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I 8 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBKEAKT inns Tiie Omaiia Sunday Beh 'MUIA, 8UNPAT. FrBRVART X WH. MUDGMENTS! Or -ivi . r,- HG lda of th rrjuvenat4 "1 M winning th National league .en- nant thl ysar must atria thou.-l ,t ful fana aa a ram-ant aentlment flcult t reconcile. Tet U has rxprrssMl of late, though with Irs matwm. uat aa waa th prediction hr one fear ago that New York wou the pennant. How or on what gr ,u reasoning the McOraw devotee fUur- out New York can poslbly lead the Nailonal leag-ie thli year certainly doea not appear on the surfar of tho altuatlon. It la ar gued t'-.at the team la stronger than It war. ' ; year. It would have to be Mr i-i ;i waa last year to win third -t proved It to bo not a rery tr. i toward the close of 1ST?. Nor does a frank and unbiased study of the .team, man for man, la the light of the Cubs and other teams In the league, war rant the belief that New York can hope to land above second place. Indeed, wttli FhlUdclphla and. perhaps. Pittsburg 'Stronger than last year, it Is extremeiy doubtful It McOraw will be abla to land In second place. Nothing more than ques tionable hypotheses supports th theory that the Giant will do a whit better than they did In 1907. The team haa undergone many change, that la true. But the wls ,dom of those changea remains to ba provrd; thus far. In minds of the best Judges, It Is in the balance. Her la the line-up McOraw has to date: Pitchers, Mathewson, Ames, , Wlltse. McOlnnlty, Taylor and soma young sters; catchers, Bresnahan, Needham, Cur tis; first base, Tenney or Merkle; second, 'McOraw or Doyle; third. Derlln; shortstop. Br Id well; outfield, hanhon, B ymour and Donlln. Tho pitching staff la practically unchanged. And la thera anything to warrant tha con-fiction that the pitch ing staff will do better this year than lastT McOraw saya Mathewson will pitch his old IMS game. Let ua hope to, but how doea McOraw know UT It's a, dresm at best. Mathewson haa pitched two games since 1S05, and not shown the old form. McOlnnlty and the other pitchers probably will do no better. If as good, as they,dld last year. The catchers ought to be no weaker, though barring hie fric tion with. Bresnahan, Frank Bowerman, behind the bat. at first and at the bat, may be missed. What Tenney. the old-timer or Meryle. the beginner, will do cannot be foretold with any cock-sure ties. If Doyle plays second h will "have to redeem his rer-ord of last year. It Isn't any task to recall that by the end of the season he waa pronounced a disappointment. McOraw la simply not championship tlmbe, not at this stage of life. Devlin has viewed his aentth. How well Donlln will do after a season In tha brush cannot be said. In all candor, Instead of looking like pennant winners, the Giants' look like an uphill fight. Place them longslde the Cubs' Une-up, nearly j every man In his prime, and where do they ( SJggest . the possibility of winning the fPennant? And yet nothing haa been aald of the teams aa organisations; we have J'scused them only as individuals. Con- s'dered aa organisations thera is even less itmpar1-n between the Giants and Cuba r( 1908 than a Individuate. The Cuba to . the base bait world stand tor one thing pre-eminently, perfection In the making of a baa lall machine. They come nearer typi fying net-feet system, arid faultlesa method than. r-tist. has any team In these latter year-. ,tv ac . bH haa attained such eiiilntrr.ro aa ' a scientific game. For tha lUod ot the game -and for the -interest of all It' sincerely te b hoped that McOraw and 1U Gianta will be abie to piake a good showing and "that every team ' In the National lcsgufl may give the Invincible t'uls a belter run for the flag, but, with out any disparagement to New York, It . certainly It too much to say that Gotham. as things now appear, looms up aa a form idable tu of Chicago. Tyrua Cobb may eventually turn up at tne old stand with the Tigers, but he has . the satisfaction of knowing that for a lime at least, he has crowded all the r?st f the players, Including Johnny Kllng, out of the limelight. Ty may be young but I t's getting wlae, too. gonte day President Tip mill come over - here., call the meeting to order, adopt a - schedule agreed on by Coualn George and Brother Joe. and the annual gathering of j the Western league will be over. Then Pa I'iteurke will get notice that the aeason will oper) on a certain day. It'a a gay life. . Omaha, may fall for the wrestling match ;all right; but the six-day bicycle race haa ' too much machinery In It to evoke a great 'deal f local intereat. Anyhow, It sounds too much like resurrection day to get many people hereabouts excited. s