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Show THE SUNDAY 1 THE RUNNING STANDARD: TURF-SWIM1NG-TENNIS-FI- VI All. SUNDAY, OGDEN, AUGUST 4, 190T. GHTING MMMMkMMMAMHI Splendid Qualities of the i! Peter Pan Long Distance Water Races Three-year-ol- d Details of National Tennis Matches L amount of the turf winning hav made a champion out of many n . Peter Pen, the son o L'om' quitter. , owned and Cindert-liu- , Can't DishoarUn Pater Pan. Janus XL Keen, ta o Peter Pan doesnt have to grt off in ' llllD ont iv ! rank M M to m -or stay there in order to run a maker of ell front ruco greeieot profitcourse or a fast race. He can come good state-rjj thi uu the track. Of from with all the dash of a behind" to the regard j, nUi do with duo lion. The crowding and Jammountain S'. that Peter Pan ia only e the hunching of horse at turns, ming more won kluBjr a home ha In of the throwing back of front him. Ukea than Peter Pan, ratr m actual mom tonea of earth by the leadand clods than three year er- hoofa they were hi ardor. He not do dampen whU-2d and o had had mom time in it all, in time, a bore ahead through expand their bank account. a rule, to get first money. He i not When Peter Pan recently galloped disheartened when through accident or T McCar-Jwinner by a neck from careless riding he i carried too wide in the claaale Brighton handicap at a him to the oulaide It Brighton Beach. New York, he added and turn, throwing for him. Tha'.a losing ground mart to the lUt of hla winnings. what happened in the Brighton handiHi winning for thi year up to that cap, but he won handily nevertheless tune had been SU.2W and represented Pur Peter Pan i a tighter, a gritty a th uch event w victories in June IS: Tidal stake, hanger on and a stubborn breaker Bieoklyn Derby, through that i seen only a few times May jane !i: Belmont stake. in a decade. He ha the combined standard stakes. June XI. and Advance of the pit bull terrier and the qualities second He money got akee, July stake and Oarleton coursing deerhound. Pan Withers the is owned by Best of all, Peter j, stakes. an honest horseman, one of the few owners whose horse always run to Ha Won $114,500. no connecting link bewin. Last year Peter Pan won trt.315. tween Tiler is Keene and any bookJames li. When he won the Brighton handicap, for two year aggr. maker or uiiy coterlr cf gamblers that kfc total winning work beat under the cover of night, or oied I114.5M. Janie R. Keene will any money ihchlng enterprise of any 2t have to work fur hi living from 1 sort. It Is remarkable and disgraceful a of Pan Peter on. enough pw how few racing ambles merit thia debreadwinner to keep even a miliion-iit- v scription. The best tribute that nfn be in funds suflleient to inset the paid to Hr. Keene one 1 heard given of Ufe. Hr. Keeoee mlsfor-thim a few days ugo. when a notorious In haring the peerless Bysonby die race fixer and poolroom "cap tier" said amH bis hand appear to have been to a man with whom I r.a talkirg: of the the exploit by ply compensated No one ran get to the Keene outfit. named machine llafhy looking racing run a etiorttng stable." They fulsome not It applause Pan. peter In turf parlance a sporting stable'' one a of the Paa Peter describe to one that is operated for purr snort, ia of in the horse history mate! rate for pleasure only and lint for the pur the American turf. He is all of that, posea of professional racing. nd every indication point to hi writing a still brighter page for himself In Coming Swimming Features. eguine annals. In addition to hi great Long and short distance ewimmei burnt of speed hr ha a stout heart. W heart and spirit that would In the past have been having n active summer. canned a stir ii, racing circles throughout Ergiai.ri and Ireland. "Aeiljtn.ii already is in progress here to get the Joi key club to abolish the starting gate to improve ;he situation, but there is doubi in sone quarters as to uhetUer such a move would have the drained r fleet Thai idea was suggested matnly because ihr jockeys are unable to control li.eli uhiui. is j the barrier. Thai is Ii.irIv uacnbea to the American at) of nauig tailed a 'monkey seal. 1 hla statement Marsh further says that numbers of young horses are constantly bring ejHil.d by jockeys riding in this fashion ai.d by exeiviar boys ailng them. d 'Marsh coni.