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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1901)
i,iiiiiiiiiiriiariiiii)ii A l z (." S i JU .' Bfl to .miik i.i:it in nmursr. Woman's vaunted superior Intcllec tiiul itttuliunuiitfl over her less fortu nuto fellow ninn am seldom questioned. Pre-eminent the fair mx has over ruled over the hearts and minds, and many other things. Hut to the mightiest thcio sometimes comes an obstuele which defies the moat Ingenious to sur mount. Woman's stumbling block has nlwnjB been a haw ball game. Of this one man became convinced laHt scu Bnn. Hut Instead of one, ho was ac companied by three fair friends. On nil league grounds there Ib a score board, on which arc painted In Blowing figures of whlto thu number of runs made In each Inning. Ono of the tri umvirate of f.ilr ones clnlmed to be fully conversant with the art of koep ItiB score, and after the home club had mndo runs In this fashion, 200. and the vIsltliiB tenm hail chalked up to Its credit the following trillion, 141, symbolic of a score of 2 to 0. she turn ed to her' escort and snld with all the wliiRomeness at her command: "James, what Is the scoro now?" He, who was deeply Interested at that moment In a double play then Rolns on. answered "Six to two." A look of supreme su periority flitted ovor the countonanco of the young womnn as she scathingly said: "And you know baseball? Tho idea! Why, over there on the board It says 200 to HI." and no end of ar Kument would make her change her belief. Her film or Htrlkr Out. Not to be outdone, ono of her com panions, ready with a solution that might be worthy of adoption by some players, said: Why does that man wit down? Ho does not hit tho ball." The hatter had struck out, like the Inimit able Casey, of whom De Wolf Hopper delights to tell, and the modus oper andi of the strike out was accordingly explained. The explanation elicited, "Why they would never do that If they used flat hats. Why don't they try them?" Tho humor of the rcmnrlc promptly convulsed the masculine lover of the game. Pityingly tho third member of -the coterie watched tho exhibition. It was not until n batsman had hit the ball to deop contor Held, where. Just as It seemed to be set for a sail over tho fence, the fielder drew It down from tho skies, mnklng the runnor out, that slie arose indignantly and said as tho crowd, en masse, broke Into a shout: "I call that a downrlsht shame, and would not tolerate it u moment were that man." "Why. what's the matter?" If 1 was asked. 'The Idea! Where Ib tho equality of ItaBu ball. Every oue of those nfhe men out thero Is plnylng ngulnst the ono at the bat. I'm going home." And the party went, much to the relief of him who took the clrls to see a game about which they thought they knew all. ciiiADWicK's sr.Mi oi:nti:nniai Henry Chadwlck, known to all lov ers of the national sport as tho "father of baseball," recently completed his fiOtli year ns n Journalist. Ho Is a na tive of Kngland and Is 7G years of ago. He begun his newspaper career In 1850, and lilw llrst work as a writer on sports began In 1850. The following HENIIY CHADWICK. year ho did his first writing on base hall and he has since, with his pen, been one of tho staunchest suppnrteis of the game. Ho has contributed ar ticles to several of the big metropoli tan dallies and other publications and has also published newspapers devoted to baseball, besides editing a number of handbooks on baseball, cricket, la crosse, skating rowlng.eurllng.etc. The National Leaguo of Professional Haso ball Clubs In 1894 gave evidence of Its appreciation If Mr. Chndwlck's services to the game by electing him an hon orary member, the only time the honor has been conferred on a member of tho press. It afterwatd appointed him to n salaried place In the lengue for .ue, Each' year he edits the Leaguo Guide, the stamlnrd manual of our national Rnme. MU.W.WKKK'K hT.VIt riTCIIF.lt. The subject of this week's sketch, H, J. Howling, bettor known profession ally at Pete Dowllng, Is a native of the Mound City, where ho wns born nbout twenty-four years ago. Like many other clever young players who got their start In Rt. Units, lie has the making of a first class player In him If lie tnkoB proper car' of himself. He started out on his professional enreer with tho Pndticnh club of the Central league, In 1897, and gave such n good account of hlmsolf, that he was drafted by the Louisville, club