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trcwth of Elmwood Club it Topio of
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REVIVAL OF H0RS RC)NG IS INVOLVED
Prospects for Harness Race Mrrt
Are Ooo4 sad the Promoters
Font Much Erairc4 fcr
the Pablle Inaalrr.
The directors of tha new Elmwood club
are holding frmumt meeting and will
have everything In readiness for the build
ers as aoon as tha frost la out of tha
round. John D. Crelghton will build tha
club house on terms which are very ac
ceptable to tha member of tha club and
hn stands ready to begin operatlona as
aoon aa possible. 'While the dlreetora had
an expression from tha street railway
company that tha Una would ba extended
to the park In tha sprlne;, they now feel
more certain sine the return of tha di
rectors from the east with the announce
ment that additional tinea would ba built
nnd that the money was all laid aside.
While tha club Is essentially a driving
club, still there will be plenty of people
who would use the street cars. Tha g-en-eral
public, however. Is more Interested
In the prospects of a separate company
being formed, which will give Omaha some
trotting races. A movement Is on foot
to organize a Separate company to pro
mote some races, and shoubl this be done
the promoters will surely meet with plenty
of encouragement from the Omaha mer
chants. Nothing has yet been Invented to
take the place of a horse race to arouse
tha Interest of all classes of people, and
some high-class racea would be Just the
thing to bring In hordes of people from
tha state. Should the racea be given
they will be on an elaborate scale, with
large purses, large enough to attract the
best horses In the country. When smaller
tiwni like Blair, Tekamah and Fremont
:;lve race meets the town Is not large
enough to hold the people who come and
come to stay while the races last. That
would be the eaae In Omaha. The races
have been made . the principal attraction
at the state fair and the railroads are not
able to haul the people who want to go to
these.
When the American team won auch high
honors at Athens last April It wu
thought that the men who won the honors
would be able to defend their titles for
some years to come, but another ending
came to most, for a majority have quit
the sports fpr good. Of the point win-
high school team did not keep some of its
dates because one of the leading plsyers
did not feel like playing on that day and
the men could not arrange for another date.
This la poor sportsmanship. That a team
should refuse" to plsy because thers was a
chance of being beaten la a poor excuse.
There Wis considerable talk of the or
ganization of a league this winter, but that
was all that was heard about It. '
Indoor lawn tennis received considerable
Impetus In New York when Colonel FA
ward F. Puffy of the Blxty-nli.th regiment
Issued orders that the new armory be made
available for the use of the players. Ills
opening of the armory makes It possible
to bring about the (Wins for the holding of
an open championship Indoors. The com
mander of the regiment swld that he fa--ored
the use of the armory for tennis.
He wa opposed to the use of all armories
for sports, which sometimes resulted In
the abuse of the building and the property.
Following the example of Jeffries and
Tommy Ryan, Eddie Hanlon haa retired
from the ring. This is not the first time
Eddie has bowed himself out and then re
appeared, and, unlike Jeffries and Ryan,
he haa no title to bequeath. The beating
Wck Hyland gave Hanlon strengthened
htm In his resolve to quit the ring.
The Oans-IIerman fight for the world's
lightweight championship, scheduled to
take place In Tonopah on New Tear's day,
will be held In what will eventually be the
greatest prize fight arena the world ha
ever seen. By the time that the building
r.ow under construction Is completed It will
be equipped In every detail, with appur
tenances for the accommodation of specta
tors, fighters, attaches, etc., in such a
way as to place It in a class by Itself.
There Is every promlsw that the New Tear
opening will be heavily patronised. The
men were well matched and James J. Jef
fries, who has accepted an offer to referee
the light, will be himself a drawing card
for the event. When Joe Ganns and Kid
Herman hook up for the title and a $20,000
purse It will be In a building that is only
a starter of the structure that will place
Tonopah on the pugilistic map In very
large letters. The lack of time between
now and the New Tear's day contest haa
forced the olub to build a structure that
will have to be remodeled after the original
plans and which when finally completed
win cost tne casino Athletic club more
than $40,000.
