'THE -OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 1. 1907.
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CHAMPION ATHLETES INFORM
Fleet and Strong; Candidate for
National Titles.
GAMES LOOK GOOD 15 ADVANCE
Battle' Drtnrfa - Krllr nn Paraona
la One llandrfd Tarda the Faatnre
of A. A. V. Cnnraplnnshlps
t Jnsaeston.
The national American Athlntlc union
track anfl fluid ohampslonshlp at the James
town exposition thla week, a far as the
entry list Indicated, . premiers om rare
contests. In short. It ml-ht be put down
as a sort of International affair, for not
only will Canada have a representation, but
men from over the Atlantic will make a
bid for the honors. The western and east
ern cracks will meet and the public will
have a chance to compare their prowess.
t No minor feature will be the scramble
for point honors between the New Tork
Athletic olub and the Irish-American Ath
letic club, and both cluba will be on hand
with strong- teams for both Junior and
senior meets, while the Olympic club of
Ban Francisco. If It comes with the Hat of
competitors It has entered, will be a fac
tor In the hunt for points. To dope the
winner of either the Junior or senior meet
just now Is a rather difficult task, for It Is
not known who will no to the scratch at
the last moment. If all the westerners
entered should compete they will cut Into
the Irish more vitally than Into the New
Torks. and m that case It looks as If tho
Win fed Foot club would secure both
meets.
Thounh the battle for the senior point
aygrecate may be hlnhly Interesting It will
be completely overshadowed by the 100
yard race, In which Dan J. Kelly, holder
of the world's amateur record of Mi sec
onds, and Charles I Parsons, ' with a 9
seconds record and winner of the 1S0B na
tional event at Portland. Me., will make
their eastern debut. Kelly represents tho
University of Oregon and Parsons the
Olympic club of Ban Ftanotseo, and out
. there beyond the Rockies there Is keen
rivalry between the pair, so they are com
lns; east to settle the question of supremacy.
Blnoe Kelly made hla world's mark at the
Pacific Northwestern championships held
at Spokane In June. 190. there have been
repeated hints by eastern critics and other
jealous-minded Individuals that the Oregon
boy was not equal to the task, and many
wanted to see him sport silk In the east.
Nevertheless about a ton of affidavits wers
landed with the American Athletic union
record authorities backing Kelly's record
and everything about It.
Hardly anybody can be found who doubts
Parson's seconds, for he beat Archie
Ilahn about two yards for the champion
ship when the Milwaukee sprinter was at
his best, and this is conclusive evidence
that the Olympic club man Is a good one.
Whatever may be the result of the Kelly
Parsons tussle the best any man In the
east can expect la third place, and quite a
bunch will be found struggling for the
point. It Is said that Fontlne of St. IxjuIs
I Is doing 9H seconds and there la a good
ten seconds runner In P- C. Oerhardt of
Ban Francisco. It Is a toss-up between C.
' J. Qerts of the New Tork Atnletle club and
Forresf-Bmlthson of t)e Multnomah Ath
letic club of Portland and Queyrouse, the
southern champion, the two former doing
about 10 seconds, while the latter Is cred
ited with 9, seconds. The other entries,
about a dosen In number, will show In the
trial heats, and that Is about all. Dennis
Murray of Ireland Is entered, but Is not
fast enough for . such company.
Much ths aame result should be forth
coming In the MO jrards. Kelly, with his
record of tt seconds. If he runs true to
his form, should makeytho others look slow,
and probably Parsons will obme in for
econd place. It is the tallest sort of a
guess toiame third man from a formidable
list.
The quarter-mile has such cracks to pick
from as J. B. Taylor, Pennsylvania Uni
versity! Harry Hlllman, W. T. Coholan.
C M. French and Paul Pilgrim of the New
York Athletlo club and 3. Trevan of the
Irish American Athletlo club. Ex
cept there Is a real dark one
somewhere In hiding a trio out of the
half a Uoien memtloned should account for
the three places, and on paper Taylor
should be the favorite, with Hlllman and
Coholan pushing him close. .Pilgrim may
do as he did In the event at Athens, and
If fit he should be somewhere near as the
foremost division shoots across the goal.
French, the ex-Cornelllte. won the Inter
collegiate championship of 1908, and Teevan
won ths Canadian championship last year.
