JEFF READY TO
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IS WGRSED OVEkl OS KB
Californian Intends to Do Most cf Hi-.
Work Outdoor So as to Perfect Hu
Bellows Big Fellow Should Enja t
Several Husk Pugilists ta Hslp Him
Since Jim .It-ITrli's Hniioum-ed t tit t In
would start training fur his cumin;
contest with Jack J.lnisoti t ti f r.rs
woek In Man h the t,ij follow h . iiv
rwolvliiKhtiiitlicds of letters' eliii;
from the flj-hi oxi its and fans ,,x-r
Iti); nil kinds of sur est Ions as to iwv
he should prepare for the coinius mil
and some advice as to how he slum:,
fight the ue-Ki'o. As Jeff has Ills on I
Ideas tiM to how he should train for ct:
coming mill, nil the surest Ions wi!
go for naught.
Jeffries has announced time am
ngaln that he will devote most of hi:
time to outdoor work so his wind maj
be as good as it ever was. lie flume;
that with his bellows In good shape hi
will have very little difficulty In di
posing of Johnson. While Jeff think
this Is O. K., still there Is anotliei
thing Just as important. That Is fin
the big fellow to select a staff of husU.i
young pugilists, not old timers, ti
fight, not box. with him, men thai
will try hard to sneak over n Lnoi-l;
out wallop. lie should engage In out
of these real scraps twice a weeU
Then In a short time he would know
whether his judge of distance is n;
good us ever. In Justice to the pen
pie who are going to bet on him in tin
coming tight Jeff should do this. Thest
men want to bet on James J., but the)
don't want to bet blindly. They wan'
to know whether lie is "there."
A man may train with the strength
of n bull and the endurance of a M;ir
athouer, but training Isn't fighting
not by n long chalk. One round of
real fighting sometimes takes more
gimp out of a timu than a half n da.vS
hard work In the gymnasium. It's tin
nervous strain that does it.
- When old John L. Sullivan turuec
up In New Orleans to train for Jlir
Corbett u buneh of prominent sportluji
men tilled the gymnasium to see him
begin training. Old John was fat:
there was no getting away from that.
But, fat as he was, there was one tiling
which he could do he could skip the
rope os nimbly as any other big man
and It did not seem to affect his wind
John performed a few stunts, took
hold of the waistband of his trouserV
and hauled In nbout a foot of slack
and that was enough for the wlsr
boys. They went out and offered
three and four to one that John L
would lick the youth Corbett. .If o
Corbett man turned up with any
money they matched for him.
Jimmy Ilrltt never showed more
power cf endurance than In his train
ing for the Colma flglit with Cat Nel
son. P.rltt was also a rope skipper,
punched the bag and slugged with his
sparring partners for about two hour?
every afternoon, and such a gluttor
was he for work that he did not take
the usual rest of one minute between
rounds, but shadow boxed or mauled
a heavy bag while the trainers wen
resting. lie seemed to be able to last
from noon till sundown, and he mlgh:
have been able had he played his owi
game and boxed with Nelson instead
of standing up In the sixth rouud t
slug it out then and there.
At the end of that terrific three mlii
utes both men were very tired, an.l
Itrltt reeled to his comer, gasping foi
breath.
'Tin awful tired!" he paid.
All his weeks of !::iu. wrk. all his
training fcr stn- i : u:;d endurance.
left hlni weak r. 1 :!i:'.l;y :tfter three
mluutes of real flaring.
Jeff should Inn" so-.ie real fights.
The provisions of il: i;if! les rf agree
ment will iv. vcif Mm from engag
Ins In p:.:iic 1 i : tic.-, hvt there H no
rcao'i iij ik s-'.ioi.M i" t ta!:e on
some to fr!!-iws and U;r'i t them to a
finish In .i.va:: fie W'.l get nothing
of assistance to hlni In lio-t:ig with a
clever mnu. What he needs Is real
fighting. If Stanley t"eehel had train
ed for his second O T.i len fight by try
ing to pick up clcvi niiv O'Brien would
have outpointed blm. beeauso that Is
O'Brien's game.
Jeff will prc'.il 'y h.tvp the greatest
all star trap it r. tmaiier srff In his
tory, an i r eight good cooks
will Jlw: '"iHe the e; gs and
' Win! U big. high, men
w'' v. ' . nd try to kuo-k hi.
: head IT aiders. To win this
fight he. !:!:' i t to perfect a system of
. rushing In tr'th both hands and flail
ing away r. I he lands one good wal
lop. Just as Stanley Ketchel went after
OM'rleu.
