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Show ' univerMay ii Sew Orleans Lawn Tannia club; tract with tba Portland (Ora.) rlniildi ji.tiiip sity. :7 Loiihouo l t'ri ki club, Boston; Hahn Is to train the track team at Xr Enamrd ini the university and will cast an eye in M-- br Burn I'Mintry club, way over the candidates aiaie a managerial Nrwion. Maaa.: Maaouchua-t- u for teams in other branches of epoit. championship ikiub'.i-- k- -t ciilh. lhiUdci-pl,ia- : lluhn's advent at Portland will mark a Juus - M.riyn I'rn of Fennyyl-vuni- a new era iu sport ilieie, as he will seek women's . to put tba university on a footing, athand rssi-r- n skii-bJ me I -- H cat Ki- d- Tennis clnh, New letically. with the big institutions of York city: metropi'itaii ctmmplnnshliv the east and middle west. Jjse 1 t'aloiievikii" Couniry club, Sums people have told Hahn that stale chanipioriahlp. Maryland his hopes os to making Portland's ath- Cricket club. Fhludel-pltiJune w Penney lvanla elate cuampiunahip lelcs national tiguies ill require years in the fulfilling, hut It la only fair to fur men. June (Vinnirg club. Korfolk, Hahn to say that If any one can do It Ye.: Virginia stale t huuipionshlp in n brief period he is the man. June 11 lianford Jn!f club. Hartford. New England Conn.; ( hampionviip of Jack Palmar Again. , June II Longwixid Crickrt dub. Boston: Maasacliiioettn state championship Jock Palmer, the British "near ingles fighter," who was walloped to n fraxxle by one of tho Sullivan twins, asks the State Championships public in a lengthy epic sent to the oc-rThe middle elates championships at orange, N. J., July 1. and the Illinois state champlnnc hipa take place at the Antec rlub, Chicago. July IS. will be The western champiunshiim played July 27 at the Kenwood Country club. Chicago, and the premiership titles of Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas are to be decided at the Sioux City (la.) 1 (nt May t i.wll-Biu- te. Wl M-i- a a- Balii-Bior- e. a; ' newspapers to think kindly of him. to blame it all on the sudden change of climate, to believe that some lime he will appear aa a real acrappist. Lika many auoihtr fighter. Palmer looks better in print than he does in the ring. Also he seems to know mure about press agenrisin than about fistic maneuvers But be should remember that while the pen is mightier than the sword (according to the dreamy poeta) that doea not necessarily mean that tha len has anything on well made boxing gloves, stuffed with horse hair and bony knuckles At this moment it would eeem to be evident, almost, if not quite, that Jack would do well to stick to tho writing game that is of two ways of fooling the public choose the easier. In other words, there is nothing actually ludicrous about Palmer except Palmer himself. ur Lawn Tennia club. The National Championships Tha climax of the year at Newport, R. I., has been eel for1 Aug. 24, when the national tillea in doubles and sln-glwill he decided. The tennis prugranime fur the Jamestown (Va.) exposition la now In course of arrangement. The events ara gentlemen's singles, gentlemen's doubles and a cousolailun aeries. The datea svt afe Kept. 14 to 20, and tha ciuniuiUea In charge is mnde up of Ranis C. Wright of Bouton, William C. Dickson of Ncrfolk, Va., and L. D. Bcott of Atlanta, aa. I MILLER HUGGINS, THE GREAT CINCINNATI INFIELDER. aura indicators of tha growth of the of tennis. TENNIS players and are opining valumlnaualy popularity LAWK. the prospects of the season opening. Wlilla the boat Imfurmad racket votaries ara md promt i I Early Tannia Features. Among the Important tennia tourneya to antbuaa a great deal aa tenths Kng-1- 1 acheduled for the early part of the Mooh -- American matches, owing to tha tion ara tha following: woeful waaknaaa of the team apoken I Univeraftv ef Pennaylranla, May of aa (epreaentlng thla country abroad, Pliiladt'iplila; InlersclialxslUi ehainpton-eliiram view in the the that genera! yet palga oa tlw home rourta will be one May unlrerally, inlrrsolio-hiMlI- e of engaging and railed Intermit. ehanrtiiunaliip. May 4 Yale university, iatererholaplle Probably a larger number of important matches and tournainenla have chamidomiMp. May 4 I'uluinbis university, New York been announced for 2107 than for any other year In thla country, and alo city; Columbia Interne ho Wilke champion-shiindlcatluna point to the Influx or an Muy . 