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them some time to get accustomed to their new
positions. Then they have been unfortunate in
losing one OF their best pitchers.
Tacoma will be good bit stronger this season
tnaa last First base will be strengthened so
per cent with Cartwright filing that position.
Their outfeld will be about the same in
suengtn, but they will be decidedly better off
In the pitching department Cody will again
90 about all of the catching with speer to help
him out They vii, also be strengthened in
their oase-stealing department, and catchers
WIN nave their hands full in keeping Cart
wright sippi, Routclifs and Goodenough
hugging the bases
Inen take Portland. We will all have to keep
our eye on that aggregation, or they may sneak
q marcn on US before we catch on how strong
tney really are. What pitchers they have are all
eooa, the infeld is strong in batting and the
outneid Is strong as last season. Then in the
batteries, Baldwin will be able to do all that
can be asked for in the receiving department,
ana 10 1t well. Mr.. Barnes, of New York, will
Dear watching during the season, and all the
CLUBS have their best foot forward to keep him
in the rear
The Seattle club is going to be stronger in
almost every point We will have a good deal
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fourths of length in favor of Oxford was
noticed. Then ensued a great struggle.
The dark blues on shore were wild with
excitement and yelled encouraging words
to their favorites, but their cheers and
cries fell on deaf ears. Bending to their
oars, the Oxford crew saw nothing but
their opponents behind them, and the
muscles of their arms and backs rose and
fell as the steady stroke that kept them
ahead was continued without
flaw. When Hammersack bridge, 1st
miles from the start, was reached
Oxford was still in front There was
hardly any change in the relative position
OF the boats when the Lead Mills, one
and seven-eighth miles from the start,
were passed. Oxford was then a quarter
of length in front, and both crews were
pulling at the rate of thirty-six strokes to
the minute, Cambridge pulling strongly,
but their strokes did not seem to have the
power of those of their opponents, and
they dropped slowly but surely behind.
At Chiswick Mall, about two and one-half
miles from the start, Oxford had increased
its lead, and when Thornycroft Works, a
little distance further on was reached,
they were two lengths in front. This lead
they maintained to Devonshire Meadows,
just beyond Thornycroft works, though
pulling no faster, more strength seemed to
be put into their strokes and the boat
forged farther ahead. At cambridge,
about three. and five-eighths miles from
the start. they were two and one-quarter
lengths in the lead. In passing Balm
bridge, Cambridge spurted and gained a
little on Oxford, but the latter bent
sturdily to their oars and pulling a power
full, telling stroke fairly lifted their boat
out of the water. Past the osier beds,
four miles from the start, the boats spun,
but with the advantage still on the side Of
Oxford. Cambridge, however, did not
lose heart in the least and did their ut
most to close the gap. Their efforts were
fruitless, however, and they dropped
astern.
Oxford slackened at Mortlake, a short
distance from the winning line, and al
lowed their opponents to approach. Then
ensued an exciting finish. Cambridge
braced themselves for a final effort. but all
to no avail. Oxford crossed the line
easily, a winner by two lengths and a
quarter. Time, 10 minutes 81 seconds, the
best record over the present course. Ok
ford won on its merits. The best previous
time was 20 minutes and seconds, made
by the Cambridge crew when they won in
1887, by three-quarters of a length. The
slowest time made over the course was in
1880, when Cambridge won by one length
in &c minutes and seconds. The crews
were as follows:
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September :, at New Orleans. New York

