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her role in "Gretna Green the play is
good, and she win have success to
add to her future. and not a miserable
mistake. as was "Gretna Green" Lord
Cardington while in a hotel in Paris
saves d young lady from fright of fire
while both are dressing for dinner.
Two months after they meet in a Fer
ris wheel and are in the same car The
loyal valet. knowing his masters desire
to further his acquaintance with the
unknown, drops a jackknife into the
machinery of the wheel, and it is stop
ped for twenty-four hours After an
other lapse of time they meet in the
Waldorf-Astoria, where he is stopping
in the hope Of learning something of
her He pointed her out in Paris to d
friend. who seemed amused, and when
told that the earl intended following
her to America. but with an alias, sug-
gested his own name, saying that many
knew him by name but he had been
away for years and would not be reeog-
nized. AS Montgomery Putnam, then
this English earl masquerades in Amer
lea falling in love and paying court to
his borrowed names divorced wife. She
and young man friend. formerly met
in England. are the only ones who
know he is not the American. and she
wishing to see the fun out does not
tell either of them whom she really is.
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es, but at the moment of the shot a man
enters who afterward proves to be an
accomplice, and the charge of murder
IS placed on the young Irishman.
Knowing himself defenseless in this
strange section of the country, he es-
capes and gets later into the army un-
der the name of Gerald Adair, and is
loved and admired by all. Captain
Fitzgerald has a daughter who is loved
BY Adair, also by a rascal. Captain
Thorndyke. Her father is too fond of
cards and liquor and one Van Nahm' s
unscrupulousness is used by Thorndyke
to attain his end, which is to win the
girl Van Nahm is the western witness
to Glars crime and he has recognized
Gerald as the one he saw in Wyoming
At the same time he is a German sort
of official who is trying to get the plans
OF q gun used in America, and each VIII
lain helps the other. The garrison
knows of the love of their colouel's
wife for Adair While he is ignorant of
this. and at ball given at the house OF
Colonel Bassett the rascals of the play
get the half drunk Captain Fitzgerald
to win heavily from them in card
game Then they show him the marked
lack and threaten 10 disgrace him if
ne does not sign q paper admitting his
cheating and promise never to play
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ter's consent to wed Thorndyke Mean
time Gerald has seen this German and
realized that trouble is brewing for
HIM Here young lawyer arrives to
turn over a legacy of 5000 to Fitzger-
aid left him by his cousin, Gerald
Glars father. if Desmond cannot be
found The old chum recognizes the
man and learns his story. Through the
attempted robbery of the coloneTs desk
during his absence and the exposure by
Gerald the plans for the gun are saved.
Honest Isaac" is later found to be
alive, and the German is exposed as the
expert card sharp who caused both
troubles The denouement is happy.
Gerald wins Helen Fitzgerald as his
wife. The dialogue is crisp and witty.
and the situations and curtains are ex-
cellent- AS ? whole the play will please
Fourteenth street for as long as it is
kept on but it is a sorry successor to
Tom Moore. in which Andrew Mack
delighted audiences two seasons ago
REEECCA OTTOLENGUI
New York
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OUR NEW cur DgFENDeR.

