THE OMAHA DAILY 11EE: SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1902.
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! BASE BALL COSSIP OF WEEK
Omaha Roosts on Top Rail in Western
League Race.
' NICE WORK BY ROURKES ON LONG TRIP
Istr Per Cent of Gimn Flared Wo
by th Team la Despite Of
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Tat do you think of that?
Earn old team, sams old place In tba
Standing table. And the borne knocker,
of which peculiar genua of bate ball crank
Omaha haa a. lovely bunch, have -sent their
little , hammers 'lo the shops to get new'
tips. '. Back la the lead again after taking
Kansas City's duet for more than a month,
after running third to Denver's second for
a few days, and by steady, honest con
sistent playing. Robbed by Incompetent
umpires, roaated by Incompetent writers
'and battered by the most vindictive gang of
borne roasters that ever maligned a team,
the Rourke family baa gone forward with
its work to a conscientious, careful man
;aer that baa delighted Ita ardent supporters.
.'When the team left Omaha It was after the
hardest posalble run of luck. Five suc
cessive defeats on the home grounds had
pulled It down and the first game away
'from home was lost, making Denver within
easy reach of second place. Three defeat
'at Denver did the trick and then three at
Colorado Springs seemed to clinch the mat
ter. But the turn came after the team
bad lost twelve out of fifteen games. On
the trip which ended Friday evening at
Kansas City the Omahas played twenty
three games, winning thirteen, losing nine
and one was tied. That Is a good enough
record for anyone. It Is over 59 per cent
and Is mighty close to championship form.
The gait Is the best possible answer to the
croakers who raised that Joyful chorus of
VI told you so" when the team was losing.
It looked so easy, then, to aee history re
peating Itself that many bets were made
that Omaha would not be better than fourth
oa Its return. It Is needless, perhaps, to
sy that none of these bets went begging
for takers. And hers the team Is at home
again In first place, with a series of
eighteen games on the home grounds. It
will be mighty queer it Omaha doesn't
lead the league race for a few days, at any
rata.
Denver has been doing the slide ant with
the greatest vigor and persistency of any.
It will ba something to wonder at if the
Grizzlies, which left home In second place
i for a short trip through the east, get home
any better than fifth. Milwaukee has al
, ready pasaed Denver and holds third place,
'while St. Joe la In fifth and Is apparently
the only reaaon that will prevent Denver
from falling- out of the first division bunch
) expedition. When fit. Joe started Its little
' runaway by taking four straight from
Omaha and three out of four from Kansas
City. The Bee remarked that the pace was.
a trifle fast for the McKlbben crowd,
which, on public form at least, had ao
right to be turning off quarters at the rate
they were. The soundness of that judg
ment has been proven by the performance
of the Saints lately. Milwaukee haa gotten
together a good .team and Is playing first
rata ball. Moreover, the people of Schllts
vllle are slowly swinging around to Duffy,
and bis gate receipts are Increasing cor
respondlngly. Des Moines is out of last
place now and la putting up a gams, that
ousht to send It still . higher up In- the
table.-- Peoria has the booby prize for the
present," but Colorado Springs Is a bidder
for the place. Bill Bverltt Is hustling for
: players,' though, and may get his team
In better condition. His bunch never did
'look fast, though, and gives uo sign of re
covery.
Just bow steadily consistent the game
presented by the Omahateam Is can be
told better by the figures given herewitn:
BATTING AVERAGES.
Last
A B. R. II. Ave. -Week.
139
Stone
Stewart
Graham
Dolan .,
Qnnlns ,
Carter
Calhoun) .....
Sondlng
Illckey
Thomas
Owen
S.lloway
Brown
.2.U
.. Kl
..217
..212
..233
..1M
..218
..220
.. 90 '
.. 63
.. 41
.. 55
21 . 53 . 39 .!
83 7' .2S ' .27
10 ?S .24 .291
33 81 .21 .27J
39 61 .2'.l .its
49 6 .257 .?79
2H 47 .212 .2-13
21 61 .231 .216
2S 47 .213 .214
10 Id .177 .173
6 U .174 .153
8 6 .146 .166
t 8 .00) .102
FIELDING AVERAGES.
Tnrt
P.O. A. E. Tot. Av. W'k.
