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Show ltfiviuuui MMVU'J A Chicago Nationals A rs tan cards bad far nsst yrsr of Collin Par two years tha aum-easaa a aa a pi mat tar af national rommaat. Hs was cal lad tha "Utils plant." "tba Kapoleon af Bsanburg" etc. At ptwsant Jimmy and tha "Nnpo-ra- a la tba "llttla a af tba banrh." Btranpa how shifts bar tndrs finger In fr-lun- Jimmy Is only ana of a bun- rad man who havs suffered similarly In tha past. President Johnson Is w las Tan you I nito suppast a changs. acin Pulliam of tha National laapua ever maklnp a bralay mm a Ilka Ilia' 7 Differs, difference hatsaan rulllam aad Jnhnaon la this: Juhnann ba n laaaua president's brains and power; Pulliam ban a laapua president' I III. Fuppos. for Inatanra. that Pulliam should po to Cincinnati and aupprat to Garry Hrrmann that manapar Nad Hanlon ahnuld ba rrlraard In ordar ti That ability, combined with the affective work of the pitching department. la whai. according to cold calculation, has pul them at the top thus fur of tha season's National teams. COOLEY, ANOTHER BASEBALL NOTABLE WHOSE LEAGUE DAYS ARE OVER. BIG Trick C'oolry was, In bln prims, on of tha star hasrhall players of tha A rontampnrary of "Pop" Anson and other old llnirra, Cooley, by larafui llvlnp, manapad to remain In ilia game until a year or two spot wrhrr. hr was rrlnasad by lha Histnn Nationals. As an nutflrliirr ha roaa to wide country. fani. and salary. PS. situ hla heavy hlttlnp waa a feature that non benefit tbs team. I ran sea dairy's pleasant smile aa ha would say; "Mr. PulllanW'ih nest train from rtncln-nai- l la any old plat a at alt laavaa In tnlnulea. If you Just twenty-thre- e dnni burry you won't pet It. Remain-r- , I raid twanty-tbraa- Jaekltterh raupht many pamaa for but ba National. tha Bmaklyn "wouldn't do" and waa given p Itrkd la w la and tha Vanderbilt stables in Russia and who has had many great mounts In England and the T'nited State during his career of ten years on ths turf, has abandoned his lit aa I Jockey awing to hi weight. Knapp, as be la knows to tha sporting wrorld. now tips tha scales at 111 pounds, lie cannot reduce. I'pon hla return from Ruse la he waa wealthy, hut has sineslost all his fortune In 111 advised busl- ith almost a hundred These Merely Element af Taam Work. "Put good batting and pitching are team work. I hear soma one say, No. they do not form It entirely. They axe only elements uf team work, even, though, 1 admit.' they are tha two most Important elements. Chicago's team is made up of In- - Bhakeapear wrote the plays commwy I i an bs attributed to Kbakespear easily settled now. Let the grat the two writers h opened. Tb im, that turned over last night 1 . AMERICAN "PRO" GOLFER. "It is a remarkable thing." Golf Illustrated (London), "that - tu America has not produced one prijfig. lunal gutter of ths first rank. intla. ly no native professional has n aa good relatively as g, 1 eared Travis. The open championship i. ways falls to some Imported RrttM professional hailing from North ft, wtek, Rt. Andie at or Carnoustie u a really time that tha State produced , u professional golfer at least pa Arnaud Massey. Tha American rad. dies and professionals have now bad ng. DICK bttw win tha pennant points to spare. good In nil cases. The Chicago National team Is lha of this changr of opinion. Frank Chance's team has led ths National f the season, leapua during most playing sensations! hall. No team aver played batter In soma respects, but In are ona branch tha Chicagoan strangely lacking The one lack In their game Is team work of tha gilt edged aort. The Chicago team has forged to ths fora through sensational batting and great pitching. Ths New York Nationals plainly exrel them In team work, aa it