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WRITER to th Sua Ball Maga
A- offer aoma argument to prove
that th glow hu not added to.
but detracted from tha aclnc of
tha game. Ha contends tbat It
free falaa excellence to Holding- and put
bana on tha batter which fana do not
enjoy., HI chief argument la a compart
on of fielding average twenty year ago
"d today. Tor Inatanee, he show that each
tart aa Jerry Denny and Jack Glasscock
were far below. In their avwragee, than
uch men aa Harry Btelnfeldt and Johnny
Bvera, or Bobby Wallace and Hana Wag
ner. Ha laya the high percentage which tha
ftlayer of today la able to make entirely
to the use of the big glove. And there
le no doubt hia argument haa truth. In It.
He -does not advocate tha total abolition
ef tha glove, but want It reduced In rise.
The catcher, he says, ahould wear a glove
nearer the else and shape of his hand, and
neither he nor the first baseman ahould be
allowed to use a bed tick. H would not
Object If the fielders did hot wear any
gloves. This gentleman la on a false trait.
The glove a an element of progress In tha
development of tha greatest of games which
Is greater today than in any previous
period of Its history- The glove haa come
:o stay, and no matter how good" the game
a-as yesterday without tha glove. It la bet
ter today with It. He argues that many a
batter now la deprived of a fair hit by
means of the glove, snd that but for the
glovo ws would sea mora good batting and
a hlar grade of play. Let's see? A ball
is sent on a swift line to Mr. Shortstop,
who, by means of his glove. Is enabled to
get It and cut off a hit. Logically, without
the glove Mr. Shortstop would have tried
for the ball, but missed It. The result?
Error for Mr. Shortstop. How do errors
raise the standard of the game? Or Mr.
Shortstop, without the glove, would have
made no effort to get tha ball, be couldn't,
and yet bow la your standard elevated?.
Record ball never Improved the game.
The man who covers the widest area of
ground la the man who la sought after and
the man who makes the game Interesting.
It la not necessary and would not be Just
to Impeach tha character of work of the
old-time player by saying that present-day
players are covering more ground than did
their fathers of yesterday. This makes the
game more spectacular and gives It a hold
on the pubile which nothing can break.
Tha rule making u strike out of a- ball
that hit the bat without any fault or ef
fort of tha batsman and bounds off Into
foul territory Is becoming unpopular with
many managers. It will not be surprising
If a determined effort la made nxt winter
to efface thla rule from the law book.
This rule had Its origin In that general
movement to equalise matters between
pltdher and batsmaa and remove all possi
bility for trlokery on the part of the latter,
which would work hardship on the pitcher.
The motive was laudable, but th operation
of the rule gives rise seriously to the crea
tion If the effect does not more than bal
ance the scales and leave the odds ma
terially against the man at bat. How often
do we see this very play put a batsman
In the hole at a crucial time without add
ing Interest to the game-? There Is no pro
cess of reasoning that will remove from
consideration the element, of apparent un
"fafrnen and Injustice which thla rule Im
poses on the batter. "It take but pna to
hit It," Is the coach' cry of years, but how
often Is that one waated on an Inshoot the
batter Is positively unable to eacape before
It strikes bis bat and goes fowl? It' a
strike, but it's not his fault. It he had bis
way it would have been a ball; he had no
Intention of batting at It The pitcher
should have no such advantage of the bats
man. A great deal was done for him In
ever creating the foul etrlke rule and put
ting the pass down to four balls. That
ahould be sufficient, In the minds of many
managers, to even up matters between him
and the man at bat. The extension of the
rule to the Involuntary foul ball savors
Just a bit of unsportsmanlike advantage
and doea not reflect great credit upon the
pitcher. It'a a wild pitch or It wouldn't
have hit th bat, and It was not a strike
ball for tha very tame reason that It wa
a wild pitch, and Incidentally It doea not
heighten th interest In base ball.
Herman (Dutch) Schaefer haa superceded
BUI Coughlln aa captain of Detroit.
Schaefer' promotion, which 1 admittedly
earned, followed the resignation of Cough
lln. Coughlln displayed a fine spirit of
team loyalty In hla action. . He realised
that hla off-work this Reason no longer In
spired the players as did the great playing
of Dutch, and rather than stand In the
way of what he regarded the best Inter
eata of hla team he resigned to let another
take the lead. That la a sacrifice hit far
too difficult for men of leas character and
loyalty than Bill Coughlln to make. Old
Bill haa been a great man and la yet a
good one. but It la all too apparent that he
la (lowing up.
Denver laid down certain defiant unUma
tuma for White Wing- edification at the
beglning of thla sesson. But then no man
should be too severely criticised for Den
ver's lack of form thla year. The team has
had the worst sort of misfortune and this
la something that managers and owners
cannot very well avoid. If all the Denver
player were at their best It would very
soon appear that a real effort had been
aaad to improve the team.
