, as a means of
concealing an unsightly malformation.
Slaves of fashion to whom Nature had
refused an adequate curve of the hip
had to supply the deficiency by art.
Readers will remember the story told'
by Carlyle of the discomfiture of the
unlucky courtier who sat down on a
nail, and on rising to receive his maj-
esty instantaneously emitted several
pecks of bran, and stood a pitiable
figure with his breeches hanging in
folds about his shrunken person.
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Raised Fawn on Bottle.
Charles Worden found a young fawn
in the woods near Newfane, Vt. The
animal was lying on the ground at
the time, too weak to move and Mr.
Worden took him home with him. He
fed the little fellow with a nursing
bottle and now he is as frisky as a
young lamb. When found the animal
was not more than one day old.
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To Adopt Metric System.
Australia is considering the intro-
duction of the metric system and a
bill providing for its use will be in-
troduced at the next session of the
commonwealth parliament. The idea
is to make the system permissive for
a certain time, reserving the right to
make if compulsory at a given period.
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Countries Trade Territory.
France has just given the parish of
Neville-aux-Tonneaux to Belgium, and
that nation has abandoned Riezes to
France, the latter country gaining
about seventy square yards of terri-
tory by the transaction.
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Pretty Idea for Fan.
A pleasant, personal kind of fan is
owned by an ingenious girl who cut
beads, faces and bits of landscape
from her photographic prints and
pasted them harmoniously on a pretty
but inexpensive fan. Her people, her
intimate friends, her home, her favor-
ite sport, her pet cat and dog and oth-
er interesting things appear on this
fan, each tiny print outlined with gilt
watercolor paint. She has another
fan upon which she has pasted tiny
prints of her college class, outlining
them with the college colors and tying
ribbons of these colors on the handle.
monial with 200 signatures exonerat-
ing him from responsibility for the
lat,e slump of the Joplin team and
charging the disaster to the club
owners. Catcher Baerwald succeeds
Fillman as manager.
I Brashear and _
first to make 100 safe hits,
reached the 100 mark on the
day.
Milwaukee reports have it that Man
ager Barrow is after McKay, but that
him to Des
Large and Respectable.
The deacon of a south side church
who is noted alike for his excessive
waist line and for his strict attend-
ance at church functions, left home to
attend a business meeting of the
church directors on a rainy evening
recently, but returned home within an
hour.
“Guess you did not have a very big
meeting to-night,” suggested his wife,
who is not so enthusiastic as her bus-
band over religious matters.
“There were but two of us present,
the janitor and myself,” responded her
husband, “but we had a large and re-
spectable gathering. Yes,” he added,
after noting the inquiring expression
on his wife's face, “I am large and the
janitor is infinitely respectable.”—■
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the idea of getting out of the water
somehow or other the seal made for a
passing steamer, but the killer-whale
headed it off. It then made for the
yacht. As it came alongside, practi-
cally exhausted, the crew slipped a
couple of ropes around it and hauled
it on board. The owner of the yacht
sent to the London Zoo. It is. r ery
young, and it is doubtful if it can be
successfully reared, but the Zoological
people are doing their best for it. It
doubled like a hare in trying to get
away from the killer-whale.
John Fillman’s
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last game with Joplin and wound up I
in a blaze of glory, hitt ng .500 and
scoring twice. He was presented by finish out the season,
the fans before the grant stand with
a bouquet, a gold ring and a testi-
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The
lertaille at home.
Fred Tenney is scouring t
eagues for another catcher
Tommy Leach is demons i
versatility as a ball player ;
Second Baseman Huggins
.ng sensational ball for Cin<
Young Howard of the “Pi1,.,
seen batting very consistent' lately.
Hanlon still considers Mc(lmnnity of
.he Giants, one of the greajj
ers.
The siory has been revive >1
Phelps may be traded to St I
Jack Warner.
Mike Donlin is not hittii
near as hard as he did the
yf the season.