It len't going to be bra'-' which will
lick Jil-nFon so much us brawn and
the w:. .'on.
Sprinter Rseebsn Now a Jumper.
ISoscliett, once the mightiest sprinter
In the country Is now one of the best
hunter In New York state, since hU
retlretnort to James Wartsworth'n T'-ii
he hns leaned to Jump. He soon he-
came proficient under the tuition cf
his yotnrr niHress. Miss Wadswortli
' that he v ns permitted to try his prow
ess nt the emus country sports. Ilo li
aid to be oe of the finest saddi
horses in the land.
AN UaHNISHEU" S10RY. "
Sooiled Because the Man Who Told It
Had a Poor V.emory.
Mr. Snillin was at a dinner party
civen a few days ao at Jude Pit
man's. While the company were nt
the table Snillin said in a loud
voire :
Ty the way, did you read that
f'Hid thing of Adder's the other
day about the woman over in Pen
ender? It was om- of the most
amusing things that ever came un
der my observation. The woman's
name, you tee, was Emma. Well,
Fir, there were two young fellows
paying attention to her, and after
she'd accepted one of them the oth
er also proposed to her, and as she
felt certain that the first one wasn t
in enrnest she accepted the second
one too. So a few days later both
of 'em called at the same time, both
claimed her hand, and both insisted
on marrying her at once. Then of
course she found herself face to
face with a decidedly unpleasant
unpleasant er er less see what's
the word I want? Unpleasant er
er Blamed if 1 haven't forgot
ten that word."
"''Predicament," suggested Judge
ritmnn.
"Xo, that's not it. What's the
name of tint thin" with two horns?
Unpleasant er er hang it! It's
gone clear out of my mind."
"A cow," hinted Miss Gridley.
"No, not n cow."
"Maybe- it's a buffalo," remarked
Dr. Potls.
"Xo, no kind of an animal. Some
thing else with two horns. Mighty
queer I can't recall it."
"Perhaps its a brass band, ob
served Piiiitorwick.
"Or a man who's had a couple of
drinks," suggested Peter Lamb.
"Of course not."
"You don't, mean a fire compa
ny?" asked Mrs. Pitman.
"'N-no. I hat s the dtirndcst,
queerest thing I ever heard of that
1 can t remember that word, said
Mr. Snitlin, getting warm and be
ginning to feel miserable. -
Well, give us the rest of the
story without it," said the judge.
"That's the mischief of it," said
Mr. Snillin. "The whole joke turns
on that infernal word."
"Two horns, did you say ?" asked
Dr. Potts. "Maybe it is a catfish."
"Or a snail," remarked the judge.
"N-no none of those."
"la it an elephant or a walrus?"
risked Mrs. Potts.
"I guess I'll have to give it up,"
paid Mr. Snillin, wiping the perspi
ration from his brow. .
K "Well, that's the sickest old story
I ever ran across," remarked But
tcrwick to the judge. . Then every
body smiled, and Mr. Snillin ex
cused himself upon the ground that
he had to meet a man, and he with
drew. 'Pie mystery is yet unsolved. . 1
rover concocted any such story 89
t'..at, and I have a faint impression
that Snillin was trying to build one
tip by bringing that woman's name,
Emma, somehow into a pun with
the word "dilemma," and 1 am glad
ho failed. When a man begins to
palm off his infamous jokes on me
the t.mc has come v.iicu l.c cr. u.c
without. beins missed. New York
Weekly.
How They Broke Up.
An amusing story is related in
"Canadian Savage Folk" .of the
manner in which an adjournment
was taken by a mass meeting. A
missionary who had started a school
among the Indians met with oppo
sition, and the meeting had been
called in support of the rival
scheme.
There were several speakers who
denounced the school in existence.
We replied vigorously, showing the
eliicicney of the school and de
nouncing in turn the method!
adopted by the opposition. An In
dian chief produced some specimens
of work done at the school, and sev
eral speakers supported the work
as it was being done. The climax
was reached when a gentleman rose
and said:
"I move the whole thing bust!"
The chairman put the motion.
"It is moved and seconded tha
the whole thing bust!"
The audience sprang to their feet
and( waving hats, yelled "Busted!"
nd made for the door. Thus end
ed the first and last opposition in
that matter.
Early Needles.
It is said bv some that steel nee
riles were invented by the Moors
Before their general diffusion
throughout the civilized world
thorns and fish bones, the latter
with a hole pierced for an eye, were
in use. The first needles made in
London were by a Moor, in the reign
oMlenry VIII., and in Queen Ma
rys day steel needles were sold ii.