Detroit v.ianagement admits Ty Cobb
haa won hMf it game with hi bat this
year. That Is admits; that Ty is worth
th I&.000, isn't U? Incidentally, if tbey
don't look ol?t they'll incur the odium of
being called a one-man team.
Bader haa crowded McDonough out of
first place in the league batting list and old
. Chick Is third. Kings advance Is one of
the sensational features of the league Just
aow. The little fellow has gun up to
and 1 still marching on.
The Giants have secured another tea
year lease on th polo grounds. Thla would
be more Interesting if the contract carried
with It a guaranty of Justice aod protec
tion to vlatlng team.
L to date the human officer of Ne
vada have done nothing in behalf of Br'er
Johnson and th plana for the Bursa match
are proceeding.
Omaha haa played a game thla last week
that aeu th pac for th rest of 'em and
eom of them made pitiful out trying to
follow.
If you war a good gueeser do you think
you could guess what would happen to
New Tork whea the Cubs reach that towtvf
Pa'a rabbit foot was working whea he
leaded Rhodes.
Jimmy Austin Is 4 erond Arlit Latham
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POLO PONIES COST HONEY
Great. Increase in Value of Seasoned
Fa;.
HIGH CLASS FLAYERS HAXPTXED
Reeenl Blddtag at raakall Keeae gal
-Reuse- Bred atoefc Better a lis
Dried Twrf Tkaa Tker
stlksretii
NKW TORK. Aog. t TIs education
train th youthful mind, also th brain
and th leg of a polo pony. -That' why
at auction In June laat here in New Tork
two ranch ponies brought aa much a a
herd of steers on the' hoof pr a couple of
thoroughbred yearling of a fashionable
family. The prices were realised. -a the
trade reports say, when Foxhall Keene sold
nine ponies for $10,125, an average of tl.18.
Express brousxht a&lQO and Flu Peter
12. KM, Paul J. Ralney buying th two, while
Keene bid In Crotona for rUttO. No type
of hers lasts longer than a polo pony or
give more fun to th owner, o to a good
player prto I no object. But as a rule It
is th duffer who pay long price for
ponies good plsyers have developed. '
Raised In a bunch of ponies In Texas,
Wyoming or some other western rang
country, the 4 of 1-year-old will not know
the tickle of a curryoomb until taken up
for a preparation for tha eastern market.
Thla will be In th fall or very early In tha
spring. Tails and manes are trimmed, but
not docked or "hogged," while the pony Is
made wis aa a saddle horse. If taken up
In the early fall the ponies may be roughly
broken to polo; that la, to follow the ball
and not ahlrk under tha whirling of a polo
mallet. They come to the east twenty In
a oar, and there I a profit In such a bunch
If sold for taw a head. Exceptional Indl
vlduals sell as high as $1,000 to 300, but
those that don't aunlt tha polo player
usually go begging for a buyer. They
may bring from $100 to $160 for us In har
ness, and they are grand value a light
country roadsters.
Kla et Poalea Meat Liked.
"Cutting out" pontes, trained to work
hand In hoof with tha cowboys In rounding
up cattle or In taking tha certain steer
wanted from out the center of the herd, are
worth $7M to $1,000 on the ranch of a cow
magnate. They do not com aat ezoept
by private sale. It la tha aam with very
fast racing ponlea, for If an ' easterner
wants ana of thla sort he must go to San
Antonio, Cheyenne or soma other center and
then begin to scout around. Buyer who
drop off In Texas on thatr way to south
ern California have paid aa high aa $3,000 at
private aale for a racing pony. Really this
sort are too hotheaded to learn polo, for
they can't be placed In the game, and, a
with tha natural high Jumper In the hunt'
Ing field, they are a source of danger to th
other horse and rider, But to the ama
teur Jockeys of. tha country club ne prto
I too high for a pony that can win for
them, to gain th smile of tha .women and
tha cheer of their chum. But In consider
ing th price of polo ponlea th race ponlea
often dwarf thoroughbred, may be elimi
nated.
Auction sale of seasoned polo ponlea
are vary rare In this country. The record
price In England la $6,800, paid ten year
age for a thoroughbred mar at a disposal
aal of a noted pololst at Tattersall'; but
th average of the Keene aal will compare
favorably with th beat of th Engliah
ale. About flv years ago Thomas Hitch
cock, Jr., sold two ha. had played for aev.
oral seasons. Rowdy brining $800 and EL W,
$G0O. 'At this closing out aal ten year ago
or so John A. Logan, Jr., Included six sea
soned polo ponlea. They brought . front
$400 to $800 piece, Wlnthrop Rutherford
paying the latter price for a gray, a color
he had a partiality for wberf in the gam
as one of the Rockaway "big four," and
later on.
