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Basket Ball.
TEACHING CHINESE.
Scheme In England to Instruct Young
Enxlishmen In the Language.

Scheme In England to Instruct Young
EngIishMen In the Language.
From the London Post.
Considering the magnitude Of British in
terests in China, 1t is curious that SO little
effort has hitherto been made to provide
facilities for the teaching Of Chinese In
Great Britain. 1t is true that professor
ships of Chinese are to be found at Oxford.
at Cambridge and at Kings College. Lon
don, but to those who know anything Of
the way the people Of Great Britain do bus
mess in China 1t is clear that for long
time past other and more vigorous meas
ures have been urgently needed to enable
our merchants to hold their legitimate
place in the commercial development Of the
far east From a memorandum issued by
r. s. Gundry, the energetic honorable sec
rotary of the China Association, 1t seems
that the credit of an important proposal
for meeting the need referred to is mainly
due to Mr.. Harrison, the president Of the
Blackburn chamber Of commerce.
It was the Blackburn chamber, 1t will be
remembered, which organised two years
ago commercial expedition to China, and
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CLANS. Germans, Russians or Danes it is
essential that the British should have some
previous acquaintance with the Chinaman.
Even though the education may have to be
completed in China, the young man who
starts with a basis OF even the rudiments
of knowledge and with an insight into the
principles and methods of acquiring Chi
rese. to which Mr.. Harrison and Mr.. Gum
who nave avoided all study of the language
till they have arrived on the spot
striking example of the mischief
wrought on British commercial interests
by more or less complete dependence on
interpreters Is to be found in the develop
ment Of the compradore system, an i'm
portant feature peculiar to Anglo-Chinese
business The compradore-a Portuguese
word signifying buyers the native official
or servant who In the days Of the early
European trading settlers used to be in.
trusted with the job Of purchasing produce
and goods for export direct from the native
growers or merchants. In process of time
the compradore has come to make such ex-
celient use of his linguistic and business
opportunities-as being often the only per-
son able to talk Chinese and empowered
to deal with natives-that nowadays tha
compradore Of British bank or firm often
makes more than the firm itself This ia
pointedly commented on by F. Bourne of
the consular service in his excellent report
to Lord Salisbury on the trade of central
ana southern China. issued last year. Mr.
Bourne also laid stress on the want of
some recognized agency for teaching Chi
r-ese, to which Mr.. Harrison and Mr.. Gun.
dry are now inviting attention
In Mr.. Gundry's memorandum II Is stated
that. though an official decision has not
been arrived at, the University of London
Is favorably disposed and inclined to grant
the necessary accommodation for the
teaching of Chinese. This attitude on the
part OF the university Is both enlightened
ana gratifying. and there is little doubt
that the necessary financial support will be
forthcoming to enable Chinese teachers to
be engaged as assistants to English pro.
fessors.
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Base Hall Briefs.

Good ball playing marks the present
Observation-Disclosures series.
Flfield did the best work Saturday that
he has done on the rubber since becoming
a Senator.
Catcher McManus had his right hand
quite severely injured in Saturdays game
and will be out of it for the remainder of
the season. Mac has proven himself to be
a youngster full of promise. and he Is as
sured thorough trial in the spring.
Barney Dreyfus. president Of the Louis
willie club reached Cincinnati Friday even
ing for the purpose of signing his players
for next season. He first tackled Short
Stop Clingman with a nice raise In salary
and a good bonus, but his offer was re-
fused and n ''turn-dOwn' came from every
other player accosted.
The Cincinnati people are wondering why
Pitchers Newton, Scott and Patton and In
fielder Geier were not given trials this fall
instead of waiting until next season. One
reason given is that the men are known
quantities and do not need trials. but the
true reason Is that the players refused
terms offered them by the Cincinnati club
>and went home. The four men mentioned
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CENTURY CYCLE, CLUB.
Interesting Notes About Members of
. the Organization.

