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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-05

weaver's work has been satisfactory. and
II he makes the improvement that is eN-
pccted he will do most OF the Cardinals
catching this season. He has nothing on
Jack O'Neill as a backstop. nor is he the
baseball general that Ryan is. but he can
bat close 10 100 points better than either Of
his rivals. and Donovan win give this full
consideration. His throwing Is accurate
and speedy and he is always on the alert
TO secure an advantage for mis- team. His
greatest handicap IS his unfamiIllr;ty with
the points and peculiarit.es Of the National
League batsmen. Ryan has this down fine.
and will be paired with the young pitchers
until they become posted on these inn
portant points.
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JOCKEY RATTIsTE.

A strong negro rider. recently with E. ].
Arnold & Co
Colts made the three hours drive from
Los Angeles through the San Gabriel VAL
ley in tallyhos. and after being Wined In
Arcadia" inspected the horses The ranch
comprises 75.OoO acres. and is valued at 81
oce.0o. SO pleased was Manager Selee with
the locality that he has made arrange-
ments for his team to take spring practice
there another year. a suitable price for
compensation having been agreed upon
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-05

LORD CARNARvoN N CALIFORNIA.
Lord Carnarvon. member OF the English
Jockey Club. a recent visitor in New York.
has extended his trip across the Rockies.
where he has been enjoying three days rae
ing at the Oakland track Of the new Cali
fornia Jockey Cub.
Caerar Young. the o,d-time Manhattan
Athletic Gu champion runner. vso has
confined his racing and ~bookmakin= opera
lions to the Pacific Coast the past few
years. and has nrcsacred there greatly.
writes that he VIII he seen in the Middle
West this summer. and II likely II come
on East as far as Saratoga He has made
entries with the racing associations operat-
ing in Chicago and in 81. Louis. in which
latter city he resided for some years. while
the carnival OF racing. both day and night.
In progress In this city.
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A n TO BE ocKEYs.

TIE success Of LucIen Lyme as a Jockey
has made a lasting impression on the lads
Of the Blue Grass region OF Kentucky.
| where Lyme lives. The result is that train
|, ers and owners sojournInE near Lexington
are besiered with applications from boys
OF high and low degree. all OF whom are
anxious to become riders. The crop OF
truants Is also large and runaways are Of
common occurrence. Not a few OF the en-
gaining their narents consent and have
been regularly apprenticed TO trainers.
Among those who have started out to i'm
prove the breed Of Jockeys is Carroll O'Ma-
honey. son OF Doctor r. ]. OMahoney. who
has Joined wsiter Jennings's forces. War
rem FIeber. son OF Adam FIeber. the dis
tiller. can be seen daily in the saddle ex-
ercising horses at Latonia. and James Nc
Daniel. grandson Of the famous Southern
turfm-n. David Mcdaniel. Is at Memphis
with the stable of George C. Bennett. The
success Of Lyme may have a lasting ir.
preston on the turf. and from the ma.
per in which the young Rentuckians are
liking 10 the game the indications are that
a new class Of gentlemen riders will spring
into existence. There is more made by
riding winners" than by breeding win
ners.' and none are better aware Of this
fact than the boys brought up in the Blue
Grass region.
BARNES PROUD OF oRDNUNG.
a dispatch received in this city BY a prom
inent horseman from Colonel w. S. Barnes.
proprietor OF tire Melbourne Stud. shows
that. Ike all breeders. the RENAL Kentuek-
ian takes 4 great interest = the perform
ance o. horses bred az his farm. Colonel
Barnes bred O-dauls. the winner OF tire
Montgomery Handicap. and considers.
rightly. his victor another credit marx for
Jim Gore and Melbourne. "Score another
for HeIboarEe." the dispatch reads. ord
nunG has defeated the great McChesney in
the Montgomery" Though the old horse Is
registered as by Jim Gore or Order. Colonel
Barnes always maIntaizs that Jim Gore IS
the sire. Melbourne bred horses have scored
many notable victories. b.; IT would seem
that O~rdnung's defeat OF McClesaey has
pleased Colonel Barnes more than anything
that has happened Of recent years
sNATHERS AND HIS TRAINER
Many horscmen are Of TIE opinion that
Mr.. Smathers Is making a mistake in lesv-
ing McChtsley in the Durnsll barn. The Ge-
feat OF the great horse in the Montgomery
o-N aF NA-dHAfSdAS Ne10Ap Ns"AtehN1 FAhA
his performance have strengthened this
opinion. Those who know Mr.. Smathers inti-
mately are asserting that there VIII be a
new trainer for McChesney IN a few days.
'Smathers is not n c~ountryman," said 4
friend yesterday. If the:e Was anything
wrong with that race YOU can bet a dollar
to a peanut that he knows It. and that he
will take mighty good care the thing Is not
repeated. I expect 10 see Smathers make a
change Of trainers for McChesney in a few
d~ays-that IS. Il he an"
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ENGLISH z Z SILENT,
SAN FRANCISCO TURF NEW

