Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-14

ana is willing to try Gaudaur has also
/ defeated Peterson twice. and is quite likely
| to do 1t again, but they think a good deal OF
| Henry out in the country with the glorious
| climate. and he will not be without a big
following on the day they touch the water.
| The coast oarsmen are generally agog over
] the approaching regatta. and the affair
promises to be the greatest aquatic event
J ever held in the west. Aside from the pro-
!, fessicnals, the rowers entered in the various
! races viii be the flowers of their respective
/ clubs, and the program will assuredly be one
! worth long journey to witness
The uncertainty that still prevails In re-
! gard to Yale's boating plans for 1897 is
! gradually creating feeling of disgust for
college diplomacy, not only among the
| graduates, but also among the undergradu-
ates OF the university Both bodies feel that
! no adequate excuse can be offered by Yale
and Harvard IL they fail to meet on the
water this year. Yale men are quite willing
! to concede that Yale has made mistakes. but
| they want all past history blotted out and
| permanent union effected with Harvard
In all branches of sports. The delay in re-
| gard to settling the question of a boat race
| has occasioned the greatest dissatisfaction.
| 1t was this feeling which caused the gradu-
ates to demand that the settlement OF the
| question be left with Walter Camp and
| Robert ]. Cook. 1t will be remembered that
| 1t was these two gentlemen who, more than
dozen years ago, acting as Yale's repre-
|
| dispute that threatened to separate Yale
and Harvard. Both have for the past fifteen
| years been actively connected with Yale ath-
| letics as coachers and advisers. They are
| familiar with the situation, and command the
| respect and confidence, not only of the under
| graduates but of the entire body Of Yale men.
Yale's boating affairs today in the most
critical position in which they have been
| since the early part of the '70s, when, after
/ years of defect, Cook made his first eXpedi-
| tiOn to England to learn bDatinp Ynln does
| not want to go back to Henley again. She
| is anxious to row Harvard, but is equally
determined rot to be forced into a race with
Cornell by Harvard. 1t Is felt by Yale
graduates that the Harvard Advisory COM
| mittee has not been cordial as 1t
| might have been in its dealings with Yale
in this matter. If Yale meets Lehman's
| Harvard crew she will need to have the very
| best type of an eight that she can produce.
She will have in this case to contend with
| the fact that Lehman's crew defeated Cooks
| crew in England last July. If Yale goes
| back to Henley she will probably meet lust
| about as strong a crew as she met there
| last year, for McLane brought a crew from
New College last July that was Just as good
as that which Lehman trained for the
| Leander Rowing club The simplest way
| out of her difficulty, and the way which all
Yale men hope Yale will take. will be to
| endeavor to get Cook to take sole charge of
| the coaching and to in some way arrange to
| meet Harvard on the Hudson. If peace fails
| the only alternative left Yale is another trip
to Henley, and it looks to me as if she was
| doomed to make the journey.
OF all the great brood mares selected by
A. II. Moore of the Cloverdale stock farm
and who owns more great ones than we're
ever before brought together under a single
ownership. it Is doubtful whether any one
Of them will prove greater producers of ex-
treme speed than Josephine Young, the dam
of Joe Patchen, or Damewood, dam of John
r.. Gentry, 2:O0h, Theodore Shelton (3),
212A, and Myron McHenry, 2:15h Dame
wood has been dead for upward of two
years. Mated with either Director or Red
Wilkes had she lived, there would have
been some pretty good prospects in the
way of world beaters on the turf to look for
ward to. AS is we'll known Ashland Wilkes |
sire of Gentry, Shelton and McHenry, is
son of Red Wilkes. Josephine Young how
ever, still survives, and with the superior
advantages offered by Mr.. Moore I think !
there is every reason to believe that her pro |
duce will give an excellent account Of
themselves.
Betting has already opened up on the big |
spring handiCaps, the weights for which have |
been promulgated. All of the tookmak ers,
as usual announce their eagerness to lay
odds and some good money has already been |
staked in the eastern cities. OF course the |
odds at present are nothing like what they |
will be late" on when the bookies have had
an opportunity to look the field. The |
Olu gag OF making q DOOk against any morse |
in the nominations starting opens up the |
way to actual betting on the events Three |
TO one can be had against any horse. Blu |
clair is the medium of quite little betting |
in the Brooklyn, is Ben Eder Agol |
Ogden. Howard Mann and others. Free |
Advice Is fapcied by western mOneyed men, |
and Bright Phebus has considerable recogni- |
tion when long shots are presented.
OMAHA, Feb Ito the Sporting Editor
of The Bee: There seems 10 be no reference
in your columns to house roll No. 27, by |
Grimes of Holt county. bill introduced to |
prohibit in Nebraska the shooting of all kinds |
Of feathered game for the term of five years
While perfectly willing to admit that the
law would be attractive, If applied and
actually enforced in regard to prairie chick
ems | cannot concede that any necessitys ex-
pediency or advisability exists for the pro-
lection of the principal game ducks, geese
and quail. The Nebraska quail while hardy
bird, capable OF enduring almost any class
OF weather, still succumbs in large numbers
to the effects Of snow and ice combined and
the increase and propagation of this de-
sirable game bird has been very little re-
tarded by the onslaught of city and country
sportsmen. The present game law, while
covering great many defects, is dead
letter and always will be without the pro-
vision of game warden, whose duty 1t
should be to see that the law is properly
enforced
There is certainly no good argument that
can be presented whereby the game in the
state will be increased or propagated to any
material extent by the introduction of this
new law to prohibit game shooting in the
state for five years. There seems to be a
general spirit of lassitude and inactivity
among all Nebraska spVrtsmen not only
about the laws about to be presented to the
legislature, but also about the present law
There is scarcely a hotel or restaurant of
any importance anywhere In the state that
since the law expired on January l. has not
offered on its bill of fare quail and prairie
chicken and there is yet TO be recorded a
single effort on the part of any one to prose-
cute the vOlators.
VIII the sportsmen OF Nebraska continue
so entirely Indifferent or Is the time at
hand when they Will awake from their
lethaIgy and arrange some plan amcng
themselves for reasonable enforcement of
the game laws of the state? There are only
eight months in the year when the services
of a game warden would really be required
and II there were fifty sportsmen in the
state who would subscribe 81 a month for
those eight months a competent man could
be obtained to devote a large part of his
time to seeing that game birds are
reasonably protected and campaign prop
erly conducted against the offenders would
do more to increase the game In our state I
than the enactment OF dozen bills in the a
legislature without the appointment of a !
game warden and deputies, / Will be the a
first of the fifty to subscribe 81 per month Z