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Show J r T f I "la the little town where 4 spent my vacation recently," s,ald the busings8 man, "Cy Melina was accounted the champeen' checker player of the state. If not of the entire country He had met and defeated all the crack players for miles around and das looked upon with something of reverence by his fellow townsmen. His greatest delight was to lure strangers- Into a game at the village store, and defeat the newcomer while a crowd of his admiring neighbors looked on. "Cy nearly met his Waterloo one night, hoit ever, hut sated his reputation by a clever ruse. This is how he described the event to nte. in strict confidence, however, so that Is whv I do not care to mention the particular town: " You see, it was this way, drawled One day a new feller hit the Cy. town. He was one of those uavelin' men, and a right slick article. He came Into the store one night just as I finished waxin a farmer who allow ed he cud play checkers some. We was playin in the back of the store by the light of a candle stuck in a bottle and the checker board was laid on an empty soap box. I was feelin pretty slick after heatin the farmer and sort er keerlesslv Invited the young - drum- mer to a go an he accepted " e hadnt made ntore'n eight moves when I saw I was up agin a pretty tough proposition. He had ms beat for sure in the next few moves. Coe. I could see my reputation all goin to flinders an' everybody would be givin me the laugh. So, while pretendin to study the next move, I did some pretty tall .brakin' as to how to get out o' the flx. 'Then a bright idee came to me. 1 pretended to change my position on my stool and quite by accident, o course, upset the box on which the candle was standin? I made a grab for the candle and another unfortunate thing happened. My knee struck an end of the checker board, which was hangtn over the edge of the box, and the checker men got so badly mixed up that by the time the candle was lighted agin the game was hopelessly spiled "I was mighty glad when the stranger said he didnt have time to another game, as he bad to play catch his train. The folks In the store was terrible disappointed, as they wanted to see me add another victory to my list. But, say, I had a darned close shave from losin my reputation that time. Rooney Beaten by Jim Parr. Tlooney, the giant gripruan, was defeated at Buffalo Jan. 23 by Jim Parr, knV the English champion, the latter as last year and the attempt to bav the circuit open in the southern part of the state failed. gam- ing two falls at catch as catch-can- . Buys Out Washington Club. fc President Johnson of the Americas Three Rooney secured the second bout p&; i!aurs. drafted to American League Notea. by pinning Parr's shoulders to the league has closed negotiations by Jesse Burkett never faces a pitcher th majo, Mgn the conoff tracts with j without first tapping his spike ,.,m (alltnK for 1800 mat In 5.20 with a halt Nelson and which the Washlngtor Baseball elwh each. the bat. Ty ll(, jnnmv Jackson of side-ar- In hold. Part won the first passes into lot at ham . .. 'u ely. 23 40, downing his opisment u Several substantial me President Johnson announces that Cleveland, fttch, of Boston bout on a crotch and boil) hold have Isuight the contrellu; interest, his umpire staff will consist of Sheri- and Catch sia an of Detroit The third Unit was taken by Parr and the club will ent-Jimmy Dvq tie season in tin- - shortstop whom dan. O'Loughlin. Connelly, Jack Mc10 35 in betlei condition finum tallv than ever He pinned Rooney s shoul Arthur Irrig'ha of the Pacific Coast league, secured for Kansas Carthy and John Kelly of the Eastern league. City from Memphi-- by trade, lives In ders to the mat with a crotch and leg before In the reorgaui.atlou the capital Is met eased to $45,000 Urbana. (Land was with Irwin for a hold, winning the contest King and Dwyer are let out. Fust match the Stahl will be playing After challenged ofi Rooney Kasoi couple Cleveland at Toronto. Secretary Barnard of the Last fgj the Boston American club Parr to a contest at Greco-Romaoianagi t an-- the team will go South dub states that there Is no truth In the reports that Jimmy Jackson Is dis- drafted Pitcher Morton of the Toledo RMney was fat and out of condition, for pn litnmary training, returning tor exhibition games. satisfied with the contract rendered team for ft Boston Americans. Mar- and did not make the showing he was holm on Aptl! Thomas Noyes will he president of him. or that Charlie Carr Is trying to tin was lh man Intended. Manager expected to. th club get his release to manage the Mon- Collins hu offeted $1,500 for Martin Seek to Regain Davit Cup. but the tfTer has been turned down treal Nelson and Corbett Matched. It