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name indicates, to lift the ball up over
bitches, streams or bunkers, and particu-
larly in what Is called approach Shots
where the intention Is to send the ball
limited distance and to drop it dead as near
the hole as possible.
An accurately gaused distance may be
managed best with these shots.
The niblick Is club like a spoon of thick
iron, intended to extract the ball from
bunkers and cuppy lies.
The mashie, very useful club, is a cross
between niblick and lofter, and is very
effective in lofting balls out Of dangerous
places
The putter, used for sending the ball into
the hole after 1t has been lOfted upon the
green. is a smooth-faced iron club, heavy
and straight the face at exact right an
giles to the handle. 1t must be held firmly
in the hands while the wrists remain fexi-
bic, and swung smoothly back and forth
Of clubs, notifications Of the above, which
are ne ,essary TO all play. AS to the posi-
ton to be taken in driving, a few direc-
tiens may be permissible to those who have
sens.
Take your position upon the teeine
ground, stand so that the ball is midway
between your feet, and at a sufficient dis
tance from the line on which you stand, SO
that the end of the club whose head touch
es the ball falls just inside the left knee
Grasp your club in your two hands, firmly
with your left, lightly with your right.
you wish your ball to go, swing your club
back over your right shoulder, moving your
body as pivot, and lifting the left heel so
that you stand poised upon your right foot
and the toe Of your left. Swing the club in
a line as nearly like the arc Of circle as
is possible and sweep the ball away. You
mrst make your body into a machine; your
stick into a pendulum attached to this
machine. Take your position with the care
ard according to directions and do not vary
it; do not be surprised or discouraged if the
ball does not fly into the air and over the
Eils, as you dreamed that 1t would, but
practice patiently and the skill will come
Keep your eye on the ball. This is the
eternal chant of every teacher, but not on
the top of the ball, on the side where you
expect your club to hit it; the club will
follow your eye. Use this same swing
modified for your iron shots and the brassy
shots upon the green. When you are ap-
preaching the hole use, according to the
distance, a three-quarter or a half shot
The positions for these shots may be
studied in authorities upon the game.
Putting is comparatively easy to most
women. In this women will get the better
of their masculine opponents, and may
make up for their deficiency in driving
There innumerable intricacies to be
studied and learned in the use of the differ
ent clubs. There is discouragement about
the game which. as an old Scotchman said,
lis always fechtin against YOU" There is
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AN INTERVIEW.
1t VIII BE nm Incident I'm Future
Political Campaigns.

1t VIII BE nm Incident I'm Future
Political Campaigns.
From Harper's Bazaar.
ITO what am ] indebted for the honor oil
this call?"
1t was Mrs. Mary Ellen Ricketts, who
spoke. She held in her hand the card OF
Mrs. Samantha Jenkinson, which had Just
been laid on the desk by the Office girl. for
the card was followed almost instantly by
the entrance of the person whose name 1t
bore
There was really no necessity for the
use of the card, for the two had frequently
met.
Mrs. Ricketts, was the candidate for Con-
gress on the republican ticket while Mrs.
Jenkinson was the democratic nominee.
Under the circumstances it was natural for
her to be surprised at reo Giving a call from
her opponent
Il came to see you on a small matter Of
business" replied the visitor.
pray proceed"
81 have learned from good authority that
your managers are bent upon a campaign
Of personalities, and that they intend to
give 10 the press certain slanderous gossip
about me intended to injure my candi-
dacy."
The speaker paused, and Mrs Ricketts,
'.Well?"
WELL" echoed Mrs Jenkinson, 1--WE must
keen personalities out Of the campaign"
I'VE must, must weT'
I'VE must!'
Mrs. Ricketts, sneered
Mrs. Jenkinson waXed wroth
Look here, Mary Ellen Ricketts," she
exclaimed, don't you dare to turn up your
snub nose at me, now"
Samantha Jenkinson," retorted Mrs
Ricketts, my nose is not snub. and don't
you dare to presume to dictate what my
managers shall or shall not do in this cam
paign'
Wen see about that. Mary Ellen Rick
etts you were engaged to my husband in
your young days, good many years ago"
I'm not nearly as old as you, I'd have
you know"
You arev'
I'm not. you insulting thing!"
You arer'
I'm notr'
1--WE will pass that point, but / want to
say that when 1 married my husband all
your love letters were still in his possess
sion. and 1 have them now"
You spiteful thing"'
"MaIy a good laugh I've had over then
What a perfect goose you were"'
Il just hate you; so. therer'
And / merely wish to add that, on the
very first tion of a personality about
me in your newspaper organs. shall print
mushy. lackadaisical epistles. Do you un-
derstand?"
Tie two women glared at each other half
a minute, and then Mrs. Samantha Jenkin-
son withdrew. leaving Mrs. Mary Ellen
Ricketts, deep in thought
The campaign was conducted without any
personalities.
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Were it not that this article Is addressed
chiefly to women it would seem an act of
extreme temer.ty to reiterate directions as
to how to play golf.
Elaborate Instructions, brought to a scien-
tific pitch of acc dracy, may be found in the
well-known books which have been long
considered authorities on golf play
There are, however, certain notifications
of instruction which are peculiar to the
feminine game of golf. In the first place.
in the question Of strength, women are in
dubitaby inferior to men, in dress they
are encumbered and in the practice of all
athletic sports very far behind.
A woman can neither see as accurately
nor hit as far as a man. There Is no use
denying these unfortunate facts Tney ex-
1st, and must be dealt with as seems best
First, then, few words as to what the
game actually is, as it is now played.
From an inch high pinch of dirt, called
tee. which is placed upon a slightly ele-
waited Platform Of earth, the golf ball is
placed. From this advantageous position
the player drives the ball with a wooden
club as far as he can toward a small hole
In the ground, which Is lined with tin and
placed in the center of smooth green of
very level turf. His object is to get the
ball into this hole in as few strokes as pos
stbie. There are number of these holes;
sometimes seven, sometimes nine, but prop
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offensive and defensive, would doubtless be

