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Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
miscellaneous Sports.

Beaver Lake, Kan, is becoming a great
resort for lovers of the rod and gun. Bass
fishing there Is at It's height just now, anG a
well known attorney from this CITY, and
couple of friends, made n basket OF over one
hundred in two hours fishing last Thursday
afternoon.
Tommy Miller, well-k known feather
weight and formerly of this city, now of
indianapolis, is to fight frankie McHugh of
Cincinnati, on June s. The battle is to be
to a finish for a purse of $500, and will take
place near the Indiana capital.
Bluewing teal are being killed in large
numbers at Honey creek and Horseshoe
lake. The birds are lingering AZ these
waters for an uncommon length of time this
spring, and would certainly nest and breed
there If unmolested More and more the
shooting becomes manifest, but it is hardly
possible that anything will be accomplished
toward this end until too late. After the
birds are killed off, legislation will follow
The Grand Island and Kearney trotting
associations hold their summer meetings.
commencing at Kearney on June and and
at Grand Island June II and II inclusive.
The purses amount to $500 and there is to
be trotting, running and pacing q. IL. Gut
ting is secretary OF the kearney association
and j. II. Withers of the Grand Island asso-
citation. The entries close June l.
Jim Messenger the wrestler and all-round
athlete is in the city, and anxious to get up
a go on the mattress with any man in the
city or state.
An interesting event is on the taps for the
Gate City Athletic club, which is TO include
a varied programme of athletic divertise-
ments.
There is letter in this office for Dave
| Bennett the runner.
Questions and Answers.
In a game OF base ball where two men are
/ out, and one on first base, the batter makes
| hit which is caught by. the first .-baseman
while on his base, and the. runner is off his
| base does this count four men out in the
| official scoret-B. F. Jones. city
Ans.-No. But three men can be disposed
| of in an inning.
In writing up a game of base ball you fre-
| quently use both the word "innng' and
| "innings." Which is correcti--Professional
| Omaha.
Ans.--Both. ''lnnng'' is one team's time
! at the bat and "innings" is both teams.
Ginning" IN other words is one-half of an
innings"
| oPlease inform me rough The BEE's!Sun-
| day sporting columns who would be the win
| ner of the following bet: Two games are
scheduled TO be play ed in one day. bets
| that Des Moines would win both II two
| games were played. Is bets that Des Moines
| would not win both. But one game was
played that day and Des Moines lost that
| The other game was played the next day
! G.. w, Labine Omaha.
Ans.-The stipulation was specifically
stated that If two games were played on that
| day, but there was but one played, which
| made the bet of.
What ball club in the country has the
| finest grand stand, and what did il cosJi
| How are the Omaha groundsi-Ned Will
| liams, Council Bluffs. -.
Ans.-The Philadelphia club has the finest
| grand stand in the country, They claim IL
cost $4,000. The Omaha grounds are all
| right, The outfeld is triae rough, and a
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
Dermott is the king of the Western associa-

Dermott is the king of the Western associa-
lion staff.
Milwaukee is negotiating for the Louis:
VILE franchise and team, with the view OF
Immediately entering the American asso cia
trouble upon the Western association, If the
deal is consummated.
This Is proving the banner slugging year
in base ball. and consequently the game IS
full of hurrah and life and patrons are cor
respondingly pleased. The four ball rule
has unGuestionably brought this about. All
the pitchers. stars, phenoms and dubs, are
catching it hard, and there is much kicking
among the twirlers in consequence.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
The Chicago Parates.

The parade committee has decided on
number of runs and parades during the week
of the tournament. To-day, May ~. there
will be run to haywood, leaving the Leland
hotel at 1880, The tournament opens at
2 80 on Monday, and at o'clock sharp there
will be lantern parade, leaving the north
end of the exposition building. This will
last about half an hour. Riders may come
with machines already decorated, or may
procure lantern at the building, arrange
ments having been made TO have huge
supply on hand. Friday, May "a. there
will be another parade, leaving the Le-
land at o'clock sharp. Saturday Q run 10
Cheltenham will occur, leaving in time TO
witness the Stone Lumsden race at Chelten.
ham Beach. On Sunday visitors will be
taken over the celebrated Pullman course,
leaving the Leland at IL a m.
All local clubs have been Requested 10 APP
point q man for each afternoon OF the tour
nament, TO meet visitors ut headquarters,
and escort them TO such points Of interest as
they may desire TO visit.
NJ H. Van Sicklen will serve as marshal
at the parades, select his associates and ar
range the routes.
The headquarters Of the tournament are at
the Palmer House.
Annual State Tournament.
Tho fifteenth annual tournament OF the
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
snokes from the WheeI.

