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THE OMATTA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 7, 1907 Tire Omaiia Sunday Ber OMA1LA, BVNDAT, JVVr 7. HOT. JUDGMENTS 0ONR of the comforting reflections In connection with the Fourth of July locally In the fact that not enough Omaha people cared to Journey to the strip of Cut-Off Inland that la known aa "No Man'a Land" and par f5 for the pleasure to make It worth whlla for 'Tlghtlng Pick" Hyland to ente.r the ring. Once upon time when man aaplred to call hlmaelf "Fighting Dick" or Fighting Anything, he was sup posed to be ready to peel his shirt and fight at the drop of the hat for any sum. even for tha.mera glory. But "Fighting Dick" will not enter the ring for leaa than 1,000 dollars, eo ha aaya. Or rather, hla manager for him, for Ilka prima donnl In this as well as other matters, tha prlsa fighter of today la never heard speaking with his own voice; his manager does all the talking. And, who, pray, Is "Fighting Dick" Hyland, that he demands a puma that ought to satisfy even a top-notcherT Ha Is a third-rate scrapper from San Francisco, who has developed an Impudence that fairly overmatches his blcepa. Not so very long ago champions would Jump at the chance to fight for half of 11,000, but here la a man as far from championship clasa as pole Is from pole, demanding all of tha thousand before he will even consent to "spar" the gentlemanly rounds permitted under tha liberal straining of the Nebraska law. It doesn't matter what "Fighting Dick" and hla manager publicly say of Omaha; down in their hearts they respect the people of this city the more because they wouldn't loosen up to see the exhi bition that would have been furnished If the affair had been put on. Whenever the swell-headed pugilist gets his eyes down to the slfte of ordinary figures, maybe he can get a game In Omaha, but third-raters will wait a long time for thousand-dollar blta In this town. It Is not often that a ball team finds Itself scheduled for aa long a run with Its hardest rivals aa Omaha has been. Twelve games In succession with Drs Moines and Lincoln, the next hardest contenders for the lead, and eight of them away from home, is a hard test for the team, and that It won five of them Is cause for satis faction. The loss of the odd game on the ground at Des Moines Is not a fault, nor even a misfortune; It Is almost a fore, gone conclusion that the visiting team will lose on the Des Moines ground a fact that hae been potent In the race ever since Des Moines has been a member. The show ing made by Omaha Is most encouraging, and plenty of reason exists to believe that the team will again head the league before the first of August. The race In the American league has the bugs sitting up and watching every move tgaln. The situation In the National Is In a measure a disgrace, but the fight the Naps are making on the Sox is most re freshing. In the American association a lomewhat similar condition la found, while In the Western the pennant may still be aid to lie between four teams, although Denver has proved a disappointment so far. nut Des Moines, Omaha and Lincoln may be depended on to keep the Interest alive for the next two months at least. In the Iowa league a nice little fight la on, while the Three-I has a struggle al most as cloae. All around, outside of the National, It Is a struggle between well balanced teams this season. "I would like to have this printed ver batim just aa It Is written, word for word," said an amateur base ball manager aa he dumped a long; account of his Fourth of July game on the sporting editor's deak. Perusal disclosed the fact that the report waa devoted largely to a vigorous roaat of a club that had once beaten the amateur manager's team. If ha reads this para graph he will understand why his "report" did not appear In The Bee. Suppression of rowdy ball Is all very well In theory, but It doesn't pan out in practice. . Cornelius McQlllycuddy is about the only American league manager .who hasn't earned a suspension this season for arguing with the umpire, and It may be that even the veteran Conny will find his tongue If the Athletics ever get where they may be suspected of being contenders. movement to abolish spikes on shoes Of ball players Is under way. It Is a much belated reform, but the players are so much Interested In It that next season will doubt, leas see the, spike abolished and the safe and useful oleat substituted. The advan tage of the cleat are aa many aa the dis advantage! of the spike. ' The Nebraska state trotting circuit Is In full bloom again, with some splendid sport In sight The tac meeting at Auburn was one of the best ever held there, sport and .attendance alike being high claas. Just vhy Omaha la left out of the circuit la more than will be easily explained. Thn Flood got fifteen day for assaulting an umpire during a game at Toronto. The action of the Canadian police magistrate is something of a novelty, but it will go far towards breaking up rowdy ball In the Eastern league, Juat before he went to Colma, Bosher BUI Squires gave out an Interview on the effects of climate on training. He said It didn't make much difference to him where he trained. Events proved he waa right. Golfers will all watch Euclid this week, but with Byera In form and eager to re trieve at home hla fortunea that fell abroad, It la hardly likely there will be any sur prises at the outcome. Louis Fleacher's tnotorcrcje race did very well on the Fourth, but It didn't seem to arouse the redhota aa the earlier meets on the Dodge street course did. Little talk haa been heard lately of trad ing Dolan for Thomas or any other drat baseman. It must be the Home Roasters' association has bad enough. Oeorge A Ion so Stone bids fair to break Into the limelight again, for he haa been straightening out curves pretty regularly for the last few weeks. Beatrice offers a program of racea that la mighty enticing on paper, and the ehances are strong that they'll look Just as good on the