offensive and defensive, would doubtless be
given the chess world.
Of the fourteen games played in the match
between Showalter and Lipschutz, the OPEN
Ing adopted in eight of them was queens
gambit declined. Showalter chose it every
time he had first move. Very little was
added to chess knowledge so far as defensive
measures are concerned. Lipschutz played
On the defensive, and his tactics were proven
inadequate. His opponent gained the bet
ter position, and eventually forced the game
winning five of the seven games in which he
played first and drawing the other two. In
none of the games did Lipschutz adopt de-
tense played at Hastings by Pillsbury and
JanoWski with good success. No other de-
fense Jared as well there. The defense re-
ferred to consists Of playing to OBJ 1.
moves.
Showalter's move. @ to B2, in the
queens gambit declined, seems to be orig
inal. He played it first in the eighth game
or the match, caught Lipschutz unawares
and wen the exchange. In the last game
OF the match LipschutZ was slow in devel-
oping his pieces on the queens side, and
before he woke up to the situation his skill
kt to K Kt ). He was unprepared for it,
and made poor defense. Instead of play
Ing 10. PIX Kt 3, had he played 10. P-to X
X ), he would have had some chance. The
kentuckian would have replied II. P to X
R 4, as he actually played. Black could
not then take the knight, but would have
had time TO bring his other pieces to the
defense
Lipschutz made a stubborn fight, as is
evidenced by the fact that the fourteen
games averaged nearly fifty-e;Sht moves to
the game. The thirteenth game. in which
l12 moves were made on each side, is said
to have been the longest sitting with time
limit on record in recent years. The game
lasted 10 hours 10 minutes.
The st. Petersburg Tourney.
Thursdays game 1t ST. Petersburg COM
rleted the first half of the tournament.
The position of the two in the lead is un-
changed, Pillsbury and Lasker each having
drawn two games and won once this week.
The American continues to lead by one
point. This does not constitute all of his
advantage, however. In the third round,
as in tie first, Pillsbury played the black
pieces III all three games, while Lasker had
first move twice. The first move in the
next three games should give Pillsbury an
opportunity to increase his lead. 1t is
gratifying to the friends of StenitZ to see
the brace he has taken. This week he has
drawn against Lasker and Pillsbury and
beaten Tschigorin, which places him but
one game behind Lasker. The shortness of
the games played the past week is quite
noticeable, the average being about thirty
five moves.
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Not Much Change,