Since Sammy Strang j
Hants he has been the cham
.litter of the league.
“Red” Ames is making
Wadd 11 record this season
.'anned 123 men in ninetee .
that Mai
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Rumors have it that De.°‘:- after
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, dianapolis.
The work of Fielder Jorl - *n center
is nothing short of rr, Jf-dous these
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Latest Fad of Fashionables in London
and Paris.
Women are not alone in taking up
fads. The young men of Paris and
London are rushing to death the
watch fobs and scarf pins ornamented
with their sweethearts’ eyes. The eye
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K.-l.-T, League.
The Paducah club has signed Catch
er Matteson of the Massillon (O.) in
I dependent club.
The Vincennes chib has released
Pitcher Nonnemaker and traded
Catcher Lemon for Hippert of Cairo
An attack was made upon Umpire
Eckstone after the game at Cairo July
17, between Cairo and Paducah, be
cause of a decision at the home plate
He was struck and kicked several
times before he could be rescued from
a large and angry crowd.
At a league meeting held at Hen
derson, Ky., July 18, it was decided
to drop Henderson and Hopkinsville
and the remaining four clubs. Padu
cah. Vincennes. Princeton and Cairo,
The Hopkins-
ville club will fight the matter in
court.
This penny in the slot machine -was
devised 2,000 years ago by Nero.
21, fined
days by
Pi 'sident Pulliam for unc. H1^
ids in the
Punishment
tn, that is,
at a hearing before Preside J" Fu^iani,
hance to
action was
player to
ons Boston
A Fixture.
After the old Scandinavian divini-
ties had been ejected from their
stronghold in the north there was a
farewell family gathering among the
roots of the ash tree Yggdrasil at
which various plans for the future
were discussed. ’‘Well,” said the ser-
pent Midgardsorm, which had former-
ly twined around the earth, “it doesn’t
make any difference to me what the
rest of you are going to do, but I've
got a permanent job among the very
best people.” “Some vulgar dime mu-
seum,” sneered Thor, who, as is usual
with people who carry a hammer, was
an habitual knocker. “Dime muse-
um!” hissed Migardsorm. “Well, I
guess not! I’m to be the only original
sea serpent.” And she glided out
toward the summer resort district and
proceeded to hunt up a press agent.
Cantillon will
Moines.
Elmer Pierce has
the catching for the
the ilness of Sam Brown and the ab-
sence of Jack Ryan.
Pitcher Camnitz, who jumped To-
ledo to go to Vermont, has been taken
back, but Grillo says that Minnehan
will not be reinstated.
Cy Morgan, the St. Louis American
pitcher, who has been turned over tc
Indianapolis, is no stranger to the A
A. He was with Watkins at Minneap
olis for part of last year.
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Pittsburgs left^ Pir
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W/ily.
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LITTLE COMFORT IN SAILING
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Central League.
The Canton club has signed Infield-
er King of Mattoon, Ill.
George Carey, late of the Eastern
I .eague, is now playing first base for
Grand Rapids.
Willis, who is proving himself to be
;1 mainstay in the box for Canton, is
he fellow that Springfield turned
loose.
Chapman, who is making good with
the Hottentots, is a young collegian.
He began his baseball career while a
student at Detroit Agricultural school.
Vincennes, of the Kitty League,
wanted the Fort Wayne franchise.
Evansville and Terre Haute were fa-
vorable as it would cut down their
mileage. It is not practical, however,
as Vine- tines is protected territory.
The story going the rounds that
Isodore Mautner has bought Louie
Smith's interests in the Terre Haute
franchise is denied by Mr. Mautner
The only interests he now holds is the
unpaid notes due him from John Gan-
zel for the Grand Rapids franchise
and they are not due until September
—Sporting Life.
Big Cargo of Opium.
Part of the cargo of the steamship
Korea, which arrived at San Francis-
co, on July 11, was $344,500 worth of
opium.