Sprlatf Sales Are tkalek.
There are not over a dosen men who
bring on droves of polo ponies. They
come to certain "pitches" each spring on
iong island, in westcneeter county or
near the polo club In Massachusetts.
Quick sales mean quick profits, and If ao
fortunate the dealer may be back again
later in the season with fresh ponies. One
westerner three years ago sold three car
load In three day and set out for home
on th fourth $,O0O to th good. But
If galea are alow the dealer hav to follow
tha polo tournaments ta drum up trade,
which cost money, while the ponies all
the whil will be eating their beads off.
Even when aal are quick, collection
are often very alow, and thla 1 a frequent
cause of complaint with the dealers. The
ponlea are sold only half broken, and a
this sort would not sell at auction th
way seasoned ponies do ths dealer prefer
the lottery of the private sales to taking
the chance of an auction of their carload
lota.
Polo ponle hav to b eondJtlonad by reg
ular work aa carefully a racehorse, but
unlesa tha veriest novice the owner must
himself break the new pony to polo. Each
man' gams la different, and a skillful
player will not let a groom break In a pony
for him. This meana many hour of preo
tic strokes and many preliminary match
before a pony la letter perfect. A pony
broken In by a good man and used by him
for two or three season, as with the vio
lin of a virtuoso. Improve In us nd If put
on th market brings a price far In excess
of th value as msre "hose." There la In
England a class of gentleman dealer play-
era, if it may be ao defined, who make a
living by training and selling polo ponlea
There are a few of this clase here, but
what they earn from polo cornea from
coaching the new team. They are willing
enough to deal in ponle, but they can't
go very far. aa tha raw product la eon
trolled by th western dealers.
Pea lea Liked ta Eaglaas.
Th ponle best liked In England ar
thoroughbreds, up to csrylng a heavy man
and with th nduranc to gallop on a alow
field. Occasionally they ar played In thla
country? but none of th erack American
players who hav visited Hurllngham ever
hav brought back any Engliah ponlea.
Th reason Is that tha mixed bred .ranch
pony haa good looks and for light and
middle weight riders Is all that la needed
there or en thla aid of the herring pond,
while on tha sua dried, hard baked polo
fields of an American August or September
he can rid rings around the Onglish ponies,
accustomed to galloping oa turf that stay
green and soft. ,
A number of northern gentlemen farmer
hav beea breeding polo ponlea, often using
JCngltan stallions t mat with American
ranch mare, and In ttm w may hav a
typ d st'net from th rng horse. Th
western ponies, however, new hav enough
hot Wood, ss the ranchmen terra the thor
oughbred Infusion, and they are breeding
1 or re rrora selected standard bred trelttr
now to gala 000! judgment and stamina.
A era ay headed pony Is no good In a polo
game.
Ther s.lll are herds of wild Denies la
th west, and during tr if ring In southern
nevtaa th trains that carry o.e
from the mine thirty mile ever the deaert
to the Tenor ah railroad hav armed gearda.
our 10 eaca train ef teams, te orevent
ths dauntless wild bands from tamped ng
ths work horses. Twenty years ago car
loads of ranch ponies sold at a profit
ta New Tork at 10 a head, and ther ware
frequent auction aaiea. The pon'ea Were
mn unoroaen out or corrals, snd !t was
worth any sum psld for on of them to get
th four footed cyclone to th horn stable.
Th present western pony is an improved
type, for well bred stallions fir year hav
been running with th herds, and at some
Teiss farms ther I a pedigree with th
best ponies.
Hare Cash eeded.
It is hard cash that makes th polo pony
go. All tha expenses of the sport ar
eoetly one, but some may be dodied. Not
o th coat of th good ponies, and no
player, however, exrert, can join In a match
and aid hla team If mounted on slow, stupid
nags. There may be good ponies still to be
picked up In the west for $100, but few
know where to find them. A high class
player on an ordinary pony, whatever hap
pens, la not worth aa much to his team
as an ordinary player on a high class pony.
Ptayr handle a pony for several months
before branding It as a reliable aid for
an Important match. There will be a bunch
of ponies from the eerly drones In th
spring cut loose by the New Tork, Boston
snd Philadelphia player at th tourna
ment Impending In Narraganaett Pier, Sar
atoga and Newport. There Is a general dis
position to strengthen the teams for th
senior and Junior champioonshlps at an
Cortlandt park from August 29 to Septem
ber i. so that the playera will work out In
matches tha new ponies they have been
putting through the preliminary lessons In
private.
