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Show seph Arthurs Blue Jeans." In whlrt BASE she did a most Interesting and suggestive bit of work, barely escaping greatINTERESTING MELANGE ABOUT ness. Must of mbat that work prom- SATINOS AND DOINGB OPPTHE ised she has never achieved. Another PLATS AND PLATERS. DIAMOND, l bit of acting was her "Jane. LaM year she was with Pete Dailey IP IkIM The Night Clerk," and her work waf I PrsASral FraaSwaa'a ness AlWatlra Mlriaia (irra Ip la Ikp Hat Goad fas Haw Park Slab Tha sad1 aa Pralawln Juila depressing. Like her mother, faaa at Tabaas Oaaa aver ta wh( for so many years shared with Otfcan Tsai tiracaa." a Haw May Mata Cara Taaaarja Fmara Kata Harlgan the buitpsi of the plays of New York life that many Ilka Howells felt were tha must significant addiry-- T IS almost a fera-gotion to our national stage literature Freedman declares conclusion Jennie Yeomans once seemed to have i nine-tentand believes that of that rare quality in a woman humor. that ba doea not Inter-fer- a tbo child actreasea Living appears, however, to have dissiwith hla mannever grow up to IL pated ager. Neverthaleaa achieve anything hla manager and In tha theater. "Tea, Grassa a Clav. team are pretty There are ascep-tiou- a Among the attractions for which certain to get along Ilka Ellen better when he la Terry, Mm Kan-da- l, much la hoped la the version of "Tom Mra. Bancroft, Grogan which Qua Thomas, the authnot with them, and if be could be Annie Russell, Ju- or of Alabama and In Missoura, to neither write nor telegraph lia Marlowe, hut oompared with tbo has aided F. Iloplnkaun Smith to make ones while away, ha would find hla lumber of children who appear on from hla popular story of that name. I understand that the dramatist has team all tha bet Ur for (ho stage the mortality of youthful It on hla return. taken the central figure of the atory Joyce la an earnest, Is startling. Among the and Iiromlse to this rule on tha Paris and surrounded It with new interests. consistent player, and hla man will tags la Blblane Augustine Duhamel, He has retained the main figures for have ne fault to find with the example nailed Blanca Duhamel, who was the tha play, but It was, of course, neces- he will art. He will not commit a fault original Mlaa Helyett. Mile. Duhamel sary for the stage that there should into which Manager Irwin may hare Interest. fallen; he will not overmanage. Man la now but twenty-si- x years old and be a central sentimental Pet over twenty years of her life she When it was announced among who know how u play tha gams do not baa spent on the stage. that Alice Fischer was like to be managed too much; they obplayers She was born in Rouen, March I, to play Tom Orogan," not one who ject U being given Instructions In too 1170. Aa a mere lufant aba appeared knew the actress and bad rend the much deUil. It la batter In the end, la tha theater in her native city, and story failed to say emphatically It even if many llttla things are not dona at the age of four was playing all Juat aulta her. Juat aa tbe manager thinks they ahould If having natural qualifications for be, to give tha men the use of their own (ho childish roles. She was fifteen when aha made her debut in Paris at a part insures success Mlaa Fischer's Individual Judgments They feel betthe Gaito, October tv, 1186, In a fairy Tom Grogan will be a sure triumph. ter for It, and It places upon them a respeotaela by Eugene Ls terrier, Arnold But that does not alwaya follow. Mlaa sponsibility which they prefer. It Ifortler and Albert Y an loo, entitled Flacher has the sturdy, robust phy- - makes each man feel that ba ls personally a factor In tha work of tha team and thua puU him on hU mettle. AN AMERICAN COUNTESS' ROMANCE. The new manager will have the hearty of hla men. Every player la anxloua to prove that the team can win If left alone. One of them said to me Saturday night: Juat watch us hustle from now on." Thun the new manager enters upon bin task at a favorably time and under fortnnate conditions. It la too laU for New York to reach the first division, but they may get to tbo head of the second. THEATRICAL lnw (ml BALL GOSSIP.I pay IM gossh. Imuh Daa-aamb-ar RESIDENT ne Jj pur-auad- ed hard-worki- Pauline Bradshaw, now of New York, formerly of Chicago, baa Juat fallen heir to 60,000 golden rubles that's Russian money, and a ruble la vf&rth, roughly, 77 cents. She now insists on being called "Countess Pauline. Hera ll ) romantic tory. Four years ago, when she was a serio-comsinger In a variety theater, she had an admirer who persisted In sending her diamonds, flowers and other nice things. They Count Vladimir Roatoffskl, er asked the fair Paulina to EL hla forever. Pauline consented. They were wed. The morning after the bridal night the count was gone. ic "Le Petit Poucet." She played the title role and was billed as Petite Duhamel. Edward Noel said of her at that time: This little Duhamel