..4 64 1 fc .8S3 .979
.651 11 tfl .11 .91
.322 77 404 .975 .978
.120 7 4 131 .W9 .
- 87 4 t 74 . .9M .9.1
,. t 69 i 70 .957 .9S7
,.163 193 19 .947 9 13
,. 15 63 4 71 .941 .0W
.. BS 8 8 97 Am A11
.. 8 23 S 130 .3' .92
,. 8 4 6 2 .9 3 .
,.130 .163 88 S28 ' .! .S9J
,. 73 116 2 218 .668 .74
Alio way .
Calhoun ,
Bonding ,
Thomas ,
Btone
Brown ..
Stewart
Draham
Carter
Oenlns ..
Owen ...
&olan ...
lokey .
One of tbs really amusing features of the
race Is the cheerful consistency with which
tba Denver faithful refuse to see any other
team In the league than Kansas City. "If
Kansas City Is out of the way Denver will
win It" Is the contlnusl cry or tbs Psckard
contingent. To a man up a tree just now,
barring Omaha and Kansas City, there are
two other teams in ths league that will
beat Denver out unless the makeup of ths
Grizzlies is greatly changed. They ars
Milwaukee and Des Moines. Predictions,
unsafe at any time, are especially so st
this half way stage of ths rsce. If pub
lic form la to be taken aa a basis for
calculation Omaha ought to be a cinch, for
It has won a majority .of games plsyed
from every team but Denver. This performance-under
all known forma of making
defce. gives Omaha first In ths raes. Kan
sas City under the Sam rule Is entitled
to second and the. other places are open.
Just What changes the second half of the
rsce inay bring about only time can tell.
It Isn't too fats to turn ths standing upside
down,' for none of the teams ars In an abso
lutely hopeless hole. -
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The league meeting at St. Joseph wss
productive of nothing of real Importance.
The magnates resolved on what most peo
ple bad already admitted, that the league
will live through the season. Official action
was taken to put on the blacklist three or
four playera who jumped from the Western
association Into the Hlckey fold. "Wizard"
Herman is Included In this bunch. Tbs
magnates also derided that players will
have to pay their own Ones hereafter. This
move was taken In the interest of better
discipline. It doesn't look good to an
outsider, for any manager who haa mads
a practice of paying the fines Imposed on
unruly members will easily find a way to
continue. It Is alleged that overtures from
the Hlckey Ites looking to a peace agree
ment were received, but Just why such
action should have been taken lan't clear.
Neither side has anything to gain by mak
ing peace now. It muat be a fight to the
finish, and the beaten party will have to
get out of ths other's territory.
In this connection It Is good to see how
George Tebeau's Judgment Is backed by
events. He abandoned Kansaa City, giv
ing Dale Oear and his Wisconsin col
leagues all the results of his season's la
bors there, including the certainty of a
fight, and went to Louisville with noth
ing. He leased grounds? erected a base
11 plant and scraped together a team
which Is not only making a procession of
the American association pennant race,
but Is drawing more Kentuckians to ball
games than have turned out since ths
Colonels won tbs championship of ths old
American association twenty years ago.
Tebeau Is the only magnate In the bunch
who is making any money. Not one of
the other towns Is drawing psylng at
tendance, Columbus having dropped oft
when the team took Its slump. If the
league should go to pieces sow, the wreck
would find Tobeau on top with a nice lit
tie sum of money to the good, and with
the nucleus of a good ball team ready to
start another league nett season. It
Isn't all luck In Tebeau's case. He Is
one of the brainiest men in base ball today,
and calling him a pirate doesn't change
thla fact.
Joe Qulnn got home after a winning trip
with a kick at the umpires. Maybs tbess
much abused individuals are not so fsr
wrong after all. Winners and losers allks
grumble at the decisions, which leads to
the opinion that the umpire muat be right
at least halt of the time.
plaint and that was John Rsynor, who pro
tested the last best In ths 1:18 trot, ssld
to the secretary before ba left: "Thomas,
I cheerfully withdraw my protest and you
can pay the money as the Judge decided, for
t see you fellows ars treating everyone
alike. I am going to ba sure and taks In
Omaha again next year." Although ths
Millard Hotel stake for 1 55 pacers waa not
decided. It being on Friday's program, ths
association lived up to ths rules and sot
only paid back the entrance' fee of $28 to
each starter, but gave tbem the same
amount additional. This Is strictly accord
ing to a rule that some associations try to
get around.