The arena covers a lot 140 feet square.
The ring platform Is In the center and Is
twenty-four feet square. It Is three and
one-half feet above the floor level and Is
surrounded by a double row of press seats.
Three rows of boxes run back from the
four sides of the ring, each box having
tiers at Athena those who are now out are seating capacity of twelve persona. Start-
Slyer Prlnsteln, winner of the broad Jump;
Jim Llghtbody, winner of the 1.600 meters
and second man in the 800-metcrs run;
Bob Leavitt, winner of the hurdle raoe;
Fay Moulton, second In the 100-meter
dash; Hugo Friend, aeopnd in the hurdles.
Qlover, Kerrigan, Schlok, Valentine, Sul
livan, Mitchell and Qunyrouze are the
other members of the team who are now
resting on the side lines, and, although
one or two of these may occasionally be
seen in a competition, they can hardly be
classed as athletes in training. Big Dick
Ing directly back of the last row of boxes
Is the Inclined plane on which the benoh
seats are to be placed. There will be nine
teen rows of benches, and from the first
row to the laat the elevation will be thirty
one feet. This Incline will give the interior
of the building an amphitheater-like ap
pearance and will allow an unobstructed
view of the ring from every seat. Entrance
to the building will be through two double
doorways at either side .of the building,
which face toward town. Two wide aisles
will lead from the entrances to the ring
side, where radiating alslea will run to all
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Sheldon, first choice in the weights for
the Olympic trip, announced his retire-I parts of the house. The seating capacity
Tent the day before the team tailed, and I of the arena figures S,S00 and the box re
will never again be caught throwing the I celpta from a complete sale of the house
big weights around tha lot. Myer Frln- I will total 9&S0O.
stein haa been' forced to quit training on
account of a rapidly increasing law busl- I Chicago haa been selected for the annual
ness, and can well afford to rest pa the meeting. of the United States doll auoj-la-
AKuiei no hum tst&dierea m ina aoxen yers
that he has been In the publlo eye.
The selection of an all-American team Is
all a matter of judgment and thore is no
way to prove a writer's Judgment Is best
because these teams are never tried out.
All the eastern papers take a guess at
an all-Amerlcan team, but the writers
have never been west of the Alleghany
mountain and don't know that in the
great and glorious west there is a Gopher
team of giants, that Chicago had a team
which was a wonder and an Eckersall who
tlon. It Will b the first (tme shsee the or
ganisation In ltfM that the annual meeting
has not been held In New .York1.. The ex
ecutive committee. b&A previously an
nounced the annual meeting jfor January
10 at Dolraonico'a This is now rescinded
and the executive committee makes an
nouncement of Friday evening, January 18,
as the time and Chicago the place. Secre
tary Morgan states that the action Is taken
in response to a petition signed by the
western golf clubs and by a large number
of prominent players In the west. The
western elubs, which have borne their full
could have made any team in the country. ,hare In conducting the national champion
ships, would seem entitled to the annual
meeting at least once In three years. The
petition had consequently the support of
many eastern clubs and golfers.
Think of a 4eam which Is good enough to
leave Eckersall out of the reckoning, and
yet this Is what ail these writers have done,
Here are a few selections made by the
New York foot ball experts:
New York Globe Ends, Wlster, Prince
1 Taper, Pennsylvania; guards, Burr and
Keraburg, Harvard; center, liockeuberger.
laie: quarieroacK, Dillon, n Inert on; hair
backs, Vt't-der, Yale; Harlan, Princeton;
fullback. WenualL Harvard.
New York Herald linua. Forbes, Yale;
Inter, Princeton; tackles, lilgeluw, Yale;
lraper, Pennsylvania; guarus, Thompson,
Cornell; Hersburg. Harvard; center, New
man. Cornell: Quarterback, l.lbby. Carlisle:
halfbacks, Douglass, navy; May hew,
brown; fullback, Morse, Yale.