11 Princeton ualveralty, Imposing number of able young championship. and from rollegee (lube. There Mny 27 Trenton Country rlub. Trenton, atgna are moat encouraging and ara N. J.; oenlrai Jersey uhamplonihlp p. p. ic i Aa to Karl Behe of Yale. The iimbuble showing of Karl llehr of Yale university thla season is a topic of much pruminunca at present. Itehr Jumped from obscurity headlong lno national fume last yeur and la looked on aa a aura champion In the future. Hut the statements that he will cepture the national title thla year at Newport are deemed extravagant by the ablest racket pruplieta They say that while llehr la a sensation, he does not measure up to champion form: that he needa more experience to go successfully through the terrific strain of the Newport tourney. Archie Hahn New n "Pro." Archie Hahn, the great sprinter, who wee the sensation of the University of Michigan, has fulfilled the forecastings rf tha prophrts by leaving the cinder path aa a competitor and signing a con it ' These Columbia Football Reports. Many and various and likewise diversified ara the reports that Columbia university will allow its young and lusty sluggers .to .play football ,next fall. Just why Columbia should concern itself about Ihia real sport is not quits plain. One would almost Imagine that a Columbia football' team would add something to the interest of the annual gridiron campaign. One would almost think that the public cared to view the brand of football put up by Columbia in tha past. Why not. fair Columbia, let the dead paat keep dead tha dead ones of the past? Football has had a good many hard knocks of late, and if Columbia takes up the game again there will be only one thing left to happen to it to have President Roosevelt call the game "unBEN TAY1S. truthful." ECKERSALL FOR TRACK NINE. AND Walter Eckersall, the mighty leader of the Chicago university football team, has announced his Intention of taking part in tha baseball and track athletics this aeason. Eckersall waa the MIKE LYNCH, PITTSBURG beat kicker and field general In western PITCHER.' football. Now that he la ineligible to Mika Lynch, now a reliable twirlcr fur Fred ciaiaos I'lUsburg Pirate take part In any of the college gridiron waa formerly described as the beat college twifler In America, He mods i contests, Erkcrsall should make a valuable addition to the baseball nine and sensational record with Brown university. the track team. He la a good 'hall player and ia a them to make way for boys with chestnut would prove as great a rin hard man to beat In the sprints. It is pels aa ha was a race horse. less fatty tissues be hla work a will that expected great Muck Mack. 2: 12li, the Oregon true. Eugene Hildebrand, the leading rider to Maroon the team thla help year. two years ago, has been forced to re- ter, la again heeded for the grand citire, as he finds he cannot make tha rcuit. He is a high class trotter. WEIGHT FORCES HIM FROM SADweight acceptable to owners. He will DLE.. buy some horsey and campaign them on HARNESS STABLE WON 150l m must live tha strenuous life the Pacific coast. Jockeys The stable, of Be gat or (Jeovgr 1 PITCHER AL ORTH. NEW YORIC at all times or they soon become too fat Whlutey won over llt.OuO last year. 3 AMERICANS. to ride. They must keep In training HARNESS HORSE NOTES. comprised six horses, the I over Anna Orth In bent known aa the cunreleaa day In and day out. A lapse from careJames Gatconib has refused an offer Pointer, Jennie W-- . Billy W The BM-wonder." He depends chiefly on hla ful diet means an acrumulHllun of five of 3,00S for ona of hla Audubon Boy and Burlington Maid, and the tidor alx pounds, and thla frequently com- - colts, jt looks as though (he great ier Professor Sampson. speed to deceive batsmen. . . ....... i ( s i All the World of Drama -- Revival of Divorcons; if Grace George as Cyprienne Plans of the Playwrights ffwx Our New York Dramatic GRACE important scenes with unerring skill nnd reaourcefulnesa. Miss George's support la thoroughly callable in the main. Including Frank Worthing and Robert T. Haines, both of whom, In the respective roles ef Henri dee Prunellea and Adlieniar de Graltnac, prove highly acceptable. Probably the one flaw in the production la in tlie work of Mlaa Muyo, whose adapts! Ion of tha drama loses soma of Hie charm of tha orlglnaL Corre-apondea- t.l GEORGE seems to have a wise choice In In Sardoua famous comedy, "Dlvorcona," at Wai Jack's theater. The present adaptation of tho drgma from the original French fa tho work of Margaret Maya Mies George haa arored a distinct hit in tha rola of Cyprian ns, a role played by many distinguished artiste an