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Show THE SUNDAY i STANDARD: OGDEN IT A IT, JULY SUNDAY, 2, 1907. nnMmnnniiiniminmnvninmM I A Timely Talk on Yachting and Baseball INg Kaiser Wilhelm Shows Unusual Fairness to American Boat Racers Made Steinfeldt Bat Out a Two Bagger coni Bets u HE Germane can, after pU, It giuet be acknowledged, glee vice to real men, advice that never roaches the ears of the real men to question; but, even so, he la tho "real goods" when it comes to real sportsmanship, and he deserves all the thanks and applause that American sportsmen can givs him. tli, Americas. Englishmen, Frrochmen and Canadiaao n ia we branch of true spurta-,-.hi- aad International i Bld ceurteey. of the German emperor In to be sent te thle country full nariicular aa to the currant. winds, tide etc. affecting the courae at Kiel The art Chance Studies Hume.. Nature. Captain Frank Chance ef the Chicago Nationals has an idee that some of his hall player need la be insulted mice In awhU ia order to make them play their best. His theory Is that msny men if they become angry will grit their teeth and Jump into the fray with groat results. In a recent game In Brooklyn Chance was on first base. Bieinfeklt was at tli bat. Clianre started to steal second. and "Btelny" foul Hied. Chance had to go all the way back to first from second. Tho day was piping hot. and Chance was Used. Again he tried to steal. Again did "Ktelny" knock out a foul. Again did Chance go back to first, amid the Jeers of the blearherites. Hie temper couldn't stand the strain, end he called to tho brawny, sunburned tlilsd baseman nt the ptale, "Say, you. Steinfeldt. you dub. If you can't hit the ball, why don't yon get out of tho game? Chance' a sneering tones and words got on "Stelny's" nerve. He biased a few things between hie teeth end stabbed savagely at the next ball pitched. Square on the proboscis he poked It and the spheroid stalled out Into left centrr for two buses. As Chance crossed the plate 'and turned toward the bench he said: yachts wiU ,hUh the American against the German craft In sonderklasae was eo unusual that the the Americas racers were astounded. who wanted Acuully hem was a rival on terms as evert competitor to start was a Hers as possible. saual Mriy rival who was sot content to take an advantage that from time immemorialbees considered perfectly legltl- loriin. 25tH ,4 "aTs rule, it Is the habit of yachts-aw- n whs rars to leave opponents whs into their asters to their owa deInvices in gathering the much needed formation about local peculiarities of title, wind, current, etc. The less the visitors And out the better are the home sharp pleased, for many and r..ny a race has been won through rga Phone or knowledge r- of the waters ever which it was sailed. - A Brest Advantage. For Instance, in almost every body af aster the tide during certain stages and conditions runs swifter in some parts than la others The skipper whs knows Just where the current or tide runs swiftest end puts his craft there is the one who will probably win the rare. At any rats, the advantage he gains will be s big aid. I have la mind s race in Heins waters is which the two leading craft wem becalmed within a couple of hundred yards of the finish lino. One kipper had kept his boat to the northward, directly In the steamboat channel, where the tide was running swiftly. His boat drifted In with the tide, her sail flapping uselessly, and floated mas the line a winner, leaving his rival practically stationary. "9ta Phono 'nitiir or. How Chance HIGH In Americans Cup Raoea. lb the races off Bandy Hook, N. J., for the America's cup tt la true that mam than sue leg" an the cup was REMINDER OF AN EXCITING PAST WASHINGTON PARK. CHICAGO. ww solely through the ex tensive OUS ON AMERICAN DERBY COURSE kao ledge of Captain Charley Barr af NOW NEVER AGAIN OPEN CLOSED. TO FOR RACING. HORSE of thereabout end where, etc. currents, under existing conditions, the most Chicago horse lovers and turfmen of the middle went In general will probably never recover from the shock resulting from the first announcement that slants of wind would be found running racing on Illinois tracks wee doomed. Reports have bean circulated since the closing that the courses would be opened by favorable legislation, but and also durieg calms from which dinow tt seems certain that the rumors were groundless. rection under the then existing circumUsd the Illinois authorities been more careful dp Investigating the record and practice of the allowed to become associated with doings at the stances the breese would probably Illinois courses It la thought thut tho tracks might still be open, but public clamor was so aroused jnen by lawless conduct in aomo Instances that the ultimate first. arise became of the Immense certain. Washington park, it Is reported, has been partially dismantled and haa been adapted to autumubtia racing. closing plants Kaiser Wilhelm