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Show SPORTS lljntsberg, trainer five-mil- Denies Backing American Team. Various stories have been printed to the effect that Timothy D. Sullivan is the backer of the proposed American League ball club to be located in New York city'and that James C. Kennedy in his authorized with representatiye In negotiations President Ban Johnson. When Mr. Sullivan was asked about the matter There is absolutely no he said: troth In the stories. Kennedy is a friend and I think well of him, but I do not know anything about his baseball plans. I am not the backer of a proposed American League club, nor am I exerting any influence to have the New York baseball club turn over Manhattan field "To the new 1 have ether matters to league. occupy my attention without getting Into baseball Meade May Ride for Drake. New York dispatch says John A. Drake has secured the services of Jockey Tommy Meade to take the place of Lucien Lyne, who has gone over to the Keenes lor next season. Heade has ridden a good deal the last two seasons, and was regarded as a fair boy. He is a bright, well educat- - JOorrr fJAOJ9 pan-wtm- f c e e, raiico-Gcrma- n -- h . " - .1 ,v . . - M I f bet-ide- GATEWAY William D. Stannard. phenomenal 'score in the shoot of the Chicago Gun Club on Aug. 30, then he snot at 224 Inanimate targets, breaking 222, the last Stannard 105 being without a miss. has bIbo made some excellent scores at live birds. At the Illinois state shoot at Peoria in 1899, which was killed sixty won by Crosby, who straight Stannards sixtieth bird fell dead just out of bounds. another Batting Peculiarities. Many a good ball player has been lost to fast company owing to the do .himself .JusTact that he-d- ld tice at the start Young Murray "of Manchester, who was given a trial by Chicago, looked like a coming player, but Selee was not satisfied with him and concluded not to retain him. Joe Kelley, the Cincinnati manager, says You can't tell in this connection: anything about a player's bitting ability in a few games. I have seen Lajoie go through a whole series without a single nit, and yet he is regarded as one of the greatest hitters in the business. Why, when I first came into the big league I went through my first fifteen games without a hit. and yet 1 have always been I hitting over the .3(19 mark since. was in Pittsburg then Yes, and I remember that I went through eleven games without making a hit, and I made twenty seven the next week, added Mike Donlln. In order to give a young player a fair chance, he should be allowed to remain in the game for at least a month. This is particularly true If he gets a bad start." t OF Cathedral to Yeas went hy, and often I wished for the day when 1 might see those splendid ruins At last my wishes were fulfilled; I found myself along by the Rhine. The water was placid and a perfect blue, the banks were covered with splendid vineyards and many ruins, and still I was disappointed. Thia wras probably because I saw the Rhine after the glorious lake of Lucerne. And yet notwithstanding that I was disappointed, the river is lovely from Biebrlch to Cohlentz. For miles d the high hills are covered with vineyards, broken in places by tumble-down- , picturesque ruins. The first interesting town passed was Mainz, best known as the birthplace of Gutenberg, the inventor of the art of printing with movable type. Not far away is the town of Bingen and Its adjacent Island, where stands a ec-- k now a- - to crumbled jrouB children as once haring been the home of a miser who was tormented with mice. Close by Is the town of Rudeshelm, which is proud of its new statue commemorating tbe victories of LS71 and also is celebrated for Its excellent Rhine wine. Of the several handsome ruins none Is more lovely that the Castle of Rheinsteln, which was once a robbers den. It Is situated on the edge of s precipice close to the Rhine. Later on the castle was bought and remodeled by Prince Frederick of Prussia, and is now-- used as a museum. Bacharah is another city worthy of mention, haring been a strong Roman fortifies l -- ';): g VrT The colors of James E. Pepper, tbe proprietor of the Meadowthorpe stud, ..ear Louisville, Ky., will not be seen on the turf next season. His entire rop of yearlirgs fcy imp. Kantakk, Meadow thorpe, and Blue and the Grey will be sold at the Fasig-Tiptosales, together with a number of his best brood mares. 9 These Include Stylitene, dam of Kings Courier; Natot, dam of King Barleycorn, Golden Fleece, Debut and others. V yrer-O-- Vz 4 r A I '' h V Mjfej .s T rack Tor At. Louis.-- ' Hento will Negotiations have been closed for go America, lease for fight years of a the for to compete next again year ley 4 known as Clark Place, situtract a time the this the diamond sculls, corner Natural at .of the Bridge ated Boat lepresentative of the Atalanta Union avenue, St. Louis, for dub of New York. He was elected a road andrace new a track, to be operated week. member of the club last ehrenfela. Mound The Atalanta la, singularly enough, under tbe auspices of tbe associaas evidence there yet tlon, and the paintings were covered with s the oldest rowing club in the world, City Racing and Breeding A sacrificial altar. 