both aides of tho Atlantic. Soma of tho critlra In fort went m far na to say that aa Cypttonno Miss Georgs has dona the best work of her "Tha Raundup." One of tha Chicago critics describes tha new play, "Tha Roundup," In which Marlyn Arliuckle is starring at McYleker'a theater, as follows: " The Roundup la Edmund Day's play, described In the, programme aa one of life and death,' love and hate, loyally and revenge lu Arizona and New Mexico.' Messrs Klaw A ara responsible for I he staging of the piece, end they have provided career. At any rata aha drove every point straight home and rasa to the er four pictures which are excellent examples In lagec raft. There la a hacienda In Hwect Water valley as the setting for a wedding. The action In this Is furnished by cowboys, broncho busters and other denizens In picturesque out lit. But music will not be mantic enough for even the romantic entirely lacking In the new play. Three Bellow to shine In. . songs and one or two dances will be Mr, Armstrong says: rendered Incidental to the principal "The difference between plnywrltlng theme. and literature Is Just the difference between miniature painting and sign . Augustus Thsmss. painting. The playwright Is the sign Augustus Thomas Is now engaged in painter, Aa for stories, I'tn willing to the writing of two new plays One en- wager I hold the record of America for titled The Witching Hour will savor rejected manuscripts. Ive had more of spiritualism, ghostly visitations stories rejected than any man In the rliv, and the other, aa yet unnamed, haa United States. Once I tried to sell n its locale In Mexico and will be pre- story to every editor I could think of, and had It refused on nil sides, until I sented by Duatln Earnum. In order to prepare himself for his finally sold it to a newspaper for the task Mr. Thomas spent three mouths sum of 10.50. I took that same Idea In Mexico, and It Is said that hla drains and made it Into a short one act play, will picture President Dias as a tyrant and It earned a thousand dollars. and that the abuses tlduAshing under "A man must go through fifteen the sway of petty provincial governors years of starvation before he'gete the will be strikingly set forth. right sort of stuff In him to he a playand Im wright. I'm thirty-seveyoung for a playwright. It takes a Armstrong Writing For Bellow. Paul Armstrong, author of The Heir man who hus been through the mill to to the Hoorah" and Halomy Jane," la get down and do tl,e work. I'm glud busily engaged In writing a new play that 1 have the ambition and the time for Kyrte Hcllew. The scene will be to do plsytvrlttng. And now I have laid on an island In the Mediterranean the money to take my time. sea. The play will be a comedy ro I wrote Salonty Jane, In which Identified with. n, Eleanor Robson Is now appearing at the Liberty theater, New York, In Just six duys Of course the writing of a piny ia merely putting down what you have already In mind. The thing muet all be planned aut1n advance, and then It la merely the work of getting It In form. I gut so absorbed that I really didnt know when It waa night and when It was day. One time I thought I would go out for a walk. I came downstairs from my apartments and waa astonished to learn, that it? waa 4 o'clock In the morning. "Gst the Hook. In some unaccountable manner "Rex E. Beach, who "wrote a very Immature novel. The Bitnlera," has inhaled the Idea that he is a playwright. Not satisfied with the flat failure of the dramatisation of The pollers," In which Mr. Beach largely participated, lie haa announced thut he will collaborate with Paul Armstrong In writing a farce for Willie Collier, who Is now playing in Caught In the Rain at the Garrick theater. Just where the necessity has arisen Lava Bads and Indiana. The scene of the second act la the ranch home of the bride and bridegroom; the third the bleak desolate lava beds of New Mexico, where marauding Indians furnish the excitement. The Inst comprehends a mighty sweep ol the rattle plains. "One who does not care particularly for rude western life geta hla money's worth In the pictures alone, but the human 'portraiture also la good, being In such keeping as that of Messrs. Marlyn Arburkle. Orme Catdara and Wright Kramer, Misses Florence Rockwell. Julia Dean. Marla Taylor and others. With the supernumeraries there are over a hundred In the cast. An a candidate for a summer run The Roundup promises unusually well." Miss Proctor plays the role Midsummer Nights Dream." Cohan Reaeues Himself. George