The athletic authorities st Uncoln have d scovv-ed there Is such a town as Omaha, en the map Now. If they can Just give the metropolis ft the state a chance to see the Cornhuskers In a flrst-clsss game, all will be f' rg-Uen. Omaha bowlera are In ahape for Cincin nati, and they are not at all particular abiut taking any groovea with them. They a.ver fall to get la on the big money. Harry Pulliam la Jit a bit Inclined to b emotional; thafa a'.l. and Garry Herr rrerm Is too busy with the bowling tourney to really notice whst hsppened. When the lid goes on In on or two more llaces the rsnks of the unemployed will I. swelled by a floe lot of hobo pugilists and their "manaaer " '" Another Turr bul Turk la te flop around a ti e mat In Omaha. If he's anything Pk the last one, his opponent will need a errlrk to turn Mm. Harry Fag says the local amateur league w:ll be the real thing, and Art Meta ha j.aJy said the earn. 8o it must ba so. f prime 1 now what the ahow-m i - I". --. ;-rJ he did not learn It at 4 ;-, cither. .-.i'luw. aa Dooley would aay. Burn J os the colnerlno to show . for it. That r.tlps some. If ih s weather continue for a few daya. It will not be hard to wait for .April. Mineral Waters pr" " -a c ' The mineral water bu sine. haa for many yeara ba a pcllty with our f rrn. VV buy our water aire from 1M scriscs or If a foreign wster, direct frons ti'e Importer. W axe thu aM to tne lowt poaalbl price. aa4 te bo i,.i. ....riniM freshoesa au.l geauine- .,. ws sell 100 klaa. Utt price ty ess or dusea. Write for Catalogue. Hr.m.Ajg a mocowxu dboo CO, Cor. lta and Dodge. Ola MOO COMJrAJTT, Cor. Hth and Uaraey. NEW COURSE AT SDEEPSHEAD Ctang;e. Kade in Track Will Affect Great Suburban. HORSES STAUT ON BACK STRETCH Oval la l.eacthened Cwedltleaa in Fatare Will He la Favor ef Her a4 RMer at the Bay. BHEKFSHEAD BAT. N. T.. Feb. 1. The first of the three great classics to change the manner of Ita running will be the Suburbs n, which, on account of the lengthening of the Sheephead Bay course, will In future be started on the backstretch. In past yrsrs th Suburban, like the Brook lyn and BrUrhton handicap.- ha been run ao that the horses pmaeed the stand twice. feature thst haa added greatly to the spectacular aide of th event, although It meant the rounding of several turna dur ing the contest. Suburban field of th future, after the manner of the Metropol itan handicap at Belmont park, will parade to the backet retch, half a mile or mor away from the grand stand. In order to reach the starting point. The change In the route of the Suburban ill be welcomed by owners, trainer. Jockey and. In fact, every one directly connected -with the running of the race. It will mean less chance of accidents, be cause of the elimination of all but one big turn, and the result should be a fair and true run race on each occasion of renewal. It should result In less delay at the post, because of the absence of ex citement and noise. Inseparable from a start directly In front of a huge crowd. Various starters assert that breaks In front of and remote from a crowd are entirely differ ent propositions. Nevertheless, the casual racegoer, who makes up about four-fifths of the crowd that annually witnesses th famous race. will regret the change. With thl class of turf patron argumenta that the contest will be vastly bettor will not make up for the lo of the spectacle furnished by the lineup In front of the stand, and the thou sand and one fascinating Incidents con nected with the starting of a race on which the disposition of a t3,000 purse and prob ably ten times that amount In wagers, hangs. Th double passing In front of th grand atand haa become a feature of th Suburban, and It elimination will almost mak a different race of the greatest ot American handlcapa. Work ia Nearly Don. The work ef the amall army of men en gaged in enlarging the track from an oval of a mile and an eighth to one of a mil and three furlong haa been greatly facili tated by the very moderate weather pre vailing last fall and this winter. It is now a certainty that the alterations will be completed earlier than had been expected and that by the time the June meeting open there will be little indication of the Important changea accomplished except that the eourse will be a quarter of a mile longer than ever before, adding to Ita repu tation of being the moat popular race track In America, that of being one of the most modern racing plants In the world. The al teration will leave straightaway on the back and home stretches of nearly half a mile, although the home t retch run. end ing aa it doe before the end of the straight, will be approximately three-eightha of a mile. It becomes apparent that the Coney Island