From the Chicago Tribune
What sort o. place do you reckon heaven
is?' said Mosely Wraggs, slowly shifting
his seat. on the park bench and looking
dreamily out over the blue lake
The good book says it's place o. rest"
replied Tuffold Knutt, squinting contem-
platively at the sun.
1T won't be much of change will itr'
rejoined Mosely Wraggs, after a long
pause.
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erly eighteen, placed at distances varying
from 200 to 500 yards and returning IN
more or less circutous course to the origin
al teeing ground from which the start was
made
There are number of clubs adapted to
the various positions in which the ball has
fallen, and toward which it must be driven.
The principal ones are these: The driver,
a wooden club with thick wooden foot
strengthened with horn, with which the
ball IS struck from the tee. The brassy, a
wooden club much like the driver, varying
only in being little lighter and more lex-
lble and soled with brass. This club Is
used to drive the ball through the green.
1t may be used only when the ball lies
smoothly without distractions or uneven
indentations or hillocks Of earth, and can
be sent off freely. The brass soling pro-
tects the club in it's contact with the
81 ound.
The third club in the list is an iron, called
cleek. This has an iron face put on at
nearly right angles to the wooden handle
slightly turned back, and is the club which
women will find Of most USE
The ball can be driven off the tee with the
club, and it can be used, except in the case
of lofting shots and in bunkers, almost ex,
clusively through the green. The loftsr is
much like the cleek, only that the face is
much turned back. It is intended, as the
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A Useful Gun.
From tn" Chicago Record

IrOm N" Chicago Record
I've bought Smedley's new gum
why, don't you know you couldn't hit
anything. with it? It's beauty, but it
won't shoot straight
"Sh! That's why I got it. Fellows al
ways guyed me because / couldn't shoot
and now I've got a good excuse for miss
Ing"
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English and Zulus.
M Current Literature.

From Current Literature.
Count Leo Tolstoi is vigorous hater of
England. He says the English and the
Zulus should be herded together as the two
most brutal nations of the earth His chief
regret, he declares; is that he cannot spare
the time to write book about the English
people.
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Thirty Years Older.

From Harper's Bazaar.
Boggs-"IIow is it that your hair is quite
white, while your beard Is very dark?"
Noggs-"Its the most natural thing in
the world"
Boggs-"Indeed?"
Noggs-"It is thirty years older"
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As the Crow Walks.

From Spare Moments.
McTavish-"Hoo faur is't to London?'
Cockney-"Ten miles as the crow flies"
McTavish-"Hoots, toots, man, I'm NO
gaun to, fee; I'm gaun to waulk Hoo
mony miles is't as the craw waulks?
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A Case of Ignorance.