choeen to play the title role knows the boards like any old stager." She then entered the conservatoire, where for two years she was a pupil of the great Louis Arsens Delaunay. Graduating In 1888 she took up her career where she had laid It down. 8he was at once engaged at the Odeon, the second Comedia Francala. There ehe played la repertoire parts like Joaa In Athalle" and Mile. Rochedragon In Goncourt's horrible Germlnle Lecerteux. with a distinguished company including Paul Mounet, the brother of Mounet-fiully. X boaI Jraate Yeoman. ng SmhI L'atabar. Chicago If all the young players In the leagua today war aa earnaat and as painstaking as Timothy C. Donohue, tho second catoher of tho Chicago team, it la probable that more of them would be successful. Tha averaga youngster player who la given n trial In tbe fastest company in tho world la too prone to becoms conceited and fall Into the ways of tho older and tried men If hla first few appearances on the diamonds of tha big circuit are conducive to some complimenUry remark! In the dally papers. But Donohue haa proved beyond question that he la not apt to forget himself at any time and fall into a way of thinking tbe team could not get along without him. From tho day that Frealdent Hart of the Chicago team draftsd him from tha Kansas City team of tho Western league Donohue'a work haa been of a high grade, and he haa time and again showed that hla whola being la wrapped up in the sucreaa of hla taam. He works with the moat desperate energy from the time the game starts until tha last man haa been retired. Donohue waa born In Taunton, Maas., about twenty-thre- a years ago, and la consequently one of the youngeat players In the major organisations. Ha haa played professional ball for several years, but So were all the diamonds he had given hla Identity was hidden In tha wilds of Pauline. So was 1 100 of Pauline's sav- tha New England league. Hla first apings. Pauline wandered from city to pearance In big company waa mads in city singing The Maid or the Mill" and Maggie Murphy'a Home, breaking hearts, but never forgetting her lust cpunL It was only the other day a letter came for tier ?rom far off Russia notifying her of the death of one Paul Sadawskl and of a bequest of 60.000 rubles to atone for the wrong he had done a beautiful American. He was not a count, but he was rich. Pauline wept fur hla death. She will not refuse to accept the money. alque for the role. She baa an offhand, breesy, manner, and she has the sentiment. Her broad western spirit, even her assertiveness will aid her In the part. Moreover, whatever ahe doea she does with authority. self-certa- in Mlaa Taaaat a Future. Another player who Is to remain In "The Sporting Duchms another season la beautiful Cora Tanner. All along tbo road Cora Tanner, at one time the wife of Col. Sinn, the manager, was for some seasons best known as the sad heroine of Robert Buchanan'a melodrama, Alone In London, in which, from 1888 to 188S, aho played Annie Meadows. Later we remember her aa even handsomer although Inclined to be heavy as the heroine of Buchanan's Fascination, In which ahe created a sensation by masquerading in a masculine evening outfit, the cut of which excited the admiration of gay New York. After ahe separated from Col. Sinn ahe went to London and it was reported that ehe waa to make her debut In opera. This never came to past. MIm Tanner's very first appearance on the stage, by tho way, was aa a singer in John Stet-aon- 'a production of Princeas Ida, in which she sang the title role. For some reason Mlaa Tanner returned to America and tho atage after n vary brief stay In London. Possibly she did not find progress In operatic matter! so easy in London, even for a beautiful woman, aa it looked. well-kno- la Paris they apeak of Blaaca DuWere hamel as an enfant galte. Jennie Yeamans known there she would be dubbed a veritable enfant de la belle" a term by which professional people on tha French stage know the children of players who grow up la the theater and for whom the region behind the curtain holds no secret. This American comedienne, who Is hardly realising the hopes she once Inspired, has never known any life but the : - Ificlal one of the theater. Her father, who was a Welshman, was a circus down. While ahe was a baby, her father used to carry her, clad In a clown's dress of white silk. Into the ring with him, and It Is said by ber mother that In 1868 aha played Waddl-lov- e In To Parents and Guardians, In San Francisco. Periodically In ber career she has adorned the vaudeville Henry Guy rarletona new play for Two stage Juat aa her sister, Lydia Titus, tha Hollands haa been named does She baa been doing n "turn of Men of Business. that sort lately. Her moat memorable Punrh suggests that tbe only finish' achievement waa aa tha heroine of Jo-- ed actors we have are dead. But as there fa Balking ia AMONu THE SHOOTERS Laafae'a eoastltutloa ta empower