Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-08


he lulled big Prof. Donaldson to sleep down
In Cincinnati fifteen gears back. TO three
years ago last night. when he fell before
Corbett at New Orleans. Sullivan and Har-
rison have been on the outs for q long series
Of years, but they met In u Boston cafe one
day last week. Just after Duncan had re-
turned from Europe. shook hands across the
CORY vacuity and wept on each others
shoulders like real brothers. Duncan said
John never looked better in his life, that he
was up straight as a string, and on a fair
road to peace and prosperity. Well, here Is
more success than ever to both Of you. old
pals.
At last my old business partner. William
X. Vanderbilt, has caught the fever and Is
about to launch forth upon his career as a
turf man. In pursuance Of his plan to start
a breeding and racing farm in France he
has Just purchased from Pierre Lorillard
sixteen thoroughbred mares, all of which
will be shipped from Rancocas farm next
week. The bunch secured by Billy is from
the richest producing lines OF England and
America and cost Mr.. Lorillard more than
s75,0 900. What Mr.. Vanderbilt paid for them
is not known, but as | expect to hear from
him soon he will doubtless tell me; then |
will tell you. 1t Is his intention to breed
these mares to French stations and do all
his racing In France.
Arthur Valentine. the English lIghtw eight
who bumped into New York a few days ago.
says that Peter jackson, the Midnight Mars,
is little better than a physical wreck. and
that he win never again be able to Withstand
the rlgors Of training for a fight. The fact
that the East Indian has not even as much
as glanced at the wad Of Doodle Peter
Maher has posted to fight him lends the
color Of truth I'd Valentines story. He SAYS
the giant blacks American friends, II they
were to see him stripped. would not recog-
niZn him a & tho cnIanhfI athIo.r ,ta. t....
here. Well. IL the big brunette purc.er is
gone, 1t Is only another case OF stranded on
the shores of good fellowship.
TO all appearances the big fight Is now al
most a sure go for Dallas. ANYWAY. this
week will tell the story beyond the per-
adventure Of a doubt. All along il has been
asserted that Governor Culbertson was not
nearly as strenuously opposed to the mill as
he would have the reform element in the
Lone Star state believe he was. and now
that the law licensing Just this sort of a
pleasure is operative look out for thu going
up OF the big arena and a rush for seats.
Next week, when there will be positive as.
surlty one way or the other, If II goes
forth that the fight is to take place, I will
give the red hots the benefit Of my opinion
as to the outcome CT the events carded.
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As the telegraph will doubtless tell us this
morning of the result Of the first race b.
tween the Defender and the Valkyrie, there
Is little call for any anjmadversion here
If the Atlantic breezes did the square fling
by us We ought to be a winner. and that's
all there is to it.
The suspension Of Cabanne, Titus and Muir
pny'. the racing cyclers, fer confessed
crookedness, should be a warning IN othar
ambitious riders. Their work was awfnIlv
raw and the promptness of Chairman Gideon
IN laying them on the shelf is WORTHY Of the
concentration of every hone t wheglman in the
land. Their retirement should be msde re--
nianent, for any halfway action will cnIy
initiate against the efficacy Of the exsmrIa
That has been made of them. And to think
OF the superlative gall of Cabanne. the ex.
Omahan, and Titus is partner in tho dtr,v
work. They say that Murphy, who was ain
ana IN on the job, but who gave them the
double cross, is a coward and a sneak. THAT
is probably all trre, but what ara Cah9nne
and Titus? They should remember the cid
adage about honor among thieves. and also
that 1t was not Murphy who gave them away.
In their rage and pique over Murphy's puttinp
the jacks to them, they talked too much an !
thus was the plot revealed.
One of the most shameless pieces of ,obberv
ever attempted on the t:otting track was thai
by Jack Curry and Myron McHenry. driver,
OF Joe Patchen and John r. Gentry. at RAJ
mont park, Philadelphia, last Wednesday. II
not only stamps these men as the rogues of
the sulky, but gives color to the story that
all the recent races between these two horses
and Robert j were putrup jobs. So palpable
was the fraud last Wednesday that the iuigss
declared mo heat no less than three times
and eight heats had to be trctted bsf re
Patchen could be made to accept a Christmas
present. Curry was threatened with mob vio-
lence and McHenry's case is bsing considered
by the judges. No leniency should be shown
these men. The harness turf is in bad enough
odor already. The fact that Curry and NC
Henry drive such great horses as Gentry and
Patchen should net shield them frcm the
most condign punishment. Their action was
f1agrant in the extreme, and impudent beyond
expression. Rule them off for life would be
a merited dose. This would be the prompt
doom Of drivers less prominent, and no par
TALLY should be allowed to operate here.
1t may not be generally known. but is
never helesS a fact. that America boasts of
the cha mpionship chess player of the world,
and chess players all over the country are
Justihably %exultant. This is the first cham
pionship America has had since back in
1858, when Paul Morphy. the New Orleans
phenom, crossed the ocean and brought the
honor back. Harry N. Pillsbury, of the
Brooklyn Chess club, is the young American
-he is not % years of age-who has
downed the greatest living masters, Lasker,
Steinitz. Tarrasch and Tschigorin. and is now
'''o ~ NaS pOtANH " II iN1thN ilotlIh
international chess congress. which was the
greatest assemblage Of chess players known
in the history of the game, Pillsbury won
the first prize. 81 900, by a score of fifteen
out of twenty-one games, losing three and
drawing three. Tschlgorin was second with
fourteen won, three lost and four drawn;
Lasker third with fourteen won, four lost
and three drawn. During the closing days
of the congress the youthful Brooklyn
man was the lion of the meat. The London
papers speak of him as the second Morphy,
and he will undoubtedly be given a grand
reception on his return to our shores.
The English cricketers, representatives Of
Oxford and Cambridge, while still on their
sea legs. didn't have much trouble in waxing
the All New Yorks in their initial collision
last Wednesday. While the score was close,
3S1 to 379; the Britons conclusively proved
that Gowanus was far outclassed. Up in
Toronto. however, the Americans didn't do
a thing to All Canada but whale them by
140 runs. and this sort of evens up cur
cricket score. S. G. V. G..
PnIaver with the Ball CrnnIs,
Jack Crooks is the king second baseman Of
the league this year.
Neither Carrish or Eagan have yet caught
on, but they are jewels. both Of them.
Brooklyn has played more e~rrorless
games than any other city in the league.
Clark of the Louisvilles leads the league at
the bat and Robinson of Baltimore in fielding.
The Clevelands and Bostons split
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