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1MB waa. not viry far back, whpn
a certain eporting writer of
prominence would not permit tUm
scores of tennis matches to bm
published on his sport page, eay
Ing that tennis was not a sport, but rattnf
a game for candles. This is all changed,
and no sport has more playing menilier
In Omaha than the ancient and honorable
frame of tennis. To play Is to sport, to
frolic Is to sport, to practice the diversion!
of the field is to sport, and tennis surelf
comes under these heads, for it Is a.g.ime
endowed with all qualities which bring out
the beat there lr In a sportsman.
Teople who see women lobbing the ball
backward and forward on some grass court
think there Is nothing to the game, but let
these same critics view an Eberhardt and
a Sanderson playing for the championship,
they will at once see that It la a game that
brings out the best there Is In a man. This
was demonstrated In this city very forcibly
two years ago, when Frank Eberhardt, one
of the finest physical specimens that ever
donned an athletic suit, won out on pure
form from players who were conceded by
all to be more skilled at the game. Play
ing a steady game and never weakening
when his opponents would make some
. phenomenal play which would win the ap
plause of the galleries, Frank Eberhardt
won the championship simply because he
was In the moBt perfect physical condition.
All athletic contests are tests of skill and
endurance, and no man can think of win
ning aji Important event unless he Is In
prime condition, or even of holding a title
unless he keeps himself In perfect form.
Growth In Popularity.
Thus from a game which waa not thought
much of by so-called "sports," tennis has
come,to be recognized aa one of the leading
sports of this country and England. In
England It has not much opposition In the
bid for public favor, according to American
Ideas, cricket being the only opposing game
except horse racing, In the summer time,
but in this country there Is the faster game
of base ball to contend with. Tennis has
not reached the point where it can expect
to attract the numbers that base ball or
foot ball does, still In the matches In which
the cracks compete large "galleries" are,
sure to be present. The Increase of Inter-
est is shown by the Increase in the number
of entries In the Middle West tournament
which Is held at the Omaha Field club each
year. In 1902, when the ' tournament was
first held under the auspices of the United
States National Lawn Tennis association
at the Field club, the entries numbered
forty-two; In 1903 the number was Increased
to forty-five; last year the number was the
same as In the proceeding year, and this
year the entry list jumped to sixty-six,
which Is a fine showing and a tribute to
the manner in which these contests are
conducted at the Field club.
Not only In Omaha Is the interest on the
increase but every town and city of any
else has had Its tournament and there have
been state tournaments, trl-state tourna
ments and International tournaments
galore. In the ,big tournament held at
Newport during the week there were 106
Curious end Romantic Capers of Cupid
Dowerlea for Brides.
MONO novel marriage portions
that with which Herr Duchat
schek, a native of Konlggrats,
dowered his daughter must find
place: Her weight in silver was
the promised dowry, so on the wedding
morn, before proceeding to church, she
was weighed in the drawing room before
the assembled guests. The scales regis-,
tered sixty-two kilograms, a weight which
brought the lucky blide a sack of 13,500
silver colas. Similar Instances of a bride's
dowry being In direct ratio to her corporal
avoirdupois are on record. Some time
back a citizen of Huntington, Conn., who
possessed a daughter of the abnormal
weight of 400 pounds agreed to bestow upon
her a portion of 5 for every pound she
weighed. This ofTer brought forward a
bold suitor In the person of a Mr. Marang,
who gallantly led his weighty and well
dowered bride to the altar. In Peru, too,
the bride's dowry consists of her own
weight, not In gold or in silver, but in
sugar. Weight, too. Influenced Mr. Datt,
a prosperous English tradesman, when he
informed his daughter that, as he admired
big men. her dowry should be graduated
by the excess of her husband's bodily
Weight above her own this excess to be
calculated in gold. The day previous to
the wedding the parties went to the scale,
and that the husband was a man after
his father-In-laws heart can be assumed
from the fact that he received with her.
more than $30,0001.
An old Lancashler (England) paper gives
an amusing account of a small farmer
who agreed to give to his daughter for a
marriage portion as many guineas as she
could walk miles a day. The feat came off
in the neighborhood of Manchester and the
sturdy lass tramped more than seventy
miles. When, however, the time for set
tlement arrived It waa discovered that the
father was not worth as many shillings as
he should have paid In guineas, whereupon
a subscription was opened by the neigh
boring gentry, who admired the girl's pluck
and an amount was collected that amply
compensated her for her exertion.