Chen psi de and other streets of Lon
don. After this time the manufac
ture increased rapidly, many Ger
mans migrating to England and es
tablishing needle works in various
place
EX-CUE CHAMPS STiLL BU$V
i
Hunt on and Demarest Want Another
Chance to Win Back Titles.
Undaunted by the loss of their titles.
Calvin Demurest, who relinquished his
ltt.'J billiard title when he was beaten
by Harry (.'line of Philadelphia, ami
Thomas Ilueston. who lost his pool
championship to Jerome Keogh, are
preparing fur new worlds to conquer,
iliiesttui is going out for the three
cushion billiard title now held by 1'red
Eames of Denver, ami Demarest ex
pects to regain his title before many
months. Ituth players lost their titles
recently.
Ilueston will play nil comers In New
York in preparation for his match
with Karnes. lie confidently expected
he would be able lodefeml his pool
championship against Keogh and cap
ture the three cushion title as well,
but now that he has lost tils title he
has determined to gain another In a
new field.
While Cllne succeeded In beating
Demarest, the ex-chainplon says an
other chance - will see hlui again a
champion. P.ut now Willie Hoppe
must he reckoned In the running hi
championship billiard circles. Hoppe
TOMMY HUE8T0N, WHO WILL PLAT EAMES
IN DKNVEK.
beat another retired champion. Ora
Morniugstar. while Cllne was winning
the title from Demarest and will like
ly be matched wilb Cline in the near
future.
Since wli'.nlng the pool championship
Keogh has been a popular mau with
challengers. Charles Weston of Chi
cago.' known as "the cowboy." will
have the first chance nt the new cham
pion, Ills challenge has been accept
ed, nnd the' match will be played In
either Uuffalo or'Itoehester in March.
Ilueston will challenge the winner and
expects to have buck bis title by next
May. '
HORSE RACING DATES.
Eastern Meetings Divided Up to Satis
. faction of All Tracks.
llacing dates for the coining season
have been officially announced by the
Eastern Jockey club. According to
the schedule, the sport will beglu at
Aqueduct, X. Y., April 15 and continue
until Nov. 15. which will give patrons
of the game 1S-I days to, watch the
tuiroushbreils tight for purses. By
the arrangement there will be about
forty more days of racing than last
season.
Ti.c ;.,:cu',;ou to open ou April 15,
the first legal day to race in New
York state, proves that t bet Is no
great opposition figured at the l'lmlico
meeting in Baltimore.
Saratoga.' Empire City and Brightou
Beach (New York) tracks will not con
duct fall meetings. Saratoga has won
a victory hi that It will have twenty
JOCKEY CLUB
NEW YORK
DATES FOR
COURSES.
Aqueduct-April 15 to April
2S. twelve days.
Jamaica April 29 to May 12.
twelve days.
Belmont Park-May 13 to May
30. fifteen days.
Graveseud-May 31 to June 1ft.
fifteen days.
Sheepshead Bay June 1J to
July 4. fifteen days.
Brighton Bench July 5 to
July 20. fourteen days.
. Empire City July 21 to Aug.
3. twelve days.
Saratoga Aug. 4 to Aug. 27,
twenty-one days
Sheepshead Bay-Aug. 29 to
Sept. 10. twelve days.
Gravesend-Sept. 12 to Sept.
24. twelve days.
Belmont Park-Sept. 20 to Oct.
8. twelve days.
Jamaica Oct. 10 to Oct. 27.
sixteen days.
Aqueduct-Oct. 28 to Nov. 15.
sixteen days.
one days Instead of eighteen, as origi
nally planned. Empire City would have
been better Hatlslled if they had re
ceived eighteen Instead of twelve days,
but Brighton coming into the nrramn
incuts upset the calculations.
The season . follows Its regular
course as In former good days. In tlic
aggregate Aqueduct and Jamaica will
havo twenty-eight days; Belmont Pari;
twenty-seven; (Jravesend. twenty-seen;
Sheepshead Bay, twenty-sever
Brighton Beach, fourteen; Umpire (,'lfy,
twnlen nnd Cnhntoim nniilt.oiin
vnviiVi u in j "i i u n'ii, i n ii i ,i -win-, i
rimllco. iu Baltimore, open April 2ijr
and runs to May 7.
DIAMOND
DIDDINGS
Some of the Stuff That is
Flying Around in the
Western League.
SANDY GRISYVOLD HAS
A CATNIP AATTCK.
Throws Ills Usual Spasmodic Elec
tion Up and Into the Western
League.