1 the track have to It is tion. carpet worked and presented by tbs proposed distinction although Its claims to this -- By the time we reached Oberwel ladies of Cologne The work were at fir8tAmlcahljrciBputed'hyYely lor racing before Be M & fa.r.4 4h Mi on a rraeA In a numbey of the naa Mila 10 asJiace given was club. It the London Bowing rocks, where are seen the handsome tableaux. Cor nail Will Go te Honloy. certained, however, that although When we said good by to Cologne ruins of Shonburg. Two of these strep stated except that ie of It everything the home ie the rowing England and we bade farewell to Germany, thi are called cliffs Llebensteln been baa a final completed the the step game, as It la of tha football, club had the distinction of seni- toward taking a rowing crew from Sternberg, which were once owned by country which is proudest of its splenand 1S48, Cornell university to take part in the two brothers who quarreled and killed did army; a nation who loves ority, having been organized in Rowand In little each other A No fosters combat formal painting next deadly architecture, year. London Henley regatta a few years before the vote has been passed, but it is taken farther' Along stand a sharp, high music, and a people who are well ing dub. for granted the, tbe entry will be cliff called the LoreleL Along this versed in science, as well as every circumstance this When interesting part of its windings the river makes other branch of knowledge the Englishmen made. discovered, Ata-laat- a 1. New 100-acr- g94(L60tt4.hAteau.atJau$290,OOWn yacht Valhalla, $200,000; bulldinj Little Trianon, $1,000,000; brle-2 ji Sr brae, jewels and furniture, $500,000;) rJS? V lost on bourse, $600,000; living expenses, $200,000; carda and race track, $100,000; clothes. $100,000; charity, $70,000; maintaining yacht, $D'i,000. While the couple were abtat in New York, reports were pul Ished v y Anin the Paris papers that grea d'd count he Not tbe only Ville. noyed Corridor In Hotel de surmounted by statuary, threaten vengeance, but on hi rctmfci he fought duel with Editor representing Pegasus, with Fame to Europe Jtepubllqne,, wtnnd- about to take her flight. At the lower Turotof tact He a end of the pylona are four pieces of teg the editor twlce with others, and gave sncral, trouble variFranc at statuary representing challenges.';.,.' ous epochs. iprsrtigg . . the champion amateur j jj - e (td -- c y c d fellow, and 0 good an entertainer that he has been on tbe stage during a part of his career. a Titus, oarsman of no city In the so fair an aspect 4 Falla Peace Committee After a meeting between the peace of the Southern League committee of Baseball clubs and the owners, of the Memphis club at Memphis, Yenn., it was announced that all efforts to Let tie the differences between the two factions had failed. Marager Frank of the Memphis dub, says the new Southern League as planned will be formed at once. Anjoug those mentioned lor the presidency are President Hickey of the Western Association, and R. L. C. White of Nashville. G, is probably 1 100-yar- d TStuw Will Try Again.. There s the of Columbia barsity track team, has announced that he expects to take to England next summer a team of American track athletes to compete with the athletes of Great Britain. The financial success of the venture is sure, and enough money for expenses has already been promised. Those who so far baye been chosen to go and who haye accepted, according to Hjertsberg, are: Mike Sweeney, holder of the worlds record at high jumping, Arthur DufTy, holder of the world's record for the dash; Harry Gill, all around A. A. U. champion in 1900; Frank M. Karaly, holder e A. A. U. championof the ship in 1901; Geoige Peary, the weight thrower, and Tom Keene and Ed Hobbs, the Boston sprinters. s (Special Correspondence.) crowned by the French Academy. But he did not become known to fame unworld which presents n a bright autumn day as does the til his hid for R, to a book called city of Paris The first impression one Jewish France, met with an immegets of it conies from the symmetric- diate response. Some 100 editions of al manner in which its great thoroughIt were sold In a few weeka. In this fares are laid out; then one notices book the foes of the church were dethe splendor and magnificence of Its nounced as Jews, foreigners or Oer- architecture, characterized throughout mans; while the Uvea of public men,' by harmony of style, every structure, such as Gambetta and Jules Simon, through an endless succession of were held up to contempt Another of the celebrities of Paris squares, gardens, bridges and boulevards, fitting in, gs It were, to every is de Blowltz, the correspondent of other, finally conies the human infer the I .on don Times, who for the last uiiartcT ,.of a century, as TAmbassa-iunrd- u T perns . rameilf dTpomae y and latesnianship Into journalism with a lc gree of success that him made known all over the world. He began life somewhere in tbe bis Austrian Slav countries. spent youth in a way tht t enabled