So It will I seen that In the three events
- named the New York Athletlo club will
not score much, and the Irish need expect
leas. '
Where the Irish may expect a sure
enough win Is In the half mile, with Shep
pardi that Is to go on past performances.
Were Parsons himself he could be banked
tipon to give the Irish runner a tough sort
of an argument, but the former Tale filer
has not been moving satisfactorily tor a
" long time, and it Is even doubtful It he
ccounts for a point. Of law Pilgrim has
been showing flashes of his form In the
Olympic games, and he may be relied upon
for something In the event. French and
Zlnk of the New Tork Athletic club, If they
run up to form, ehould be In the hunt on the
homestretch, and the same might be said
of White. Bacon and Tlromllow for the
Irish. The representatives of the Olympla
Club of Bon Francisco are Padllla. J. R.
Kelly and Andrew O. Career, but there la
' hardly a point In the trio.
To figure on the mile is more or less of
a problem, for If Rodgers's leg does not
blow up he will win to a certainty, but if
the limb goes back on the New York Ath
letlo club roan, first place should go to
Jimmy Sullivan of the Irish, or to Riley,
i-i, nr Mnnvm of the same team. The
opposition from other quarters Is not se
rious In this race. Bonhuf should win the
five miles, and second In this Is a hard
calculation,' but the race will be between
Bellara, Flsele, Nelson. Trube of the New
York Athletlo club, or Daly. Collins. Mun
. son of the Irish club, or Eddy Carr of the
Xavier Athletic club.
Two of the best high hurdlers entered
In the l-yard event are Forrest Bralthson
of the Multnomah Athletlo club of Port
land. Ore., and W. A. Powell of the Olym
pla Athletic club of San Francisco.
Bmlthson's best time over the tsll
sticks is 1M4 seconds, made at the
Paclflo Northwestern meet a little more
than a year ago. and should he repeat
those figures at Jamestown he will win by
a block. Powell has dene IS seconds, and.
on these figures Is the logical man for
secjnd place. . One point remains to be
fought out between Kear. te. McCulloch.
Sullivan. Prinamade, New Yoik Athletlo
club, and Btevtnson, Filer and Kewcomb
Of tho Irish-American Athletlo club.
Harry L. Hlllman should find no diffi
culty In retaining bis title for the low
hurdles. Nothing like tbe time he made
last year, KA seconds, has been accom
plished by any of Ma opponents, the near
est being tb seconds by Bmithson, who
may get sooond, with Powell third. Burech,
Kear, Le and Sullivan of the New York
(Mulatto club and Northrldg. Eller, New
tombs. Cook, and Langan 'of the Irish are
tho other prominent entries.
la the flail events tbe Irish olub showed
tno strength last year by winning four
firsts, while the New York Athletlo club
did not score a win. It will hardly result
thst way this time If the entries amount
to anything. John Flanagan easily placed
the hammer and the flfty-slx-pound weight
to the credit of the Irish, and Sheridan as
easily won the discus, but matters msy bo
a trifle altered this trip. There la Matt
McOrath of the New York Athletic club
to bother John In the hammer, and, except
he has a link or two up his sleeve, the
first prise will go to the New Tork Athletic
club, snd maybe the second to boot. The
gigantic Ralph Rose Is there to meet Sheri
dan In the discus, and If reports from the
far west are true. Martin la In dangvr
of losing the championship and record. In
ISOt, at St. Louis. Rose and Sherldun tied
at 128 feet 10 Inches, and in the throwofl
Sheridan won, doing IT! feet. Rose, too.
Is supposed to be throwing the "fifty-six"
across a city lot, but far away hills are
always green, and Flanagan may easily
retain the championship. A factor In the
hammer event will be Alfred Plaw of the
Olympic club, and that he will score some
thing there Is no doubt, ror last year he
made the good throw of 171 feet 10 inches.
Between Rose, Coe and Hongan, each of
whom held the world's record In torn- for
the sixteen-pound shot, the points for the
event should be split up. If Rose Is In
anything like his Old form he should cap
ture the title.
The Greek style of throwing the discus
has been added to the list or events and the
result Is very uncertain. It will all depend
on the correct method of throwing, and
many men perhaps today who are doing
great things In practice may receive a rude
shock when they take the pedestal In the
competition. Whatever distance will be
accomplished will be the American record.
It being the Introduction of the 'exercise.