Is quite possible- that the Culled , , -- Js. Edmondson, the Houston player associa Tennis and Young Corbett National I Battling States Is Cte drafted by the Browns getting into League Chatter. The Dajton chili has signed Catcher tlon will serai a team of three or four niet at San Frunciaeo Jail. 28 foi th shape at his home town.' He bellevee players to England during the coming puipo.se ot signing articles for a fight that he will make good with the fast Bert Bike ana Thomas Hawkins. season to compete for the Davis cup. in that c4y They will ctush Inr th South The Bend club has signed company, and this is also the opinion of those who have watched his worlt. Third Baaeman Hlppert. late of the Already the executive committee of ring next month This will clinch the second trial of the association hus begun an lnvestl Bloomington and Dubuque clubs. He is a fine general plaer. to count can It skill between the Denverite and his whom on ion see to President Mautner of the Ft. Wayne gat Manager Griffith had a talk with While Nelson has Jack Dojle during the week. Doyle club bag appealed to the national represent tnis country In the English former ronqueror said that he Intended to go to Hot board for the return of First Baseman contests next summer. Letters have been quite willing to take on Corbett sent to Holcombe Ward, W. A a second time, lit delayed slgnlug In Springs very soon and that If he conld "Buck Conners of the South Bend Malcolm D. Whitman, Ray- the hope of roniing to teniis with JimLamed. club. satisfacInto was condition that get D. mond Little, William J. Clothier, my Britt to Jack Hardy, who served last year tory to himself he would apply Krelgh Collins and Beals C. Wright, Griffith for a chance to go behind the aa left Adder for the Ft. Wayne team the Peoria Bowlers Break Records. bat. Otherwise Doyle will go to Spo- will not btwlth tne organization next asking them If they would make In a bowling contest between tho selected. were kane to play first base and act as year. Hevlll endeavor to get a berth trip provided they and the Potters and Jaegers The Doherty brothers of England manager. Griffith told Doyle that he in the California league. Davis teams of the Peoria City league, two the of holders are the to present would willingly give him a chance with will Contrary report. Teddy Price records were made In a series of five the Americans. manage (he Wheeling team this year cup. games, In which the teams each rolled and be h now at work In training Record. enough pins to break the world's recNew Auto Racing whom he thinks will maks National League News. youngster The first day's automobile races of ord. The former made a score, of Sam Strang will be Arthur Devllna valuable additions to the league. Beach 993 and the latter 2,989, the scores In The Wheeling magnates have their the annual Ormond-Daytonunderstudy. of each Instance being in excess of the consisting were tournament tame, Pitcher George Wlltse has come to eyes on Ekln. an outfielder with the conworlds record. The foul line was careterms with the New York club. team. stock car eontf sts, with few of the fast Zanesville were fully observed. Records extent. to filled tests any Irwin SubSheriff The St. Louis club has released declares that Elkins is not broken In these races, but Arthur stitute Inflelder William Hallman to about fait enough for any company. Break Myers' Sixty-Yar- d English Record. Louisville. The Grand Rapids club has signed E. McDonald, the youthful In the marAt the second annual Indoor meet five miles covered driver, Catcher Street, who finished the sea- Pitcher Thomas. Shortstop Barton son with the Reds, may be turned over and Outfielder Maloney, who jumped velous time of 3:15, an average speed of the high schools of Washington, In seconds. The record of which a number of out-o- f town schools to the St. Ixnils. t the Wolverines last season and went of 39 Charles E. Setts ot held S:31 by W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., participated, The young Charleston catcher, Syd- to the Youngstown (O.) Independent went by the board. McDonald made Georgetown broke the worlds sixty-yar- d ney Smith, has been released by Pitta-bur- g club. record of 0:06 held for twenThe mw member, Springfield, has one attempt and did 3:32. He did not at his urgent request. years by Lon Myers, his time being President Dreyfus of the Pirates th following players under contract; let hla car out In that, and asked to go ty 0:061-6- . Immediately afterward he again. When on his second trial crossed the tape there wan ran an exhibition fifty yards and FREDERICK PARENT. equaled the world's record of 0:05 little doubt of his speed. tr , Ba-em- , 1 bf-e- Beginning of Time Tables It sfxty-flvyears ago since George