track. The Benson Eaglea are a proud lot of birds. They cleaned up the platter at Florence on the Fourth. "Fighting Dick" Hyland may yet see the lay when even (500 will sound like money to him. At any rate, the Diets Athletics are polite, riiey couldn t think or beating the ladies. Bill Bquirea knows how George III felt tbout in years ago. It was a squib at Colma. HILL CLIMBING FOR ALTOS Driven Advised to Change Speeds on Ascending Grades. PRACTICAL TALK ON THE POST Long? Island C lob Technical Com mittee lasers Chat" Explaining Farming Scenes. Revolutions. NEW YORK. Juiy 6. In ordir to thor oughly post the members of the organisa tion as to Just what sort of a tank thrlr cars perform when they climb hills, the technical committee of the Long Inland Automobile club of Brooklyn recently Is sued the following "chat" on hill climbing through Its chairman, Louis T. Weiss: One of the great feats which Is credited to most every car by its owner is, "She'll take any hill, within most any radius, on high." It is certainly necessary for a car to get over any hill on the road, and It is no doubt a pleasure to surmount It on "high;" but whether It Is advisable to do so Is a question answered In some cases Immediately by the breaking or straining of one of the parts, or later by the poor con dition of all the parts of the mechanism. The most Important factor in climbing hills fast certainly Is In having enough mo tive power In proportion to the weight of the car which it propels. It does not follow, however, that a high powered car can climb hills on the "high" as easily ss a light run about with a good deal less motive or horse-power; first, on account of the differ ence In weight to be dragged, and mainly on account of the relation of the speed of the motor to the driving wheels. High powered cars are generally geared much higher than cars with smaller motors. This is done so as to he able to run fast on the level without speeding the motor exces sively. The average relation of gearing Is about three to one on the "high" on cars having twenty to twenty-five horse-power. In cars of thirty to thirty-five horse-power we find the average "high" gear to be about two and one-half to one. Still higher powered cars, say from fifty to sixty horse power, have a ratio which Is often less than two to one, and racing machines are gen erally geared one to one on "high." Ratio of Engine to "peed. We speak of these ratios as the average, but there are many high powered cars with lower gear ratios when built for special uses or when they are air cooled, when, for example, the ratio three to one Is spoken of it means that the motor shaft turns three times In order to turn the driving wheel once. When figuring the ratio or apeed of our motor when traveling a certain mileage per hour we must necessarily consider the slxe of the driving wheels, because when a car mounted tin thirty-four-inch drivers has a ratio of three to one Its motor runs slower than one of a car mounted In thirty-two-inch drivers with a three to one gear, both machines making the same speed. Let us consider what the ratio of gearing has to do with hill climbing abilities of automobiles. The explosions In the cylinder behind the pistons are really pushing the car up the hill. When the motor Is allowed to run fast while the car goes slow the ex plosions occur often, the flywheel will keep on a continuous, uniform speed and the car will mount easily and without Jerking. When, however, the motor turns over slowly, the flywheel not being heavy enough to advance the car steadily between the in tervals of the explosions, the car will Jerk at each explosion and all driving and power transmitting parts will be under a strain for which they were really not designed. While they may stand It, they will certainly not last as long as they should when used carefully. To Impress the Importance of this sub ject on your minds and make It clear we will figure Just how far one explosion in one of the cylinders of a four-cycle, four cylinder motor, geared at two to one ratio, must push a car mounted on thirty-four Inch drivers, and at the same time how many revolutions, or at what speed per mmuiB me muiur ruuv wnrn iiibimhh bi,j I miles an hour. A mile being 6,280 feet and Mho circumference of a thirty-four Inch wheel being approximately nine feet. It takes about 687 revolutions Of the wheel to cover one mile. The) motor must then make twice 687 revolutions, or 1.174 revolu tions per minute when you run a mile a minute clip. In this car equipped with a four-cycle, four-cylinder motor each cylin der has one explosion, while the crank shaft turns twice, and we get four, multi plied by 687, or 2,348 impulses on the motor shsft In one minute, which figures about two feet and three Inches of travel of the car to each explosion. What Iteally Happens. Now, supposing we negotiate a hill with 834 per cent grade, which means one foot rise in three feet advance. If we ascend it with the car aforementioned each explosion in the small sylinder of perhaps four and one-half to five Inches In diame ter, and on a crank of two and three quarters to two and one-half Inches length, must push the car with all Its weight and against all the friction two feet and three lnchea ahead, and consequently rise It one- i third of that distance, which is nine Inches. Consider what a tremendoua strain there must be on all power-transmitting parts, especially when going slow, for then tho I flywheel, at the speed it turns, is not neavy enougn to carry me car sieaany ahead and upward. Your committee is not desirous of an- ? earing in an ordinary capacity aa to how o run cars up or down the hills, but sim ply wishes to call your attention to such matters as may be of Interest. However, we do believe it to be advisable to climb hills on the lower speeds. In speaking of the ratios of the change gears, allow ua to give a simple way of easily obtaining them on any car. They certainly can be figured, but It requires counting teeth on wheels, sprockets or bevel