At the recent Hot Springs, bicycle tourna-
ment, Wilbur F. Knapp won about all the
prizes worth winning. He took the five. mile
professional race in l7m ass; Nelson second !;
also the three-mile professional race in em
ass; one mile against horse in 2m AS; the
two-m mile professional IN 6m lbs, and one or
two other races of minor Importance.
A l00-mile race has been added TO the pro-
grammc for the big Chicago tournament. for
which there are some sixteen entries, includ-
ing young George Beard. Y. Z. Peabody,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
Omaha at Chicago.

c. c. Peabody, Frank Seifken, George
Beard, Lew Flescher and VIII Pixley, Of
this city, are entered for the one-mile handi-
dicap bicycle race at Chicago, Monday.
Beard, Seifken and Fescher are also en-
tered in the one-mile scratch race; the one
mile, three minute class; the one-mile flying
start; the one. mile safety; tho one-mile ride
and run; the two-mile safety; the quarter
mile and the one mile road safety races.
viii Pixley also goes in the one-mile race for
boys under sixteen; the two-mile handicap;
the two-mile, 8 90 class and the three-mile
handicap. Peabody goes in the three-mile
handicap, the five-mile handicap and the ten
mile scratch races. Prince, Reading, Knapp
aud Morgan all go an the six-1ay eight-hour
professional race. These races Will all be
run throughout the week.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
The Joe Gnrneaus.

Messrs McKelvey and Rockwell have or
ganized very strong semi-professionai
team, which has been chrstened the "Joe
Garneaus." They will play every Sunday at
Lake Manawa, commencing on the 18th with
the Union Pacifics Of this city. They have
nicely fitted-up park over there and intend
to furnish summer guests with plenty OF
good base ball. The roster of the Garneaus
is as follows: Bandel catch, Salisbury
pitch, Rockwell first, Hummel second, Nc
Kelvey third, Bittinger short, Baldwin left.
Strock middle, and Stookman left.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
Killed HimseIfin a Dream

scrimmage and drew his pistol from un-
der his pillow and shot himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
Exercising u Bet.

One would be surprised on going out to the
fair grounds any of these fine May mornings
and witnessing the large numbers of lovers
of good horse flesh who are in regular at
tendance to watch the flyers IN exercise The
horse editor was among the spectators yes
terday morning, on special invitation of
Mr.. Nat Brown, to see the famous PAGER
U Bet hooked up for the second time this
spring with his running mate, Jack Go. Easy.
The pair are certainly in great shape, u Bet
looking as fine as silk, with his bright eyes,
shiny coat Of brown, and symmetrical,
taperng limbs. He has wintered well, was
never in such promising condition, and it is
quite probable that some time during the
coming campaign will knock second or
two out of his world renowned mark. Jack
Go Easy is also in great fettle. He is big and
strong, and as full of devilment as two
year-old. He has got great head on him,
and Tobe Broderck handles the pair like
couple Of well trained children. Broderick
dotes on U bet and predicts wonders for him
this season.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12

State Sportsmen's association will be held at
Norfolk on May 81, %, % and "a. A large
delegation of local sportsmen will go up from
this city, and preparations are being
made for an unusually large at
tendance. One of the most in
teresting special events will be a
one hundred live bird match between Charlie
w. Budd, the champion trap shot of the
world, of Des Moines, Ia, and Colonel
Frank S. Parmelee, of this city. The
Omaha man is shooting in fine form, and it
will require the very incest kind of work at
the hands of the champion to beat him.
Budd is great shot, that is we'll estab
lished fact, but his record for the past year
has been but medium. He has been beaten
in similar match by DIR. Carver, and tied
twice by J. r. Stice, Of Jacksonville, H.,
and Parmelee standg good chance of scor-
have numerous hackers, and do his best to
down the champion.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
"A Blood.CurdIing Challenge.