A wealthy London solicitor whose daugh
ter had received an expensive education
promised on her becoming engaged to give
her fifty times the amount she could earn
In a year by her own exertlor.a. Though
she found that her expensively acquired
accomplishments were more or less a drug
In the market, she managed, by giving
muslo and drawing lessons, to earn suf
ficient to entitle her to receive on her mar
riage the handsome sum of $26,000. An
other father, who had but small faith In
als" prospective son-in-law's Industry,
agreed to give his daughter on her mar
riage an amount corresponding to that
which the bridegroom should make In the
hum of twelve months. He ' had. how-
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entries from all sections of the country.
Sufficiently Strennona.
Tennis Is not the violent sport that base
ball or football Is and still to become per
fect at the game it .probably requires more
practice than either of the other games. It
is perhaps the oldest of all existing ball
games, and at once, the most difficult to
learn because of the Intricacies of Its laws,
and the most Interesting when learned
because of the great variety of Its combi
nations and the difficulty of solving rapidly
the combinations which are constantly pre
sented to a player by his opponent on the
spur of the moment. There Is no telling
where a ball Is to be returned, or at what
speed and these conditions have to be met
lnstanter.
Romvthlnsjr of Its History.
Tennis has an additional charm from a
historical point of view, because of the
numberless historical associations. There
is no fixed time as to the origin of tennis
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ever, counted without his host, for the
young man, chancing to obtain some good
Stock exchange information, tabled a sum
that the other could only cover on his
daughter's sweetheart agreeing to advance
the deficit
On receiving a very handsome tip from
a customer a waiter at a fashionable Lon
don restaurant begged to thank the giver
in his daughter's name and upon being
asked for an explanation said that he had
agreed to bestow upon her as a wedding
portion an amount equivalent to the tips
he should receive in a year. On the gentle
man subsequently making inquiries be was
told by the waiter that his daughter's dot
had worked out at more than $Tu0.
Revised Marrlatte Rituals
The revised report of the Pennsylvania
general assembly's committee on forms
and services contains the rituals of the
respective churches, and while much llke,
they show a striking contrast In the mar
riage service. In the Presbyterian church
the woman must promise to obey; In the
Methodist Episcopal church she need take
no such obligation.
The Presbyterian service goes as follows!
"Then the minister shall say to the woman!
Wilt thou have this man to be thy husband
and wilt thou pledge thy troth to him. In
all love and honor. In all duty and service,
In all faith and tenderness, to live with him,
cherish and obey him, according to the or
dinance of God in the holy bond of mar
riage? The woman shall answer, I will."
The Methodist Episcopal senvice reads:
"Then shall the minister say unto the
woman: Wilt thou have this man to be
thy wedded husband, to live together after
God's ordinance in the holy estate of matri
mony? Wilt thou love, honor and keep
him, In skknes and In health and forsaking
all other ket p thee only unto him so long
as ye both shall live? Then the woman
shall answer, I will."
Playing Caddie tor C lipid.
There are six New York aldermen who
have offices within a five-minute walk of
the city hall. They would probably grow
indignant and deny that they located near
the city hall for business purposes, but
the fact remains that they do a lot of odd
Jobs in their capacity as city fathers which,
directly or Indirectly, net them quite a Ut
ile sum. One alderman married twenty
couples In a single day, all of them brought
to the office by the city hall hangers-on
known as "cuplda." These men hang around
the corridors and when they see a young
couple wandering around and looking fool
ish they know Just what to do. The "cu
pld" is always willing to direct them to an
alderman's office, and for fear they will
lose the way he will accompany them and
act as witness. This always means a small
fee.
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but It Is probably the outcome of some
very simple sport played by the ancients.
The first authentic dates on tennis are in
the Middle Ages when it was played on
the courts of the feudal castles In France
and Italy. At first the pastime of kings,
it soon became popular with the middle
classes and from that time on has grown
into favor. The French seem to have bor
rowed It from the Italians and made cer
, tain refining changes. From France it
Journeyed to England. Judging from the
French name by which It was designated
it was played with the hand for a racket.