takes a deep personal Tho dosing of various middle west courses has qpused many sharpers of a low order to migrate to the New York trucks. Will they drive the metroInterest in the sonderklasae races. He i out now n mooted question. of la existence? That tracks It wee who originated the Idea of boats politan some way of ridding thq turf of these harpies In the guise of men whe rest n blight wherever their shadows falL wherever their not there Is In insinuating class of this America last competing are heard? year. The Gormans sent over several .voices true If it is that they cannot be got but of the way without closing the race tracks, then it in best that the tracks be forever cloned. craft to race In liaasechueetta bey, but And it should not bo forgotten that Just aa bad as the human vermin that Infest most running rare courses today ara various kid gloved. Bilk socked, they wens defeated. The kaiser bed hypocritical millionaires who by subterfuge rotor Into a quasi partnership with them to share In pro tit. hie official governmental experts write detailed descriptions of almost evrry natural and artificial feature existing ably will have, how long they usually charts showing trfi latest soundings. familiar with the Kiel course as though thing connected with hie own governor likely te exist at Kiel during the last, how they usually vary and shift. All this materkwas sent to the ment that would bo dans far differently they had salted over It all their Uvea races. They described what winds will They told of the course's peculiarities American crew. J hey thus became The German kaiser may, It is true, by n large number of people who have likely prove U, what strength they prohat high pad low water and reproduced before leaving America almost as have peculiar Idea about doing some little else to do but give gratuitous ad PRICED AMERICAN Ton have to shake up a stubborn fellow like Steinfeldt once In awhile or else he gets Into a calm, peaceful frame of mind that ruins a ball layer. If he could bo kept hopping mad all the time, he'd lead the league la batting." Boastful Jap Ball Manager. The Japanese baseball team to Spokane. Wash, has a manager, a saliva Jap, whe talks as though ho habitually partook af the seductive fruit ef the poppy. Ur. Kamkura is his name, aad he has prrsUdigitated out of his think tank a few observations that would bo merely Pmlish If, unfortunately, they er not utterly ridiculous. He says tlw Jaiwuiese play a more brainy game, a better strategic game; in fact, a mors scientific gamo, really a better game, thaa do any Americana One reason for this alleged Jap suiieiiority is that the Jape "keep cool, don't lose their heeds er temper In the gama no mailer how exciting it may become." There is only on thing tho matter with Ur. Katnkura. Ho doesn't know what ho is talking about. The Jap team In Spokane would have about ns much show to In a single gam against the tall endera ia any one of the six or seven er eight or nine best leagues In America aa a California jark rabbit would hero to dictate terms of surrender to a convention of coursing greyhounds After all, must we go to war with Japes and blow the measly little dirt pile off the left hind leg of tho earth In order to show tho bunch of yellows that they should recognise the voles of the boss when they hear It ? CHARLES K. KDWARDE. LEAGUE BALL PLAYERS. DAY-FAM- Ml pictun . , Pasta, ih. Av its Breezy inraaes, on tU, . .... I . hmmwwmwmwwmmmwmwmmneeeaannnaanenennaaaeas ' swwaa.aaaw.. ELMER RIGHT FLICK, FIELD. TUB BKgT FINCH CLEVELAND. H1TTBS IN HII LEAGUE, FRED PARENT. THE BRAINT AND BPKKDT gllORTBTOP OF THE BOSTON PURITANS. WWkNWWkMWnWMWMWWMWWMNMWMRfMMMMWRMWNWRNRfiRMMWMWIMMfiMIMMMIMMMMMMM TVVTWliVinriJinrunnnArLTjnjT Stage Talk American and English Plays Compared; Plans of Players- Hammerstein Has Eight New Operas s - nd Fin dp. Ini iccesa Rental ico an$ yl Bit Hem Our New York Dramatte Correspondent iHERE ia ene American man- almost everything else. On the ether hand, French and English authors In general show a tendency to place acager anyway whe believes tion secondary to conservative natural-nea- a. then ia no necessity for going Possibly the restless, impetuous, to London to procure plays for action craving American temperament Is responsible for tho difference. prseantatlon over here. ' The Froh-ttm- s, Plainly there is good reason to be Liebler ft Co, Klaw ft Erlanger. Bary W. Savage and ether leading American managers each year make a Mjn of foing abroad or of sending tapnsentatlvM abroad to look over the Jwslgn market for likely productions, ta other words, they go te London. Irani and elsewhere on shopping tripe. eagerly patronise foreign play tarwln counters aa women (lock t tho apartment stores during marked own I 'raft for periods in which scores of up to date will alas bring to ih TTnlted ofPlate proIts theaters do losing business each year the first time. Tha difficulty, In any other