gears, which are very often Inclosed, and sometimes hard to get at and always full of grease. An easy and suno way la aa follows: En gage the clutch and the gears of which the ratios are to be determined. Mark the driv ing wheel at Its lowest point and the floor with chalk. Also mark the flywheel, so as to he Able to count the revolutions. Then push the car. counting the revolu tions on the flywheel until the chalk mark on the driving wheel is again at lis lowest point The ratio will be the number of turns Of the flywheel to one of the driving wheel. If, for example, the flywheel hnn turned two and one-quarter times the ratio Is two and one-quarter to one. Meas uring the distance between the chalk marks on the floor in feet and dividing It Into B.?0 will give the number of turns in one mile. Multiplying this quotient by the number of turns made by the flywheel will give the number of revolutions the motor makes in one mile. Antontohlle Notes. There are more than $1,000,000 worth of automobiles In San Francisco. It is believed that there will be at least 125 entries for the Glidden tour In an automobile the trouble with a little trouble In the mechanism Is that It will not remain little. Cleveland has a city ordinance forbidding the practice of leaving engines running when cars are stopped. According to consular reports a very suc cessful trade In American automobiles ran be cultivated In Mexico by the proper meth ods. To stop the Incessant fracturing of the speed laws the authorities of Atlantio City will equip a squad of police with motor cycles. Twenty autobuses are to be put Into oper ation on Fifth avenue, and thirty more will be added ua fast aa the makers can fur nish them. The Automobile club of Buffalo, N. Y., Is out for the Vanderbllt cup race, if It should be found impracticable to run It on Long Island this year. A feature of the next Paris Salon do 'Automobile will be a display of the va rious types of cars used since motoring be came a recognised sport. Although the natives of Mongolia are greatly excited over the Peking to Parle race, which is now on. there la no fear of any hostile demonstration. President Roosevelt Is an ardent advocate of International contests, whether of mo toring, yachting or rowing, holding that they stimulate patriotic feeling. The famous Five Million club of Texas is arranging a l.Ouo-nille endurance contest across the slate from El Paso to Texarkana and will offer ,0u0 worth of prises. Two chauffeurs have been convicted In San Francisco under the new California law making It a mtademanor to use an automobile wtthout the owner's consent. A three months' automobile tour of Eu rope and portions of Asia la to be taken by a Chicago society belle In an endeavor to cure her of a sertous mania for music. Nearly every one of Detroit's automobile factories supports a base ball club, mak ing that city the only one In the world to have an Automobile Manufacturers' league. There Is perhaps nothing which better illustrate the healthy condition than exlfts In the automobile Industry today than the fact that some of the manufacturer ai- res.lv are building !!' nndets. The l"i7 product hss len closed out nd a men is on to produce the new machines. From Jsnuary 1 to June 1 this year, S"7 siitnmohlles were regtntrl In NVw Turk state. During May 2.Z7& rnrs were regis tered, as compared with 1.9"0 cars In May, 1SC6. "What speed were you going at the time of the srcldent?" a motnr-oninlrm driver was asked recently In a Inndon court, "oh. 1 should say a gentle trot," he re plied. A fenture of a "Neighborhood Touring Club" formed at Hartford. Conn., Is that the members make It a point to take along their wives and strictly observe the speed limits. Washington university. Ft. Ixmls, Is pre paring to establish a chair of motoring in Its manual training department, the new feature to be added to the curriculum in the fall. A bill recently passed by thn lower house of the Wisconsin legislature gives a motor ist the right to pass a frightened horse or team If he thinks It necessary to avoid an accident. The decrease in importation of foreign cars so far this year have been figured out at alout 16 per cent. On the other hand, exports have Increased nearly 66 per cent over 14. Probably the most powerful automobile engine ever built haa been constructed by a Pennsylvania Arm. It Is of 250-horse power and will be used In a twelve-meter motor boat. Builders are Just beginning to meet the demand for steering wheels, the cross sec tions of the rims of which are oval Instead of round, which gives a more comfortable and secure grip. The financial success attending tha estab lishment of motor cars at Bt. Peterstiurg last year was great; but this year so many persons have gone Into the business that no one Is making any money. In retaliation for the stopping of Pun day base ball In Worcester county, N. Y., the mangers of the White Plalnes P.ase Mall association threaten to stop golf and the running of automobile on Sunday. The success which so far has attended the Peking-Paris ran through the grent Aelntlo deserts has demonstrated that automobiles may easily be employed In regions hereto fore traversed only by camel caravans. Italy sent over $2,000,000 worth of au tomobiles into France during the first four months of the present year, largely as a result of the victories achieved by Italian cars In European racing events last year. A steam ambulance, capable of a speed of forty-rive miles an hour. Is being tested by the medical deprtment of the army at West Point. If satisfactory. It Is said tho army will adopt such cars for general use. It Is pertinently pointed out that whllo the 140 automobiles, which composed the line on Orphans' day In New York seemed a goodly number, yet It represented less than 1 per cent of all machines owned In the city. Judge Fowler of the circuit court at Fond du Lao, Wis., has ruled that an automo bile may cross through a funeral proces sion in that city, although an ordinance prohibits vehicles drawn by