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at Manhattan field, New York, August
%. Wefers is again in form and able
to hold his own with any of his col
leagues. He never had better speed than
now, and will if the conditions be any
think like favorable win again or make
the man who defeats him create new
worlds record by his victories.
The cream OF the Chicago and other
Western clubs is to be sent East, and
they represent better crop Of winners
than has ever been turned out from the
West since the days of the old Detroit
Athletic club. John Owen, Harry Jew
EFT, al. Copeland and Lon Myers were
the cream of the talent at the tracks
III their day, and the present team will
have to be an exceptional one even to
approach their record.
The star Of the aggregation is unques-
tionably James II. Maybury. He has
had clean sweep in this district and
defeated all the fast men who have gone
up against him. The only boy to score
a victory over him was Johnnie Crum
and that was two years before Maybury
had near reached his limit. He has had
expert handling since then. and he is
said to be Crum's equal in the short
sprint and his superior in the long. How
well he will do in the national remains
to be seen. In looking over the list of
probable starters in the events he is GER
tainly Wefer's most dangerous opponent
y
of the University of Pennsylvania is :
possibility in the event, but he cannot
defeat Wefers at best. He is not q
Splinter, in fact. though he can go the
LOO under even time under favorable con-
ditions. He has not the record that
Maybury has, though he can certainly
give him race in spite Of that There
are no other men in the race who are
really dangerous, and it may be that We
fers and Hoffman will yield tie event
to Maybury without a struggle. This
they will only do if young Colfelt, the
Princeton crack, is a starter in the fur
long. for both are after the Tigers scalp.
The Wisconsin admirers of Maybury
feel confident that he will be able to
more than hold his own against the East
erners and they will back him to the
limit. 1t is expected that Alvin Kraenz-
lein will be able to make showing that
will surprise the athletes in the East.
He will un under the colors of the Chi
cago Athletic association. but he is train
ing here under Arthur w. Crane Of the
Milwaukee Athletic society.
John f. Morrill,, the basketball veteran.
offers a plan for preserving order on the
field and doing away with the disgracefuI
scenes which patrons protest against so
vigorously, in the following: ''The un:pir-
ing, is causing great deal of annoyance
and in the end will be the means Of kill
ing the sport. Year after year the mag
mates make Il bluff at making matters
easy for the umpire, but they will have
to take the matter into their own hands
Empires cannot and should not be eX-
pected TO control players. 1t is the duty
of the club owners to see that the umpire
is protected from the insults and jeers he
is subjected to the moment he has close
decision to make. No man who has he
slightest respect for himself will umpire
a ball game, aud, in fact, not one player
in 100 can make a success of umpiring,
because he cannot stand the abuse that
he himself has given when player. The
game is old enough to prove that there is
no perfection IN umplrng, no matter
whether we have the single or double
system-and l am in favor of the former
and it is high time that something be
done toward preserving the best game
ever invented. The Haryard-Yale game
at Cambridge was an ideal one, from the
fact that there was no kicking whatever
and spectators enjoyed 1t all the more. for
their attention was kept on the players al
all times, and the umpire was hardly no
ticed."
Jesse Tannehill is one of the best
throwing outfelders seen here this sea-
SON. The little southpaw gets the ball
away from him very fast, and all his
throws are true to the mark. If Tame
hill ever pitches ball again it will be
against HIS own WISHES. ne Is 100 SOOu
a ball player to be in the box He hits
well. and while he is not the surest man
in the league on a fly ball, he will gradu-
ally improve in this feature of the game.
The manager of J. Frank Starbuck
of Philadelphia and Lucien Lesna, the
1896 champion of Europe, have signed ar
ticles of agreement for an unlimited paced
match race of twenty-five miles in
Nh, n.1- Dcc,+a,
for a $500 purse.
= =
A comparison Of the results of the races
held at the national meet shows that
I.oughead, Kiser and A. Mertens were
the only professionals to capture two first
places The prizes in both amateur and
professional classes were divided among
tha 1oadiDU mon Hprp iS tho summary.