Mm to acImportant of tbe quire all the mo-European languages, acted as professor of literature m a lycee at Marseilles. lectured In 1868, married A iretich wife, joined the Garde did patriotic service in tha 1 war, and finally owed his position on the Time to tbe fact of being asked In 1871 to represent its regular correspondent, Frederick Mar-bal- l, 3 during hts temporary absence. s th During his connection with St. Eustache. of Church j Times M. de Blowitz received 22 decofcdlMrfe rations from all aorta of princes and est, and certainly, with its street a potentates, having been made bril Its bauds. its crowds, military of Honor In 1878, officer of the he re there and liant uniforms mingling c ered to peace dur-- i for services ter with the gay dresses of sight see,, the the !pg congress.' not merely at outdoor life of Pans During the tame period he wrotel tractive, but even iasolnatiug. more than 3,000 columns of the Times,! Among the manv things which are la said to have talked with half! COLOGNE BRIDGE. characteristic of the nren city is the and of the sovereigns and statesmen of DUiance U extent to which life public there, M. de Blowltz had so perfect the the Gieat this city was a mighty and especially the ease with which the Europe. a that he could report inter-- j memory "foller crowd the cares to who Soman stronghold. It is also noted visitor A without having views verbatim if not into for Its fine univeisity, which was may come In sight of, contact with, the celebrities who. single note. On one occasion he in banded In the eighteenth century and this way reproduced a speech of M. liter enriched hy Napoleon 1 Bonn is gathered from all parts of Europe, as to the extent of twenty-tw- o Thiers coun alio remembered as the birthplace of well as from many other foieign columns for the Times. home. Schu-Mlitheir Purls make of tries, Beethoven; the resting place Count Boni de Castellane Is also cel- One of the first men foreigners who Schiller s w ife and eldest son. are almost ebrated, but in another way. Ha doeal This wonderful cathedral at Cologne enter the French capital A VM not completed at one time. nonk, Gerhatd von Rile, is supposed SC U have been the aichitect, and his phns are yet to be seen within the L.XT ' dutch. August 15. 1248. the foundatp". ..V . JPJ1 ion stone for this magnificent edifice V mi laid; its progress at this period ms slow, as the rhnrch was at war Wth itself. Tbe saddest period In tbe durch history was when the soldiers tf the French republic entered tle fty; many of the valuable antiquities fere destroyed, and the bronze tomb 4 the archbishops were melted. Dur-- . the TevqlnUon,Jt.wa$ used .as TarflsofiT and later as a prison, The cathedral abounds in cbapela decorated with rare paintings and groups of marble figures. In the enBRIDGE ALXA,NDQn-PARI- S yf, trance of the north portal Is the censixteenth built in tbe organ, great to being called a perfect tury, but which has been repaired sure to meet is Bennett of the New not object of the Faumany times. In the dispels are splen- York Herald.'' The regular boulevard type of the Parisian dandy and did tombstones erected to the memory flaneur remembers Mr. Bennett main- bourg sc hool, a keeir sportsman, will la but he also a of lover Interested pleasure, American of the archbishops who are there laid ly as a wealthy In yacht races and mtomoblllng; as irg to have it known that his name ie to rest. The high altar, though beauIt as used the man w ho sent Stanley to find Liv- derived from the old ehstle of Castelnot as Is magnificent tiful, Aflane on the Loire, that It has descendto be. In the middle of tfip seveningstone; who helped to open up teenth century the catdlnal of Strass-bur- rica to civilization; who organized the ed to him In a direct lire for exactly years, and that the family espresented tne church with paint- Jeannette expedition to the far North, 1,000 are worth f.7.(i00,000. tates other a dozen ings by Rubens and valuable tapes- and defrayed the cost of In 1894, thqeount. then 26 years old, ' worldwide of importance. removed and vveie Later tries, enterprises they for pleasure, The better infoimed of his own na- eanie to this country, Early tionality add to thij record tbe many and to complete his education. less btilliant yet none the less useful In 1895 was announced his betrothal gotial and political gervlces which,c to Miss Anna Gould, second daughmultithrough the instrumentality of his pa-p- ter of the late Jay Gould the the marriage took place r, Mr. Bennett has performed for millionaire. on March 4, 1895, 10 weeks after thel his community at home. The draw irg of the latest child of first meeting, the ceremony being sob ionized in the house of George J bridge engineering tbe European Ior.t du Alexander 111. la Paris gives Gould. After an elaborate wedding the happy pair sailed on only a faint coiKeptKn of the singu- breakfast, steamer ti for France. first e' of the show of thU piece lar beauty Enormous expenditures of money Paris exposition of 1990, Jt spans the swcie at. about the center pt w hat was on the part 'of the' count attended' the exposition grounds, and