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Show His Reputation Saved t ) la the little town where I spent er keerlessly invited the young 3: ts B drum- mer to a go, an he accepted. We hadnt made moren eight moves when I saw I was up agin a pretty tough proposition. He had me beat for sure in the next few moves. Gee, I could see my reputation all goin to flinders an everybody would be givin me the laugh. So, while pretendin to study the next move, I did some pretty tall thinkln as to how to get out o the fix. 'Then a bright idee came to me. I pretended to change my position on my stool and quite by accident, o course, upset the box on which the candle was standln. I made a grab for the candle and another unfortunate thing happened. My knee struck an end of the checker board, which was hangin over the edge of the box, and the checker men got so badly mixed up that by the time the candle was lighted agin the game was hopelessly Bpiled. I was mighty glad when the stranger said he didn't have time to play another game, as he had to catch his train. The folks in the store was terrible disappointed, as they wanted to see me add another victory to my list. But, say, I had a darned close shave from losin' my reputation that time. " busl-- j ucy vacation recently, said the accounted was Mellun man, Cy the champeen checker player of the state, if not of.the entire country. He had met and defeated all the crack look-t- d players for miles around and was reverence upon with something of by his fellow townsmen. His greatest delight was to lure strangers into a game at the village store, and defeat the newcomer while a crowd of his admiring neighbors looked on. "Cy nearly met his Waterloo one night, however, but saved his reputa-- t ion by a clever ruse. This is how he described the event to me, In strict confidence, however, so that Is whv I do not care to mention the particular town; 1 You see, it was this way, drawled One day a new feller hit the Cy. town. He was one of those travelin men, and a right slick article. He came into the store one night Just as I finished waxln a farmer who allowed he end play checkers some. We was playin In the back of the store by the light of a candle stuck in a bottle and the checker board was laid on an empty soap box. I was feelin pretty s'.ick after heatin the farmer and sort Rooney Beaten by Jim Parr. Rooney, the giant grlpman, was defeated at Buffalo Jan. 23 by Jim Parr, the English champion, the latter gaining two falls at Rooney secured the second bout Three St. Paul players. drafted to American League Notes. Jesse Burkett never faces a pitcher the majors, refuse to sign the con- by pinntng Parrs shoulders to tho first tapping his spikes with tracts offered them, calling for J1.800 mat in 5:20 with a half Nelson and hold. Parr won the first the bat. each. They are Jimmy Jackson of side-arPresident Johnson announces that Cleveland, Pitcher Sessions of Boston bout in 23:40, downing his opponent on a crotch and body hold. his umpire staff will consist of Sheri- and Catcher Sullivan of Detroit. The third bout was tuken by Parr dan. O'Loughlin, Connelly, Jack McJimmy Downey, the shortstop whom Carthy of the Pacific Coast league, Arthur Irwin has secured for Kansas in 10:35. He pinned Rxney's shouland John Kelly of the Eastern league. City from Memphis by trade, lives In ders to the mat with a crotch and leg King and Dwyer are let out. Urbnna, 0 and was with Irwin for a hold, winning tho contest. After tho match Rooney challenged Cleveland couple of seasons at Toronto. Secretary Barnard of the . club states that there is no truth in Last fall the Boston American club Parr to a contest at the reports that Jimmy Jackson is dis- drafted Pitcher Morton of title Toledo Rooney was fat and out of condition, satisfied with the contract rendered team for the Boston Americans. Mar- and did not make the showing he was him, or that Charlie Carr is trying to tin was the man intended. Manager expected to. get his release to manage the Mon- Collin has offered 31,500 for Martin, Seek to Regain Davia Cup. treal team. but the offer has been turned down. is It quite possible that the United Edmondson, the Houston player States National l,awn Tennis associadrafted by the Browns, is getting into Central League Chatter. The Da.vton club has signed Catcher tion will send a team of three or four shape at his home town. He believes players to England durlrg the coining that he will make good with the fast Bert Blue and Thomas Hawkins. The So, nth Bend club has signed season to compete for the Davis cup. company, and this is also the opinion of those who have watched his work. Third Baseman Hippert, late of the Already the executive committee of the association has begun an