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Sea Captain Asserts Its Proper Use Is
Externally.
The man who puts alcoholic bever-
ages into his stomach with the idea
that it is the proper receptacle for in-
vigorating beverages has been much
mistaken. Whisky is not made to
drink. The proper -way to use it is to
let it soak into the system. The de-
rivation of the word “soak,” meaning
a toper, is traceable, perhaps, to the
external method of indulgence.
There is an old salt in the port here
who soaks up the liquor. He is Capt.
Swann of the British steamer Anglo-
Chilean.
“In my early days I was a sprinter,”
says Captain Swann, “and I kept it up
long after I went to sea whenever
T there was an occasion to try out the
stiffness of my joints ashore. I am
a good walker, because of having al-
ways used whisky in my bouts when-
ever I felt uneasy about my feet. It
is not a new idea, but one I learned
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“I remember when I was spending
a time ashore in Scotland I went on a
walking trip and stopped at a ‘pub’
in the Highlands and asked for the
usual ration of ‘the best.’ In Scot-
land the portion is not mean. I took
oif my shoes and poured one-half of
the measure into one shoe and the
remainder into the other. The pub-
lican expressed his horror at the wast-
ing of such valuable liquor on a man’s
feet, but as I had paid his price it was
none oi his business about the dese-
cration of the liquor.
“I can say to any man who walks
much drat if he uses whisky on his
feet, as I have explained, and not in
his stomach, he will find refreshment
which will increase his ambition and
enable him to walk with a freshness
which was unknown before the appli-
cation.”—Baltimore American.
ill after six hours’ swimming. Miss
Kellerman was overcome by seasick-
ness after five hours, but had outdi,
tanced Heaton. The swimmers intend-
ed to land at Calais.
Court officials in China now have
an automobile garage with some fif-
teen or twenty machines that are
handled by native chauffeurs. As
might be expected, the automobile
club has been formed with headquar-
ters in Shanghai. It already boasts
of twenty-five members.
In the final matches for the Dwight
F. Davis International Lawn Tennis
cup in England, H. L. Doherty de-
feated Larned, 6—4, 3—6, 6—8, 6—4,
6—2. In the second match Holcombe
Ward was to have played S. H. Smith,
but W. J. Clothier was substituted.
Smith won, 3—6. 6—1. 6—4, 6—3.
At Pittsburg, July 28. the cricket
tournament for ihe Spalding trophy
came to a close with a match between
the two Pittsburg teams. The re-
sult was, Pittsburg. 103: Zingari, 98,
for an inning each. In the follow-on
Zingari made 70 runs, with the loss
of 3 wickets, when stumps were down.
“Jimmy” Colville, for more than
thirty years one of the best sporting
men in the country, died at Boston of
ptomaine poisoning. He was 58 years
old, but up to a week ago was mak-
ing a book in New York. He was
b^est known as a prize ring follower,
and bad won fortunes by picking win-
ners.
After twenty-five rounds of hard
fighting at the Colma club. San Fran-
cisco. July 28. Frankie Neal, cham-
pion bantam weight of the United
States, was given the decision over
Eddie Tenney. The boys fought be-
fore a large crowd and Neil seemed
to,have the shade in the majority of
the rounds. Tenney was able to stall
off his opponent’s rushes and invaria-
bly blocked Neil’s hard punches.
Owing to the prevalence of yellow
fever in Louisiana. President Kava-
naugh of the Soul hern League, after
a conference with the managers inter-
ested, announced that it. would be im-
practicable for either Hie Shreveport
or the New Orleans teams to return
home, and an amended schedule was the course was in fair shape.
own time further that day, his best
later time being 25 1-5 seconds. He
will try again for the world’s kilo-
meter and mile records on Aug. 19.