New York Sun imornlng) First team:
Forbes, Yale, and Vlmer, Princeton, ends;
Blgelow, Yale, and Draper, Pennsylvania,
tackles: ThomLwon. Curuell. ana Burr,
Harvard, guarus; Hockenberger. Yale, can'
ter: Norton. Annapolis, Quarterback; May-
hew, Drown, aud Hollenback, Pennsyl
vania, halfbacks; Wendell, Harvard, full-
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Second team: Lavlne. Pennsylvania, and i v""ii"'i.
quick thinking and Individuality In play
were submerged by the niaH play, by the
shoulder wedRe of the two ruh lines, by
the road roller style of attack that planned
through a hole opened up In the line by
tactics that too often gave opportunity for
unseen and unfair play. legislation rarely
corrects evils, nut tne legislation on me
foot ball rules this year happily made im
possible repetition of last year's tactics
and made possible the game of this ysar.
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At a meeting of the council of the Brit
ish Olympic association Just held It wns
decided that the fourth, celebration of the
original aeries of Olympic games should
be held In London, In the. month of July,
U08. The first of these revivals very ap
propriately took place In Athend In lSOfl,
the second was held In Paris In 1900. the
third In Bt. Louis In 1D04, and for the fourth
Rome was suggested, as the center, but as
that did not prove practicable the offer
was made to England, and that offer, after
the approval of the various athletic bodies
had been obtained, the committee has seen
Its' way to accept- His royal highness the
crown prince of Greece, who so nbly pre
sided over the games held at Athens this
year, which were outside the original cyclo
of Olympic games started In the year 1S0.
has sent his "best wishes for the success
of the London meeting," and his sympathy
International athletic contest will be the
main feature of amateur sport in 1907 and
the coming year promises to be replete
with competitions between the United States
and England. The first of the series will
be the association foot ball match between
teams representing America and England.
The two countries have met In almost every
branch of athletics, but this will be the
first time that representative "soccer"
elevens have faced each other. The game
Is scheduled to take place on the Crystal
palace grounds, near London, about the
middle of April. No definite date haa been
set for the contest owing to the uncer
talnty of the day of playing off the final
tie for the English association foot ball
The International match
Is nil the more gratifying, as It was an
nounced on the highest authority during
the Olympic games In Athens this spring
that it was the Intention to hold Olympic
games every four years, beginning with
19n6, In the magnificent stadium constructed
foe thut purpose In Athens.
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Harry Clay PuUiain has Just been Inter
viewed upon his trip to Europe concerning
base ball. He said: - .
The American game made greater head
way tn Hnglaod ui K tlian It ever did be
fore. The American 'boys who won the
Kliorion scholarships and are studying at
tford have been splendid preceptors on
thn other side of the ocean. They do riot
piny themselves, but they have been fore
most In teaching the Englishmen how to
play base ball after our Ideas.-
There la an American In London, Mr.
Nelson Cook, who hails from Connecticut
when he Is at home on our side of the. At
lantic. For a long time he has tried to
introduce base ball Into English athletics,
with varying success; to tell the truth, un.
til this year, with very little succeirs. Not
that there has been no demand for base
ball In England, but It received very little
encouragement for the reason that the
amateurs did not know how to play the
game and the professionals were very slow
to Income, Interested In it. After the
American boys who are now In England
over their own national pastime to carry
further than they might have Imagined.
In any event, other Americans who were
residing In London, among them Mr. Cook,
took up the Idea of forming an English,
base ball league, and this year It went
through a full season with six clubs, and.
If It may appear strange, made a little
money. That is the first time, so far as I
know, that base ball ever has prospered to
that extent outside of the United States.
Most of the players who are now con
nected with the English Base Ball league
are foot ball players In the fall and winter.
There Is an Interim In which they have lit
tle to do in an athletic way and they have
been only too eager to grasp an opportunity
to play the American game, especially when
they have such aid as coaching by Amer
ican college boys who are now completing
their education on the other side of the
ocean. The managers of the professional
(pot ball elevens are quite as enthusi-astio-over
picking up base ball for a sum
mer game -as are the players, since they
believe that their men are In better condi
tion to play foot ball In the cold months
after they have had field exercise all the
Bummer. All those connected In a profes
sional capacity with foot ball with whom I
had opportunity to converse assured me
thnt they thought the Introduction of baso
ball as a professional summer pastime In
England was one of the best moves which
hod been made In their athletic world.