Sandy Griswold m h:a usual stunt
as a knocker opposes the ltiS-game
schedule in the Western League and
calls the promoters "sap-heads." We
bel eve it is much better to be a
"sap-head" and progressive than a
"lunk-hcad" who imagines oneself
the only lighting cock on the dunghill
Sandy imagines that he knows a w hole
lot about what the fans of the Western
league want in the way of base ball,
but lie is just about as close, to the
real fan as an Omaha policeman
generally gets to a burglar. lie may
be an authority on puguglies but the
very little that he knows about the
real wants of the average base ball
lover in the Western wouldn't fill
the sporting page of the Hullvillc
Yearly Hummer.
o
The Denver fans are beginning to
get cold feet this early in the season
over the prospects of having a good
team. The Times says that the in
field is all right, but the outfield is an
uncertain quantity, while the pitching
staff is woefully weak. ,If the Denver
papers would devote more time to
boosting instead of knocking there
would be some thing to inspire the
management to better the condition.
The fact is that no base ball man
agement has ever had the loyal support
of the papers out there. Every time
there was a chance for a kick the
kick was sure to come If the town
wants a winning team the thing to do
is to boost and let every fan get into
line and show his loyalty. A inanagc-
mcnt which knows that they aro going
to get the prod every time things don't
go to suit liasn t much of an incentive
to get out and get a winner, for the
risk is too great. If that bunch of
cold blooded so called sports would
take a lesson from little old Lincoln
where the fans boost just as hard when
the tenm is at the foot as they do
when' it is at the top, there would be
some chance for them to make good as
dead game sporting people.
" ; "n i o
The selection of a ICS-game sche
dule for the Western may not meet
with the approval of everybody. It
v as not expected that it would. There
has been some young" and hew blood
injected into the league which fc els
ike mak'ng some thing out of it. The
new schedule may not be" the right
thing. Then aga'n it may be just
exactly tne right tiling. Mircly no
(nc will ever know unt'l it U tried.
The Western has been moing along
with' its little old schedule from year
to year until it needed some one to
start a new inevation. If it is a success,
it is what the league wants. If it is
a failure it is easy to drop back to
the old game. If every club manager
in the Western should carry out the
idea of some of the knockers against
the new schedule, that ti was better
to stick to what they had rather than
to try out' new players, there would
be no new faces in the line-ups of
any of the clubs. Every club owner
would keep the same old gang and
no changes would be made. In every
business Walk in life success has been
the result of new experiments, and
the success of the Western league
w ill be brought about in the same way
We are glad the new schedule has been
drafted. Sometimes we think that
maybe it is not what is wanted, but we
bel'eve just the same that it :s worth
trying.
o
We do not know whether Coolcy
Holland and Rourkc should bo clns.se
with Sandy Griswold's "sap-heads"
or not, but as he also includes Dcs-
pain and Fairwcathcr, it would look
like the Western League was go'iig
to be full of sap this year anyhow.
With that bunch in the "sa-hcad"
class we rather feel that the "Sap
head" crowd is a pretty good crowd
to run things iu the Western,
The, picture of Fred Mcrkle which
accompanied the current issue of the
Sporting News will be reec'vcd with
a great deal of interest by the base
ball public. Probably no base ball
player ever jumped into the lime
light quite as suddenly as did Mr.
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Mcrkle. Generally when a player
reaches the pinnacle of fame it is
because of w hat he has done. How
ever Mcrkle reaches his renown be
cause of what he did not do. Pro
bably the knowledge of what his
fatal error cost not only himself, but
the New York Club and each of his
fellow players will be a lesson he will
never forget and a lesson which has, so
impressed itself upon the base ball
players all over the country, that its
benefits will be far reaching.
Reaps Results.
Col II C. McMaken, received an
order today on W.M. Forbcs.National
Treasurer of the Knights & Ladies
of Security, for the first installment
on h s policy in that company. Colonel
McMaken having reached the age
imit at which the company agrees
to pay out on the policy a; the rate
of $1 per year on a one thousand
dollar policy.
Mr C E. Wood, of Talmage,
a cousin of Sheriff Quinton, has been
in the city today on a short visit.
Mr. Wood is cashier of a Talmage
ank and is a very pleasant gentleman
to meet.
BIG DAMAGE SUIT
COMMENCED THURSDAY.
Earl R. Bllsh Seeks to Recover
From Burlington fcr Loss of Leg
liy far the must important law
suit to be tried this term of court
was commenced Thursday afternoon
when the court directed Clerk of the
district court to "call the jury" in
the case of Earl It. Wish vs C. Q.
