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Cr. 1000 833 2 IOUS). 62 ee ee Vork..2250.5..2 ee The Lost. 5 3 a Pittsburg..... pees ee) an - .500 3 500 4 6 .400 See ANY RUMORS as to the formation of local baseball clubs on a semi-pro- fessional basis have been in evidence - for some time past— including Bruce Jehnson’s colored aggregation —but all have run toseed, so far, and it remained for the officers of the Twenty-fourth Infantry and the male members of the Grand Opera House company of Thespians to initiate the season with a friendly tussle at the great national game. The sanguinary encounter took place on the diamond at Fort Douglas. last. Wednesday afternoon and was witnessed by a select assemblage of firat-nighters and admirers of the defenders of our ASK Manufactured By the _ 2 @ $ Cigar Company, $ ‘$ 308 State St. Blakemore, so it is said, a close tenth. But the athletic sons of Mars were too much for their opponents, and batted out a score of 28 to the others’ all of which is attributed by Blakey to the lack of attention paid to his coaching by his fellow-players, and not, as others say, to the remarkable display of ‘‘ fanning ’’ indulged in by him at the plate. ae There is a small, black cloud on the horizon of the baseball world that bids fair to flame up into a revolt, and a revival of the old Brotherhood. That the czars of the National League have introduced slave-holding meth- | @ sires in the matter, and with FOR a THE hy A a CIGAR | _ 3a No Tenement $ House $ Goods 4 FPVvNiy VV ITV VY IN THE MARKET. What Jllore Could. You Desire? + STEARNS, the Yellow Fellow RAUIBLERS, $80. STERLINGS, “Buitt Like a Waten.” DEALS, $35 (0 $50. We have them PREMOS, ATHLETIC Cycles Rented. Se minutes. | MF Ik: Le Old Jem Mace, the English veteran If It is generally understood will probably be run next week. W. D. Randolph, owner of Salvation, ex- pressed a desire to make it a threecornered race, stating that he would start his horse in a sweepstake for any amount up to $3000, but as Salvation has just been blistered, he will not be in shape to race so soon. HOW TO SPEAK WELSH. It takes a Welshman to talk Welsh. TYould dig up. He isa great man and deserves another chance.’’ ee The much-talked-of match race be- all, also CYCLE SUNDRIES, KODAKS, GOoODs, ‘GUTLERY. See the new ‘practically arranged last Saturday] night, when R. Porter Ashe and Ed Purser, at 155 Main St. _, BROWNING BROS. he thus addressed the bishop : ‘Your lordship must please to put your episcopal tongue to the roof of your apostolic mouth and then hiss like a goose.’’—Youth’s Companion. ipod _——_— aw Mn » Silver City Star: The present seems to have been a bad year for state legislatures. Bribery, corruption aad open i#efiance of the will of the people have distinguished the law-makers of states all over the Union. Pure politics seems to be a thing of the past, and the position of members of the legislature threatens to be.a reproach rather than an honor.’’ The frontispiece in this issue is a typical scene in the City and County building of a Tuesday evening —when their respective owners, a neeate ® they tween Buckwa and Ruinart, the two greatest race horses on the coast, was Call horses. that not more than 125, nor less than 115 pounds will be the penalty. While no date has been set, the race of the prize-ring, believes in ‘‘ Pomthe City Council meets, padour”’ Jim, notwithstanding the latter’s defeat at the hands of FitzPingree potato-bugs will be a new simmons, and on his leaving for the ‘* old sod,’”’ thus expressed himself: | feature of the coming season. ‘‘In my opinion Jim is. Bob’s master,’’ he said toa reporter. ‘‘ He WELLs, — is the best big man I ever saw for General Bankquickness, and if he cannot hit hard Fa RGO & C o’s aa ing Business. he ean hit often, and that’s the kind should ever meet again I would certainly back Corbett for all the money Cycle and Repairing. driven around the ring, finally hanging helpless on the ropes. The bell stopped the round and saved O’Donnell, but the round was short of three lof a man I faney in a fight. CYCLE CARTRIDGE KODAK. Gun if the old Peter landed right on jaw and O’Donnell went down. He got up and was <€ a ensue the 3 OCF irm.: a would wind. Steve came in with a hard right on Peter’s nose and the Irishnot be allowed to play at allif they man fell. He fought shy for the. refuse to be sent, is savoring a little balance of the round. too much of the arbitrary, to say the Fifth Round—Maher ran away least, and the National League mag- from O’Donnell; the latter tried to mates..will do-well to. modify their land, but Peter kept out of harm’s methods and consult the feelings and way. wishes of the players, and thereby Sixth Round—Peter led on the face preserve themselves from financial and stomach with left and right. O’Donnell was weak on his feet. »> > which Brotherhood were resurrected. 2 ** * Peter Maher is fighting his way up among the second-raters. He has again whipped O’Donnell, the fight this time taking place before the Quaker City Athletic Club on Monday last. The fight by rounds was as follows: First Round—-The men sparred for a few seconds and O’Donnell landed tight and left on fPeter’s mouth. Peter then swung his left on O’Donnell’s stomach, and brought his right across the jaw, knocking Steve down. He repeated this a moment later with the same kind ofa blow. The bell saved O’Donnell from a _ knockout. He was very groggy when he walked added pronunciamento that they will $ Handled ¢ » By DY this BEST loss, 2 Few foreigners are able to prenounce the Welsh ll. .The author of ‘‘ Yorkshire Folk Talk”? tells an amusing story of an Englishman’s struggles to master that difficult sound. ods in their dealings with the men to his corner. The Englishman had been apthat make the game of baseball, as is Second Round—O’ Donnell landed pointed to the Welsh see of St. David, alleged by some, is somewhat proble- left on face, Peter countering with and, on taking up his abodein Wales, matical, but it is a fact that some of right on head. Peter puta right on engaged a native Welsh scholar to these gentlemen use methods in trans- O’Donnell’s nosse which made the give him instruction in the language. ferring and selling the services of latter’s head go back. They clinched The pronunciation, and especially their hirelings that are in a great de- and in the breakaway O’Donnell the ll, bothered the bishop, and the gree absurd and at the same time de- landed right on neck and left on face. Welshman was almost at his wit’s end structive of the feeling of emulation . Third Round—Both men sparred to explain the lingual process by and pride of locality in the several for wind and there was not a hard which the formidable sound was tobe teams. The selling of men (or their blow struck. uttered. services) to other clubs, with no at- ~ Fourth Round—O’ Donnell led with At last a bright thought struck him, tempt to consult their wishes or de- left on face, Maher countered on the and, being very obsequious in manner, $3 THE 11, bor hr nia hin hin Li bln Lin hi Lin ti ha li Li Li Lin Li tb FFG GF FGF FV GFTGFGOOGVETOyyrwN ae < Co-operative “ARGUS. country. Ross, of the Grand, was easily the premier of run-getting and -|all-around playing on his side, with Sporting. ae i - . . Ta y 1852. = ae CASHIER. Commercial National Bank> Banking Banking Capital Paid in, $300,000 in all Its branches. D1rECTORS—Theo. Meyer, John J. Dal J. Salisbury, Moylan C. Fox, Thomas Mare Ww . P. Noble, George M. Downey, nellan, Newell Beeman. John ras all, W. Don- met and deposited a forfeit of $250 each to bind a match for $1000 a side at a mile and an eighth. The weights are -to be fixed by the track handicapper, who will probably not make more than three pounds difference between the WALKER BROS. SUCORSSORS BANKERS. ESTABLISHED 1863 _ THE =O UNION NATIONAL BANK Corner Second South and Main Streets, @ , A general banking business transacted, ne I — |