Jim Corbett tells of rather a doubt-
; ful compliment paid him right after
his fight with Bob Fitzsimmons. Cor-
bett had returned to New York in
time to attend one of Chuck Connor’s
Bowery dances. On making his ap-
pearance, Connors spied the defeated
heavy-weight, and rushing up to the
leader of the orchestra furnishing the
music for the dance, ordered him. to
play “He May Have Seen Better
Days.” It came right straight from
the bottom of Chuck’s heart, too.
The blue ribbon meeting at Detroit
Mich., began auspiciously July 24
when Walter Direct, whose sire, Di-
rect Hal, won the same event twro
years ago, took down first honors in
the Chamber of Commerce purse of
$5,000 for 2:24 pacers. But Walter
Direct showed even greater than his
sire. The miles of the winner wrore
2:05%, 2:06^, ■ 2:07%, not only re-
ducing the record of the race for one,
twro and three heats, but. also put-
ting on the books the fastest three
heats ever stepped by a pacer that
had only once before scored for the
word. More than this, there was no
time when Walter Direct was brought
to a drive, nor could it be said he
was “straight” in any part of the race.
Angle, daughter of Axtell, won the
$10,000 M. & M. race at Detroit, com-
ing home first in two of the three
heats trotted and losing the other be-
cause of a break soon after the word
was given. Incidentally she disproved
the oft repeated assertion that she is
an unreliable mare, and she also lov.r-
ered the previous estimate of her chief
rival. Clarita W., as a race mare. The
time of the race was not fast, the
miles being 2:12%, 2:10%, and 2:11. i
This could not be laid to the track, as
the 2:08 trotters stepped a first heat
in 2:07. A light showier just before
the first beat of the M. and M. com-
pelled a postponement of nearly an
hour while the harrows and scrapers
were being used, but when the ten
starters finally scored for the word
Baby Seal in London Zoo.
A baby seal has just arrived at the
London Zoological Gardens after a
series of thrilling adventures. It wras
first sighted near Heligoland from an
English yacht, and a large killer-whale
(grampus) was in full pursuit. With
Cypress at Chepultepec Assigned That
Enormous Age.
The distinction of being the oldest
tiving thing undoubtedly belongs to
one of the giant trees, and many at-
tempts to locate it and determine its
ige have been made. A century ago
De Candolle found tw^o yews—one at
Fortingal, in Perthshire, and one at
Hedsor, in Bucks—that were estimat-
ed to be respectively 2,500 and 3,240
fears old. Both are' still flourishing,
And the older tree has a trunk 27 feet
‘n circumference. A gigantic baobab
>f Central America, with a trunk 29
.’eet through, was thought by Hum-
boldt to be not less than 5,150 years
ild. Mexican botanists believe they
have now discovered a life-span even
greater than this, and from the an-
nual rings a cypress of Chepultepec,
whose trunk is 118 feet in circumfer-
ence, is assigned an age of about 6,200
years.
Mkn
is removed from a pholograph, set in'
gold, under glass, and set into the bit
of jewelry.
German Books for Japanese.
Japan in twelve months was sup-
plied by Germany with 96,394 books,
Great. Britain being second with 87,-
608. This was in 1901. The following
year England supplied Japan with
over 315,000 books.
Novel Life-Saving Invention.
A poor laboring man in Denmark
has made a new invention in life-sav-
ing. He impregnates clothes with a
substance which will keep a ship-
wrecked person afloat for several days
without losing its property. A coat,
a vest, a traveling rug—in fact, any
piece of wearing apparel impregnated
with the stuff is enough to keep any-
one above water. The invention has
been successfully demonstrated.
given out. The schedule transfers the
games at New Orleans and Shreveport
to the other cities of the league.
Lou Dillon (1:58%) trotted her two
fastest miles of the season at the
Glenville track, Cleveland, Ohio, July
28. Each was made in 2:06. Her
previous best mile was 2:06%, made
on July 15. Major Delmar, after trot-
ting a slow first half-mile in 1:08, fin-
ished the mile in 2:08, which is con-
sidered in some respects the most re-
markable mile ever trotted by the Ma-
jor.