horses or mules from so doing. Although far behind the other European nations, Portugal at last has begun to Im port automobiles In sufficient numbers to interest manufacturers In the United States and nearer home. In 1903 there were but twenty-six cars In the country. Motorists' organizations of Hampshire, England, will hold a gymkhana at South hampton In an endeavor to popularise both automoblllng and motor cycling In a district where police prosecutions and accidents have thrown both Into disfavor. There Is a possibility that motor 'buses will be barred from London, or at least from some sections of the city, as two of the metropolitan councils have under con sideration complaints, that the big vehicles are damaging buildings by vibration. Another learned English Judge has de cided that an automobile in a "nuisance on the highway." and has held the owner liable for damages for accidents occurlng while the chauffeur was disobeying orders by taking a drive for his own pleasure. The first automobile railroad ferry In the country has been established between At lantic City and Ocean City, N. J., and It now Is possible for motorists to drive the entire length of the state without getting out of sight of the Atlantic ocean. A New York automoblllst ha found many Indorsements to his proposition, that hereafter tl owners of automobiles par ticipate in Kiemorlal day exercises by pro viding the veterans cars In which to ride during their parades to and from the cemeteries. Parts makers are planning to build their 19og chesses wider than heretofore, making it possible to have stronger, lighter and more comfortable bodies, to give their cars better balance and to reduce the danger due to taking corners at high speed. One thousand dollars In gold coin, to be divided between the two drivers of the winning team, and a gold and silver trophy for the owner of the car are the prizes offered to the winners of the 24-hour race at Brighton Beach track, New York, August 9 and 10. The Royal Automobile club of Oreat Britain la conducting an Interesting series of dust contests over a road iieclally coated with finely powdered limestone rock. Photographs of the dust clouds produced by the different cars will be used to determine the winners. The new hill on Sohooley's mountain. In Morris county. New Jersey, which will be used hereafter for climbing contests. Is a terror. It Is two miles long, has three sharp turns, one at a right angle, and is well studded with water breaks. The grade averages '& per cent. By making a teat case In court the Ohio Valley Automobile club has succeeded In having the charges on all toll roads reduced to a 214-cent basis for visiting automobiles aa well as local drivers. Heretofore auto moblllsts crossing the state line from West Virginia have been taxed 6 cents a mile. His Victoria Godwin, the woman mo torist of international fame, who recently returned to England after a short visit In this country, announces that she will again visit America in September, and pilot a 60-horse power cur in the interna tional cup races on Long Island. An armored automobile recently tried be fore the kaiser and Intended for use of offi cers In the field Is protected by armor six millimeters thick. It is enveloped by a Steel bood, with two loopholes In front for quick firing rifles. Inside it is fitted with leather pouches containing a small battery of quick-firing pistols. Walter Stevens, a merchant, recently ran through a rlnck of chickens at Luwrenoe burg, lnd., with his car and an old rooeter became entangled In the steering gear. The car craehtd Into a telegraph pole und was sadly wrecked, while the rooster struggled I out of the wreckage and marched away, crowing derisively. The recent arrest of John D. Rockefeller because his chauffeur was breuknng the speed law 1 giving New York motorists a luugh at the "Oil Kind's" expense, tmly a few days before he was held up by a rural constahle he guve positive orders that his estate near Tarrytovtn be closed aKalnst ull automobiles because some drivers were reckless. Autoiuobllists had a hard time on July 3 and 4 dodging missies and rockets which were shot at them. Several women were shot In the back by Human candles and several escaped serious injury. The re wards offered by the Omaha Automobile club some time ago has had a sulutary effect In keeping the vicious Inclined within bounds, but they seemed to feel they hud a special license on the Fourth to mako themselves obnoxious and proceeded to do It. Motorcyclists were In the limelight on the Fourth und there were no automobile races In Omaha. After all the racing talk among the automobillsta in the spring, It looked certain that something might come of it all and that some of the fust boys would either speed over the Dodge street course or over some neighboring race track. Louis Flescher tilled in the gup by pulling off a motorcycle race with fourteen starters on the Dodge street course, furnishing con siderable amusement to a large number of lovers of fast work of any kind. The demand for the better grade of wheels Is unprecedented and dealers feel encouraged to luy In a large stock for next year. J. J. Derlght, who sold the twenty five Stoddard-Ltuytons he bought this spring, has doubled his order fur next year. Ho Just returned from the factory, where he placed an order for fifty with early delivery. He is now selling tome of thee, among the buyers for next year being N. F. Harrlman, superintendent of tests for the Harrlman lines. 