Charles H. Oelo, the best known horse
writer In ths entire west,' wss 'present' both
dsys of ths meeting. The result of bis
visit Is a strong article. In the rurrsnt
Horse Review, predicting a bright future for
Omaba race goers. The friends of ths as
sociation Will bs glad to know that In spits
of ths rain tbs club will corns oat about
)1C ahead. It was the hope of ths men
Interested to make enough to entirely
overhaul the grounds. From present Indi
cations they will do It anyway. As the
horsemen gathered around the secretary,
Al Thomas, to wish him goodbye and good
luck, for bs Is a brother trainer, he said
to tbem: "Gentlemen, If we can get a
ten years' lesss on these grounds we ars
going to have a five or six day: meeting
next year the week following the Denver
meeting. If we get the lease the track
will be almost entirely rebuilt. By next
spring aleo the barns and sheds now
standing will bs almost entirely rebuilt.
Some of them will be torn down alto
gether. When you come again next spring
you will not know the place."
LOCAL HORSE NEWS OF WEEK
gome Aftermath of tba Race Meet
..that Was Rained Oat on
Third' Day.
Since yesterday evening the Keystone
farm has presented a lonesome appearance,
A special Arms palace horse car, new from
the shops In Chicago, was sidetracked on
the farm switch snd a carload of almost
sixteen trotters was loaded for Des
Moines. Besides the aged horses, such as
George Castle, 2:1H4; Bachelor Maid,
2:25tt; The Merchant, The Medium. Ths
Orphan, Confidence, etc., were the 8-year-olds,
The Critic, The Clerk, Conscience and
Consider, and two yearlings. Tbs first stop Is
Des Moines, where the races commence
July 15. From Des Moines the car will go
the next week to Freeport, 111., then Jollet
and Oalesburg, 111. From the latter point
the horses will go through the Grand cir
cuit, eastward, striking Terrs Haute, Ind.,
Cincinnati, O., and finally Hartford, Conn
Turning westward ths Keystons string will
make a long ship, to Lexington, Ky., and
will end tba season at the big Memphis,
Tenn., meet. At Lexington Ths Crttlo will
meet the crack 1-year-olds of. ths year In
the rich claaslo event, ths Kentucky Fu
turlty.
. The Omaha management Is receiving
great encouragement through the boras
press for ths clean, up-to-date meeting Juat
given In Omaha. Although, on account of
rain, only two days' racing could bs given
those two days showed horsemen that the
meeting was bslng conducted in a fair,
buslness-llks wsy. The only horseman who
would have ths slightest ground for com
TRACK MEET AT Y. M. C.A.PARK
Dlreetor Barnes Announce the
ransjements for Amateur
Athletic Contest.
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The fourth annual athletic carnival, un
der the auspices of the Omsba Young Men's
Christian association, will bs held Satur
day, July 19, st ths Ames Avenue
park, under sanction of ths Athletto League
of North America, and will be open to any
registered amateur. Entry fee will bs 23
cents for one event and 10 cents for each
succeeding event. Entries close Wednes
day, July 17, at noon. All entries and com
munications should be addressed to F. B.
Barnes, Y. M. C. A., Omsba. Handicaps
will bs published July 18.
The events ars: 100-yard dash handicap;
220-yard dash, handicap; 440-yard dash,
handicap; one mile run, handicap; running
high jump, handicap; pole vault, handicap;
running broad Jump; twelve-pound hammer
throw, handicap.
Special events: EO-yard dash for boys
under 12, scratch; 100-yard dash for boys
under 18, scratch; ons mile relay race (four
men per team), five to enter, four to com
pete; pursuit race (between two teams
from 'Cross Country club); half mile relay
race for boys under 12 years (four boys In
each team, each running 220 yarda); tennta
tournament (members only); boys' tennis
tournament (members only); baas ball
time.
Suitably lettered medals will be awarded
for first snd second places. Relay races
only ons medal to each member of winning
team.