Jockey club stakea entry list will be much smaller than anticipated, fcr some reason that cannot be surmised at this time. The S,W0 event, in Which eligibility costs only $2. closed on Janusry 15, and less than thirty nominations have been made. All the expected good 3-year-olds are In, of course, but the host of moderate youngster of 1907, a dosen or more of which may develop Into first-class runners In the coming season, are, with few excep tions, missing. It might almost be con cluded that the extraordinary liberality of the atake has scared owners away from Timely Tips for Automobile Owners and Drivers A motor lamp competition la to be held by the Automobile club of Milan, Italy. The Scottish Automobile club has set June IS to 19 fur its snnual reliability trails. A New York court haa ordered the com pany operating motor 'buses on Fifth ave nue to remove all advertising signs from them. A stethoscope Is recommended by a young auto engineer, who also la a physician, to locate a "knock'' In an auto beyond a doubt. The New Jersey Automobile and Motor club, of Newark la waging ah active cam paign to obtain more than LOW members by March 1. One of the latest suggestions of a route for thla yeara Olidden tour la from Buffalo. N. Y.. to Washington, IX C, vlr. Pittsburg, Pa. Some rit London's electric motor 'buses carry lights backed by reflectors on their top ao outside passenger can read aewa- , paper aa they ride. For use In the harbor. New York City's police have purchased two slxty-ftve horse power moloruoais, rupatiie ot a speea ot Uiii teen mile aa hour. A motor Iceboat, propelled by a four horse power motor which drives an aerial screw, make a speed ot thirty miles an hour on th Hudson liver. Within thre yeara th city of New York has spent tTsM.wi for automobiles for Its officials and department, and haa on Its pay rolls at least fifty chauffeur. Don't run your car to th hmlt of Its power. Any car, on, two. four or six cylinders, will run better and longer if Us power is not taxed to lb utmost. Robbed of their business by the Inroad of motorcabe. diivvrs of horee-drawn vehicles at Cleveland have formed a union to devise plana lo avoid starvation. Of the orders for ninety-one Imported cars which were hooked at the recent Im porter' Salon, at New York, fifty-five were for town care ot about fifteen horse power. Several of the American Car which will compete In the Briarvllff trophy stock car road race near New York April U will have had experience In such events In Europe. British Board of Trade reports for No vember. 1m. show that car were Im ported into Great Britain, a compared Willi s li. the same month of and X- In Concrete pavements, relnformed by leel forma o cioely constructed that a wheel of any width real partly on tei and partly oa concrete, are being tried out at Pari. To settle th merits of their respective favorite car Kmmanuel Cediino. of. New York, and L F. N. It Id win. ef Providence. K I., have arranged a match race at ll.uuu a aide. The Indiana supreme court In a reient decteion upheld the pr rvUh.n of the state motor vehicle law riutring a driver to lop his car whia signaled by th drlwr of a horse. A large St. 1-ouia bank haa plated In ser vice an electrtc delivery wagon, fitted with a aafe for transporting money betwen tne bank and subtreastiry, exrcse offices and olhrr hanks. A Ixmdon physician has designed s btndau motor rar the bark of hk-h oc-iis and allows a skK perm in to be tilled m,l on a movable aral, whl h forma part of in car's equipment. An automobile, urrounded by a petUr mch form to represent a fiili-elae.1 h.o nxHiv. tli liuokr being produced by owr lubrication. rentlv took part in a hki parade st New York. The New York Auiaibll Trade amuclit tioa will hold an ien-iiir rarnttul uiiniig the wovk u( Apr.l , a feature ot wtiiib ui the chanre of winning It. If thirty entries are made ana the event attracts ten start er the Coney Island J(kry club will have to mak np a difference of over d.. A rlaunlMe explanation ef the small entry list to the rl-h stake Is thst owners of moderate J-year-nhls concede everything in that division to Colin or Celt this year. OPEN BETTING RENO AT FORT ERIE BeeMee Will Try ew Plan for rest ing; amr, NEW YORK. Fb. I. An open Instead of a syndicated ling will lay odds at Fort Erie next summer, a feature which the management expects will help to popularise the course. It develops thst this change wss decided upon after a long discussion at the western turf magnates' meeting In Chicago, it waa decided to throw the ring open to alt reputable layers. The change should help the meeting, which heretofore has wuffered from the tight prices always In evidence In a syndicated ring. The Improvements planned