1t now looks as if the statement that
the new Americas cup defender would
be launched at a very early date is
worthy of credence. In fact, the story
is that by the middle of March she will
be put overheard and in early April
viii be ready to 90 into commission.
This done, she viii have quite as much
time to get into shape as Shamrock
III. and While the latter is being towed
across the Atlantic the new boat under
the black and red fighting flag of Mr.
c. Oliver Iselin Will be in the thickest
of the battle in which Columbia. Con-
stitution and she VIII be engaged.
Mr. Iselin viii probably have as his
quarter deck companions the same capa-
BE amateurs who sailed with him on
the Defender and the Columbia. and
these friends are quite as experienced
as any in the country in the matter Of
interna tional matches.
AS Lem Miller. the old mate of the
Columbia. has now been appointed her
skipper. Captain Charley Barr will
have as his first officer in the new yacht
Chris Christensen. who has sailed with
him in all his cup trials and races as
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Just now. so far as trap shooting is
concerned. the centers Of activity ap-
pear to be St Louis Cincinnati. KAN
sas City and Philadelphia In and
about the Quaker City the Keystone
Shooting league is leading the process
sion The league held its annual meet
ing recently at Holmesburg Junction.
and a splendid turnout resulted. Dur
ing the meeting it developed that last
year $4,000 live birds had been trapped
as against 21,000 in 1901 The decrease
was due, of course. to agitation by the
antipigeon shooting fraternity. Letters
read to the members by Secretary Van
Loon showed widespread opposition to
the bill which has been presented to the
legislature prohibiting the trapping Of
live birds. S. J. Hothersal was elected
president.
The Cleveland Gun club also held its
annual meeting recently and elected F.
G. Hogen president. A. n. Allyn secre-
tary and S c. Payne treasurer.
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Bingham is good, but there are still
many steps on the ladder Of fame be-
fore she viii reach the top. Clyde
Fitch has reached that point in his ca
reer as playwright where he must be
careful or there viii come a time when
his name viii not be noticed He is
dangerously near descent. and he win
find that his name alone win not draw
large houses In The Bird In the
Cage" Mr.. Fitch met a blow from the
critics. The play could not be taken
seriously, and now he gives us The
Frisky Mrs. Johnson" Much that is
good and many bright lines are there,
but much. too. is commonplace. and
many lines are unnecessarily coarse
and vulgar The first act is almost
HOPELESS. and the well wishers of Miss
Bingham must have deplored her choice
OF "a vehicle at this point. The second
act showed some admirable situations
and caused the audience to sit up and
wait for something good. 1T came and
by the time the last curtain fell the
verdict was favorable. The cast could
not be improved. and each person all
most without exception. played the role
assigned without a flaw. The frisky
Mrs Johnson (Miss Bingham) is really
the only woman on the stage except
her maid who is above reproach. Her
freshness" makes people talk but she
is all right The three other women.
real married ladies. are types one
would not care TO copy. and even the
adored little sister Mrs. Frank Morley
tMinnie Dupree). is a fallen angel. To
shield this sister Mrs. Johnson assumes
guilt which is disclosed to the husband
through a letter intended for his wife
and which he insists upon seeing The
letter lis not addressed. but has been
received by Mrs Morley. and the eli
max is averted by the accidental en-
trance of the loving but frisky Mrs
Johnson Ii is not hard to believe evil
2f this unselfish woman, and the sac
-ifice is made before the erring wife
quite grasps the situation. An empty
beaded idiot Lord BERTHE Heathcote.
las been the panacea for ennui used by
he young wife while her busy husband
IS out, and his letter telling her Of
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BARRY A HAS BEEN.

