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Show TR UTH. Amateur Golfers. The action of the r ecutive committee of the United b. tes Golf AsThis is the biggest sociation in voting to award a medal season to Walter J. Travis as a reward for fils his having won the British amateur golf championship indicates that the golfing solons are satisfied with Ails amateur standing. At toe same standIs amateur meeting, It said, the ing of several prominent players was discussed, and while the members of has ever known. the committee felt that in some cases there were reasonable grounds for The. place is more doubt they could take no action unless delightful than ever definite charges were made. This and people appreleaves the matter where it has always stood, and the only result likely is ciate it more. grumbling on the part of some of the professionals and unsupported insinuations on the part of some of the amaJ. BERGERMAN, Lessee. teurs. If the probe were inserted deep enough it might cut into the standing of a number of golfers who under a strict interpretation of the rules are not simon pure amateurs. It For the M. and M. Stake. ' All the spring and early summer is to be hoped the grumblers will there has been much gossip as to either make specific charges or keep whether Geers would start Alexander quiet Chicago Tribune. LAGOON or Stanley Dillon in the $10,000 M. and M. at Detroit. He named both, made all the early payments on both, and as both showed at Memphis In their work, in May, that they were better than 2:10 horses, curiosity as to which he would Start was keen. There was no doubt In my mind, however, that unless Alexander proved far the best Stanley would be the selection. He is owned in Detroit, and there was a tacit agreement between Geers and his owner that he would start if good. So I was not surprised when It wras announced that he had finally been chosen and Alexander declared out. J. L. Hervey in Chicago Record-Heralo Change In Whist Laws. One important change in the laws of whist was made at the fourteenth congress. When a player fails to follow suit his partner may, as the trick is turned and quitted, Inquire whether the player so renouncing has any of the suit led in order to prevent a revoke. Heretofore any remark by the nartner in such a case established the revoke. The new law was Undoubtedly suggested by bridge. d. o o : Niagara-on-the-Lak- e, left alone with Father Alexis, wno drew nearer to him and said: 4,Ck back to daylight Be silent fof three days and three nights, and then tfell everything you have seen and heard. Tell them that we are pray ing in the wilderness of the ocean. The Lord will hear our prayer and give strength to our czar; Then the Petropavlovsk, battered and Crippled, will rise from the bed of the sea with ns all, and Admiral Makaroff will hold a review of his fleet and command it to go to the Japanese capital to dictate to the vanquished foe. And the k whole fleet will sail past the with music, God save our czar. Theii when the fleet has passed, will sink again the Petropaylovs slbwly, slowly with ail of us, into the depth of the sea this time for all eternal ages. : n x PINK o FRIDAY EVENING Masks Furnished Free at Gate. HOBSESIBERS 0BT1HG SATURDAY HORSE RACES. ADMISSION 10c, GOOD IN Travis Wins from Douglas. At Rye, N. Y., July 16, Walter J. Travis, amateur golf champion of the United States and Great Britain, beat Findlay S. Douglas of the Nassau Country Club in the final round for the first cup at the Apawamis Club tournament by 2 up and 1 to play. o- Boer Women to Make Lace. Miss Hobhouse of New York intends to take some Venetian lacemakers to South Africa and have them teach TRADE art to the Boer women. their ' "... ' V BATHING a curious legend contributed by a cor vilrespondent who heard it in the lage of Talitsa The story purports to be the expert ence Of a diver who went down to tha bottom of the sea to inspect the sunk en Petropavlovsk. He saw Admiral Makaroff and his officers and sailors all standing on the deck of the ill fated battleship together with Father Alexis, the priest, who went dowq with hir. They were singing and praying for the czar, crying, Lord Then have mercy upon thy people they all vanished and the diVet was i- CtLDER'S Mfeetlng With Father Alexis. The Moskovski Listok contains Petro-pavlovs- Waidner Wins at Niagara. July 16, I H. Waidner of Chicago defeated R. G. Hunt of California in the finals of the singles in the Canadian tennis championship. Beals Wright and Edgar Leonard of Boston won the double championship by defeating Waidner was characterized and Hunt in three straight sets. by sensational speed performances. China Maid won the first two heats in driving finishes, the time for the first being 2:06 and for the second 2:05. Baron Grattan, the Geers entry, took the third heat in 2:08. The first heat of this race, 2:06, Is a new worlds record for a green pacer in a first winning MASKED FAN BALL heat. At Divers