at the Fort Erie track Include the placing of lt car loads of sand on the course to mix with the original soil of th track. Kxpert In track construction say that this will make the going rery fast. All the buildings are to be repaired and repainted, and the entire work will mean an outlay of not lees than 140,000. The meeting will last forty days, beginning at the conclusion of the Kent) worth session. The La ton la Jockey club haa decided to drop the Queen City handicap from Its list of stake event for a year or two, the conclusion having been forced upon Its members that under present condition a 110.000 handicap cannot be made profitable In the middle west. The Queen City was Instituted In 1908. when Its valne was fixed at tll.Ono. It wa believed that the event would prove attractive to eastern owners, but few nominations were made from this section and no horse were ent over to. run. Last year the value of the race wa cut to $10,000. and of the several eastern owners entering horses Jamea McCormlck wa the only one to take a chance. He sent Tilelng over, with Oamer to ride, and captured the prise. The La ton la club hopes to take tip the big handicap again; there Is no certainty about the next renewal. All the other stake the Derby Oaks. Trophy, Harold, Clipsetta. Brewera. Decoration and others, together with the steeplechase fixtures will be renewed for the coming season. The list of stake, with conditions sod values, wilt be announced In a short time. In speaking of the recent visit to Plmllco of the Steeplechase and Hunt association committee. President Manley of the Mary land Jockey club said It was a very pleasant one ami that he concurred In the view xpresesd and recommendations mate by the committee. A to the race dates for 1908 for the Maryland Jockey club. he aald the club had not yet applied for them, but he waa personally of the opinion that the date would be about the same as those of last year, the spring meeting beginning about one week after the finish of the Benninga races snd the fall dates immediately preceding those given the Benntngs course. As a result of the Inspection some of the Jumps In the Steeplechase course .will be raised a bit. The lower end of the Infield will be drained and possibly raised at the part nearest Belvedere avenue. By doing thla longer turns In this part of the course can be gained. It was the original In tention of the Maryland Jockey club to build new stables for the accommodation of visiting race horses, and work on these will shortly be started. SARATOGA OFFERS MUCH MONEY Over Three Hssired Tbeesaad Dol lar la Stakes. NEW YORK. Feb. l.-rThere will be commendable liberality by the Saratoga association for the racing season this year. Though the meeting has been shortened to make room for the Empire Racing as sociation and for a part of Its time there Is competition with th Yonkers track, none of the stakea have been eliminated and there will be" twenty-eight stakes, of a total value of over Cino.OnO, In tbe twenty one days of racing. The only change will be in the Great Republic, which will be reduced to an be a parade headed by as many old-time cars as can be found. In his Inuaugural address Governor Guiid of Massachusetts, advocated a higher tax upon heavy touring cars than upon light runabouts, contending that they were the more destructive to roads. . With a keen eye to becoming a self-supporting organisation, the Maryland Auto mobile club plans to utilise the lower floor of Its proposed new club house at Balti more for offices and stores. Three hundred officers with power of ar rest, and j0 who will rely on moral sua sion for their force will guard the course of the Bnarcliff trophy race In Westches ter county. New York. In April. Because of ita drastic motoring laws, a boycott of Ni w Jersey by autoists was rejoin mended by the chairman of the American Automobile association legis lative board in his annual report. Savsnnih Automobile club during the week of Mar, h 15 includes a anu-mile "road ra." over an eightetrii-mile course, for a .!,io trophy and several shorter contests. The difficulty of using gasoline motors for pulling car in lual mines has been obviated by the imtntion of a muffler wliK li passes Uiff sp'nl itases through a liquid, nullifying ilieir oionou qualities. One of the novelties st the recent Berlin show wss an electri. ally-driven tr car. The baiter' wss . lured underneath the body of the vehicle and consisted f twrn.v two cells, giving a travolling rudius of ftriy miles. Three Important Frencii motor firms h.v- .,1.ll W,ri.hl- hll..