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UMPIRES TELL
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Spots in His Eyes for
the Ball.
O'Day Describes How He Was
Lucky in Getting Out
of a Fix.
By Hugh S. Fallerton.
There is a rule on the statute books of
base l>a:l which says that, if the umpire
fails to see a play he must consider the
runner safe. On th;it basts about lu^lf
the base runners would be safe?at least
1? -I'lib illy, fur. As a matter of fact, it
reldom that an umpire actually sees .1
t :.tv e\rn when lie is looking straight
hi it lie sees a part of the moving pictine
before him, and by using Ills eyes
uiiii his i irs together judges in the main
cni i . . tly As a matter of fact, a deaf
rn.ipire would be handicupped almost us
lu'icli as :i blind one. No umpire sees the
ball strike the lirst baseman's glove
? li I is out of position. He hears
the ball hit the glove, sees the runner's
l. i't j l ive at tlie base and gives the de>1-nm.
.sow mii-i umpires will confess tint their
c. II is made in nine cases out of ten helm.'
the play is e 'mpleted. Watch an um1
: s haiuis during a close play at tlrst
Im.- . and almost without exception he gesturi
s his decision before the runner reaches
first, or before the ball lands in the base
an in s mitt. 11 something goes w rtniK. >' the
runner slows up suddenly and is out when
ih> should have been safe, the umpire makes
a bad blunder. He has judged a fraction of
u trice before the accident happened?and
pives the wrong decision.
Yet this system of umpiring is the best.
The ninn who judges quickly is the best
umpire and. although lie gives the decision
J fore the play is completed, he makes
lewer mistakes than the man who waits
~ too long. The man who delays jumbles his
decisions.
I'mnlrine?in anv ntliAr judicial line?
Is a gift. Not one man in a thousand can
think ijuick enough to be a Rood base ball
umpire?and if he can, the chances are that
lie lacks the nerve, the firmness, or the
temperament that makes a good umpire.
Hi sides, even when a good umpire is found,
lie has his bud days?days when he looks
worse than some really Incompetent umpires.
*
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Everv umDire?oast and present?has some
town he dreads to work in. There are towns
In which great umpires are considered
lubs and in which wretched umpires are
called stars. The reason for this is that the
umpire?at some stage of his career?has
ihad one of his bad days in that town, and
nfti-r passing through one really bad day, an
umpire has a horror of another. If he is
Gent back to the same town the chances are
that he will De oatl tnere again. in raci,
cure wrong in a city an umpire never can
do good work until the recollection of his
I'.id day has passed entirely out of his
mind.
Every umpire, no matter how good, has
tht-se ofT days, when he cannot tell a three
(>.ise hit from a toe spike, atid when he
really isn't a good judge of fly balls.
Why this is. the umpires themselves seldom
understand, but after one afternoon,
with the crowd wild, the players angry, and
everything going wrung, when the umpire
knows better than anybody on the grounds
ihow bad his work is, an umpire wants a
change of air arid scene worse than ever a
' eiek person did.
*
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"The worst day I ever had." said Jack
Sheridan, when asked about It, "was in Chicago.
I'm g'ud It was there among friends,
or probably I would have been out of the
business. I have had bad days, but never
one like that, and It was along in the fifth
inning that I found out what was the matter.
"I had not been feeling well for several
flays and was knocked out with a bad bilious
attack. Still I was feeling a little better
tiiat afternoon and concluded that I would
K<> out and try to work anyhow. The trouble
began right at the start. Louie Crlger was
catching ror liosion. ana in me nrst inning,
he commenced to protest quietly
against the strikes and balls. The batters
kicked a bit, too, but I got through the inning
all right, and?called several of them
down for kicking. When Billy Sullivan commenced
kicking in the second inning I knew
I must be bad. Still I was calling them exactly
as I saw them, and thought I could
eee just as well as they could.
"The kicking grew worse and worse. The
crowd, which always has been kind to me.
liegan roaring, and howling, and sometimes
laughing. I knew I must be bad. but still
couldnt see why?until the Ilfth Inning,
when Jack Powell made a wild pitch. As I
discovered a flash too late, the ball went
low and behind the batter?and I called It a
etrlke. The crowd simply went wild, and
hooted me.
"You may believe it or not?but I saw
that ball cut the heart of the plate. As a
natter of fact, 1 hadn't seen the ball all the
afternoon, but was calling balls and strikes
end passing judgment on black spots that
?..r, r..rmin<r r* f rnn c\t m ul au u u a ra.
I t 1UI iiiiiig) ill i I uii v * ' ? i i a J v j v J un a i v*
Suit of the bilious attack.
"After 1 found out what was the matter I
went back of the pitcher anil judged everything
by the position of the catcher when
lie caught the hall?so I got along better."
I umpired two years after my eyes gave
out and when I couldn't see to second from
Ixick of the plate." said Gaffney, the old
king." "but the worst off day X ever had
Was while I was good. I never have been
abte to account for it except on the theory
that 1 got started wrong and got to worry
lr:g about it, or else hau an attack or stage
fright, like some new man might have.
