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It was a golden meet for Lincoln.
The men wore yellow straw hats and
yellow tan shoes. The ladles wore yel
low dresses. The people rode to the
races In yellow street cars. They were
admitted to the grounds by yellow
tickets. The programs were yellow.
The. races were won and lost by men
in yellow racing suits riding yellow
wheels.. The prizes In the professional
events were gold pieces, and in the
amateur events gold watches. The
bandmen were yaller, red-headed
nagurs, but the music was decidedly
off color. Everything was yellow and
gold. But what is most surprising of
all, the lemonade was yellow. The
only thing silver that appeared during
the two days races was when Joe Sul
livan entered the one-half mile handi
cap race all resplendant with smiles
and effervescent with ambitious Joy,
riding an elegant silver-finished wheel,
and the way he scintillated around that
track was a sight to behold. By a
strange coincidence seventeen men
started in the race, making one silver
wheel against the field sixteen to one
no wonder he lost. The races were,
none of them remarkably fast, neither
were they slow. Mockett covered him
self all over with glory by defeating
Pixley in the quarter-mile open and
again In the mile, tandem race, when
he and McBrlde beat Pixley and Mc
Call In one of the prettiest races ever
seen in this city. The. time for the
mile was 2:1S, the last half being made
in 58 seconds. "While this is not very
fast for a tandem, the competition was
delightfully close. The Lincoln team
set the pace for the half at a rather
slow gait and the visiting team, think
ing that Mockett's energy was about
exhausted, commenced to spurt early
in the race, which acted as a signal
for Mockett and McBride, who darted
as if shot out of a cannon, doing the
last half In almost record-breaking
time. Mockett has now met and de
feated Pixley, an event that has been
eagerly looked forward to for some
time by Lincoln enthusiasts. Mode
Griffith made an especially meritor
ious ride in the one-half mile handicap,
winning easily In one minute, five sec
onds. Fred Barnum distinguished
himself in the two mile amateur open
by his plucky ride. He. certainly Is well
trained at holding pace. During the
entire race he was withing twelve
inches of the tandem until the last lap,
when after his remarkably hard ride,
he started out on a spurt and finished
well ahead of the field. Hal ley did not
start, he, of course, had a fall the
night previous that prevented him
from riding. Halley and Sabin of Be
atrice broke the state tandem record
the day before, standing start, 2:00 2-5
for the half mile. Fredrlckson deserves
the sympathy of Lincoln people. He
has had more hard luck in Lincoln
than any other rider. "While a great
deal of it was brought on by himself,
he Is hardly as bad as he is made out
to be. People are. certainly prejudiced
against him in Lincoln.
Robert Glenalvin doesn't seem to
have caught on very well with the
fans of Milwaukee, as the captain
manager of the brewers taking the
place of Larry Twitchell, resigned. He
is one of the best second basemen in
the business, but his record as a man
ager Is nothing to be proud of. He has
managed five or six teams and it re
mains to be seen whether he will make
a success of the brewers or not. "Why
the directors engaged Glenalvin is not
known, as there are other men on the
team who would make capable managers.-
Taylor and Weaver are very
popular and both understand the game
thoroughly, and had either one of them
been appointed manager every fan in
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Milwaukee would be pleased.
The Cincinnati team is a surprise to
everyone this year. That team has
never won a pennant In the National
league and it would do old Ewing's
heart good to finish even In third place.
Last year they managed to hold their
own for the eighth place. Excellent
team work is responsible for their fine
showing so far more than anything
else. The Cincinnati players are per
fect gentlemen both on and off the
ball field. There is no ridiculous rivalry
among them and no ill feeling that
prevents them from playing well to
gether such as existed in the Boston
team last year. If there were a few
more clubs like Cincinnati in the.
league and fewer like Cleveland, Bos
ton, Philadelphia, then baseball would
be respected by a larger number of
people.
The annual rowing regatta at
Henley-on-Thames may be likened to
the yearly meeting at Epson, when the
Derby stakes are run for, and the
Grand Challenge cup for which a Cor
nell crew competed unsuccessfully for
in 1895 and Yale Is competing this
year, may be, compared with the blue
ribbon of the turf as being the trophy
of all. In its class, which oarsmen are
proud to take part in winning. The
regatta was established In 1839, when
the, present series of acquatlc combats
were inaugurated and the Grand Chal
lenge cup, purchased by public sub
scription, was first raced for and was
won by a crew from Trinity college,
Cambridge. This year the. representa
tives of the United States, Yale, failed
to win It as usual. Even Dr. "W. S.
M'Dowell was defeated, and by R. K.
Beaument in the races for the diamond
sculls. The Leander crew, this year's
winners, had no walk away, however,
for Yale easily distanced all other
crews.
Umpire Hurst took all the fight out
of Stenzel and Hauley of the. Pitts
burg team the other day. During the
game they taunted and threatened
him with punching after the game.
"When the game was finished Hurst
walked off with the Pittsburg players
and after passing out of the grounds,
told Stenzel and Hauley to repeat the
language they had used. He stepped
up to Stenzel and struck him In the
jaw and, turning, dealt Hawley a
similar stroke. Neither player re
sented the attack.
The United States government wants
to know how long it would take to send
a packet from end to end of the United
States. If the plans determined on are
carried out a message will leave the
hands of one of the army officers on
the Pacific coast and will be delivered
exclusively by bicycle sometime, this
month by the commandant in New
York city. The route will be from San
Francisco to New York. As it is purely
a question of speed, the shortest route
across the continent will probably be
picked out. The country will be dis
tricted Into something like seventeen
divisions, each "district to be under the
command of a division commander,
who will determine the. length of the
relays and the men who will have the
honor of transmitting the message
across the continent. The. relays will
be about fifty miles, where the roads
are good and the country level and
considerably less in the. mountain dis
tricts. Stearn wheels will be ridden
exclusively throughout the trip. In
Nebraska the route will be. direct from
Cheyenne to Lincoln, and thence to
Omaha. Mr. Henry Doyle, represent
ing the. New York Journal, has charge
of the race against time and is as
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sisted by Mr. Arthur Grant, represent
ing E. C. Stearns & Co.
Patsy O'Bulldozer Tebeau Insists
that he is a much abused ball player
and that all the reports of ruffianly
conduct in Boston, New York, Phila
delphia. Baltimore, Pittsburg, Cincin
nati. Louisville and St. Louis are a
pack of lies. Jesse Burket of the, same
team, an old Lincoln graduate, de
serves the success he has attained
from a baseball standpoint. For an
hour before the game he Is out on the
diamond batting as long as anyone
will pitch to him. He smuggles boys
through the gate to do the twirling for
him. He has learned much from Te
beau since he has been with Cleve
land. He has the reputation of being
the fastest batter the big league has
ever seen. He has, however, degener
ated into an all 'round ruffian, and his
disgraceful action on the, diamond
have caused trouble, both for himself
and the team.
Curiosity doubtless took many out
to see how Keener and the new comer
to the league ranks, Mertes, would
sport themselves, and they left feel
ing that In these two men we have
worthy additions to the team. Mertes
acts like, a born player. He showed
that he knew what he was doing and
had the right idea of how to go about
it. He seems to have a perfect confi
dence. In himself, which Is half the
battle. Philadelphia Times.
Speaking of the Corbett-Sharkey
four round, go-as-you-please, catch-as-catch-can
style fight, John L. Sul-
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