So far as I could see, the English ama
teur sport most nearly corresponding to
base ball Is cricket. That Is the game
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Exendlne. Carlisle, ends; Cooney, Prince-
ton, and Weeks, West Point, tackles; Kers
burg, Harvard, and Zlegler, Pennsylvania,
yum'.la: Newman. Cornell, center: June.
Yale, quarterback; Knox, Yale, and Hub
bard, Amherst, halfbacks; Bleber, Uettys
bure. fullback.
New York World Wlster, Princeton, and
Forbes, YaJe, ends; Osborne, Harvard, and
Ptgeluw, Yale, tackle; Burr, Harvard, and
Bridges, Yale, guards; i-araer, narvara,
i-mit-r- iriMoik Princeton. Quarterback:
Vender, Yale, and Mayhew, brown, balf-
. backs Morse, Yale, fullback.
New York Mall Ends. :
Fk-uriott. ivniuvlvanla: tackles
Princeton; Blgelow, Yale; guards, Thomp-
..n Cornell: illei; er. Pennsylvania; center,
llockenberaer. Yale: quarterback. Ecker-
111. Chicago; halfbacks. Veeder and Knox.
Yale; fullback, Hollcnback, Pennsylvania.
Forbes, Yale;
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will be played on the Saturday preceding
the big British event. Beginning with the
new year the selection committee will pick
out the likely players with the Idea of
choosing the strongest possible eleven for
( the match. While the majority of the team
will be selected from New York, Philadel
phia, Boston, Fall River and Paterson, no
locality will be favored for geographical
purposes. The players will be selected ac
cording to merit and the strongest possible
combination will be taken to England.
While it has not been positively deter
mined, it la probable that Fred H. MUnea,
the captain of the Tllgrlm team, which
vtslte4 America In the fall of 1906. will be
brought over to this country to give advice
The weather mau has finally decided to I and coach the team for two weeks prior to
let the ice skaters have a show for their
white alleys and consequently the boy with
the new skates will be given a chance to
try thara out on Christmas day. The new
rink on 20lh and .Farnara streets was
flooded laat week, after the skate houses
had been built and everything put in readi
ness tor the coming cold weather which
would put a good surface on the rink. Phil
Reed and his partners now have everything
In readiness and it is up to the weather
man to say how much skating will be en-
Joyed in this contral rluk. The parks were
crowded last, week when the weather was
auspicious, but these are not large enough
to accommodate the large number wishing
to skate, and Cut-Off and all ponds are
taxed when the weather Is fine.
The big machines were put to work on
Cut-Off lake to cut the weeds to get them
out of the way of the Ice cutters. This
machine cuts the weeds and grass several
feet below the surface and this will be a
great help to the fishermen next spring,
when the fishing season opens out. While
the long grass is Just the stuff for the
baas, it la hard on the rowers, and the ab-
senoe of the long grass which was con
stantly In the way of the oars will give
an added Impetus to the rowers. The
Omaha Rod and Oun club is prepared to
expand and work along broader lines In
the spring, and during the winter will
also tu p the club house open for the- ac
commodation of the skaters.
What has become of the basket ball
league? This organisation started out with
a great flourish of trumpets last year and
for more than half the season played most
jf the games according to the schedule,
and then went to pieces because some of
Uue players "didn't went to play." Too
sailing for England. Captain Mtlnes has
been Invited to coach the team and assured
the promoters that he would do so If pos
sible. He does not anticipate any difficulty
la assuming the duties. He will be accom
panied by one of the foremost professional
association foot ball players In England,
who will attend to the physical condition
of tha members of the team in addition to
assisting Captain Mllnes In coaching.