millions his Iritrodiictfon of the rountess into of passengers rc.de or walked across it French soc iety, It being generally un during the gr at fair ef two yearskgo. derBtoocl that it was the Gould fortune the fortune of the countess to tbe The total length of tbe bridge is 257 feet, and tbe vldth 139 foeh The road- extent of $3,006,090 that, was thua way wtupos a spa e of 7 feet la squandered, the debts of the count bo width, and tbe cldewaU on either side ing raised to $4 400 000, An action followed in the French is 39 fe$t wide. At both entrances are two pylons. courts, brought by George J. Gould, r h!a- - alster. In white raarote, cbc BT 4 J' feetiblgft. trustee-foPrior to this the count had succeeded the iu borrowing $1,000,090 from Goulds, but Jt was soon gone in such - v tteras as: Site for marble palace, if (Special CW'iKindenc e 1 All children dream at night as$ struck medals for the members of the splendid course In places the coast vs clad with dense forolder organization and also Issued have day dreams as well Their earfr certificates of honorary membership fst years are spent in worlds created ests, whik nestling among the tries Msec the proud castle to the members of the Atalanta club by their own Imagination rather thi The Atalantas wete the first Ameri- with what is termed the actual u8 Of Stol. elite Is w hie h was one e a splen-$Rc man loiufication. but in mte can club to tie represented in Europe verse Imagination is such a fore d a- - an ail gallery mu inaBk has Rais 1 with them consider that b74 a crew they across tn ending a mate nature as alive as their owt Tie most splendid of the Rhine Sielx ngebiige, where are the Rifle Shot. personalities Chicagos Champion i even mountains with a h other There was nothing I dreamed of mof William D Stannard. who won the Chicago Gun dubs championship for than the Rhine, with Us fiendlal for admitatum a season, is one of the youngest and moise tower and the lovely Lorelei, -- he wb etfii i jiliu t of importance best target shooters in Chicago His who spent her days in song and eomh long the Rhine i opt mg Cole gne is of Ccmstan- lug her hair with a golden tomk Bqjiii IH.m.g the ic pert encage for the season was 98 4 He has been shooting for several years, and has taken part In most of the larger shoots held in recent Stannard s most remarkable years nerformance was at Ratine on Mav 3. when he equaled the record b killing 140 blue rocks without a miss There were forty two competitors among them llirsc hy. the Minneapolis expert y ho won the Grand American handicap at Kansas City. He made American Athletic Team. E. W. Fraud Boast of Parisians is the Literal Truth Stately . Buildings and Beautiful Parks in Profusion. Splendid Scenery tod Picturesque Ruins Line the Banks of the Rhine Beauty of Colognes Wonderful Cathedral. RECREATION The Premier Jockey. The premier jockey eh. n honors for 7902 are. by common consent, awarded to Odom, Redfern and Lyne. Horsemen are not agreed as to which ;a the best joc key and therefore, are not prepared' to award the palm of supremacy, but they are united in the belief thar the three lads named are the greatest trio of ilders the American turf has had in any one year Each of the jockeys named has a large and loyal following which believes him to be the best jockey in the country, aud each of the three armies ef follow eis is equally confident the task of deciding as between them is one not to be und rtaken lightly. Oaom's adunurs msut that he is the most capable acd most finished rider n Ameiua today The supporters of Redfern point to his clash, and Ins which, .gentle, persuasive style, when occasion demands it is changed to riding of the most yigorous kind The West is a ui.it in support of Lyne, and he las an aimy of followers here who hold last to the Western faith in him. Odom has lidden these many years and never so brilliantly as this season Redfern was a find of last season and did not ripen into the full rue asm e of Ins fame until this ytur lyne made Ins place as the leading jockey of the West secure last year, and ci owned it with his splendid woik in the Last this season. The World's FinestCity. Germany's Noble River, ' 1 e the-Pe- c Two groups of massive lions guard the approach to the bridge, broad flights of stone steps lead from the lower quays t the floor of the bridge at each abutment, and at the top of these step are groups of statuary wpswantlny the Ghlldren p( the Vases. The cost of the bridge Is estimated at about $400,000, And it is said to be the finest of Ita type in existence, t Drumont, originally a hack writer tor the French press, afterwards showed aonslderable ability as an anthor of historical works, one of which was , ! Novel Advertising Acher-eA clever girl singer in om-- f popular New York theaters 1 n scheme ef uve a brand-net Using. She goes with a px- -y friends to a different cafe evening" ana sends a request to itwr orchestra leader asking him to plar the song which in an hour or s t she who will sing in the theater. Dine recognize tbe air remark in (heir Ah, thats fr m companions; You must go and he :r M.m Blank sing it cwr v |
