Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-06

is enough Individuality in the finish and
mechanism OF the output of different
makers to warrant stress being laid upon
their merits in those lines, without re-
sort to the methods used at present,
which only cause unholy mirth among
shooters in general.
Chief among the features Of the 1900
wheel will be what is known as the
Free Wheel" combining a coaster and
brake. The u is so constructed that
by back pedalirg on a wheel fitted with
1t, a clutch is released in the hub and
the rider can coast on his bicycle with
out removing his feet from the pedals.
BY back pedaling again, another clutch
is put into motion which acts as a brake
and the bicycle can be controlled on the
steepest hill. When the rider is through
coasting a pressure on the pedals in the
natural way releases the wheel and it
a be driven the same as an ordinary
wheel. The manufacturer claims q nan
can save the exertion of 20 miles out of
every SO. by the use of this invention.
Jake" Schaefer contemplates starting
a billiard academy after the style of the
French academies at his rooms in New
York. He has been in Chicago to secure
talent. The scheme embraces nightly
matches by experts for money prizes and
betting by spectators with a percentage
for the house as a 'rake-of."
"Scrappy' Joyce. the old ball player,
has quit base ball for good and has signed
a lease for a saloon in St. Louis. Patsy"
Tebeau, manager of the st. Louis club,
is said to be a partner. Tebeau will con-
tinue to play ball.
The Louisville Trotting Association,
which was suspended recently by the
National Trotting Association, will quit.
Wednesday the Louisville prize. guar
antesd at l 1000 for foals of 1898. to be
decided in 1901, a transferred to the
Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders AS
ISOLATION. 1t will be decided on the week
following the Kentucky Futurity two
years hence. President Douglass Of the
Louisville association, who has been try
ing to carry on racing in that city, has
lost $4,000 on the venture.
Trainer Ed Geers sold his 3-year-old
PAGER, Direct Hal, last Saturday. to c.
j. and Harry HamIin of the Village
Farm for &c. 900. Direct Hal was broken
and trained L little as a 2-year-old. This
fall at Louisville the colt stepped a mile
in 2:17. From his work on the covered
track at Jewettville he is considered a
coming phenomenal. Direct Hal is a son
OF Direct ~(2:05l:) out Of Bessie Hal, by
rom Hal.
Jake" Schaefer. the billiard expert.
has signed a contract calling for four
months in one of the leading academies
of the French metropolis. The wizard"
is reticent in regard to his plans, but
intimates that he will sail for the other
side very soon.
Caspar whitney, in the current number
of Harper's Weekly. classes the football
teams of 1899 in the following order:
Princeton, Harvard. Yale. Pennsylvania,
Carlisle, Lafayette, Cornell. Columbia,
West Point, Brown. Annapolis, Wesleyan.
He picks his All-America football team
as follows: Mcbride, Yale, fullback and
captain: Sharpe. Yale, and Reiter, Prince
ton. ~halfbacks; DAILY, Harvard, quarter
back; Overfield, Pennsylvania, center;
Hare and McCracken of the same col
lsge. guards; Hillebrand. Princeton, and
Stillman, Yae. tackles; Campbell, Harv-
ard. and Poe. Princeton. ends For subs
he picks Hale of Yale for center, Brown
of Yale and Edwards of Princeton for
guards; Lawrence, Harvard, and Wheel
ock of Carlisle for tackles; Hallowell Of
Harvard and Swain of Harvard and
Richardson of Brown halfbacks; Reid
OF Harvard, fullback, and Hudso of
Carlisle for quarter.