schrefber Horses En- Route to 81.
Louis-Bsrrowes Coming With Them.
Special Correspondents Of The Sunday Republic
San Francisco. March sa-Tn. .rodu- =,
trrfnen and horses which played a proni-
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On the other hand. McAieer's team. hav-
ing the advantage Of perfect team work, a
sure prospect OF hitting better than they
lid last season, and with Il strengthened
pitching stan. should have an edge on the
prides Of Manhattan when il comes to act
uaI playing.
Cleveland also figures to Guido New York
and Boston. and Detroit and Chicago should
uphold their end AGAINST washington and
the Athletics.
in the National League. Pittsburg and
Cincinnati. Western Representatives. should
find little d~iniculty in finishing one. two.
MuRsy McGraw. II he locks after the man
agerial stunts in proper fashion. should fin
ish third he certainly has no complaint
TO make on the score of MATERIAL. fer he
has one of the fanciest pitching corps in the
National League.
The Cardinals. with a better inheId. i'm
"roved pitching stan and a better batting
team than they had last season. should fin
fish in the first division. This will give the
West three h~rst-divislon teams In the Ma
tionai League, as against one for thei-
Eastern rivals. Chicago. the National
Leagues other Western representative.
should finish In a respectable place In the
Kecond division; on the whole. giving the
West much the better OF the seasons ar
sument.
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Great is the erief in Camp McAleer at
the failure OF one Barney Dreyfuss to ac-
rept the den OF R. Lee Hedges for a series
Of gsmes TO be played here between Fred
ClaEke's Pirates and McAIeer's brown
hosed warriors.
Both Hedges and McAleer accuse the
Pittsburgs Of crawling out OF the series
on a very lame Dretext. When the series
was first preached. Mr.. D-eyfuss. with pro-
found szlaans. assured Hedges that moth
ing would afford The Pirates greater pleas
ure than TO play a SERIES against the
Browns. but Dreyfuss finished with a saw
ing CLAUSE by stating that Little Rock had
all his open dates engaged.
Mr. Hedges then assured Dreyfuss that
there would be much more money in a
series between the Pirates and rBowns for
both teams than could be made out of a
months stand at Little Rock. and he
Fought Dreyfnss TO cancel the Little Rock
dates. The oily Bsrney's response was TO
the effect that he had swem2ed the Little
Rock managers with requests to cancel.
but he avoTed that Finn refused TO even
listen TO any proposition for canoeing the
dates
Blu here comes the rift that renders the
iate in~harnouious. and makes Dreyfuss APP
pear in the role Of crawling. The other day
a st. Louis newspaper man asked MIR. Finn
why Little Rock would nos allow the.
?ittsburcs TO cancel their dates, and the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-05
PERSONNEL OF BIG LEAGUE CLUBS
FAVORS WESTERN TEAMS AS VICTORS

In Team Work and Finer Points of the Game They Have the Edge on
Their Eastern Rivals-Browns Disappointed at Pittsburgs Refu-
sal TO Meet Them-Jimmy Burke in Peculiar Predicament-
Donovans Twirers in Good ~Shape-Weaver VIII Be a
Regular - Browns Batting Well
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MODERATOR GETTING WISE.