September Z, at New Orleans, New York
sporting writer says:
1t must be encouraging to the thousands OF
men who still believe John l. Sullivan
the leader of all heavyweight pugn-
lists, to learn that the distinguished
Bostonian is in by no means as
poor physical condition as some reports made
him out Wakely brings the news that John
L is taking excellent care of himself. he is
pretty heavy, to be sure, but believes that
two months of hard training will make him
IS strong and active as he ever WAS As for
confidence, he has plenty of that His idea OF
the fight with Jim Corbett is that it will not
last very many minutes, and that be will
capture the laureis. 1t has not ye. been
decided where he will train, but Charley
Johnson has his eye on several excellent
spots, and a selection may be made in a day
or two. Meantime Sullivan is on his way
East, crowding the theaters wherever he ap-
pears. He is anxious. to furnish $500 of the
stake himself. Corbett is also coming money,
and he appears to be quite as sure of victory
as Sullivan is. There has been no betting of
any account as yet, but the fight is long
way off, When the time comes Corbett be-
leves his admirers will not be backward in
putting up their sheckles on him. Unless
something happens to him John L. will be
warm favorite in this match as he has been in
any OF his previous battles
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sooa outneid; also good infield; is q fair base
is ns team and the best batting team in the
Inc pitchers are extra strong, and
Can say the same for the caschers.
nk the weakest team in the league this
sea. Wouid make creditable showing with the
~. winners OF last year. Consequently
think the league is much stronger than last
year. have never known a le ,gue in NV life
uu1 Jus. previous to the opening of the season
esery eluo In the league thought it had cinch
on .ne pennaut Therefore there are bound to
oe ,nree sets of disappointed directors and
slocknoioers in this league at the end of our
n ~ championship this season. Itismy opinion
.na. as tne teams now stand the first pennant
VI oe won by either Portland or Seattle. The
o'uer TWO positions will be left for the other
TWO clubs. Respectfully yours,
JOHN q BAHyKk
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knocked him out in the fourth round. L
am now prepared to repeat the perform
ance. and 5000 of the money of Parson
Davies my hacker, says can. Ii he means
business. and is not too cowardly to fight
me, a match between US can easily
be arranged. I will concede everything
reasonable and only ask one point, that
we fight at 165 pounds. All want is an
other meeting with Fitzsimmons to prove
for all time who is the better pugilist. 1
will bet 5000 on the outside that defeat
him. His story that he was paid to go
out in the last fight is false"
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Spokane Signs Dalrymple.

SPOKANE, April 9. Especial. Secretary
Kennedy, of the Spokane ball team, today
signed Abner Dalrymple by wire to play
left field. Dalrymple is a player of ma
tional reputation. He was with Arson, of
Chicago, for eight years; was with Dem
yer in 1889, and with Milwaukee in 1890
and 1891. His batting record last year was
.375. and his fielding record $50. He will
arrive Tuesday, and take part in the first
championship game on Wednesday.
Portland and Spokane will play an exhibi-
ton game tomorrow.
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AMArEUR SEASON OPENS.
Maroons and Ewings Play First Game ,
West Seattle This Afternoon.

Maroons and Ewtngs Play First Game ut
West Seattle This Afternoon.
The season of the Puget Sound Amateur
League is lxed to open today. Seattle and
West Seattle are scheduled at West Seat
tie; Puyallup and Centralia at Centralia,
and Tacoma and Olympia at Olympia.
The Tacoma-Olympia game will not take
place, however. 1t was announced last
night that the Tacoma club, owing to its
failure to secure proper backing, will not
be in the league. 1t is expected that Sno-
homish will at once be secured to fill up
the break, as that town at the last meet
ing made application for membership, and
was to be given the preference in case
there should be vacancy in the league,
Whatever club is secured to take Tacoma's
place will take her games, and there need
be no break in the schedule. Today's
game at Olympia could not have been
played owing to the heavy rains damaging
the grounds, and it will be considered as q
postponed game between Olympia and the
new club in the league.
The Seattle Maroons and the West Seat.
tie Ewings will play this afternoon on the
new West Seattle grounds if the weather
permits. 1t will be the first match game
OF the season in Seattle; the teams are
well matched and contain some good
talent. and an interesting contest is to be
expected. Admission will be charged to
the grounds. Game will be called at 8
o'clock. The makeup and batting order
of the two teams will be as follows:
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San Francisco Races.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 9.-The spring
meeting of the Pacific Coast Blood Horse
Association opened at the Bay District
track today. Summary:
Introduction purse, mile dash, s-year.olds-
Fiery won, Captain Al second. Time, LAB
Halt mile dash. 2-year-olds-Don Ferlano won,
Bridal Veil second. Time, 40 So seconds.
Five furlongs, heats, all ages-Revolver won,
Inkerman second. Best time, 1:02
One and one-fourth miles, 3-year-olds and up
wards-zaldivar won, Queen Alta second Time,
Oil is.
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THE COMING PRIZEFIGRTS.