lmle. hut tha latter outfit has fallen off In batting and Idtchlng jiower. Chicago luut a hunch of swat stars Stetnfi-lrit- , Hharkaril. Chancs. Schulte. Kling. Tlrter, Ever und Slagle that the hors hide off seam ehl ta the ball no matter who doei the twirli- base-ball- jarHi.iTMM. catchfr TUB MIMA Win Without Good Team Work t if A Big A sciive team work la of important element the first and to be considered " Years of pisy with thousands of went to yroie the accuracy of tha principle. It. in fart, became axiomatic. Any one ah held a contrary opinion and who had tha nerve to it waa jeered unmercifully and straightway became the target of all scoffers. Tha aritrr. until this season, always maintained that good team work was tha only sure road to baseball success, but no' H seems to him that tlw on time truism doe not hold Mm fha 1 velopment point te the de of Jimmy Collins polip base npill-lilMlWMman af ths Boot"" Amertrans. of tholr league. Jimm team baa baas a laughingstock moat tta strangely af tha aaaaon. swing mlsaraMa work. Ths "an stars slump they wars satisfying a Hrffai though soma ons grudge against Resorts bass It that on Prrsldaiit Baa Jobnaoa'a advtoa foil ins Is to b relsssed and a saw sbulfls of tha Boa ALL ladlrallors LA UV "Minor laapuavllle." lilm an unusually largo on thus fur. That' over a sourra of Income that some lespuea have overlooked to dale, Guess tha aaanrlatlon will Kin hava enough money to raise Ilia umpires' salaries. ." Osed Team Work Net Always Naess- -' sary. Umpires Wsrth Having. Ever since baseball has been eur naTha American association umpire hava impnaed lines on unruly' playera tional game the following principle has that hara ratted tha leapua treasury been advanced as Infallible; "jhe da- . The Evidence Are Claar. Tha evidences of tha Chicagoans lack of team work are clear to any close follower of the gams They make few double plays. They bother combination with little very plays of any sort. Their playing In Ihe field generally la Inferior to that of Pittsburg or of New York. but., whan they get to the hat their opionents run to cover. In the American league this year something of the same sort prevailed before Cleveland, through the disabling of good men, tumbled down Cleveland waa a leader the ladder. when Ihe teem work of Ihe nine aa a whole was only second class, hut tha hatting of LaJole. Bradley, Turner. Flick anil Ramin, combined with tha pitching of Ileus, Jose. Jihoadaa and Bernhardt, held them fight up with tha front of the parade. If Cleveland had hsd tha team work of the Philadelphia Athletics the Forest glty bluea would have been at the head of their league from ike opening of the year. If Chicago had learn work developed to tha point reached by the New York Nationals the Chance brigade would WIDOW CONROY, dividual stars that ehlne with blinding Incandescence. And thla all star troupe la "getting away" with the money In a manner that will make President Charles W. Murphy a millionaire ere long. If he Is really the holder of tha a club's stock. Instead of posing "stalking horse" for a group of financiers, as most people suspect. Team work doe much to conceal the Inherent weakness of a team. There are in both major leagues teams that rank, many point higher than their lieraonool would seem to warrant. Take tha Chicago Americana as an exThey reached the top of ths ample. percentage column through Sheer force of exceptional team work. In their lineup are only five men Captain Jone$ Fhnrtstop Davis, First Baseman Donaghua and two pitchers who are really first class man. based on the IfARRT GRANT. present ratings. .. KNAPP. JOCKEY OF GREAT LEFT FIELDER AMERICANS. Bert Knappenbargrr. tha well known jockey who rode for the cxnr of Rus NEW YORK hes ventures. At