Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-02

the Chicago tournament last week did not
result as satisfactorily as its recent work
here justified its numerous friends in hop
Ing for. On Tuesday It was decisively de-
teated by the strong Windy City team and
on Wednesday Minnesota rubbed it in. In
the game with Chicago the Omahas gave
4 fine exhibition Of fielding. but 1t was
Just the reverse when they stacked up
against Minnesota. While Harry New and
George Vaughn did fairly well at the bat,
neither was up to his customary standard
and. while there are no excuses being Of
fered for these disasters, 1t is true that
several members OF the Gate City team
were in anything but good condition for a
battle with such formidable foemen as either
Chicago or Minnesota. In good form the
omahas are the equal of either OF the con-
quering teams and it is reasonable to expect
q more gratifying result OF their meeting
at st. Paul next summer. In 1898 the an
nual tournament Of the Northwestern Cricket
association. with scores OF other good things.
comes to Omaha.
The trOtting meetings at both Detroit and
Mystic park a week ago promised a lot Of
record breaking, but Jupiter Pluvius inter
fered with the well laid plans. and, while
1t was impossible to make fast time, the
contests were all interesting. fields large and
the racing strictly on its merits. The big
event Al detroit was the merchants arc
Manufacturers Stake for the 2:24 class. The
race has always been a good one for out
siders and was again, for the 5-year-old
mare Emma Ofutt played with the field Of
eleven and landed in straight heats, 2:13.
2:13A and 2:l2h, the fastest time made
since the stake was started in 1889, when
Hendryx won. Emma Ofutt is a plain.
brown mare. by Gambetta Wilkes, dam
Della, by Mambrino Startle. This is her
first season on the turf and the big stake
was her fourth race. The value to the
winner was s5.457, while Red Star. the
second. got 81. 430. and the third horse, VAL
lance. S1.S22. W. w. p. proved in the free
for-nll dash that he is one of the fastest
PAGERS out when he defeated Frank Angan,
Saladin, Coleridge and Rubinstein in 2:05h.
but he Is a Splinter, and In a race of split
heats the result would probably be different.
Dan q. the pony racer. won the S-year-old
s.. 200 stake. Though only fourteen hands
high and weighing 600 pounds, he appears
to have all the 3-year-olds safe. He won
his third heat in ZIP. One of the fastest
and best contests was in the 2:O9 pace. for
which the winner, Lottie Lorraine. sold in
the field. That good reinsman, Geers. had
Bright Regent on edge, and he cracked in
two heats in 2;0SLs and 2:O9La, but he could
not stay the route, and Lottie Lorraine
landed the next three heats.
Bob Cook and his stable of Yale scullers
has returned from over the drink. and
they have fairly bubbled over with their
praises for their English cousins, and all
avow they have learned a great deal by
their experience on the Thames While
this gush may be all right in view of the
sumptuous way in which the American
collegiates were entertained on the other
side. 1t seems a trifle uncalled for from a
strictly rowing point of view. Yale went
over to scull for the grand challenge cup
and not to eat ices and fiirt with the British
lasses, but by this do not mean to say
that their success in the latter pastime was
instrumental in their failure in the former.
But ] do mean that In their complimentary
gnf they should not lose sight of the fact
that the Henley race is a ludicrously one
sided affair and all in favor OF the Wanted
Johnny Bulls. In Yale's case. as in CorneIls,
IL was nothing short OF a single American
college against All England. and the result
was, and always will be. under like con-
ditions, a lead pipe for the tight little
isle. Bob Cook. Charlie Courtney-in fact.
according to my way of thinking, the coacher
does not live who can pick a team from
any one OF our colleges and go over there
and go against a set Of teams privileged to
include the crackerjacks OF the whole nation,
irrespective of who they are or where they
come from. and win out"
But there is a solution to this aggravating
? condition of things and If profted by will
metamorphose these so-called international
college rowing matches. X. II. McLane an
American summering in Europe, has offered
the Henley resetta stewards a trophy Of the
value OF $500 Tor a contest between legiti-
mate crews OF college rowers. So long as
the American representatives must be bona
hde members OF some one college and the
transatlantic clubs are allowed to enroll
any man in the country they see proper.
what sort of a chance have We anyway
But McLane's idea will give Americans
some sort OF a decent chance for their
white alley. He desires to arrange an annual
race between the collegiates of
the two countries, and it is to
be hoped. for Americas credit, that
ne VIII be successful. Let
the big colleges OF the east hold a race
meet similar 10 that on tas Hudson re-
Gently between Cornell, Harvard. Columbia
and Pennsylvania, and then send the win
Eers OF this across TO compete with the
winner OF the Oxf~ord-Cambridge annual
race. and the trick is turned. That would
mako an event that would totally eclipse
the unfair Henley AFFAIR.
Harry Mcdonald met Tommy Ryan on the
street IN Buffalo the other day, and he says
he has grown to be a wonderfully big fell
low and looks INT 10 battle with a Choynski
OF a Maher. Tom sent his regards to all
his old friends here and said that as soon
as he made a fortune out OF his new Buna-
lonian hooze emporium he was coming out
20 Omaha to liye-or die. | forget just which
II was Mae said. Tommy, ! see, is more
convinced than ever that he can lick the
eternal tar water out of his only conqueror
Kid Mccoy, and judging from the way
Dick Moore the big middleweight
about in their recent match at Brooklyn, ]
am inclined TO believe that he is correct.
In a brief history OF his career, written by
himself for a New York paper. Tommy
dwells l~engthily on the most humiliating
setback of his hghting life. his defeat at
the hands of Mccoy, Ryan reiterates that
Mccoy eoaxed him far up into Queer street
and then went al him with a piece OF gas
pipe-so TO speak. II is now a matter OF
ring history that Mccoy matched to meet
Ryan with the understanding taeily made
that the match should take place on the reel
and the good coin Of the realm would be the
only thing sought. HOnors. in the way OF
knock-Outs were barred, Ryan fell into
the scheme. He trained with his friends
around the town. seeking rest at the time
when the milk distributors were eongrata-
iating themselves that their nights work
WAS done. He entered the ring weighing
In the neighborhood OF 156 pounds, which
meant that he was as fat as a prize porker,
In shape he never weighed over las pounds
In his life. Contrasting with Ryan's con
dition WIS McCoy's. The willy middle
weight worked sedulously. rigging his wind
for q hard tussle. He vaultsd the ropes
into the ring in ideal form. tipping the
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