To those people who know Jimmy
Barry, the former bantamweight cham
pion of America. the following article
that has been travelling the rounds viii
appear extremely humorous: Since
1899 Barry has been making his home in
San Francisco and is training in antici-
patton Of n match with some first class
bantamweight. He now weighs 122
pounds, and he expects to have no trou-
Bile in getting down to us pounds with
a few weeks hard work"
The fact is the little fellow is a phys
zeal wreck He is now stopping at
Bankers roadhouse in the suburbs of
San Francisco, and weighs 100 pounds
or less.
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boat has ever gone at such terrific
pace.
II suppose if it were possible for a
man to sit astride one of the thirteen
inch shells they use down at Sandy
Hook he would feel as 1 and my com
panion did not long ago when we made
our record trip. You look straight
ahead, intent only on the road that
stretches away before, yet somehow
your eyes manage to take in the gen
eral effect of the country through which
you are passing. You are very. very
cold from piercing air al so great a
speed, and hungry-oh, my, how hun
gryi / wonder how much it would cost
to satisfy the appetite of a gormand
after a ride with me.
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That best of modern playwrights. Au-
gustus Thomas, has given US another
very excellent comedy called THE Earl
of PaWtucket.' and its success at the
Madison Square theater is assured
Englishmen as portrayed on the Amer
lean stage are usually such silly idiots
it would appear there are no sensible
men in England, and. this being false,
ii is a pleasure to a last see one who is
both sensible and a gentleman. Angus
tus Thomas wrote his play with Law
renee D'Orsay as his model for Lord
Cardington, the earl of Pawtucket. and
the actor has only to be himself. and
the hit is made Slow to see our Amer
lean jokes. the points of all those in
the play being directed against himself,
many roaringly funny moments are af-
forded. His determined way of persist
ing in his use of an alias. which mixes
him up in the lenders family affairs
and his tangle before he understands it
all are side splitting. and one cOntinu-
Gus laugh is enjoyed the entire even
ing. The best criticism of the play as
to its intrinsic merit is that when a
laugh causes the loss of a line the feel
ing that something good has been
missed is unavoidable. The author is
to be congratulated that his work is in
the hands of such a capable exponent
Elizabeth Tyree as Harriet Fordyce
the divorced wife Of Montgomery Put
man, Is very pleasing, and, while for
her the opportunity is not as good as
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The machine with which 1 made the
worlds record is of seventy-two horse
power. a Mors. with a long @heel base
The run was made on the official trial
route between Ablis and St Arnoult,
near Dourdan. about fifty miles from
Paris. No better piece of road for the
purpose can be found in the world So
smooth. so straight is it that a dis
lance of four miles you can readily dis
tinguish the slight figure of man and
at the same time see every intervening
foot OF the thoroughfare. 1t has been
especially prepared by the French auto
and government officials and is just as
carefully cared for as any horse racing
course in America"
Fournier-who spells his first name
Henry. not Henri-is very unassuming
and possesses the unfailing French
courtesy and mobility of features
When you grasp his hand, you find it is
as soft as baby's, and it is hard to re-
alize that this bowling. smiling. soft
skinned man standing before you in
faultless evening dress is the king Of
daredevils and premier of chauffeurs
with nerves and muscle when put to the
test like unto the fire hardened steel of
battleship's armor plates. All this is
Fourier.
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least, the machine viii be unique More
than anything else it will resemble a
gigantic metal cigar on wheels. with
the pointed end forward, so as to give
it peculiarly effective wind cutting
properties. reducing the air resistance
TO a minimum
The elongated auto is to be used by
the daring Frenchman in the races to
be held during the spring and summer.
and he viii bring it to the United States
when in July he comes over TO pardci-
pate in a match contest with Alexan-
der Wlnton, the noted racer of Cleve-
land. Winton hopes to defeat Four
nier. and rivalry between the two ex-
Rerts. IS very intense The race will
probably occur on the splendid Empire
City trotting track. built by the late w.
H. Clark, at Yonkers. N Y
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I had a talk with the Gallic speed de-
mon recently before he returned to
Paris. and he spoke enthusiastically of
his coming match races and trials
against time. In reply to a question he
said. There really is no limit to the
future speed of the automobile fully
expect to see the mile covered in half
a minute inside Of another year As for
forty seconds-wen. I am sure to go a
mile that fast before I am four months
older. The manufacturers can turn out
autos of practically any strength and
horsepower: therefore the speed at
tanned is up to the man at the lever
f Il have done the mile in forty-six
seconds several times recently" Four
nier continued after lighting ciga-
rette. and 1 hold the official record at
Just a fraction more than that time
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"66e Frisky Mrs. johnson
sole Earl of Pawtucket''
"G6e Bold SOger Boy
= NE ~ PLAyS y


new fiat he has furnished is the missive
which causes the trouble. Jim Nor
ley (Wilton Lackaye) is in love with
the gay little widow, and when he
hears it all puts on his thinking cap
and guesses not far from the truth
The SHINING little wife clears the matter
up by making a clean breast of the
whole and gains the future happiness
of her devoted sister. The wronged
husband uses tickets for the Canary is
lands and tells his wife to go home
and get it for desertion." The main
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RgEpa RO0n1 nv ~
ZzE EgRX NFRzEVzZzzREY .