"It was in Boston, and I think the AthJetlcs
were playing there. I remember that
Tummy McCarthy confided to me afterward
that 1 Rot two decisions right during
the entire game?although no one mentioned
even those during the gui.ie.
"I knew 1 was bad. I tried In every way
to get the decisions right, even waiting until
the play was all over, and then decided
? ?? lloW lio ?lmo T If now I a'.'is urrrtner
?> i i?Hh nan wiv v ? ? .. ?w .. . v...0,
but Just simply couldn't get things right.
T>urlng the closing Innings I hail almost to
laugh at myself. The not day I went
along just as usual, but It was weeks before
the dread of going back to Uoston
left me."
*
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"The fiercest decision 1 ever made," said
Henry O Day, "1 got away with because I
had sense enough to keep quiet and let
the players decide. I was having a bad
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it
day?one of those real bad ones that come
to every umpire sooner or later, and to
seme of us once or twice a season. I
wnsn't rattled, or nervous, or anything. I
r.tver felt better, and there was no big
cr< wd to worry over?but everything went
wrong, and X knew It better than any of
these fellows who were roasting me.
"I had made two or three bad mistakes,
and I saved up the worst for the eighth
Inning. Cincinnati was leading Pittsburg
by one run then, and Pittsburg crowds
don't like to be beaten, so they were blaming
me. although. If I remember correctly,
my blunders had hurt Cincinnati more
than they had hurt Pittsburg. In "this
eighth Inning Wagner doubled to start with,
and Ritchie hit a bounder down to Corcoran.
who was playing second that day.
The ball rolled slowly and Corcoran came
in fast on it. I knew It was going to be a
close decision at first, and went running
over there, saying te myself. 'I'll get this
one right.' I made up my mind like a
/lash that Corcoran would get the ball and
< 1. v. ? wiimmam r\t*i altVinn<rh T illfl nnt
I! lun IUC lillillri v?ut?aiiuvu^u < u.u
rfoe him gft the ball?I crouched, and, although
I saw Ritchie cross the bag. I yelled
"You're out.' and put down my hands.
At that second I flashed a look over my
shoulder to see what Wagner was doing,
and saw Leach tagging him oft third. Corcoran
had scooped the ball, and, seeing
Wagner turn third to try to score on the
play at first, had snapped the ball there and
| "I was In a fix. I had called Ritchie
I out at first when the ball hadn't even been
thrown there, but as all the players thought
I had called Wagner out. I let it go at
that and let Ritchie stay at first. I have
often wondered what the crowd would have
said if Wagner had slid back to third
safely."
?
* *
"My worst day," says Tim Hurst, "was
caused by neuralgia in the face. Umpiring
is bad enough, but umpiring with neuralgia
:s the limit. All the times I wasn't mistaken
about decisions that afternoon I
gave the decisions wrong because I was
on Vift a-nrld
"The neuralgia had pulled one side of my
face up and thrown cne eye out of focus.
When I umpired from back of the bat I
was good on first-base decisions, but
couldn't see third, and when I was behind
the pitcher I was good at third and couldn't
see first. As for balls and strikes. I had
the wrong angle on every curve. The papers
tiie next day said I made half the
decisions wrong. If I got any right it was
by accident."
*
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"Probably the worst day I ever had." re
plied Bob Kmslie to the inquiry, ' was one
afternoon in Philadelphia a few years ago.
It was all the result of absent-mindedness.
I had been working In Boston and the
weather was cold early that spring. I came
to Philadelphia and found a warm, sunshiny.
bright day. with birds ringing and
flowers growing. I could not concentrate
my mind on the gamp at all?and the players
seemed to have as bad attacks of spring
fever as I had. The game was slow and
uninteresting, and after four or Ave sleepy,
uneventful innings my mind wand?yed clear
out of the ball grounds and off Into the
- * 1 T nmnlrlncr lilrn a
wnoas Bumewneiv. * ...? -man
In a dream. How long I had been going
along that way I don't know. I was
dimly conscious that Rome people were trying
to disturb my dream. I think it probable
that I really did doie off for a few
minutes standing there. I was wakened up
by AI Orth grabbing me and saying: 'Good
Lord, Bob. what are you doing? You called
that man safe on a pop fly to Cross." After
that I staid awake."
TO SMASH THE RECORDS.
Fast Time Will Be Hade by the
NEW YORK, December 1.?Bicycle riders
who have entered for the short-distance
events to precede on Saturday night, December
8, the six-day bicycle race at Madison
Square Garden, promise to play havoc
with the records. Nearly every rider who
established a new mark last season will
appear in either the big race or the shortdistance
events. Among those who have
sisrned are Paul Gulgnard, Bobby Walthour,
Ernest K. Pye, Louis Mettling,
Charles Schlee and W. H. Samuelson.
Racing bicyclists are riding faster than
ever both at home and abroad. Pour new
professional handicap records have been
made, the half mile in .53 3-5 by A. J.
Clarke, and the three-quarters, 1.21 2-5;
the two, 3.41, -and the three miles, 5.49. all
by I^LWson. In professional competition,
unpared. the half, three-quarter and two
miles were broken in the handicap events
mentioned above, and in a three-mile open
race Lawson reduccd the time to 5.33 3-5.
