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Till OMAHA SUNDAY VA'A': RANKING THE TENNIS MEN larned the Leading Player of ths Seaton, L1SCCS THROWN OSCE MORE ME ME YOU UO DOUBT A3 TO FIRST PLACE Prnhlrnt la Plarlaar Other Prcmlanl Karqeet Mrs llobart Probably tmn4 Cloth Irr Had a Poor Year. NEW TORK, Sept. 14 Any attempt at ranking the lawn tennis players of this rountry for the season must Inevitably put William A. Larned, the national champion, 4 the top. That la an honor to which he la entitled by force of being the cham pion and in selecting him no regard la paid to. the prevloua tournament of the aeaaon. If It la true In the caso of Larned that he ahould be ranked first oa results of the Newport tournament. It followa presumably that all the other playera of prominence who appeared there ahould be Hated on the baala of that tournament alone. ' However, that la not In general the Idea of the ranking committee, compelled thla aeaaon of A. I.. Honking, chairman; Edgar sP. Leonard and Thomaa C. Tra.sk. They have been at work with the Idea of keeping watch of the season's play of the varloua tennla men, and thue may be expected to count other tournamenta than that at New port. However, thla will apply more strictly to the playera outside of the ranking ten. The minor playera who do not venture to Newport have to be judged on the baala of their work In various state and; open tournamenta under the sanction of the United Btatea National Uwn Tennla asso ciation. One thing that makes the whole tank hard thla year la the lack of continu ous performance to judge by. Some playera have taken part In only a few tournamenta, and although of admitted ability, have done hardly enough to Juatlfy ranking them at all. Good Men Oat of Matches. For Instance, Beats C. Wright and Karl H. Behr, well known to be among the best American playera, were not active com petitors In many tournaments, Before the . Davis cup matches neither did much ex cept to practice In Invitation tournamentai After the return Wright played and won t the Meadow club, Southampton, but did not take part at Newport, and Bohr, apparrntly off form after the trip abroad, waa beaten successively at Southampton and Newport. Raymond D. Tattle waa another of the good men whose appearance In tournament play has not been so very frequent 'this year. He waa a contender In the Middle States tournament, but waa beaten In the challenge round by William A. Larned. Little did not appear at Newport, so that element In placing him Is lacking. How ever, Little on the occasions that he did play showed himself extremely capable, and he Impressed many persons as play ing the best tennla that he has shown in some seasons. In fact that Is just where the difficulty of ranking comes in. Should a man be rated for what he has done In a few tournaments or ahould he be ranked on the basis of his known and compared abllty? That Is the question that the rank ing committee has to solve and does solve In making Its announcements. . Clothier's Poor Year. In rating players sometimes curious ques tions arise. For Instance, those wHb know and follow tennis believe that William J. Clothier, the champion of lSS. will be ranked fairly high. In fact he may be put in aecond place by the committee. There la no real reason why he should be Ranked second thla year. Defeated at Orange by Little; beaten at Seabrlght by Little again; outplayed at Longwood by F. C. Colston, Clothier withdrew from the Meadow club tournament and later was forced to default his championship by an Injury to hia leg. It haa been set forth In Clothier's behalf that he Is a very late be ginner In rounding-to form. Even taking that Into consideration and marking his play In the doubles at the Creacent A. C. directly before Newport, it roust be re marked that Clothier was not the cham pion by a great deal. Hia play up to the time of the Newport tournament forces a ranking below Little, who defeated him twice In undeniable form. Utile beat Colston at Longwood directly after Colston had beaten Clothier, so there Is a triple link of Inferiority to Little. It apparently would be the part of fairness to rank Clothier on his aeason's play below the champion of 13M, but again there remains alwaya the fact that Cloth ier was champion and the prestige of having been title holder remains In his favor and doubtless will be remembered by the ranking committee in placing the tall Phtladelphlan. llobart aad LeRoy. Clarence llobart and Robert L Roy arc two of the best players of the year, on the season's showing. Neither man played In many tournamenta, but In what they did enter they made a decided showing. The best work done by Le Roy was In the na tional championship, where he achieved the final