M. Cuhan has reformed. The versatile young actor. plnyw right. Ih river and writer, singb-l- . slang slingrr hns begun n new drama that It a distinct 'departure from anything lie lias dons in the hsi. (nliati Is writing the play for himself, lie expects to apiear in It In the fall. The remarkable thing about the pluv Is that It will be a that is, it w dl nnd nut a mebe a legitimate ARBUCKLE'S NEW ROLE. lange of variety stunts strung along on la now playing a line and measured off to suit the manMarlyn Arbuc-kiSlim Hoover, the sheriff, in Klaw and ager with the price. How Odtnn rnuld Brlanger's production of Edmund Days nerve himself fur the ordeal f writing new western play, The Round Up," at a real play is difficult to Imagine. EviMcVIckera theater, Chicago. dently he realized that he hud got all Arliuckle rose to fame In "The Counthere was to he had out of the mtil--acomedies of the atyle he is chiefly ty Chairman," by George Ade. ef Hermis in for the dramatic work of a crude and amateurish order like that of Mr. Beach Is not vividly apparent. Is he trying to provoke some one Into endowing a training school for writers nnd dramatists? Or perhaps Collier does not yet know that some one is writing a new play for hlml TOPICS. Guy Standing has Joined the support of Mms. Kasimova, the Russian ac- title role of "Cleo." the play In whh h Mrs. Carter wxr to li:ive siarri-qtress. Meters. K'aw l n 1 Frk.nger ;,mi The Roundup" has had its first per- seph Brook lt.iv- - ten reeled to j.,.e formance tn Chicago with Maclyn next pvtuinn j tiro f In the leading role. Gilbert Parkers novel, The Right of The Snow Man," a new musical play Wsy. The latest ncw from London Is that by Stanislaus Btange, has been produced. Edna May's sister Jane is al tn Nance G'Xeill has begun playing the soon, the pioepective bridegroom bting ! . I ;r.-duc- le production of "A In "Les Bouffons," by Miguel Za She expects her pert, which the one played hy Mme. Sarah Bem hardt In Paris, but translatedone EngHvh by 'John Raphael to be her most popular foies. She will rj poor ns a young prince, not as iheifi beloved of the prince, as was the onF na.1 and erroneous announcement Mr. Frohman' s press bureau. cal. ' dr.-nn- a STAGE Annie Russell LARGEST MUSICAL CLUS- - The hugest and most prosperous slcal organization In America Is MAUDE ADAMS' NEXT PLAY. cated ip New York, nor Is It in Bo Ch'irles Frohman has arranged for but In Columbus, where the Miss Maude Adams, after she finishes Musical club has O, 3.000 paid up her presentation of "Peter Pan." to piny berships. David Sasoon. a wealthy real estate man of KngVirtl. FriU. will kn is n a- n (rny.-,r t he I'olumli'.ii herner Ntoilc Cnnil'iilie-- , tlw (lie r;.riir.g ro in t'ei.re M new play. ' Milt J'tniii f.ntsmn.'' Fifty Charles E. I innty uf New York has purchased the Empire theater In Pittsburg and sill add it to his chain of - Wither N. Luwmue has mldt-- Thotnns Q. to his list of court of Danville and has returned to slurs and plans i exploit him next his then;rb a interests In Chicago. season j t the lic.il of a large Mrs. ler!ie Carter-Payn- e has secured from Dm-iItelasoo ths complete pro-ct- ii Ci.ssio Lcff'.us wi'i retire from Joe ti ns of Du TV fry" and Zaza" and Volv r's Yoi k company about the v ii vvr.i. b.y api'yai' In these two plays tlitulff r.f M.iy snff. following the before tho close of the season. if her rnx:v:oinent, will play a 5l;ii' Tmnncst will appear In The brief season In vaudeville. Truth in London, and Clyde Filch has Will J. Davis, formerly manager of left Now York for the Rritlsh metropothe ilif.tted iDquni theater, Chicago, lis in sup. rtni end the rehearsals. has been discharged by the supreme Mies Amy Kirard has been engaged cuiii-liin- y. -w rrert - i for one of the Important roles In James K, Ifiickett's production of Harney Morris' piny, The Girl In White." Goorge Varloy. the singe director for I enry w. Savage, is now In .? ttiii join Mr. Savage and Europe. Gustav ! m l.iio Vienna, where they will wlt-ri- ss he performance of "Die Lustlge Hllsms and Walker, the ' rolorrd coniedinns. are said to have signed enn-tra- d with the Mesere. Bhubert and " j will appear under their manaffeDfVj an original musical comedy " T.and-in- i Land." Cohan iind Karris have arranged Chinn .rg PV.lnri: to write a them zt'KTe-t- el by Reginald Kauffman's hovel, Miss Franc Detective. Ihe piece will h PL--i. trial production by the Huntor-jjford company next summer In ford. Conn., and will begin t.rT season In September if successful. x. ! |