opera or remain dark give evidence of this. duct lu a la greater than season. Tha charpreparation for my harm American authors by so doing The producing of l:lgii class English In acter of tha role of Louise la portrayed because, for ana reason, the American plays here Is In one say a benefit to by our countrywoman, Mary Garden,tha demand for good plays Is farlln ex- Amerirsn authors In that it gives rlM cess of the supply. The long liMt of to healthful competition. Our native failures each- season ''end th long dramatic author s compelled to do his best work or else he will suffer severeTh-- n, too, a good ly In comparison. English or French drama Is educating to our public and sulher Just us a meritorious American play teaches foreigners something. No, the Imported play bogy has no teal terror for American authors, but undoubtedly It has several Imaginary ones. lieve that many American managers will to the end of time go to London and Parte for play. They do not carnivals. Inn Life hone. I cn get what I want at M regards plays and. with one u regards go abroad at isuranc ling. players not all this r and do not to over ever expect go 'or th purpose of getting plays 2 Players." mies Crusade Against Foreign Flays. Americana, especially players Ibern Af fans s noth .J0, !.ywrihU m Mr Dillingham's view. h' z! crusade In delighted with There has long some respects the favoring of foreign au-.r- 1 Players by producing man-this country. Home people American plays and players bm tne best In the world. Of course don't know what they are talking Shout L when they 'express such senti-Js- l. American plays from a vlew-rhii,- -f What constitutes good plsy-HiBot Bettor than English f1 a general rule, take two yujJ - same class, one American im ltr otlir Ensllsh. compare them citn-J- i? fssu ,T and the English play will be Above the other. Of os!. 12 rank are exceptions. The liter-fJnanship of English writers better than that of most authors. But. on MARIE STUDHOLME, th miirr '"n Bla ENGLISH ACTRESS WHO WILL AGAIN American plays are In- affi . better lfuw.il ika. PLAY IN AMERICA.' "ce. Also American Men t,8'1 niore f any v Marie Btudholme played in this country several years age end will again Interesting then those rnlean country because dm-Jl- n come over next fall. Fhe te unusually beautifuL ' She married a young actor I generally sought above named Porteous as soon as she left school. of or r nil Wages Excurfta 240: for ro- "'try NOTES OF THE STAGE. ll a reals in a new play under the bav '"ST open his Gsr-it- h ih., cw Tork, In September ' "Madam Butterfly" botry th p,' il h. Japanese opera is sent a ,n,,r' 'J--n A Whelssals Opsra Buyor, Oscar Hammerstein has returned from abroad with eight new operas which he will produre at his new Manhattan Opera House next winter. He paid for them a tremendous sum, hs says, and hs also announces that he will spend $100,010 in presenting them, together with revivals, next season. He most of his former has singers and brought buck with him a big batch of contracts with vocalists who hare proved successful abroad, but who have never been heard in this country. Mr. Hammerstein seemed quite disposed to be communicative on his return, and he issued the following announcement: The new operas which f will produce and which are from a murlral and dramatic standpoint among the moat impressive of modem works have.-bbecome my sol- - property so far as the American prori'tclinn Is concerned. - Sav- age management. . David' Belasce has denied hlmsejf te all callers and cut off all connection with bis executive staff, locking himlertni v the original Flora self In his stndlo end devoting his en- -' the new play C"W Widow," will tiro time andIsattention to 1ln .2, JTheuntil time to begin ro on which he engaged for David War- - field and which In te open the new Btuyvesant theater. New York. That the dramatic possibilities ef the Standard Oil company are not to be confined to th United States Is shown by an outline of his new play. "Judith Zanlne." whlr-- C. M. S. McLellsn furnishes to the London Era. "My hero, says Mr- - NcLellan, "may be said to typify the Standard Oil company In Ita Mao-hatta- n. WARD STEVENS. AMERICAN COMPOSER. WHO HAS ATTRACTED ATTENTION ABROAD. Ward Steven, although an American by birth, ia comparatively little known In this country. He went abroad in end haa sprat moat of his tlma there. Ho baa studied piano, organ and composition with aoine of th s, greatest modem masters. Including Mosskowakl. Leachetisky, Brletner,- NavrillL Massenet Wider, Brahms and Dreyachock.' He made hie debut ss a pianist In Paris, Jan. IX. 1191, end aa an organist the following month. Ho ha practically played In every country in Europe, and only recently haa he derided to devote himself entirely to composition. capacity of financial wiiard magnified piece has proved such a winner that it dimensions." will be taken to New York for a run Giacomo , Puccini, composer