-, -...I .,...... ui'i i ineiti iu nivir huiki alio a tlt-W to company has been floated in Paris s il-ly for the construction of machinea for air travel. An attractive hat for feminine wea-a-niotnrliig la of dark olive tcMcli twod. with folds of dark-toned ribbon around tne crown and twisted over a duck wing in shadua of gray, freer and black for tiim niirig. , Not only do tt:e members of the Iallas Tex. Automobile club take an active part in looking after the streets and roads of the city and vicinity, hut they asit the local officials lu catching speed vtolatjrs as well. To overcome the opposition of some tann ers to the evetit. Die promoters of the Briarvllff trophy race to be lie id near New Y'ork in April agreed to buy the milk tne farmers would have shipped on the day of the race. Ties fifth annual hand hook of gasoline care, recently Issued by the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, con tains Illustrations of 114 models of cars, ranging front a $ runabout to an tvO u limousine. The Albany Automobile club's animal lour will cover t7 nule tills year. The start will be made June 'ju and the route will include OreeufielJ. Mass.; Providence, K. I.: New Haven and Waterbury, Colin., and New York fit v. Tlie company which Is seeking tl.e prlvl-'j u-ge or opersting motor KuAes at Washing ton. 1) .. proposes to uso electricslU -driven cars sealing tl.lrty-six pasj-enu-n.. and to run them on a aix-minute headway orer apocified route. Virtually driven from bi:suie by th sd venl of Uik'mus. tlir.- New York Csbhiei drove up to Hie curb in front ( s leading hotel and putdiciy ata-iioncd off. the.r horses and eaUe. declurti- tl.ey were g ling to ol!l a CSdUtfeUIS' Mt-llool AmrrMans taking Ilieir rini tit Italv s re chais'd duty ranging froii J.nt t JMiio. accoid'iig to t? weight of lui' car, which may be refund..! wuen tne touust leaves I he country. Fee ruuning Iro u Hill lu 12 V6 aie i barged by the official. Fuur Naw lurk motorists touring throu.-li S.M.-.I vain- of V", lnttl of the susr sntied slue of !..'. ss It sva laM )ir. This change brir.gs t!ie siaHe bark to tne conditions thst prev:ie for the running In !.". MEXICANS EH THE RACING GAME Mark Interest eth mt , Ike Rio Grande la the lleree, NEW YORK. Feb. I F. M. Shortell. a former, attache of the Faslg-Tipton com pany in this city, but new a merchant In Mexico, says the movemenf to promote first-class racing In the republic to the south ot tbe Rio Orande Is sure to produce result that will be of benefit to breedess In the United States. Tbe Mexicans want horses badly and they prefer the thorough bred etraln to all others. The project has the warm aupport of the government, that 1 to say. of Don Porfirlo Dies. President Dla hsa long sought to estab lish In Mexico a fin breed of horses, and. being a long-headed man, he appreciates tli fact that the best wsy to get what he want la to- encourage racing- There Is no organised racing In Mexico, as In the United State. One or two days' meetings are held at the City of Mexico at various times during the winter months tinder the direction of various societies. The Oerman society will, for example, give a two days' meeting shortly In com memoration of the birthday of Emperor William. Later the American and English societies will follow suit. It would not, Mr. Bhorteli believes, require much work to secure the co-operation ot these societies with the Mexican Jockey club In an organised at tempt to give regular and high-class meet ings. Racing I thoroughly popular among the Mexicans, and after seeing a little con ducted on American lines Mr. 8hoiiell be lieves they would abandon bull fighting for It. The giving of a S30.0P9 derby ff r 3-year-olds, the horses to be In tha country at the time of nomination. Is practically Presi dent Dias' Idea. KEZNE HAS MUCH FAITH TN COLIN Eatry ef Celt la Tkree-Year-Old Claaa Shaw Thl. NEW YORK. Feb. 1. It I evident from a study of th event In which Jaroe R. Keene'a Colin Is engaged that the- stable ha no doubt of the great colt's ability to go the router 'in the very best company as a 3-year-old. Of the large number of events which closed January 3, the unbeaten son of Commando has been nominated In only the most valuable ones; In no case Is he eligible for a race at a mile or less. Many other high-class runners of last year's Juvenile division have been named for the aame. races in which Colln's name appear, but their namee can also be found on the lists of less valuable races and of fixtures Intended principally for the sprinting divi sion, their owners throwing out an "anchor to windward" in case their horses fail to develop ability to run a route. It Is. there fore, a distinctly high compliment that Mr. Keene pays to hi greatest money winner of 1907 by thla practical declaration that he considers him too good for any but the most Important fixtures. Mr. Keene'a other stur youngster, Celt, whose sensational second to Colin In the Flatbush stakes on the occasion of his first appearance under color stamped him as a really great colt," Is very liberally en gaged throughout the Hat, and Is evidently considered the stable hope In case of mishap to Colin. Not only Is Celt In all three of the classes, but he has been named for nearly all tha secondary events. Horsemen of every degree share the belief that Colin will prove one of the greatest 3-year-olds ever seen In America. FOB LONGER COURSE AT JAMAICA Metropolitan Jockey Clae Plaao to Enlarge Ita Coarse. NEW YORK. Feb. I.