Foot ball as played under the new code.
has won the unqualified approval of Yale
men, and no changes are advocated for an
other year at least. In speaking of the
season, the Yale Alumni Weekly says. In
part:
If any one thing stood out In .oepi.il
prominence at tha two final Yale games
last month, it was the mm h desired proof
mat criii'.s aaia was needed tor the re
tention of the game, that foot ball ran hn
ilayed lu a sportsmanlike starlt. This must
lave been apparent to the thirty-odd thou
sand spectators of the Yale-Harvard game.
as It was apparent to the few on both side
lines wno anew wnat was going on In the
scrimmages. It was not only a vindication
of the new rules; it was an answer to the
criticisms that had been made of the gsme
throuKhout the country, both In the press
and from academic chairs. If the Judgment
or tne majority or ine men who matte the
dally papers and who are influential In uni
versity lire counts ror anything, foot ball
has been lifted out of th run Into which
It had fallen and has ben saved.
Any game that is worth playing Is worth
playing for the game Itself and not for the
fmmefliutu Joy of winning. As It was rluye.l
this year under the new rules foot ball was
a game worth playing by any set of young
American college men worth playing- for
the rpoit of playing It. for the touch and
go of opposed skill and spirits, for the
sheer human Joy of pilling fievtneas and
strength and quick thinking and r-oncen-Ira'td
plan and actloi, against the same
(Wetness and strength and brain agility of
an opponent. There was too little eppor
tunity for Uils sort of thing in tha old ( wt
ball, la that gaaie, now happily liUloiy,
The Long Island motor parkway will be
coal-tarred.
Pittsburg dealers will have their first
show from April 8 to 13.
The Irish Automobile club will hold a
show at Dublin January 6. to 12.
among the cars exhibited at the shows.
Potiavllle (Pa.) motorlBts have organlxod
the Pottsvllle Automobile association.
The American Automobile association
cleared I lo.ooo from the Vanderbllt cup race.
The steering wheel has supplanted the
lever on nearly all 1907 machines and the
engine Is In front.
There will bv more than 30.UUO square
feet of floor space at the Los Angues snow,
January 21 to ia.
The second annual automobile and sports
men's exhibition at Quebec has been sat
for April 6 to li.
Buffalo automoblllsts are working for a
boulevard between Bunalu, Toinawanda and
Niagara Falls.
The Automobile club of Italy has decided
to abstain from participation In futurt
Vanderbllt cup races.
International motor car races already are
being planned In connection with Denver's
semi-centennial In 1903.
Colorado dealers aru finding a brisk de
mand for machines from farmers, es
pecially In the beet-sugar districts.
Chicago's motor boat show will be held
March t to 9, by the American Association
of Engine and Boat Manufacturers.
A purchaser at the New York snow was
Andrew Carnegie, who ordered a French
car sent from the factory to his Bkibo
castle.
Itarnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on
Earth" Is preparing to tour the country
next season and thereafter In a train of
huge motor cars.
Ralph P. Denlson, the 12-year-old son of
S. N. Denlson of Brattleboro, Vt , Is prob
ably the youngest licensed autoniobillst In
New England.
Practical work In taking down and ret
ting up cars was done by the automobile
cIhsb of the Minneapolis Young Mens
Christian association the past month.
Steam engine oil, no matter how good, Is
of no use for gasoline motors. The tx-st
results are obtained only by a proper com
bination of motor oils.
Automobile clubs of Minneapolis, St. Paul
and Duluth are combining to engineer the
construction by the state of a tri-clty
highway about l.V miles long.
A machine equipped with a writing desk,
so that Its owner may answer his letters
while traveling, has been ordered by Leon
Sloss, a ban Francisco merchant.
After three yeurs' experimenting, a Syra
cuse company la turning out business
trucks weighing but t,' pounds, with a
capacity fur hauling a tun of freight.
The Automobile club of California, the
senior orKanlzation of the Picltlo coast,
has taken a determined stand against
racing for records over the public roads.
A flfty-four-mlle automobile stage line
has been established between Armogosa, on
the l.a Vegas brunch of the Hull 1-ake
City route, aud Greenwater, in the mining
district.
