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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-12-03

From Thursdays Daily
Mrs. r. H, Sloan and little girl left
for Denver this horning to visit
friends week or ien days.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-12-03

George Melville wired o. F. Boyle
yesterdaj that the shipment of cattle
from Pine river to Kansas City,
brough' top-notch prices. This is
pleasing to the owners.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-12-03

Location certificates were filed in
the county clerks office today by II. f.
Snider and others for the Foxy Grand
pa, Chicago Girl. Abe Lincoln. Christ
ian, Holy Smoke and Valley Bell lode
claims, all in California mining dis
trict.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-12-03

Butter is S5 cents a pound. This
suggests that there is an opening for
creamery in Durango. There is a
very large territory surrounding us
that such an institution could supply,
providing good article were turned
out.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-12-03

The next Animas valley dance will
take place at Trimble Springs on
Thursday evening. Dec. 10th. Duran
go people are extended cordial invi-
tation to join with the country and
have an old-fashioned good time.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
LARGE CROWDS SEE BALL
GAMES IN WINDY CITY
American and National League Teams
Each Attract at Least $4,000 Fans.

CHICAGO, May 4.-Nearly 1000
people saw major league baseball in
Chicago. and with the cold weather con-
practically baseball crazy" and perhaps
the best baseball city in the country.
At the American League grounds on
the South Side a throng of $500 filled
the stands and bletchers and overflowed
the field to see the White Sox score
their third successive victory by defeat
ing Larry Lajoie's Cleveland team.
On the West Side. where the attend
ance a week ago broke all records for
that park, $4,000 persons today viewed an
eleven-inning game between the Cubs
and the Pittsburg champions.
The rival local clubs OF the American
and National Leagues had their first
conflict of the season today and the
facts proved the correctness of President
Harris contention that conflicts on a
Sunday here would have no apparent eff
feet on either club. The capacity OF
each park was taxed TO its limit, proving
that each club has a clientele of its
own-at least on Sunday
The vast crowds are significant, how
ever. aside from their influence on the
club owners. With such large numbers
attending the game in cold weather it is
probable with winning teams the clubs
will draw even more when summer is
here, and it all goes to show that base
ball is still the national game, in fact
as we'll as in name. 1t is admitted that
have made inroads on baseball, but in
spite of these other diversions baseball
stiT has its hold on the public, and
Chicago's patrons may be numbered
among the most generous in the country.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
JOHN A. DRAKE PLUNGES
ON HIS GOOD RACE HORSE

NEW YORK, May 24.-John A Drake,
the Chicago millionaire, and E. f.
Smathers. the wealthy New Yorker,
have set the horsemen throughout the
country talking because of their heavy
wagers made on their respective candi-
dates in the American Derby and the
Harlem National Handicap. kid"
Weller, the Chicago bookmaker, took
the money. John A. Drake on Saturday
wagered $4,000 on his American Derby
candidate and Futurity winner Savable
IN the Harlem National Handicap Owner
Smathers has placed 49, 900 on the
chances of McChesney. which is now in
the hands of his former owner, S. c..
HiIdreth.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
AMATEUR BASEBALL AS
SEEN BY AN EXPERT
President of the Depart
mental Leagues Opinion.
GAME HEALTHY AND PURE"
Many Ball Players Have Secured Fine
Positions Because of Their Prowess
on the Diamond.
porting Editor of The Washington Times:

Sporting Editor OF The Washington Times:
In compliance with your request of
the 1st inst. I give you MY reasons for
being a strong advocate of amateur
baseball. First of sll, because it is a
healthy, manly, athletic sport, truly
American in every sense of tire word,
and justly termed our national game
While somewhat numerous. the rules
governing it are so simple that it can be
intelligently played and enjoyed by the
youngest schooIboys. Yet it requires
that degree of skill and science that no
player has been known to become per-
feet in the art
We read of chess, and back CANNON,
and checker players who cannot be de-
feated. and of swordsmen who can sue
cessful combat with three adversaries at
the same time, and masters of other
games and sports, who become so skilled
that they are termed perfect; but not
so in BASEBALL. It's standard OF perfec-
ton seems too high for such excellence,
and it is just this and a few other things
that make it so fascinating both to
players and fans"
Baseball has in it. too, that element of
danger without which it could not be
thoroughly American, though not brutal
and seldom fatal. To excel in this manly
sport one must be quick of intellect,
body, and limb; courageous, yet cool
and at all times self-possessed and cour-
teous to his opponents and eliminates.
There IS nothing that makes a good
player SO popular as a pleasant DISPOSE
ton.
One of the principal reasons why adj
vocate amateur baseball is because it
benefits one in so many ways. 1t not
only improves you physically, but often
morally.
If you want to know a mans true
character, meet him a few times on the
ball field. when elated by victory, or
disappointed by defeat 1t is then you
have his true nature
To reach that degree of perfection 20
which most ambitious ball players as
pire. one must be moderate in all of
his habits. He should never eat too
much or drink, chew, or smoke to excess
and should retire early at night.
A man or boy who loves baseball and
Wants 10 excel in it, Will nine times out
OF ten. lead a more prudent and moral
life than he would without such an in
centive. In fact you will find among the
leading athletes of our large universities
and athletic organizations. young men
whose lives are as pure and temperate as
that OF a child. and yet they are often
giants. both in their classes and sports
There are many worse things that a
boy or man can be doing than playing
bail after his duties of the day are over
II he has a weakness for any habit
which units him for q ball player, his
fellow players will do all in their pow
er to encourage and help him overcome
it. l have many acquaintance who are
today holding good positions in public
Offices and private firms. secured on az
count of their superiority as bail play
ers-
Amateur baseball should be. encour-
aged from every viewpoint. II is health
full and eleyating and the purest of all
sports. l.. O. c. LAMAR.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
RAGING #H" YACHTING :ATTALE77C
BLUE AND GRAY TEAM VS..
PRINCETON WEDNESDAY
Georgetown to Play Columbian a
Week Later.

The crestfallen baseball tossers OF
Georgetown University will play their
next game with the Princeton nine at
Princeton. The Blue and Gray lads will
leave Washington tomorrow, aud play
the Tigers Wednesday afternoon. The
Georgetowners drubbed the Princeton
ians to the air of TO here, in a seven
inning game, but it is matter of con-
lecture what they will do in the Tiger s
lair in a game of nine innings.
Jerry Bradley is terribly cut up over
the errorsome performance put up by
his men in Saturdays contest with the
Carolinians, and hopes to retrieve his
lost laurels in the Mosquito State.
Georgetown was originally listed to play
Princeton on May 8. but a change was
made, and when the boys return they
will have three more home games to
play.
These games are with Columbian on
Wednesday of next week, Maryland Ath-
letic Club, on the following Saturday,
and Gallaudet, May 20. After those games
the team will rest three days and start
on the Northern trip, which will cover
a period of ten days, when Yale, Har-
ward, Andover. Wesleyan and other
teams will be played.
According to the schedule there is no
game arranged for Saturday of this
week, but Graduate Manager Thomp-
son talked with the manager of the
North Carolina team in regard to re-
turn game at Norfolk, Va. and it Is
almost certain that the Blue and Gray
lads will be given chance to wreak
vengeance upon the Tar Heel Staters-
Manager Thompson believes the Co
lumbar game will prove a great draw
ing card because of the intense interest
which has been manifested in previous
contests between the two institutions.
Columbian is stronger than ever this
year, and Captain Bielaski, the doughty
captain of the Orange and Blue tribe,
believes his men can make 1t interesting
for the wearers Of the Blue and Gray.
Fulcher, who does the box work for the
Columbian lads, is far superior twirl-
er to any member of the Georgetown
pitching staff, and with any sort of sup
port he should be able 10 make it de-
cidedly interesting for the collegians
across the creek. Columbian has large
student body, and there is large Co
lumbar following in Washington. For
that reason it is believed that the boys
will work hard in order to create a
more favorable impression than they
have already made.
Johns Hopkins was originally billed
TO meet Georgetown on the day of the
Columbian game, but owing to thu fact
that the Hopkins lads have disbanded
Graduate Manager Thompson arranged
the game with Columbian.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
MAY ALL BE CHANGED
Rules Committee Said to Be Con
sidering Alterations.