idea is as old as Adam. but the han
ding is where Clyde Fitch shows his
skill He has done so in some places.
and then the play rises to a high grade
of merit In others it falls and be-
comes weak and almost like farce. It
is needless to mention individuals. all
were so good. if I except Allison Skip
worth but the best in the cast was
Ferdinand Gottschalk. AS Lord BERTHE
Heathcote he could not be improved
upon 1t is amazing how many actors
can play the fool we'll There are four
different kinds of fool in this play. and
all We're well done. That is a little too
much sugar in the coffee
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do you keep the machine under the
necessary perfect control2'' [ asked the
Partisan, who spoke of his sensational
exploits in the cool manner of a man
discussing the present price of gOrgon-
zola cheese in Rome or the latest meth
DDS of DISCRIMINATING potato bugs.
1t is like flying" replied Fourier.
But as I have never flown. perhaps I
am wrong. No railroad train or ice
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DIR. LUTHER H. GULICK. INVENT.
OR OF BASKET BALL.

DIR. LUTHER H. GULICK, INVENT
OR OF BASKET BALL.
zeal training While at Oberlin he
played on the class, school and univer-
sity teams and won the tennis champion
ship, etc. IN 1886 he entered the New
York university and studied medicine.
receiving his NJ. D. in 1889. For sew
eral years he was physical director OF
the Young Mems Christian association
at Jackson. Mich and his connection
with the Y. NJ. c. A. has been very
prominent He organized a three year
normal course for teachers of physical
training for the Y NJ c. A and had full
charge of the course for twelve years.
He trained ali the other teachers in
this course and developed courses in
physiology. anatomy. prescription OF
exercise. history of physical training
and also courses in gymnastics, ath-
letics and aquatics. He was secretary
of the physical training department Of
the Y NJ c. A. for fifteen years and
secretary of the American Association
For the Advancement of Physical Edu-
cation for two years
It was DR.. Gulick who thought ONT
and had the game of basket ball in
vented This was done while he was az
Springfield. Mass. and he wrote the
first rules of the game and has edited
the rules each year since the game was
originated. In athletics Dr. GuIick has
been a very valuable aid to the ANA
teur Athletic union committee He has
been for years a member of the board
of managers and is the present chair.
man of the basket ball committee an
well as being a member of several other
important committees.
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NEW DEPARTURE IN ATHLETICS.

NEW DEPARTURE IN ATHLETICS.
A new departure in athletics has been
marked in New York by the appoint
ment Of a director of physical training
for public schools Dr. Luther Halsey
Gulick is the man chosen to direct the
work this position calls for. and his
reputation is such that he cannot fail
to be a success. 1t is very probable
that other cities viii follow this exam
pie and appoint officials for the same
purpose, for the physical development
of school boys and girls is an all in-
portant subject. especially in days like
these when the buildings devoted to
educational purposes are overcrowded-
Boston was the first city to recognize
the importance of properly directed ex-
ercise for the youth Of the municipal-
ity and in founding its famed open air
gymnasiums laid the way for future
developments of even wider scope.
DR. Gulick has been a prominent figure
in athletic and physical education circles
for a great many years. and no better
qualified man could be selected for the
position of physical director for schools
He fitted for a scientific course in Dart
mouth college at High school, Hanover,
n. H, and passed entrance to Dart
mouth college. He took a two years
course in English at Oberlin college.
Oberlin. O.. and While at college showed
great aptitude for athletics and phys
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- Y ENRY FOURNIER. the worlds
champion automobile racer, is
81 determined that no rival COM
A ~ petitor for international speed
ing honors shall seize his lau-
rels. and with the new machine he is
now having built in Paris he expects to
be able to maintain his supremacy.
Fourier directed the drawing of the
plans of the new auto. and. to say the
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dulge in a short
visit to New
York. So happy
was he to get
home" after an
absence of sew
eral months on
the road that
he tossed his
m on ey abou t
like a sailor
on shore leave
Looking up an
old waiter who
had been in the
club for many
years, Hopper
sa ID. Maurice,
how long have
you been work
ing for this
club %
Ever since it
was started. Mr..
Hopper
"A n d w h a t
was the biggest
tip you ever re-
ceived Maui
rice p
Fifteen dol
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TN HERE are many fields in the line
of work yet unexpl0red by wo-
men, but il is gratifying to see
Al new efforts in these new fields
attended with success. AS
manager Amelia Bingham has proved
herself fully capable. She underta kes
to give value received for the money
the public pays to enjoy her produc-
lions. Her selections are from the best
authors. her players are high class and
her mounting and costumes leave moth
ing to be desired. AS an actress Miss
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WHlTE AND RRIrr