of the major league. Ho worSonly two of 'the six games he pitched for tho latter after ho Joined Its team, late In the season of 1897. He was fanned to the Mil p waukee club, of tho Western League, early In .898 but was later recalled I by , the Louisville management and finish- , ( the season with the hitter's team. He participated In thirty-live cham pionship games (with Louisville In 1898, and had only a .1182 per cent of victories. His best pitching perform- anco In any one game was In allowing , ino neavy hitting .n.indc.pn.n .earn KiSh "r ,i mii ., , mi, r Pitching for tho Milwaukee club o the American last season he won a fourteen Inning game from Chicago j by I to 0, allowing 'the losers only sev en safe hits. Ho also won two gaiues of twelve Innings each and two of ten , Innings, and lost one of ten Innings. . His best pitching performance was ' against Cleveland, July 28. tit Mil-1 watikee, when he shut tho Ohioans out ' without a run, and prevented them ' from milking a solitary safe hit. Ho I held Chicago and Detroit each down to four safe hits to a game, and UuITalo, I Indlnnanolis and Detroit each to five safe hits. He gave ninety-eight men UAUUY J. HOWLING, their base on balls, hit nineteen other batsmen with pitched balls, made live t wild pitches and struck out one nun- and other American Jockeys who swept died and four men, Three times he the board in tho lOngllsh races. John made three safe bits to a game, oue in- ny is but 1 1 years old and Indulges In eluding a triple and a double bagger. J all the pastimes of a youngster of his Once ho Mrurk out eight men in one age. After winning a race worth away game and three times he struck out up In the tllotib-.iuds and for which he seven. i probably received a sum that would be ! a year's salary for many men of com- mik kami'1.i:s of jiiMNMisN. foitable means, It was not an unusual Several years ago when the Pitts- ' '" the past season to see him play burgs had tho reputation all over the ' "mirbles In tho paddock along circuit for not being the fairest I'xpon- ' with other boys of his own age. Last ents of tho game of baseball as It was y-'r tho Itelff brothers cleared nliout written, they turned ninny a trick 1 away from the green diamond that never was brought home to any par- tleular player, nor oven was punished, ( says "Taggarts' Times." One of the members of that old aggregation con fessed that umpires were the purlieu- ' lar prey of the old crowd umpires who had not given the team what It thought was coming to it. "One way of getting even with the umpires that did not please us was most amusing," snld this pluyer. "Umpires, you know, leave tholr uniforms In a diesslng room at the park when they are otllcl- atlng In a city. Well, when an um I pile whom we disliked came along we would get some strong liniment nnd pour It In those portions of the uni form that would be most likely to be 1 rubbed when the umpire was In ac-1 tiou. When the liniment got in Its ' work by being warmed up the umpire i was the picture of misery that we ' players enjoyed Immensely. It was our revenge. Tho greatest sutteier 1 ever saw from this treatment was the late Jack McQuahl, We put liniment In his trousers and his shirt one day ' with the thermometer at 100 degrees, Say, Turkish dancers could not dupll- ' cute his performance when the llul-1 ment got to work. Players of today j have reformed, and such mean tricks aro no longer resorted to." i CAUfiHT on tiik fi.y. It Is quite probable that John King of St. Louis, will have an Interest in Lennon's St. Paul team. It Is general- ly known that Mr. King has been made an offer by tho St. Paul mnguate nnd King Is now considering the piopord tton. Hilly Lauder, who foisook the Phila delphia club a year ago on account or Roach and Hogers treating him none to well anent salary, Is reported to be tiring of selling Jewelry and yearns for the excitement of the ball fluid once again. Architects are preparing plans for a now gtandstand for the Cincinnati base ball paik. The now stands and bleachers. It Is said, will have u seat- Ing capacity of fully ir.,000 people, They will bo built largely of Iron, utul mnde as nearly lire proof as possible. The cost will be about S20.000. Tom Smith, who pitched for the lxnilsvlllcs sonic seasons ago, has been appointed a membor of the Uoston po lice force and will wjrtitch base ball In the future. It wu Smith who was re sponsible for Hilly Nosh's