to directors ia rale IF wet matters UU (relates Is Tebeau's ease may ba NOTES OF INTEREST TO TRAP turned down. At any me tfcare will AND WINQ EXPERTS. be e bet fight ever the matter, la It now hinted thqt, aa n aep ts public eplnlea sad to cover say retreat ia the fki Seeaet ThiuihI st SMkM Tebeau ease, Aa League will probably laaagaratM Iks Dm sf s It Trap make some new rules providing for seSUilett's ktml rhallaage Twe Hstad vere pualakment fer playere wfia InHarkiMM Hetaa. dulge la puglllstlo aaaountara oa the field sad are arrested and fined la tbe HE fourth annual police courts. tournament of the A Hew Ink Flefea. Goshen Rod and Gun club, given at Frank H. Connaughton, of the New the club grounds York team, waa born January 1, 1861. near Osaben, Ind., at Clinton, Masa., and It waa at hla native place that he learned to play recently, waa one of tha beat attendball. Ha waa connected with several ed and moat interprominent amateur teams at Clinton, esting aheota ever and hla bard hitting and . eaoellent gives in Northern work behind the bat led to hla first Indiana. Tha new engagement. In 1894, with the Woonsocket club, of tho Now Englaad trap waa uaad in the entire programme. There were 12 events each day, lnclud-ia- g league. Connaughton began tha season the medal shoot, which waa open of 1818 with tha Pawtucket team, and to ahooterea In Northern Indiana and all remained there until tbo club waa Southern Michigan. The medal is of when he finished the season olid gold, and was first Introduced by this club. It has traveled over a half dozen counties, and wan for the fourth pro-(ratio- d, F. H. CONNAUGHTON. with tha Lewiston, (Me.) club. In 1893 Manager Manning signed him for hla Savannah team, of the Southern league, and ha remained there until that league disbanded, when he returned north and finished out the season with tho Lewiston club, of the Now England league. In January, 1894, Connaughton algned with the Boston club, of the National leagua and American association, aa one of Ita catchersf and during the following season he took part In 88 championship contests, in S3 of which he filled tbe short stop's position in a very creditable manner. At tha beginning of the season of 1895 Boston released him to Kansaa City, for which club he did such brilliant work aa abort atop that the New York dub. In the fall of 95, purchased Me release. Connaughton ia 6ft. 9in. tall, and weighs about 165 pounds. Ha haa played In nil the Infield and outflald positions, aa well aa behind tha bat during hla career, and has alwaya ranked high aa a batsman. Colta as Llvlaf Platarae. There wna quite a time over at tha Hotel North, In Chicago, where the Colts and their families were domiciled the other evening. Having nothing to do, it waa suggested that a series of living pictures with drapery be staged, and n stage waa accordingly built In the big parlor, half a dozen extension tables standing aide by aide furnishing the material. pie pictures wera really very good, and some of them quite original. "Beauty and the Beast, with Bill Lange for the beast, was a hit. Cupid and Psyche. with Kittridge for Cupid and McCormick far Psyche, waa great, and "The Noble Fireman, with Docker for the ladder, Briggs for the rescued maiden, Hveritt aa the noble fire laddie and Donahue aa the faithful dpg, waa the triumph of the evening. The catastrophe came about 10 oclock. The picture on tap was Romeo and Juliet, and a pretty girl who boards at the hotel waa JulieL Griffith and Dahlen had a dispute aa to Romeo, Dahlen claiming that Griff was bowlegged and Griff insisting that a fat, pudgy Dutchman would look ridiculous in the part. Griff waa finally awarded the honor, and posed on n r, while Juliet smiled from a soap-bo- x balcony. The foot of Griffa ladder got caught between two of tbe extension tables, the tables flew asunder, and Griff, ladder and all fell TIM DONOHl'E. through tho stage. Juliet leaned too Boaton In 1891, when be waa n member far over to see what had happened and of the American association team of fell with the balcony squarely on the that city. struggling Romeo. And It took half an hour to dig Griff, Juliet, the ladder Tha Cara af Tahaaa. and balcony out of the stage ruins. The statement eomes from n supposedly authoritative source that no DlamaaS Dat steps toward n final settlement of tbe la showing good German Pitcher Tebeau matter will be taken by the In form recent games. League Until the annual meeting of the The Colonels have bad 32 men under league directors In October, whan the contract this season. case will come up for formal discusMcJames la now doing tha beet pitchsion. How the case will finally be adjudicated can now only be guessed at. ing for Washington. Dowd haa made nine home run hits Prealdent Byrne, of the Brooklyn for St Louis this season. who haa hitherto remained silent, club, of the Tla aald that a shake-u- p la now quoted by the New York Sun aa on the