The high Jump will have "real International
flavor owing to the presence of Con Leahy,
the. Olympic, English and Irish champion,
and good at any time on fair ground for
about six feet two inches. Channing Hall
of the Olympic club has cleared this
height. Herbert A. Oldney of the Boston
Athletic club Is a strong six-foot man and
may go a little higher. In short, the con
test should be between Leahy, Qldney and
Hall. Porter and Rlsley of the Irish club
are good, and so Is Mahoney of the New
York Athletic club.
If Dan Kelly appears In the broad Jump
he should make It warm, as he has a record
of twenty-four feet four Inches, but he
will find a sturdy opponent In Jim O'Con
nell of the New York Athletic club, on
fair ground able to beat twenty-three feet
at any time. Prlnsteln of the Irish Amer
ican Athletic club should be hovering
around third place. The pole vault is un
certain. H. L. Moore, who tied with Le
Roy Samse last year at eleven feet six
Inches, is on hand, and he will be helped
out by D. S. Horlln, B. T. Nelson. Marshall
Peabody and W. 8. Carrlck of the New
York Athletic club. The Irish vaulters
are Claude Allen, W. A. McLeod and E. T.
Cook.
GOLF ETJ1ES NEED REVISION
Movement to Secure Reform Has Now
Much Headway.
NEW YORK, Aug. 81. The chief toplo
among golfers the world over at present
relates to the question of rules. Almost
simultaneously with the recent plea for
recognition which waa sent to he St. An
drews committee over the official seal of
the United States Golf association occur
red an Important development with that
ruling body. As a result of a meeting of
representative golfers held a short Ums
ago In London, a motion is to be brought
fcrward at the ' autumn gathering of the
Royal and Ancient club to Increase the
members of the rules committee and to In
clude representatives of leading associa
tions outside. This would, of course. In
clude America, as well as the leading Brit
ish associations. Although the details of
ths motion are not yet settled, there seems
good prospeot of Its being carried. Golfers,
wherever the game Is played, will be thank
ful that at last the necessity for reform
of some sort Is thus recognised within the
membership of the ruling body Itself. But
while the stern and unbending Tory ele
ment has been driven to admit that the
rules require revision, It Is practically
oertatn that when the work comes to be
taken up optnlona will be found to be
sharply divided as to tho best means of
remedy.
LONDON, Aug. tl. At one or two
famous golf clubs, whose members ars
chiefly Londoners, betUng on matches has
lately assumed tho proportions of a scan
'dal. and the committees have had pres
sure brought to bear on them with the
object of putting an end to the practice.
They find themselves. , however, . In a
most difficult position, as-any , arbitrary
ruling on the subject of bettlhg would
undoubtedly cause Intense dissatisfaction
to the majority of members. Meanwhile,
a match has been arranged to take place
over the course of one of these clubs
In a week's time,' when a sum of mors
than $3,600 will be at stake.
FOOT FAULTS LN LAWN TENNIS
En all ah Committee - Appointed to
. Deal with tho Matter.
NEW YORK. Aug. 81. Messrs. Bencley,
Hlllyard, Gore, lilckson and Newburn
have been appointed ,by the English Lawn
Tennis association as a special commit
tee to deal with the question of foot
faults, tho council having come to tho
conclusion that some alteration waa ex
pedient In the service law. It will be the
mission of this committee to obtain the
opinions of all the affiliated clubs and
associations by means of a circular, and
then they will be confronted with the
problem of how best to grapple with a
difficulty that has exercised the minds
of the authorities for many months past.
This action on the part of the lawn ten
nis association council Is the out.wnw
of Mr. Hlckson's proposal that both
feet should be on the ground behind
the baao line at the time the server
atrlkes the ball. Everyone seems to
lament the prevalence of foot faults and
suggests that something ought to be
done, but, at the same time, everyone
refers to the caution that ehould be ex
ercised before altering the present rule.
As to a real remedy for the foot faalt
ovfl. nothing tangible has developed. It
is said many of the leading players are
to blame for cutting matters so lino as
lo lay themselves open to suspicion.
HOCKEY TEAX AT PITTSBITB3
Flrat-rUae flab for Smoky City De
pend on l.tn(it.
PITTSBT'RG, Pa.. Aug. tl. Prospects
for another Urst-ctans hotkey club for
Pittsburg during the coming season are
very good. The organisation of a team
here. however, depends entirely cn
whether or not the parties back of the
Intercity Hockey league moke good. If
they do make good. Pittsburg will have
a franchise. Or. If enough Inde
pendent clubs could bs formed, a locil
team will be operated. President A. 8.