It. It. Co. It took the court and
attorneys about an hour to get the
jury in the case. After which the
court excused the balance of the panel
until next Wednesday at 9 o clock.
Attorney for the plaintiff, Mathew
Gering addressed the jury giving his
version of what the facts in the case
would be as counsel understood the
witnesses would testify to. Mr Gering
was about half an hour stating his
1 1 A 1
case, his statement was taken uown
down by Myron Wheeler, of Omaha,
for the company. Mr. Clink occupied
but a few moncnts going over what the
evidence for the defenant company
would show.
Mr. Gering stated in substance
that the plaintiff was a young man
twenty eight years old, born in Penn
sylvania where he resided until about
one year ago when he came west and
entered the employ of the lUirlington,
on or about June 30th lflOS and was
directed to report to Charles Hell
for duty at Plattsmouth. Arriving
here on that day, the young man
was put to work with the switch crew
and had been in the Plattsmouth
yards scarcely twenty four hours
when the accident occurcd which re
sulted in the loss of his leg.
Mr. Gering went into detail as to
the situation in the yards, explaining
to the jury that the trains of the com
pany were operated by setniphores,
which showed different colored signals
each having a meaning, stating that
the setniphores were operated with
levers connecting by wires which
which cxtctitcd along the ground
from one setniphorc to the other. It
was shown to the jury that at this
time and for a few days prior, George
HADRABA
Drug Store.
Poisal had been doing grading in
the yards for the company and the
wires had been removed and the scmi
phorcs were out of use. That all
conductors and men in charge of
trains had orders delivered to them,
telling them 16 approach the Platts
mouth yards with caution, and in
the yards to have their engines and
trains under complete control, that is
to say under such control that the
engineer could stop his train within
a distance covered by his vision.
That on the night of the accident,
July 1st an extra freight was sent
out of Omaha which left Gibson at
11 o'clock. The train was a heavy one
containing 50 cars, 48 of which were
loaded and was run at a high rate of
sliced, making the distance trom
Gibson to Oreapolis in a remarkably
short time reaching OreiipoliH at 11:40
and reaching Plattsmouth 1 1 :47, run
ning the distance of hourly four
miles in seven minutes, or at the rate
of a mile in two minutes. The switching
crew were sent to the west end of the
yards to do some work, and the man
in charge of the crew nor the plain
tiff w ho was fircing on the switch
engine knew of the extra coming
at that hour. When the
switch crew backing toward the north
reached the cross over some eighty
rods north of the station, the extra
comMig nt full speed dashed round
the curve and was upon the sw'tch
crew before any of them were aware
of the dunger.
The phi'nt'ff was n the act of shovc
ng coal Mito h'B engine when the
engineer yelled at him to "look out"
and jumped from the engine. The
engineer and fireman of the extra
jumped and ns Wish started from
h'S posit-on of shoveling coal to the
under of his engine, and attempted
to make his exit the two onguios came
together catching his left foot and
leg between the tender and the en
gine cab, pinning the fireman fast
anel he was tortured there for over
an hour before the engines could be
separated nnd the foeit re lease el. Mr.
Ger'mg stated plaintiff was drawing
f 75.00 per month at the time of the
injury, was a yemng healthful man,
sober and inelustrieus with chance
for prometie n. That the result of
the accielent crippled him for life.
That at his age then, 1 is expectancy
of life was thirty five veais. That
he expected the jury to find a verdict
to.lc e'ommeiisurative with the elam
nge. Mr. Clark made? a brief (statement of
the ele fcnehint's siele of the case and
stated that in m st of the ele tails there
would be little e-onfiet ii U e evidence.
Put that he expect eel to prove that
plaintiff had been infouneil that the
part of the yarils where tlcy were
operating at the time of the acci
elent was the most elangcrous in the
ynrels. That the question of neg
ligence, if there was any was one for
the jury to eletermine unelcr the in
struetions of the court and that if
negligence was found then the matter
eif the damage would be a matter for
the jury to settle.
The jury empani leel to try the case
is rompnseel of the following gentlemen
Charles Jae-jman, John Peigard, Wm.
Kunz, Geo. Veiegal, Wm. Creiss, Julia
Schoerinan, John Dourngo, Crede
llarrs, II. F. Ktopp, John Frolick,
Emerson Dowh'r nnd W. E. Dull.
The jury were taken this morning
to view the yards at the place the
accident occurred. C. S. Johnson
being the witness on the stand at the
time the visit was orelereel, accompan
ied the jury with a plat of the yards.