If an endurance contest Is all that its
name implies in this country, what mut
It be In Gvrmany. where It goes by the
Laumler, Wilbur Laughman, Otto Dleti Motor association of Baltimore, have been
and Jacob ICithl, made a 'motor trip to admitted to membership in the American
Plnckneyvllie, 111., where they pitched Automobile association.
There Is a marked absence of freaks
their tents and enjoyed a two weeks' hunt
ing campulgn.
A new electric car la equipped so that
heat from the batteries can be turned into
the steering wheel, preventing the driver's
hands from being chilled by contact with
cold metal.
The autolst who does not keep a dog to
ride in his car is an exception, says Motor
News. Bulldogs are the favorites, be
cause they seem to attach themselves to
cars with an affection rarely shown for a
horse-drawu vehicle.
The man who Is to decorate Madison
Square Garden for the January show will
transform the arena Into a garden of a
Swiss palace In early winter. The cost
will approach $sn,(K.
"Tex" Rickards, who sprang Into promb
nence as the promoter of the Guns-Nelson
tight nt Goldlleld, Nev., has prepared to
electrify the "home folks" with an auto
mobile In the spring.
A well known builder Is equipping his
cars with mud guards modeled after birds'
wings. At high speed the wind pressure
operates on the guards to partially lift
the weight of the car, relieving the strain
on wheels and axles.
The cause of a motor missing is often
to be found in the gasoline tank cap. It
the air inlet becomes stopped with dirt a
vacuum Is formed which prevents the gaso
line from flowing freely.
"The growing popularity of automobiles
Is another proof of American prosierlty.
There are today twelve autos In the United
States for each one In England," suld Sir
Thomas Upton recently. ,
Wise ones are predicting the election of
Judge William 11. Hotcliklss of Buffalo to
the presidency of the American Automobile
association to succeed President John Far.
sMi of Chicago.
During the Chicago show in February
the American Automobile club will hold
a convention to discuss plans for the- Im-
Frovtment of roads, the use of alcohol lor
uel and the promotion of legislation.
When the pressure system of feeding the
fuel is used It cannot be expected to Wink
sitisfartorily unless the strainer between
the exhaust line and the check valve bo
kept clean and free from sooty accumula
tions and the valve itself gas-tight.
Wlienever the dowagur queen of Italy
lrlvs her new automobile It carries,
mounted on the radiator, a musslve s.lver
statuette of her patron saint, St. Christo
pher, to which Is attributed the fact tiiat
the conveyance has escaped accidents.
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horn and other small accessories thau to nols. 4.500; Indiana. B.W4; Connecticut 4.9O0'
allow them to remain loose when tha ma- Michigan. J.473; Maryland, 2,611- District of
chine la on the road. Besides providing Columbia.
au annoying ratue, tney rapidly deteriorate,
when permitted to Jolt about.
In Paris It Is generally considered that
The strlalng feature of the recent maneu
vers of the Iallan army among the Alps
was the wonderful scouting work done by
Sergeant Federlco Vlolate-Tessart on his
motor cycle. He rode up mountain trails
thick with dust, encumbered with rocks
and as steep as 15 feet In 100.
That pedestrians need not run when a
motorist blows his horn is the decision of
a Lansing (Mich.) Judge. It was rendered
In sustaining a demurrer In a suit for per
sonal damages resulting from an automo
bile accident. Alarms, he said, do not ex
cuse a driver from using reasonable care.
O. E. Shepard of Campbell, Cal.. Is the
latest candidate for the "nor puncture rec
ord." He has driven a touring car for
nearly two years, during which period he
has traveled ;6,6U) miles. In the course of
that time one of his tires bus not only
escaped puncture, but has never been re
moved from the rim for any purpose.
From her own experiences as to the needs
of a feminine motorist. Queen Victoria of
Spain has designed an automoblllng cos
tume that bids fair to be universally
adopted In fashionable circles. It is a full
length coat, which has the effect of a coat
and skirt of fur. Nutria Is the material.