Mc8wlgan said that Pittsburg will not
be a member of the International Huckcy
J league, as the Jumps to the copper coun
try art too long and the receipts there
ars too small. .
If you have anything lo trade advertls
It In ths For Exchange columns of The
ilea Want A4 Ps.
BASE BALL NO FUN TO THEM
Mugjrgy McGraw Never Cared Much
for the Game.
OTHER PLAYERS GROWL AT WORK
As Moon Fan as Moving Pianos, Roys
Clark Griffith Cy Yonnaj Pro- .
fera t'hopotnsT Asphalt
S tO Pitching?.
A question often heard In the fans' buss
of talk at ball games, Is this:
"I wonder If those fellows playing the
game get any fun out of It, or If they look
upon It as work?"
Plenty of cocksure chaps In star-d and
bleachers don't even put this proposition In
the form of a question. They take It for
granted, being crasy over the game them
selves, thet all players of the national
game In the' professional ranks must be
wild over ball playing and that they'd a
little bit rather play ball than eat.
"I s'pose It Isn't the snapsky or anything
like that." these cocksure ones frame It up.
this thing of copping the coin, and big
coin, at that. Just for having fun. Work
hard, don't they? Just dance around on
tho nice, sweet smelling grass for an hour
nd a half or so of afternoons, and the
guy with the pay envelope does the rest.
Horrible hard on "em, hey?"'
But these offhand ones don't know. The
simple fact Is that perhaps a majority of
the men who have been playing the pro
fessional game for so long as ten years
become so tired of bnse ball that particu
larly at this waning stage of the season
they actually dread the hour when they
are due to put on their uniforms.
In an expansive moment, not long ego,
Muggsy McGraw told a group of cronies
that he'd never really cared a great deal
for the game of ball, even when he was
one of the most successful players In the
country. The resson he gave for this was
a curious one.
The game of ball always took too much
out of me, even back In the kid days when
I played hookey to bst 'em around on the
lots," was his way of putting It.' "The
game always hashed my nerves and un
strung me so that I wasn't fit to be seen or
heard for some time even after a scrub,
skinned lot game.
"The trouble with me Is that I never
could play any old kind of a game without
getting all het up over It. When as a tyke
I played marbles or shinny I was Just as
anxious to win, and probably Just as Mulll
ganlsh and scrappy, as they call It, as I've
ever been since In a professional game of
ball.
"No game, In fact, was ever any good to
me that I couldn't win. Now, that may
not be a hltmoklng thing for a ball player
or manager of a ball club to say In these
polite milk and watery days when the
knockers seem to take It as a crime when
a man wants to win, but I'm not convers
ing for the purpose of making a hit, but
merely to state a truth. In managing or
playing, the game of ball Is only endurable
to mo when I'm out In front and winning.
I don't care a bag of peanuts' for the rest
of the game. Results for mine, and results
don't mean anything else to me than win
ning from the other crowd.
"That's fun, if anything In connection
with the game of ball can be called fun.
Getting licked Isn't any fun not for me.
As a manager or member of a tallend club
I'd become nutty Inside of two months, I
honestly believe."
Clark Grifflth Is another of the managers
who look with an expression of sullen sur
prise when the mere suggestion Is made
that a ball player can actually get anjr
fun out of the game.
"Fun, eh?" he said to a group down in
Atlantic City one recent Sunday when the
Yankees were playing a aeries with the
Athletics In Philadelphia. "Well, It's about
the same kind of fun for me as carrying
tho hod or moving pianos would be, and
you can dope that out for yourself.
"I can't figure out where the fans get
the idea that It's fun for ball players to
mooch out on a hot. sticky, sun-soaked lot
very afternoon and sweat and grunt
around for a couple of hours at the same
old gome that most of them have been
playing even since or before they began to
shave.
"You can take It from me, if the averago
man had a date to play Ave or six games
of casino or blind man's buff or prisoner s
base or puss In tho corner every summer
afternoon out In the open with thousands
of howling critics looking on who think
they know more about the gome than the
players themselves, he'd mighty soon for
get all about tho funny part of that stuff,
"Playing ball Is the hardest work I know
anything about, and this doesn't mean,
either, that I haven't done a heap of hard
work In my life besides playing ball. I'm
not speaking now, either, of managing a
team just playing the game Is hard enough.