-- Is dial the oli way of riling. wnh the long stirrup. such ae gic .i Horsemen like Fred Archer and George Kor.1ii.ini used, is the fight one, and Sam Darling, another English fra.uer of great experience, agrees with him in condemning the American seat." Is till th manner In which Knglish s' ere trying to square tir.im-for bad showings made by hurres under iheir rate? If so, they are putting up a flimsy prole, lion for themKven an English owner ought selves ta lie able to see through it. If trainer spent more lime with their horse and less time with bookmakers and other gamblers, their horses would run cloeer to form, and there would be less nct-- for silly excuses. THE three-!!!Lr-oi- d. It be'-iin- fush-Jcie- !; them-perve- . PETER JAMES PAN, R. KEENE'S THREE-YEAR-OL- TURF D CHAMPION. lrt H and the season Is only at It height There are no signs of It wane. Lang dlsiance water sharp look forward with great interest to two Marathon events arranged by the Missouri A. O. of SU Doubt and by Boston pro- 1 I0WECAI OF V moters. The tit Louie ronteet occurs late In August and will be held over a straightaway ten mile course in th Mississippi river. In addition to the Missouri and Chicago entrants, men from New York and possibly New Orleans will take part. The Beaten Race. The Boston race waa announced to be about twenty mile long, covering a course reaching from the Charlestown bridge over the Charles river to Boston light, situated "down the bay" The Brooklyn Yacht club bolda a water carnival Aug. 1 at Henson hurst, N. Y. On Aug. 11 a race about nine niilea lit length will tie held in New York harbor start at the Battery, New York city, finish at Luna Park, Coney Island, N. Y. i National Tennis Championships. Play for the national ctiamplonshlps luwn tennis occur at Newport, K. 1., ginning Aug. Id. The winner of lha three sectional championships, hi doubles, eastern, w astern aud southern, meet at the Crescent Athletic club, Bay XUilge, N. Y on Aug. 1C and IT. . The wl'iucr (hare will play Holcombe Ward and Beals C. Wright at Newport for the national title on of ubnut Aug. 20. The winner of tbo all comers tourney at Newport wjil meet William J. Clothier of Philadelphia in the challenge BROWN, CELEBRATED THREE FINGERED PITCHER THE CHICAGO1 NATIONALS, IN ACTION.; Big Athlstia War Brassing, Recent developments In the athletic Winner In the various Interscholaatic world indicate that some of the leadtournaments In singles play at New port ing spirits in Young Mens Christian association affairs art suffering from for the natiunal liiterscholaatii- championship, play not to begin before Aug. bruin storms. At any rate, certain Young Meua Christian association athletic controllers have seemingly embarked on a crusade against the AmaA Veics From tho Pugilistie Grave. Athletic union. Peter Matter, onue a living prise fight- teur So acute, in fact has the situation er, has opened a liquid Joy parlor in diNew York at 1315 Amsterdam avrnur. become that one Y. M. C. A. athletic his Peter anya he hua now resolved never rector stated lhatA. heA. and 1!. would be able against the to fight aguin. Hy ao resolving Peter to have any amount of money they has done the public a vast favor. Noth- needed to carry on the warfare that la. ing could be mar pleasing to follower In abort, money contributed toward the news of flktluna of than th Peter support of the Y. M. C. A. could be used withdrawal. to further the movement against tho A. A. IT. Humaiwua, but Sad. war now , Furh an expression, like th The following story Is told of Maher: ill advised, for the money One day two Irishmen were talking brewing, is contributed toward J. M. C. A. work In a Chicago alrret car. one said: should not tie diverted for any Me hy. there never wus a foighter certainly In view of tho He wu a stout such purpose. A.roclully like Pater Maa-he- r. lhat the A. C. la known througharmed lad. a shifly guy, but possibly a ftict thi out country and foreign lit lids aa a little too fond of the drink." of It kind, an orCould he hit at ail hard? queried model organisation ganisation of the highest standard the other. Tbs A. A. V. ha nitni amateur athHit, hit? Wus it hit ye wild? Why. letic in America what they ere today, hit anny one, it when Pater Maa-hheat and cleanest In th world, and wua all over wid Mm. But dam It alL the U will be a pity if tiie athletic end of he never hit anny one!" the Y. M. C A. work should come under I t cloud in the minds of the American a Latest Wail-Froland by English Turf. public and of thnae of A dir patch from London reads aa folputting itoolf at fasua with th AA. U. ( lows: The motive that I prompting the Y King Kdaurd'a turf adviser and trainer. Hie hard Mareh, has come out If. C. A. uuihoritis concerned ia auid with the statement that the adoption of to he a craving for power. Th movement ia miw centered In the American riding, pent has ruined English Jovklsa. nd hi declaration has New York, Boston