The five-mile record was also broken at
Ogden by Ernest K. Pye in B.48 1-5. In a
quarter-mile unpaced trial against time
Lawson lowered the figure to .23 4-5.
Several notable rides have been made
abroad. On June .TO, at Munich, Thaddeus
Robi, behind a pacer, created a new distance
for one hour of 57 miles 117 yards.
A month later Paul Gulgnard, on the same
track, raised the distance to 5fl miles
yards. On October .'10. at Leipzig, Gulgnard
in two hours, behind pace, covered 103
miles 195 yards, a new world's record.
COLLEGE CHESS CONTESTS.
Preparing for the Coming Tournaments.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 1.?With
the usual Intercollegiate chess tournaments
at tnrisimas rasi approacning, ine devotees
of the royal game at the various big
Institutions of learning are busying tUe>mselves
getting Into form by means of preliminary
tourneys and trial matches. The
championships of the C. H. Y. P., or "big
four." comprising Columbia, Harvard, Yale
and Princeton, and the Triangular College
Chess League, comprising Cornell, Brown
and Pennsylvania, will again be keenly
contested for. Harvard Is still the "big
four" champion, but Columbia Is confident
of recovering her lost laurels, If for no
uiuer reaiwn man umi >uuug JU6? xv.
Capaiblanca, the Cuban prodigy, has oast
his lot In with New York's great university.
FOOT BALL AT HARVARD.
Inferences From President Eliot's
Expression of Views.
BOSTON. Mass., December 1.?The expression
of opinion on foot ball as played
this year by President Eliot of Harvard
leads to the conclusion that foot ball has
been saved to Harvard as an intercollegiate
sport. Coming Just at this time, when the
whole subject of Intercollegiate athletics,
and particularly foot ball. Is on trial at
Cambridge, Dr. Eliot was enthusiasticallywelcomed
by the undergraduates and graduates.
who. while they are confident that
the president has only the best Interests
nf ttiA nnlvAr?itv nt h^nrf holiAVA ulan flint
Ithe abolition of foot ball and other intercollegiate
sports would be a hard blow to
the university.
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Inclination of Manufacturers to
Use Best Material Obtainable.
Air-Cooled Cars Continue to Be
Sold in Very Large
Numbers.
Nothing in the way of radical changes
are noted In the 1907 model cars on exhibition
at the Grand Central Palace shew,
which opened last evening, it is stated.
Nor la there any reduction in the price
of cars. Nevertheless, it is promised
the buyer of an automobile next year will
receive a great deal more for his money
than ever before, besides getting more satisfaction
from his better-constructed machine.
The Inclination of manufacturers Is to
put the very best material obtainable into
cars, even though it necessitates a little Increase
in price. Nothing demands better
material for wearing purposes than a motor
car which all its life is subject to abuse,
and that's why Instead of putting poor ma
terial into cars no sen at a low ngure me
manufacturers are inclined to buy the best
obtainable, knowing that in the long run it
will be better for their own business, and
better for the motor trade in general.
The design of automobiles seems now to
be settled, and improvements of 1007 are
more in the perfection of details. At the
palace show are exhibited everything from
a runabout with one, two or four cylinder*,
to the ponderous de luxe touring cars with
engines of from four to six cylinders, and
equipped with a body that can carry seven
people in comfort.
Tendencies for 1907 are toward Increased
horsepower and longer wheel bases. Mechanically
operated valves will predominate,
in many cases tne inlet and exhaust
VH.1VCT urillfi | Udtt'ii uii unc muc ui mc
motor. The major portion of troubles on
motor cars being ignition, that has received
a great deal of attention. While
storage batteries are taking the place of
dry cells, most of the big cars will have
magnetos, many having a double system of
Ignition, which includes two sets of spark
plugs. Incidentally, spark plugs are now
made to last a season, and coils give very
little trouble.
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Although air-cooled cars, owing to the
general sausiucLiuii in try nave given, continue
to be sold in large numbers, not a
few of their makers! are including a watercooled
motor for 1907. The usual radiator
with the assistance of a belt and fan predominate
for cooling, and a few makers use
Wie thermo-syphon system. The use of
levers of the top of the steering post to
control the spark and gas is now almost
universal, and coupled with the handy gear
levers on the side, and the foot pedal for
ho nlnt^h makes the control of motor cara
simplicity Itself.
Brakes have been Improved. They are
larger aad more powerful. A number of
makers will show cars having both sets of
brakes working on the rear wheels, one internal
expanding, and the other of the usual
contracting type. There has been some
minor Improvements in transmissions. The
sliding gear type is general on the big cars,
and the planetary type on the light machines
where only two speeds are required.
Shaft drives continue to Increase in popularity,
although some of the makers of
heavier cars advocate and continue to use
the side chain drive. There is a tendency to
use ball bearings in the front wheels and
roller bearings in the rear wheels, both
types of which are now reduced to almost
perfection.
In the line of self-starting devices there
will be two or three new ones exhibited for
which great things are claimed. It would
seem tliat the time is near at hand when
the starting crank can be abolished, yet
only two makers will exhibit crankless cars.