'I lie dealers are fast cleaning up on their cheaper wheels and If the present rale of auhs continues long there will soon not be an automobile to be had In Omaha. Waterloo had some automobile races, and Frank Parmelee, the Old Indiun who has contested In many a shooting tournament, went forth and came home with all the money. He had his big Stevens-Duryea and a large Olds runabout was also In the race, along with a Hlodd&rd-Dayton. Jim De rlght came along with hla bite Pope about an hour before the race, enroute with his wife to a dinner engagement In Fremont, He offered to pay the entrance fee if they would let him go at that time and let his time count against the winner of the race. The promoters refused to do this. Parme lee. with his shorter wheel base, had an advantage over the Dayton on the turns and the Oids broke two wheels in round off glvlug the race to Paruwlce, Wil li THE COLLEGE ATHLETES Doings in the Field of Sport in East and West THE INTERCOLLEGIATE REGATTAS tolerable nark on Ilonlss Map Once More Ed Ten Errk'a necee Where Navy Eight Was Lacking. The college regattas at Poughkeepsle and New London completed the cycle of the athletic year In the universities. It was an unusual season In college aquatics. In the Intercollegiate Rowing association the pres tige of Columbia was restored. The race the New Yorkers rowed against Cornell on the Hudson put them right back on the athletic map. On the Thames Yale again demonstrated her superiority over Har vard In rowing and checked the Crimson when there was some Idea that the Cam bridge men could not be beaten. Behind the Hudson regatta lies another thing. The conclusive victory of the Wisconsin freshmen mskes It more or less certain that the Badgers will coma another year to the Hudson even If the re-engagement of E. H. Ten Eyck as coach directly after the Syracuse-Wisconsin regatta did not Insure It before. The races on the Hudson were split up well. Syracuse, Wisconsin and Cornell each took a race, and there was general satis faction that Cornell did not take all three, aa has been done In some years. It is not that any person Is so unfair as to hope that the best crew will not win, but It kills public Interest In any sport when one college Is so overwhelmingly superior that the result of any race may be forecasted with surety. The public would like always ' to see an outsider do well, on general principles. So It Is that very many persons j want Wisconsin to win a 'varsity race I solely because the Badgers have been com ing here and trying hard for nine years. In that time the only victories won by Wisconsin crews have been in the fresh man race, and they number only two. Change In the Crewe. A great deal of stress has been placed J on the fact that Coach Courtney changed his boat about only a short time before the race. In making statements like these, one 1s apt to lose sight of the fact that the crew which was second in the race by three feet also was uncertain In make up until a week before the race. Coach Rice of Columbia was changing his men around, too. S. McLean, Glllea and Btarbuck wero tried In turn In various seats only eight days before the regatta. It was a hard blow to Rlce'a figuring that Jack Ryan waa unable to row In the Columbia eight. Ryan threw out a weak knee while fooling about playing base ball at the Columbia quarters. Physically he was mere power ful than Btarbuck, who took his place after the accident. The incident of the change was not noted particularly at the time, because there was a general impression that Columbia probably would not amount to a great deal In the coming race. It Is a curious thing and has been noted before that Co lumbia has been guilty of sending In sev eral false alarms. Whether with the knowledge or consent of the coach, Colum bia crews In years past have been pre dicted either sure or likely winners when they really did not merit any such thing. As a result the public has come to believe that no . credence should be put In any more of these statements. Besides, this year Coach Rice was very close-mouthed about the ability of his men. He did not say at any one time that they were very good or very bad. He kept all hla Idea to himself. Columbia men had the Impression that the crew was better than usual. Indeed, they knew that it was as good a crew as Columbia ever had had. And yet the men in the boat did not impress them greatly. They were Imbued with not a little of the "show me" spirit, so they were content to wait. The private Ideas as to the worth of the crew were Justified when they got into action. The men rowed sturdily all the way until Just before the finish, when they tired badly. One crew or the other had to give In after the terrible struggle and It was not unnatural that It skould be the lighter crew, which had done most of the pacing and forcing. There can be no Question of It, things are different now at Columbia. Rice haa wrought changes. At the two-mile mark In the 'varsity race the Cornell crew gave every appearance of having waited long enough and of being prepared then and there to run away from the New Yorkers. If they had any such Idea they were mis taken. Rice's men were there to stick, and they stuck right up to the last effort. They were rowed out to the final ounce and wheu they were all through they were still thro feet short of being winners. The I race between Columbia and Cornell waa the beat ever seen on the river, not barring the races In 1S99 and In 101. Rarely have two crews been seen to stick together like that for so much of the distance. Ed Ten Eyck's Trlnmph. Freshman crews generally give a pretty good line on the capabilities of a coach. That Is, of course, with the provision al ways that freshman crews cannot always be relied upon to row to form. In the case of Wisconsin's victorious boat thla year no complaint of that kind can be made. The Badger 1W0 bunch rowed aa If hardened to the game. They walked right away from the others and had the race always In 1 hand. The Columbia freshmen being vic tims of an accident which, of course, could not be observed from the shore, looked to have petered out after the first mile. Yet they stayed right up and fought even with the boat waterlogged, so that It waa only at the end that they really did fall back to fourth place. They showed that RJce 1 waa a good coach, although their work was I by no means equal to that of the Wisconsin imen. It gave a good line on the qualities of Ed Ten Eyck. On the strength of that alone I Wisconsin would be Justified In re-engsglng