Bradshaw, the quaker engraver and map maker of Manchester, England, was first inspired to publish It was a tiny his "Time Table. pampfflet bound in green cloth, and was nothing more than a collection of the montly time tables issued by the seven railway companies then in existence in England. Of this volume there are now only four copies in existence, hut they are worth their weight in gold. So encouraged was Bradshaw by the success of this time table that in 1840 he published his "Railway Coma volume of thirty-eigh- t panion, pages with maps which sold at a These early guides were shilling published lather Irregularly because of the difficulty of learning the changes In rimes from the railway authorities. They resented Bradshaws Interference and put every obstacle in the way of his obtaining Informa Is Just e Authors tion. At last, through the quaker's perseverance, they finally agreed to adjust their time tables by the beginning of the month. Thereafter it was smooth sailing. The guide continued to grow and prosper and to make Itself a necessity. These early railway guides make Interesting reading. The trains are second-clasdescribed as mixed, fast and mail. Third-clas- s travelers had the choice of sitting on the roofs or in open wagons resembling cattle trucks. Gentlemen riding n their own carriages were charged second-clas- s fare. Baggage was carried on the roof, and passengers who sat there were cautioned to wear their overcoats and provide themselves with gauze spectacles. First-clas- s fare between Ixradon and Birmingham was nearly double what It la and an annual subscription ticket from London to Brighton and hack cost $300. first-clas- One Should s, a , 3-- 3-- Race. Records Broken In Ten-Mil-e At Ormond, FIs , Edward R, Thomas, the New York millionaire banker e race and horseman, won the tor the Mercedes trophy offered by Allen, Halle A Co. In 6:314-6- , an average ol 0:391-$- , breaking W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr. ft worlds record of 6:50. Thomas drove bis own car, ss did. also B. S. Stevens, B. M. Shanley and James L. Breese. Mr. Stevens drove Mercedes the brought to this country for the Vanderbilt race by C. Gray Dlnsmore. Mr. Shanley drove the Mercedes which he purchased from William K. Vanderbilt, Jr, after last years meet. Know ten-mil- 4. Shakespeare, Boswells "John"If you were asked to choose ten authors, a partial knowledge of whose son," Plutarch's Lives, Esquerollngl works you regarded as essential to History of the Buccanneers, Hamlk the equipment of a successful modem ton's "Memoirs of Gramont, Pepys man, what authors would yon name? Diary, Bomiennes Napoleon, Gibbon! This question, recently put to five Rome, Greens History of England, representative men In New York, cho- John Flskes United States Histories sen at random, produced the follow5. Shakespeare, Kipling, Howells ing resulta: ninety-horsepow- Homer, Plato, Dante, Goethe, Vo- Dumas (senior), Mark Twain, Ruskin, Carlyle, John Flske, Darwin, Tyndal, Tennyltaire, Balzac, Shakespeare, son or Robert Browning. Matthew Arnold and Emerson. As was to have been expected, Com2. James Bryce, American monwealth' . Dickens, Kipling. Mark Shakespeare figures in most of th! Louis Stevenson, lists, only one leaving him out Plata Robert Twain, Woodrow Wilson, Popular History; Goethe, Emerson, Gibbon and John Jules Verne, Howells. H. G. Wells, Flske are the choice In two lists, and "Anticipations", and Ridpaths His- Ho ells. Kipling and Mark Twain among the living writers, each hai tory of the World. Altogether, thirty-eigh- t 3. Shakespeare, Plato, Cervantes, two adherents. mentioned in th are authors Moliere, Gibbon, Goethe, Emerson, five lists. Tolstoi. Thackeray, Motley, GOOD AT WRESTLING GAME, Sav Something in Praise j ; ' , , lh(yvaetxr ,, OBrlsn Ready for Fritz. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien notified stakeholder the of fistic battles, that the $1,000 which well-know- he had posted with him a few weeks ago as a forfeit for a fight with Fits-- , slmmons would serve at hla forfeit la covering Fitzsimmons money, and that as soon aa a club secured the boat be would post the remaining $4,000 'ot the money to bind the match. 