NEW YORK, May 4.-Arneriean college
football bids fair to be revolutionized
next tall from its present method of play
if the intercollegiate football rules COM
mittee carries into effect a regulation
which it now has under consideration.
This rule provides for nothing else than
that the ball has to pass through the
hands OF only two men before being re-
garded as in play. AT present it is neces-
sary for it TO go through the hands Of
three men. While this change does not to
the lay reader signify much. it means.
as football players will realize, that the
whole game of football as now played
Will be materially altered.
Under present conditions the center
must pass the ball to the quarterback.
and from the latter it must go to a third
man before it can be rushed through the
line of scrimmage. 1t is impossible for
the quarterback TO run with the ball I'M
less il has first been touched by third
man.
By the proposed rule the center can
snap the bail 20 any man on the team,
who may then rush with it. It will be
possible, therefore, for the quarterback
10 carry the ball, an important innova-
ton, and because of the fact that any
man may take the pigskin without the
quarterbacks previous assistance all
sorts OF puzzling combinations will be
feasible Indeed, in the opinion of ex-
perts, football under these cond lions
would be almost an entirely new game,
for the first season, at least, and would
resolve itself largely into a question of
Who's got the baIl?''
With this regulation in effect the pres
ent evils of mass play, which have
aroused such opposition, would, 1t is be-
iieved, largely be done away with and a
more open and less dangerous style of
play come into effect. The intercollegiate
football rules committee has been hold
ing several secret sessions lately, and
the discussion of the pros and cons in
regard to the projected regulation is said
TO be the point at issue. The committee
is composed Of Walter Camp, OF Yale:
Paul Dashiell, of Lehigh; Robert D.
Wrenn, of Harvard; H. B. Fine, OF
Princeton; I. II. Dennis, of Cornell, and
John c. Bell, of Pennsylvania
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
AMATEUR BASEBALL.

The game Of baseball scheduled be-
tween the Radford and Woodward G. Io-
throp teams for yesterday afternoon.
owing TO a misunderstanding, was not
played. The Radfords will play the fol-
lowing teams this week: Bliss Electri-
cal School, today; Bearn Athletic Club.
Tuesday; UreIl Rifles, Wednesday; Mail
Bag Repair Shop. Thursday; Plumbers.
Friday. The R4Gfords would like 10
hear from all uniformed teams in the
city. Send challenges to j. R. Barber.
400 Street northwest.
j. E Hurley's Invincibles defeated the
Southern Stars yesterday on the Flood
gate diamond by the score of u to IL.
Tie game by innings:
InyincibIes.. o l 8 A21
So. Stars--.-.1 0 0 o 0 2-lf
Ratteries-Baxter and Van; Nolan and
Johnson.
The Invincibles would like to arrange
games with any shop teams in the city.
Address challenges 10 Frank Baxter,
1914 Ohio Avenue northwest.
The ST. Martins baseball team has
organized for the season and would like
TO arrange games with teams averaging
fourteen years. Address challenges to F..
A Murphy, III Seaton Street northeast.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
SENATORS BEGIN THEIR
SERIES WITH BOSTON
First of Three Games Seized
uled for Today.
PATTEN TO DO THE TWIRLlNG
Times Reporter Views a Game From
the Bleachers and Absorbs Much
Baseball Knowledge.
On to BOSTON,


This afternoon the Washington boys
will cross bats in Boston with Jimmy
Collins cripples. 1t will be in a case
of Greek meet Greek. since Lotus list
of indigents as quite as appalling as that
of Collins. Three games are sched-
uled at the Hub. when the Senators
fit southwark and engage in a series of
four games with the Athletics before de-
parting for Chicago. Reports from New
York disclose De Montreville to be in
pftiable shape, with Charley Moran in
an even worse condition. Hard luck, in
deed, for at this stage of the race, with
the stronger clubs not yet up to playing
form, Washington should be gathering
in games galore. They will need them,
too. before the season has progressed
much farther. Patten will most likely
pitch today. and should win hands down
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
MERGERS Dope Book

Il would not be amiss for the local
twirIers TO adopt custom. once en-
pIoyed by Winnie Mercer, the ex-Wash-
ington pitcher, who committed suicide
this past year.
There was probably no pitcher in the
business in MERGERS time. or even at the
present day. who was foxier or header
slab artist than Winnie, who was as pop
ular a ball player as ever donHed Sena-
torial toys. yet. he never depended en-
tirely upon his memory.
In the days when he earned his living
as a box artist, he kept a dope book on
every batter he had 10 work against, in
the form of q neat, little vest pocket
book. carefully indexed by clubs, in
which he jotted down the weak and
strong points of all the batters he had
faced.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
GRASS CUTTERS.