cards. la team Brooklyn diboard "The of saying: League's Tom Parrott probably will play first rectors had no Jurisdiction In tha matter, and could not constitutionally in- base for SL Louis next season. Tim Keefe la aald to ba flict that fine. They could have com traveling for a sporting goods house. polled the Cleveland club to fins TeDuffy haa been playing second base beau for manifest disorderly conduct, especially aa he waa convicted and for Boston in pretty good style. fined In the police court. But I don't Payne and Harper aeem to be pantndoree Frank de llaaa Robison's vio- ning out aa Brooklyns successful pitch-er- a. lent treatment of this Tebeau case. Mr, Tha average age of National league Robison bad but one dignified course to take after the League directors fined ball players at present is about 27. No one la doing prettier sacrifice Tebeau, and that waa to pay the fine under protest, and postpone the in work on the Boston team than Tenney, Tom Daly, of the Urooklyns, Is batveatlgation till the annual League meeting. At the fall meeting of the ting poorly and bis throwing arm la League in Chicago this caae will cause bad. a big argument The League aa a body Milt G. Barlow, whom Joel Chandler might by a majority vote censure Te beau, and Klllen, too, for that matter, Harris haa praised aa the most artistic aa tbe latter's offense tbe other day In actor of negroes on the atage today, for Down in Cincinnati was Juat aa bad aa the has been Cleveland player's, and order them to Dixie. time landed In Goshen by G. 8. Kold on the acore of 21 out of a possible 26. Tbe club haa one of the finest grounds In the West. It la admirably situated with relation to tha city, being but one mile from tbe court house, and la inside the city limits, and its natural advantage make It an ideal shooting ground. The platform la on tha edge of a grove of large oaks and looks eastward. For a half mile In front stretches a scope of marsh land which la level aa a floor. Beyond this plateau la a hill which rises to an elevation of perhaps 100 feet. Between hill and grove there Is not a single obstruction to tho view. Many of the visitors at the tournament who have attended shoots all over the country were extravagant In their praise of the grounds, declaring that they could not be improved upon if arranged to order. The tournament wna strictly a Blue Rock slaughter, and was carried out In strict conformity to the printed programme, and the appended More will testify that some very good shooting was done. Many of the participants had never seen the trap in action, and their surprise at It waa only equaled by their admiration of Its achlevamenta. It la pronounced by all shooters of repute a great improvement over tbe old method of hurling targets into the air. The machine certainly accomplishes gracefully unknown angles aa well aa many new ones, and it fooled a good many of tha shooters who at first were Inclined to regard It aa a aoft snap. By its manipulations single birds pierce the air at regular or Irregular interval!. Doubles fly out with great precision or dissolute random and flocks are made to scatter at the will of the trap puller. Every Nimrod who witnessed the trap at work felt a desire to test his skill against its seductive bantering, and as a ahooter remarked, it induces the distinction of a duel of powder and shot Tha Magau trap haa certainly come to stay. Among the noted marksmen present were Meaers. S proa a. Walton, Thomas, Mingo, Head, Buah, Goldman, Shlgley, Mock, Weaver, Kolb, G. Witt, Vail, Vosburg, Bitner Jr.. Bitner Sr., Ihravln, Gall a way, Kapp, Ihrman, Turner, H. Kolb, Stettler, Funk, Douglass, Camp field, Wenston, Davy, Stements, Cline, Beckner, Bus-eand Gilmore. De-Wo- lf, el A Chsaiptaa theater. the many gentlemen shooters, who travel from one end of the country to tha other attending all the large an Of step-ladde- I nual tournaments, there is none more esteemed or popular among the experts than Rolls O. Helkea of Dayton, Ohio. Aside from his remarkable skill at killing live birds and breaking Inanimate targets, Heikes la one of those Jovial characters, so common among shoot-erwho, for lack of a better name, an simply termed "good fellowa." The Ohio crack was born at Dayton In 1856, and from boyhood has been a follower of the gun, having killed hla first game when only 9 years old. Ha began trap shooting at Brownsville, Neb.. In 1878, and broke his first hundred straight targets In the same town on New Years day, 1881, Indicating the remarkable progress made In tha sport Mrs. Helkea attends many of the events In which ha r husband competes, and is one of the moat enthusiastic admirers of hla prowess. At his Dayton home. Heikes haa scores of medals and trophies, emblematic of championships and records. Hla brat straight score at targets waa made at Corry, Pa., In 1890 when he broke 184 without a mlaa. Since then he haa many times near); equaled the record, but