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Slight Injuries often disable a man and
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"Havs you anything to sayt" tenderly
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this terrible blow to my self-respect."
He breathed now In a labored manner.
and they bent lower to hear his story di
vulged.
"Oh!" walfed ths unfortunate; "to think
to think that I have smashed all ths
anti-speed laws la Christendom against au
tomobiles, and then and then to be run
over by an les wagon I"
It was too much, and be gave up ths
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Her Natural Inference.
Brooklyn Eagle: He was endeavoring to
show bis wisdom by a glimpse Into the
future. Reasoning from existing condl
tlons, be was satisfied bs knew what was to
corns, but It wss all very tiresome.
"I can see the writing on ths wall," bs
asserted.
She hsd not been psylng very close at
tentlon, but this roused her.
"Willis," sbs ssld, turning sharply to
her little son, "you have besn playing with
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FISH STORIES TOLD AS TRUE
Omaha Men Oentribut to Writtsn EUtory
of Bd and .
INTERESTING BUNCH OF NARRATIVES
da. Maatrer Tells oC His Flshlasr
DotT and Tom Brenaaa of
Hie Trip t a Wla
eoasla Lake.
A fish storyt Now, there's an expression
s eomuion sa ' any phras that can be
Imagined, yet bow many people can tell a
good one 7 Just go out and spend a half a
day asking yonr friends who are well known
to be ardent fishermen for fish stories, and
note your success. It Is stsrtllng to find
bow few fishermen can tell a fish story.
A good fish story T Let me sse. Well,
1'vs fished and fished und spent dsys snd
weeks about fishing camps and In parties of
that' kind, but I cannot seem to recall any
fish atory Juet now.".
That's a good sample of the. answers you
get, snd It mesns a world of Insistence and
persistent tickling of all tbs corners of
an angler's memory before you can entice
ao much ss a single anecdote, true or false.
And It Is not because the people aren't
shlng. Omsha fishermen havs never angled
more madly than during the month of. June,
despite the fact that the weather bas been
more unfavorable for that sport thsn In
cy previous summer for ysars past. Twen
ty-Are rainy days out of the thirty did not
ufflce to check the exodus to the vsrlous
fishing grounds known to local sportemen,
nor did the steady hover of clouds during
the remaining" small portion of the month
dampen' ths enthusiasm of the wlelders of
line and rod. It would seem that the rainy
pell even heightened the fishing fever, and
when Its rsrlty Is considered this csn be
understood. The reel rollers probably looked
at the matter philosophically and mads up
their minds thst the rain assured them of
water to fish In at least, so they went at
the game with good will,, rejoicing at ths
cool, weather, and adding-only waterproofs
nd possibly rubber helmets to their outfits
W.th which to guard against ths discom
forts of a drizzle or a downpour. In any
event, from whatever cause, it la certain
that a horde of Omahans have dons their
little stunt at casting or trolling or a till -fishing
ths last month, and though the luck
bas been on the whole rather bad this has
not dampened their ardor sufficiently to pre
vent their returning In good spirits.' But,
once again, ask these people for a good flsh
atory and they stand mute, helpless.
A fish story, t'mmmrnmm. Well, say.
ask me again tomorrow, won't youT I ought
certainly to know some, but I'm at a loss
to remember one just now.'! This was the
wsy" Judge Munger, the veteran of the
northern lakes, met the proposition. But he
had ene the next day, all right, and here
It Is:
"Now, I'm about to tell you a fish story
that will be the best you ever heard," said
the Judge, "Not especially because of its
unusual features, although It bas them. No.
ths greet merit of this story lies In the fact
Of its absolute truth. The tale Is remark
able. Ths incident did not even occur on
a fishing trip, strictly speaking, but there
are plenty of fish In It.
"The gist of the story Is that I one
owned a dog that caught fish with ease and
avidity. You needn't take my word for it
In my desk I havs a stat.ment to that effect.
detailed In every particular of the catching.
and signed by three witnesses snd sworn to
before a notary, I'll show It to you.
This dog was not rsised for a fishing
dog. and I neve knew k waa a fisherman
till he had attained, a considerable age.