dropping out ot the giime, u pitched ball deliver ed by Smith laylnnt Nash low during 11 game between the Phillies nnd the Colonels nnd practically putting hi m out. of the busluesi. HAN I'KANCISCO OAINH. Fighting Is to be revived In San Francisco and tho man who Is expected to put the gamo on Us feet on the Pa cific coast, whom It has fallen Into dis repute on all sides, is Jim Kennedy, the well-known New York sporting man. The better class of sporting men on the Pacific coast came to the con- - R & Jm Kcnnc(, eed- Kcnncdy to resurrect It again and mako it as pop ular and profitable nf. In earlier days, when Frisco was tho mecca of lighter's flu tars.ljl f nt, ttiilu wtttuitn tnrl it V; """' """'-' "'.".. .'.: --" " TV - - - ,Hh ,,fcl " IIH wllh m. flelectcil (,"!"-l"y While, whose name stands for I n f . lugs. It Is Kennedy's intention to bring together all the big heavy weights. JefTrles, Corbet'. Uuhlln and Maher huya nlready l)n named r.s probably principals In the proposed (H-tle battles. IS M'L'UV A COWAlttt? If McCoy wants to square hlmseir with tho sporting public he can do bo In no better way than by getting on a mntcli with the "colored demon," Joe waicott. wno seems reaoy 10 meei any of the big fellows. Joe's managor, Tom O'llourke, once posted $5,000 to bind a match with McCoy, but the latter drew the color line. Coming ! to cases, did McCoy ever beat any 1 body In his life that was of couse 1 qucnee, barring Tommy Hyan, Peter I Maher and poor old Dan Croedon? asks a sporting authority. Didn't 1 Uynn give the Kid the hottest kind of a "go" at Chicago last winter? Was It not Jack Homier, fat and slow, who made the Kid blink last year? McCoy says that Corbett beat him on the lev ; el, and according to form this would 1 seem to be tho case. The Kid has j been overrated and cleverly boomed. I When It Is considered how little he has accomplished In the prize ring, his prominence in pugilism Is aston ishing. ui:iri-H ItIC WINNINGS. The turf wonder of the nge Is little Johnny Itelff, who recently returned from England with his brother Lester, '"""" ieeii uiem. im- ymr u i i'tlnintcil that In fees and salary their JOHNNY IlEIFF. income will reach the stupendmu Mini of $200,000 Johnny Ilelff's home Is In Kokorao. Iud.. nnd It Is there he and his hroti.or will spend some ttmo with their pa rents, for whom they have purchased a fine residence before returning to Europe. They nrc both good boys, with none of the usual toughness of youths ' who live about lm race cc.irses. J VIKWS OF A VKTKHAN. .. um ()ne wjj i,H always advocated t,,at llrafting was a good thing for tho 1 ,,m)r iPnKUCH and a better thing still fo. tm. ,,iuyp,.H, it has kept the game jV(, nmj ilPiPod many a poor fellow ... 1)f a uiui iU)i ns well as given the player a chance for the big money," says A. C. Anson. "Successful minor leagues are very rare. You will find them continually dropping cities, and for the purpose of Jollying along tho game in new fields plausible stories are invented and told with a sanieuess that, Indicates their purpose. Thp Nationul ABieement and the league magnates 'ro used as tho butt to drive the new I ' people Into the game or keep the old ' nes In line. Take the American , League for example. After getting the j l'li' rulsutl to l,ooo or a player they sk fo'' ll two-year limit before a pluy- er man be drafted. Hocoivlng about all the concessions that could .be ex pected, they would llko to rise to tho Importance of a first class league by j Ignoring all the base ball laws and favors shown." I'ANFY SHOT lUI.I.IAKDI.ST. New York has a wonderful 14-ymr-old girl bllliardlst who can make fancy shots with tho cue that cannot be du plicated by tho best bllliardl3ts In the I country. This billiard phenomenon is Miss May Knarlus. whoso f.ither Is well known ns a fancy billlurillst. and she Is a beautiful young lady. In t re cent trial Miss Knnrhis made Maurice Daly look like u novice. 