Interesting Notes About Members of
- the ORGANIZATION.
President Benjamin F. Stone spent sew
eral days Of last week visiting his relatives
at Staunton, Va He did not reach the city
in time to preside at the regular meeting
Tuesday night. Il
Harry Park. one of the former presidents
of the club, was in town during the week.
accompanied by his wife. He took part in
the bicycle parade, and made quite 4 hit
with his trick riding in front Of the Cen
fury boys. r.
Lieut.. William c.. ;O'Connor has been
placed on the sick list for several weeks
Capt. Byrnes has appointed William Wright
acting lieutenant during his absence.
Charles Fl. Coons former centurion for
the District Of Columbia, spent couple Of
days in Washington during the week. He
Is at present located in Philadelphia. bat
came over to attend the Dewey celebration
Richard Brown failed to participate in
the parade of the club Monday night, and
as result Is minus his handsome gold
watch A pickpocket lifted his timepiece
when he was not looking. The members Of
the club are very much pleased with the
excellent showing made by the organiza-
ton Monday night in the Dewey parade.
The turnout was not as large was ex-
pected. but those who did show up made a
fine showing in their new orange and black
sweaters and neat uniform.
Among those who We're IN line were Capt
Byrnes. Lieuts. ]. N. Benner and A. A.
Hollander. F. T. Howe, jr.; Lewis Close,
John Sheehy, William A Hasler. Harry
Park, E. c. Henderson, Thomas F. Doyle,
ST., and William Werner. James Henderson
and Clyde Moore he'd down the left guide
OF the line, while Al. Bolden and Secretary
Fisk with their collection of medals, held
the right guide on. the north side of the
avenue. The two riders on each end of the
line wore the original colors of the club,
black and white.
AT the last business meeting of the club
Paul Cockerill of Takomaf Park was elect
ed to membership and the designations of
Thomas p. Carter and Lewis Close were
accepted with regret 1t was decided at
the meeting to postpone the date of the
public century, which was to have been
run off tomorrow .;
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have evidently been approached by the pro-
jectors OF the new association.
The base-hit averages compiled by out
of-town newspaper men place three Of the
Senators in the select 800 class-Freeman.
with 1924; Mercer, with $40, and Barry,
with .306. O'Brien has .295; Dineen, 80;
McGann. .2sS; Stafford. .2s4; Padden, PSI
Slagle. $50; Roach. .24O; Powers. .23O:
Weyhing. 2.17: Kittridge. 1853; Magee. .164:
Mcfarland, $50
Kip" Setback has not had very good
season. He has been in bad luck this year.
especially on the Cincinnati grounds. In
spite OF his bad luck, his batting average
is just shade under 300, and he has more
stolen bases and runs to his credit than
any man in the Cincinnati team. This
shows that in spite of his bad luck Kip is
not nearly so bad as he has been painted.
At meeting in Chicago yesterday of the
western members of the new American As
ISOLATION of Base Ball Clubs, representing
Chicago. st. Louis Milwaukee and Detroit,
President H. d. Quin was ordered to call a
meeting for the complete organization of
the new association at New York. Thurs
day, October 26 The president received
communications from some of the leading
National and Western league players. as
surfing the new association of their friend
ship and willingness to join its clubs. The
Wiman trophy, won by the St. Louis
Browns in 1886, 1887 and 1888 will be given
to the club winning the championship Of
the new association.
Jack Taylor would prefer to remain in
Cincinnati. but will not make a strenuous
Kick II he is traded to the Washington
club. says the Cincinnati Enquirer. There
are whole lot of worse people to work
for than the Wagners and Arthur Irwin"
said Taylor the other night. THE Wag-
ners have always been liberal in the mat
ter Of salaries. and l have found Arthur
Irwin to be of the right sort. 1 would pre-
fer to play with the Reds next season, as
| am confident 1 can redeem myself" Tay-
Tor Is of the impression that he Is to be
one Of the men traded by the Cincinnati
club for Mercer Of the Washingtons
II the Cincinnati club gets Mercer and
puts him up next to Barrett in the batting
list l would like to see some club make a
double play at the expense of those two
PLAYERS said Eagle Eye Beckley. Mercer
and Barrett would give us two Of the fast
est men in the league. We would be pretty
well fixed with left-handed batters with
Barrett. Crawford Mercer, Smith and my
self in the batting list"
The Enquirer says the talk about getting
Mercer is not idle gossip. The fact that
Earl Wagner has given it out that the
Cincinnati club has a deal on for the fleet
footed Senator should carry weight. Mer-
Ger, no doubt, would greet with delight an
opportunity to get with a team that has
been quantity in the championship race
the past four or five seasons.
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WILL SAIL EVERY DAY.
Conditional Agreement Made for Hur
ryinE the Yacht Races.