investiHe is a fine general player. Bloomington ami Dubuque clubs. a with Griffith talk President Mautner of the Ft. Wayne gation to see on whom It can count to had Manager Jack Doyle during the week. Doyle club has appealed to the national represent this country in the English said that he intended to go to Hot board for the return of First Baseman contests next summer. Letters have n sent to Holcombe Ward, W. A. Buck Conners of the South Bend Springs very soon and that if he could Lamed, Malcolm D. Whitman, Rayget into condition that was satisfac- club. .Jack Hardy, who served last year mond D. Little, William J. Clothier, tory to himself he would apply to Griffith for a chance to go behind the as left fielder for the Ft. Wayne team, Krelgh Collins and Beals C. Wright, bat. Otherwise Doyle will go to Spo- will not be with tne organization next asking them if they would make the kane to play first base and act .as year. He will endeavor to get a berth trip provided they were selected. The Doherty brothers of England manager.' Griffith told Doyle that he in the California league. of the Davis would willingly give him a chance with Contrary to report, Teddy Price will are the present holders cup. the Americans. the this team manage Wheeling yer and he Is now at work In training New Auto Racing Record. National League News. youngsters whom he thinks will mak Tho first days automobile races of Sam Strang will be Arthur Devlins valuable additions to tbe league. Beach The Wheeling magnates have their the annual Ormond-Daytonunderstudy. Pitcher George Wlltse has come to eyes on Elkins, an outfielder with the tournament were tame, consisting of terms with the New York club. team. stock car contests, wtlh few of the confast Zanesville The St. Louis club has released Sub- Sheriff Irwin declares that Elkins Is tests filled to any extent. Records were not broken In these races, but Arthur stitute Infielder William Hallman to about fast enough for any company, Louisville. The Grand Rapids club has signed E. McDonald, the youthful English Catcher Street, who finished the sea- Pitcher Thomas, Shortstop Barton driver, covered five miles In the marson with the Reds, may be turned over and Outfielder .Maloney, who Jumped velous time of 3:15, an average speed seconds. The record of to the St. Louis. the Wolverines last Reason and went of 39 The young Charleston catcher, Syd- to the Youngstown (O.) Independent 3:313-5- , held by W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., went by the board. McDonald made ney Smith, has been released by Pitts- club. one attempt and (lid 3:32. He did not The new member, Springfield, ha burg at his urgent request President Dreyfus of the Pirates the following players under contract: let his car out In that, and asked to go again. When on his second trial McDonald crossed the tape there waa FREDERICK PARENT. little doubt of his speed. Greco-Roman- bc-e- Beginning of Time Tables years ago since George Bradshaw, the quaker engrav It is Just ' er and f ; ; . ! ? t f 1 ' f sixty-fiv- e r of Manchester, England, was first inspired to publish It was a tiny his "Time Table. pamphlet bound in green cloth, and was nothing more than a collection of .the montly time tables issued by the seven railway companies then in ex- Of this volume Istence in England. there are now only four copies in istence, bul they are worth their weight in gold. So encouraged was Bradshaw by the success of this time table that in 1840 he published his "Railway Com-a volume - of thirty-eigh- t panion, pages with maps which sold at a These early guides were shilling. published tether irregularly because of the difficulty of learning the changes In times from the railway authorities. They resented BradshawB interference and put every obstacle is the way of his obtaining informa map-make- 1 asked to choose ten If anthors, a iartial knowledge of whose works you regarded as essential to the equipment of a successful modern man, what authors would you name? This question, recently put to five representative men in New York, chosen at random, produced the following results; 1 1. Ilomer, Plato, Dante, Goethe, Voltaire, Balzac, Shakespeare, Carlyle, Matthew Arnold and Emerson. Com2. James Bryce. American monwealth ; Dickens, Kjpllng, Mark Louis Stevenson, Twain. Rcbert Wood cow V'ilson, "Popular History; Jules Vern. Howells, H. G. Wells. "Anticipations", and Ridpath's History of the World. 