New York retained the McAlpin
trophy by the excellent shooting of
its state team at Creedmore. The
New Yjrk riflemen scored 968 out of
a possible 1,200. The match called for
ten shots per man at each distance,
200, 600 and 1,000 yards. The United
It is probable
Clarke has unearthed
southpaw twirler in
Grand.
Young Goodwin, a well-knj
catcher, who has been wi! I
ters, Lynns and other lean 1
as emergency catcher of
Nationals.
Catcher Peitz was, on Ju ?
$30 and suspended for thr< e’*
Western League.
The salary list of the St. Joseph
team has been reduced about $500 a
month.
The Omaha Bee says Shipke’s equal
as a third baseman never wore an
Omaha uniform.
Horman Long, the ex-Tiger, has
great hitting aggregation
Moines.
ting above .300.
The greatest right fielder in the
league, claims an Omaha paper, is Car-
ter, of Omaha. This worthy has been
hitting the ball and has been putting
up a sensational fielding game.
Pitcher Bill Hoffer has signed to
play with Des Moines. Hoffer was dis-
satisfied with his salary and at the
first of the present season quit the
game, but has returned to the field.
Arthur Hoelskoetter, who was ship-
ped back to Denver by Cincinnati in
the spring after it seemed certain he
had won the extra infielder’s job from
11 q i
ijigt pitch-
, t that Ed.
;Louis for
u w the ball
e Jparly part
ned the
non pinch
Washington, D. C., barracks, was sec-
ond with 917 and the New Jersey team
third, with 914.
E. E. Smathers has decided to retire
permanently from the turf. Mr.
Smathers has been a prominent figure
on the turf for several years, having
owned some good thoroughbreds, in-
cluding the great McChesney, for
which he paid $30,000. Thei e are
nearly fifty race horses in his stable
at present. Sam Hildreth and Frank
Taylor, Hildreth’s brother-in-law, have
done all of Smithers’ training.
Ralph Rose has about decided to
enter college again. Yale is the new
alma mater likely to be se ected by
, the giant hurler of weigh Ls. The
sudden decision of the fan. ms athlete
mty be attributed in part o the pres-
ence of two Yale men on the team.
All the way from Chicago the eastern
college boys paid particular a tention
to Rose. The big fellow proba ly will
be fc ind in easteri athletics next
year
Horsemen now quartered at the
Fort Erie track are very much < lated
over a telegram sent by Tom Wil-
liams. head of the California Jc<key
club, to the effect that the coast, or-
ganization will no longer respect the
outlaw rule of the Western Joe <ey
club, and that accordingly those v-ho
have been racing on the northern
circuit tracks will not there tore be
barred from participating in ihe Cali-
fornia winter meetings.
Being- officially timed by am But-
ler, secretary of the Autom - )ile Club
of America, Walter Christie, in his 120
horsepower automobile redacei- the
American kilometer record by m iking
the time in 25 seconds fl u at Cape
May, N. J., July 30. He mat e se/era!
attempts, but could not ivducc his
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Connor.
Comiskey says Washington is on the
baseball map merely
heart disease.
Lajoie’s fielding averagt up to the
time he was taken ill wa 991. Is it
any wonder that. Cleve ad misses
him?
In Washington’s victoij over Chi-
cago on July 17 long Tom 'r ughes won
his first game from the Sox in two
years.
The St. Louis club nas icalled the
clever young shortstop, Curies Starr,
from the Ohio Works tear of Youngs-
town, Ohio.
Clarke Griffith is looking for the
hoodoo. Injuries to Chas< and Dough-
erty have added more g ay hairs on
the Old Fox’s pate.
Western Associaicn.
Charley Crum has caugi on at first
with Oklahoma City am is playing
good ball.
At Wichita, July 14, Pitcher Be-
mis, of Wichita, shut Leavenworth
oat with two safe hits.