and Philadelphia, ac round for the national championship in singles. - cording to report. Ona thing th Y. M. want to uo i to have power reinstate their own athlete who hav been disqualified on charge of professionalism, etc. Th A. A- C. wisely elate (hat it will reaecv thi important power. The action uf th A. A. IT. A. teams in In disqualifying Y. M. the basket hall championship contest of th Metropolitan association held in Madison Square Garden. New York, was a matter lhat aroused the ire of certain Y. H. C. A. officials, yet. in riaw of the circumstances attending the disqualification. it must be admitted by impartial observers that the action of the A. A. lT. waa not only Justifiable, but actually necessary for the good of the best inter! of amateur sport. Of course it is practically useless to advise or warn men whoso thirst for power taverns their actions regardle of th interest of ih people or institution they represent, hut if the vast constructive and instructive work uf th Y. M. r. A. ia hindered by aome of its employees whs want to be considered ruling posers In tbo American athletic world then indeed will a real public misfortune result. The Y. M. CV A. ia too valuable an institution ta be threatened by the ua warranted ah art sighted neaa and aelfleh acta of Ita paid elhletle con- i.to A. people Hav you over considered the means baseball player achirva B real ness and by which some acquira names for inability? Taka, for instance, 8ulUvan and McFarland. tho catchers of tho Chicago American Whit Box and Schreck of th Philadelphia Athletics. Now, this ia not saying that these men ar not great catchers. They arm. But wa hold that there an other catchers Just as good, for one, OConnor, who has not tho throwing reputation they by which sum possess. New. who would not achieve a nama a a great throwing catcher with such pitchers a A It rock. White and Waddell and Plauk to catch? AU of theaa fellows make men stick to first has os hawk harried chickens t th protecting pinions of tho maternal hen. You cannot get a lead of two feet on any of them. Bo when you otart to steal you have eighty-eigfeet to run, whereas when you hav right handed pitchers ilka Glad' and Petty to catch the runner can taka eighteen feet lead, or a difference of five yard in the sprint to second has. No right hander can tack runners to first aa a left hander can. Boms right hander give the base stealer long lead. Glad la on of them. Bo is trollersThese men have protracted Pally. CHARLES E. EDWARDES. pitching muttons. OConnor catches them. Baa hla haa dicap? Sullivan and Bchrock have reputaBASEBALL REFUTATIONS. Reputs Hobs for baseball excellent1 tions as throwing catchers. They hav are aft time a false imposition got with pitchers who make it possible for any out merit, Inst without desonring. Wo man ta arhievo such reputation. Yet hat to filch from any man his Cams how many people whs hav seen ball aa a groat player, for it, to paraphrase gainaa appreciate thia? villainous logo, snrlrhsth not us and FLAYERS GIVE THE CUE. Yet thoro nukes him poor indeed. are many reputations Idly earned and Curious how good an umpirs looks without deserving in baseball, and quit when them i no kicking. Which onas many of the other sort, loot without ly goes to emphasise that Its kicking With th marl ts of the deserving." by th players, not decisions, that gets w propose to deal. spectators down on the umpires. TWO BALL STARS WHO ht SHINE IN . FAST COMPANY. er foi-eig- - FRANK J. CORRIDOR. PITCHER, OLTFTELDKR OANLEY, NOW WITS PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL. WASHINGTON AMERICAN!, , - - Details of Proposed International Theatrical Combine; The Leading - Playhouses of Five Nations Are Involved From Our New York Dramatis Corre- spondent. .in all Ita varied waa literally the recent an- -. nounnemont to tho effect that K still greater theatrical combination aa In process of formation, a. combi-aatlo- n that dwarf the theatrical t America today The Klaw A Frohman, Haymsn et at. syn- -' - STAGELAKD Ef-kag- Beats - lha announced combination Include tho Klaw A Erlonger, Frohr Ah ml. theaters In America and England, but also other theeter in England and some of tho best known baes in France, Germany and Austria aa well. In short. It ia a world ot .only ater trust with an estimated capithat la contemplated. Men of pronounced executive ability nr behind the projoct, and tt seem PhAsbl that through the machinery nf tn new combine they will be able to dominate the dramatic worlds of flv or in nations circuit la th ablest protector et the sacred flame of histrionic art! This article la not meant to be a