*
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A coterie of automobile enthusiasts all
forlorn and homeless bachelors, got together
at a "Honk-Honk Dinner" In a New
York hotel Thanksgiving day. The appropriateness
of the name was revealed when
wild goose was brought on as the piece de
resistance. The goose was dead and cooked,
but Its flying cry was frequently sounded
from the horns attached to each chair. The
souvenirs were gold spark plugs for watch
charms, and it was a noisy affair, run on
the high gear with a direct drive throughout.
*
In spite of the talk about manufacturer*
being far ahead, it is said the majority are
not yet ready to show their new models.
This is especially true of the makers of the
big touring cars which.are best known. It
la true that the whole industry will be
ready for earlier deliveries, but the factories
are not as far ahead of other years
as has been supposed.
* *
"The automobile business is yet young,
and while it will have its ups and downs,
lta futare on the whole Is bright." a manufacturer
says. "The user and the builder
are still experimenting?the user with Qrst
one style of car and then another, the
manufacturer with this form of construction,
then something else. But a definite
situation is now developing.
"The American automobile as a type la
heavy; the user has discovered that great
weight Is not' only useless and expensive,
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but Is also dangerous to handle 011 the
roads of this country, and he Is now demanding
light-weight cars.
"Generally speaking, manufacturers are
not prepared to meet this demand. They
are equipped to make the heavy type of
car; a change means a revolution for them
?a revolution in their methods and In their
construction; a complete turning over of
every theory they have advanced in favor
of several automobiles, which will be light,
flexible, finely designed and economical in
fuel and tlrj expense. These cars must
also be built with a view to long service,
and for those who develop their cars along
this line success is certain."
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With a total membership of 1,241, of
which 1,000 are on the active list, the Automobile
Club of Amertoa at Its annual
meeting drew up a policy of broader and
more effective work in the cause of motoring
along various practical lines than has
ever been attempted before. The garage
and chaufTeur problems are to be seriously
dealt with and a strong effort is to be
made to secure the passage 01 a city ordi- j
nance making it a misdemeanor to emit
objectionable odors and smoke from machines
in the streets, which is chiefly caused
by opening of the mufHers.
The drawing up of a national code of ethics
which might be accepted throughout the
country as a basis of management for owners,
chauffeurs and garage managers was
advised. In order to formulate such a code
it was suggested that a committee of three
be appointed, consisting of a re, resentative
of each of these classes, and that they
should draw nn a fixpri set of rules to ha
used as a trustworthy guide and which
might be binding In all disputes arising
between the different parties. The idea
met with general favor, and If It can be
successfully carried out It will pave the
wm for many beneficial Improvements in
the existing garage and chauffeur difficulties.
The officers of the club clearly realize
that \rt tha mnnflirompnt nf tht^ir ParaPf*
they are likely to encounter opposition
from chauffeurs who have established the
pernicious system of demanding commissions
for the storing of cars as well as
for supplies and repairs. No commission
of any sort will be allowed jy the club.
Mr. Morris advised that the garage committee
be empowered to exclude from the
club house any chauffeur whom it believes
undesirable. Unless the rules are rigidly
enforced and the members do their utmost
to sustain them it was pointed out that the
efforts to Improve conditions would be a
failure.
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In commenting upon tne automoDiie family
tree It has been said that just how
great a debt the automobile owes to the
bicycle can hardly be estimateu. it is said
that It was the bicycle that made the modern
automobile possible. Magazine writers
and others who spend their spare time In
looking up precedents that have been peacefully
burled for years have been hard put
to establish the descent of today's car from
the clumsy English steam road vehicles of
ninety years or so ago. In this case there
la just aooui iae same analogy mat can oe
traced between Noah's ark and a turbine
liner.
The real parents of today's car are the
bicycle and the gasoline motor .and the
family traits seem more pronounced on the
wheel's side. The one which comes to mind
lirst is naturally the pneumatic tire, but
there are many more, from ball bearings to
seamless tubing. The earlier cars almost
Invariably were fitted with the wire-spyked
wheel, and while this gave way before the
solid "artillery" type, still It is true that
for certaJn models of cars, the wire wheels
urill h.i iianH avnin thia cnminc OAacnn
But where the bioycle's influence has
been most effective is along educational
lines. Until the advent of the wheel nothing
was known about cones, stresses, tool
steel, bearing- metals, the trade secrets connected
with the vulcanizing of rubber and
many other things that the bicycle has
taught.
When the automobile came along?and it
looked more like the bicycle's big brother
than it does today?there were two or three
million of people who knew the names or
its innards without having to be taught.
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The Interest aroused among military men
when the bicycle was first utilized for
scouting has been heightened by the appearance
of th<? motor cycle. The most
striking feature of the maneuvers of the
Italian army, which took place among the
Alps, and which have just ended, was the
wonderful scouting work done by Sergt.
Federico Violate-Tessart on his motor cycle.
The reports of the maneuvers describe him
as a veritable thunderbolt, flashing here,
there and everywhere. He rode his powerful
machine up mountain trails that were
thick with dust, encumbered with rocks
and as steep as 15 In 100. Tae possibilities
of the motor cycle as a mount for dispatch
bearers was fully demonstrated, in the
opinion of Europe's leading military critics.