The Oklahoma Club lia; sold third
baseman Jimmy Frick to Seattle,
and has signed Brock veil, of St.
Louis, and outfielder Crim, late of
Tbpeka.
Again the Sedalia team las changed
ownership and management. Recent-
ly Eddie Lyons bought the franchise
from Henry Lei st. The latter has
now re-purchased the cl io.
Red Davis has qui ihe
team of his own accord.
gone tz •
The big sorrel top is one tf the headi-
est ball players in the business. He '
is an all-round ball player, and of that
kind he is the best in the league. He
thinks that there is moue money in
railroading than in baseball.
The Joplin club has slid
release io
On July 13 Fillma:j played his
Charge Consisted of Shillings, Wadded
With Bible Leaves.
Nicholas Vadderman, a retired farm-
er of Angora, has come into posses
sion of what he believes is a relic of
the days when superstition and belief
in witchcraft was general. This is an
old flintlock musket which contained
a charge evidently prepared for the ex-
ecution of a witch. Yedderman, who
devotes his time to the collection of
curios, purchased the musket at an
auction sale held in an old farmhouse
recently. From its appearance the
weapon antedated the revolutionary
war, and when found was in a deplor-
able state of rust. In cleaning it Ved-
derman discovered that there was a
charge in the gun, and this he care-
fully withdrew. To his surprise, he
found instead of bullets, two silver
shillings, dated 1781, tightly wadded
with leaves from a Bible of ancient
print. Beneath the shilling was a
small lock of hair and a piece of paper
containing an illegible quotation. The
gunpowder was coarse and undoubted-
ly of colonial manufacture. Vedder-
man, who has made a study of such
things, says it was by firing such
charmed charges that the supersti-
tious believed they could scare off
witches.—Philadelphia Record.
a
hitting aggregation at Des
Six of his regulars are hit
It will be between the fresh-
teams of the Badger and Go-
pher camps, and will be played at
Minneapolis on the morning of Nov.
4-
F. Nicholls’ Temeraire has been
chosen as the challenger for the Can-
ada cup, now held by the Rochester
Yacht club. The races for possession
of the cup will begin Aug. 12 off On-
tario beach, near Rochester. Teme-
raire was designed by Fyffe, the
Scotch expert.
George Dixon, for many years the
greatest little fighter for his inches in
the world, is soon to return to Ameri-
ca, the scene of his former ring tri-
umphs. The colored boy will come
back to the United States when Con-
gressman Timothy D. Sullivan returns
from abroad.
Edward Heaton and Annette Kel-
lerman failed in an attempt to swim
the English channel. Heaton became
Many Articles Excavated at Renfrew
shire, Scotland.
Until recently vestiges of the
Bronze Age civilization in Renfrew-
shire have been rarely met with,
though there were, doubtless, many
skilled craftsmen and an extensive
population in this as in many other
parts of Scotland during the period in
question, which is thought to have
ranged in time from about the six-
teenth to the second century before
the birth of Christ. Lately, however,
remains undoubtedly of the Bronze
Age in Renfrewshire have been
brought to light by excavations near
the railway station at Newlands. Mr.
Ludovic Mann, F. S. A. Scot., who de-
scribed a few weeks ago the New-
lands finds to the Society of Antiquar-
ies, of Scotland, has had the good for-
tune recently to locate another
Bronze Age site. It is situated be-
tween Kilmalcolm and Bridge of Weir,
and the most important relic found is
a beautifully shaped perforated stone
axe-hammer, ornamented with knobs
and moldings, and in perfect preserva-
tion.
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Each of the torpedo craft carries
a crew of from sixty to seventy men,
and when one considers the size of
the space in which it is necessary
for these men to move about in op-
erating the powerful yet intricate ma-
chinery and find sleeping space also,
one must marvel at the life aboard
a vessel of this class.