Dash waa born and bred a hunter, In fact.
and as such I. had always. used him. His
first fishing -experience resulted from a
bunting trip, too.. . It was in ths fall of 1895
and I was after ducks out In Dodge county
near Robert Patrick's farm,' with Fried of
Fremont and some others. I was using
Dash to retrieve that day, for be was al
ways a fine water dog, although be wss an
Irish setter. We had worked tip along past
ths lake near Patrick's farm to the far end
and had been unable te land any ducks. 80
at tha end we took a shot or so at soma
snips and went over to pick up a few that
fell. , In doing this we came across an fso
lated pond, knee deep and clear, that bad
evidently - been formed during high water,
when It was a part of the lake, and had
been separated by dry weather later.
"This pond wss simply alive with bsss
and pike. It looked like the pools at the
fish hatcheries, the fish were so thick in
there. They were big, too, and without a
word we Jumped In that pond and went
after the fleh. We bad the water riled up
shortly, but despite that we scooped out
the big fellows In armfuls, "tossing them
snto ths bank. .
"Meanwhile Dash had been looking on
and suddenly be splashed Into the pond. He
stood there, eyeing the surface of the water
and then a finny back showed near him.
He Just grabbed it and went to shore. After
laying It safely on tha hank he returned.
Ws wsrs dumfeunded, but that beat fish
ing, even by hand, so we left off and Just
watched that dog carry on. He landed fish
after flab tbs sams way, and when be once
got a grip on ons be never let loose till It
was on terra Arms.
"It was a remarkable exhibition. The
dog bad simply mimicked our actions In th
water."
Clerk of United States District Court
Hoyt wss present to bear this tale. "Well,
be vouchsafed, when It was ended, "that
may have been the first tlms a dog sver
caught fish In that manner, but It wasn't
ths first time men ever did by a long shot.
Back In York stste years ago when I was
a kid ws used to do that sams trick In th
Erie csnal. That place was at times
fairly alive with fish, especially at the sea-
Son of the freshets. They would come
rushing down the canal In great swarms
and ws would wade in to meet them. All
we had to do was to stand In the water
facing ths rush snd grab, throwing armful
after armful out on the bank. Of courss
I do not mean to ssy that this occurred
every day, nor thst I sver threw out more
than a ton or so of fish at ons fishing, but
the great profusion of fish In ths canal
wss th best preventive of any poverty or
suffering in thst neighborhood that could
have been had."
"My fish tale will have to be a bard
luck story," ssld R. U Bush, ons of ths
eloverest fin teasers In Omsha, who was
approached last Mondsy. I bava Just
returned from Lake Washington, where
spent eleven days. C. W. Babcock and
fished together during that time, and by
last Saturday nlgbt ws bad landed a good
sited haul, desptts ths unfavorable
weather. We were making our headquar
ter at Pat Eheeaa's plsc, and sach day
as ws finished up w. would ssvs out our
choicest fish and put them with our pile
In a corner of Pat's les house. We were
to start bom Monday morning, so w
completed th pll Bundsy and counted a
beautiful mess of lot big ones, bass and
pike. When w cam In to get tb string
Bundsy morning and stsrt for ths -station
across country tbs whols thing was gcaie.
Ws were mighty sors and could not oxplaln
It at first. Thsn ws remembered that
greet crowd of people bad coma down from
Bt. Paul and Minneapolis for ths ons day's
fishing on Bundsy, and ws decided thst one
of them bad swiped jour string on leaving
Sunday night la order to make a swell
showing wbn he returned boms. Hs cer
talaly waa In snap to soaks tb showing
all right, for is bad-lb -tesult t our
PAPA Ob, what a palnl I bllev I bave a fever In tb heart M8
MAMMA Nonsense, it Isn't your heart. It's your stomach. Every tim you at, tbl bot weather, you oet a sour stom
ach full of bot oases and aclda, and you wll up until your heart hardly baa room to beat If you were cot so obstin
ate, you'd tak my advice and keen your' lnaldes cool by taklocr CA8C ACT Candy Cathartlo every night before going
to bed. Thev work while you sleep and keep you regular In the hottest weather.
best efforts of eleven days to offer as a
day's catch."