bracket. He was defeated by Iarned in straight acts, aa was not entirely un expected. The eaay victory was the more anticipated because Le Roy had to play five aeta on the day before to put Henry H. Mollenhauer out of his way, whilo Larned waa having a straight aet tussle with Hobart. Still, In justice to Le Roy, one would .have to rank him below Hobart, remembering alwaya that Hobart defeated Le Roy In that much discussed final at Longwood. Hobart waa not a contender t Southampton, where Le Roy and Reals C. Wright qualified for the final.' Hero again Roy waa defeated. Hia best record, outside of the til-state tournament, consists, therefore. - of - three runnera-up trophies. ' llobart's career waa brief1 but .more or less triumphant. He played a little at the Crescent Athletic club before the departure of the Davta cup players for the other side, with the object, according to report, of showing that, he waa not Inferior to many of the younger and supposedly better play ers of the day. Hobart displayed at Bay Ridge a persistent and hard to beat kind of game, but nothing remarkable. How ever, at Longwood and Newport he did very well Indeed. After winning the Longwood tournament he defaulted to Larned. as a protest agatnst the -system of having the holder , atand out. Any question that tfiere might have been aa to which waa the better player was partly settled when the two met at Newport subsequently in the semi-final round. Larned, on his game, had no trou ble with the older player. There are then these playera, Larned, Hobart. La Roy, Little. Clothier. Wright, who have been- noticed thus far. - Wright's biggest performance after the Southampton tournament waa In the trt-state.. . Ha ap parently la entitled to a place ahead of Le Roy. Utile, who in addition lu-ijls de-feats-f Clothier, . won the Seabrlght cup from Alexander, was beaten by Le Roy and Larned In various tournamenta. He did nut appear in the Newport tournament. Apparently It would not be unfair to rank biro below Le Roy. . Jtmt Easr to riaeo These. There an many other players whom It will opt be easy to place. Taking only a few of them, they are Harold H. Hackett, Irving C, Wright. Herbert U Weetfall. y i :.. Henry II. Mollrnhnurr, F. C. Colston, K1 gar W, Leonard nril the westerners, Nat Emerson, U II. Waldncr und others. The question as to what they have done Is hard to answer. Hackett Is the New York state champion again, having defeated Westfall In the challenge round there. Westfall boat Frederick O. Andi rron In the llnnl round at Travers Island. Anderson Is another player worthy of favorable mention, al though he has not played this yr as well as In some other seasons. Westfall did fairly well in many of his tournaments, showing that his game has Improved con siderably. However, a player can hardly bo ranked on what he is likely to do next aeason, so that Westfall will have to Walt a little for his greater honors. Irving Wright lias come o(T well In some minor tournaments and is a fair player. His victory In the Long Island championship was his best performance. He defeated Mollenhaucr there after Mollenhauer put out Hackett. The Kings county man, Mollenhauer, has played very good tennis this year, the best In three seasons. He was In the final four at New port and has been doing well In all his tournaments, although not a winner, per haps by the chance of the draw In some cases. He deserves to be ranked well up. Edwin P. I.arned, brother of the champion, haa done nothing better than winning the recent East Jersey cup. He may, how ever, receive a fair ranking. What the committee can do with the westerners Is hard to say. Judging from the way that Alexander went through Waidner in his two sets In the semi-final at Chicago, Alexander might well have" been the western champion. His default after winning two sets ended the matter. Apparently Alexander did not want to have" to defend the title, as id's subsequent announced withdrawal from tennis seems to Indicate. When Will Ilehr Land? What the committee will do with Behr Is another big question. He showed up poorly In his tournaments here after his return from Kngland, being beaten by Samuel Beardsley at Southampton and by Richard H. Palmer at Newport. Palmer, by the way, Is likely to 'be rated well up on the basis of his play at New port. Rldgewood and Cincinnati. His de feat of Uehr was classed by many aa a fluke, but Behr Is the last person In the world to take advantage of such a thing. According to reliable report, atter some persons had called the victory of Palmer a fluky one, Behr wrote the Rldgewood man a letter to say that he was In his best condition and that Palmer's victory was clean cut, regardless of what com mentators might say. Whatever the