Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-08
SPORTS FOR HAY AUTUMN
Chatty Comment on Events Here, There
and Everywhere.
ON THE LAKE AND IN THE FIELD
The Gun Clubs stnnding-raInvcr
with the Hall PInyers-The Rum
ming Meet and sporty News
Notes of All Colors and Kinds.

tomorrow, II wouldn't be half bad to know
a little about the vocabulary Of the canvas
men and the artists OF the sawdust arena.
While they nave a jargon of their own, they
are pastmasters in the general slang OF the
day. The boss canvasman Is always the
"main guy" all the rest are simply guys"
Tho tents are tops and the announcer at
the entrance of the sideshow Is a barker"
The men who peddle peanuts, barber pole
candy, fans, concert tickets and so forth, are
butchers" while the pickpocket, gamblers
and short change men are crooks" and
"grafters." To beat a man is to touch or
"turn'' a Reuben or a Jasper The mu-
sicians are wind TANNERS" the canyasmen
'razorbacks." The show ground is always
the "lot," the dining tent the camp and
the horses stock" Then there are number
Tess technical terms applied to the performers
which. while really not slang, nevertheless
add to the plcturesqueness OF the circus folk
vocabulary.
c. w. Williams, the individual who is fore
ing the big. lOng-winded trotting session
along at Galesburg, was one of the knowledg-
Gus trotting horsemen who would lend no aid
toward defeating the anti-pooi selling bill
passed by the last Illinois legislature. He
was one of the wise guys who knew that
the pool box was not concomitant to the sue
~ VI nv Niottitlh NuiI anu hV phAho ~
show a doubling world what he knew this
campaign. Yet he has failed to keep his
word, but. instead, has demonstrated how ut
terly impracticable is a trotting meeting
without the allurements Of this magic box.
BY main strength he has been holding up the
abnormal Galesburg burlesque and in sheer
desperation. and mauger the terrors Of the
law, the booksellers were installed last Mon
day. They run one day and there was a
semblance of old time life about the grounds,
but the next day the box was closed tighter
than ever, and again is the Galesburg meet
ing lettering along at its original palsied gait.
Did Mr.. Williams again conclude that the
trotting turf could get along without the pool
box, or did the authorities tip 1t off that
there was a road leading straight from the
Galesburg track to the county Jail? But
how did the "gams' get a foothold for a
day even, that's the question?
There has been nothing Of a momentous
character happened on the turf. either run
ming or trotting, during the past week. The
great trotting pillow horse, Azote. made an
attempt at Fleetwood to reduce the worlds
record of 2:03A, but failed. The giant son of
Whips made his race record Of 2:051a with
such apparent ease that Mr.. Salisbury ac-
cepted the clubs offer of SIS. 900 to send the
big trotter against the worlds best time.
But the fates were against him. The con-
ditions were bad ard the horses regular
driver was absent, Myron McHenry holding
the reiDs. The best that he could do was
to reach his own race limit, 2:05h. This per-
formauce clearly demonstrated, however, in
the esteem of prominent horsemen, that on a
good day and track. and the horse on edge.
he can probably touch the present champion
ship mark.
Well, the great Labor day championship
sprint at Brocton. Mass, was run off ac-
cording to the card. The meeting was sue
cessful in all details. The crowd was there
and the 100-yard worlds record was broken.
Kid Sullivan in his representations in last
Sundays Bee showed himself to be quite a
guesser. While he thought Morris would
win the big sprint, he felt that Donovan, the
eastern favorite. had a great chance. AS to
the lightweight 10O-yard dash, the Kids
Innate modesty probably was the cause of
his not mentioning himself as the top
sawyer. As it was, he said he would get a
place. Well. he did, and first place at that.
Donovan beat out the big field Of profess
SIGNALS In the championship 100-yards in the
marvellous time Of 8 3-5, beating the
worlds record one-fifth of a second. This is
about as fast as human pedals can be ex-
pected to go. Morris, the Kids choice, was
second, while Couple. the Nebraska man, was
not mentioned. In the lightweight sprint
sullivan won handily in 10 1-5 and thereby
chucked something like $500 in gold in his
exchequer. Rollins, the man the Kid most
feared. and E%ngleman, made a dead heat, and
In the final Sullivan beat Rollins for the
medal in 10 2-5. Thus, so far as the fleet
runners" are CT ncerned, Omaha Is still right
In 1t.
1t looks very much as IL the English
athletes. who are to go against our own
good ones at Manhattan field in October. have
already got 1t up in their necks. Neither
Bradin or Fry, two Of their most formidable
men, are with them, and across the herring
pond they are now asserting that the New
york Athletic club has acted with anything
put good taste in scooping in the wonderful
Tommy Conneff and in securing the length
and breadth of the land Of the free and
the home of the brave for talent to do them
pattle' This is a ludicrous wall. The
Londoners have gathered together the cream
OF not only England's athleticism. but also
that or Ireland and Scotland, and surely
New York has an unequivocal right to profit
Dy the resources Of our own glorious country.
10 De sure Tommy Conneff is an freshman.
and has figured on both sides the drink
but America is the land of his adoption and
we are almost as proud of him as we are of
those TO The manner born. But Tommy
IL evidently not the only man the Johnny
Bulls are leary of. In fact 1t would he
dlineult to name a single man of either the
New York or Yale clubs the Britishers have
not a healthy respect for.
The boys who back their ideas n, this on
that on this side have had their faith In onr
runners very materially reinforced recently
Last Monday Connef lowered a whole gob
OF records. lie cut the one mile down 10
4 minutes Is 3-5 seconds, a reduction of A tx
seconds; the one mile and a quarter from
5:49 to 5:3S AS; the mile and a half from
6:53 30 to GAG 20. At the same time great
things were expected of Crum. and while he
won the lOO-yard dash by a fine burst of
speed near the tape. his time was but ordi-
nary, 10 1-5. Still he was not pressed. and
we all know he can do the distance at the
old championship form of Q 4-5.
There were still other records fractured nv
the representative Americans on Monday.
Mitchell. In the 56-pound weight exhibition.
beat the worlds record, making a distance
OF 80 feet 10h inches. NJ. ]. Sweeney ac-
compiished a like feat in the high Jump.
clearing the bar at 6 feet 5h inches. an
eighth OF an inch better than his own best
jump, the record on this side. While this
shows that the st. Xavier's club man is doing
better than merely holding his own. how
about the news that comes across the water?
The cable says that on the same day the
freshman, r. M. Ryan, who is TO go against
our high jumper. beat this even. He cleared
8 feet 4is inches. Here is the Johnny Bulls
enc ray OF hope-the high jump.
I had a call from my esteemed old friend.
Duncan u. Harrison, on Wednesday morning
last, and although Dune was in a hurry to
pack his trunks, preparatory to leaving for
the coast. we got wound up swapping remin-
iscenoes Of the good old days that are gone,
and two hours and a half few away on ROSY