never quite In passing It. The clever expert also baa a time record of thirty-seve- n minutes and a quarter for breaking 500 targets from five traps, aland ing in center, using three double-barrele- d guns and loading eame. At HR targets hla record la four minutes and twenty seconds, under similar conditions, but using a repeating shotgun. a, d raises aias won me cnampionanip oa America under novelty ruins at tbe World's Fair tourney in 1833, tbe targets tyeiag thrown from eight traps. TB I'klBjlM will Bbal. Probably tba moat prominent flguri In tbe American ahootlng world ia Fired Gilbert, tbe clever young trap shot of Spirit Lake, Iowa. Within leal than year he haa ascended from obscurity aa a ahooter of game for tha market 'to hla present position holder of both the live bird and Inanimate target national championships What has been tha goal of prominent experts for years tha farmer boy from the Hawkeye state has attained la a twelve-montGilbert was born In Dickinson county, lows. In 1868, wbero hla parents wera among the early settler of a region then Inhabited by fierce savage. Hla father traded in furs, besides working the farm. From boyhood Gilbert waa familiar with firearms, and at an early age showed great Hla proficiency with the ahot-gufield ahootlng naturally led him into trap work, where It waa found he slat excelled. Gilbert's connection with lbs to-d- h. n. FRED GILBERT. Dupont company came about in an unusual manner. While acting aa a guide to EL S. Rice and a party of friends, who were ahootlng chickens around Pelican Lake, Minnesota, the former became impressed with hla remarkable skill and took him to Baltimore last October, where he won the Dupont trophy from a large field. He haa held it ever since, except for an interval of a few weeks. Not content with live bird honors, Gilbert won the E. C. championship cup, emblematic of the target championship, at New York In May, He defeating many experts of note. killed 266 out of a possible 800 at three difficult styles of ahootlng, E. D. Ful-foof Utica, N. Y coming second with 261, and J. A. R. Elliott and Rolls Helkea third with 259. rd KUIott Heard Tram. Some weeks ago the American Field, of Chicago, published an article in which It stated that a Chicago gentleman desired to back two or three western pigeon shots against J. A. R. Elliott of Kansas City, tha American Field champion wing shot. Elliott stated at the time that he waa In no condition to shoot matches, aa hla business Interests prevented hie doing as be would like. He stated, however, that he would be ready In September to shoot any number of matches with any of the pigeon shots of the country, and new signifies hla Intention erf making hla word good. It will be remembered that Elliot stated that he did not care to challenge any one, aa he had won all of the honors that were worth winning in this country, and the men who were so anxloua to shoot againat him bad won no honora that he craved. We print below a copy of the letter which Elliott haa sent to the American Field and which he furniahea us: Editor American Field Dear Sir: Soma time since a gentleman railed at your office with a list of applicants for championship honora, stating that he deaired to back quite A number of them againat me in 100 live-bir- d races, for $300 a aide. At the time it was net possible for me to enter into these engagements, and I so stated in a previous article to your Journal. I will now be In a position from the middle of September, and later on, to meet a few dozen of the men he thinks can beat me shooting pigeons. In order to make the proposition entirely fait and equitable to both parties I will shoot as many races as he dare name, 100 live birds per man, for 300 a side, loser to pay all, and winner to take all. To prevent any disagreement on account of grounds, etc., I will shoot each of tha men he names two race under the eame conditions, he to name tha grounds for one race, and I to name the grounds for the other. , Note. a member' of the Baltimore Shooting association, of Baltimore, Md., defeated William Hurst, Norfolk, Va., In a 50 live bird match at Baltimore by killing 46 to Hurst's 41. Hawklna killed hla last 33 straight In the match, and afterwards passed more In the sweeps which follu-vcd- . thus giving him a record of 60 straight kills. J. J. Hallowell, of Tucson, Aria., who attended some of the big tournaments In the east this year took part In several sweep at live blrda at hla place recently and succeeded In winning several events and dividing first money with one man in the largeet event. Noel E. Money, secretary of the American E. C. Powder company, wou flrat average at the shoot at Portland, For tha two Me., on the first day. days Dickey won flret and Money J. Mowell Hawkins, erc-on- d. Frank MIchener won the gold badge at the monthly shoot of the Irvin City Gun club at Royeraford, Pa., by breaking 83 blue rocks out of 25 shot at- - |