fact may be. It waa an Intensely sportsman like action. Behr ranks high for that. If not for his tennis playing. It seems, then, that -on the basis of the facts recited a ranking for the first ten might well be something like the follow ing: Larned, Holiart, Wright, LcKoy, Little, Clothier, Emerson, Hackett, Mol lenhauer, Palmer. There are players wno will be ranked close to these, such hs Westfall, Anderson, E. P. Lamed, W. B. Cragtn, Jr., Wallace F. Johnson, the Intor seholastlc champion who defeated Hackett in Chicago; N. W. Nllos, Kemp Uuss, o. L. Wyeth and others already mentioned with no attempt at placing l tie in in any significant orifr-r. It Is understood that the committee will attempt to rank th wumep's singles pluy ers, too. This will raise a nice question as to Miss Sutton, who, while undoubtedly the best American player, will have to fol low MIbh Hears, the winner in the Phil adelphia tournament, If she is ranked at all. Miss Marie Wagner and Mrs. W. H. Pouch also are very prominent women players. - In tho men's doubles Hackett and Alex ander, Of course, arc the ranking players as champions. Clothier and learned ap parently are next, and then It -is a ques tion whether Grant and Westfall, the runners-up at Ixuigwood, are supeilor to Grant and Thornton, the southern cham pions. And then, again, Hackett ind Lit tle, who beat Grant anJ Wcstlall at Orange, and Colston and Torrenee, who won from them at Southampton, also have claims to being ranked. ' Veterans of the Game. Curiously enough, Larned and Hobart, the leading players, are two of the old est at the game. As for the matter of ages. It Is understood that Larned Is about St years old and Hobart in the closo neighborhood of 40. Hjbart never hi been national champion; Lamed has be; i title holder three times, in 1901, 1802 un I I90T. Hobart wdn the all-comeis' oa.-e only. In 1891, and aftVrward was beacon by Ollle CatupbelL Larned won the all comers' twice, In 1900 and 1901. Ho'oart was the runner-up In the all-comers' in 1905, when Beals Wright defeated hint. Larned has been often a runner-up, In 1S9J, 1894, 1825 and 1898. Hobart, with F. H. Hovey, won the na tional doubles In 1MB and 1KM. He and Hovey won the all comers' Id 1S93, the firet year they were champions, meeting O. 8. Campbell and R. P. Huntington, jr., for the title thereafter. It Is almost twenty years ago sir.ee Hobart's name first ap peared In any Important tournament. In litfcg he and E. P. MarMullen were runners up In the all comers' doubles to the Co lumbia players .and then intercollegiate champions. Q. 8. Campbell and V. O. Hall. In V&i Hobart and Hovey were runners-up to tho Chlcagoans, Carr R. Neel and 8. B. Neel. Hall and Hobart won ths eastern doubles In 1890; Hobart and Hovey In 1S&. Thla year was the first thai Iraed ever has shone In doubles, as he and Clothier woa the Eastern at Longwood. I- i -(f-x- aW I -'i T 1 Jsfr "!. jr I i V . at I - ' "a . v r ' 1 vv oaj 's zjsdoBotrsS. ACE AND YOUTH ON THE LINKS Men of Fifty-Five or Over to Play at Apawamis. SOME CHAT FOR GOLF PLAYERS Nearly Three Thousand Names on Maaaaeho?4etta Fall Hnndleap Ratios; on Scratch nnd Not Par. NEW TORK, Sept. 14. At the Apawamis club there Is always a welcome to vet erans of the game. The annual seniors' tourament has been arranged for Thurs day, September 20, and all golfers who are 55 years of age and over and who are members of the I'nlted States Golf asso ciation or the Metropolitan Golf association or any of tho affiliated clubs are Invited to take part. The competition will be a thirty-six hole medal play handicap over the regular course of the Apawamis club. There Is a plum tree of prizes for the best arid second best gross scores, the best and second best net scores and for rhe best net scores morning and afternoon. The tournament will conflict with the threj day competition of the Morris County Golf club, but the "old boys," who always turn out seventy or eighty strong, do not care Tor the opposition. Since the curtailment of the Metropolitan Golf association handicap list to those rating at nine strokes or under the Massa chusetts list Is monumental for the many and very accurate ratings It contains. It is revised In tho spring and early fall, the list just off the press containing aver 2,4u0 names. The system of handicapping In use Is: "Ascertain each player's best score aver age, not his average game but his average best game. If you cannot get trustworthy figures, ascertain what a player can do at his best. Abnormal performances should not be considered. The difference between the figures of the player's average best game und the scratch score figures of your links will give the handicap required. The table of scratch scores of the Massachusetts courses Is of Interest: Albef marie 74 Merrlmac 77 Allston 73 Mt. Tom 70 Alpine 70 Myopia 81 Arlington 74 New Bedford...'