ryinE the Yacht Races.
BY agreement made yesterday between
the representatives Of the New York Club
and of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club the
Columbia and Shamrock will sail every day
after next Thursday until the question Of
international yachting supremacy Is estab-
lished.
The request for such an arrangement
came from Sir Thomas Upton, owner of
the challenger. He wanted the races to be
sailed daily after tomorrow, but the mem
bers of the New. York Yacht Club refused
to assent to ouch an arrangement.
The meeting at which the arrangement
for change of dates was reached was held
at the New York Yacht Club house. There
we've present r. G. Sharman Crawford and
H. NJ. McGiIldownery, representing the
Royal Ulster Yacht Club and Lewis Cass
Ledyard, ]. v. S. Oddie. F. w. Hurst, Ed
ward NJ Brown and H. F. Lippitt. repre-
senting the New York club At the con-
clusion of the meeting the following agree
ment was drawn up:
1.-The foregoing agreement the challenge
agreemenD is further modified by mutual
consent as follows:
Strike out the clause beginning The
first race shall be sailed on Tuesday, Oc-
tober 3, $780, and substitute the following:
1.-The races shall be sailed on the follow
Ing dates until the series be completed,
namely, October 10. 1899, October IL and on
each following day, except Sunday pro-
vfded, however, that Immediately on the
conclusion of the race Of October IL and of
each subsequent race the regatta commit
tee shall inquire of each contestant whether
he is willing to start the next day, and
should either contestant answer In the
negative one day shall intervene before
starting the next race. Sunday shall not
count as such intervening day"
The agreement was signed by the mem
bers of the committees representing both
clubs.
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it's members were evidently struck with the
disadvantage at which Englishmen stand
in China owing to their general ignorance
Of Chinese 1t is astonishing how few
British residents in China can lay claim to
know Chinese fairly well. and how very
few have a scholastic knowledge of the
language. In the treaty ports English Is
so completely the principal linguistic me-
dunn that there Is perhaps little or no in
ducement for our countrymen to master
the other tongue. AT every turn there are
plenty of natives who speak and write
English perfectly. and are thoroughly quail
flied to act as interpreters.
In the interior things are very different,
and it is there that the missionaries have
been the pioneers. not only in mastering
Chinese themselves but In teaching Eng
lish to the natives. I had a curious in
stance of this brought under my i,esice last
year while travelling near Pei-tai-ho a pic
turesque little seaside resort on the north
ern shore of the Gulf of Pechili. The sta
ton master approached a member of our
party and inquired If he was connected
with a large Industrial enterprise then on
foot-with the Picking syndicate, In fact.
The Englishman disclaimed any close con-
nection with 1t, whereon the Chinaman
produced letter from a friend Of his in
Shansi. suggesting to the station master.
who was good English scholar, that he
should apply for berth In connection with
the undertaking. The letter, though writ
ten by one Chinaman to another, and
coming from { remote province in the in
terror. nunQreQS OF miles away, was writ
ten wholly in English. It turned out that
both the correspondents had learned Eng
lish in the Chinese government schools.
OF course. there are plenty of Cinnamon
who are competent to teach our country
men the native language but it will be
readily understood that when once the
British get settled in a treaty port the
temptation to plunge into actual business
using an interpreter where needful. Is very
strong. and little leisure remains for mas
tering the Chinese characters and vocab-
ulary. Moreover, the British reluctance to
learn foreign tongue is no new thing. It
is not surprising. therefore, to find the
China Association persuaded that as we
are on the eve of great changes In China
steps should be taken to instruct young
Englshmen in Chinese before they arrive
In the country where they propose to make
their living.
The China Association points out that the
need of being able to communicate freely
with the natives will be greater in proper
ton as access to the interior Is facilitated
and places Of contact are multiplied. As
inland navigation, mining. railway extern
sion and other works are set on foot engi-
neers and clerks will certainly be required
and II the people of this country are to
hold their own In competition with Bel
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scores of Other Saturday Gamer.

At Annapolis, Md.-Princeton. 5; Naval
Cadets. D.
AT Annapolis Md.-St Johns College, IL;
Baltimore City College, o.
At New Haven. Conn.-Yale. %; Bates. O..
At Cambridge Mass.-Harvard, 70; Wes-
leyan. o.
At Providence r. I-Pennsylvania, g.;
Brown. 6.
AT Ithaca n. Y.-Cornell, -; Williams O.
At Charlottesville. Va.-University Of Vir-
ginia. 33: Episcopal High School Of Alexan-
dria, D.
At West Point. N. Y.-Pennsylvania State
College. 6: United States Cadets, 0.
At Swarthmore, Pa. - Lafayette, 10;
Swarthmore. 6.
AT Albany. N. Y.-Columbia q: Union, O.
At Bethlehem. Pa.-Lehigh. 10; Rutgers, o.
AT Hanover N. H.-Dartmouth, 80; Bow
dom. D.
AT Milwaukee. Wis-Universty Of Wis
consin SO; Beloit College o.
At Cleveland. Ohio.-Western Reserve
University, II; Baldwin University, 0.
At Extraordinarily Of Chicago, 5;
University of Iowa. 5.
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FOOT BALL.
Gallnudet Defeated-Other Games on
the GridirOn Saturday.

