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Show IT J GENERAL ' SPORTING. CURRENT EVENTS IN VARIOUS -- "FIELDS.' TtMk lUmm Mai I Haw lar tka Ba Kay dad la the Baa laaia. laipraraaaaat lark kaat taka Dp a Big Bus Baelag Track Kaaaaaaa. Ths report of the New York State Commissioner. August Belmont. D. Morgan and John Sanford, which waa presented to the legislature A Friday, April 6, is a document of more than ordinary interest to the taring and breeding world In the increased revenues which have come to the agricultuial societies, which are the beneficiaries of the state tag of 6 per cent, assessed upon the gross receipts of racing associations, the commission believes, is shown the marvelous strides whnh hate beep made In the sport. The report says, in part; "In the five years over which the term of the commission extends there has been paid in to the state controller fo: distribution among the agricultural sotietieg the sum of $'111,139.04. A review of this tax by years will illustrate the progress of rating in this state. In 1895 the tax was $26,2110.74. Six associations held licenses that year. In 1896 the lax was $50,608 10, and in that year only five associations held meetings. A license had been to the Saiatoga association, but because of local reasons it did not take advantage of it. although it has conIn ducted meetings annually since. Hs97 the tax was $64,034 71. This represents an average annual total gross receipts of $1,244,556.16. The commission appends a table showing the state tax for agricultural societies paid in by the Westchester Racing Association was $57,943.63; by the Coney Island Jockey Club, by the Brooklyn Jockey Club, $75,931.87; by the Brighton Beach Racing Association, $52,030.16; by the Saratoga Association for the Improve- ment of the Breed of Horses, $17 870.86, and by the Queens County This tax has Jockey Club, $20,306.2. been paid in promptly, and goes in gross Into the hands of the controller. The commissioners act without tfee enly espeases being the salary of secretary and fees for coun, sel. Eld-w- in of the Jeffries-Bbarke- y go were $70,-00- 0 exclusive of the return from the pictures, which have brought in somewhere In the neighborhood of $10,000 a week, ever since the BghStook place. The receipts from other fights hsve compared very favorably with the above. The battle between McGovern and Dixon drew $35,000 Into the box office, and tbe one between McGovern and Gardiner $28,00U. The recent go between Gans and Erne drew one of tbe smallest crowds that a fight of its class has drawn in New York recently and yet the receipta amounted to $19,000. What the iucome from the numerous smaller lights was is hard to estimate, but It would amount to quite a pile when added together. SOCIETY IN THE NATION'S' CAPITAL. urea la rock. My Our to - Become the - First Ars. Deweys Ambition -- Lady in -- ' the Land. Mrs. Dewey. There are few Mme Its S taels 46 a century, but many persons in MfUshlngton have enjoyed the hospitality of ths wife of the admiral. Sfnce the widow of Gen. Haaen wai married to the admiral she has held imou Cricketer Kero lag. dlnary woman Elver since she- - pants most of her receptions in the house of G H. S. Trott, the once famous AusTo Washington as a girl of 18 ahp'has her mother, Mrs. Washington McLean. tralian cricketer, who has for neariy Impressed herself upon the social lf It is a large house, aud much better than the two years been an inmate of a private of the capital. She has a strong per- fitted for social functions asylum at Melbourne, is said to be sonality, and an Intelligence which bouse which the people of the United fosters ambition. 8he i one of those States gave to the admiral. showing signs of He recently played with the asylum eleven against an amateur team, and In forty minutes scored 98 runs, which Included a 6 and no fewer than twenty 4 a He had a subsMtute run for him In batting Trott enly bowled one ball, with which Be took a wkket. He rr mental-improveme- - - - -- r- ated a social uproar by taking precedence of other women of higher rank at the president's reception. She had a reception on hand herself, and. seeing an opportunity, paid her respects to the president out of order, tsklng the "pas of several of her social rivals. Then she went to her house and received her own guests. The German ambassador was a trifle late. Just a minute beyond the time which waa announced on her cards. The result (Washington On account of ths announcement of Admiral Dewey that he is a candidate lor the presidency the name pf Mrs Dewey has becom- - talked of through out the world, Mi a. Dewey