. 74 Bellevue 74 Oakley 77 Brae Burn 77 Oxford 74 Brockton 71 Pepperell Ti Chestnut Hill 71 Runaway Brook. ... Cohasset 74 Salem 74 Commonwealth ....72 Segregansett 71 Concord 74 Hprlngtleld 72 The Country Club.. 77 Somervilln 74 Crow Point 74 Btockbrldge 75 Essex County 76 Tatnuck 76 Fall River 74 Tedesco 77 Framlngham 70 Tekoa 65 Hoosic Whlslck 74 Vesper 77 Hvannlsport 76 Weston 72 Island 74 Winchester 72 Iexlngton "i Wollaston 75 Meadow Brook 71 Woodland 77 Med ford 76 . The scratch men are J. G. Anderson, A. G. Ixickwood and W. C. Chick. "By the par measurement of links there Is less difference In the total figures of a short links and the committee's Idea of Its scratch score than on the longer links, unless some special allowance Is made," stutrs Ralph Cracknell, secretary of the committee. "To get this allowance right Is the aim of the committee. If the handi caps were based on the par scores by meas urements the man placed on scratch on a par basis would have less rhrnce to make the flfrures on the short links than on those of a longer anil more open test. So that the par system would not work. "Fay the par system advocates: 'Such things should bo allowed for like any un usual conditions governing the play, of a hole.' "With so many things to allow for It seems ai well to make a scratch score for the links which It Is known players of tho scratch class can make." Rratd anil Ills Clubs. James Braid, to change from the handi caps to a plus man, says he Is not a slave to any particular club, thounh ho has strong fancies in the' matter of patterns. But he recommends young golfers to buy clubs, else be will never git the right ones, but he must not take It for granted that any m'sses are the fault of the club and that the proper thing to do is to buy more. "Clubs that satisfy are often come by accldentially," to quote from Braid. "Some times there seems to be an Inspiration In the case. For Instance, think of the curious way In which Harry Vardon came by the putter with which he won his first cham pionship. He bad fed with J. II. Taylor and had to play off two days later, the event being played at MutrfUld that year. On the day In between he was In the shop of Ben Bayers at North Berwick, and in a .corner he aaw a little rusty clelk not a putter at all but Just and ordinary clelk. A most extraordinary fnncy seised him; many people wor.ld have said that It was a very mad fancy. He thought that If that clerk had a new shaft put Into It It would make a very fine putter for hltn with which to play In the greatest and most responsible game of his life the next day. So ha bought the old club and had the new stick put into it. Not the least queer part of the story Is that when he played off his tie he putted as well as any man has ever putted In a championship before or since, and he beat his opponent." Travis Haa No Prrjadlre. Travis of American amateurs will not admit to aver having, had an Ideal club. -vC' , nnd he Is constantly experimenting with new lengths, weights nnd shapes. Douslas, on the other extreme, felt depressed at the burning of his clubs In the Apawamis clubhouse lire, and only patterns imported from Scotland could replace them. When Fenn was an amateur and winning one of the Knollwood tournaments with ease his admiring caddie boy asked leave to take the cluba home with him to show to Ms mother. - "Boy," replied Fenn solemnly, "not for tl.WO could that set be taken from me over night." Americans are usually not so coVistant to their clubs, and there are players who have so many that they could start a shop or rather a museum of past and present styles. Scots, on the contrary, often be queath the play clubs to their son and heir. Is It tho club or tho player that should be credited for the queer shots that come off In golf? Harry Vardon admits there are not many queer shots that you can do when you try to. That clelk shot sliced around the tree at the New Haven Golf club Was one of such shots to come off for Vardon on his American trip, Vardon thinks a shot he played at Northwood, England, was one of his queerest. He had played the ball right up against the corner of the club house on the side furthest from the green, so that Vardon had the building be tween him and the hole, which was just on the other side. He played the ball perpendicularly Into the air with a niblick. The ball then seemed to get a curl that took It over In the direction of the hole and It flopped down right beside It. Jack Hobena' One. In commenting on the hole made In one by Juck Hobens of England In the last American open championship, Harry Var don made these