Here, you stalwart, rugged, brawny
croquet players is an opportunity for you to
distinguish yourselves:
PLATTsMOuTH, Neb., May 10.-To the
Sporting Editor Of THE BEE: We would like
to have everybody know that we have
croquet club in Plattsmouth, and the finest
grounds in the state, and if there is any club
in Omaha or any other city which would like
to visit us, they can consider themselves
challenged for the states championship The
number of games and the rules to be here
after mutually agreed upon. We prefer
Omaha. S. p. VANATTA,
Secretary Plattsmouth Crouuet club
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12

Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, whe paid .
flying visit 10 Berlin while the Londou
Lyceum theater was closed in Passion week
were received with all honors by he
iIbTethren IN Germany.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
Bicycles VS.. Horses.

Commencing two weeks from tomorrow,
Monday, the 2Tth, the Coliseum will be the
theater Of as thrilling race as it has yet
witnessed, in the six days struggle,
bicyclennes against equestriennes. The race
will be four hours day, four bicycle riders
VS.. two hOrsewomen, for $500 a side, the for
mer TO relieve each other every fifteen
minutes, and the horse riders every thirty
minutes Twenty horses will be used in the
race. The ladies come from Crystal Lake,
Kan. and are said to be magnificent riders
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
The Williams-stanlcy Race.

Ihe Will1amS-Stanley race.
Talk of match race between Lily Will
llams, of this city, and Lottie Stanley, of
New YoIk, has been revived, and there is a
prospect that the great event will come off
some time soon, either in this city or Gotham.
The race is 20 be 100 miles, for nominal
stake and the entire gate as well as the
championship of America. Miss Williams
is in excellent condition, and not to be
caught mapping, is in daily practice at the
Coliseum. She seems little bit afraid Of
the redoubtable New Yorker, but has no cause
to be, as she is undoubtedly the best lady
bcyle rider in America if not the world.
The race she won over the Eek Morgan COM
blnation was vertible walk-over, and she
would have doubtless won the second race
had not series of mishaps overtaken her.
She was riding waiting race, but intended
to give her admirers here the worth of their
money by distancing her fair competitors on
the final day. Miss Williams expects to
know definitely about the match with Stan
ley this week, as Manager O'Brien, OF New
York, promises to have the matter definitely
settled one way or other within the next
three or four DAYS.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12

Annual State Tournament.
Tho fifteenth annual tournament Of the
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-22
Washington Was an Athlete.

Every historic character must pass through
two eras, that of undue exaltation and lauda-
ton, and that of depreciation and defama-
ton. George Washington escaped neither of
them. Tho detraction with which he was
met in his military career was temporary.
For the most part his life was n triumph.
His presidency was royalty beyond anything
since experienced by our executives. His
torians We'd IN exaggerating his e~xcellences,
and inventing illustrations of his extrsor-
binary character. Tho reaction was natural
to a startling abatement of belief in his saint
illness, and a conviction that his military
career did not exhibit the leestgenius Slowly
the final verdict has been rendered, and
we may assuredly say that among the
truly well poised and superbly developed he-
roes of humanity Washington stands among
tho very princeliest. Perhaps our special
generation, influenced by an awakening in
terest-in athletics and physical development,
is inclined to consider with more emphasis
the really magnificent bodily proportions and
health OF the father of his country. Science
likes to point to him as a notable illustration
of the 'smens sana in corpore sano" princi-
pile. Tn stories OF his physical proves now
seem to be significant OF more than power
and sport; they show that endurance that
was absolutely requisite to carry the general
of rebel colonies successfully through the
trials and anxieties of q revolution.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-22