It Will Cost s125 to See SIavin and
Jackson-sullivan in Fine Trim.
In the coming fight on May 80 between
Peter Jackson, champion of Australia,
and Frank Slavin, champion of England,
at the National Sporting Club, London,
the price of admission will be ELS ($250).
A New York authority says:
Already the sports are betting on the result Of
this contest, which is nearly two months off.
Slavin appears to have the call. But
there will be enough Jackson money around
in few weeks to keep the other fellows
friends busy. Not few of the men who saw
the Slavin- Kilrain fight that were ION tho
winner" will shift from white to black this
time, They figure that Jackson is a cleverer
and taller man than Kilrain, besides being
much longer in reach and possessed of greater
Furnishing powers It is admitted that Kilrain
had long way the better of two rounds in
that fight, and many believe that 1t was care
lessness on his part that lost him the battle.
After Slavin whipped his right across and
brought Jake down IN the third round every
body thought it was all over. But Kilrain
stayed on for six rounds after this punch,
and Slavin could not finish him not
outstanding the fact that Jake was
scarcely able to hold himself together. Now,
then, they continue in their summary, how
can Slavin get in one of his lucky punches ON
Jackson while he is fresh? This argument is
gooe enough in its way, but it must be re-
membered that Slavin, in nearly all his fights,
has apparently been worsted in the early
stages After the first round of his en-
counter with big Joe McAuliife the sports
were betting 500 to 500 on the American.
Jackson is undoubtedly a better man than
Slavin ever fought, and if he is anything like
the Jackson who went to England two years
or more ago, he will be hard man to beat.
Slavin has dissolved partnership with
Mitchell. Mitchell has refused to fight
Ted Pritchard. middle-weight champion
of England
Joe Goddard, of Australia, and Joe Nc
Auliffe, of San Francisco, will fight in
that city in June for a 5000 purse.
Talking of the Cnrhett- Sullivan g oht on
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games in the outtield. His best work was,
however, with the bat, and he led the
team in the aver ages-a remarkable record
for player in his first season.
Lange measures 6 feet ~ inches and
weighs 1873 pounds. He is good back
stop, and throws like a rifle shot, Besides
working behind the bat he can take his
turn in the box. at first base or in the out
field and hold up his end. He is also a
hard hitter and fast base runner
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A Hitch in suIIivan-Corbett Fight.

the Olympic club of New Orleans that
John L. Sullivan and James ]. Corbett
should deposit s., 500 as a guarantee that
they will appear and fight in the ring of
the club on September may be an impede
ment to the contamination of the match,
for Charley Johnson, Sullivan's hacker,
says he will not put a cent to that end.
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stronger batters, better base runners and good
strong, fast-feding team. Then in pitchers we
have three good men to start in with who will
be able to do the work that is expected of them
We have not an experiment the team, SO
there will be no chances taken in that direction
Taken all in all, don't see club in the league
that looks stronger on paper than the Seattle
club, and II we don't lead all the rest of them q
merry dance in keeping up with us will miss
my guess by good deal. The season will open
up on the 18th, and there will be some of the
very finest kind of music over at Tacoma
ABNER POWELL
SPOKANE, April S, 1892
Sporting Editor Post Intesligencer: Yours of
the LIST is at hand, asking me to give my opin-
ion of the strength OF the different clubs in the
Pacific Northwest League. In an honest opin-
ion OF this kind a person cannot put all the
clubs down for pennant-w winners, and in max
ing prediction of this kind you are apt to incur
the dislike and enmity for the entire season of
the three clubs you do not predict to win the
pennant. But am well used to being roasted
in baseball and little more wont hurt me. So
here goes: The Spokane club has got fair in
field; their outfeld is only fair, and their pitch
ers are also on the same order But they will
be very strong in batting, and in Jack Brennan
they have very fine catcher. think they are
weak in base-running
The Tacoma team has got a weak infield, a
strong outfeld and, if Pitcher Strong turns out
as strong tno pun) as the Eastern papers pre-
dict, their pitching department is goodwill
one proviso, and that is II Clark Griffith pitches
in his old form. In Mike Cody they have an ex-
cellent backstop. As hitting team do not
think they are as strong as Spokane, but think
they are stronger than Spokane in base running.
The Seattle team has a strong infield. They
are also strong in the outfield and in the pitch
er's box. Behind the bat LANCE will prove a
valuable youngster They are the equal if not
the superior Of the two aforementioned teams
in batting and base running Altogether / con-
slider Seattle very strong and evenly balanced
team.
Now for Portland / think Portland has
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LONDON, April "a. six days. go-as-you-
please roller skating race, which began
Monday, was finished this evening amid
intense excitement. The contest resulted
in victory for Snowden, American cham
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Steep1echase Rider Killed Near London.
LONDON, April 9-In the house of COM
mons steeplechase today the sport was
spoiled by an accident. resulting in the
death of Captain Middleton, a well-known
rider. He was one of the riders in the
race, was thrown from a horse and in-
stantly killed.
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OXFORD.