"O,' cheer up," said Tom Brennan, who
was standing by. "You ought to be mighty
glad to have had such good sport. You
wers fortunate to have the opportunity of
catching so many fins fish. When you
hear my troubles you'll feel ashamed that
you mentioned yours. I have been to
Shell lake, away up In Wisconsin more
than 600 miles. Now, let me say to you
that after days and days of persistent fish
ing I have come back from that place that
Is touted so big as a fishing field with Just
four fish and only one of those Is mine.
What do you think of that? Ride all
night and all day on ths train to reach
real prize fishing grounds and make that
kind of a haul. But that wasn't the worst
of It. I hsd Insult added to Injury. As
I was on my disconsolate way back a party
Joined the train from Lake Washington,
not half as far away, and one man in It
had 100 fine fish. And he was bringing
that string to Omaha. I felt Inrgs and
important with my little four fish."
"I cannot remember a flsh story proper,"
said Harry Homan when approached, "but
I remember a little Incident which oc
curred on one of our fishing trips which
wss far more interesting to me than many
fishing episodes, both from a sclentlflo and
a personal standpoint. The vslue of the
occurrence Is chiefly In the fact that It
goes to show so plainly how strongly we
are affected by the mere thought that cer
tain things are so, or how easily the mind
can deceive Itself.
"This was some years ago snd we bsd a
party of women with us. The men were
sleeping on ths ground in the open air, on
blankets. The women had a tent. It was
In a southern state and reptiles sbounded.
The women soon found this out, and when
It came time to go to bed they became
frantic with fear, refusing to He down or
even alt down for fear of snakes, tarantulas
an centipedes. We were at' a loss as to
what to do with them, till the guide for
the party came to the rescue with a bappy
thought.
"It Is well known that no varmint will
cross a lariat rope of twisted hair. It Is
rough snd prickly and they refuse to slide
over It. Cowboys always make use of
thla fact and ring their hair lariats around
them when they sleep In the open air.
This guide explained this to the women
snd said be would run bis lariat around ths 1
tent They were contented, but : Insisted
on seeing It done.
;Here came the rub. There wis not a
hair lariat In the camp. We had, however, i
a short bslr rope on the baiter, and the 1
guide played a good bluff with this. He
gave me one end at the front corner of the
tent and he walked paat the entrance with
the other end. It Just reached around the
other corner, and he dropped it there out
of sight of the women, who were watching
through the flap, but be kept right on
walking round. Finally he reached me on
the other side snd told me to tie the ends.
The result was that ths women went to
sleep and rested sounaiy, sais in meir own
minds snd so In reality. There were a
few masculine members of that party, how
ever who lay awake nearly all night, so as
to be sure and get that rope away before
the women bad a chance to discover the
hoax In the morning, ss ws all knew It
wasn't safs for us to play on their credulity
and let them find it out."
"That reminds me of the way some of ths
mors mischievous ones in our crowd would
scars the other sick when I was a young
man," said Robert Patrick. "We had a
fine fishing place about twenty miles from
home and a party of us used to drive over
In a big wagon, with provisions and cook
ing utensils, and stsy a few days. Ws
always slept In the open air, and that was
our chancs for fun at ths expense of ths
sleepier ones. The fsvorlte trick was to
wait till some serlous-mlndsd fellow fell
fast asleep and then to shovs ths wsgon
close up to bis bed. Then we would grsb
ths trace chains on the doubletree and
rattle them like mad, yelling all the time.
Whoa, there!' The effect was Indescrib
ably funny. Ths noise would wake the
sleeper suddenly and the words, ths sight
of the wagon right over him and ths
rattling, which sounded Just as the chains
sound when the team la at a loose gallop,
would make blm sure that the team was
running away and was right on top of blm.
No matter how often It waa repeated, ths
result wss always a cinch.- The victim
never failed to go straight up In th air,
frightened to our hearts' content."
"I think I hsve won mors bets as a result
of one lone fishing trip thsn In any other
way," said Harry Townsend, "and I still
stand to win more any tlms, for I always
havs the means with me. All I do Is to bet
that I one saw a frog with a leg fourteen
Inches and a half long and I Invariably
win. I'll bet you th cigars on that sams
proposition right now. You don't want It?
