Evening star., 1900-04-25

| Ing season OF l9oo. OLeary was badly in
| jured in November, 1898, at the Benning
| track. when he fell with the horse Decep-
| ton. receiving injuries which laid him up in
| the hospital for several weeks.
CALIFORNIA; CRACK TEAM.
Roster of College Athletes Who VIII
| Make Eastern Trip.
| BERKELEY, Cal, April 25-Manager Ez-
ra Decoto of the University of California
| track team has received an invitation from
Tulane University of Louisiana, at New
| Orleans, for dual track meet on the re-
! turn journey of the Berkeley athletes from
| the east. The invitation will probably be
| accepted
| The California track team will start east
| on Friday, April 81. The first eastern meet
| will be with Yale University at New Haven
| on May >. Other meets will be follows:
May II, Princeton University. Princeton, N.
j.; May 10, University of Pennsylvania, at
| Philadelphia; May % and %, eastern inter-
collegiate games. Manhattan Athletic Field,
New York: June ), western intercollegiate
| games, Chicago
| If there is a meet with Tulane University
| it will probably be about June IL. In case
| the invitation of the Tulane University is
not accepted the team will be back by June
I, but. if the invitation is accepted. not
| until the middle of June.
| Capt. w. p. Drum and Manager Decoto
| announce that the men far selected for
| the eastern trip are as follows: VIM. P.
| Drum and Anthony Cadogan, sprints AL
! bert Plaw, hammer throw and shot put;
| Roy Woolsey. half mile, high jump and
| shot put; Ben Bakewell. hurdles; Jack D.
Hoffman. high jump and pole vault
| Another Victory for Vardon.
| Harry Vardon, the English professional
| golf champion. yesterday defeated the best
| ball of Walter ]. Travis, amateur and
James Douglas, professional player. over
the links of the Oakland Golf Club. near
Bayside, L. l., by six up in a match of
! thirty-six holes
The Englishmans Tong game at all times
| was almost perfect but was marred by
| pulled and a topped drive. In putting he
was not as good as he might have been.
| but the fact that he wound up the match
| with thrtyseven strokes for the last
| holes proved conclusively that with a more
| thorough knowledge of the links. which hs
| only saw for the first time Yesterday he
| could easily have beaten the record Of
| thirty-six strokes, which was made on Au-
| gust 10 of last year by Travis.
Good Roads Association.
The regular fbi-monthly meeting of the
| Good Roads Association will be held at the
| Ebbitt House Thursday evening. The re-
| port of the ways and means committee will
| be rendered. Mr. Maurice o. Eldridge of
! the Agricultural Department will make an
! address. }.
| Dates for the National Regatta.
The New York committee having in
charge the arrangements for the national
| regatta to be held on the Harlem river
| course has approved the dates July 49, 20
| and y.
| Winners at EPSON Today.
! LONDON. April 25.-The City and Sub
urban handicap of 1000 sovereigns, run at
the Epson spring meeting today dhe sec
/ n,,I ~, Iyl,,I Irn-,
| CRATER; a. Miller's four-year-old br. C.
| Innocence was second, and N. Norman's
| three-year-old br C. Goblet third.
|
| The BIacksmith's Easter Apron.
| To the Editor Of The Evening Star:
Let me add a little to the interesting
story in Tuesdays paper about the new
leather aprons of the blacksmiths on Easter
| Monday. Once upon time there was a
| great king. perhaps Alfred the Great, who
wished to show his appreciation of fine
work. So he sent word to the masons, car
penters, painters. blacksmiths. tailors. cam
| dlestck makers and the rest, each to do
| his level best on piece of work. The
king would go on a tiresome journey, over
a stony road. but he would return by
Easter Sunday. On Easter Monday he
would spread a grand feast in the castle
hall, to which the artisans Were to be in
vited, and the one whose work had pleased
the king best should sit on his right hand
| at tne 1edSt as a guest OF nOnOT. L nave
read list of all the fine things they made,
but l cannot now call them up. However.
the tailor brought the most gorgeous robe
the king had ever worn. The sheen on the
cloth would dazzle your eyes, and as for
gold and silver ornaments, they weighted
the king down when he put it on. The
blacksmith, who must have been an odd
sort or man, finding that the king would
| go on journey tomorrow, went over to til 3.
| royal stables and shod with his own hands
every horse that would be in the caravan
| u-1s tIAr .al co 1ttrht ,,
nails and so deftly was every one driven
and clinched and filed down that not
shoe was cast on the outward or the home
ward course.
| When the guests were assembled, just
before the doors of the dining hall were
opened. the kings clerk read out the ju1g-
calling at the same time the number of his
seat at the table. OF the tailor he said:
This mans work appealed to my vanity:
he gave me real discomfort for comfort:
| he has mistaken his sovereign's spirit al
| together: he shall sit at the foot of the
table. On the other hand, the smith mas
enabled me to go through the toughest
! road In all my kingdom and to return with
| out the casting of a shoe. He shall sit at
my right hand" The others We're seated
by numbers according to merit. The smith,
| who had washed himself as clean as a
penny and donned brand-new leather
apron. sat at fhe kings right hand. and
the tailor weat 9to the foot: They tarried
at the table long time but while they
| were laughing and going on the tailor dis
appeared. AS all thought that he had
gone out for chagrin they paid no more
with jealousy. FOR he hated the smith. and.
slipping along under the table to where the
smith was sitting, hauled out his shears
and cut the smiths new brown apron to rib
bons and fringes aft across the bottom
Then he skunk away. The smith was mad
enough when he, saw what was done, and
| wanted to pound the tailor sorely. But
the king said mot So it is not meet that
such happy time Should be so marred
l will order all blacksmths to wear fringes
| on the bottoms of their aprons as badge
of honor So that is why blacksmths