To live in quarters the size of an
ordinary dry goods box is not the life
that the everyday American cares to
essay. To endure such life for hours
at a stretch without sleep or food,
and to stand exposed in all climates—
such is life aboard a torpedo craft for
officers and men alike. There is no
discrimination; that is why one sees
beardless faces and slender figures be-
hind the conning towers when these
long, tnree and four stacked flyers
run into port for coal and water at
frequent in ervals, which is necessary
on account of their limited space for
carrying these necessities. In the
comparatively smooth water of harbor
the torpedo boats look very much like
the motor racers in disguise, but they
are far fron: being the pleasure craft
that the autoboats are, and aey go
where th? helmsman of a motor boat
would not dare to venture.
The oce; n it the place to see tie
torpedo boat under way and then li
on board he craft can be seen in i s
true light. Slicking their bows into
the long, sen swells, the spray flying
above the signal staffs forward and
the solid green water washing the low
decks continually, is but on picture
of life on the rolling deep h a n - e
shell of a boat. In the hi. . >or an
when as sea in fair weathei the tor-
pedo boats run with hatches open,
the commanding officer stands
watch clear of the forward conning
ower, and the crew lounge on deck,
but when the little craft begins to roll
and plunge in the seaway the hatches
are closed, and, barring the stump
smokestacks, the vessels resemble
baby whales at. play. It is then that
tne crew suffer most while at sea.
All must remain below decks, or place
themselves in jeopardy. To venture
above wnile the vessel is plunging
about the sea with decks awash would
be extremely lit. uirdous. Sometimes
the Japanese steward will essay to
climb along the deck from stern to
the forward hi tch with a smoking
dish clasped tightly in his hands. He
is in a race with the seas, if he
reaches bis destination forward he is
lucky. If tbv seas got tlu r; first the
. fishes got the food.
In the ct-.. at th-’ seas . ve. ike him.
i then he has to crambio jack to th(
J gii.ley and await another cham. • This
j is ' n amusing incident of life aboard,
to watch the steward essay the trip
I forward in rough weather.
Intense heat prevails bel.
®itches*blosed, and the humidity is
one of the inconveniences to which
the crew of a torpedo boat is sub-
jected, and is one of the most objec-
tionable features of life aboard the
torpedo craft, as the heat is oppres-
sive and fearful at times, with all
four boilers under full draught and
ponderous engines throbbing and pul-
sating at full speed of perhaps twenty-
five or thirty knots.— (Chicago News.)
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Silvie Ferretti, manager of Hugo
Kelly, says in the necond round of
Kelly’s fight with Burns at Los
Angeles the local middle-weight broke
his left hand.
H. R. Vonderhorst, secretary of the
Brooklyn baseball club, died July 28
from heart failure, due to aneurism of
the aorta. He was born fifty-four
years ago in Baltimore.
Atlantic City is to have a two-mile
automobile track if the plans of pro-
moters do not fail. The proposition is
to spend $40,000 on the track, which*
is to be finished early in 1906.
George Saunders is the fifteenth
driver to win the M. & M., and this is
the second time the purse has ever
been won by an Ohio driver. John
Pickett of Toledo won it with Nightin-
gale in 1892.
Jack Briggs, the trainer, of Minne- J States marine corps team from the
ipolis, Minn., is in receipt of a letter
'rom Bobby Dobbs, who is at present
n England, offering to fight Joe Gans
for the lightweight title. Briggs is
Dobbs’ manager.
The JLeanders, the champion English
rowing crew, have sent representatives
to this country to arrange for a row-
ing match with an American crew to
be selected from America’s best row-
ing crews from colleges of this coun-
try.
The six stakes to be run at the
Libertyville (Ill) trotting meeting
Sept. 19 io 23 have filled well, there
being thirty-two nominations for the
$5,000 stakes in the 2:20 trotting
clafj and twenty-eight for the $5,000
stake ip the 2:14 pace.
Arrangements are virtually com-
pleted for a second Wisconsin-Minne-
sota football game in the season of
1905.
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