-The Metropolitan Jockey club la planning to enlarge Its course at Jamaica. Tho track Is to be Im proved so that both stretches will be a six teenth of a, mile longer. This ! possible by moving the railroad sheds back a suf ficient distance to permit msklng the track a mile and a furlong. When thee improve- rural New Jersey recently were the easy victims of a farmer whose sons purposely allowed a calf to run In front of their car Just in time to be killed. 'Then he collected Soou. The beast wss worth barely lo. Make It a practice to declutch at tlie instant of crossing a hump in the road tons relieving the strain upon the car by checking the driving force and allowln its momentum to overcome the exira r slstance which the obstruction presents. For short distance riding a aeatless motor cycle lias been brought out in Kngluml. The rider's feet rest on plates on cmcIi side of the rear wheel but a few Inches from the ground. Thus the center of gravity is low and the vibration ia mater ially lessened. The I'nlted State supreme rourt has been asked by the attorney general to de cide whether the owner of an Imported automobile can be required to pay duty on ! I!" "I'''''"6, " T?" bTnk!, ib7'd fo second tune when H has r a year and ex ten sively repaired The insurance conipauies having an nounced that they would cancel the poli cies on the building in which It was planned to hold I he t incinnali show, prob ably has prevented a show In that t-tty IhU spring, a I here seems to be no othei building avaiable. The Aulomohlle club of Buffalo. N. Y.. now has 1.I.T members, with eighty appli cations to be acted upon at the next meet lug. Its officers say they will not he satis- j fled until they have more than the Auto- t m..hiU I 'l.ih i,f A m.riru Kmr Vitrk I'ilv A : ... Breai nri.unxi.ni. With membership limited to owners ol toi.-ing ears w ho use them for the purpose implied by their naw, the Motor Car Tour inr socleiy has been formed at New York. A fenlure of its work will be the mapping out of new touring route and the prepara tu.n of road booaa. i-m ral Thomas. . commanding the De partment of Colorado, I'. 8. A., ha or tiered a military map of southern Ailsouu mane, and iJeuteiiunt Utuiperllnic of the Twenty-first Infantry has decided to us an automobile in plac' of toe lime-honor. i army wagon in the work. The Automobile ' club of Si. Louis hai adopted a plan to keep track of all pro fessional chauffeurs In that city bv es tablishing a bureau with which each driver ia requested to f ile hia record of employ ment for the last five years, wilh name of lii employers and refcrencv. V striking illustration of the remarkable progress of the ai.H-molMk- In the I'nii.-d Slates i afforded bv comparing the coming exhibit at I tat rot t . February lo-1 S. with tlmt held In that city six years a. Then M steam run snd owe gasoline were exhib ited, while ti ts month fifty standard inuki s of cars will be on view. The railroad that cn.sms the Uland oi Nantucket, K. I., on which are located t o resorts of 11: scon set and Nantucket, ha placed m servh-e a gasoline automobile wttli a capacity of nine Ms&-iigers. with a view of getting rid of II steam niuipmeut. If stM-tsful two larger one will Ik or dered li. time for the summer season. One reviilt of tlie Quaker City Motor club's endurance run on New Yvar l,a be-r tlie oignnls.uion of a club at Allm t:.wn. Pa., winch has over owners ol .