ION paper the new Gotham team is
said to look good, but there is lots of
good looking paper thrown down at the
banks every day or two" says Charley
Dryden in the Philadelphia North
American" "Blotting paper may have
been used, for the talent was soaked up
from no less than eight clubs. The for
nation of this team somewhat suggests
q pound party for the benefit of a coun-
try parson. Everybody in the village
sends or brings pound of something.
Shortstop Tinker. of the Chicago Ma
tionals. is said 10 be a pocket edition of
Hughey Jennings. In other words. he is
a remarkably good fielder.
81 go to the plate" said Laioie, with
the idea of hitting the first good ball
sent up, as I believe in working on the
aggressive. IN this way | am seldom
caught for a strike unless where I miss
the ball Every man should handle
bat in the most natural manner and not
try to copy others in the business"
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
RRIGHTWOOD DIRECTORS
HOLD SPECIAL SESSION

To close the business incident to the
meet Of the Brightwood Driving Club.
held last Wednesday. the directors met
in executive session yesterday afternoon
in the Brightwood clubhouse. The presi-
dent Of the club, f. T. Moody. presided
II was proposed to hold another meet
on May 20. but many of the associations
members are opposed to this PROPOSE
ton, as the date proposed is too close
10 May go. when races are scheduled.
Next Sunday the directors VIII meet
and take final action.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
SHAMROCK iii WILL
LEAVE HER DOCK TODAY

GLASGOW, May 4.-Sir Thomas Lip
toms new challenger Shamrock III, which
has been undergoing repairs in the Clyde,
will leave her dock today.
Sir Thomas, who is present for the
occasion, refuses to discuss the report
that his sailmaker. Ratsey. is making
sails for the American defender Reli-
ance.
1t was gathered in conversation with
Sir Thomas. however. that he is opposed
to a protest against such action by Rat
sew
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
What Each Nan Has Done
in the Field and at the Bat.
Ryan Leads In Stick Work
and Shows Up Well in
Fielding.
Narked Improvement Notice
able in the Work of Little
Robinson, Who Is Cover-
ing a Vast oAmount of Ter
rftory.

Below is a table showing the batting
and fielding averages of the Senators for
the past week.
To Jimmy Ryan belongs the batting
honors, he getting seven hits out of
thirteen times at the bat, for an average
of 53S Ryan's fielding was also of the
gilt edged order, putting nine men out
in center field and throwing two men out
on the bases.
One pleasing feature of the past week
was the manifest Improvement of little
Robinson at shortstop.
The Individual records of the Senators
follows:
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
BEATEN BY HER BABE

Bruised and battered. Agnes Day, a ne
gress,s was admitted to the Casualty
Hospital this morning, having come out
second best in a fight with her husband,
Babe" She had been severely beaten,
but her condition is not considered seri-
Gus. The triumphant Babe" got away
after the quarrel and the police are
looking for him.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
VICTOR ATHLETIC CLUB
ORGANIZES FOR SEASON

The Victor Athletic Club has or
ganized for the season, and would like
TO arrange games with all teams in the
District, the Columbia Athletic Club
preferred. The Victor Athletic Club is
composed of the following well known
players: Wood. Cullen. Hutchinson,
Richmond, Durham, Cunningham. Fitz-
gibbons, and Langford. Address chal-
lenges to NJ. J. Wilcoxon, manager, 234
b Street northeast.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
Poor Charley Farrell.

He is out of the game for the rest of
the season. and may be forever. He is
so heavy that he will not be able to get
back into harness as quickly as a young
er and lighter player The Duke OF
Marlborough as he was known on the
diamond. will have the sympathy of
many Neutrality-suspicious., as he was always
a gentIemanly fellow, both off and on the
field.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
ST. LOUIS WINS SECOND
GAME FROM DETROIT

A crowd of 1890 saw St. Louis de-
feat Detroit yesterday the second game
of the SERIES Score by innings:
R. H z.
st. Louis 2 l 0 0 000 O-311 3
Detroit .......0 0 0 OIL 0 0 OIL l
Batteries-Kahoe and Donohue; Bue-
low and Kitson.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
Heard in the Bleachers.