From the indianapolis Journal
She-'T notice that it is the single men
who are the most anxious TO go to war"
He-"Yes. They don't know what wal
is"
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An Excursion and Banquet.
The Road Club at the same meeting de-
cided to give an excursion in the early part
Of June, opening the cycling season In an
auspicious manner. A committee, consist
ing of Messrs. Prince, chairman, Bischoff.
Eggleston. Patrick, Bowie and VIM. Jose.
was appointed to arrange all preliminaries.
The date will be announced at the next
meeting of the club.
The anniversary of the Incorporation CT
the club will fall on February &. and it is
intended to celebrate the event in an ap-
propriate style. A banquet will be held, to
which only a few of the friends of the
club will be invited. Messrs. Rudolph Jose
C. 1. Ronsaville and w. ]. Tubman con-
stitute the committee to arrange for the af-
fair.
A committee was appointed to select a
distinctive club uniform and emblem, the
members consisting of Messrs. r. Jose,
Ronsaville and Smith.
The annual election Of officers of the club
will be he'd on January 15, and the nomi-
mating committee has named the following
officers: President, w. T. Robertson; vice
president, P. p. Patrick; secretary, c. E.
Wood; treasurer, Rudolph Jose; captain.
VIM. Jose; Heutenants, ]. E. Bischoff and
w. ]. Prince The nominating committee
is composed of c. L. Petze, j. E. Bischoff.
c. H. Cooke, w. ]. Tubman and VIM. Jose
Frank j. Wisner, local wheelman, was
unanimously elected an honorary member
of the club.
Claude ]. .Allen n has been elected secre-
tary of the Capital Bi. Club, to fin the un-
expired term OF the late Walter s. Dodge.
A meeting Of the executive committee
will be held this evening to consider sew
eral applications for membership now on
hand. The regular club meeting will be
held next Saturday.
The pool and billiard tourney is pro-
crossing at lively rate and increased in
terest is shown as the end advances The
tourney is to close next week
The annual exhibition of the Camera
Club will be held in May, and for the first
time the new gallery will be used for the
purpose.
The entertainment committee has pre-
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pawn and the superior position. AS the
depending on the result the local club has
decided to let the Brooklyn club change it's
move, rather than win an advantage by a
technicality
The American Championship.
y. W. Showalter is again chess champion
of the United States. He formerly held
that title twice for short periods. He first
won it at tournament of the United
States Chess Association. Then Max Judd
Of st. Louis defeated him in a match, and
in January, 1892, he regained it by defeating
Judd. Next, Lipschutz challenged Showal-
ter and won the match by the score Of to
l. He has since held the title, though i'll
health has compelled him to spend years
in California and prevented the title being
contended for.
championship of the New York State Chess
Association, and Pillsbury has risen. Both
Pillsbury and Hodges have finished ahead
of Showalter in state and international
tournaments.
Speaking of the championship. the Brook
lyn Eagle says: There are now only three
who will claim the coveted title namely,
Showalter, Pillsbury and Hodges. 1t stands
to reason that Show alter will try to arrange
ters return from St. Petersburg. This
would be a splendid contest. and American
chess players would hail the arrangement
of an encounter between the men with the
greatest possible delight" They are prob
ably the best living exponents of the queens
gambit declined, and should they meet, some
additional analysis on that opening, both
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have been posted in tie club room. 1t will
begin one week from today, February l.
and will close on the 18th of February
There will be three classes, called A, B and
Z, no class to contain more than eight
players: Each player plays eight games
unrestricted, with every other player in the
same class. The games are to be played in
rour rounds OF two games per week The
winner in each class enters a final tourna-
ment, in which the winner in class A gives
the winner in class Is two games in eight,
the wiarer in class A gives the winner in
class three games in B, and the winner
In class B gives the winner in class C one
game in eight. The final tourney is to be
played within week from February %.
The checker editor of the New York World
has offered a valuable draughts book as
prize for the winner.
Laskcr's Victory.
Lasker will win the first prize in the St.
Petersburg tournament with an excellent
record. Steinmetz is almost certain to fin
Ism second. Pillsbury has but one game to
play, and the best he can possibly do is to
tie for second place. The final sitting is
scheduled for today. Steinitz playing Lus-
ker and Pillsbury playing Tschigorin.
The score in detail is as follows.
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1t will be seen that Pillsbury has won the
majority of the games played with both
Lssker and Tscnigorin, while with Steiritz
the best he could do was to get two draws
out of six games played
Speaking of the three games between
Piilsbury and Steinitz in the first half of
the tournament Showalter, the chess cham
pion Of the United States says. that in the
first game, had Pillsbury played 13, r to K
So, CHI, and on the interposition of the bish-
op. which was forced. played IA, QxP, he
must surely have won.
Then again, q, KIT to K6 instead of Kt
to QS he considers a win for black. He
thinks that II. Q to B3 ought to have won
for P1lisbury In the second game. or to
third game he says II, B to o. would have
won almost at once for Pillsbury.
Another tournament between the same
players will probably be held at Warsaw. to
commence in short time. A lover of the
game there has offered 100 roubles to be
contested for by the quartet Of masters
Lasker, Steinitz and Pillsbury have already
signified their willingness to play.
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cycle Club the past week. the members
raging more attention to whist. Messrs.
Barrick and Macdaniel have improved
their scores, and Mr.. Barrick will undoubt-
edly push Mr.. Usina hard for first place be-
fore the tournament is over. The stand
Ing OF the players Is as follows: Usina,
won 10, lost, 2, Quackenbush, won, g.; lost
2; Barrick, won. Is IL: lost, 3 LIZ: Doug
las, won, 6; lost g.; Macdaniel, won, 10
lost, ID; Carr, won, . 1-2; lost. 1-2; Rines
won, 8; lost, 10; Calver, won, 1-2; lost
10 IL; j. L. Writ, won, 1-2; lost, "A 1-%;
Falck won. 9; lost, n.
Mt. Vernon Club Checkers.
The checker tournaments at the Mt Yer
non Checker Club, on 9th street, are prac-
ticaliy closed, though not a single player
has played all his games. There have been
scare ely any games played the past week
Ward has returned from trip to Ohio
looking quite well. He Is ahead in class A,
and Murrv in class B.
The scores are as follows: Ward, won
81 1-2, lost 10 1-2; McHardy, wen %, lost g.:
Mundelle, Won As H. lost q 10; Faruu-
har. won 81 1-2. lost "a 1-2; Pedal, won 81
lost 70; Jackson, won II. lost IS; Wendell
won % IL, lost Is 1-2; Fitch, won %, lost
~; Miller. won A; lost =; Smith won 8, lost
70; Whitford. won 10 1-2, lost 40 1-2. and
won AZ 1-2. lost Is 1-2;. Stephenson, won Al.
lost %: Grove. won q 10, lost II IL:
Cramer, won Is IL. lost II 1-2; Walker,
won "a L. lost 20 1-2, and Burton, won
20 IL. lost 20 L.
The rules for a new checker tourna nant
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OLYMPIC GAMES AT ATHENS.
VIII he Held In an Amphitheater
Holding 10000 Persons.