3omo of her shots he could only nppro.fh, no mat ter how often he tried, and in on hjrl zor.tnl .ieritillne draw (tivolvn? the whole length of the long rill he imiiM make tho cue ball take cushion b.n twice, while slu- could muk the ball twist In and out three times, as If she had massaed 1L Miss Kaarlus has much the same stroke that was a fea ture of the professional Sexton's play. Llko him hhe throws her arm and .shoulder Into the blow and when the shot demands great power her whole ,iCSi MISS MAY KAAULIS. body. She has not taken to match play, but is now being coached In the art. tiii: M:issoit riiNcn. There Is a new blow In pugilism, and it Is called the "scissors punch." Its originator Is Gus Uuhlln and he Is going to use it on Jeffries, piovldlng he meets him In the ring. "Kid" Mc Coy's "corkscrew punfh" was thor oughly exploited that many persons really believed that thero was such a blow. Frequently fighters In training say that they have Invented new blows, and they go Into details about them, too. Hut Kitzsimnions exploded the whole business last summer when he said that inventing new blows was all a fake. NI'OKTJNO M)li:S. Hummer now holds tho record for six furlongs over n circular track. Ho stepped tho distance at Klnloch Park last October In 1:V- lint, with 80 pounds up. The previous record was l:12Vi. held Jointly by O'Connell, Flora Louise and Mnry Black. Tommy Hyan of Syracuse has re- fcliftfr. LsrLrw'mMM jj:vs -r sb. pented of his action In denouncing the 1 tractor, has been building an aqueduct purse offered by the National Sporting across Lost Kivnr, and tins half fal club of London for a battle between ,.,i in f0ve with a sweet little wild himself and Charley McKeever or flower. Oia. who lives alone with her Philadelphia as being very small and grandmother near the scene of his la ha decided to accept. Hyan Is a , bors. Hut Gladys Mlddelton, the lm shrewd matchmuker and always takes 1 perlous daughter of his partner, has good care of his own interests. determined to win him for herself, nnd Maxwell W. Long carried on the In- with this end In view has Induced her dividual nthletlc honors of the year 1900. Long wears the colors of the New York Athletic club and Is a prod uct of Long Island. For all distances from 300 yards up to and including 440 yards Long has established all the j forward her efforts are all to ruin and records. Long defeated the English disgrace Ora. Hob himself is not with ehamplon at that distance and made out enemies, one Hill Loucks. who has the world's record In the 400-meter been In love with Ora, resenting hit run at Paris. terly the Interference of n "city fel McCoy announces his willingness to lor" In his love affairs, and becoming light Jeffries, Corbett, Uuhlln or Shark- , a confederate of Gladys for the pur ey, but up to the present writing each ' pose of breaking off the match. Ho and everyone of the quartet has side- ' goes even further, nnd whence she Is stepped his defl. giving as tholr listen- rescued in the nick of time. Old Mld- sllilo reason that there would be no money, even for the winner. In a con test with him, on account of the sup position that his contest with Corbett was a fake. Hen Tiepel died in the Insane asylum at Lakeland, Ky., the other day. For years he was a noted figure In the trap s.iootlng world, having won many chnmplonshlp prizes and competed ngulnst the best shots of the day. Ho was also the Inventor of the "Tiepel arm" for throwing tho old clay pig eons, ns well as other Improvements on traps. Tiepel was about 40 years old. and was taken to the Insane asylum on Dec, 18, He was a participant in the Grand American Handicnp In 1899. One of the best performances of 1900 was Charentus' mile and a quarter at 1 Empire City, in 2:04. with lOti up. ' Charentus Is a Plx-year-old. The old ' record was 2:04'4. held by Algol and 1 Dav,, Tenney. Two new records were established at New Orleans last Feb ruary. Teutons ran two miles and n 1 sixteenth In 3:rfi. The horse is a four-year-old. and carried 94 pounds. Kid Hroad's manager says that he had received an, offer of $.1,00(1 to meet ' MrGovern at San Francisco during the first week of February. In 1891 John ' MrGrnw played short stop on the Odar Haplds (la.) team. He was under 20, very boyish, quick ne a flush, but very errutlc in Ills work. Harnle succeeded In getting him, but his work was too uncertain, nnd Harnle benched him and wanted to le leae him, but Von der Hoist rather liked "Mae's" dash and nerve and re fused to nllow It. He wanted Hanlon to look him over. Hanlon looked him over, tiled him at second, third nnd short nnd outfield. Then he placed him on third In the regular team and kept him there, saying from the very first" that he would be a great ball player sonle day. OX l dlcton Kg""" 1 " " jriM ii'iii -1 Illi: CIIAI'I'IKS MOI'ltN iikic Mabel Oilman, the youin; American lomedlenne recently engaged In Lon don, has signed a contract with Sire