la no orv nt Fellow-Cre- a- tores. The supporting gays of this net, which In nil ease la at strong enough for n hammock, nrs from five ta twenty feet In length. r made of n aeries of twisted webs, ths whole being of the diameter of a lead penclL Ae might be Imagined, this gigantic allken trap ta not set for mosquitoes, files and pestiferous gotta, (At for birds gaudy moths and elegantly painted butterfliee, some of hie latter having a spread of wing equal to that of a robin or a bluejsy. at-mo- 9mm YOUNO MENS CHANCES rrefMstMet Work In RMuina Arm IIIk. In answer to inquiries by a Ivew York correspondent aa to tbn held for American skill and labor, afforded In captained the Australian teams that played here in 1893 and 1896, distinguishing himself in the former year by bowling eighteen wickets for only 28 ,d 3; , In "Oln Vlrtlnln. rom Richmond. Va., dated recentlysays: "The newly revived and widely published statement that the last Virginia legislature legalized prizefighting is an error. The bill passed by the legislature chartering a fair association which, it is said by some, legalizes prize fighting, in the judgment of all lawyers who have been Interviewed on the subject, does not do so. Capt. W. D, Ch'fdwetl ot Hanover, who Is one of the leading incorporators, says such a thing as hating prize fights waa never mentioned or contemplated. The purpose of the association is to reHye tbe old state fairs. Among the provisions of the net is one authorizing 'exhibitions of strength and speed of men or beast and nl! sports allowed by law. iPrize fighting Is strictly prohibited under the laws of the state. No G. H. S TROTT. runs in the two innings of a gamS played Oct 11 and 12, at Boston, Mass., against eighteen of Massachusetts. righting King Mea Ara Boar A dispatch r Ths Welter-WeigChemploe. For many years the name of "Mysterious Billy Smith has been familiar to all lovera of the fistic art, but his features are not as well known to newspaper readers as those of some fighters of lesser caliber. Smith waa to have met Joe Walcott, the black demon, in New York a week ago, but Illness prevented it and Andy Walsh took tbe place of the mysterious one. 'Walsh surprised the talent by his fine showing against the wonderful little negro.' Walcott and Smith have been bout bematched again for a fore the Broadway Athletic club on Billy has met the Monday, .May 4. g negro on three different occasions, from him once and drawing with him twice'. Smith's real name is Amos Smith, and he hails from Eastport, Me. wln-nln- that tbe Horton law York state and there Now Is dead In will be no more fighting after Sept. 1, managers of pugilists are as busy as bees laying plans to make hay while the Bun of big contests will be pulled off between bow and the date oa which the repeat of the law goes lnto effeet.- - A sporting man suggests that if the following matches could be arranged they would create deep Interest, besides enabling club managers to reap a rich harvest: Corbett vs. Fitzsimmons, Sharkey vs. Jeffries, McCoy vs. Choynskl, Maher vs. Ruhlln, Ryan vs. Walcott and Erne vs.ORrlen. well-know- J before BOW haa felt the power. 1 Fk-- l n Eteords. Jeffries, the .champion t, has been ugbtlng about' three years; Tom Sharkey, about Six years; Bob Fitzsimmons has been fighting over eleven years; Corbett has been In the ring since1886, which means fourteen years to his credit; Peter Maher, the Irish heavy-weigchampion, has been in the ring twelve years; Gtis Rublln has been In tbe ring seven years; "Kid McCoy began the fighting business ten years ago; Joe Choynskl has been fighting over sixteen years; Syracuse Tommy Ryan has seen over twelve years of fighting life. Booifi Tim J. James heavy-weigh- ht CbteftWiM ta Eoptd Aroat, now a Chinaman haa broken into tbe prize ring! Ah Wing, a Celestial, who lives at Auburn, Cal., has developed considerable cleverness as a boxer, and baa defeated dll the men near his weight who have visited that town. He Is 22 years old and tips the scales at about 130 pounds An enterprising western mansaid, will bring him east ager, It this summer and give him a tryout. And full-blood- ed 1 - . other Boortlss Matter. The greatest rowing contest of Euthat between the Oxford and Cambridge crews was won by the latter this'ear in hollow style, a quarter of a mile separating the contestants at the finish. Slowly but surely the negro Jockey is passing out In the whirl and tbe flurry of events of the turf the most of us have not noticed it, but it is a fact that the colored boys, once so potent a factof in turf affajrs, are losing their grip, and we have not