"Of course the young chaps Just nudging
Into swift company pick a little enjoy
ment out of the thing at the start off. but
I know plenty even of the young ones In
tho game nowadays who hate the sight of
the 'bus that takes them out to the grounds.
"The sameness of the game of ball Is
bound to get on a player's nerves sooner
or later. Added to this sameness Is the
chance every player has of making a mis
take at every stage of the gamo, and the
humiliation following the mistake and the
hoots and Jeers of. the crowd and all like
that.
"Playing the game of ball every day,
month in and month out, la drudgery and
strain enough, but managing a bunch la
" and the manager of the Highlanders
gave utterance to the word that Gen. Sher
man employed to express his Idea of war.
Other well known players In the big
lesgues express themselves In very much
the same wsy when the fun question Is
put to them outright. Cy Young, the vet
eran Boston American pitcher. Is ordinarily
one of the most toctlturn of men, but he
recently expressed himself In pretty round
terms about the fun element of baseball,
so far as the players are concerned.
"I'd sooner take A pick an dtrot out In
"I'd sooner take a pick and trot out In
noon and chop away at asphalt." was ths
way he expressed It. "I think most of the
old-time pitchers have got the same way
of feeling about It, even If they don't bulge
to the front and say so.
"A pitcher Is liable to have the distant
of the game grow upon him even more
than the other players. The best pitcher
on earth never knows how he's going to
perform when his -day to go In and work
comes around.
"He may feel all right and work out all
right before the game and yet go In and
get slaughtered In the very first inning
snd then get dragged out and chased to
ths bench with the whole mob howling at
him. The dread of all this keeps a lot of
pitchers awake nights as their dsys to go
in and work draw along.
"I'd a heap rather work at some comer
of the game when I'd be used every day
than go through the strsin of figuring on
whether I would be In shape to make good
when my working days swing along.
"But I can't see where the fans get that
notion about the 'fun' of It for'the player
of any corner of the game. Ball playing
Is toll, and It's more often thankless toll
than not. You can put me on record as to
that part of It."
Bill Coughltn, the captain of tho Detroit,
dwtlt upon the thanklessnesa of the ball
player's Job soma conversation he gave
utterance to not long ago.
"Most of the work of the player," he
said, "Is done on the road. In the cities of
the opposition, where the fans are naturally
ag'ln him and disposed to pick on and
Jeer at him at every stage of the route.
There's no exaggerating the effect of this
strain.
"Ball players try, of course, to hsrden
themselves against the taunts of the op
position fans, but few of them rrr be
come really used to It, though they're of
course obliged to gulp It down. There can't
be any pleasure In doing anything In
which you're liable to be hooted at for the
slightest mischance, and that the reason
why so many seasoned ball players have
no more real test In the game than you
could expect a dogcatcher to have In his
work for you're to remember that moat
people who watch the dogeatcher at work
are ag'ln him and on the side of the dog."
George Davis of the Sox, who, according
to some authorities, has been playing the
game ever since the Black Hawk war. Is
another one of those who frankly admit
that, while habit Is so strong with him
that he can't keep out of the harness, the
game of ball Itself has been a drag upon
him for a good many years now.
"It's Just treadmill work, when all's
told," was Davis' way cf putting It. "Same
old thing yesterday, today, tomorrow, for
ever. It's like walking In a circle.
"Why do I keep on playing the game,
then? Well, why does a man keep on doing
anything? Because, I suppose, most of us
are fellows who can do Just the one thing
and wo don't know of any way to get out.
"The queer part of It, though. Is that
nobody pretends that It's fun to be a shoe
clerk, for Instance, whereas It appears to
be the common notion thot the funniest
thing on earth that you possibly can do
Is to play professional ball for a living.
What's the answer?" I
The veteran of them all, old Jim Mc
Gulre, whose success as manager of the
Boston Americans Is so agreeable to the
New York fans, expresses very different
views as to the game.
"I sure do enjoy playing ball." he said
out of hand. "It may be that I'm childish
or simple minded or something, but I'm
bound to say that I've never got over my
early enjoyment In erolng out on the lot
and Indulging In a game of ball.
"Nope, the game never got on my nerves
a little bit, and, by the vay. I can easily
remember the time when ball players
weren't supposed to have nuch flne ladylsh
atttachments as nerves, but I guess we
won't talk about that part of It.