WELSH LOOKS GOOD IN TEISC0
Eagrltsk Llgatwelskt Waats Match
with Nelsoa.
A FRANCISCO. Cel., Aug. 1. Freddlu
weian. trie clever English lightweight
wouia like to catch on wHh Battling Nel
on or Packy McFarland In this city either
In August or on admission day. Welsh says
he Is not tied up with Jeffries and Is free
to sign for a match here. He Is anxious
to box Nelson, and If the Ely fight falls
through, hs would like to fight the Dane
on admission day. When asked aa
whether he would box Nelson to a finish,
ne said while he preferred a limit round
contest he would agree to take the Dane
on tor forty-five rounds on admission dav
weisn is a clean-cut chap, and Is not at
all boastful. He never eats meat and dur
ing his strenuous sieges of "training sub
sists on vegetables, fruits and nuts. He
believes that a fighter' condition depends
more upon how b trains than upon what
n eat.
NEW COACH FOR THE MIDDIES
Palg ( Yal Will Sacceed Catoa a
Aaaapolla.
AW tv AFOLI B, Md., Aug. L "Jack" Catos
the fast former end of Yale, will not coach
the middle In foot ball again thla season.
mm am nas ror tne hast two years. The
executive committee of the Navy Athletic
association has aigned with Ray Paige to
teach the young sailors next year. Paige
is aiao a rale man, having played tackle
on the Ell eleven last year, so that ths
Tale styl of gsms will be that In use at
Annapolis next fall. Tale coaches have been
in charge at ths Navy academy glrdlron
ror a number of seasons, one of th grad
uate from ther being the field meh
while Lieutenant Paul J. Daahdell and
graduate coaches from the aoedemy have
made up th rest of the squad of teachers.
Captain Percy Nrothcroft. with the mid
hlpmen of the team, will report back from
their vacation about the last week In
September for the early fall practice.
OWES KORAN IS QUITE EAGER
Taiaks Ha Caa Rede at the Olympic
Defeats.
NEW TORK. Aug. l.-Owen Moran.
eager for his coming battle with Ab At-
ten for the featherweight championship
of the world, Is now on his way to Cali
fornia. "Even If wa Britishers did lose
a lot of Olympic records," said he. "that
doesn't prove that we are not going to hav
tn featherweight championship."
Moran Is as sure of beating Attell this
time as ha Is of fighting. You can't con
vince him that Attell has anything he
hasn't. He bellevee that he won the last
contest of twenty-five rounds, which Jim
Jeffries called a draw, and he thinks that
Jeff refused to give any other decision
because he might have hurt hi own
popularity.
WISCONSIN HAS ITS BLOOD UP
Bsrtger will Oa to PiskkHl
West Itaiea,
MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Aug. 1. -The
Wisconsin erw will go to Poughkeepsle
next year to race with Cornell, Syracuse
and othr erack eastern teams. This haa
been decided, through the formation of a
new athletic management iv,im m,ytv
will give Wisconsin athletic fund 115.000.
of which $8,000 will go to pay th crew's
expanses to the Hudson races. The Wis
consin crew Is not discouraged at the loss
of the last race, but the Wisconsin fight
ing spirit i rully aroused and there will
be such an outburst of enthusiasm the
oomlng year as th old school has never
seen before,
FIVE EASTERN LEAGUE PITCHERS
Qalatet Who Thistle They Are Able to
Ga l' This Year.
NEW TORK, Aug. 1. Eastern league
pitchers who have, by their work this year.
shown themselves eligible for big league
company are McConnell of Buffalo. Kissin
ger of Buffalo, Bumpua Jones of Montreal,
Mueller or Newark, Sandy Bannister of
Rochester, Lafferty of Jersey City and
Rudolph of Tononto. Ths best all around
pitching work in ths league this year haa
been don by Jones of Montreal If the
number of wine Is taken Into considerstlon.
Next to him must probably be placed Rube
JClsslnger. Ha haa pitched more close
games and lost more by tough luck then
any other pitcher tn ths league.
W0JIAN HEAD' OF RIFLE TEAM
Miss Catherta Klaa la lln.li.
Hoaored la Baglaad.
LONDON. Aug. l.-The Cheshire Rifle
association for the first tlms In its history.
or probably In the history of any other aa
soclatlon, has elected a lady as president.
Sir Thomas Marshall, who presided at th
annual meeting at Chester, moved the elec
tion aa president of Miss Catherine King.
daughter of Colonel King, who founded
ths association with ths lata duke of West
minister. Colonel Motherstll said that Miss
King rarely mlased the annual shooting
meeting at Altcar, and was a most gener
ous donor to their funds. Miss King's
election was unanimous.
CORNELL LOSES OffE GOOD MAS
araey O'ftoark Will Net Reiara to
caeel Agala.