Hrou. of New York to sine the title role In n new musical comedy which will open at the New York Casino Feb. 1. Miss Oilman will receive a salary of $500. Mabel Oilman's success while In Lon don has been phenomenal. She has steadily risen until she commanded the laigest salary paid for light operatic and musical work. She is one of tho iii'iitllnot irlrlu (in tho utncrii mill )um liron I.m,,pnn1v nnn.il.ir with tho glided youth. She has diamonds ga lore, rivaling those of Edna May, and gowns that are dreams of loveliness. ,S- MAHEL OILMAN. Her departure from London causes many heartaches in select club cir cles. TIIK LOST ItlVIHl. Joseph Arthur's latest play, "Lest Itlver," depicts in dramatic form the life of the quaint natives of Soutlicin Indiana, along the curious Lost Hlvcr, and by contrast with the fashionable visitors to tho springs at West Uadtn. Hob Hlesslng, a young Now York eon hi other, nicknamed "Huster," to bring her to West Baden. Her scorn for tho little country beauty Is surpassed by her rage when she finds In her a rivnl for the affections of Uob, nnd hence GLADYS IN As Portrayed by M. A; ' ML M WSm; JF' ml Ilk 'iv 1 Wmkwt MfWSSmar Wok irrives with the money to pay off tho strikers, and discovers that Ora Is his long-lost daughter by n former marriage. Hob and Ora aro made happy, and Gladys learns thattf "pride goeth beforo a fall." "IAIOI.ON'S" roWKHITf. hckm:n. When one comes to tho task of class ifying "L'Alglon," not n Uttlo dlillculty Ib experienced. No general head will cover tho Rostand piece It Is so or iginal nnd so many sided. It i's politi cal, romantic, poetic, emotional, and tragic. Looked at from n literary point of view. It Is undoubtedly a classic; it Is academic In Its soliloquies, Its asides, nnd Its long speeches, and yet in form it Is distinctly modern. It stands alone, a member of no school, and far ubov the work of any contemporary drama tist. There are two great, scenes in "L'Alglon." The first is n midnight Intervlow between tho ley, Impene trable shrewd, and cuuuing Motter- 'ch and tllO yOUIlg eagle. The chan cellor scornfully ridicules the hoy's puny passion and Immature ambition, and, taking him before a mirror, taunts him with his Hapsburg' features and his Hapsburg mind. On a table near by rests tho plain little chapcau that Napoleon wore at Austerlltz. Pointing to It. Metternlch exclaims: "You have your father's hat, but not his head," This savage truth Is really the keynotf of the play. It Is boyish ambition un supported by enegry or enterprise. Tho second scene tnkes place on the bat- ! tlefleld of Wngram. where, after tho departure of, the Austrian police, the little Eaglet Is left alone with the old grenadier who had arranged his flight from Schoenhrunn nnd hail stabbed himself to escape capture. Listening to the moaiut of his dying companions, the Eaglet hears the echoes of the great fight that opened his fathei's way to Vienna. He hears the gallop of the charging of the cavalry, the distant thunder of Murmont's gnus, and the cheering of the army of Italy as Mac donuld led his veterans to the attack, and, over and above all, he hears tha shrieks and groans of the wounded and lylng. Tho dead grenadier at his feet beconirs to him the revolting embodi ment of tho nwful price paid for em pire, nnd In his agony he offers him self as an oxplntlon for the blood shed In his father's cause. A UMOI K ItHAMA. A unique -one-act drama by Israel Zangwlll, entitled ' The Moment ot Death," Is being presented for the ttrft. time on any stage. The time of this unlquo play Is ono moment that moment at which, It i.s said, the dying person reviews In an Instnnt the whole of his or her past life; tho period coverted is u quarter of a century, nnd the scenes aro laid In Austrnlia and London; nevertheless tho action occupies only half an hour. In it Mrs. LeMoyne proves her versatil ity and emotional power by playing the elderly and sedate Duchess or Maiden one minute, and the fnlr but faithless Margery, the gold-seeker's wife, the next. A New Thnrapentlo Agent. The following Is a true story: A doctor visited an elderly lady pufferlns: from some chest trouble. In the exam ination of her chest ho percussed In tho ordlnnry way with a plexlmeter. Fan cy his surprise when he got a message a few days later to come at once and bring the "thumper" which had done her a power of good tho last day he used it! "LOST HIVEU." Eugenie Thais Lnwton. V SK -.,