"Lack of variety! Why, IV ve never seen
two ball games Just alike In all of the time
I've been playing, and I'm not nudging
out to the firing line and saying how many
games of ball I've played In, cither, but
they've been a few. There'! always the
chance for a new situation in the game of
ball as there is in the game of billiards,
and even If there weren't there's plenty of
fun and exhilaration and sport or whatever
you choose to call It In the old game, to
entertain and amuse me from the beginning
of tho season to the end of It.
"I enjoy the whole seance, from the
warmup stuff before the game to the trek
back to the hotel bound 'bus. I like to
win. but I never could see the sense of the
grouch thing when It's not a win.
"I am only speaking of and for myself
remember that. There are, I know, plenty
of players good players and good fellows,
too who are sick' and tired of the game.
But I can't enter Into their feeling of
weariness for ths reason that, as I say, I
probably can't understand It, for I'd Just fs
lief go on playing the game for twelve
months in the year If that were asked of
ma. , ,
"But this Is Just tho difference between
liking your work and not liking it, and It
Just happens that I'm ono of the' fellows
who do like theirs."'
JAPAN'S CHAMPION WRESTLER
Welsh s Over 800 Ponnds and Wants
to Tackle Americana.
Among ths passengers on ths steamer
Kaga Maru, which has Just arrived at
Vancouver, is the biggest Japanese ever
landed In America. He Is tho champion
wrestler of all Japan, and ho Is known
as Hltachlyama Tamlemon. The great
Japanese sumo, who Is a mountain of fat
and muscle of 806 pounds weight, is on a
tour for ths purpose of studying the west
ern methods of physical culture. He will
go from Victoria, via Seattle to New York,
and after a stay of three months on this
continent will leave for London and Europe.
He Is accompanied by three other great
wrestlers of Japan Harltayama, Omlfujl
and Kakanoura all professional wrestlers
of the usual weighty type, and all of some
distinction In Japan. Satake Nobushlro,
professor of jiu-jitsu at Waaede college,
Toklo. is also accompanying the party. It
Is slated that Hltachlyama will not make
any matches on this side, or at least not
until he has studied foreign wrestling,
which differs In style and method from that
of Japan.
Hltachlyama Is tho Idol of the snort
lovers, young and old, of Dal Nippon. His
Immense slxe, his great strength, bis per
fect skill, have made him champion of
champions, while the fact that ha comes
of a samurai family, and therefore ranks
In the social order above tS per cent of
his people, doubtless adds materially to
the slxe of his halo. Ordinarily wrestlers
are held in high esteem In Japan; wrestlers
extraordinary taste the sweets of adula
tion. Hltachlyama holds about the same
place In the body politic that John L. Sul
livan held In his palmiest days.
The outward and visible signs of the
wrestler In Japan, aside from his stse,
which marks him a giant In the nation
where the average man Is underslxed, is
the peculiar topknot of . hair that adorns
his head and the inevitable crowd of ad
miring small boys following his heels. In
the wrestling season ths contests form ths
principal. If not the pnly topic of general
conversation. ' The progress of the ' con
tests Is spread upon the bulletin boards In
front of the newspaper offices, where
crowds are to be found all day long. Every
boy In Japan, and apparently every man,
knows the record of esrh contestant; de
mure, slant-eyed little women In the shops
Join In the general discussion, ' and have
even been known to cast furtive end ad
miring glances at the men of might and
fat as they pass by. V
The great wrestling meet of the empire
occurs each year at Toklo. . There for a
season of dally contests, covering about
two weeks, assemble all the notable wrest
lers of the country. Before this meet at
the capital, and after It, smaller parties
visit other cities and provinces, but at
Toklo alone all the numerous and sundry
champions and would-be champions are to
be seen.
Tho Smelt Were Biting?.
John Qulncy Adams of Massachusetts,
third of that name, who died ibout ten
years ago, was very fond of fTshlns, aul
not especially fond of his legal profes
sion. One day, the story runs, a . ease In
which he was counsel waa down 'or trlil
In a Massachusetts court. Mr. Adams did
not make his appearance, but sent a let
ter to the judge. That worthy gentleman
read It, and then postponed tho case, wllh
the announcement:
"Mr. Adams is detained on important
business."
It was afterward learned by a collesjrus
of Adams that the letter read as follows:
"Duar Judas: For the sake cf old Isaik
Walton. pleas continue my ce till Fit
day. The ameit are biting, and I can't
leave." Nsw rk TUoea.