statements: "With all the golf that I play praqtlcally every day of Ihe year I myself have only done a hole In one stroke once In my life, and I had won two or three championships before I did that. On the other hand, L, Stuart Anderson, the secretary of the Royal Port ruHh club, has, I believe, done It seven times, which must be a record. Twice within a month It was done by women at the twelfth hole at Walton Heath, to which club my friend James Braid Is attached. Two of the best holing In one feat that I have ever heard of were the doing of the ninth hole at St. Andrews (277 yards) in one stroke this spring by a local amateur, and the late Jamie Anderson's feat , In holing In one In a championship at Prejst wlck, when he had to do that, or something very much like It, In order to enable film to win, as he did." WOMAN'S GOLF AT MIDLOTHIAN Program for Week of Championship Play In October. CHICAGO. Sept. 14-Program for the women's national golf championshp, Octo ber 7 to 12, Inclusive, at the Midlothian Country club. All medal match play will be at 18-hole rounds. Monday, October 7. 10 a. m. : Women's championship medal play round, 18 holes, best thirty-two scores to qualify. A prise Is offered by the assoociatlon for the loweat score in tills competition. Tuesday, October 8. 10 a. ni.: Women's championship, first match play round. 1:30 p. ni. : Consolation event for: the non qualifies; IX holts medal play handicap. Prize presented by Midlothian Country club. Entries close for this event Monday, October 7, at ti p. m. VS'eunesday, October 9. 10 a. m.: Women's championship, second match play round. 1:30 p- m.: Wumeji's handicap against bogie. Is holes. Prize presented by Mid lothian Country rluti. Entiles close for this event at 1 p. m. Thursday, October 10. 10 a. m.: Women's championship, third round. 1:30 p. m.: lh'ivlng, approaching ami putting contests. Prizes presented by Midlothian Country club. Entries can be made at the time of the event. Friday, October 11. 10 a. m.: Women's championship, semi-final match play round. 1:30 p. in.: Best ball loursome, scratch; 18 holes. Prises presented by Midlothian Country club. Knlries can be madu at the time of the event. Saturday, October 12. 10 fc. m.: Women's championship, final match play round. 1:30 p. in.: Mixed foursome medal play handi cap; 18 holes. Prizes presented by Mid lothian Countrv c-lull. F.ntriea clone for this event Thursday, October 10, at tf p. ni. The competition is open for foreigners j visiting this country, who may be Invited by the executive committees of the ussocl- ! atlon. The Robert Cox cup shall be held for that year by the club from which the winner shojl have entered, the winner receive a gold medal, the runner up a silver medal and the other seml-flnallsts bronze medals. NEW TRACK FOR LOS ANGELES (iraders Are at Work at tho Baldwin Kanck. IX3 ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 14-Desplte the fact that the graders are at work at Arcadia, on Baldwins ranch, clearing the ground for a new race track, there are many who still believe that trie running horses will be seen In action again this winter at Ascot Park. While those who are on the inside will not tell what they know about the matter, they do not seem to be very sad over the prospects. The greatest evidence at hand that Ascot will be opened Is In the preparations that are going on at that track. The track super intendent and his crew are at work clean ing things up, and, while the gentleman will admit nothing, the manner In which he la going about his work would seem to indicate that It is not being carried on for nothing. Whether or not betting will be allowed on the track no one knows, but. as the county line Is but a few hundred feet I from Ascot, no trouble Is looked for from this source la the event of another winter I meeting. I Old Greek Sport Taken Up by Ameri cas Athlete FEW CHANGES MADE IN THE GAME Br Modern Ralea Dlao Matt Be Cnst Pretty Moch After Manner Shosrn In the Statute of tho Dlacoboloa. Throwing the discus in the Greek style has received official recognition aa a stand ard event on the American athletic cham pionship program, and as It Is modeled after Myron's classic statue of the Disco bolus henceforth poise will have to bo studied by athletes. For soma years a sort of go-as-you-please rule governed the con test, and even the Greeks themselves were a trifle at sea aa to the conditions of ancient limes, but a little while before the Olympic games of last year the old rules were dug up and they prevailed In the Stadium. in part the same rulea will be enforced hero, but with a little Improvement. That Is, In front of the throwing box there will be a parallelogram 13) feet long and 3) feet broad and a fair