BOARD, @ side table was laid for the little girl,
who was afterwards Mrs. Semmes, and stwo
other little girls, one of whom was afterwards
the mother OF Gen. Robert L. Lee.
AS the dinner went on, the three girls,
with their rosy cheeks and innocent gurgles
of laughter, attracted the attention of the
general, who, during the solemn speech max
ing, cast many furtive glances oward them.
They had agreed, child like, to eat of exactly
the same dishes, and accordingly all took tho
same kind of fish, vegetables, meat and des,
sert. Washington beckoned to a waiter,
poured out four glasses of some simple
cordial, and then, followed by the man with
the glasses on Il tray, crossed to the childrens
little table, bowed profoundly, and said:
"Young ladies, will you all drink with me2'
SIT was the proudest moment of my life"
Mrs. Semmes said. washington was re-
! earded as the greatest of living men, and
| this notice from him was an honor which
would mako any child happy beyond words.
| He knew this, and took the trouble TO give
three. foolish children this happiness, which
they never forgot"
1t was too much the custom, after Wash
i~ngton's death, to portray him as a %faultless,
emotionless being, lifted above all human
feelings and weaknesses. These trivial anec-
dotes give us n more human and doubtless q
more accurate view of his character.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-22
First Publication Feb IS.
Mortgage Sale,

~ -
WHEREAS, default has been made in the
w payment Of the principal snd interest on
the money secured ~ a mortgage dated The
Daniel wise. Of the County d Nv Wayne yns0a and sts ss
Yankton and Territory Of Dakota, which mort Z
Of eeds of the county Of Yankton' TERRITORY
of Dakota, in book 81 of mortgages, on mage
$40 ON the LIST day of June, 1881, as O'Clock q.
M. and
WHEREAS. no action or proceedings at law or
otherwise have been instituted to recover the
debt secured by said mortgage, or any part
WHEREAS. II was stipulated in said mortgage
that If default would be made in the payment
OF any portion Of the principal or interest
due, then the whole sum. both Principal and
interest, at once become due, and
WHEREAS, the whole amount Of principal and
interest has become due by reason of suoh de-
fault, in the payment of principal and interest.
WHEREAS, the amount claimed 10 Be dne
npsn said mortgage, at tn date Of this sotioe.
y the sum OF eleven hundred ead eighty three
dollars and fOt ty-one re Is. Sf,1SS 4l} to.wit:
s .o01 principal. and S1sS.M interest besides
the sum OF fifty dollars attorneys fees stipne
lated for in said mortgage.
Now therefore, notice Is hereby given that nv
virtue OF TIE power of sale contained in said
mortgage, ana duly recorded a. aforesaid. and
IL pursuance OF the statutes in such case made
and provided. the raid mortgage will be fore
CLOSED bya sale of the morigaged premises
therein describes. at public auction at tho
trent door OF the oeuIt hcusei 10 the city and
the 9th day of April, 1889, at two O'Clock in
the afternoon of that day. The mortesged
premises are situated in the county of Ynaktan
IN me territory OF Dakota, and are described
rs follows, to.wit: The west one. third w 1) OF
me snss one-hAlf te hlof lots eight tS) and nine
W. block twenty-six t2s),. Todd1s Yankton as
once, Iankton county. Dakota Territory.
Dated at Yankton d. T., this 18th day OF
February, a, ID . 1889.
nnn,on JULIA A. BATES. Mortgage.
FRENCH q SMITH.
Attorneys for Mortgagee.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-22


struck YOU as supremacy funny. Twenty
yeors later you could still smile, but only OUT
of poIiteness to the speaker. At forty you
felt like hitting somebody. And now, in Old
age. YOU smile a~gain-not at the joke, o., mol
Int ut remembrance of tho time when you
could laugh at such a lingual tnonstrosity.
remember. as if it were but yesterday,
whenI first heardit. Approaching Inc door OF
the village seminary OF n miserable tepru-
arv morning; | met 'thc cutest boy in Stone
burg. y as we all admitted His face was red
with suppressed fun, his jacket was almost
bursting with laughter, as he broke forth:
90. Johnnie, did you know this was
B~irthineton's Washday2'' For a half min
pte I stared; then the force of the broken
backed peryersion struck me in all its verbal
obsurdity | fell back against a locust tree
and laughed. | sat on the plank walk and
LAUGHED. Every time | cooled down the
..c,te bow repeuted it, and off we went
AGAIN. we saw .he teacher at the window,
and crossed the street to the blacksmith shop
and sat on the bench and laughed. o happy
DAYS when we could LAUGH! For many a year
that how ranked in my estimation as lust
too smart for anything"
wCrossinrton Washing the Delaware is
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-22
THE WASHINGTON JOKE.
HOW CERTAIN McdNSTRoslTlES WERE.
FASTENED UPON AMERICANS.