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Percy Owen, one of the pioneer automo
bilists In this country, who drove an American
car in the Gordon-Bennett International
cup race in 1903, made a surprising
statement at a meeting in the Hotel Breslin
of some of the exhibitors in the show
in Grand Central Palace. Illustrating the
tremendous growth of the motor car in,
dustry in America, lie said that seven years
ago only three gasoline cars were in us?
in New York city. Today over eighty different
makes are sold here. Over 35,000
cars are now registered in the state, and
new registrations are being taken from the
office of the secretary of state at the rate
of over 1,000 a month. ^
C. W. Kelsey, in a brief speecli on the development
of the industry, gave the informotinn
that tliu cQnital In tha
automobile businpss in the United States
is more than 1150,000,000. More than 100,000
men are employed in the business, and,
according to the most reliable estimates,
more than 100,000 cars are now in use
throughout the country. In the American
factories 135 different cars are made, and
in addition twenty-two foreign cars have
branch houses and agencies In this country.
Of those various types ninety-six difi
ferent cars will be exhibited In the show
to be held next week, and In addition ta
this eighteen varieties at foreign cars.
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^H&VBS&^H^HL-'.iV--s ?.&k-smS
Bought His Maryland Farm on
His Winnings in That Sensational
Contest.
Young William Jennings of Maryland,
who has been racing a string of horses at
Benning. said last week that his venerable
father was still so crippled with rheumatism
that he Would not be able to be down
here this fall. If, indeed, he ever witnesses
another contest between racehorses outside
of the trials at the home farm.
But if he never does enter the race
courses where his "blue, white cap," has
D. D. Wmlker.
WHEN GLENMORE
nriT ni ini/nnnti
Dtfti mimm
Jennings' Big Coup in the Coney
Island Cup Race in
1881.
ueen uuriit; so pruramemiy in years pone
by. the senior Jennings will go peacefully
down the hill of a ripe old age In comfort,
outside, of course, of the painful ail'ment
which has tied him almost literally into
knots of late years. His homestead at Glengar,
Md., is a model one In every respect,
and has a romantic history, in that it was
purchased through the winnings of the best
horse he ever owned?the great Glenmore,
and mainly from one race won by the horse,
the sensational Coney Island cup of 1881.
White many turfmen of the day considered
Ealankeel as the best horse Mr. Jennings
ever owned, to me the lordly Glenmore,
named from the sky-c'eaving summit
at his owner's Scottisli home, was the
better racehorse, and in this I think his
owner will agree with me.
Balankeel, foaled 1871 by Asteroid-Schottlsche
by Albion, was a sturdy brown, aH
horse, but in the plain order. While Glenmore,
foaled 1870 by imported Glen AtholJLatta
by Hunter's Glencoe, was a rangy
chestnut on the "peacocky" order, a handsome
stylish mover, that would have earned
a prize In a showing on Ills looks alone.
And rarep stiH in his case he belled the old
saw of "handsome is as handsome does" by
doing great deeds as well as looking the
equine dandy, winning at all distances from
half a mile to four-mile heats, and always
ready to break like a shot, from the drum,
the flag or the drop of a hat.
By the time that Glenmore came Into the
Jennings stable Balankeel had finished his
racing career and gone to the stud. Sold at
the Woodbury sale of 1877 Glenmore as
a yearling was small, but later developed
very rapidly and grew to be a big colt. He
was raced very littfe as a two-year-old
and only a few times as a three-year-old
owing to seme trouble with his feet. But
as a four-year-old in 1880 Glenmore won a
lot of races In the west at distances up to a
cup route and further, coming east that
fall with a reputation. At Brighton Beaeh
Glenmore won at two miles and went into
winter quarters there as a candidate for
the principal ail-aged events of the following
year.
Glenmore at Sheepshead.
The all-aged stakes and handicaps of 1881
on the eastern tracks drew out some great
horses. Luke Blackburn was then at the
zenifli of Ills meteoric career, and the year
ii <1 n t Vi ro^_\TiO p.nlrl Host ?'An ronfl
Uriui t ao a mitv-j v?*? - ? ??->? >t un ? uv.u
after race for the Dwyers under Jockey
James McLaughlin. So great was the prestige
of the bay son of Bonnie Scotland and
Nevada that he was heavily backed early
that spring (1881) to win njany of the big
handicaps and cup races at Jerome and
Sheepshead Bay.
The heaviest wagers in the "futures" of
1- 1 * ? J A?-? tUa PAM Ialnn>) _
LUctl spi uig *>cic uii iiic vwur.v loiaiiu ? up,
run at Sheepshead Bay in June, and after
Blackburn's first start of the year. In a
handicap at Jerome Park, which he won,
Kelly & Bliss, Cridge & Co., and other metropolitan
layers were loaded up with the
uwyer money on uiacKuurn, standing to
lose heavily to the Dwyer crack. Parole,
Uncas, Monitor. Glenmore, Ferida, Irish
King, George McCuMough and others were
also backed in the futures, but all the layers
stood to lose heavily on Blackburn.