Earl Dunraven Sells the Yacht valkyrie.
MONTE CARLO, April 9.-Earl Dunraven
has sold his famous yacht, Valkyrie, to q
Russian grand duke, for 500, COO.
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v, and are quite willing to come this

West now, and are quite willing to come this
way.
! have been asked great many times who han
the best team in the league. 1t is a hard Ques-
ton to answer, but az l am personally &C.
euainted with and have seen and played with
almost every player who has been signed up to
date, have pretty good idea of the men.
The Spokane club is made up OF quite lot of
good hard hitters. They will put up fair field
ing game, as their infield has been playing other
positions, mainly the outfieid, and 1t will take
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ST.. LOUIS, April Crank Shaw, of st.
Paul, has purchased the betting privileges
at the Fair ground race track for the spring
meeting for $1,000
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JIM HALL TO FITZ.
The Australian Defies the Cham
pi0n to Battle.
A SULLIVAN -coRsETT HITCH.
The Oxford Boat Crew Defeats CAM
bridge in the Great Thames Con-
test-San Francisco Races.
MH1IApELHIA. April

ILApELHIA, April
9.-Pugilist Fitz-
simmons reply
to Jim Hall, an
gered the latter
in to sayin g
many ca u s tic
things regard
ing Fitzs i m
mons. He said:
"In our fight at
Sydney, in Feb
ruary, 1890, I
whipped him
thoroughly, and
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San FRANCISCO, April 9.-San Francisco
6, San JOSEF.
Los ANGELES, April Clos Angeles Z,
Oakland 6.
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Of persons are more sought after and of
more general interest than those of the
managers. The PosT-INTELLIGENCER, with
. view to furnishing attractive reading
matter in its baseball columns, has Sc
cured articles from the pens of two of
the Pacific Northwest managers. They
are as follows:
SEATTLE, April 9, 1892
Sporting Editor Post InteQigencer: The League
season is about to begin. each club has made up
Its team the way it will start out, and all the
baseball people are wondering which town will
have the strongest makeup. 1t would be
hard task TO pick the winner at the present time,
Is each club has been very fortunate in select
ing its men, and each one has some OF the finest
material in the baseball profession. Our league
Is going to be great deal stronger this season
than it was last and the people can look for
ward to some giltedged ball The question
will naturally arise: How is 1t that we are 60
ing TO have SO much superior players the COM
ing season over those of last7 The simple
reason is that almost all the leagues in the East
have made quite reduction in salaries, and
players, who would not think OF coming so far
70 play in the past, take kinder view of the far
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THE MANAGERS TIPS.
Their Opinions of the Strength
Of the League Teams.
OPENING OF AMATEUR SEASON.
Tacoma Dodges Drop Out-Gams Today
Between Maroons and Ewings-
Sketch OF Willie LANCE.