defense of syndicate methods when they- are directed toward oppressing people more or less dependent on tho It haa been syndicate's plea sure. widely stated that such methods inevitably follow combinations In almost any line of buslnetra. Whether or not they' have ever efclsted In the theatrical world in the past or whether they ar to coniff prominently into play In future tt ia got within the scope of tbls article to predict. to each stage they control In ona way art should benefit, because the great resourcea-othe syndicate will make it possible for ita ploy producer to go to almost, any extreme In efforts to jnake a production artlstfc. According to aome writes on such subjects today, th bigger tho enterprise that controls stage affairs the lea artistic and th more commercial at the play it produces. Such reasoning la not reasoning at all, for the converse of the proposition ia tliat th smaller the company, concern, enterprise or corporation that controls stage affair th more artistic will be the plays. Therefore the dicky little manager who has two or three com panic doing ITncle Tom's Cabin" In ona night atanda In the Bush and Swamp ' English Manager Cencemad. The English branch of Uw proposed International syndicate will be of tremendous Among th importance. tal of 1100.000,050 But I am A practical man, same aa In Iheir theater prior t Ita Broadway gather every available penny. Either Boston, Philadel- even her dir failure mme In nineRooaevcl and I hav found lhat the production. public as Well aa the manager have phia or Washington ia llkuly to hear teen cases out of twenty, for there are a hundred subtle qualities which go to only one criterion of nucueaa, and that the famous Merry Widow" waits is the dollar sign. tha ear tickling melody machos make up the great concert artiste, and thus moat of those giver of concert New York. "Art is all right If It pay." only become mar hack and stop gap, Now Jons Flay, though good of their kind. "Th Collage Widow. Henry Arthur Junes' new piece, "Tho "The College Widow" ha gone Into Galileans Victory," which he deecrlbes rehearaal this week for It fourth sea- 'aa a tragic comedy of religious Ilf in "THE FLOWER OF THE RANCH." . Art aa Hitchcock Views It, Joeeph Howard sad Mabel Barrteoa' son on the road. England, will recelv it premier at tha are to star under the direction of comeI am as devoted to art aa any In theater. N. Roclieater, Lyceum T. dian on forth. aays Raymond HitchHarry A skin in a musical place of "Th Msrry Widow. kept. XI, and after brief engagement cock, star of A Yankee Tourlrt comwestern life called "The yiower of th of New' outside York will bo 1 nf preoentod The first American performance pany, but the longer am on the stage Ranch." ImIn York New one at of tho most 1 th more deeply am convinced that "The Merry Widow" may not lake Thi house. portant Broadway piece It is not so much how you play the place in New York after all. Three be staged In four acta sad will be part that counts aa it la how lung you different out nf town managtra have awillmoat ennotable Tha production. can krep the people buying the two tp.tde overtu res to Henry W. Savage to for thia play Include Edith dollar Beats in the orchestra circle. present th fascinating Viennese opera gagements Taliaferro, Wlllette Kershaw, Gertruda Augardr, W. J. Constantine, W. H. Crumpton, Maggie Mallnway Fisher, Conway Tcarta. Ivan Rimpson, Fred Thome and Charles W, Butler. English managers named as In the tremendous scheme are George Alexander, Blr Charles Wynd-haBee r boh m Tree, Cyril Maude, Frank Curxon, George Kdwarctea, Arthur Collins, Keymour Kicks and the Gall! brothers. These men control ei the leading London theaters and productions bo-fo- ra Confirmed by Erlangar. were reports of the rt believed to be true, aoproject portentous w they, but later they were in large Art nwiiirmed no lees an authority a Abraham byL. Erlonger himself, vouchsafed Information to the that such a syndicate waa need- to give American and European ttsetnent enterprise a . concert of hitht and action. Furthermore, ' he md the amount of capital of th The first at 100.000.000 COSTLY and elated that Mayer, a Chicago corporation yer. had already sailed for Europe forfeit the plans and make final for the combination.. addition to controlling playhouse e romtrle named, the iii ww the players whosyndicate wilt, b .J01' . T'd with the theater and ala Piays produced. Presumably the and playwrights will have to JJJ?i-Bod and obey order or fX 111 be right lustily spanked..' s ) . . ! i ew-- Art Versus Commerce. r'Plion that the project will dl,,nal,p nrt hopelessly com-Vi- it ' not necessarily well taken. a worlds controlling theater the publir patronise a ... Play, make a ,'Hn play produced solely with merciai ends in view. On tho ,'. following the of really successful artistic ffAt tbat ho I poor bust whn fails to observe n,n thtm ' Therefore the member of th In, be,,, ble .business Probably suck tit toad. Jam. ta-ro d a much real art aa bossii., ,nto ench production and on rrd con-ducu- LEADING SCENE FROM THE ROAD TO YESTERDAY, WHICH WILL OPEN LYRIC THEATER. NEW YORK, EARLY IN FALL The Road to Yesterday, with Minnie Dupree In th leading role, opened last season at the Herald Square theater. New York, and quite unexpectedly, the managers admit, scored a great Mg hit. The Misses JSeuIah M. Dix and K. G. Satherland were its authors. The theme of. the play has to do with the adventures of a girl played by Miss Dupree In captivating fashion who goes Into a trance and imagine she Is living with her ancestor a couple of hun. , dred year or more aga at the Broadway theF. Rlegfeld. Jr., to appear at the Jardiq In the cast will be de Pari, New Yoik. Arnold Daly, who has been In Europe luisi10! Prtncet the English ventrlte- - presented for the first time at Keith A Eugene Cowles, Roy Atwell, H. Guy ho crested a sensation last sum-Vj- ,,. Proctor' Twenty-thir- d Ftreet theater. Woodward,, Charles Judeis and Mark perfecting plana for his reason of thirty 0,1 Paradise Roof weeks In the Berkeley Lyceum theater,' Smith. Garden, New New York, recently. The Five Golden Graces, a group of New York, has arrived in New York. hi reappearance there re- Marie Cahill will be supported by mtlym cremme been Misa Olive Oliver haa been engaged by company In the French girl model, who have practically the Pfl a sensation in Paris by posing fur James K. Market t to play one of th when musical "Marrying Mary ating "Periocular Play electric proM i n entitled Firecracker ah begin her tour for the second sea gold statuary, were recently engaged by 'important role with him next eaon wa STAGE !l A DOINGS. son, commencing ater. Brooklyn. - . . i in Alfred Sutro' Honor. Mrs play. John Glayde's Lillian Lawrence's daughter, Misa Ethel Gray Terry, who recently was graduated from Notre Dame convent. In Roabury, Mass, has made her toge debut In Boston, appearing in the Park theater In Charle. Miller' stock company, in which her mother has th MUSICIANS' DEBUTS. It la only the concert agenta who know what an Immense aggregate sum Is spent during the progress or ovory recurring musical season by aspiring singers and Instrumentalists Making the highest musical honors. ' Those who imagine that once ringer or instrumentalist pose rosea a certain amount of technical skill and ability the road to lucrative engage menti la easy would do well to ponder the fact lhat thousands upon thou eanda nf dollars are spent In these trial performances every year by musicians of a high degree of excellence, who ar never heard of again except in local or private circle. Almost the least sum that any well known agent will accept .for hiring a fashionable hall, forming a email sup porting concert party and insuring the presence of a certain number of critics la J05, and generally quite double this sum ia asked, though the performance be only an afternoon one. There Is often 'a deep degree of pathos and apparent self sacrifice about these trial trips, for every penny of the family resources of the aspirant la staked on the Issue. A girt whoM parents are comparatively poor, say, Is not only gifted with a fins voice, but has also taken high honors at soma school. She may knock at the doors of the agent fur months and year before getting a chanoe at a really high alas WILLIAM GILLETTE. concert, and In these circumstances the William Gillette has again turned hi expert usually recommends a morning recital, where the critics, tha other attention to play citing. He will not act again until next spring. He I now agent and manager may hear her.'1 Tha members of her family rake to-- writing two plays for Charles Krohmso. tour to the Pacific coast before appearleading part She 1 a native of Oakland, Cal., and is eighteen yearn old. ing In the east. f Mr. Ottley Cranston, formerly of the Her first Boston appearance will be in ' a In role Man Aa Sow. the ingenue Savage Parsifal" and English grand n The revival of The and opera companies, win return to Ainer-d W. lea. He ha been engaged by Mr. Sav- Woodland," premle-by Henry Savage for the earning season, will age for the role of Bharplesa, the United probably take place In Chicago, after States consul In Puccini's Madam which both companies will be sent on a Bho-Gu- 4 |