The hand was afterwards protected with
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EBRASKA Is making a showing at
the Lewis and Clark exposition
that has distinguished the state
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w-iJJ tlclpatlng In the Western World's
fair. Nebraska's moving picture shows
are known to every one who visits
the fair, and the state's resources are ex
ploited In a manner striking and artistic.
Nebraska occupies a block of space in the
Palace of Agriculture, near the center of
the building. Anyone can tell you where
Nebraska's section Is, because everyone
has been there. The originality displayed
by the commissioners In designing the
theater building and arranging the ex
hibits has placed Nebraska In a' class by
Itself.
Nebraska at the fair wears a dress of
yellow. This in itself distinguishes the
state from the others. The theater build
ing, where the moving picture shows are
held every hour during the day, from 10
o'clock on. Is in the design of an Italian
villa.
Corn samples and products of corn are
most attractively displayed on two tables
placed In a little court In front of the
theater. There are eighty-one varieties of
corn shown, and of this number twenty
varieties are of sugar corn and fifteen of
pop corn. Of special Interest Is a remark
able exhibit of evolutlun corn, grown by
Theodore Williams of Benson, Neb. The
corn products shown number twenty-six
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a glove as still prevails In the Basque
country. Upon the gloves strings and
cross strings were next woven to give the
ball a faster impulse and the addition of
a short handle was a matter of a short
time to make a transition from the glove
to the racket.
Improvements in the game have been
continually made, first by enclosing the
courts with walls and latter by roofing
them sV that Inclement weather was no
terror to the tennis player. The weather
Is an interfering factor in these days as
was witnessed during the Inst week when
old Jupiter Pluvlus put most of the Field
and include various kinds of starch, Ameri
can gum, gluten feed, corn oil cake, brew
ers' sugar, gluten meal, anhydrous sugRr,
yellow climax sugar, chopped feed, corn
rubber, corn syrup, crude and refined corn
oil, glucose, gum paste, British gum and
dextrine. y
Directly in front of the entrance to the
theater, between the tables bearing the
corn display, stands the stuffed skin of
the 2-year-old steer, Challenger, which
weighed 1,782 pounds and was practically
perfect In points. Challenger won easily
over all competitors at the International
Fat Stock show and exposition at Chicago
in 190S.
At the rear of the theater the comfort
and convenience of visitors is provided for
by an open reception room, where there
are comfortable chairs and a large reading
table which is supplied with Nebraska
newspapers.
Nebraska's showing of small grains is
arranged In pyramid form, and excellent
samples of threshed grains are to be found
in Jars. Sheaves of winter, spring and
macaroni wheat and splendid specimens
of oats, rye, and barley In the straw make
up the pyramid. Some hundreds of samples
of vine seeds, In which Nebraska excels all
other states, have attracted much at-,
tentlon.
Two large pyramids of corn in the husk,
situated at either side of the writing table
in the reception room, compose a striking
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club courts out of commission when, he
shed a few tears on the country hereabouts.
Engineering skill of the present' century
has been brought Into use in the Construc
tion of tennis courts, so that they are sup
posed to dry shortly after a rain, but this
Is a supposition contrary to fact at the
Field club for these courts were the wet
test spots In the sorroundlng country.
IleneAclnl to Any.
Tennis Is a game which can be played by
many who cannot Indulge In the more
violent games. That Is, It would not be
real tennis according to definition of some
feature of the state's display. About the
theater building, and composing most at
tractive rural decorations, are wonderful
grasses native to Nebraska. These com
pose one of the state's most remarkable
exhibits. A bale of alfalfa, recently re
ceived by the commissioners, has attracted
much interest.
Probably nothing has done so much to
tell the world of the greatness of Nebraska
as the moving picture shows which are
given In the theater In the Nebraska sec
tion. These pictures have as their chief
charm their absolute realism.
The pictures show such scenes as plow
ing and planting, and early harvesting,
cutting alfalfa, and raking it and stacking
it, fruit culture, raising of vegetables on
a large scale; the poultry, sheep and swine
Industries; the dairy and beef cattle ln
dustrels, ranch life, and the beet sugar In
dustry. That the pictures and talks inter
est the people Is shown by the fact that
the the free entertainments are better at
tended as the fair progresses.