I Mm. His men rowed a very pretty well I Judged race and bore out all the predictions I niade beforehand that they would win. They set their boat up better than the 'varsity eight and It is by no means certain that they would have been any worse in the varsity four-mile race than the older Badge crew waa. The trouble which hampered the 1 Badger 'varsity most. It appeared, waa that their boat set down by the head and thus helped to ship water greatly In the rough going on the easterly courses. Ten Eyck. like his father, and Richard Glendon, was hoping for smoother water and no wind as the ideal conditions for a 'varsity race. The impression among the men who know about the Poughkeepsle course Is that It never Is absolutely fair to all tha starters. For Instance, ou the oc casion of the day of the race, one coach ex plained that he believed that hla second crew taking the Inside course where Colum bia was could beat, the first crew, out on the Navy's lane, by ten lengtha In four miles Just because of the difference In courses. A statement of this kind naturally la taken with a grain of salt. But there is not a great deal of doubt that some of the courses are better than others. .Navy Crew a Disappointment. Coach Glendon was hoping for the sake of the navy crew that the water would not be rough. He explained that If it were rough the navy boat might as well be left In the boat house. He did not explain why rough water should disturb the navy crew, well used as It wss to the by no means smooth course on the Severn. The fact was that the navy crew wss a dlssppolntment to those who barked It. The expectation was that the crew could hardly fall to be second. The Nsvy men figured It out right In puk ing Cornell as the most likely rival for the honors. At least there was such small difference between Columbia and Cornell that It waa like pairing horses In the bet ting. Where the Navy fallod. it appeared, was in rowing the first part of the race. It was suggested that the midshipmen had the Idea that possibly they could not last out the distance If they started to pull as they did customarily, so they were content to lie away back and then depend upon a spurt. They did try a spurt, at the bridge which cut down a great deal of the advan tage the leaders hsd. But It was Impossible to make the spurt lsst and the Navy's tac tics, If such thoy were, were wrongly fig ured out Flalnly speaking, the Navy crew did poorly for a boat composed of the men that Glandon had. There was no better lot of men on the river; only one crew, pos sibly, that was anywhere near as good. It may be figured out that the Navy did pretty well to be third In a collection of seven crews In Its first year, and viewed In that way It Is not so bad. The public ex pectation was that the Navy was bound to be very well up, and anything short of second place did not appeal as a very good performance for a crew made of men of the build of the Naval academy eight. Other College Crews. What Georgetown did In the 'varsity race need not tend to discourage the oarsmen from that place. It is believed. The George town eight simply lacked the power to go the distance with a boot full of water. If the day had been calm the Georgetown crew would have made a much better show ing. Naturally It cannot fall to be discour aging to Coach Russell In his very first ft tempt at the game In a college, but tlio general Idea among those who watched the crews Is that he should stick right at It. When Georgetown gets anything like a heavy crew the men should perform credit ably. There Is, however, one feature in which Coach Russell's theories do not ap pear good. His men do not cover the blades of their oars, and It Is hard to see how they can get the power In the stroke If they continue to do that. It Is said of Harvard In the other regatta that the enforced change In makeup the ; very day of the race through the Illness of Glass, one of the strongest men In the boat, naturally hurt the chances. That this la so Is not hard to realise. The Harvard crew, however, did not seem to get any speed Into a low stroke; as the Cornell men do. They had their slides all right when they used the proper progress. When the up with Yale they had to raise the stroke and that killed the slide work. That Is to say, the men of muscle were there, but they did not seem to apply the power rightly. That made all the difference In the world. The Yale crew waa trained along dif ferent lines. The men were Instructed for one thing In pulling the oar through on a low parallel to the line of the shell. Tha Harvard men pulled In high on their chests finishing with a slap down to their laps which made all the weight sink down at 1 once and burled the bow of the boat. They j were getting a certain amount of power on a part of the stroke where power seems unnecessary. That Is to say, right at the end. If the power Is rightly applied there Is no need to Jerk through the very last part of the stroke. The average Thames winner would hardly be a victor on the Hudson, but a good crew Is a good crew anywhere. In view of that It la Interesting to note that In the Yale varsity eight were five young men from New York City. The talk about husky farmer lads making a crew get another rap right there. In fact, of the remaining three one Is from Syracuse and the others from South Orange and Morris town, which are not far from New York. PRINCETON AT POTTGHKEEPSEE Tlgera Mar Join Other Colleges on the Hudson. NEW YORK. July 6, Constance S. Titus reports that Princeton, whose osrsmen he has been coaching, may send a crew to Poughkeepsle within two years'' time. The Tigers are eager to be represented In the great annual regatta, as rowing In the only branch of athletics In which they do not compete. Contrary to the opinions first held on the subject, the athletic authorities there think that rowing will keep the foot ball, hockey and basket ball men In good condition throughout the spring, where otherwise the same men, not engaged In any athletic pastime at