ITHACA. N. Y., Aug. 1. .. Same
O Rourke, tor thre year right tack! and
guard en the Cornell foot ball team, will
not return to the university. O'Rourks is
now employed by ths state engineer's de-
peitment ta Syracuse, aad he haa decided
not to return to Cornell, although he ha
only one more year to finish his course.
O Rourke s loss will be felt aeverely at
Cornell, particularly a seven of laat vear'a
team ar gone. Among th other who
will aot play next year are Th.n.
May, Carl and McCaU
TEAM TO CO FOR DAVIS CUP
Tennis Playeri to Represent United
Statei in Australia.
WILLIAM A. LARKED WILL HOT 00
His Veasaer Brother May, Who
Doyl aad Behr Ar Looked (
as Other Likely lavadera
Irons Her.
NEW TORK. Aug. l.-Wlth the cerUlnty
that there will be no elimination tennis
matches for the Davis cup In either Eng.
land or America this year. Interest In th
championship honors of the world h
really narrowed down to the proposed trip
to Auetralls. Whether or not the commit
tee In charge of these matters for th
United Slates I Jwn Tennis association can
prevail upon two or three good men to go
to the Antipodes much will depend. The
mstches In Australia are not scheduled to
take place until November, and therefor
there is plenty of time to make the neces
sary prepsrsttons. The trouble this year
will be in picking a team with a fair
chance of victory and getting the men te
go. Thus fsr no one hss really played
tennis In this oottntry to warrant any eon
fldence of success. The nstlonal cham
pion, William A. Larned, has said thst h
will positively not make th trip to Au
stralla. With th exception of the work
shown at Seabrlght. William J. Clothier,
the 190 champion, hss not performed well
enough to wsrrant hla selection. He has
been beaten by Edwin Larned In the mid-
die states and C. B. Doyle of Washington
also has taken him Into camp.
Ther haa undoubtedly been an effort
on the part of some moving spirits to get
Edwin P. Larned into such shape that hs
csn qualify, but th young brother of the
champion Is not "classy" enough tor such
an undertaking. He has beaten Clothier
and Little, and that Is about all. Clothier
was away off his game, and Little has been
out of the running all year. Larned has
been beaten seversl times by Mollenhauer
In the Long Island championship, and by
George f. Touchsrd In the Felipe cup
series. ' ,
Ksrl Behr will naturally come In' for
consideration, but the once fsst Crescent
Athletic club man has not done any kind
of work this year, and he would have to
Improve a great deal to be Justified In de
mending consideration. Likewise Little ha
been going back steadily. It Is likely that
Bests Wright will be one of the team, as
he Is always good when It comes to ths
International mstches, no matter how care
less he may be In the first part of the
year. He understands International play
ing better than any other star In ths
country, and hs would very likely accept
an Invitation to go.
Frederick B. Alexander ha shown up
strong this year. He wss going along
splendidly when he sprained hi ankle, and
there are many who think he can carry off
the Newport honors If he maintains his
recent form Whether or not he Could be
Induced to go to Australia Is still a ques
tion. If he accepts It would mean-that
Beals Wright and Fred Alexander Vill.b
th team, a pair not to be despised. It is
hardly likely that England could beat th
pair with both of the Doherty out of the
game. Oore, Ritchie, Barrett and one or
two other from th British Jales would
probably find their hands full with the
Ingles If they went In Australia, should
America get through the elimination aerie
with Great Britain, ther would be Brooke,
who I In all likelihood tha best player, of
the day. Even Brooke might - atrik a
nagt if the two, American were In tep
form, and certainly there is no other
Kangaroo who would be troublesome. Thus
the championship would resolve itself into
question of how strong a doubles team
could be gathered.
Harold Hachett, the partner of Alexander,
ha announced that he cannot go, so that
Wright would probably have to team with
Alexander, and Just how strong a combina
tion they would make Is problematical, a
they have never been tried.
SHEPPAUD THE BEST RACES
New York Entkaslasts Bay He Has
tha World Beat.
NEW YORK. Aug. l.-Melvln fiheppard.
ft the Irish-American Athletic club. Is
without doubt the greatest runner in' the
world today. Whatever doubt there may
hav been on this point haa been wiped
out by his wonderful victories at the
stadium, .races In hlch hs sent the fast
est men the athletlo world could pit
sgsinst him down tot defeat with com
paratlve case, at the same times estab
lishing records which are, likely to stand
for aome time.
Sheppard's time, when he ran 800 meters
In 1 minute, 12 seconds, and tha even
half In 00:01:64, would have been remark
able enough under the best conditions.