To meet the demand for full Information
concerning automobiles and motor boats the
i rench government begun a show Decern
ber 7 which will remain open until Janu
ary K. while the great Parts show will clos
December 21. Theie will be coinpetitluiia
i or prizes aggregating ao.ouu irancs.
The Princess of Wales, who Is an en thn
slasllo autoniobillst, Is having an auto built
expressly after her own Ideas. It Is to be a
quite modest appearing vehicle, with noth
ing but the Initials ". M., surmounted by
viu.ii, u tne uuor ftarieis lo aistlllguisu
it. ne Doay is 10 ue green.
The prediction that Americans will not
keep on buying Imported automobiles In
definitely, but will purchase cars mude In
mis country, wnicn are replicas of high
grade European machines, is strengthened
by the announcement that a famous Bel
gian firm la to establish a factory In tiie
unuea Dtaies.
Always be sure your gasoline contains
no impurities, rine wire g.-iuse. cloth or
chamois may bo used for filtering, and all
three materials do the work fairly well.
It is best to use chamois, as It Is certs. In
neither dirt nor water will go through It.
thuugh gusoline flows through It with sur
prising freedom.
According to official statistics. 140.0WI au.
tomublles are registered In the United
States, the leading suites being New York,
in,ii. r-w jersey, 2D.3"(; Massachusetts.
1111-
"Winter
Strawberries
are a
Gold Mine"
Here's a letter from a
"man on the spot" the
winter garden spot oi
America, the Texas
Gulf Coast Country.
Read what he says
about this wonderful
country.
Then send me your
Darne and address,
and I will send you
our 8-page bo"ic
containing photo
graphs and full par
ticulars, and I will
give you the names
and addresses of
other men who are
making fortunes
In the Gulf Coast Country
of Texas.
Yon can write to these men and they will tell yon
how they are making from 200 to $500 an acra net yearly
profit from land such as you can buy now for $25 an acre.
And when you are ready to go and seeforyourst lf.wo will share
part of tha expense by taking you to the country and back for $25
From Chicago, $20 from Bt. Louis, and proportionately low rates
from other points.
Although this Qountry Is within country bnt the opportunities in it
18 hours' ride of Chicago, tha F newr For J1"? ot ?t
.J; Sian water and tho building of a
CLIMATE railroad has Jnst recently made it
Is like that of Southern California possible to make" big money on
no extremes of hot or cold-and small plots of ground,
practically no winter, so you raise v You must act promptly to get the
crop after crop the year round. tne6t P"8"' P- writ.
... me now.
Crops are always safa because Choice of Rotttes over Rock
you bays plenty of pure artesian slan(1 Uaet via Kanw- City. or C.
water o your own property for the & Et i., VLa St. Louis,
cheapest irrigation.
Tha land la always safe because JUMN StBAS I IAW
It la from 10 to
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tidewater.
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the cult 17 TevTT"?
I COAST OF f7CucJa I
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Pmkbxw Traffic Mustier
ROCK ISLAND-FRISCO LINES
La Sslls Stre Station, Chicagol
or Frisee building, St. Louis
Tks Sock ltln4-rtlce
TEXAS
Gulf
Coast
Lines no Un4 is J
Sill. W r Im.r- yj
c la bulls- V
Omaha Bee.
Naae
JOHN SEBASTIAN
H. iUcilauS -'rises Lisas
CHICAGO or ST. LOUIS
send me Tesss Gull
sad lull Iniorioatioa
about low rates, etc.
If j, CH1CAC
tT si Please set
Coast books i
0. AsMreu.
SUU J
the autobus Is in an exceedtnsjly element
ary state and that cliana- must be made
before It Ijecomre a ri-ally serviceable ve
hicle. Tho chief daiiKT lies In the ten
dency to skid when the brakes are ap
plied. Prcf. K. H. Btmhel of Harvard uni
versity, who soon will go to Hum as lf-s-al
adviser to the Winn, will take a sixteen-
euphonious avela'lon of "ZuverlassigVeiu- tiora power runalaiut It r traveling- about
i no country. It Mill d eiulpwd with a
"tluer'a" seat for a coolie attendant.