VIII ne He10 IN an Amphitheater
Holding 10000 Persons.
From the New York Sun.
Considerable interest is shown in the re-
vival Of the Olympic games which take
place at Athens. Greece, in April. The
Panathenafc. Stadion at Hymettus is now
being fitted up for the accommodation of
$4,000 persons. Mr. Averoff. wealthy
Greek merchant Of Alexandria, has do
mated 100000 for this purpose. The Crown
Prince of Greece and his brothers are much
interested in the event. and the entire fund
raised in Greece for the rebuilding of this
noted amphitheater amounts to S193. 900.
The king has promised to award the prizes
of silver olive wreaths, and special COM
memorative postage stamps will be issued
by the government, the proceeds to go to
the Olympic fund.
1t is intended to finish the Stadion In
marble, but only part Of 1t will be ready
for the sports in the spring. 1t is said that
when the structure Is finished the seating
capacity will be 10000. 1t forms a natural
Mount Hymettus, the sides sloping up to a
nelght OF from sixty to eighty feet The
interior space, In form Of horseshoe. is
go feet long and 100 feet wide From this
spot splendid view of Athens and the
surrounding country can be had, including
the Bay of Salamis.
Foot races and gymnastic contests will
take place In the Stadion and also the
finish or the twenty-mile race from Mura-
thon. There will also be a bicycle race on
the Phaleric Plain, half way between the
clty and the seashore, swimming and row.
ing races in the roadstead of Phaleron. and
yacht races In the Saronic gulf
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Hamilton Club by seven tricks. and were
In turn defeated by the Philadelphia Whist
Club by the same number of tricks. They
are slow. careful players, and a spirited
contest Is expected
The cup fer which the match is PLAYED
was shipped to st. Louis Wednesday, to be
contested for next Monday by clubs from
the east and west. Notwit hstanding tbs,
abserce of the cup today's match counts
Tor the trophy. twenty wins giving a club,
permanent possession thereof
There will also be played this evening at
the rooms of the Capital Bicycle Club the
nrst match in the fnterclub tournament,
the Capital Bicycle and Mt. Pleasant whist
clubs being scheduled to play. The match
with Baltimore renders it necessary for
the bicycle club to choose second four
There is plenty of good material to select
from 1t is probable the team will consist of
Messrs. McComb, Stevens, Williamson and
Britton. The Mt Pleasant club team COM
prises Messrs. Davis, Taliaferro, Brown
and Young.
WriGht-Hanna Chess Match.
Interest at the Washington Chess Club
centers in the match between Messrs
Hanna and Wright. Two games have been
played between them the past week. each
winning one. Mr.. Henna has shown su-
pertor skill in the games already played
In the present match. He seems to be at
his best. while the champion has not shown
MS accustomed skill. In the gam between
them lat Saturday night Mr.. Hanna had
the best of the situation for twenty-five
moves, when ne became very short of time
and, playing rapidly. unwisely captured a
pawn, which gave Wright a desired op-
portunity to win the exchange. Later
Hanna overlooked mate on the move.
has been demonstrated in this tourna-
zlent that fifty moves in two hours is too
rapid for careful play. The time limit of
masters is thirty moves in two hours.
In the third game between Wright and
Hanna, a Ruy Lopez, the latter had the
best position after the first few moves, and
won in about forty moves The score be-
tween them stands: Hanra, 2; Wright. 1.
Two games were played the past week
between Messrs. Tharp and Otte. The first
was won by Otte in q game full of interest
Ing positions Tharp won the next game
easily in twenty-four moves. In the match
Tharp has won 3. Otte and 1 game was
drawn.
Capt O'Farrell won In the first game
with Gichner, in fifty moves. the opening
being Ruy Lopez The second game was
also won by the captain.
Messrs. Martin and Walker drew
Frsn ch defense after seventy moves, In
game devoid of brilliant plays, and In
which both parties made oversights. The
score stands: Walker. 2; Martin, o; drawn.
1.
Capital Club Tournament.
Chess has becn quiet at the Capital BIZ