Galinudet Defeated-Other Games on
the GridlrOn Saturday.
The Gallaudet foot ball eleven played its
first game Of the season Saturday on Ken
dali Green with the strong aggregation
from the Baltimore Medical College, and
were shut out by the score Of II to 0. The
boys from Maryland outclassed the local
players at almost every point of the game
outweghing them. outfooting them and
outwitting them in all the finer turns and
twists of the contest The heavy weights
Of the visiting team would buck the CEN
ter of the Gallaudets with almost irresist-
ible force. making good gains every time
and their only weakness cropped out when
they tried to skirt the ends, and were clev-
erly blocked by the local boys. The work
of Gellfus, Waters, Wheeler and Carroll of
the Gallaudets was very fine along defen-
sive lines. but weak play by their compan-
ions prevented this quartet from making
good" from the aggressive side.
The star players among the visitors were
Hebb, South and Stole. but the entire
team worked together. and of course were
effective. Rough playing was almost en-
tirely stricken out by both teams, and for
this reason the afternoons sport was en-
tirely satisfactory to the onlookers, well
as the players The lineup was as follows:
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Record of the CIub.
1T WAS A PRETTY CONTEST.
Defeat of the Senator's by the Orioles
SATURDAY..

Saturday.
The Senators closed the week with a de-
feat at the hands Of the Orioles, Saturday,
at Union Park, Baltimore. The game was
a pretty contest, and hung trembling in the
balance until the very end. The honors
We're all with the pitchers.
McGinnity twirled for Baltimore and
showed in his finest form. Seven hits only
were made off his delivery, and but for an
error by Harris he would have shut the
Senators out Fifieid was in the box for
Washington. and he too. was in splendid
shape. All the early part of the game he
had the Birds shut OUT and it was only at
the very end that couple of timely hits
and good base running allowed Ba timore to
win out by a single run. The game was
sharply played and full of interest to the
very close. AT the end of the eighth in
ming 1t became too dark to play, and the
game was called, with the score standing
= to 1 in Baltimore's favor
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LIE Droit Juniors Beaten.

The LIE Droit Juniors were defeated in
foot ball by the Second Mt. Peasants, in
well-played game, by 5 to 0. The lineup
Of the Mt. Peasants follows: Young. full
back; Wells and Saers, half backs; Wright
and Stier, ends; Lee, quarter; Apple, CEN
ter; Altemus and Etchison, guards Ma
dert and Lange, tackles. The Mt. Pleas
ants would like to hear from teams whose
average weight is not over 12O pounds. Ad-
dress Ralph r. Saers, captain, 1853 Howard
avenue.
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CHICAGO WINS A DOUBLE VICTORY.
The Clevelands Shut Out and the
kOu1sviIles Easily Defeated.

The Chicagos played two clubs and two
games yesterday on their own grounds,
and won them both by easy margins.
Cleveland was the first victim by the score
OF Ii to o. while the Louisviles went under
by the score of to }. Both victories can
be credited to the effective pitching Of
Taylor and Griffith, the visiting teams be-
Ing unable to locate the ball with men on
bases Nearly 1000 spectators witnessed
the games. Scores:
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ST. LOUIS TAKES ON A BRACE.
In the DOuble-Hender In the Mound
City the Perfection Win and Tie.

The ST. Louis and Cincinnati clubs played
a double-header in the former city yester-
day, the first game being won by the Per-
fectos by the score of = to I, while the sec
ond resulted in a tie-1 to five innings be-
ing played. The Tebeauites made ten err
rors in the first game, but through timely
hitting were enabled to win out. The hit
ting was light in the second. Hahn and
Powell being very effective. Over II, 900
spectators witnessed the games. Scores:
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EalFhtd runs-Ch1cago, 4; louisville. 2. Left on
bases-Chcago. .; Louisville, 5. Two-base hits
!.ange, Wagner. Three-base ht-Hoy Home run
Mertes. Sacrifice hit-Chance Stolen bases-Iange.
hertes, Chance, IAtinier. Struck out-By Griffith,
3; by Waddeii, 3. Passed bal-Chance. First base
On balls-Of Griffith, 3; off Waddell, B. Hit by
pitched bali-Griitth. umpires-Iatham and Con-
nOlly Time hour and 35 Minutes
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Construction of the Road Around
Dalecarlia Hill.