As an indueement for Jabez Whfte
England's cleverest lightweight fighter
to come here he has received the very
substantial offer OF $4,000 and all his
travelling and training expenses to me-
Jimmy Britt in twenty round bouf ~
San Francisco.
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REANTowN MOTOR SHOW.

Boston is to have an automobile show
on March 16 to be held under the aus
pieces Of the Massachusetts association.
Invitations to the exhibition will prob
ably be general
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49,, - III make that 1eiioW
ie1l look like a piker
boy" said Hopper. TN make that fell
low look like a piker. Here's $50 for
you. And, by the way. Maurice, what
was the name of the fellow that gave
you s15?"
Wei. Mr. Hopper said Maurice
after he had secured the $50, I think it
was you sir"
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RicH CYCLE &c

Major Taylor the negro bicvclo
racer, viii be one of the competitors in
the sydney eNew South Wales) handi-
man who wins viii receive Sc. e0o
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one Man Only on Fournier's New
Auto.

Auto.
Founier's machine is being built of
aluminium and steel, and with it he ex-
poets to lower to forty seconds the
present mark for mile of forty-six
seconds, made near Paris last year by
himself 1t is a Mors auto and will cost
about S12, 600 One of the novelties in
It's construction is the fact that it pro-
vides seating room for but a single man.
Fourier therefore, viii have no as
sistant when he endeavors to chop
down the seconds The seat is perched
over the rear axle and is so arranged
down in the very heart of the control
ling apparatus that only the head and
shoulders of the occupant will be visi-
la1a
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t have no hesitation in telling you
that [ have often Travelled at the rate
of mile in forty seconds though not
for long distance.
so far as the ultimate speed of the
auto is concerned [ viii not undertake
to predict" Here Fourier shrugged
his shoulders and added, only when I
am about to die shall 1 be prepared to
admit that I shall not see the world s
record lowered still further"
.sRecord speed Feels Like Flying
How does it feel to run an automo-
bile a mile in forty-six seconds? How
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There o speed automobiles
Autos will a mile in half minute
Breaking riding astride thirteen SHE'LL
Manufacturers
power; speed behind the
HENRY FoURNIER.
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HOW HOPPER PLAYED
A Joke ON HIMSELF.

Here is a new story on De Wolf
Hopper; at least members Of the
Lambs club in New York say it is new:
Hopper left Baltimore recently to in.
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ez07u NHz<k.

second mate. The crew of the new boat
viii be mostly Scandinavians. many of
them having served for seasons with
Barr
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At the London Strand "A Cbsna..
honeymoon recently passed its I'VE
hundredth performance.
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as now she uses her maiden name. Har-
riet Fordyce. When he is forced to as
sumo family troubles and finally pay
alimony. the net closes so tightly
around him that unraveling is neces-
sary- All ends happily and the whole
is so full of spice, repartee and stolid
English stupidity that the audience is
dismissed delighted. Senator Barker
played by Robert McWade. and Arthur
Weatherbee. by John w Dean, were
lifelike, and the rest of the cast was
good The setting of the palm room in
the first act and the Turkish room in
the last were miniature copies of the
same apartments in the famous hotel.