throw must fall Inside of this space, a restriction which will Insure the disc's being thrown straight. The Invention of dirk throwing has been assigned to Perseus, son of Jupiter and I'a-iae, and It ranked third In the pentathlon or all around program. As to the exact welglrt of the discus In ancient times there Is very little authentic Information. According to Dninoas, Mllo of Crotin threw a disc weighing eleven pounds a dis tance of ninety feet, and about the same distance was credited to I'lysses and oth ers. The discus used at the last Olymplsd weighed a shade over four pounds and the record achieved was 116 feet 4 Inches by Juervenln of Finland, so that had Mllo been present he would easily have held his own with the modern champion. Then as to the shape, size and material of the discus itself at different periods there Is a lot of contradictory literature. As well as can be ascertained the missile in the days of Homer was a mass of rough Iron called a solos and was used as it came from the foundry without being shaped by the hammer. ' At other times the disc was made of stone and bIbo of hard heavy wood. Most commonly It was made of copper or iron, and even to the present day specimens of these Iron disci are to be met with In parts of Greece. When on their way to the last Olympic games the members of the Ameri can team saw one of the old Iron Imple ments. It was at Patras, on the mainland of Greece, where the boys practiced after landing ' from the steamer Montenegro, and a resident of the town lent the old rust-eaten disc for the occasion. In ancient times the athlete threw from a space called the balhls, which today has been replaced by a box of dirt graded toward to front. Then aa now the thrower had to assume a certain attitude or else the throw was foul. The right leg must be In front and slightly bent, with the weight of the body mostly on the right foot, which must rest flat on the dirt. About eighteen Inches behind should be the left foot resting on ths toe. This position of the legs places the body In a cromped attitude ao that It Is partly powerless to Impart any great momentum to the disc as It files away. Were the legs reversed, that Is, with the left foot In front, then the swing of the body would add to the force of the arm and the re sult would be a natural action of tho muscles. ,'As the athlete I stands In the box he, should lean his body slightly forward, with the discus held above bis head. Then when he la ready to make the effort the body should be bent and turned slightly to the right and the hand holding the discus should be extended backward to the full length of the arm and raised level with the head. s At this point comes, tha most delicate part of the throw, for the hand holding the discus should describe a downward half circle in the air, while at the same time the athlete should jump forward out of the box as If to Increase the force of the projection. Any other movement but a downward swoop of the arm In the act of throwing is contrary to the correct rules. v So popular did the sport become among the Greeks that the distance to which a strong hand could cast the missile became a measure of length acknowledged and ratified by usage. "A cast of the disc" was an expression as well understood In ancient times as the range of a gun be came fater. The same disc was used by all the competitors and each throw was marked by a stake or arrow. DANIELS MADE A GREAT SWIM I Voung American Loses World's Rico ! a Technicality. NEW YORK. Sept. 14. The particulars of the 220-yard swimming race for the championship of th-s world have Just cotiie by mall from England, and It will be gratifying to all good American followers of aquatic sporta to hear that C. M. Daniels of the New York Athletic club really won this event, hut lost the decision on a mere technicality. According to an eye witness of the eon test, Paniels swam a great race for tho first hundred yards of the course, and at the century mark led his nearest competi tor by fully eight feet. After this he seemed to become rather distressed and was splashing badly towards tne end. I p. the last ten yards Pe Halmay and Rad mllovie closed rapidly on him, but did not beat him to the line, as the cable from abroad led us to believe. . The pool at Westoa-super-mer is 100 feet long, so lhat for the furlong the contes tants swam it six times and then had sixty more feet to go. This finish lino was marked by a horizontal pole which tha men had to touch to bo counted out. I'n lucklly for paniels, the pole was some dis tance above the surface, and, as he came up to it ahead of the field his hand missed it, and It was not until his shoulder went over the line that he could touch It. Of course the Judges could not count him fin ished until some part of his body had come in contact with the pole, and before tliis occurred both Halmay and Radmllovlc though behind Paniels, were able to touch out and were awarded first and second. The young champion waa played out at the finish and said he had not felt In the best of condition for several days. STANFORD'S COACH IS ON STRIKE Tutor of tbo California Oarsmen .Demands a Contract. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 14.-Rowing af fairs at Stanford university face a crisis unless that Institution accedes to the demands of Pan Murphy, the row ing coach of the Cardinal school crews. Murphy declares that he will not return to Stanford and act as head rowing ad viser unless he Is given a year's contract at tl.au). The loss of Zimmerman, the captain of last year's crew, has been greatly felt and should Murphy fall In his demands rowing affairs will be thrown into confusion. As Murphy is conceded to be the best rowing authority along the western coast. It Is thought Stanford will give in to his demand CATARRH ASTHMA BRONCHITIS To all applying for treatment during ISPTBIOIB, w of far. our services an treatment free. Tou pay us for the actual cost of ths medicines, $3 WILL CURE MANY and tha most complicated rases will not exceed 15 for tha whole month. COsTSULTATXOsT AltO SXAatlRATIOir TBSS TO AXIi ri: if mm -vst:-ji it. k ,.fMi a'---H:;' f . . ,. haw j J A rew of Onr Cured Patients Write i Mrs. Sarah Miller, South Omaha. Neb., R. V. D. No. S, says: "My little son got so deaf he had to stop school, as the teacher could not make him hear. He had catarrh. The doctors cured him. He Is now in chool and Is doing fine; has no catarrh and hears splendid." Mrs. Hannah Savltts, Boons, la., are 2, deaf for twenty years; ears discharged; had used all kinds of treatment without re lief. Waa cured of catarrh, head noises, de ifnees and Clscharglrg ears; hears splen did. I'. 8. Burress. Talmagn, Neb., was seri ously affected with catarrh of nose, throat and stomach; had been treated by many of DR. BRANAEVaAN CO. 305 Now York Life Building . Omaha, Neb. ' ML aJaw THE 1907 SEPTEMBER 907 3UN.M0NJTUrj.WED.THD15rRI.5AT. PR H "sSlilhk. i Comic Automobile Parade, TU13 DAY WIGHT. OCT. 1. Grand Electrical Parada WEDNESDAY NIGHT. OCT. 2. vLod'V-s Float- Parade- THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 3. Coronation and Grand Ball - miDAY NIGHT , OCT. 4. AK-SAR-BEH CARNIVAL DAYS It's Harvest Time in the Southwest Low Ratos on September 17 October 1 and 15 Round-trip tickets sold from nearly all Rock Island tolnta In the North and Central West to practically all points Southwest. To the greater part of the territory these round-trip fares are about equivalent to the rtg-. ular one-way fares to many points they are even lees. Success Is reasonably aura in ths Southwest It's the L.and of Supply long growing sua son products with big profits nearby markets offering reuJy sale rapidly ' Increasing land values all conditions favorable for malting money and enjoying life. An Illustrated book or two will help you to , a better acquaintance with the country. Just write me and state the section which most Interests you. I'll send sn illustrated book about It and quote rata for a trip of Investigation. J OOOD TOAST DESEBTEB TMU ! Vj ! Always popular because It la pleas- "'11 I V Omaha Headquarters: Hl'UU r B1LZ, 14th and f S I 1 N Liounlax Tl lug 152 to. Bluff's Headquarters; S J 11 1 -- Ltli aUTCUaXU .1011 Main bu Tel ift -i'jJ DEAFNESS the best physicians without any rellsf until he was given our Absorbent Treatment, from which he obtained prompt relief and a permanent cure. Miss Mollle Austin, 4ld and Orover sts., Omaha. Neb , writes: I had catarrh of tha nose, throat, stomach and bowsls of sight years' standing. I am now cured. AH for which I thank the specialists of tha Dr. Branaman Co. V Mns. M. J. Kinney, Fremont, Neb., slt For twelve years I suffered with catarrh of the nose, throat and middle ear. HaJ head noises, could not eat, was weak and run down. I am now well and my hearing Is perfect. I am glad to recommend the ' doctors to all. Catarrhal Inflammation of Bladder, all Jfomach, Llvtr and Kidney Ptieases, all Nervous Diseases, Blood and Chronlo Dis eases. . : Home Treatment aa effective as OnVa Treatment. Write for Home Treatment Symptom Blanks ar.d FREE book of testi monials, explaining and Illustrating U Branaman Treatment. MSBHtl JLUmsntr OTHER Oklahoma State Fair, at Oklahoma City, ; October 6 to 10. these datesi November 5 nnd 19 December 3 tvnd 17 F. D. RUTHKRFORD, D. P. A ItOCK ISLAND LINES Omaha, Seb., 1823 Panuun St. .DAYS it! I1907-OCTOBER-OTI eM SUN.M0H.TUU. WED. THUM FRI. 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