Moderator. which started last Wednesday
and ran 4 game race. is not 50 crazy-
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went in. but he had not been there long
before we had scored eight runs and won the
game by a score of % to IS That was one
OF the toughest games to lose that / ever
heard Of"
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Arkansas magnate stated that the only rea-
son that he knew Of was that Dreyfuss
never asked TO have the Little Rock dates
Cancelled.
II looks now as though Dreyfuss does not
care to risk the reputation OF his pennant-
winning troupe Of ball players against the
St. Louis Browns.
The position OF Jimmy Burke. who played
the part OF general utility man for the
Pittsburgs last season. and who is under
contract with the Cardinals this year, prom
ises some peculiar Developments. unless q
compromise is effected.
According to NJ. Stanley Robson and
Pat Donovan. Burke is a Cardinal. and
must play with the Cardinals. Burke AYERS
that he has never received notice from
Dreyfuss Of his release to St. Louis, and
claims that he is holding of for instruc-
tons from PIrateviIle before reporting to
Donovan.
He further says that IL he is finally as
signed to tie Cardinals he will not play
short. as he is a frost at that position. As
sho-t is being pretty well taken care of. it
looks as though Burke VIII not even get a
chance to show at that place. n he may
be left out OF the Cardinal lineup alto
gether.
If this should be the case. the Cardinals
should either release Burke to Detroit, who
ave after his services. or send him back TO
Pittsburg.
The young twirlers of the Cardinal corps
have had a tip from Donovan thai failure
to be selected for retention will not mean
their retirement from the National League.
provided they show ability TO warrant fur
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Smith. who is scarcely considered a can
didate for a regular infeii position. will
probably be retained as utility man. Like
most amateurs he has much TO learn about
batting and fielding lie steps away from
the plate. a glaring fault which Donovan
thinks will soon be- overcome. There has
been noticeable Improvement In this regard
since Pat pointed out 10 the clever young
ster the necessity OF being n proper posi-
ton To- menf the hall
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Speaking OF pitching the other day Char
lie Nichols said: 1T * hard TO explain why
a pitcher who has pitched six or seven per-
feet innings should lose his Effectiveness.
He works as hard. but he can't stem the
tide. l believe, though. that the batters
just begin TO swing at the ball and are
lucky enough TO meet il. The pitcher. too.
under a heavy ~cannonading. may not use
good judgment and continue 10 pitch the
bah In one spot I have been hit hard 4
number OF times in my career. I know one
day in New York 1 mad them shut out until
the last inning. All OF a sudden they began
how. but l could not stop them. and nine
men hit me safely in succession. The pc
culiar part OF II was that 1 had two strikes
on every one of the nine men. Batting
streaks and rallies come into a game some
when they are least expected 1 re-
one that took place some twelve
Years ago In Kansas City in which Red
Ehret figured. Red was pitching for Den
yer and I was with Kansas City. Red
against US one day and let US down
with three hits. The next day Eddie Silch
went in against Us md, while We hit him
hard. our pitcher was hit harder. and at the
end OF the eighth inning the score stocd IS
10 L in favor Of Denver. In order to make
II a cinch the Denver manage put Ehret
in for the last inning to finish the game.
II. had been so successful against us the
day before that they figured It out as a
cinch II he pitched the final inning. Red
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wARA!Ne WoRps TO mE En-
II You Are Suffering From Weakness or Disease, Don't Delay Seek
the Quickest, Safest and Sursst Cure 0btainabIs- Remember,
Good Health Is Your Most Valuable Possession.

Consult Established, Reputable Specialists Beware of Temporary, Irespons
sHble Medical Concerns and Get-Rich- Quick Doctors, whose Offers
of free Treatment, No Pay Until Cured, ETC., Prove \
Deceptive and Disappointing. \
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SPECIAL BY CABLE TO rHE NEW YORK
HERAL THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-08