Lucian Kuves, a mining" specialist, of
Reno. Nev., luis purchased the record
breaking touring car with which the late
Tom Cooper covered a mile in 6ov sec
onds on the beach at Atlantic City last
H pfmLi-r. the car carrying live persons
at the time.
The Quaker City Motor club of Philadel
phia, T.dewater Automobile club of Union
fa lilt?
To accommodate the wives, daughters
snd women friends of its members, the
May PtatM Automobile association of Bos
ton will open a women's restaurant In its
club house.
An interesting Incident of the New York
show was the christening of the first car
made by a new nrm by a well known
actress. A bottle of champagne was brukan
over Its hood
party ot BL Louis tuoturlsu, IL IL
A coterie of automobile enthusiasts, all
homeless bachelors, had a "honk-honk din
ner' in a New York hotel Thunksgtvlng.
The appropriateness of the name was re
vealed when wild goose was bronght on.
and Its flying cry was sounded from horns
attached to each chair. The souvenirs were
gold spark plugs for watch charms.
Although spending f)6.0iu less than a year
ago in remodeling his staMes at Green
wich, Conn.. William O. liockt feller will
sell his stock of expensive I horonlihreds
and replace them flth aiiloinohllt-s. His
brother, Percy, who lives near by, ;tlso will
stock a large garage In preference to a
fancy stable.
In winter the air frequently does not pos
sess tho required warmth to vaporize or
make enough gis to start the engine, often
causing trouble to the Inexperienced oper
ator. A simple remedy Is to apply an or
dinary rubber hot water bottle to the car
buretter, leaving It there for a sulfh lent
period for the carburetter itself to draw
county, PWlnneld, N, J., aud JUaxylaad svine heat and thus aarlst vapwiUallon.
professional foot ball is more like league
Paso ball In the United Stairs, so far as us
surroundings und the enthusiasm attjehrd
to it are concerned. It struck me that as
sociation foi ball ill Knglanii is almost the
national game, as compared with what we
designate the national game In thn I'nitel
states, that Is, the game of base ball that
Is purely an exhibition. No field exists In
Khglaud for American professional bae
ball pl.iyers. Tim time is not ripe fur any
thing of that kind. The KiLgliaii are mas
toiing the rudiments of tho game for them
selves and not because they desire to s--e
othc rs come across the ocean to give ex
hibitions, or because they are anxious to
serure skilled American prvf esslonals to
help them.
A university with but one principal sport
would be- an almost unprecedented thing
In college athletic annals, but thst Is the
condition now faring Johns Hopkins uni
versity. The board of governors of the
Oeneral Athletic association of that In
stitution has come to the conclusion that
the support of a base ball team Is a need
less expense, Inasmuch as the university
holds the lacrosse championship, and there
fore there is little hope of Johns Hopkins
men appearing on the diamond this spring.
A few of the governors were In fai or of
retaining the great American game, but
the majority wre In favor of lacrosse as
the sole university sport, and a vote for the
retention of base ball was lost by 11 to L
The base ball enthusiasts at the university
Ever Vcn.an
I Interested and thoalrt i now
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MARVEL Whirlina Sors
!Tbs new Wlul Srriue,
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liluiirsiea Ihk.Ii eale. ftftves
full eerllcuUre end .:rei,,T i,.
teluetue ln-n. MIHVtl. l a.
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For File oy
SHERMAN & MtONNELI, DRUQ C(,
ltitii snd UodKe y ts.
usr . - - -rr-mm
are by no means willing to organize a
team without the mi.i.-tina of the board, ,
for In spite-of the fact that such an In
depend"nt team was put tn the field lu
1!4, without monetury lurking from the
college aud played a successful season with,
little financial loss, the fans are not willing
to run the rlhk again. On top of the de
cision of tha governors as to biso bull, the
students fear foot ball also will not last
longer than next fall, for the board has
ruled none of thn medic il student may I ave
a place on the university ele ven, and by
thus eliminating all but the undergraduates
of the college the team cannot hope to com
pete successfully with other teams who l ave
a larger college population to diaw tioia.
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