BIG LEAGUES AFTER LITTLE
Annual Hnnt for Recruits is Now in
Full Progress.
BUSH PLAYERS GET A CHANCE
roanaaferV "K Be Asked to "how
the Mlchtr Magnate What
They Cnn Do on the
Diamond.
NEW YORK. Aug. SI. All over the
country the base ball scouts of the big
major league teams ' are digging Into the
bush In search of playing phenoms who,
they hope, will startle the fans next year
by developing Into Wagners, Mathewsons
or Lajoles and Incidentally help materially
In pulling down a pennant for the club
that secures these wonders, Ths mall that
Is dally dumped upon the magnates' desks
contains scores of letters from well wish
ers of the clubs and the youngsters, who
desire to bring the magnate and the won
der together for mutuaj advantage. The
weird and wonderful doings of Josh Rustle
corn on the Buckeye Corners nine are de
scribed In seven chapters and a postscript,
and the advice Is handed out gratia that
the magnate better hurry, for Managers
Chance, Jones, McGraw and Lajole are on
the scent, and Mr. Rustlecorn will be gob
bled up "If you don't watch out."
Win of the Macnate.
The magnates are keen on the hunt,
too, but It Isn't every Buckeye Corners
star that, can tear up turf on tho big
diamonds to the advantage of the clubs,
and for that reason there la always a
suspicion of doubt about the rustic's
ability, despite the fact that the writers
are earnest In their desire to see him
located with their favorite big league club.
That Is one way by which tho lad from
the backwoods lands on tho teams of the
big cities by writing ahead, "getting In
troduced" and then coming on, If he gets
the chance, to try and make good In the
eyes of the owner. Then there Is another
way. Mr. Magnate needs a vacation. He
goes up Into the mountains or Into the
silence of the shadowy valleys In the be
lief that there, at least, the game of base
bell Is ' unknown. False hope. He has
barely rested from carrying his grips up
the hill from the station before his host
drawls out:
"Yer'vo come Jest In time, mister. There's
goln' to be a dern fine game of ball this
afternoon over In the meadow between the
Blue Jay Hustlers from Smithport and the
AU-Amerlcan Stars, I think they call them
selves, from down by flnksatowny way.
Dad flne players, I teU yer. Best I ever
saw." '
So, In the sunny Sunday afternoon Mr.
Magnate goes "over nigh the meadows,"
half to please his genial "splnach-whla-kered"
host, who accompanies him, and
half to satisfy the love of the national
game, which cannot bo throttled, vacation
or no vacation. Then It's the old story.
There In the backwoods the trained Judg
ment and critical eye of the professional
player buyer finds a diamond In tho rough,
a real base base ball player, slow and
clumsy In his native soil, but with muscle,
size, stamina and real. art, which, when
put Into training In tho environment of the
fast major leaguers, will develop into a
new base .ball force. It hardly seems pos
sible, but with the passing of a couple
of summers this rude farmer boy will be
the talk of the nation, attracting thousands
of fans every day to see him preside on
tho mound,' or on the sacks,, or cover his
part of the field In championship manner.
That's the way many of the- greatest men
have come to base ball fame. 'Rculbach
of the Cubs was a "find.". Bo was Lund
gren. And, among our homo players, Hal
Chase, "Spike" Shannon and Willie Keeler
were "found." .
New York Finds Few. i
Neither the Yankees nor the Giants have
developed a single prominent star this year.
The Highlander's last "find" was Hal
Chase. Hal went to the top right from the
start and has made a sensational record at
first base. They have had several men
who looked good at the beginning of the
season, but an have been shooed to the
training farm at Montreal. The latest to
try for Yankee honors Is young Tift, the
pitcher from Brown university. So for
Tift has done good work. If his arm holds
out and he continues the pace he has set
he will be a valuable man next year. The
Giants have captured a first class man In
Doyle, whom they picked up out In Spring
field, 111. Doyle Is a second baseman of
much talent and can also swing the bat
some. He has not played long In the
major league as yet, but he Is now leading
the National's batting list and he looks
good for next year's nine.