Wonderful Story of a Worlds Tour as a Bonus. Should the New York National league club win the pennant in that organization this season the team will be taken on a trip around the world. Such is the plan of John T. Plans Brush, owner of the Giants. for the proposed trip have been practically completed for, though the season Is not yet ended, nor the pennant actually won. McGraws bunch feels confident of its ability to take down o the flag. Besides this, the trip is ofinducefered by Brush as an extra Wolverines May Get Eastern Game. ment to his men to extend themselves While not settled positively it now to the limit of their ability in the race Beems certain that Columbia and for the championship. Michigan universities will meet on o the football field next fall. Manager Baseball Championship. John G. Prall of the Columbia team announced McGraw has Manager has secured the American League that if both New York teams win the baseball park for Columbias games pennants this year, there will be no Instead of the polo grounds and in series for the worlds leasing the park Thanksgiving day championship, but that the 'Giants was reserved for the game with Michiwill play any other American league gan. team if his men win the bunting. Mco Graw is counting chickens before the Flanagan Breaks Weight Record. hen even starts setting, hut what a John Flanagan of the Greater New roar would go up from everywhere if Irish A. A., the American chamYork both New York teams should win out and Brush should refuse to play the pion in throwing the fifty-sipound Highlanders in the face of the agree- weight, has made a new worlds recment between the leagues for such a ord in hurling the missile with unlimited run and follow. His distance series! was 40 feet 2 inches, or 21 inches bet-o ter than the old record. Sensational Time in 2:16 Pace. Favorites won in all the races at o the Columbus Driving Park July 15. Clark to Own a Circuit. The track was very fast and the 2:16 W. A. Clark, Jr., son of the Montana pace, every heat of which was a race, post-seaso- " PROPHESIED RESULT OP WAIL AT SAITAIR Is better than it has ever been before. . . Finest Dancing in the State. S V J. AU 9 E. LANGFORD, Lessee WL AL V More Honors for Billings. C. K. G. Billings, the gas magnate and horseman, apparently is after all the laurels in the amateur harness world. At Cleveland, July 16, he put another feather in his cap when he won the pacing honors to pole with Direct and Hontas Crook; when that team paced a mile In 2:13. It was a well regulated mile, but had Hontas Crook not tired during the last quarter the mile would have been close to 2:10. It was a Wonderful performance, and now Billings owns the fastest trotting team to pole, with the Monk and Equity, and has the pacing honors for amateurs with Prince 2:13. o Get Rich Quick. Gunner They say Barker has been married three times. Did he make axiy money out of marrying so often? Guyer I should Say so. He made as much money out of marrying as a St Joe minister. Joys of Wedlock. We may as well come to an unsaid the derstanding right now, It may be hard for angry husband. to hear the truth from me, you but Indeed it is, interrupted the pw tient wife, fT hear it so seldom from you. o New Half Mile Auto Record. At Anderson, Ind,, July 18, Jed New- kirk established a new auto record for a half mile. He was driving William Pickens 999 Ford car, and made The former is planning a Rocky the distance in 1:15 mountain racing circuit of his own. record of 1:16 for the distance was according to announcement made up- held by the famous Barney Oldfield. on the return of Mr. Clark from the o Overland trotting meet at Denver. Seems Out of Place. Mr. Clark's plans to purchase the Among the monuments to great men Overland Park, secure a park In Salt erected in Westminster abbey, says Lake and with his Butte park estab- the London Daily Mail, in the holy lish a three-cit- y circuit. The young quiet of the cloisters, is a monument millionaire has one. of the finest to a prizefighter. 3trings of harness horses in the Northo west. Other Northwest cities will be Garrett Does Some Good Shooting. asked to join the Clark circuit. In the second day of the Grand o Western handicap tournament the feaWork on Simplon Tunnel. ture wras the shooting of J. W. Gap Work on the Simplon tunnel is go- rett, of Colorado Springs, who scored ing forward very slowly. At the end 1.96 out of a possible 200. He broke of Febrnary, 1904, a little more than 111 targets before inakir' a miss o eleven miles had been drilled, leaving two miles to be tunneled. During House Fly Is Prolific. the month Just named the advance in An ordinary house fly will lay 120 piercing was only fifteen feet seven eggs during its existence, and 90 per inched each- - working day, and this cent of them will be hatched oju work wag entirely on the southern Twelve or thirteen generations of flijip aide. are produced in an ordinary summer. multi-millionair- e, 2-- 5. |