wards of Is 900 photographs of the south
ern sky having been taken there since it's
erection.
Another Harvard tropical observatory
which may be noted in this connection and
which, though not located at a great alti-
tude, yet proved itself very useful, was
the station which was maintained for a
time at Vaudeville, Jamaica. Herr Prof.
w. II. Pickering made his we'll known
studies of the moon, looking downward
into a great mirror through a telescope
1876 feet long. The seeing at this station
in the highlands of Jamaica was found to
be fairly good, though not equal to that
of the Arequipa observatory and presum-
ably inferior to that at Flagstaff.
The Lowell observatory at Flagstaff was
started in the spring of 1894, with the spe-
cial object of enabling Mr.. Lowell and his
assistants to study the planet Mars. Very
complete apparatus was installed for this
purpose, including an eighteen-inch tele-
scope with Brashear lens, a twelve-inch
telescope and several smaller portable in
struments. In 1895, also, Alvan Clark &
Sons of Cambridge sent to Flagstaff a
twenty-four inch telescope, a size now gen.
orally recognized as being large enough for
all practical purposes. The Flagstaff site
is very favorable to good seeing during nine
or ten months of the year. 1t is situated
at an elevation of 1000 feet and lies ten
miles south Of the San Francisco mountains,
which are about 10000 feet high. The OBJ
servatory stands on a mesa" or plateau
about $50 feet above the town of Flag
staff and looks down in every direction
upon a growth of pines. The only objec-
tion to the locality is the atmospheric
disturbance effected in the winter months
fhrn,.1h Tho pragonon 80 NON an th0 Match
boring mountains, and this difficulty Pp-
peared at one time so serious that Mr..
Lowell started a temporary observatory
near the City of Mexico-a fact which is
perhaps partly responsible for his present
conviction that modern atronomy, with its
steadily improving instruments, nut go
out and find the best possible place in
which to use them, even If the whole
world is to be explored to find it.
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Indians Tried Tobacco

Buffalo Bill says that one day in New
York he entertained two Indian chiefs at
dinner in the Hoffman house cafe.
There was a little bottle of tabasco sauce
on the table, and the first chief covered his
oysters with it, as though it had been
catsup. Then he swallowed an oyster,
going through strange contortions in the
act, though he was too polite t. make any
cutlery. His air, though, became sad, and
big tears coursed down his cheeks.
why, brother, do you weep" the other
chief asked, alphabetically.
Il am thinking" said the first, "of my
son, Gray Wolf, who was slain in battle"
All" murmured the second chief, and he,
too, covered his oyster plentifully with the
fiery sauce, then swallowed one. He, too,
in a moment, was shedding tears.
His friend said, ~gravely:
why do you weep, brother?"
II weep" was the %retOrt, because
am sorry that you were not slain in that
battle you spoke of. along with your son.
Pittsburg Gazette.
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shorter or approximately just what is
wanted for good seeing is merely to select
a certain diameter of glass as a standard,
by means OF which to study the varying
conditions in various localities, the glass
itself, of course, being always Of the same
quality and the SANE make.
This method of determining wave lengths
will, of course, be well understood by the
men whom Mr.. Lowell chooses for the work
Of the coming expedition, although even
the amateur can note the phenomenon ap-
proximately IL he will take out the eye
piece of a telescope and place his eye in
the focus of the instrument while pointing
it as ZONE sufficiently bright object. The
air lengths also may be estimated by care
fully noting the character of the stars So
called spurious disc and ring as seen
through the telescope-that is to say, by
the kind of dazzle" which surrounds a star
and which anyone may note by looking up
into the heavens with the naked eye. In
accordance with this latter point each OBJ
server in Mr.. LowelIs expedition will be
provided with a standard scale Of seeing,
originated by Pref. w. II. Pickering Of
Harvard and worked by Mr.. A. E. Douglass
of the Flagstaff observatory, on which the
numbers run as follows:
O. Disk and rings of a star in one con-
lustu uldSSs NlOltl HOllOH, image greatly
enlarged and varying in size.
2. Disk and rings i'm one confused mass,
constant motion no increase in size.
4. Disk well defined, no evidence of rings.
@. Disk Wen defined, rings broken into
lots and lines. but still traceable.
8. Disk well defined. rings complete, but
moving.
10. Disk well defined. rings motionless.
This scale has been found to give a very
satisfactory mode of classifying atmos-
pheric conditions as they apply to visual
observations In regions where general
conditions give comparatively good seeing,
Nos. 0, 2 and 4 are very readily dis
tinguished. Nos. 4, 6, s and 10 are sub
ject to quick transition from one to an
other; but they represent distinctly differ
ent systems Of air vibrations. In the work
OF exploration the Lowell observers will
classify the state of the atmosphere of
each locality observed for a considerable
period of time, and only those places in
which a high average is obtafned-an at
mosphcre, that is, in which the conditions
are best adapted to exact astronomical
wOrk-will be considered available for es-
tablishing observatories. All probable sites.
in other words, are TO be subjected to a
sort OF competitive examination.
From such data as are already at hand II
is believed that Mr.. Lowells ideal localities
will be found, not exactly in deserts, but on
the verge of deserts or in GASES. The sud
den changes of temperature and the con-
sequencent perplexing air currents make
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the ~treeless tracts rather undesirable.
Similarly, a site on the side OF a mountain
ravine is generally somewhat exposed to
strong draughts Of wind which initiate to
a greater or less degree against good see
ing. In this regard, the observatory at
Flagstaff is very favorabIy situated, being
sheltered by pine woods, surrounded on
every side by the desert and is very likely
typical of the special locations which the
Lowell expedition will set out in search OF.
Among other things, the general adop-
tion OF an acceptable scale Of seeing, to-
gether with the selection OF a number of
definite sites for observations, would prob
ably greatly help the study of the planet
Mars, in which Mr.. lowell hes for some
time been personally much interested. Our
knowledge Of Mars grows apace from year
TO year, and the conviction is every year
strengthened that our neighboring planet
presents a scene of immense and wonder
full activities. The network Of great strips,
which are supposed to be lines of verdure
along vast irrigation sluices and which ex-
tend from the Marian poles to the equator,
has already been carefully studied; but
given the very best portions of the world
to view it from, we may look forward con-
fdently to still further results. OF course
neither what we have discovered on Mars
nor even what we are likely to discover
after an agreement among astronomers has
been reached as to a scale of seeing is
likely to reveal to us the nature of the
inhabitants, il such there are. They might
be in the shape of beetles or elephants or
lizards rather than of human beings. But
whatever their physical characteristics,
something evidently exists there-just what
we shall probably know more about in the
future than we know now.
Mr.. Lowells project has grown directly
out Of the experience of the two leading
American high oltitude observatories, the
Peruvian station Of Harvard university in
the Andes, near Arequipa, and the Lowell
observatory at Flagstaff. The former was
located in 1889 by Prof. Scion Bailey. Its
work has been notable in the annals OF
science, for in II was established the great
Bruce telescope. made for Harvard through
the generosity Of Miss c.. y. Bruce of New
York, who, in 1889, gave $50, 600 to be APP
piled to the construction of a Photographic
telescope Of a special type, and to secure
its use under the most favorable climatic
conditions possible. This instrument, made
under the direction Of Prof. Edward c..
Pickering, the director OF the Harvard OBJ
serYatory, has proved Invaluable in high
altitude astronomy, Much of the work,
however, Of the Arequipa station has been
devoted to a single department of the
science, namely, stellar photography. up
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The Fresh Drummer