A week before the cup was run Glenmore
won (1 ran* ttI a IIUIC anu a ii^nung urais,
in which he defeated some good horses,
among them Parole, who was a prominent
cup candidate. The next night, near midnight,
o>d man Jennings, who was sleeping
on a cot In i..e barn to be near his horse,
was awakened by hearing his dog growl, !
and footsteps outside were followed by
some one trying the door.
Getting down his shotgun from the rack,
Jennings, followed by his dog, started for
the door, with the soldier's instructions
mnninff in his head to "shoot first and nslr
afterward." But lie was saved that necessity
by a voice from outside that asked
admittance on business. Taking down the
bars and leashing the dog, that started for
the late caller, Jennings, gun In hand, told
his visitor that "business" at that time and
place would have meant for some a dose
of cold lead.
By this time he recognized his visitor's
face as that of an employe of Bookmakers
Kelly and Bliss, and In a moment the man.
James Milliman. produced a letter of introduction
from the firm named. Taking his
visitor inside and fastening the door again,
J?nnings and Milliman sat down In the
"tack" room, and the latter stated his
errand.
Oneil)1, ivcny nau ocuv, flu>t?uiaii uumi iu
And out whether Glenmore was a certain
starter In the Coney Island cup. The bookmakers
were in so bad against Blackburn
that they were getting cold feet and casting
in every direction how to get out. Their
messenger told Jennings that his employers
would be badly crippled financially if Luke
Blackburn won the race, and asked the
veteran horseman what chance GHenmore
had to beat the Dwyer crack.
Jennings' Midnight Caller.
Aa Kellv's ajjent asked the Question Jen- I
I nines smUad u4 Mid; "This la all v?cjf I
well for them to want to know whether I
will start or not. But when they ask for
Information about my horse, something besides
mere talk is coming. Where do I
come In If I retail all my rna'ble secrets to
the bookmakers?" This brought Mllliman
to his fe>et with a bit of a card in his hand.
"You come in right here. Mr. Jennings."
and as he said this he handed the card to
the horseman.
The card, one of the usual bookmaker's
tickets, bore the name of Kelly and Bliss,
and the further Inscription i-YOoo to <*?
Glenmore, while at the margin was written
"payaible to William Jenlngs if Glenmore
wins," signed, "Kelly & Bliss." To saythat
Jennings was pleased was putting it
mildly. Putting the card in his wallet he
said to Milliman, "You tell Kelly he won't
have to pay his Blackburn bets. That
horse Is on the verge of a breakdown, and
T Irnrtw If T la n->ia ' o m, I Ihia m ? ?-i I ii ir in,!
if lie starts !n the eup will break down In
the rare And you tell him also that (ilen- I
more will beat the whole hatch and that I
every dollar 1 can spare goes on the burse I
the day of the race. Now. he and you
know enough to earn the wager of your
lives. Only tell Kelly not to forestall me
in the market at the track."
Hack to Now \ork Millitnan started in the
small hours of the morning, declining Jennings'
offer to keep him all night. And the
next day Kelly himself came down to
Brighton to see Jennings and get a look at
Glenmore. To make a lon?c story short,
Kelly further agreed to handle Jennings'
stable commission himself on the day of
the race and to place the owner's money
for him at the top quotation. Jennings to
sepd him word early on race day how much
he wanted to bet on th" horse.
At Sheepshead on a cup day a tremendous
crowd gathered. Outside of the sup
card was a brilliant one and tli? new race
course, only opened the year before, presented
such a charming picture of fnrest
trees, gems of horticultural beauty on
lawns and walks and a general air of elegance.
thus early it was christened the
American Ascot.
That forenoon in New York, ns was my
wont. I had made my usual combination on
two or three races of the day, and this
time selected as a medium the cup and
two overnight events. In the room when I
I made the bet they had odds on all the
races of the day. And also sold auction >
pools. I had won on Glenmore the week
previous and liked him for the cup. So
my combination ran Victim. Glenmore and
Ferlda. against which A. H. Cridge laid me j
KHI to 1. I put up $'20 and received a ticket
calling for the solid wager of $2.<nhj to $20
if all three horses proved victorious.
Glenmore Wins the Farm.
Odds of 100 to 1 are liberal against most
three-horse combinations, but at trftck
odds that day mine figured close to 1 ,<KHJ
to 1! The first horse. Victim, figured In
turn as a 10 to 1 shot, went to the post
at 50 to 1 and won cleverly. As 1 al
ways followed up combinations on each
rare separately I had a good wager on
Victim at 50 to 1 to win and 20 to 1 a
place, winning $700 on the race.
Then came the cup, and as the horses
came out on the track for the post preliminaries
the great crowd was swayed by
various emotions. The I^orillard pair from
Rancocas, Uncas and Parole, moved together.
making a good appearance as they
swept past the spectators. Then <-ame the
Lorlllard horse Monitor in George's familiar
colors, followed by Irish King. Glen
more and the great Luke Blackburn, the
favorite.
Blackburn was always a taking: stretch
mover, fighting for his head and showing
the ambition and fire of the high-class race
horse, and he was warmlj applauded as he
dashed up the stretch with McLaughlin In
the saddle. In the paddock all six of the
horses were closely inspected, and each
looked trained to the hour.