present ha I In Iea Angeles. Cal. Hla parents are poor people at Llgonier, lnd. A HITCHCOCK STORY. Raymond Hitchcock, tha comedian, waa recently discussing the different dramatic critics and their methods of writing with one of tha representatives of a well known Chicago dally, and told the following smualng story of a criticism that h ones read In a weekly paper of a small western town, which he thought was tha most concise write-u- p of a performance that h had aver seen. Tha play was "Hamlet. and the performance waa for one night only. All the people In the town attended the show, and the weekly paper. waa held The next day open for the notice. when tha publication appeared the criticism read thualy: " 'Hamlet' was played In our town hall last night by Mr. X. and hla company. It was a great aortal event. Thera has bean a long discussion aa to whether Bacon or JOCKEY WALTER MILLER. LEAH I1Q RIDER 1Y THE EAST. Miller rods five winners In one da recently at Earatnga, N. Y and on I later day put over four more. ample time to learn and aagtmllat the game, not only from tha visits of fi best professional playera on thla eld, but from the rsaident Scottish pro- fessionals, but the reeulta era up k now disappointing. gMHMHWNWWNMMMMMMMMMWMMMMMMMAMMfMMMAMMdlMMnMMMMMMfM Sidney Dillon, Trotting the Greatest Sire of the Present; Affairs In General Philadelphia About Harness Gossip Ubllshment, Maywood farm, in Indiana, ha lung been well known among harness horsemen. At Msywnod are six or eight hmod marcs of undoubted rlaas, and expert! look forward confidently to seeing other sensational time killers appear with Dillon's blood In their veins. bout, 8:074, has paced on eighths In 0:15V In 0:88, a aurprlsa to many.- It waa thought Walcott waa "all In and through with the ring. It remained for hla manager, Billy Pierre, to think of the "hard bandages, and the victory over Jack Dougherty followed. Strapping down the fingers la not an entirely hew however. wrinkle, Charley Yokes, now deceased, aid the same thing In nearly all of hla flghla. Dougherty la a pretty good sort of a fighter, and It shows that Walcott must be in rather fair shape. The former, who comes originally from England, has beaten such men as Maurice Fayres, Charlie Neary. Tommy Sullivan, Billy Moore, Martin Judge and Eddie Fantry and la highly thought of In Michigan and Wisconsin, where he has dona most of his fighting. Pierre says he will keep Walcott busy and send him after big game. established his breeding farm From thla place came Galtee Mon, winner of the English Derby and rf I12I.M0 In two years on tha turf, belay eventually eold to the Russian for llAS.ono. in 1MI Ard Patrick won another English Derby ftv Mr. Ouhblna and, like Galtee More, n old for 105,0(10, tha purchaser this time being the German government. It o happens Galtee More and Ard Pata rick now atand side by aide at ths stud. In Germany, for the Russians sold the older horse to Emperor William for Mr. Gubblns first 70,000. successful horse Blalrptide. winner of the Irish Derby. Mr. Gubblns1 successes have led .the owners of several prominent English raring atablsi to establish breeding farms amonf the hills of Limerick, where Gains Mora and Ard Patrick were horn. Thst IRISH BRED RACE HORSES. there n something In It Is Indicated bf John Gubblns, who died just before the fact that Pretty Polly, the chamthe opening of the English racing rea- pion racer of the century, halls from doea her half brother, Adson. probably will long hold tha record Ireland: as the most successful breeder of race mirable Crichton. horses in Ireland. Born In 1111, Mr. TAKE NOTICE, AUTOISTS. Gubblns at an aarly age commenced to ride steeplechaser.' His first winning A roll of adhesive tap In the repair mount wit