this season, would lose condition. Coach Titus hopes to bring about the development of a varsity crew through the development of class crews. The ennounce ment of a spring regatta for 1908 would un doubtedly bring out much good material, and there Is plenty of It at Princeton. From the clnss eights and fours could be selected a varsity squad and from this squad Titus could pick and train an eight fit to compete at Poughkeepsle. HALIFAX TO ROW ON SCUYLKILL Nova Srotlana Announce Intention of Taking Part In Raeen. NEW TOnK. July 8. Officers of the Na tional Association of Amateur Ooarsmen have received word that Halifax, N. S., will be represented at the championship races In August on the Schuylkill river, Philadelphia. The entries will be a single, double and probably a four. Portland. Ore., has a senior four for the national cham pionship, and the same crew Intends to row In the International regatta at James town the following week. Toronto. Can., has a representative lot of men training at the Don and Argonaut clubs; an eight la to row from one of these orijanlxatlona, and also In the Intercity contests of the International regatta at Jamestown. All signs point to fine sport In both these re gattas, as the contenders will have In view the capture of both national and Interna tional championships. WEST COAST CREWS ON HUDSON Regatta at Poaghkeepsle to Be Made National Affair. NEW YORK. July .-Next year's re gatta at Poughkeepsle will probably be even more ' of a national championship affair than waa that of 1907. The Paclflo coast will be represented by a crew. The Uni versity of California,' Stanford university, Oregon and Washington will hold their regatta in western waters, and the winner will be sent eaait to compete on the Hud son. There Is also some talk of a crew from West Point and one from Princeton. The Hudson rrver course la wide enough to accommodate all of these and more. And when these repreeentatlve American collfgee meet the intercollegiate regatta will take Its place aa the most Important of all rowing affairs. Antoa mt Horse flaee. There are more automobiles at the fcTheepshtad Day traefk. N. Y., when the Suburban was run than ever have been to gether In thla country, with the possible exception of the last Vanderbllt cun -see. Of the 71 cars all but Z3f) were of Ameffjin construction, representing the work of i.iore than fifty factories. The value of tbs col lecllon was estimated at 13,171.000, TALES TOLD BY FISHERMEN Nebraska Lakes Furnish Better Sport Than the Northern. BOY BEATS CATFISH IN WATER lory llrounht (p from Anile, by Parly of Omnhane Who Watched a .Most Kseltlnst Central. i Tho direct rays of the sun for the lust few days has made fishing hard on the fishermen In more ways than one. It was hot and the fish refused to bite. This did not deter many fishermen from being most Industrious on the Fourth, and several small catches were made at Mannwa and Cut-Off lake. Those returning from the lakes In northern Nebraska come back with more fish and better fish tales than those who hsve gone to the lakes of Wis consin and Minnesota. This Is probably due to tho seasons, it la an acknowledged fact that the work of Fish Commissioner O'Brien in planting fish in the streams and lakes of Nebraska Is bearing fruit, and the fishing la letter than ever before, people do not have to travel far to see the effects of this work, but simply need to look at Cut-Off lake, where a few years ago a few sun fish were caught, but where now strings of fine black bass are common. A great help In this work Is IVputy Warden I'ierson, who Is Indefatigable In his cru sades against the Illegal seiners. KUh and Pain. Whether fish have an acute sense of pain Is a mooted question, among anglers. Sheriff McDonald, who recently spent a few days at Dewey lake In Cherry county tolls a story that will give some satisfaction to the humane sportsman. Mr. McDonald was one of a party In a boat, casting among the reeds. One of the other members of the party hooked a bass that looked and fought like a whale. After a long struggle tho line broke and Mr. Bass swan away triumphantly. The sheriff was In the bow of the boat with a spoon on a casting rod. He dropped his spoon directly In tho way of the departing monster. The flsh struck and In a few minutes lay gasping In the bottom of the boat. Ex amination showed he still had In his mouth the hook and the frog bait he had taken first. Thla would Indicate the pain of thrt first hook was not sufficient to prevent tho fish from taking tho second. The flsh weighed five and one-hnlf pounds. Hoy OotBthta 1'Lh. A party of Omaha anglers who were fishing at the sand pit near Vally were treated to a neat fight one day last week between a small boy and a large flsh. Charleii Hlghsmlth. C. Learch, Ralp Hay ward, O. Van Zant and George Griffith were the Omaha fishermen, who were after the bass and cat flsh. which are to be caught near Valley. After they had fished for a time one of the men became weary and left his rod sticking In the sand with the ball In the water. Tt was soon ntii that a good sired flsh had taken hold of 1 me nan. a small Boy approached and asked if he could have that flsh If he would go and get It. The flsh had pulled the rod Into the lake. When he was told he could have the flsh he disrobed and swam after the big feller which was whirling the pole around and making It stand on end In the water. The hoy soon reached the rod and then the fight began. There la said to be about eighty-five feet of water at that point and the youngster, holding the rod with one hand had to swim for the shore with the other. For the gallant tight he put up the men called him Sharkey, and no ouirt uiu iiKiu ior ine nan couia noia 01111 utcK wnenever it cnose. ine bout In no other disease Is a thorough than la Contagious Blood Poison. The least particle of this insidious virus will multiply la the circulation and so thoroughly contaminate the blood that no part of the body will be exempt from the ravages of this powerful