bad a really great colored rider since Willie Simms went Infertile tanks of tbebss been, laments a turf writer. Edward Hanlan,- - the sculler of the world, who is now la Bos ton. Bays of the aquatic sport: Tfce MYSTERIOUS BILLY SMITH. Hs is 28 years old. The Globes en- coining of the English champions will ereate a stir on this side, and particugraving waa reproduced from a copylarly In Canada, where much interest righted picture by Richard K. Fox. is sttill shown In professional racing. As regards the championship, it will Pratt la Eihlbltkma. Some of the big athletic clubs lu ths die a natural death unless somebody from Gaudaur, who Is up metropolis have made immense profits gets It away in holding boxlhg exhibitions . under In the northern part of Canada! and the Horton law.' The Broadway Ath- will not come out I dont blame Gaudaur, who is In business there, but It letic Club is credited with an im- would be better for rowing if the remense income Ahe past year. The would come out and meet soms champion The have of at big fights ceipts ambitious men, ae I used to do. the takamounts doubled and tripled the en In at contests held outside of New Tbe beet crop of wild oats usually York. The fight grow on the poorest soil f drew a $72,000 house, and the receipt rope, Jeffrles-ITtsslmmo- . , snap shot Pictures oe notabm: persons It is expected that a number shines. J e . r the women who shine in social tasks, she has not failed to show her contempt for small ambition nor tor the weak end faltering ones. The result has been that Mrs. Dewey ha made many enemies In the Boclal circles ot Washington, but that goes without society Is r saying. Washington strange thing, anyway, and tbe American of the provinces has rather hard work to comprehend - For Instance, the other day a hostess who was not welT versed Mall the "Ins and outs placed side by side at dinner ths wife of the Austrian minister and the Mexican ambassador. This good lady had forgotten entirely that since the Archduke Maximilian was shot at Querq-tarMexico, there had been a between tbe Austrians and ths Mexicans, and officially these two nations had never exchanged international courtesies. So there Was a row, and that most severe kind of one the kind In which the women are the principal movers. Mrs. Dewey is too well versed Is the society methods of the capital to make a "break like this, but In a long social career In Washington It is Impossible that she should not have angered some persons and made friends of others. No woman wictrir of character could do .otherwise: As the "first lady of tbe land. Mrs. Dewey would have an opportunity to pay off many old scores. Mrs. Dewey la not without power, wijiout wealth, without brains, without ambition she has them all, and vwth them a pleasing personality and a retention of good look's which also la pleasing. As "Wa3h McLean's daughter, Miss Mildred McLean may have received some "snubs from the set of people In the capital who are known as the "residents." But her father and mother were residents of a later growth, and Mrs:1 Washington MeLean has one ot tbe finest and most hospitable houses In Washington. As the wife of Gen, Hpzen, Mildred McLean was able to repay twofold all the snuba that the McLeans had received when they first ventured on the stormy sea of Washington society. "And the general was a quiet body out of uniform. When the general came to New York and ra porters' were sent to interview him, Mrs. Hasen sometimes was present, and then the general gave a talk wblcb was of interest to everybody and harmed nobody. Gen. Hasen always trusted. In the ability of his wife. When It was announced that the Wldokr llazen was to marry the Ned McLean, the young nephew of lHr,Haxn, said to a reporter, I toll you that Dewey is la greet luck. (Dewey just at this time was fresh from the victory ot Manila.) Her household will be a social and Intellectual center and a salon such as has not existed since the daye of Mme. De Btael. The enthusiasm of her nephew as not borne out by the ealun o( ' 1 it-.- o, 1$ al, w nen tbs victorious Dewey run or Washington.- - I back from the battle ot Manila there tanes ,he waa not 1 x4mlud.