When betting opened the ring became a
seething mob. One hundred and twenty
layers were in line, and few had the temerity
to offer more than 7 to 5 on Blackburn.
Stable and public money soon cut these
odds to evens, and most of the layers
'rubbed Luke oft their slates, except Kelly
and Bliss, who never refused a wager.
Meanwhile It was 4 to 1 Monitor, 5 to 1
the Rancocas pair, 10 to 1 Glenmore and
20 Irish King. Then Glenmore touched
15 to 1. at which odds Kelly's commissioners
went down both sides of the ring, cutting
the horse's odds to 6 to 1.
Uncas and Blackburn led for a mile and
a half, and then, as Jennings had predicted,
Blackburn's game leg gave way. Glen
more went to the front when Jockey Cyrus
Holloway gave him his head, and won in a
gallop. Kelly won on the race,
Jennings over half that amount, and shortly
afterward bought his present Maryland
farm. C. C. P.
ATHLETICS AT JAMESTOWN.
Preparing for Contests During the Exposition.
NORFOLK. Va.. December 1 ?To take
care of the championship track, fleid and
swimming contests, awarded to Norfolk by
the championship committee of the American
Amateur Athletic Union, the Jamestown
exposition is making extensive preparations.
James E. Sullivan, new president of the
A. A. U., who is honorary director of the
Jamestown athletic events, has drafted
plans for the field, track and other athletics
scheduled for here. These plans embrace
a grand stand with a capacity of
The field is ideally situated on the shores
of HamDton roads. The swimming contests
will take place In Hampton roads, and It Is
expected a handsome prize will be offered
to the swimmer who crosscs the mouth of
the Chesapeake bay. a course very much
like the English channel.
Mr. Sullivan, in nvtklng up His honorary
committee on the Jamestown exposition
Fogler, winners of last year's international
nix-day bicycle race at Madison Square
Garden, have again teamed up and will
make another bid this year for the big
cycling prize when the pistol shot sends
off the bunch of champions from every
country on the night of December 9.
MUDVILL
By Grant
(Being number three of the Casey sei
the celebrated Son of Swat put the towr
plonshlp game, thus wiping out all Inter*
The pathetic fate of Mudville afterward
Will Bid for Cycling Honors.
NEW YORK. December 1.?The famous
"Little Old New York Team." Root and
athletic events, named the King of Greece
a member of the body. The King of Greece
recently decorated Sullivan, who was commissioned
from, America to the Olympic
games.
Bowing Acquisition for New York.
HALIFAX, N. S.. December 1.? James
O Neill. the senior single sculler of the St.
Mary's Athletic Club of the Blue Nose
region, expects to s'peiid much time about
New York next season and he may eventually
take lip a residence there. O'Neill
is likely to join a New York club that he
may row in all the prominent regattas in
that vicinity.
lage BO apuy uupru oui uy me mie yj. ut
I wandered bark to Mudville, Tom,
And where we drew in days gone bj
Alas! the town's deserted now, and c
Where mighty Casey fanned the air
Remember Billy Woodson's place?*
The bunch would gather and discusi
Dogfennel now grows thick around (
Before old Casey whiffed the breese
The grand stand, too. has been torr
Where you and 1 were wont to sit ir
' V-1 -1 f ,1 .1.1 Itidl
I lir (irmiuia n IIU || nv IU1H..V,. ?>? .
Where Casey swiiiik in vain Just tw<
Oh. how we used to cheer him, Tom.
Anil how we held our breath In >?i
And when ho landed on the hall howHow
loud we cursed when he strucli
The diamond Is a corn patch now.
With pumpkin vines and weedy plota
They couldn't bear to live on there.
Where they had been so happy onc?
The village band disbanded soon?th<
The council even jumped its graft ar
The marshal caught the next train c
Beizan to leave in flocks and droves
For after Casey fanned that day tin
And one by one they sought new lar
The Joyous shouts no more rang 01
The village blacksmith closed his she
Ala*, for Mudvllle's vanished pomp
Her grandeur has departed now?hei
Her place upon the map Is lost?and
A whit about the old town now?sln<
JAMESTOWN MAY
I m THF RFRATTi
w was m w mm ttown
The Schuylkill Navy Enters tn?
Field as a Competitor for
the National.
Georgetown Candidates for
Poughkeepsie to Be Called
X 1XA Al 5 ? A
lor Miier unrisimas.
The announcement that the Schuylkill
Navy Intended entering the flold us a competltor
for the right to hold the national
regatta in ISXi" is somewhat astounding to
ti e oarsmen of Washington, as It was generally
conceded that the honor would go
to the Jamestown exposition. This view of
the matter was based on a statement of on#
of the members of the executive committee
of the national association, who gave out
the fact that he had been deputized to
visit tlie waters near historic Jamestown,
and tljat If his report was favorable the
regatta woul.l surely go to the exposition.
This report must have been considered In
that light by the Jamestown commission,
as they sent a man abroad in order to induce
foreign crows to cross the Atlantic
to nartlclpate. They would hardly have
gone to tliis expense without some guarantee.
and this guarantee must be lived up
to or there will be a glorious wrangle In
store for the national association.