Fairyland In the DoWnshlre kit and some Kr1pa of court plaster in cup at Pun cheat own of 1870. It was a porkethook are thing no automo several years after thla when Mr. Gub- - hlllst should be without on the mad. Promising Racsrs, That. Markala, the daughter of Deter the Great, 3:0714, and Nancy Hanks, 8:04, Is a very promising ld pacer. Rhe Is owned by Wynfronere farm. Greens Farm, Conti. Other good ones at the farm are: Fymphnny, by The Beau Ideal, 3:1514, out of Fantasy, 3:00, and Joe Mapea, by Joe Fatchen, 8:0114, dam Alice Map, 3:0(14, by Oratorio (41, 8:11. Alice Maps is now In foal to Axworthy (I). S:15H, as Is Remar. 2.15V ,BBN TAVI8. Brad In California. Fldney Dillon's removal from hit California birthplace has not as yet worked any harm to the great sire. As Is well known, sometimes a radical change of climate will put a sensitive turf star "off hie feed" for a few months or a war. As a matter of fact, the former glory of California, from a JOE WALCOTT COMES TO LIFE. The resurrection of Joe Watcntt, who turf viewpoint, seems to ha fleeting I'ew of ths horses that has been out nf the ring for about two eastward. helped make the state famous In this years on account of a pistol wound In line non- remain within Its boundaries. hla right hand, cagie In the nature of Fifteen or twenty year ago California was one of the greatest breeding states for race horses, runners nnd trot lets in the fnton. But. strangely enough, after ths death of Electioneer, In lSltn, the exodus began. Director, Directum. Sidney. Guy Wilkes, Direct, the best sons of Electioneer. Including almost the entire "Bells family; Stuntboiil and the other Sultans, all deserted the Pacific slope. Finally the great McKinney nnd now Fldney Dillon completed the stampede. Eastward the alar of horseflesh takes Its way, to adapt a well known quotation. Front a painting from life by Robert DILLON, he given aa one of the greatest purs galtad progenitors that ever lived. By hla fruits Is flldney Dillon known, ufi kl fame and name will endure a losg OS harness horses find a friend. That tha DIUon bora is the greatest if all latter day sires I think no one wtU deny, unless he Is the owner of a rival for this proud title. Rodney Dillon Is a member of the Btrathxior This trotting family. strata ef blood has shown it sterling worth go matter how It ba been LOU DILLON. I. Dlrkry Dillon ord pei formers, hut nne with even to his 2.:'( mark. They were. In short, got from the mares thill would naturally lie bred to a young untried horse at a large ranch where there were several Dally Dillon and Stanley Dillon. and. euicMor sires. Sidney lHIIn sired Dolly Dillon. emi-nt- . so phenomenal r 2.04 (wagon record. In a rarei. and to Thl la guar breeding history for anyHn! .M Stanley Dillon. 2 "7V the n proHi-hinparallel, ha When thing winner, both, ss a he was five he sired Lmi Dillon. 1 1,',. stamped Sidney Dillon forever witn m the of supreme greameys. If he Dolly Dillon he gel from s daughter his fame would nett' g a another of Electioneer, that hail proin.-i- i on lie But. seenr. ree.-rby rare good fortune, r other performer wl'h a the tuning so earlv, 1:82V hut was v ail along tn vrai h reunited In his being placed where nd had loten weeded out of the a h will hare eerv opportunity to :ip-- i i Alto stud. Ftanley Dillon he t an utterly untried filly plmept it with mhers similar. by Htalnway, 2.25V Lou Dillon he got from a v Owned by Hon. 8. R. Holt. Fidnev DIUon is now owned hy Hon. daughter of Mil- - in had Hfteria'i 3:24V that II. Holt, whose breeding es- Fterlin produced fe credit. 