BE opening of
every baseball
season is always
rife with specu-
lation among the
"fans" as to the
relative playing
strength of the
different teams
and the outcome
of the pennant
race. On such
matters the opin-
ions of no class
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-03-16
4 DG~'S RELIGION,

One day while Arthur O'Leary was
walking through the city of Cork he
met the Reverend Mr. Flack, Protes-
tant clergyman, and Mr.. Solomons, a
Jew, both friends of his. Mr.. Flack's 5
dog was running on before them. Good
morrow, friends!" said O'Leary We'll,
what interesting topic engages your at
tention now?'' "To be candid with
you," replied the clergyman, eve were
just conjecturing what religion this dog
of mine would be likely to embrace if it
were possible for him to choose.
Strange subject, indeed" said Mr..
OLeary; "but if l were to offer an opin-
ion | would venture to say he would be-
come Protestant" "How?" asked the
Protestant clergyman and the Jew.
"Why," replied O'Leary, che would not
be Jew, for, you know, he would re-
tain his passion for pork; he would not
become a Catholic, for am quite GER
tain he would eat meat on Friday.
What, then, could he become but g
Protestant?''
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AN ANaLo-lRIsHMAN's WIT,

"Tll commit you, SIR" roared an in
dignant judge to CuTan, who had de-
nounced the grand jury. II hope you'll
never commit worse thing, my lord" !"
retorted Curran.
"No man." said a wealthy upstart,
should be admitted to the bar who has
not an independent landed property. :"
May | ask, sir" said Curran, chow
many acres make wiseacre?
A barrister entered the court with
such peculiar wig that it caused gen.
eral litter "Do you see anything ridic-
ulous in my wig?' he asked. Nothing
but the head, sir" Curran replied.
Describing an extremely pompous and
solemn man Curran said, He would
not even be seen to smile lest the world
should think he was too familiar with
himself"
When John Philpott Curran and
Bully" Egan met on the dueling
ground, the latter complained of the ad-
vantage his antagonist had over him
and declared that he was as easily hit as
haystack, while as to firing at Cur
ran, he might as well fire at Il razor's
edge. Whereupon Curran waggishly
proposed that his size should be chalked
out on Egans side, and that ''every shot
which hits outside that mark should go
for nothing"
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PETER O'NEILL CROWLEY.

The Tragedy of Kilclooney Wood Graph
ically Told.
One of the most picturesque figures in
Irish history is Peter O'Neill Crowley.
He was born in the barony of Imokil-
leagh, in the county Of Cork, and joined
the Fenian organization at very early
age. When the rising Of March, eight
cen hundred and sixty-seven, took place
he was in the van.
He and four or five of his companions
Mcclure, Kelly, Walsh and O'Neill
among the number-had secreted them
selves in the wood at Kilclooney, not
far from Mitchellstown. They were
practically outlaws, for price had been
offered for their capture But it was
not destined to be paid-in money. De-
spite informers and government spies,
the authorities had no idea of how many
leaders, orof their followers, were in the
wood.
It was a terrible ordeal for these few
brave men, practically deserted by the
thousands who had swornto follow them,
and living beneath the trees, with no
other shelter for over three weeks. 1t
was a most forlorn condition; but Mack
ey-who was the Mercury of the little
band-and Crowley, determined to ''tire
out the enemy" and the latter's little
nephew brought them bread and other
food from the village unobserved. Zone
of them told mo that the loyalty and
strategic patriotism of this little fellow
is unexcelled in any history.)
But there is an end to all things; and
to this romance of outlawry of the sixty
seven rising there came sad and ter
rible ending. The authorities, believing
that at least thousand Fenians were in
Kilclooney wood, arranged for a grand
coup and detailed a regiment of soldiers
and several hundred policemen to sur
round it. It was in the dawn of the
morning when this formidable little
army approached Kilclooney from op-
posite directions. The wood descends
from the converging hillsides of o pic
turesque valley to little stream in the
center.
The soldiers came down the western
side, on the northern end of the wood,
and the police forces on the eastern.
AS the light was dim, at this early hour,
and mist had gathered around the
glen, the officers of the military force,
seeing the body of darkly dressed men
descending the opposite slope, decided
that they were Fenians. Orders to fire
were Immediately giyen-a real battle
was believed to be imminent-and a