But Tift and Doyle are only two among
many promising players who have been
picked up this year. In tbe last month the
scouts of the various' teams have picked
lip twenty-seven men of more than the
usual base ball ability. Some of the good
things which have been gathered Into the
camps of tho Giants' and Yankees' enemies
are Suggs of Memphis, who goes to De
troit, and on whom Hughey Jennings Is
dopendlng for great things next year, and
8ummers. whom Hughey got from Indian
spoils, where ho Is winning the pennant for
the Indiana town. Johnson, whom Joe
Canttllon picked up in Idaho for Washing
ton, has already proved himself a master
on the mound, and Lake of the Reds ana
Lang of the White Sox are recent "finds"
who can be depended upon for pitching
talent next season.
Following Is a list of players who will
have a chance to make good in the' big
leagues: . .
Some Already Listed.
riuh. Player (pos.) From
xi.w v,v 11 Mania (lb).:.. Toledo
New York N.. Doyle b...
New York A. .Tift P).
New York A. .Louden 3b).
New York A..Zeller (p....
Detroit A fluicgs (p)....
Detroit A Wsi hop 'p)..
.... ,. A Lfn.tilll 111)1.
..Springfield
. Brown L'nl.
..Dallas
..Louisville
..Memphis
..Wisconsin
Albany,
Detroit A""::Summers (o).. Indianapolis
WaBh'nton A- Bcnipae au... -Wash
nton A.-Ohmstead (p).Toneka
nt..h'.i.. a .Tolmson (n... Idaho , .
Cincinnati N. -Began (p)....
Cincinnati N. Autrey (ft...
Cincinnati N. Patkert (f)..
Cincinnati N..Lake p)
f'hloarn N JUUl (P) ,
..Omaha
..Omaha
..Atlanta
..Jeriiey Clt t
..Chicago
fhlraBO N
, Nashville
iioimntead (p). Springfield
OMz-nro A..
c.ea(ro A.,
ctro A.,
fhlcavo A..
"nt.on A...
"oston A...
at. Txiu's A.
vHartcl. A.
Phlsd"l. V.
Mliler :i.. ..;.i-'""""'"
..Noland (p)....ebovgan
..Ian tn) .Wausau
..Hsllmap fp). "ov "end
..folUns (O Snith Bend
Keith (-1 Little Rock
..mth f" Atlanta
Horti 'r1 Washington
Moslna-a of the Gentle Cynle.
Few men thsnk heaven that they have
more than they deserve. '
Clothes don't make a man any more than
a complexion rrakes a woman.
Even after a woman becomes a Mrs.
she may discover that things go amiss.
Many a man who la up with the lark
haa really kept tho lark up all night. .,
Time may be money, but 'It Isn't so
scarce.
Perhaps it is possible for a woman to
keep a secret, but most of them are ter
ribly out of practice.
Some fellows are in such a hurry to do
things that they hata to lose time finding
aut Low to do them. New York Times.
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TUWDAY NIGHT. OCT. 1.
Grand Electrical Psrd-
WEDNE3DAY NIOMT, OCT. 2.
Ladies Float Parade
THURSDAY ArURNOON, OCT. 3.'
Coronation and Grand Ball -
FRIDAY NIGHT , OCT. 4.
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KIRUG PARK CiJS
SUNDAY and MONDAY (Labor Day) SEPTEMBER 1 and 2
GKAXD IXTKU-STATE MEKTIXG OF THK
DEUTSCRER. LAND WEHR. VEREIN
FOLK SI PEIU CONCERTS DAILY BY
Caliendo's Venetian Band and Finn's Greater Omaha Band
This evening the Gcrnimi War Vetornns will present the Military Drama
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ADMISSION Afternoon, 10c; Evening, 25c.
BIG BALLOON ASCENSION TODAY AND MONDAY
MARVELOUS DELMORE
AERIAL GYMNAST, KINO OK THE AIR.
Monday, Labor Day, September, 2
GRAND DOWN-TOWN PARADE of nil local ooclelles and visiting
Followed by a Cainpfire, Biv'otiao, and a Good Time in General.
P. M., after which, during the afternoon and evening, there will be
held at Kruk Park, . -
A GRAND AND MONSTER CELEBRATION
OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
BATTLE OF SEDAN
organizations of the survivors of tho Franco-Prussian war, nt 12:30 '
SPECIAL SUNDAY AND LABOR DAY
FLORENCE and RETURN
Boat Leaves 2:00 p. m. Evening, S:30 p, rn.
Dancing Free-Union Orchestra
Special Attention to Ladles and Children
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