The last game. but one. played by the
Senators at home, a Times reporter sat
in the bleachers and while there was
most forcibly impressed by the profound
knowledge of the game, as manifested by
the bleacherites. In FIVE minutes one can
hear more ripe wisdom there than can
be gathered on the covered stand in a
year.
Near by sat couple of South Wash
ton sports, fresh from the hands of a
barber, who had perfumed them within
an inch of their lives, after possibly APP
plying a saucer to the back of theic
heads, and carefully cropping their hair
all around it, their paving stone <vo-
cabulary clearly Identifying their stamp
ing grounds. AT the left sat q young dry
goods clerk, who had doubtless resorted
to the time honored subterfuge, co gain
an afternoon off, while next TO him was
seated burly chap, who gnawed raven
ously at a huge plug of black tobacco,
spit and swore and swore and spit, re
gardless of the close proximity of those
around him.
Colonel Lee was in the box, and when
it became manifest that Wyatt was up
in the air the burly one gave the re
porter a jab in the ribs which nearly
put him out of business and then opened
up:
Say, what you think of dem sena-
tors?" and before reply could be
vouchsafed he continued
Just look at do mutt on de slab;
he can't git EN- over. What you trying
to do, Lee? De plate amt up in de
grandstand. Dat Teller is dead stuck on
hisself Anybody would think he was
Bowery actor de way he struts about
de field
Just then screaming triple was
laced out to center and after relieving
himself OF mouthful of tobacco, which
trickled down the dry goods clerks back,
he jumped to his feet and whooped it1.p
like a Comanche chief.
Take him out, LOTUS. Take him out!
His wing is on de blink today Take
him out! Aw gwan." His example was
soon followed by a large percentage Of
the sun gods and a wall, long and fer
vent, went up for Lees retirement.
Then the boy with the tobacco habit
proceeded to give long dissertation on
how the game should be played
Dem guys out dere kin play ball if
some one tells EN- how. but dey amt
got no head; flies drops between EN-
and dere amt nobody to call EN- out.
Lotus is too busy counting de balls be
keeps in dat little satchel al his feet,
and Gene-well, he's lame, so you can't
blame him When dey gifts on er base
dey are as slow as a ice-cream freezer
and dere ain't' nothin' to it.
of was out on de lines I'd wake 'em
up" and here an oath escaped his to-
bacco-stained lips that would make your
blood run cold.
Il likes TO see EN- put ginger in de
game, does. Bang de ball on de nose
and den run like --- Der amt nothin'
in dis buntin' game. Dey amt fast
enough on their feet for dat Hit 'er
out; dats de stuff.
Here comes Townsend. I fought It.
knowed Lotus heard what said Now
you'll see some baseball what is base
ball. Good eye, Jack! Keep it up!
YoUse is all right. Who said he was a
mutt? I'll give you a poke in DER
Here the reporter fed
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
TRIO OF DEFENDERS
NOW At NEW ROCHELLE
Reliance, Constitution, and
Columbia at Anchor.
MANY BRUSHES EXPECTED
The Boats Will Undoubtedly Come To-
gether for Trial Spins During the
Sail Stretching Process.

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, May A.
Three big ninety -footers, Reliance, Con-
stitution and Columbia, are now in the
waters off here, and though there are
no scheduled races until later IN The
month. the boats will undoubtedly conc
together for many a hard brush during
sail stretching spins.
The Reliance lay by the Constitution
in Glen Cove hacbor this morning. hav-
ing been taken from her anchorage here
yesterday afternoon, to avoid the heavy
gale from the northeast. Both yachts
had head sails up in stops this morn
ing, and the shippers We're awaiting
the light northwest wind TO pick up a
bit before going out for a sail
c. oliver Iselin, managing owncr CT
Reliance, did his best to inveigIe Con-
stitution into a brush oc Saturday.
but to no purpose. Today the Constitu-
tons weather prevails however, and
his wish for try-out may be granted.
Constitution is a remarkable light
weather boat.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
CHICAGO OUTBATS THE
CLEVELAND BLUES

a banner crowd. 1890, saw Chicago
on its native heath down the Cleveland
Blues yesterday Score by innings:
r. II. E.
Chicago ....0O2 310OoE IL .
Cleveland 80 l 0 OIL 0 % 8 Q
Batteries and Callahan;
Joss and Bemis.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04
Columbia's Sails Bent.

Columbia is at her moorings near
Hawkins shipyard, City Island, today,
where she is having a new set of sails
bent The performance of Columbia on
last Saturday, when she left Newport in
the morning and reached City Island in
the evening. covering distance of about
1z0 miles in seven hours and a half. is
the talk of the crews of all three racers
TODAY
Tim Miller, her captain, says he never
believed it possible for a sailing vessel
to move so fast, and she easily beat
Sound steamers and all manner of steam
craft. The work of the Columbia was
done in a strong wind and heavy sea.
Reliance will certainly have to move
swiftly to beat Columbia in a strong
blow and big seaway, and when there
ere light airs and fiat waters she will
have to be wonderfully fast to beat out
he Constitution.
The Washington times., 1903-05-04

Battlng average, .OJ0; fielding average, 1000.
Martin, Fielder.
ABB. r. H. TB- Pc. A E. OBJ BIB. HR.
0 0
Batting average, Loo; fielding average, 600
Patten, Pitcher.
Alb R. Il TB. 20. A. z. 2B 3D. HR
0 o 0 0
Batting average. 600; fielding average 1000.
Wilson, Pitcher
AH. r. II. TB. Pc A. F. OBJ BIB. HR.
0 0
Batting average. 800; fielding average, 900