-srs, more in proMrtion to Hs topuiu'in tha:i anv other ctty in tl,e rountrjr. Th Improvement of main r.4t In its ir.hit will be inn of the clubs t.rxt lark. -"ive aut'Hoohil.n now maKe regular tri,s on a t'iree-hoiir schedule over tlie f.rt five t.ulea between LuhhtM-k and I"laln view. in tlie Panhandi- of Tex. A private right-of-way is utol pn.i.M i. d bv w u fences and wttli laitle B'iar.1i at crojiitt$- as if for railroad Tim rs carry tl, lie lis and arv cLlm.d to nulla lime bv l,i on bits iviitract with the government. fine !eretiry V. C. Klnls snnoiir fourteen stake foe i, coming frrlrtg me rTAhe Joput,?Hurer.rVrerrVe,l.'',h of fl KveeWf.tr Imnilli nn of S'rtftO tmnn. terfl. at one nni" and a sixteenth, fr .v year-oi ls ar.d upward, ss Tie rMf event. The weights for the Excelsior re to b- an- nounced on March 19. The -1 . . .!..,. stakes, one mile snd a sixteenth, weight for eg' the K'mrs County handicap and the Faumonok handicap are the more Im portant of the other fixtures for 3-year-olds and upward. The lint of fourteen V nuTd wi.rJvenr.cW nroJ fir Aes;-'o,;s an , "w":, thre" for 3-year-olds and four race. f,.r atakes vlded races S-yesr-olils. the value of the stake rang ing from tho ll'l.nnn guaranteed of the Ex celsior l.an11enp down to ll.wo added nio. er In tho cheaper of the stakes, governed by selling conditions. FOOT BALL GAME FOR 09ADA (Continued from Fage One.) Missouri on a short trip and the fore part of May will make a two week' tour of Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Missouri. Athlete rrartlrlag. The annual Indoor athletic meet which will ho field by the athletes of the univer sity February 14 Is occupying the time of the track men. who are practicing dally In the armory In preparation for the con test. This meet is held each year on the anniversary day of the founding of the university for the purpose of giving the athlete an opportunity to show their prowess. Medals are given to winners of first and second places In each event. The university Indoor record with the names of the men who made them and the year In which they were made are as follows: Twenty-five Yard Dnsh 3Hi seconds, II. W. Craig and F. W Coe. 1!C. . Twelve-Pound Shot Put 43 feet, S Inches, S. M. Collins, IJ I'ole Vsult 11 feet and Hagenntrk. II". Inch, M. Benedict Fence Vault feet, 8 Inches, H. Gibson, is. Running High Klck- feet, 1 Inch, I. P. Hewitt. 1H04. Running High Jump 8 feet. 11 Inches, Paul Anthe and J. C. Knode. 19"7. Hope Climb seconds. Lyman Feck, !:& PICTURE POST CARDS CRAZE Malls ef Ksrope and America Choked by aa Indaatry Almost World-Wide. Three or four years ago all the facts about the picture postcard Industry could have been related in a few words. In fact, so far aa the United States was concerned, there was practically no, story to tell. There may have been Ita) shops In the entire country where persons In search of picture postcards could find a small slock from which td make a selection. Originating In Europe, these cards had met with little favor, except on the continent, where they found a somewhat ready sale as Inex pensive souvenirs, and this had been the condition ot affairs for many years. Sud denly. However, the tide turned, snd, where manufacturers had hitherto been unable to dispose of their stock, they now found It Impossible to supply the demand an im perative cry for picture postcards coming from every part of the world, from Asia and Africa, as well as from America. Millions upon millions of them are mailed during the year In this country. In New York City alone the postoffice handles no lesa than 100.000 of these cards every day. and It Is the same story elsewhere In Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, Buffalo and In all the large Alties. More over. It is not In the I'nlted States alone that these conditions exist. In Europe, too, all the postal services are actually Inun dated with poFtcards. It is offlc ally staled- that no less than 5UC.0ial.Oi) passed through tlie British postoffice during ISO These are stupendous fitter?. In.it this Is the puim at which the imagination balks! Wo can read the numeral?, but we tann it comprehend them. Just think of It! One hundred thousand postcards a day enough, In a year, if laid pictures side djwn, to extend from New- York City to a point somewhere ' between Salt Lake City and the Pacific coast. Five hundred millions! The enormous vogue of picture postcards means that the sale of one-cent stamps re quired to carry these cards must also have become enormous, and there ia no reason j q douht the truthfulness of the assertion j that the postoffice department of this, a j well as of other countries, is finding it a , difficult matter to deliver tlietn. This was especially true during the summer J months, when everybody who went vaca- i Honing purchased these csrds by the dox.ns ' io .'end them over seas and to all parts , of ihe '.and. I'nder those conditions It In ; n t Strang..4 that the malls should have j become congested. It is not surprising tha the letter carriers should have become so completely swamped beneath the flood of pictures that they fell far behind In their : deliveries. It Is not difficult to believe j hat the revenue from this source should have become so great that the postal 1 authorities have sbout decided to ask for j more men to operate this branch of the . service. 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