The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-04-28
The Field of sports.


There's fish that bite and fish that don't
- ut it generally depends upon the skill Of
,pe fisherman. Will Rgden opened the sea-
and two pike, weighing 10 Will says, and
he doesn't wear card twenty one pounds.
Il" Mitch heard OF it and went around TO
bear the joyous tid'nss TO the boys
Thursday WAS the day selected, and 1t would
seem that the professional world had been u
voiceless waste. had not the Baxter Moore
trial been on progress and few medical
men driven here and there responsive 10
calls. Instead Of the familiar emblem, In
Circuit Court -" At Dinner" or Called to
Chicago" the explanatory notice Oh half the
doors Of the Ottawa bar on Thursday WAS.
leone FISHING However, there is no
record of big catches, unless it be at late
suppers.
Base ball will be comparatively active In
the couaty this season. The south side peo-
pie have organized q club, leased four acres
of the Highland Park improvement Co.'S
grounds for = campus. and will attempt to
attrast audiences 10 Chicago. The Stars,
80 nearly invincble last season that few
clubs in the county desired to meet them
more than once. will probably reorgsniss.
The principal difficulty the young men com.
posing the club labor under, 10 the fact that
they are nearly all working men, and have
no leisure excepting Sunday. on which day
Mayor Allen says they must not play inside
the city limits. They will try to arrange
for q half holiday on Saturday which will
remedy the evil.
Although the boat club will not take
part in the Fourth Of July celebration, they
will 90 into training as soon rs the weather
permits their looming boating costume. There
are "A active members, and q liner lot OF
y Dung men would be difficult to meet with
in any OF the surrounding cross roads. Their
boats and boat house represent a capital OF
So 500, An outfit unequalle1 by any similar
organization on the river. Fred Mayo haz-
ards the remark, in q stage whisper, of
course, that should the river again be chok ed
up with grass and weeds, he and George
rrimble and Rec. Hit will take the whole
concern down to the Senachwine and drown
it.
The "Sidney S." and the Belle to-
gether with the numerous row boats owned
by private parties, will not be in the rear
" hen the season is fairly opened. The
"Sidney" has already made several trips
and there is some talk Of chartering the
little craft for moonlight boating party in
the not distant future. The banks and is
lands Of the river afford many pleasant
hooks for picnics and quiet little parties,
and many sweet flowers, lovely ferns and
trailing vines abound within 10 minutes
row from town. Boating ID also very health
full exercise, bring every muscle into play,
and has NO equal as developer Of strength.
Lawn Tennis will be revived when the
college boys reich the ancestral step stone.
Quite an active club, in which several de-
veloped considerable aptitude for the game,
was formed last summer, and it is presumed
that the privilege Of part of the east side
school ground will again be granted it for
. campus.
Bicycling will of course hold first place,
and il is catching after the fashion of Old
Silver Flint in his palmiest days. Several
new wheels are in contemplation, and the
wheel is so irresistible that it is singular
that some of our middle aged men, whose
duties compel strict business hours. have not
taken hold of this healthy and delightful
diversion.