When Noah was asked by a fresh drum
mer what time he proposed to make to
Ararat he stopped selling tickets a mo-
ment and said:
I'm about three months"
you're Slow" complained the cues
%tiOner; ION the overland route they do T.
in two and a half"
There won't be any other line pretty
quick" sagely replied Noah. Its stock
is due to be Yatered, and it'll go down. I
am a monopoly. Better get aboard"
But the foolish drummer had never heard
Of trusts or Morgan, and persisted mis-
erably the next rainy day.-New York
Times.
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one. Tammany has had to bow to the
club of this young man and take with
his blows his name.
Ready fists and quicker wits have
fought Murphy's way for him to the
place of Tammany boss. The gas house
district had to take Murphy as its boss.
He was born there and now it is his.
As lad he punched harder and played
ball faster than the rest, and after
he had kicked them all the gas house
gang saw him driving a horse car
through the streets. When the bell
rang the car stopped and stopped quick.
Murphy wasn't easy on the horses
mouths and his big fist drove the brake
home hard. He never said much, but
ON the diamond, in the street rows and
no the car platform he got his right
Of way.
All this time behind the fists the wits
were always at work. If Murphy
spiked the man on second he never over
slid the base. When he "did up" one
o. the gas house gang it always 'put
him next" to the stronger faction. He
never dashed his horses unless 1t was
to make schedule time to the minute.
Next the gas house gang saw the fists
Of Murphy in different light. They
were behind the bar and they opened
to shake hands to the right people.
They never punched anything but the
cash register and the man who cheated
it. They slipped out greenbacks, too,
in the kind of charity that counts in
politics and that SO truly "covereth a
multitude of sins" For Murphy has a
heart as warm as any Murphy, though
well under the control of the wits and
never in the way oft he fists. Since
that day the gas house people have
loved Murphy and he has held their
votes in the grip of one of his fists.
AS Murphy did to the gas house gang
he has done to Tammany Hall. His