Well, you're wise, for I always carry ths
bones of that leg with me. Here they ar.
from toe to top, and they will measure
what I say." And Harry fingered th
treasure tenderly as bs replaced It In th
envelope in which It waa carried. Tb
bone was as big as a leadpencll In tb
heavier part of the leg.
"I got that In 1838," continued Harry
"My brother and myself wers fishing and
hunting along Silver creek. In Mitchell
county, west Texas, In what they called tbs
great American desert. The first night
there w heard the roaring of a frog that
mad a nolss far deeper and louder than
that of any bull. We could hardly believe
It was a frog and only knew It was because
the noises cam la short fragments. Ws
remarked thst It must bs a mighty big
frog. Tbs next day ws were working up
creek with our guns, looking for ducks.
when I saw the frog on th opposlt bsok.
Hs was a monster, sitting ss high as a pug
dog, and was a beautiful green . color
We watched him a moment, amased, and
then X crawled up for a shot Ths frog
1st m get closs and a chsrgs of No.
sbet planted blm whsr be sat.
"That night ws sack at a lag and they
Jwer aa pig at a two-pound at tak, J savtd
ths bones from mine, stripping it clear
down to the toes, and took tbem back to
town When we returned. There I almost
broke the town. We would tell the story
of tbs frog, ssy thst It weighed twenty
pounds snd bad a leg fourteen Inches snd
a half long and offer to bet on ths latter
proposition and prove it The game was
easy.
"It might be Interesting to you to know,
by the way, that this crsek where we got
the frog was the famous disappearing
creek, worshipped by the Comanches, Its
banks being tbelr favorite camping ground
and rendezvous. AH along the first por
tion of Its courss it would run a little
way and then dive under the sand, coming
out a quarter of a mils or so farther on.
For this characteristic the Indians
venerated it After ten milea, however,
the tributary springs were so numerous
that It disappeared no more."
"I can tell you something that Al May
hew of .Waterloo, Neb., did one tlms that
you'll not believe," said George A. Hoag
land, "but It can be proved by three wit
nesses. Fifteen years ago Al sunk a
hoopnet In the mouth of the Elkhorn river
at Valley when the flsh were running up
stream. The next day he pulled It up
with eight catfish in It. They weighed
Just 2,100 pounds, a little over a ton. Their
else was fairly uniform, each weighing
something less than 300 pounds. Can you
beat that?"
"That was a great catch that three of us
made at Webb lake, in Minnesota, two
weeks ago," ssld Judge Fawcett. "In ono
day we pulled out 600, pounds and threw
back innumerable pickerel that kept both
ering us. It's good fun to flnh like that."
Five miles below Council Bluffs, on tho
Missouri river, there Is a veritable fisher
men's Utopia. Few anglers know of this
spot, but those who do make many visits
there. It Is called Augustine's place, after
the man who owns It, and It Is not so much
for fishermen exactly as for those who
bave a taste for flsh, which are generally
fishermen, so It amount to the sams thing
In the end.
And this Is what you can find at Augus
tine's: Absolute quiet, the river at Its
prettiest, a beautiful grove on Its banks, a
cool breeze of pure air, a mossy sward,. and
the grandest kind of a flsh supper at the
day's close, prepared at an open fire be
fore your eyes and eaten out of doors.
Augustine owns a little farm, but hs Is a
born fisherman, and you never bave to tell
him you are coming, for he always has the
flsh part of the program on hand. Just
put a basket of broad and butter sand
wiches and a few bottles of beer In the
back of your buggy some afternoon and
drive down to Augustine's. He has some
smooth quott grounds snd you csn play at
ths gams if you like, or loaf or read. At
dusk Augustlns will start his open firs near
by and throw a peck of potatoes In the em
bers. Then he will bring a few handsome
catfish from a hoopnet near shore and will
proceed o cook them by an original method.
He runs a sharp, long stick through each
flsh from end to end, then shoves the stick
perpendicularly in the ground before the
fire. As one side of the flsh thus impaled
Is broiled he turns the stick, and by thus
twisting now and then the Job Is finished.
Thoss who bave eaten there eay it Is the
finest piece of flsh broiling to be had in
the country.
Lately a few society people bave learned
of this stunt, and ssveral times parties havs
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"Blly" Townsend, J. 8mead, Charles Lewi
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