The oarsmen of Philadelphia are the best
exponents of rowing in America, having
the best clubs lt> every respect, and attending
more regattas than all the other clubs
together. They are thorough sportsmen
and seldom stand In tlx- way of any plane
desiring a regatta, as they have two flxe^
| uavm nina.m Ull ia|i IUI ?m il JCttl ?llir
! American Henley In the spring and tl?e
] Cup and People's regatta on July 4? id
yet they are always willing to assume tlie
national or the middl'e states in case there
is no other applicant on the list.
They have entered Into tills affair determined
to win out If possible, and they are
making their fight because they do not believe
tlmt the location selected for the holding
of the races is suitable for nch a regatta
as the national will be. The inaccessibility
of the place Is another strong
argument the Philadelphia contingent la
uiKinc agamsi jamestown. i ney noia, ana
rightly, too. that the location of a national
regatta such as they Intend this one to b*
should he one accessible both by rail and
boat, so that the frail racing craft may be
transported to and from there with some
degree of safety. This cannot, they claim,
be obtained from the meaner transporting
service to Jamestown alone, but as it will
require changing and unshipping of boata
to the selected spot picked out for the regatta.
they do not care to "stand for it."
The entire Schuylkill navy Is arrayed with
that skillful oarsman and clever general of
aquatics. Mr. Harry Burke, at the head.
The District Will Not Suffer.
Of course the District oarsmen are surprised.
for they, like the Jamestown folks,
were under the Impression that It was settled.
and were mapping plans accordingly.
It was on the program to hire a large
steamboat tx> take the clubs on an Interesting
trip to the regatta and to the exposition.
This program will yet be carried out
in case the Jamestown exposition gets the
regatta, but as a general proposition th*
clubs of Washington would prefer the regatta
at Philadelphia, for they know exactly
the lay of the land and water, and
the Schuylkill can always be depended on
for a good square race, without ocean
swells as a handicap.
No matter where the national Is held th?
Potomac River Regatta Association Intend#
to profit by It. for it will hold its annual
affair a week later, for the purpose of Inducing
the foreign crews to come to the
national capital. Washington will !> the
gainer no matter which way the dial
swings.
The projected meeting of the Potomac
announced for last Monday was called
off on account of business arrangements
of Peroral of the board of governors. Th?
I meeting will take place at the Riggs House
tomorrow evening, and besides dealing with
the question of the new home and its location.
affairs relating to matters of regattas
in the future will be taken up for
discussion.
The subscription dance, which will open
the season's series, of the Potomac Boat
C'lub takes p.ace at the club house Thursday
'evening. Mr. Russet Underwood )m
chairman of the dance committee.
J wr uiriuurio Hi ilie avu?c cuuiiiiivira vi
the Analostan Club are arranging for a
numlier of dances and smokers at thetr
cozy house In the winter months, which
will be in keeping with the successes In
this line that have been characteristic of
the club.
Much to the chagrin of the "mosquito
flotilla" of the river the line racing scull*
donated by Kearnt & Company of Worchester.
Mass.. did not come their w-ay. A
nrottv vniinc laHv won thf?m thpv will
hereafter "do stunts" for decoration purposes
In her den.
Candidates for Poughkeepsie.
Coach Murray R. Russell of Georgetown
University will not order out the candidates
for the Poughkeepsie regatta until
the students return to the university after
the Christmas holidays.
Eddie Haneke says he will enter th*
American Henley next year if he can get
into shape. His new boat Is a beauty.
Will the future rowing homes of the club*
be in Potomac Park or over on the pretty
banks of Analosian Island?
The bugaboo of the Baltimore and Oh!e
railroad is to the oarsman and canoeist
worse than the ur?am of the rarebit fiend.
Motor Boat Racea at Jamestown.
JAMESTOWN. Va.. December 1.?The
motor boat committee In charge of the
races to be held at the Jamestown exposi
tlon has Anally adopted the program of
events for the contemplated carnival. They
also dlm-ussed the question of ratine rules
to govern, and ended by appointing a large
committee to finally dispose of ttetT matter.
E'S FATE.
:land Bice.
ries. detailing the finish of Mudvilla after
iship on the blink by whiffing in the cham?st
in a hitherto thriving base ball center,
is only equaled by that of the Deserted Vil>ldsmith?(real
poet).
where you and I were boys?
r our fill of childish Joys?
(nly rank weeds grow
jusi inruij jtruis sr".
'here In the evening's simile
! the home runs Casey mad??
:hat "joint" we used to know
some twenty years ago.
> down?no bleachers met my gaze,
i the happy bygone days?
e have sprouted In a row
stity years ago
llin? ho nnme lul
< when on the plate he spatloud
we yelped?but oh!
; out some twenty years ago.
The outfield's overgrown
. The rooters all have flown,
for nothing was tlie same
s before that fatal game.
mayor, too. resigned?
id in seclusion pined?
>ut?and those we used to know
some twenty years ago.
! citizens all left.
Ids. heart-broken and bereft?
it of children at their play?
?i>: the druggist moved away.
when mighty Casey reigned?
glory's long since waned,
no one seems to carp
t Casey biffed the air.