(.TU wag an lnfoi mul consultation be his bride. It was not long before tbe fact was decided. Mildred McLean Hazen waatbe chosen one, and tbe whole country wished her good luck! The admiral had conquered. Montijo, and Mrs. Hazen was the victor of tbe admiral. Mrs. Dewey speaks French, German and Italian. She la a sister n of that politician, John K. McLean, who not long al;o was proprietor of a New York newspaper. The McLeans always have been ambitious, politically and' socially, and Mrs, eya brother made a financial success out of a paper in Cincinnati. His lather waa proprietor of the paper before John Rr, but did not seem to have the financial ability of bla son. John R. still owns the Cincinnati paper, but the paper he bought in New York is tun by other persons. Mrs. Dewey has large, gray eyes and Is of stout build. Her age Is between 40 and 60. A woman is only as old as she looks. Recently Mrs. Dewey cre well-know- I: -- of .the Ti Ut t rxU4k test bets end piolessors la government and other schools In Nic- lion:-A- s diplomatic corpa over the jnstter; but aragua, there Is really no opening for nothing came of It The ambassadors our young graduates. Salaries hero could not press the case after ,Mr. McKinley had explained tbe matter, Mrs. aro .Insignificant and custom so.dit- n woman In terent that Americans have never Dewey la the Washington, and her family connecproved successful. 'The salary of a tion can supply many of the details of principal here Is 50 pesos, or about . politic .which tbe admiral will have to $17, per month, American phyak-lanqlearn. Mrs. Dewey was a convert to and surgeons are successful here, but no part of the world is more crowded the Catholic faith, and now it Is anwith them than the large towns of nounced that she has been reconverted to the faith of tbe - Episcopal Nicaragua. Hundreds of the native church. young men study medicine iu the Unit- ed Btalea and rpturft bei 10 practlcs." me Spld- -r Web. . They understand better their own due- Is the home of the largest eases, customs and people than a forCeylon species of spider that haa yet been eigner could, and the majority of, the made the subject of entomological inpeople prefer them. Dentists, however, monare scarce and whenever an American vestigation. This ster lives In the most mountainous dentist comes he does a good business districts ot that rugged Island and and ran charge remunerative prices. places his trap not a gossamer snare Engineers of all kinds are the most of airy lightness, but a huge net of successful of any professional men in these tropical countries. Very few yellow silk from Sre to ten feet in difollow that vocation, and most ameter across the chasms and fia- of the engineers employed by the are foreigners. ,An engineers BY BOER , SOLDIERS. salary at the start is from 250 to 300 pesos ($80 to $100 In United States gold) per. month. . . Li- -. , -- best-know- web-splunl- ng na-llv- eb got-ernm- OX-HI- TOSSINQ GOLF WAS A KINGS CAMEL Xsamle xba first Clsh, , The Royal Blarkhehth Golf club is -- j the oldest golf club Hr England, and It also claims to. be Che oldest existing golf club In the world, It was founded by James 1. in 1608. For two 01 three centuries before that time Jfdf, Jbad been a popular game in Scotland, liui there Is no record of any club, .having., been" established prior to the Black-hea- th club, lu 1457 tbe Scottish parliament passed an act enjoining that lute ball an4 golf be jutteriy xryit doane, and noeht uslL A similar act was passed in May,. 1491. The Royal and Ancient Golf club at St. Andrews Is one of the most famous In the kingdom. It was Instituted in 1754. s silver cup having been plajed for in ths May of that year. In i834 William IV became patron of tbe club and of its being in future styled ths Royal and Ancient Golf club of St. Andrews, and presented a gold Biedal to "be' played for' annually. Colliers Weekly. ' come serosa Tbe picture shows one of the Boers favorite method.of passing time hlle known as ox hide tossing, to carry fresh hide la taken and UgM by number of men. whil 0QQ of th4tr number is captured and on It .The victim la then toss- pjaei In the air. as in ths schoolboy (( p Soms- the rough and rugged young burgher fashion of blanket tossing. o Us veldt is about as boisterous and. times, it is true, a serious accident 00-uncouth an Individual as - one, could curs. - Her a picture which shows the Beer, haring fun in canyabefore Lady- ttltb at tbs time wbenth. siege was tolng pretty well their way. As an English correspondent, has pointed out, Popular tendency to repreeent the Boer as a soldier salat Is somewhat Hhut foundation In actual fact, for U , , Nl mm It Should Be. Chicago News: The parson Learn to be content, my good man. Tbe little mouths are never sent without food to feed them. The Laborer (father of ten) Ar, parson, but the mouths ar Sent to my, home and the food is yours. rutbihn DwiNi "A dollar for pulling on tooth 7 " Dentist Yes; you took gas." Treetop How mueh a thouHarsand do you charge for that? lem Life. Treetop ' -- ' |