3. Shakespeare, Plato. Cervantes. Vollcre, G'bhon. Goethe. Emerson, Motley, Thackeray, Tolstoi. you-wer- s 'f i I r r Itself a necessity. Thes early railway guides make interesting reading. The trains are second-class- , described as mixed, fast and mail. Third-clastravelers bad the choice of sitting on the roofs or in open wagons resembling cattle trucks. Gentlemen riding in their own carriages were charged second-clasfare. Baggage was carried on the roof, and passengers who sat there were cautioned to wear their overcoats . and provide themfirst-clas- s s First-clas- s selves with gauze spectacles. fare between London and Birmingham was nearly double what it is and an annual subscription ticket from London to Brighton and hack cost $300. to-da- a 2-- 5 Race. Records Broken in Ten-Mil- e At Ormond, Fla., Edward R. Thomas, tbe New York millionaire banker race and horseman, won the for the Mercedes trophy offered by Al. an averlen, Halle & Co. In 6:314-5K. VanW. age of 0:39 15. breaking derbilt, Jr., a world's record of 6:50, Thomas drove his own car, as did also B. S. Stevens, 11. M. Shanley and James L. Breose. Mr. Stevens drove r Mercedes the brought to Gils country for the Vanderbilt race by C. Gray Dinsmore. Mr. Shanley drove tbe Mercedes which he purchased from William K. Vanderbilt. Jr., after last years meet. One Should Know Authors h tion. At last, through the quaker s perseverance, they finally agreed to adjust their time tables by tbe beginning of tbe month. Thereafter it was smooth sailing. The guide continued to grow and prosper and to make ten-mil- John4. Shakespeare, Boswells son, Plutarchs Lives, Esqnemling'l HamilHistory of the Buccanneers, ton's "Memoirs of Gramont, Pepys Diary, Bourlennes Napoleon, Gibboni Rome, Greens History of England, John Fiskes United States Histories 5. Shakespeare, Kipling, Howells. Dumas (senior), Mark Twain, Kuskln, John Fiske. Darwin, Tyndal, Tennyson or Robert Browning. As was to have been expected. Shakespeare figures in most of th lists, only one leaving him out. Plato Goethe, Emerson, Gibbon and John Fiske are the choice In two lists, and Howells, Kipling and Mark Twain among the living writers, each haj two adherents. Altogether, thirty-eigh- t authors are mentioned In tin five i ninety-horsepowe- r GOOD AT WRESTLING lists. s r 1 b i i says: "It seems impossible to measure the attractive force of the youth who was the very child of Caesar, and who for three yean- had actually lived In Paris as a king. "Ills father In exile planned and pondered much over the son's future. What were Ihe chances of that future we may eitlmate by an Incident. When Prince Napoleon, the son of Jerome, was In Paris under the name of Montfont In 1843, he visited the Hotel det iMvalidcs. Ills resemblance - ' I to the founder of his house was striking, and the sentry on duty, after look ing hard at hint, in a moment of uncontrollable emotion, presented arms Some of the veterans came tip. 'It ll a son of the emperor, or at least a The new nephew of the emperor. spread like wildfire, and the old men rushed like madmen to fetch Gen. Petit, the lieutenant governor him ol the famous farewell in the court yard of Fountalnebleau. He came and embraced the young nmn as Napoleon had embraced him, amid shouts ol 'Vive I'Empereur! Had it been In a barrack, not a hospital, no one knowa what would have happened. says a contemporary chronicler." Ixtrd Rosebery then proceeds to point out how different would have been Napoleon's fate bad he been an hereditary monarch. Say Something in Praise folks yon like th leant and watch 'em for a white; a kindly word, thty They never never taste a smile; men at avery their They crltlcl' chance they get. They never found a human Just to ault thotr fancy yet. From them t sues you d learn some thing If they wera pointed out Soma thlnir what every one of ua should know t lot ohotit. a brother, pnna Whan anm one knock aroun the loving cup him If you Bay something tool have la make It up. to say lhat every man God made da irare of good sMiltl ( ii In exhibit to bl f ii tf he could; ily deed In many a soul are Tick out th wt at-o- el-- la the that there, eneoiungement of other dttre says that bis team will train at Hot Springs again, despite reports to the They will not go to WcbI contrary. Baden Springs. Patsy Donovan is still sighing for tbe almost $ 4,0o0 ho claims Frank Robison owes him. The national commission has Informed him that his only method of recovery la by way of the courts. things Barney Drey fuss never Now he Is to send his by halves. ground keeper from I'!ttburg to Hot Springs Just to put In order the prac-ti- c grounds in tbe lutter place. Did one ever hear of another club doing a thing like that? dt-e- a kiiiH-kcr e al-o- Manager Barrow of lndlattapoll? u-- It Nelson and Corbett Matched. Buttling Nelson and Young Corbett met at San Fumeisco Jan. 28 for tho purpose of signing articles for a fight in that city. They will clash in tho ring next month. This will clinch the second trial of skill between tho Denverite and his former