22-2- Shortstop of tho Boston American League Club. says that hla team will train at Hot Springs again, despite reports to the contrary. They will not go to West Baden Springs. Patsy Donovan is still sighing for the almost $4,000 he elalms Frank Robison owea him. -- The national commission has Informed him that bis only method of recovery is by way of the courts. Barney Dreyfuss never does things by halves. Now he is to send his ground keeper from Pittsburg to Hot Springs just to put In order the prac-ti- c grounds In the latter place. Did one ever hear of another club doing a thing like thatT Pick out th folks yon like the least and watch- - 'em for a while; kindly word, they They never waste a asmile; never easte fellow men at every Thsy critic! theirset. . chance they to suit They never found a human Just tbelr lancy yet you d learn ome From them I guesswere pointed out things If theyevery one of us should Some thing what know a lot about. pas a brother, "knocks one some When round the vn If him you about good Bay dbmeth lngmeae It up. have te to eay that every man God made ItS safe holds trace of good -fain exhibit to hla felThat he would lows If he could; hl-- The kindly deeds In many a soul are there. bernatlng encouragement of other Awaiting , the dare souls that To show the best thats In them; aad American Asaociation Affairs. universal move Second Baseman Ace Stewart of ToWould start the whole world running In a hopeful, helpful groove. ledo will return to the St. Paul twm Bay something sweet to paralyse the next season. knocker an the spot Jimmy Callahan came within an ace Speak kindly of his victim if yon know the man or not. of being the Toledo manager the comThe eyes that peek and peer to find the ing season, tls said. worst a brother holds, The Pittsburg club baa turned PitchThe tongue that speaks in bitterness, er Clyde Goodwin, drafted from Vinthat frets and fumes and scolds; The hands that bruise the fallen, though cennes, over to the Toledo club. their strength was meant to raise The SL Paul club will sell Outfielder The weaklings who had stumbled at the parting of the ways Ed. Householder to either Portland or All these should be forgiven, for they Colorado Springs, which are bidding know not what they do; work for him. Their hindrance makes a greater -for wiser ones like you. Jack Boyle, one of the beet catchers Bo, When they scourge a wretched one who's drained sin's bitter cup. In the business ten years ago, will go If him you out Bay something good about this season as an umpire in the have to make K up. 8. W. Gillilaa in Baltimore American. American association. The Spinning Wheel In Ireland. Th spinning wheel and the JM cotwheel are atffl found In the Irish wedher baa a girl many where tages, ding dowry of linen and homespun made at home. Although It U more the task of the older women, there are tUU girls who do ther spinning stint and lay by a certain amount for their wedding outfit. A pleasant light it is to see the elderly women outside their cottage doors spinning tile flax er the wool. As long aa the weather la warm th sturdy Irishwoman, old or young, scorns a roof except to sleep under. The free air and sun-shi- re are her choice, and the sweet sky la the fairest roof. t , ' Egan Not in British Tourney. American golfers who had hoped that Chandler Egan, the national amateur champion, would be able to tak part In the British amateur champiom ship this spring will be disappointed, for the Chicago expert will ret arm from his European trip tn May, sailing from Southampton May 17. The British amateur event takes place May at Prestwick. Had Napoleons Son Lived to the founder of his house was striking, and the sentry on duty, after look lng hard at him, in a moment of uncontrollable emotion, presented arms Some of the veterans came up. It ii a son of the emperor, or at least S The newi nephew of the emperor. spread like wildfire, and the old men rushed like madmen to fetch Gen, him ol Petit, the lieutenant-governo- r the famous farewell In the court yard He came aad emof Fountainebleau. braced the young man as Napoleon had embraced him, amid shouts ol l'Empereur! 'Had It been In barrack, not a hospital, no one knows what would have happened, says contemporary chronicler. Lord Rosebery then proceeds to point out how different would bavq been Napoleon's fate had he been an hereditary monarch. j ninety-horsepow- 1. of the publication Taking of a new edition of his "Napoleon: The Last Phase, says the London News, Lord Rosebery has contributed a new chapter In which he speculates on. what might have happened If Napoleons lukless son had lived. He says : It seems Impossible to measure the attractive force of the youth who was the very child of Caesar, and who for three year had actually lived In Paris as a hing. His father In exile planned and pondered much over the sons future. What were the chances of that future we may estimate by an Incidant. When Prince Napoleon, the son of Jerome, wan in Paris under the name of Montfor In 1845, he visited the Hotel des Iwvalldea. His resemblance Coach Yost Is In Dospalr. Yost has abandoaed hope for arranging a football game with any eastern college, for the pree-ent at leasL He haa talked with WaJ- ter Camp, Bill Edwards of Princeton, and others. They are unanimous la the opinion that the