Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-02

| less mat mas ever occurred IN this vicinity.
NEARLY A MILE A MINUTE.
4 Homing Pigeon Covers Eishtsen
Miles In Twenty Minutes.
Two hundred homing pigeons Of the
American Star Homing Pigeon Club. the
headquarters of which are at No. 1905 Plum
alley. Baltimore. were liberated from An
| napolis junction at sos o'clock yesterday
morning. The Intervening distance is eigh-
teen miles. and the frst bird reached the
home loft In exactly twenty minutes. All
| OF the others safely covered the distance In
less than thirty minutes.
1t is proposed to liberate the same num-
Der from Hyattsville tomorrow morning.
and to repeat the performance from Wash
ington on Sunday morning.
The Regatta at Nice.
Interest in the regatta to be held at Nice.
France. In 1906. is already keen. owing to
the announcement that James Gordon Ben
nett and Baron de Rothschild will offer
unusually valuable prizes to be contested
for both by sailing and steam yachts.
| Mr.. Bennett will offer a cup of the value
OF $500. together with $500 in money. as
first prize for each Of three events, while
| Baron de Rothschild will offer as second
| Of Zoo.
One Of the races will be for sailing yachts
OF over 200 tons; another will be for steam
yachts OF over 100 tons. and the third will
be handicap race for steam yachts.
me cups given by Mr. Bennett must be
race giving six months notice Of his or
their desire to contest and the holder Of
| the cup having the privilege to decide
whether the race shall be held at Nice.
steinit. Postpones Play.
| The twelfth game Of the chess match for
the championship Of the world and s., 900 a
side between NJ. steinits and Emanuel
Lasker, which ought to have been played
at the local chess club at Montreal yester-
day. was not contested. as Stsinitz sent
word that he claimed day OF.
SO fsr the champion has Cancelled play
| three times and Lasker once. According to
the articles the champion cannot postpone
| play any more. but must meet his opponent
on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays in
each week until the match Is finished. Las
Kerr on the other hand, may still cancel
| games.
Putting the vigilant In Summer Dress
number OF men were put to work yes
terday scraping and repainting the yacht
Vigilant, which was recently purchased
by Howard Gould from the syndicate which
owned her when she won the famous yacht
race last fall Mr.. Gould and Capt French
who. 1t is said. Is to sail her, yesterday
made a thorough inspection OF the yacht
| Mr.. Gould left orders to have the Vigtlant
launched as soon as possible.
Mr. Benefits New Yacht.
Abe Hummel Of New York Is authority 70,
| the news that James Gordon Bennett has
placed an order with the Hereshoffs OF
Bristol. r. l.. to construct q yacht that Will
outsail the Vigilant The new yacht Is tc
be built under q guarantee that she will
show clean pair Of heels to the valkyrie
and Is to cost $4,000. She Is to he called
Prunelle. and will be a center-board. For.
| ty-two American yachtsmen will man heI
and she Is to be put in commission In time
to enter the yacht races to be held in the
| Mediterranean next autumn.
| Capt MacCalmont, a well-known member
| OF the Royal Yacht Club, England, is sup
posed to have ordered a yacht with which
| he hopes to carry off the America cup
Among those who will take part in the
autumn races In the Mediterranean will be
the Prince Of Wales. James Gordon Bennett
Lord Dunraven. Baron Rothschild, Capt
| MacCalmont and others.
Spectators View.
To the Editor Of The Evening Star,
As fairly regular patron Of our nationa
game and as a spectator Of yesterdays
fasco, I would like to enter my protes,
against the silly action Of Captain Joyce ir
disregarding the umpire's command e
play ball." Kicking against the umpire's
decision (unless a question of interpreta.
ton Of the rules Is involved) is not only
useless, in view Of the fact that he can.
not change 1t even II he wants to. but Is
| calculated to set an audience whose sym.
pathies are naturally with the home club
against the umpire no matter how honest
he may be In the discharge of his tryine
duty. To my mind Foutz and the ball ar.
rived at first base about the same time, and
under the rules he was entitled to the ben
eft of the doubt. The umpire thought so
too, and he gave his decision accordingly
Granting Capt Joyce the moral right to OBJ
tect there was not the slightest excuse fol
| the senseless wrangle which ensued Mr.
| In pulling out his watch and telling our
club (for all the members Of 1t seemed tc
be around him. when the rules specifically
prohibit any one other than the captain OF
give the game to Brooklyn unless play was
resumed in one minute.
Play was not resumed. and a game which
promised to end In favor of our side wa
lost through bullheadedness Captains of
other clubs have also, and probably fire.
quently. objected to the umpire's decision
but / have never seen, though 1t may have
occurred club other than our own forfeit
a game in yesterdays manner 1 claim
that hve innings is not a game unless dark
ness or rain interferes. 1 am entitled To
see the game played out. 1 pay my money
for that purpose, and consider myself de-
frauded, or, at least, badly treated, when a
game terminates 1t did yesterday Quite
a number of gentlemen who sat around me
| expressed themselves as of the same opin-
lon. If Joyce did not know better 1t was
Manager Schmelz's fault in not instructine
him. In either event, the whole business so
disguised a number of spectators that the
| turnstile will show the effect to some ex-
| tent anyway. In conclusion, permit me to
| compliment Mr.. Stage on his firmness. He
Is human. and therefore liable to error but
If he continues to take the stand he did
yesterday he will be respected by those low
ing fair play, and who want to see the club
play ball and not the baby act
| SPECTATOR.
Against the Cigarette Trust.