Though coming almost too late this sea-
son to be thoroughly enjoyed. the opening
of the cycling season next spring will wit
ness the full use of the new cycle path
around what is known as Daleearlia hill
on the Conduit road. the steep incline just
west Of the District line. bordering the re-
ceivinG OF big reservoir. The Good Roads
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From the Detroit Journal.
The beautiful young girl hesitated to
marry the ugly old man.
"They say you have bad heart!" she
faltered.
Eyes. I'm liable to fall dead any minute"
he answered, with apparent candor.
Now at last gave she her consent, for In
her innocence she believed him.
More marriages are affairs of the heart
than we sometimes think, perhaps.
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FIRST GAME
Totals.....13 Is q IL 2 Totals. s2I12

Chicago. ............ B 0 D U 4 0 3 1-13
Earned runs-Chicago, 7. Twobase hits-Lanye,
EYerits t2,, Hughey. Home Mertes Bradley
Stolen bases-Lange Everitt, Mertes (2). Double
piays-MaSoou to Mccormick TO Eyeritt: Eyeritt
unasssted,: Harley to Sugden to Kruger. Struck
Guilty Taylor. /; by Hushey, s. First base on
balls-On Taylor. l. Off Hughey, 1. Hit by pitched
ball-Bradley. Left bases Chicago Z; Cleve-
land, 4. umpres-Lathan and Connolly. Time-1
hour and ~ n.inutes
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FIRST GAME,
Totals. 81 30 25 10 Totals. D..

TOtaIs..,.. 8 II 30 . 10 TOtals.... Z Y II 3
'Batted for Young In the ninth inning.
st. Louis. .............. 0 l 0 2 o Is
Earned runs-St. Louis, 4. Sacrifice hits Setback
Hedrck, Irwin, Cross Kehoe, Wallace. Two-base
-Schrecongost. Elberfe!d. Three-base hits
Beckley Heidrick. Home run-Donlin. Double
play-Cross to Schrecongost. First base balls
on Hawiey, 3. Struck out-By Young, 8. Stolen
bases--Waace, Cross, Irwin. Wild pitch-Hawley.
Umpires-ODa.' and Mcdonald. Time-2 hours and
80 minutes.
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SECOND GAME.

Sacrifice hit-Wallace. Two-base hit-Heidrick.
Three-base hit-Beckley. Hit by pitched ball-Mc-
Phee. Double play-Heldrck to Cross. First base
on balls-On Powell, l. Struck Out-By Powell 2;
by Hahn. 2. Wild pitch-Hahn. Empires Day
and Mcdonald. Tin:e-1 hour and minutes.
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Other Saturdax,sI earu

other Saturdays League Scores.
Brooklyn. 10; New York. 2
Philadelphia, 6; Boston. 1.
Cincinnati, 4: Louisville. z
Pittsburg, IS; Cleveland, 3.
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General sportinr Notes.

At the Greenwood Athletic Club In Brook
Ign. Saturday night. Joseph Falrburn of
Philadelphia and Joseph Gain of Brook
lyn, fought a twenty-round draw at catch
weights.
At the Kempton Park England races
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Saturday the Stanley plate was won by 8.
B. Yoers Saint Valentine II. ridden BY
TOD" Sloan. Full Ripe. under ]. Rein.
was second, and Thurling third. Seven
teen ran. L. Reiff won the Vauxhall SELL
ing plate on Horton.
The Brooklyn Chess Club has received
formal challenge from the British Chess
Club for a cable match for the Newnes
trophy The date will be some time next
March, the match to be under the condi-
lions prevailing in this years contest.
At Kansas City. Mo-, Saturday night
the fight between Oscar Gardner and Harry
Forbes was prevented by interference Of
county officers, after a permit had been
granted by the city authorities. The city
and county politicians, 1t Is said, disagreed
over division of the proceeds.
The last test match between Prince Ran
jitsinhjrs English cricket team and the
Gentlemen Of Philadelphia began Saturday
at Mannheim. When stumps were drawn
the Britishers had made 272 runs for loss
of six wickets. The fielding of the Ameri-
cans was for the most part brilliant.
Basket Ball.
The Eastern Athletic Clubs basket ball
team has organized and Glenn Nichols
chosen manager. The following will con-
stftute the team: Dunn, Pearson. Ellis,
Gates Hughes Boyd. Atz. Gooding. LOTUS,
Collifower and Thompson.
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