Visitors at the Nebraska section have
been most favorably Impressed by the
courteous treatment accorded them by the
people In charge. William James la super
intendent of the exhibit, and G. C. Shedd
is assistant secretary. Both are to be found
at Nebraska's headquarters all the time.
G. L. Loonils, vice president and treasurer
of the commission, and H. G. Shedd. the
secretary, are expected in a short time.
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of the cracks, but still the same rule
could be used and plenty of exercise
obtained by simply lobbing the balls back
and forth. Any game that brings the
player In to the free and open air Is bene
ficial unless carried to extremes, and tennis
can be played in moderation and yet give
forth many of the benefits of the real
game. Tennis and golf are about alike
in this respect. Golf Is a game which fur
nishes a good excuse for the players to
tramp the fields and to be In the open air
for stretches at a time. It is also a game
which can be played by people who would
not choose the faster games. Golf In a
game more suited to more elderly men and
it has not the vigorous action of tennis.
Calls for Brain Work.
The best sport is that which keeps all of
the faculties alert in some agreeable pas
time. Contest between man and man Is
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Funerals Ills Pleasure.
ERMANTOWN, Pa., has an odd
character. He Is known as "Fu
neral Joe,", and Is the center of
attraction when he appears on the
streets of Philadelphia's suburb.
No funeral in the last year that has pro
ceeded to Ivy Hill cemetery. Mount Airy,
found him, missing, and no hearse carrying
the remains of man, woman or child passed
into the graveyard without Joe placing a
mark upon the glass of the vehicle and re
tiring to another burying place, where he
goes through the same tactics.
Previous to the interment be visits the
home where thtf-remalns of the deceased
are being viewed, and generally causes a
stir by his attire of a black suit that has
seen better days, white gloves, white shoes
and a white opera hat, adorned with green
ribbon. Ejected from the houses of mourn
ing, as he generally Is, he will seek an
other funeral and force himself Into the
room In which the corpse reposes.
One of his eccentricities while In the place
is to pick a flower from the floral tributes,
principally from the one sent by one of
the survivors of the dead person, and after
looking about the room for some time
pin It upon the breast of a mourner. At
the conclusion of the services at the house
he has been known to follow the rortegn
for miles to the cemetery, and on growing
tired takes rest upon the rear end of a
carriage. No mailer what the weather
might he, ho may be dnlly seen wherever
there is a funeral In the suburb, and al
though harmless anil known to the police,
diurnully follows his odd notion.
The Cat In the fiarden.
A German who Iihh a house on the enst
side. New York, takes lots of pride In his
garden. lie devotes all Ills time to the cul
tivation of fliwers nnd hs great success,
but Is bothered considerably by the cHts.
He recently thought out a scheme to keep
the cats away and purchased a lot of fly
papers, placing them on the fence around
his small plot of ground. Having finished
his work, ho took a seat In the middle of
the garden, lighted his pipe and watched.
It was not long before a cat Jumped on
the fence and In a twinkling was entangled
with the fly paper. The more the cat tried
to shake off the mess the worse it stuck,
until. In sheer desperation, the cat Jumped
Into the middle of one of the best beds
and made havoc of It. The gardener chased
the cat until It rushed up the steps Into
the house with the, German after It. Up
stairs It went and Into his bed room, and
then on his bed. where It succeeded In
shaking off the fly paper. The papers have
all been taken down.
Walked Into a of Rattlers.
James J. Conrad, formerly with the firm
of Miller, Sloss & Scott of San Francisco,
had a hair-raising experience at Tucson,
Ariz. While out bunting in Pliua canyon.
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always Interesting, no matter In what form
and tennis Is a game which requires de
velopment of both mind and body. Some
sports which are always kept before the
public gaze require only physical develop
ment, but In tennis the mind Is an Im
portant factor, and we are constantly hear
ing of a tennis match being won by super
ior head work. In the recent tournament
for the championship of the city Conrad
Toung beat Art Scrlbner by superior head
work all the way through. Scrlbner had
been playing at the University of Ne
braska and was in perfect form, with all
sorts of stroke and returns, and It was said
and even feared by Young himself that his
superior condition would tell In the long
three out of five match, and that he would
win out If the match went for more than
three games. Young brought his superior
experience and long head Into the game
and by applying unexpected tactics liter
ally ran Scrlbner off his feet. Ha would
run forward with hls.serve and kept Scrlb
ner running back and forth across the back
court until the younger player was worn
out and his superior training was reduced
to naught. This Is merely given as an
illustration of what a magnificent game it
is to develop all parts of a man.