conqueror. While Nelson has been quite wining to take on Corbett a second time, lie delayed signing In the hope of coming to terms with Jim- Britt. my Peoria Bowlers Break Records. contest between tho Leisys and the Tetters and Jaegers teams of tho Peoria City league, two records were made in a series of five games, in which the teams each rolled enough pins to break the worlds record. The former made a score of and tho latter 2.989, the scores In each Instance being In excess of the world's record. The foul line was carefully observed. In a bowling Break Myers Sixty-YarRecord. the, second annual Indoor meet of the high Rchools of Washington, in which a number of out-o- town schools participated, Charles E. Seitz of Georgetown broke the worlds sixty-yar- d record of 0:06 2 5, held for twenty years by lam Myers, his time being 0:061-5- . Immediately afterward he ran an exhibition fifty yards and equaled the world's record of 0:05 d At f 2-- Coach Yost Is In Despair. "Hurry Up Yost has abandoned hope for arranging a football game with any eastern eollege, for the present at least. He has talked with Walter Camp, Bill Edwards of Princeton, and others. They are unanimous tn tho opinion that the eastern colleges have more than they can do to fill their schedules now, and any Increase would Infringe upon college work. CAME. O'Brien Ready for Fritz. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien notified A1 Smith, the well known stakeholder of fistic battles, that the $1,000 which he had posted with him a few weeks ago as a forfeit for a fight with Fitzsimmons would serve as his forfeit in money, and covering Fitzsimmons' that as soon as a elub secured the bout he would post the remaining 4,000 of the money to bind the match. at Prestwick. icason pitchers, fielders, five outfielders and four catch fickle-O'Har- e t a sec--nd- a, ! g Mat-.(ur- u s Fund-i-lngha- Ight-tow- rrs. Manager Finn of Toledo, offer-Fi- rst Baseman Kemmor and Out to Spokane for Pitcher torn weeks tgo, but the deal did n go through. Seta New Record for Pace on Ice. At Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 28, llal C., owned by William Cutler and driven by Charles G. Harrington at Reed's lake, set a new record for pacing on Ice over a quarter mile straightaway Shannan and Curtis, catchers; Arm course at 3o'4 seconds. The accepted and Merryman, strong, Myr pitch quarter-milpacing record previous to ers; llaas, first base; Cooley, sccon Although lie has been beaten several th-- performance of Hal U. was 32 bnse; McGrow, shortstop; Seibert made on the Ice at Port Huron limes In this country since his arrival third base; Letcher, outfield. several British year ugo. here, (lie wreMb-- r is able lo bold bis own with Three-Leagut Tips. Eastern Illinois Racing. Pitcher Howard Stone of Columbus a majority of the mat experts of this Intending to give a number of tort country. Parr Is one of the best secO., has been signed by the Dccatui during the sumnir. Just priced-t'ond class wrestler in the business. club. the fall meet, a movement bus The Dentiir dub has turned ovei Autoists Organize at Ormond. icon Inaugurated for a racing circuit to Peoria a promising young pltebei n eastern Illinois. It I Inti tided tbut named Wangellmrh. Thirty men Interested in the promo he circuit shnll embrace Puils. The Springfield club has signed lion of autou.oblllng have organized Charleston, Effingham. Sullivan, Pitcher Buck Xltdon and Pitcher No the Ormond Racing asoclatlon. A comwith was powand Tusrolu. rrola nine elected, of mittee of Cedar late vacek, IUplds. President Holland has appointed ex er to name a board of directors, nominate officers, arrange for membership, Catcher William Moran of Chicago Paya $10,000 for Fillies. . and constitution and W. It. E. iaxkwood of Norwalk, an umpire In this adopt Pitcher Hedges, who was with the arrange for a general meeting to be Conn., bought of John E. Madden two ear, baa beer held not later than February, 19mi, miles hy Topgallant and Imp. Springfield team lai-- t respectively, for $10,000, Tho purchased from Milwaukee by Rock The committee Is composed of Jamec Island and will fill the vaeancy caused Cumell, John I). Price, J. A. nostrum, Topgallant filly Is out of Black Whirlby the retirement of I.undln from the Dr. William Miller and W. S. Kenny wind, and tbe other out of Brctnrn, of Ormond, and V. J. Morgan, 8. A. darn of Councillor. Both are entered game. ' At the recent meeting In Peoria the Miles, Frank X. Mmld and II. I Bow- In the Futurity. den. The committee elected John D. covered bench Idea, which wee Trainer Carter Takes Life. by President Holland, was Pike president, W. 8. Kenny aecre manT. R. Carter, the vdt-ratralmr, adopted. Hereafter every city In the tary and