That hs should maka such records on a
track that was tar tixr being fast wss
truly wonderful. It Is not often the 00:01-54
halves are run In England. The British
record, 00:01:M, waa made more than
twenty year ago, and In all that time has
seldom been even threatened, never so
much as equaled.
Before tha yesr Is over Bheppard will
probably equal or lower the record mad
by Kllpatrlck thirteen years ago. Ills
00:014 was within three fifths of a sec
ond of Kllpatrlck's figures, and an Ameri
can has never yet dons so well In England
that he could not do better at horre.
Properly paced and with a fast track under
his feet. Bheppard will come mighty close
to reeling off 00:01:61 when he returns.
Ernie Hertberg trslncr of ths Irish-
American Athletlo elub was the happiest
man In New York, when the result of the
MO meter wa receive). He made no bones
of coming out flat-footed end declaring
that before the outdoor season Is over
Bheppard will do the four furlongs In
00:01:63 fist. "Ail Bheppard needs" seld
Ernie, "is a fast enough pace. The Eng
lish climate must have had some effct on
him. Two weeks is hardly enough In whici
to get thoroughly acclimated. Mark my
words: When Mel gets home strain e
ill run the fastest half mile vt-
trsveled."
Bheppard work also meana thst
England will no longer be able to claim
superiority over ths I'nlted Stales as a
producer Of middle d'stanc runners. John
Bull lias slways claimed th ability to
best anything on two legs at snythlng
from a half mile up. Bheppard took on
the besT Englsnd could show In both the
half and mils and ran them off their feet
In such convincing -styl that ther will
never' be any doubt that he won strictly
on his merits.
ZETCITELL GETS A PRIZE BELT
Proaaater Marlsrta Makes Hlai Preseat
f a "Dog Collar."
BAN FRANCISCO, Cat Aug. V. Pro.
motor Luke Marlsch has presented to
Stsnley Ketchel the gold snd silver belt,
which he had made expressly for ths
middleweight champion. It Is a beautiful
specimen of the go'damlth's art and to
gether with the precious stones wRlrh.
grsce the buckle I vslued at tlW. Th
belt 1 given to ths champion without any
strings attached to It. He will not b
obliged to defend it thrt time, la order
to owe it.
The fact
Model 31 is built with removable tonncau for all kinds of utility or
touring service. It is simply constructed with few moving parts; these
easily accessible, though enclosed and therefore always clean and prop
erly lubricated.
You can do all kinds of work with this car as a handy runabout with
tonneau removed; then put the tonneau on and take your family or
friends for a ride in the roomy five-passenger
Car of Steady Service
Extra large wheels, long wheel base and full elliptic springs provide comfort and
wio.N-uiicr
swim ur m mucu
Thirty
1909 .exjic
4-Cyllnde-r, Shaft Drlvt, 20 H. P.
DISTRIBUTES BY ffPOrPn A I if AmAiln tf
WRITE FOR AGENCY.
Timely Tips for Automobile Owners and Drivers
The Automobile club of Antwerp Is ten
yesrs old.
Never leave tire covers In a damp place,
as the canvas will soon rot.
There are more than 1.600 separate pieces
In the average full-sised touring car.
It has been estimated that 10,000 automo
biles will tour New York state during July
and August.
A new sutomobile factory Is to be located
st Mollne, 111., to manufacture elecirlc,
gasoline and steam cars.
Hesvy snows In Bwltserlsnd have put
a sudden stop to automobile touring by
American in that country.
Permission from the Turkish Imperial
government is necesesry betore Palestine
may be toured by motorists.
Mr. and Mrs. Ororge Jay Gould, who
have ben touring Enrope In a motor car,
will return to America August 18.
It Is expected that the roadbrds of ths
grand prise course at Eavannan will be
ready for practice Work by October 16.
Having been defeated In two aurclsalve
years In the Grand Prix, French motorists
are talking of discontinuing the content.
A net fender, to protect pedestrisns, has
been Invented snd Is being used on auto
mobile tramrars snd autobuases .In Europe.
The Atlantic City Automobile club Is pro
moting a convention to diacuas wsys of
abolishing New Jersey's draatlc anti-motor
law.
Philadelphia has appropriated 110,000 for
the purchaae of two motor cara for the ue
of city officials In Inspecting municipal
work.
Farm lands have been known to Increase
in vslus from 60 to Co) per cent ss a result
of road Improvement connecting with mar
ket towns.
The Long Island Automobile club claims
to have been the flret one la th country
to atation men along road to warn drivers
of speed traps.
Two thousand tsxlrsbs sr now In dally
operation In Paris streets, and 1.000 more
have been ordered. London has 1,600 snd
SOO mor ordered.
The procetdlngs of the recent Gnod
Roada' convention at Buffalo, are being
compiled and printed and will be distributed
throughout the country.