eastern colleges hava more than their schedules now, and any Increase would Infringe upon college work. "Hurry Up - Shannon knd Curtis, catchers; Arm strong, Myers and Merryman, pitch ers; Haas, first base; Cooley, aeeont Seibert base; McGrew, shortstop; third base; Letcher, outfield. Three-- 1 League Tips. Pitcher Howard Stone of Columbus O.. has been signed by the Decatui club. The Decatur club haa turned ovei to Peoria a promising young pltcbei named Wangelbach. The Springfield club has signed Pitcher Buck Nilden and Pitcher No vacek, late of Cedar Rapids. President Holland has appointed William Moran of Chicago as an umpire In this league. Pitcher Hedges, who was with the Springfield team last year, haa been purchased from Milwaukee by Rock IslaBd and will fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Lundln from the , game. At the recent meeting in Peoria the covered bench idea, which was supported by President Holland, was adopted. , Hereafter every city in the league must provide covered benches for the players of both the home and visiting teams. Weatem Association. Many players In the old Missouri Valley league are signing with a new Manager Barrow of Indianapolis semi - professional baseball league states that he will start the training which has just been organized. It Is season with nine pitchers, seven In he plan to make the new league an 'Ight-towfielders, five outfielders and four catch organization, but so fsr era. mly six have been named. They ar s follows; Vlnlta, South McAlester Manager Finn of Toledo, offer-- ' nd Muscoge. j T.f Van- - Buren, ArFirst Baseman Xemmer and Outfleide O'Hara to Spokane for Pitcher Lonckf anas. aad CoffeyvIIle, Kan. Webb some weeks ago, but the deal did no. "Ity, Mo., nrt parsons, Kan., will - kely become members. . go through. n Bets New Record for Paco on Ice. At Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 28, Hal C., owned by William Cutter and drlv-e- n by Charles G. Harrington at Reeds lake, set a new record for pacing oa Ice over a quarter-milstraightaway course at 304 seconds. The accepted quarter-mil- e pacing record previous te th-performance of Hal C. waa 32 Seconds, made on the Ice at Port Huron everal years ago. e Although he has been beaten several i tinea in this country since his arrival here, the British wrestler Is able to hold his own with a majority of the mat. experts of this country. Parr is one of the best second-class wrestlers in the business. n Autoists Organlz at Ormond. Thirty men Interested In the promo have organized tion of auton-oblllnthe Ormond Racing asoclatlon. A committee of nine was elected, with power "to name a board of directors, nominate officers, arrange for membership, and constitution and adopt arrange for a general, meeting to be held not later, than February, 1906. The committee is composed of James Carnell. John D. Price. J. A. Bostrom, Dr. William Miller and W. S. Kenny of Ormond, and W. J. Morgan, 8. A. Miles, Frank X. Mudd and H. L. Bow-- t den.. The committee elected John D. Price president, W. 8. Kenny secretary and W. J. Morgan general manager. g by-la- Western Harness Racing. The Cedar Valley circuit will as usual inaugurate harness racing In the West this spring. The stewards have arranged dates for 1905 as follows: West Union, May 30 to June I; Nashua, June 6 to 8; New Hampton, June 13 to 15Waverly, June 20 to 22; Cedar Rapids, June 27 to 29; Marlon, July 4 to 6; Marshalltown, July 11 tc. 13; Mason CUT, July 18 to 20; 1 Aug. 28 to 28; Waterloo, Aug. to 8; ' Independence, Aug. 8 to 18, Boone, Ang. 15 to 1". This Is practicin' ve same date Eastern Illinois Racing. Intending to give a number of mall tees during the summer, just preced-ethe fall meets, a movement haa jeen Inaugurated for a racing clrentt In eastern Illinois. It Is Intended that the. circuit shall embrace Paris, Mat-tooCharleston, Effingham, 8ullivaa, Areola and Tuscola. . g n, 1 Pays $10,000 for Ftlliea. W. B. E. Lockwood of Norwalk, Conn., bought of John K. Madden tw flllldv by Topgallant and imp. Sandringham respectively, for $10,000. The Topgallant filly ia out of Black Whirlwind, and the other out of Brent, dam of Councillor. In Both are entered the Futurity. Trainer Carter Takes Life. Carter, the veteran train, T. R. has committed suicide. He jumped into the Seine at Paris, France, ap was dragged out alive, but succumb soon afterward. He had trained for forty years when he retired last year.- - Drop Kicker t Lead. The Indiana university football team selected Frank Hare, quarter-bacforj -aptaln next year. Hare won several tames for Indiana by hla drop klrh-- t ng last fall. k, Oska-loosa- 1 t Carlisle vs. C.ncinnatl. The Carlisle Indian football team, 111 meet the Cincinnati university; earn on Nov 18 ne j |