u.ao.. uauui; inn m oYiupiuiu itself, but soon the blood becomes so ulcerate, glands in the jrroin swell, hair and eye-brows come out, copper colored spots appear on the body, and frequently sores and ulcers break out on the flesh to humiliate the sufferer. S. S. S. cures Contagious Blood Poison by purifying the circulation. It attacks the disease in the right way by going down into the circulation, neutralizing and forcing out every particle of the poison, and making this fluid pure, fresh and health-sustaining. The Im provement commences as soon as the patient gets under the Influence'of S. S. S., and continues nntil every trace .of the disease is removed from the blood, and the sufferer completely restored to health. Not one particle of the poison is left for future out-breaks after S. S. S. has purged and purified me diooq. uoog. on tne norae treatment of this disease and any medical advice desired free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA,' GA : N x, , I 1 i x 1 ' The twenty-four hour automobile race at Detroit was easily won by the Ford In 'competition with everything. This cut shows the Ford In the home stretch, leading the Thomas Flyer and the Pope Toledo, beating them easily. Notice the rear fellow eating dust. There wag no Sloddard-Dayton In this race; It there had been, of course, the titoddard-Dayton would have won, as usual, and the Ford a close second. We are selling a carload of Fords every week. Over one-third of our allotment of fifty Htoddard-Daj tons for next year are sold. More Stoddard-Daytons In use In Omaha than any other car. None for sale for immediate delivery, but booking orders for fall and spring delivery. Better got your order In. Nearly sold out of second-hand cars still hare the old Pope. Broke a few gears In It last week, but having tt put in good shape. In the mean time, demonstrating with the Premier, which Is also for sale. DeriKi Automobile Company rrLsi. Trusses and Wa sell Trusses and Suspensories and all kinds or Rubber Goods XniMCi, $1.00 to $5.00 Baapensorles with or without leg sirs Write for Rubber Ooods Catalogue. Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. Cor. 10th aud Dodge bts. Omaha. Neb. lasted about forty minutes, but the boy won and was rewarded with the llnh-a ten pound catfish. The Omaha men landed a dVr.i n black bass, weighing from two to three and a half pounds. Jor krs . the llelt. Joseph Sykes brought a good flsh story back with him when he returned last week from a fishing trip st Madison lake, Iln nesota. M.innger Sn v r of the IVavey Klevetor company at Kansas City wss at Madison at the same time Mr. Pikes was there and while fishing one day with a taiuhin hook with one frog he landed two blink bass. He was fishing 111 still, clear water and could see both llsh reins; after the frog. Both struck at once and when landed a two-atid-one-half-oiind bass was on tl:e first hook and a throe and a-half-pounfl-r on the second hook. William Guild, chief clerk In the offl.-e of Superintendent Park of the 1'nlon Ta rifle and Jay Park, son of the superin tendent, leave Sunday for a two weeks' fishing and camping trip In the wilds of Wyoming. They go to Medicine Bow, where a camping outfit and a guide will be secured and will then drive about forty miles Into the mountains, camping on the Laramie river. FOOT RACERS ARE IN EARNEST gome tirrnt Cinder Path rnggle Are Promised. NEW YORK, July .-8onie gTeat cinder path struggles will be witnessed In August and September. Tho runners seem to monopolise the chances of new records In preference tu the sprinters. Men Ilka Charles Parsons, N. J. Cartmell and Dan KelUy can hardly hope to displace the ex isting figures and 22oyard events. At tha quarter mile tho record possibilities begin to show. Taylor, the colored runner, hag proven himself the fastest man since the days of Maxey Ing, and a few are of tha opinion that the dark one can step along close to Ixing s record 47 seconds. Tsy lor again looms up as a record possibility, and In thla event his chances are far bet ter than in the 4:40. Were Taylor to get Into a race with Hlllman and Bheppard on a straightaway course, It seems certain that ono of the trio would tumble Burke' mark of 1:11. Sheppard has already dona 1:11H outdoors, and Hlllman has run as fast as l:12k without special preparations. Both the half mile and 1,000-yard records are In danger of Sheppard's great speed. The latter mark looks like pie for tha Quaker boy once he gets a crack at It, under favorable conditions. That 8heppard Is capable of doing the half mile figures, too, Is fresh In everyone's mind, from his great race at Travera Island last fall, where he ran home In LMV-Just a fifth out of the way. Then comes the mile. A list of some of the best with their fastest raeeg shows: Hasklna, 4:2o; Cohn, 4:24: Rod gers, 2:22,: Lewis, 4:23; Coe, 4:23; Sullivan, 4:22S, and Llghtbody, 4:24. To hold his title this year, Champion Fred Rodgers will have to put out some rare running. On paper' Hasklns looks the most likely to) approach Conneff's mark, but the whole lot will bear watching, especially Light body, who haa never been run off his loot since ho entered the list of good ones. Ills admirers claim that all Llghtbody needs to run 4:15 Is good condition and pace faat enough. It is doubtful If there ever waa a time before in American athletlo history when seven men were running under 4:25. If Rowe of Michigan decides to run this summer, and the natural clash between him, Bonhag" Longboat and Nehrlch re sults, some of the American long distance records will be In danger. Rowe and Bon hag will probably do any smashing that la to be done, from two to five miles, whlla the Indian may set new records In tha longer grinds. Several other athletlo rec ords are In danger this year. CURES 0 BLOOD POISON cleansintr of the blood more necessarv uiLiccsuTc or vuccr, insigDiucani in contaminated that the mouth and throat v'i.'-:' ' ' : ' - ' . . .' ... ..- : i. . . 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