A three-tnn auto truck recently carried
a 4.M0 pound load from South Orange, N.
J. to Iillp. 1- I., sixty-four miles. In s'x
hours snd fifteen minutes.
Governor Fort of New Jersey hss pur
chased a motor car, and I'nlted States
Senator Brigs, of th earn atale, la con
templating a similar action.
Women who drive motor ears ahould be
ware of the veil. It Is to- of en liable to
blow across the facs snd obstruct ths view
Just at the rrlilral moment.
According to late f'ititlr. th number
of private owner of automobiles In France
ha Increased from 80, inn two years sgo to
40.000 at the present time.
The Automobile club of Wsyne county,
Indiana, was cne of the flret mutortng or
ganisations formed In the Hooslrr state
snd now hss fifty members.
John D. Rockefeller has purchased a
tourlne csr ail hla others hsve hfn
limousines and It is believed he Is con
templating a cross-country lour.
Sometimes th front tire will wesr ahnor.
mally, and the blame may b put upon th
tire manufacturer, while it Is reallv dus
to ths wheels running eut of parallel.
Among the mot sttractlvr of widely
checked rubberised taffeta motoring coats
sr ulsters In two tones of blur, broWn r
rTreii, having doublr-brrasted fronts, cls
i)S with uied.uru-aUed huttonst patch
Proof of Rambler
Superiority
that eighty-five Per cent of all
have told us that they chose the Rambler upon the advice
of some other owner should be significant to you.
iwu-cyunoer engine raoaei Ji nas no rival
Let us prove it. May we call at your home some morning
and take you to your place of business in this car T
RAMBLER AUTOMOBILE CO.
2044 FARXAM STREET
OMAHA, NEB.
on Our Floor for
Prloa f 800
NINETEENTH
pockets similarity decorated and cuffs and
collars of the darkest hue.
Iwls Mtrang, the only American entrant
m the Grand Prix, says Kuroprans are all
talking of the Grand Prise race at Savan
nah in th fall and predict a large entry
list.
Dr. Hraton, th Missouri motorist, who Is
touring Europe with the determination to
keep his expenses below 13 a day, hus suc
ceeded In traveling through Swltscrland at
U.6 a day.
Automoblllsta of Maryland snd Washing
ton sre working for the succers of a move
ment started by Congressman J. Fred
Talbot for the abolishment of all toll roads
In Maryland.
Count Nlnegawa of Japan, who 'accom
panied the Glldden tourists to study Ameri
can roads, Is In Americs to study the auto
mobile buMneas generally and to vlalt the
different factories.
Word comes from Germany that a stock
company Is being formed to establish and
construct an exclusive automobile road for
speed and endurance contest in the Tauru
mountain district.
The members of the Mnsschuaetts Auto
mobile club have nvmed a committee to
confer with the local municipal authorities
of ths cities of the state regarding a
proper obaervanc c the speed laws.
C. J. Croker, the Tale Junior, who re
cntly cronaed the continent from New
York to Pan Mateo, Cal., will drive hla car
back st the end of the summer vacation, to
reiume his studies st the university.
A. L. Smith of the New Jersey Auto
mobile snd Motor cluh. who recently re
turned to his home In Newark from a trip
to 1,100 miles through New England, found
the roads to be In very go d condition.
France hss equipped Its army with more
power-driven vehicles than any other na
tion. In addition to the quick-firing auto
mobile battery which haa dons good work
In Morocco, hss motor army wagons galore.
Banners reading: "Wamrng Automobll
lsts sre requested to obey the speed laws.
Help us to do this and we will help vou.
New Jersey Automobile snd Motor club."
sre being posted on roads about Newark,
N. J , by the club.
The storage battery finds Itself uaed In
various waya in an automobllp. In the
of ,
electric machine it la the entire source
the energy used for propulsion. In tb
gascllne-drlven machine It makes a con
venient and reliable source of Ignition.
One of th points sdvancpd In favor of
the proponed t wenty-t wo-inlle circuit In
Indiana, for ths DeMont Thompson cup
stock-car road race. Is trut It runs through
only two towns, Ix)well and Crown Point,
and Is entirely without grade crosangs.
Parisian and American artists are si
rvadv designing poalera snd scenic effeel
for the show to be given in Grand Centinl
palace. New York, under the aurplcea of
the American Motor Car Manufacturer a
association, December SI to January 7.
Now that the sleeves of all daytime
gowns sre made so math lunger xnd
actually protect the forearms. long
'vr.sted gloves, which formerly kr-pt the
draft from whisking up the wide wrist
openings of milady a to .rlnf cost, ar no
longer necessary.