1 : d IN HISTRIONIC Wilfrid Lucas, welt known ss the Rudd Tsueg in "The Hetr inunttebt the Hoergh." hn been engaged by Hsnry B. Harris for a leading role in ha support of Rose F'shl in the Jsmr Ferbaa remedy. "The chorus Lady " Chsrtdah 8imptn. prime donn "t "Bsglag Naw York' on the New York a je-a- n Qnsksr Harass on Top. harness devotees are plsilng In great luck this year. Quaker City mined trotter and imcers are pulling down an nstonWhlng number of pilrns. Among lhee winners nre On- pacers Frank Yoakum, 2.h4: Philadelphia and Who Knows, The Frh-nd- sn-- l the trotters Grattan Bells and JillS,. . klnst re f.-- thrre-year-ol- Tba Strathmore line baa now eoma fata Ita prominency long deferred, bu: nene the less deserved. 1r addition te producing L"u Dillon Ors-dlt- Fldney Dillon Is n perfect type uf Not a blemish, the picture horse" not an uuymnietrUal line, mars his anatomy. Ills conformation Is a model, hut as is Invariably the case with harness horses this famous sire of speeders is not built on racing lines t all. That he hue senssilonal muscular power Is shown. hn he nevr laid claim to even a fair burst of speed. Sidney Dillon la now thirteen .rears old. ths sire nr greatest of s trotters. trotting has other notable SIPJCTT Dillon,mustworld's now hln Pirturg Horn. A SIDNEY DILLON. SIRE OF TROTTING CHAMPION Doings REALMS. to 'ar n,xr ers.,n theater roof. ths- - Gl reopen the Majestic the! dale. James T I'owora In The Blue M tb- Amerlraiurcd London fi'iavMiiu.i. will be one of the first comedy, - w .vtei- nil In revival of Reel-raiIe K rp"B"d Vegitier. o, i,r.ir Van FfiiddlCnrd Ilf 1 i nej e"ri'ii r brook were heard Iv'e m ivftj sen i. on. "The Totirlf,' end Into y Yoik M.rie baa been ftve-- l it,niiri- t.h. , ib-- , i piu.hrr' "im al ra,n. sM - .(, opra. l'-- j. r r Tt-.'- ,l- er' Ewing's Gantry Celts. Will Doing, al present trainer of the Ewelt ftp m horses, has uncovered a couple hy John R Oentrv 2 lnV "the little hnre" that look Beau Gen'ry i2i. out of Ptlghty Susie Roll, hy Bow Bells. ; h;i In o.SJV while Fhie-gone a out Hilda F. 2 hy Htam- - rd 1V pia-ter (I, !!,. VIOLA DE COSTA AND SEXTET a r-- Among others whom roniedv cninpnny to he seen at the HerWrhor has are (.'erliu ald theater. New York, next Iiftua. Lillian Blauvcli. Anirlla Sum- ses.nn. They are Edna Wallace Hopmerville. M itirlre Farkna anil llanv per and Ellta Proctor Olli Mrs. Hoprrando:i. The musical portion of th per last season deserted tbs lyrlo stngo Iminchr-Hie ropiing new i e l to !,o written hv Victor for the dramatic, In "The Herbert si-- the book In all probs-hllit- i Item of Maryland." appearing ll be a member of A manager In Cleveland Is to produce il bo bv Edrir Fm'th Lew K e stir rliir'eg Die a has nta-lten n..i.,h hv Miss Bessie Johnon. l to the contrary for hi all e'.n muaii-a(Itucntcr of lb mayor ef Cleveland, Y-r- i i l rep-irl- CHAMPAGNE j ! j I MADISON SQUARE ROOF YORK. the Madison Fquare v garden. New k. that and killed Ftanford' White, the fammis architect, early in the a Million Girls" when Thaw fired the fatal shot, ... an4 tnany. pleasing songs enliven a Mr ! MAMZELLE NEW It . nntwlibran-iing- IN Harry Thaw, the young Pittsburg spendthrift, shot summer. The sextet above shown waa alnglng '1 viola Pe Costa, tha rtar In Mamxelle Champagne. the performance. entliled "Betty's House Party." The action t.f ths play revolves around the love affairs of an English duk and A young American girl, Henry Wood niff and "Brown of Harvard will start th new eeardn at the Msjealc theater. Boston. Conductor Walter Roth Well, who I now in I .eodon vlth Oeorge Marlon. general manager for Mr. Bar - age. rehearsing the principals "Mma. Butterfly." is one of the n talented and youngest of grand opt conductors. Mr. Rothwell was lef Ing conductor with the English pi durtlon of "rarsifal." Helen Ware has been engaged Wagwnhals A Kemper to play Tfiai In the siimrtiiona production f Midsummer Night's Dream." v |