The mind Is also on the alert to antici
pate the play of an opponent and to force
the play. A plnyer must not only see and
anticipate the action of his opponent, but
must also be scheming to work the same
idea on his antagonist. The crack player
is so developed In this matter that In play
ing against a weaker player ho is able to
continually place the ball absolutely out of
his reach.
. For these and other reasons tennis can
readily be classified as one of the real
sports and a sport which can be played by
more players than most any other game.
It Is a game for the novice to play during
the falling shades of evening, as well as
for the expert during the heat of the day.
It is an ancient game and one that will
long live because of its very character.
Mad Anthony Button ,
A handsome button, evidently from the
coat of one of the merry officers who
served under Mad Anthony Wayne in his
campaign against the Indians of the North
west territory in 1794, was recently picked
up on the site of his camp, eighteen miles
from Pittsburg, on the north bank of the
'Ohio river.
The button Is solid silver, and when it was
found by Attorney J. R. McCrelght of
Pittsburg and Rev. R. B. Carrell of Baden
was covered with the dirt of more than a
century.
When General Wayno was sent to punish
the Indians for the defeat of General St.
Clair he established a camp at what was
known as Leglonvllle, where the button
was found. Here for almost two years ho
drilled his men, and when he met the In
dians his victory was complete.
ten miles from this city, he walked into
a den of rattlesnakes, and It was only
after a hard fight that he managed to es
cape. Passing Into an Inclosure walled by
rocks, where a wounded bird had fallen,
he was horrified to see a number of the
venomous reptiles, and all rattling their
warning.
Several of the snakes had changed their
positions after his entrance, blocking his
exit. The battle commenced, and it was
not until after Conrad hud killed nine that
he was able to beat a retreat.
One vicious fellow struck at him, and
either the thickness of a leather legging
or the fraction of an Inch saved him from
the deadly bite. In relating the experi
ence, several hours afterward, Conrad still
showed the effect of the nervous tension
he had been under.
Fasts Twenty-Two Days.
Ernest Carter of Columbus, O , aged 4u,
ended a fast of twenty days, devoting sev
eral hours to his first meal, which con
sisted of an ice-cold watermelon.
He ate the melon very slowly, chewing
each piece thoroughly. Carter attempted
the fast which is his third one in an
effort to cure himself of dry catarrh, and
thinks that the fust has greatly benefited
hi in.
For the next eighteen days, Carter says,
he will cat nothing but fruit. Ilu will diet
himself on melons, rf-arhes, bananas,
plums, liui kl. berri.-s and other fruits Ha
has not decided on his diet following the
eighteen days.
Lottery lierk on Mreel C nr Fares.
The Mexican Electric Tramways com
pany, limited, of the City of Mexico has
adopted a novel method of keeping a rheck
on its passenger fares. This company
claims that it suffered heavy losses each
month through the dishonesty of some of
Its conductors and the many efforts that
were made to detect the guilty persons
were unsuccessful. W. W. Wheatly, gen
eral manager of the company, determined
a few months ago to Inaugurate a lottery
system In connection with the passenger
department of the road. Ills scheme was
laid before the proper authorities of the
Mexican government and received .their ap
proval. Each passenger when lie paid his fare
was given a lottery ticket by the con
ductor. This ticket stood a chance of draw
ing one of the 09 money prizes offered by
the company. These prizes range from
11,000 down to a few dollars. The drawing
la held monthly. The first drawing took
place a few days uso. There were many
thousands of tlikets out and the greatest
Interest was manifested In the dm wing by
the ticket holders. The drawing took place
In the presence of Mr. Wheatly, general
manager; Sir Charles Kuan-tiuiltli of Lon
don, Kng., chuiiman of the b'iard of di
rectors, and a representative of the Mexican,
government.