The touring committee of th Rtv Stale
Automobile aasoclsilnn I working on
plana to conduct a sesltd bonnet, non
stop contest, some time during next tb p.
teinber. It probehly wlil be s t wenlv-f nur
hour endursnce run from Uoston to Bre.
ton Woods and return.
A New York automobile engineering
school hss installed a dvl consulting of
heavy roller flush with the floor on
which the rear wheels of csrs revolve, en
abling atudents to mssisr ths operation
Model 31, Price $1,400.
Other Model $1,000 to $1,130.
Rambler owners
I!
for power on hilla, in
j 1909
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Delivery
This beautiful Bui ok
Runabout has been im
proved and refined. As a
hill climber it holds the
1st prize over everything
in the $3,00.0 class. Our
new models are equipped
with 30-inch wheels and 4
unit coils, making it equal
to any car on the market
selling for $1,750.
' Weight, 1,610 pounds.
OiU TOM SXKOsTSTBATOK.
OMAHA. KEGS.
AND PAR NAM STREETS.
of..th.ch,n'e a", clutch and brake,
while tha car remains stationary.
Ths larger the road wheels are, the less
will be the power required to drive a ear
on ordinary roads. The muln reasons why
larger wheels are not used, nowever, is
that they are expensive and fragile, they
greatly Increase the cost of tires and ren
der access to seats more difficult, v
The Quaker City Motor elub will" hold
a race meet on Point Hreexe track about
the middle of next month. The club 1
repricing because the American Automobile
association revoked a sanction to private
promoters to hold rsces on the track. The
American Automobile association supposed
the promoters to be officials of the Nor
ristown Automobile club.
Taxlrabs will be operated In Baltimore
shout Auatis. 1. Ths service will stsrt with
fatten cabs and the operator expeot tj
suknicnt the serv'ce until fifty cars ar in
": Tl-y rate will be 60 cent for th first
nil end 20 cents for each additional mile.
or every ten minutes th vehicle Is kept
clsrged 1,1 h'r ,0 wlU
An elaborate welcome is being planned
P' Oerm-.ny for Lieutenant Hans Koeppn,
the utimnn cont Hant In th New soric-tV
To protect the complexion from freckle.
?,hn nr"-n"nd mnA at th " Urn. to
ob a n sn unlmerrupted view of th scen
ery a a problem only to be solved by th
TJSnn m.k' Th ,)Utlt upon a
I,nd,r J'." haped to fit over th
nose snd leneatr, tl a chn, and Is composed
of wrplnriuce. "Uh. 'n-lr'Ch
Ths automoWls buyer of today In moat
esse, consider, very carefully th.lmp IcUy
2nr.h .mor' or epPr-
thioh il"J" not, rP"n tii trouble
which were experienced tn the early day
dL'v"?'?0?""1"- whtn Purchaser. Yn.
deavored to secur a car Which, la plain
languaae. consisted of th greatest numbir
of pieces for the money. numosr
Kmporer Francis Joseph of Austria, la
virtually the only Sovereign In a"l Europ.
who mukes no u r nin.kii.. -
B',r '"'P""1- Archduke Francis Ferd'lnsrd,
hocver. Is a most snthuslastlo motorlsu
o,.oorr. u i nope, mey yet tsk to
the car. two motor having been pre
sented to him by ths Austrlsn Autpmobil
club mm Jublie gifts. '
The recent fest of Mrs. KennetH R. Oil
of Cleveland, who estsbllshed a record by
driving tier car from Cleveland to lluffalo,
204 miles, In six hours mrxi ten minutes
running time waa most remarkable, th
next best tlms for ths trip being six hour
and thlrty-flvs minutes made by Ralph
Tucker, th dsy before the Glldden tour
last year.
section of the Kenis automobile law
Is quoted literally ss follows: "Nothing
In this srctlon shall be construed as lr
any way i.revrntig, obstructing, Impeding,
embsrrssalng or in any other manner or
form Infrlnairg upon the prerogailve of
sny political cuauffeur to run an automo
bile band wajon at any rate he aea fit
compatlule with the safety of the occu
pants thereof."
Utile Team Start Hons.
IX)NIKN. Aug. 1. tienersl Jsmes A.
triln, pieildcnt f the Anur cin Rlf -soi'ti.iti.ti.
srd the nie.ul-rs of tne Ameri
can teem tl.at won the International tra-n
natth with taiv.c rlf: at liisiey. will
sail for New York today. General Drain
curries tentative acceptance from Brttisk
snd French rifle associations La suium
,J" -ieuienani Koeppen I 31 yean
old. unn.arrlej, six feet talf. slim snd alh
. " t"olnbruah mustache. Among
;.''?o.tt Wel0Olne him home will re En-
h'ueep'mlere.V0 MlQ lh