W. J. Morgan general I. a (ommlMed suicide. Ho Jumped league must provide covered benches ager. Into tho Seine at Paris, France, ant. for the players of both tho home and was dragged out alive, but succumbed Western Harness Racing. visiting teams. The Cedar Valley circuit will as m on afterward. He hud trained fo. usual Inaugurate harness racing In the forty year when lie n tired lust year Weitarn Association. Many player In the old Missouri West this spring. The steward have Drop Ktcker to Lead. (ranged dates for 1905 as follows: Valley leu g no are signing with a new baseball The Indiana university football league West Union. May 30 to Juno 1; Frank Hare, quarter buck, (iilrh ha Just been orgnnlxed. It Is Nashua, June 6 to 8; New Hampton, next year. Hare won sevia.' he plan to make the new league an Juno 13 to 13; Waverly. June 20 to 22; xmo for Indiana by bl drop kirk-norganization, but ao far Cedar Rapids. June 27 to 29; Mark r. t 4 II to Marshalltown, lust fall. six named. been 6; have July They art July nly s follows: Vlnlta, South MrAlester 13; Mason City, July 18 lo 20; Oska Carlisle v. ( re nnati. nd Muscogee, I. T.; Vsn Buren. A- hsisa, Ang. 26 to 28; Waterloo, Aug nrr. Aug. 8 to 10 The Carlisle Indian loot ball temt rms, and Coffey v Die. Kan. Webb to 3; Indepemk 17. ' meet th" Cincinnati university; By, Mo., and Parsons, Ksn., will Boone, Ang. 15 to e same date 'kt-lnu on Nov 18 m- - ' become frcTber. Tbit I al be will start the training pleasant sight It It nates that seven Ir with nine i n.is-'ulel- 22-2- American Association Affairs. best that' In them; and a To show - the util- -- ishI move Second Baseman Ace Stewart of To ihe whole world running In Would s ledo will return to the St. Paul twum a In. fill, helpful groove. Bay Hornet iilng sweet to paralyse the next aoason. . on the spot 8 peak kindly of hlN victim If you know Jimmy Callahan come within an ace nut. mun or the of being the Toledo manager the comThe eyes that peek and peer to find the ing aeason, 'tls said. worst u brother hold. The Pittsburg club has turned Pitcheuk In bittern-- , Th tongue that er Clyde Goodwin, drafted from Vinthat fiet and fuim-- and The hand that hrulHe the fallen, though cennes, over to the Toledo elub. ihetr strength w meant to ralio-ThThe St. Poul club will sell Outfielder the hint at stumbled Wenklllig who of Ihe wnv Ed. Householder to either Portland or pnttlna Hlnilllil lie tel given, for All theae they Colorado -Springs, which are bidding know not whnt they do; Their hindrance moke a greater work for him. for wiser one like ou. Jack Boyle, one of the best catchers Bo, when thev aeoiiige n wretched on who' dialned ln' bitter cup. In th business ten years ago. will go tf him you out this season as an Bay something good umpire In the have to make It up fl. TV. Glllllnn In Baltimore American, American association. wedding outfit. A Tha Spinning Wheal In Ireland. wheel und the flax to are the elderly women oulsld Th gplnnln wheel tr at 111 found In the Irish co- thotr cottage door spinning the flax ttage, where many girl has her wed- or th wool. As long as the weather la warm tbe sturdy Irishwoman, old nd homespun ding dowry of linen more or la It young, acorn a roof except to made at home. Although the task of the older women, there are alcep under. The free air and atm hire are her choice, and the iweet Mill girls who do thor spinning atlnt end lay by certain ucunt fur Ihetr ky la the fairest roof. league has closed negotiations by which the Washington Baseball club passes Into local hand i Several substantial I ss men have bought the continuing interest, and the club will enttr tie season in better condition financially than ever before. In the reorganization the capital Is Increased to 345,000. First Das rnian Stahl will be pinying manager, and the team will go South fur preliminary training, returning home on April 1 for exhibition games. Thomas C. Nojes will be president of the club. Egan Not in British Tourney. American golfers who had hoped that Chandler Egan, tho national amateur champion, would be able to take part In the British amateur championship this spring will be disappointed, for the Chicago expert will return fiont bis Etiinpcan trip In May, sailing from Southampton May 17. Tho British amateur ex tit takes place May Had Napoleons Son Lived of the publication , Taking of a new edition of bis Napoleon: The Last Phase, says the Ixmdon News, I,ord Rosebery has contributed it new chapter In which he speculates on what might have happened if Nason had lived. He poleon's Buys Out Washington Club. President Johnson of tho American ninety-horsepowe- I H o as last year and the attempt to bat the circuit open in the southern part of the state failed. team-electe- g |