One Who Has Long and Patiently suf-
fered from Its Ravages U%nburdens His
Mine Regarding This Crying Evil-A
Boy Can Laugh at Anything.
"Washington is not a real man to us; he is
Q steel portrait said Bob Ingersoll, and in
that sarcasm is a bit of very sound philoso-
ply. 1t is the tendency of all peoples to exalt
their heroes towards the rank of demigods.
Washington's real features are idealizedin the
standard portraits; a halo of glory obscures
the %lactual Lafayette, and to many people
William Penn is scarcely more a historical
parsonage than Romulus or A~gamemnon.
But the American sense of humor has re-
volted. Seeing no other way to dissipate the
Bemi-historic halo, the satirist has devised the
G.. Washington joke. When one has laughed
at the impossibly good great man he can then
investigate with more impartiality.
There is the cherry tree and little Ratchet
story, for instance; how much fun the modern
paragraphist has made out of it. But it
never wa a fact. Then there is the
silver dollar-and Washington did throw
a silver dollar across the Potomac
as to which a statesman of the infia-
ton era unbent SO far as to soy: There
was nothing wonderful in tia dollar would
go a great deal farther then than now
There are also the almost original G. Wash
ington joke of Artemus Ward, ard the quite
aboriginal burlesques of Bill Nye and Annoy
Knox.
But here and now it is proposed TO deal only
with the old stand bys, the fine old crusted
jokes. And at the head of the list, hoary
with age, is that merely verbal transposition:
This is ~Birthington's Washday." or course
it was originally made by a child or a BOBBY,
perhaps by a laundering schoolboy. That
sort of thing is q favorite amusement with
children, Listen to tile progressive babble
of a group in their word building stage OF
life, thus: John jefferson, JEFF Jonnerson,
Jen Jefferson, Joff Jeunerson, Jeffer Jonson,
Joffer Jenson," etc. This is one of the ways
they learn to talk. And Of this age was
born "Birthington's Washday."
Nc doubt it had a hundred thousand birth.
places. Go to the Green Mountains and the
lathy Vermonter gives it to you with a grin
as something quite new and refreshing. In
Oregon it is q perennial joke. Make your
bed in Philadelphia, 1t is there. Take the
wings OF the morning and fly to the swamps
of Louisiana, and the sallow creole ~eulivens
you with the remark, "Well, this is Birth.
tngton's Washday.n As a joke there is ab.
solutely nothing in 1t. And that's the reason
it lives. The lowest capacity can catch on to
it. Even a Digger Indian who knows Eng
lish will smile ut it. When you first heard L ii
in childhood you laughed immoderately; il
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-22
Washington Sings the Derby RAM

When Washington, after the revolutionary
war, was travelling Though Connecticut he
visited Hartford, staying at tho Bulls tav-
ern there. A boy came into the kitchen of
the tavern and said: 81 want to see Gen.
Washington. y The functionary on duty did
not propose to let any mere boy see Gen.
Washington merely for the asking, and said
as much. But | have a note for him" re,
monstrated the boy. From whomF' MY
father, Chief Justice Ellsworth" "Oh,
well,' and the functionary relented. Gen.
Washington read the note and said to the
boy. Your father invites me to dinner, and
/ vii. do more than that, | will so and break
fast with him" And he did the next morn
ing. And after breakfast he took the twin
sons of the justice, each IN a knee, and sang
them "The Derby Ram" an old English bal
lad, beginning, SIT was on a market day."
and setting forth that the ram of Derby was
SO big that the birds built nests in tho wool
on his back, and the butcher who undertook
to kill him was drowned III the blood
New York Independent.