The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-24
Eagle Sporting News.


Umpire McQuade.
Eagle Sporting News.
Nicholas and Conway beat McNeal
and Wardlaw at schuffieboard on
| Thursday by score of 100 to 81.
| Cincinnati turned the tables on Cleve-
| land this year. Three straight. l thank
you. How does Captain Tebeaeu feel?
| This weeks Police Gazette carries
| fine cuts of five of the leading stars.
| They are Arson, Ewing, Pfeffer, Davis
| and Foutz.
Manager McCloskey of the Louis
vile club does the Irwin act, appearing
on the field in uniform and coaching
| the players.
| The ball player who thinks that he Is
| indispensable to the game should re-
| iIoct that Mike Kelly IL almost forgot
| ten and the king" has not been in his
| grave six months.
Football has broken loose in Chica-
go. Four lively games, on Sunday.
Most too much mud for any hard and
| brutal plays. Dry weather will give
| the doctors plenty Of business.
Captain Buck Ewing had to put up
the hats to each of his players for
winning the first game from Cleveland.
Buck will have to stay on the south
side of the Rhine the rest of the sea-
| son to get even.
Tandenls are in great demand this
season. The popular weight is about
forty pounds. Some are made and
placed on the market which weigh less
than thirty-two pounds. Tandem rae
ing is bound to be a potent feature of
coming seasons sport.
Uncle Anson's heart must be broken,
to loose his first game by that fatal
score 8 to Z. Ever since the Old Allan
tics OF Brooklyn. beat Harry Wright s
Red Stockings of Cincinnati in the early
'70's by the score Of s to Z, after two
years victories. That score in loosing
the first game is anything but a mascot
| among ball players.
If the baseball cranks of Kansas
have any doubts as to the players of
any club or scores of games since 1865,
they can get the same from that gen
tlemen of gentlemen, Captain Jack
Wicks, who does the bell rope act on
the main line of the Santa Fe between
Kansas City and Dodge City. The
captain is authority on all sporting
matters in Europe, Asia, Africa and
America, (this does not include lawn
tennis)
Deputy Collector Desha Breckine
ridges ruling as to the taxation of win
indirsed by the commissions of internal
revenue, is causing a great deal of kick
ing by the breeders and bookmakerS
Milton Young of Lexington, KY, one OF
the largest breeders in America and a
plunger of unlimited nerve, says: IF
it is legal to tax winnings, no court in
the land will hold that losses in the
same year should not be deducted"
The Boston managers have secured
+a1,f h va
in itself is an acknowledgment of weak
ness in the box. The Bostons probably
will show up weak at both ends of the
battery. The infield and outfield are
good, but if the pitchers fail it will have
a bad effect on the rest. Good pitching
such as the Bostons have been used to,
makes good fielding, and poor pitching
weakenS any team. Nichols. who was
the mainstay in the box last year, fell
off considerably at the end Of the sea-
son, and Stivetts was hit a good deal
harder than the team could stand.
The following mathematical calcula-
ton will interest many wheelmen, With
a 63-inch gear each revolution of the
pedals of bicycle will send the wheel
forward sixteen and one-half feet. The
number of revolution required to drive
this wheel one mile is 800. If a person
in walking should take three feet at
sary to travel a mile would be 1850.
Walking requires the expenditure of
a great amount of energy and strength
as compared to riding the bicycle a
like distance. There would be more
health and sunshine in this world it
all persons rode.
Usually he first part of a newspaper
that a ball player turns to is the sport
ing column. 1t is but natural that he
I'D H., l,-a nFr,rr Aa
in his own world. There is one ball
player in the Cincinnati club whose
thoughts of late have been turned TO
another part of the paper. This player
is Charles Miller, the Reds new out
fielder Miller is Just now interested in
the Jumps and slumps' in oil that
takes up so much space in the news
papers His interest is mercenary
one. Miller halls from a little town
named Signet, in the center OF Ohlo'S
oi farm, and naturally he is an
oil fields. He and his better half own an
terested in the price of his farms prln-
cipal product. Charlie is an oil king,
and has figured in deals in which the
Standard Oil company was at the other
end of the transaction.
Not one member of the famous staff
of umpireS that officiated in the Amerf-
can associa ton in 1883 is now in major
league harness.. II VIII bS
ed that the American association the
season named, by paying enormous
salaries, secured all the star umpires
in the profession. McQuid, Ferguson,
DoeScher and Gaffney were then con-
sidered the vey pick OF the profession.
1t cost money TO secure their services
and / remember how the adherents OF
this plucky rival of the league prided
themselves over the associations al
ri v;-N Da
Since that time poor old Bob Ferguson
has passed to the great beyond. Last
week Jack McQuaid died suddenly. and
if am not misinformed big, jolly Her
man Doescher has joined the vast ma
jority. This leaves John Gaf1ney the
sole survivor of that famous quartet
.Gaff'' could today be holding an indi-
Gator in fast company but for his ha-
hits He couldn't overcome his appe-
tite for drink, and he drifted from the
foremost body to the minors.
MUSIC AND DRAMA.