Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
SPORTING GOSSIP.

Frank Parker, the ex billiard cham pion,
is now only 80 years old.
There are more amateurs playing
billiards for money in Chicago than ever
before.
Matsada Sorakchi the very cunning
little Jap, is wrestling now in the far
West.
Pat Sheedy's Sullivan combination
will make money or their Western trip"
is the Parsons prophecy.
Kelly says that he will rot sign with any
base ball club before April 1 of next year.
The Sporting life says; The New Yorks
didn't get Toronto's crack catcher, Doll
Darling, after all, as Chicago's contract
with that player has been approved by
Secretary Young.
Clarkson, the Chicago pitcher, is in
favor of the adoption by the League of
the Association rules giving batter first
base when hit by a pitched ball. Other
League players besides Clarkson would
like to see the rule adopted, but the East
ern managers are against it.
The guessing fined is again at work.
He surmises that the attendance the past
season at the games il New York was
25O,00O; at Chicago, 15,000; at Detroit,
100000; at Boston, 125OOO; at st. Louis,
100000 for the two Gibbs; at Brooklyn
100000 at Philadelphia 100000 for the
two clubs.
There will be no lack of exciting and
Interesting aquatic n01tests between the
leading professional sculIers next year,
albeit the voluntary retirement of Beach
removes from the aquatic world its great
central figure. Already Hanlan and
Gaudaur have arranged three matches
for next season, which will no doubt
prove absorbingly interesting, as these
two and John Teemer are now the lead
ing scullers of the world.
Lovers of tho gun are to have some
thing to talk about, &. an international
igeOnshOOting match is to be arranged
between William Graham, the cham pion
wing shot of England, and DIR. f. ". Car
yer, the champion of America. Ever since
Graham has been in tais country he has
had a forfeit of $3.50 posted with Richard
X. Fox to shoot at 100 birds against any
man in America. Carver at last has
agreed to shoot Graham 1pOn the same
conditions and terms the rival champions
cOntcnded when Carver was in England,
and, as Graham is in earnest for a match,
there will be no hitch in arranging the
preliminaries. Carver will be in New
York in a few weeks, wheL articles will be
signed for match at 100 birds, Hurting
ham rules, for 81 800 a side.
With the London BIsmcn.
The Culver for December
Seventeen hours a day! One hundred
and nineteen hours a week! That's my
time. left the yard last night at five
and d-twenty minutes to ,, and was on my
bus again this mornin' at 'alf-past s. It's
these long hours that tsIl!''
But you get a holiday sometimes"
IF we like to pay for it. Whenever we
are off duty we don't get paid. Whoa,
there
And the speaker, smtrt whip among
the London omnibu. drivers. ceases hi.
conver3 alton concerning his long hours of
labor to pull up his horses and sing out
loudly the destination of his omnibus.
They are quaint and curious men, some
of these London busmen. with a rich fund
of droliery all their own.
You see, sir" said one Il don't much
care for holiday; I've been so long on
this ere bus that things look quite diff
ferent like when I'm in the street below.
| shouldn't know my own chi!d n the
street"
"Oh, come! that's too strong"
Fact, tell ye, sir; In always away in
the mOrnin' afore they're up, and not
home till they're IN bed at night, and 1
shouldn't know my little gal if 1 was to
meet her out, especially if was to see
her off my bus"
Truly a significant remark for man to
make in this latter half of the nineteenth
century-a remark now without touch
of satire and of patho., TO: and We find
ourselves asking if it is a neces-
sity of our advanced civilization that men
must work so long and so continuously
day after day, that they never see their
children except asleep? No sweet, sim
pie prattle about the fathers knee, no
little fat dimple arms around the fathers
neck, none of the loving, softening infiu-
ences which little people know so well
how to exert over even the most stony
hearted of men! Surely, o Christian
civilization, these things are not necessi-
ties of thy development!
But yet the bus-driver rarely complains
or grumbles. He does not strike or con-
SrSSaIS III Udco-uVtIInEr. or commit acts
of riot, but he works patiently on, ds, az
ter day, steering his horses marvelously
well through the crowded London streets,
and surveying life with philosophic
calm from the altitude of his box. except
when child strays in the way of his
horses. and then his language is, perhaps.
rougher than are his real feelings.
Arrested on a Serious Charge
DgTRoIT, Nov 23.-Dr David Il. Weir,
of Oscoda, was arrested at London, Ont,
to-day for the murder of a young woman
in that place and will be held for extradi-
tion. DR.. Weir kept a drug store and
privite hospital Miss Mabel CLARK. aged
20, was patient in the hospital for some
time, but on November she managed to
inform her friends that she had been sub
iected to the grossest indiynities. In
tense excitement was caused by the story
and Weir left town Two or three days
later the girl died aud Weir was held TO
be responsible for her death.
The Cunning Express Robber Cummings.
VIsTA, Indian Terry. Nov 23.@Sinee
the circular giving the description OF
Jim Cummings, which wa. sent out By
the Adams Express company, was re
ceiyed here, it has been discovered that
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