of at tha Aster theater beginning in AuMadam Butterfly." Is now at work en gust. hi new grand opera. The libretto is Elian Terry is t write her memoirs. founded on tho life of Merle AntoinHer late marriage might be worked in ette. e that inevitable feminine aftertRaymond Hitchcock bee Just closed hought, a postscript a three months tour ta the musical National festivals In America are A Yankee Tourist," and the new generally reflected early on the stage. to superhuman illp- I i iv I :. - it. bars hern I rleelri-cIm- - . T',a .u 1. time. u b of tho epera tells at tho set to present music. Fur the opera "Peleas a rt Heltssnde" X tho have been so furmt.iit us to original east of pilnVp.il si n qcr which hava made til's opera world famous. Ullr. Hregrla, tha They are Mary (iard'-ntenor Prefer, the baritone Duframt and the basso Vlculla. In "Thais" Mary Garden. Mile. Francesca and tha great Renaud will head tha ensemble. It la also a pleasure to pot that Mr. Renaud will sing the foremost role in "Contes dHoffmann ("Tales of Hoffmann"!. Mary Garden has placed herself under contract with me for five years Immediately after securing her tho directors and governors of tlie National Grand Opera of Paris appointed her iniina donna naaoliils of tha Institution. Bho will he at tha Manhattan Opera Ilouaw five months every season and fodr months at the Grand Opera House In Parte. PICKING pnr-chss- n. The Spanish opera "Dolorr-s,which will be one of the first produced at the Is th work of the Madrid composer Breton It Is a worthy counterpart to "Carmen." To give to It proper musical espresalsn on my stage- I have engaged the artists who created the principal rules. They are: Tenor. Carlo Albanl; soprano. Camille Ilorello; contralto, basso. Flrtra Mendnsa. I en vexed Spanish dancers in Madrid to participate In thta opera. Another opera, lantlne. by Charpen-tie- r, which haa held the boards of the Opera Cumlqus to i'arls far six years, I F- -r 'rt-n.- . . m ALL - fireworks, requlra moat expanslva and ar- - A Few Plane For Next Beeson. Kyrle Bel lew will appear in November In a new play by Paul Armstrong. Frltxl' goheff opens her next Amort-ca- n tour in September el tho Knickerbocker theater, New York. Next spring he will present a new comic opera by Henry Blossom and Vidor Herbert. George Ade's new play is celled "Artie. It will be fh'Kt seen et the Studebaker theater. In Chicago. What Dillingham Bays. The manager to si question who that American plays are good taegh for him and perhaps bettor many of those of foreign make ia Charles Dillingham. Mr. Dillingham tamtly announced an outline of hi for next tall and said: Tandon la dead so far us furnishing for the American stage is be-ta- id of tha opera goers of Paris. No leas tlsllf treat iict-- . twenty-tw- o to et. Important parts era to Cumpelli-be filled, end tha antnle effect of tha and the pr'ne third act, depicting Pari by night on a doers Cmnl iie i: feta day, with ita grand procession and the story at !!'Mol than lilt Halnt-Baen- "Miss Pocahontas," who was a good Indian, even beforf she was dead. I the heroine of a new Cincinnati effort. Marie Dressier Is In London. Thor Is a good deal of her to get tired, but hardly so much that she needs a year to rest, aa she says. . Henry B. Harris will bring out a new emotional play by Edwin MIKon Royla, entitled "Th Struggle Everlasting," UP OLD FIDDLES. Greet numbers of fine old violins and violoncellos that coma Into tho high class market of London are procured through the mtdlum of advertisements Inserted in obscure country papers, and especially those of ancient cathedral cities. Of courae few ef the fiddles thus obtained are veritable mnaterpteces, but a great many of them are fine examples of early English and foreign makers, and they are often bought for ridiculously small prices by a group of experts, who have brought the bus! nee to a lucrative system. Many a struggling family of long descent In some out of the way part of the country happens to see In the one county newspaper of the week that good prices are given for old fiddles, and soma long forgotten Instrument In a lumber room or put away on a shelf suddenly comes to mind. follows, (he dealer Correspondence sends a deposit In erder that some fiddle apoken of may be sent to him and examined, and he usually replies that the instrument sent Is dilapidated and almost worthless, but that he la willing to give Si or $ig for It In a great many cases the offer is accepted offhand, and In this way most of tho finest fiddles extant of the Second class come Into the hands of dealers. Only lately a cello picked up at $1$ was re sold for W. next fall In Boston. Tho leading role in the play will be taken by a prominent English actress, whose name Is withheld for the present. , Bertha Golland Is to have a new play for next season. Norman Hackett may Join Julia Mar-love's company. 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