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Late News by Wire.

There is possibility that an Ameri-
can polo team will go to England next
year to try to recapture the American
Polo Cup. Nottingham has held the
cup for nineteen years, and lovers of
the game in this country have been
anxious to get 1t back ever since
Capt. Henry C. (Hank) Half, who
sailed the cup defenders Defender and
Vigilant in the international races for
the Americas cup some years ago,
and who has been in failing health for
some time past, Is now an inmate of
the German Hospital in New York.
The veteran yachtsman is somewhat
improved in health, but is still far
from well, and 1t Is feared he will not
soon be able to resume his usual actl.
vities.
The Eastern Yacht Club of Boston
has received cable from the Kaiser
licher Yacht Club Of Kiel saying that
the German emperor has formally APP
proved its plan to establish an inter
national perpetual challenge trophy
for small yachts, to be competed for
w podtS representing 1cTIuduy anu
the United States, and that a letter
from the club will be sent regarding a
challenge with boat of its special
class of about twenty-five feet rating.
H. ]. Handy Of the Central Y. M. G.
A. broke thirteen worlds and FIVE
American records in the Evanston
Ull) Y. M. c. A. tank Nov. 20. Handy
did not break any records until the
24O yard mark was passed, but after
that every record up to 600 yards was
smashed, with the exception of the
300 yard mark, which the drown
water devil" failed to lower by one.
fifth of second OF the worlds rec
ords broken. all save the $50 yard
mark and the $40 were held by Joey
Nuttall, and we're made in London
England, Sept. 6, 1856. The $50 yard
record was held by George Read and
was made at Sydney, Australia, on
April IL, 1901. The $40 yards was
held by Howard F. Brewer and was
made in Chicago Feb. %, 1902. OF the
| American records broken, the 300 ant
| 440 were held by G. M. Daniels OF the
New York Athletic club and were
made at New York City Feb. 10, 1904
and March 10, 1904, respectively. The
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and perhaps two other instances,
where the entire line fell back, they
never receded from a position they
had taken. Their guns we're especi
ally adapted to throwing canister;
each charge Of canister weighed four.
teen pounds, contained 240 projectiles
and when hard-pressed they would
double-shot, and for short time
could fire six rounds per minute, or
1850 missiles from each gun; 1926
from the entire six guns per minute.
which no force could withstand. Bou-
toms Battery was noted throughout
the army for rapidity of fire and ac-
.curacy Of aim. Gen. Hatch used to
say that Bouton's Battery could shoot
prairie chickens on the wing.
On one occasion during the Nash.
Vile campaign, in hard fight be-
tween Nashville and Duck river, Bou-
toms Battery not only silenced a rebel
battery, but drove the man entirely
away from 1t, and went with their
own limbers and took the guns and
carried them Off. Two of the guns
proved to be James rifles that had
been captured from Warehouses; Bat
terry at Shiloh. So far as known, this
was the only instance during the war
OF ona battery capturing another's
battery and actually carrying off its
guns.
A high testimonial Of the character
OF the men composing Bouton's Bat.
terry Is the fact that fifty.three of the
enlisted men were promoted to be
commissioned officers during their
terms Of enlistment.-Los Angelica
Times
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ganized, including the following
towns: Grand Island, Hastings, FIRE.
mont, Norfolk, Mahoo, Crete, Kearney
and Columbus.
Connie Mack seems to be doing
some comprehensive scheming to
strengthen the champion Athletics.
The Detroit club has signed catcher
Charles Schmidt, the Missouri Valley
graduate who made good with Min
neapolis last season; also pitcher
Charles McCafferty of the Evansville
team.
The baseball world may again have
the opportunity Of seeing what Amos
Russie, formerly the star twirler of
the New York National League team,
can do In the pitchers box. Russie
will seek a place with one OF the
teams in the Three l." League IL he
can get 1t.
William Hanlon, well known ball
player In the middle West and on the
coast, died at his home at Los Angeles
of consumption, which he contracted
while a member of the Chicago Ma
tional League team. Hanlon was
known in Chicago as "the hitless won.
der" owing to the fact that he was a
failure at bat while on the team, al.
though his fielding was of a sensa-
tional order.
The first of a series of new sched-
ules for the season of 1906 has been
drawn up by Secretary Thumler at
Bloomington and submitted to the
managers of the eight associations
comprising the Three Eyes league.
This first schedule calls for 140 games.
instead of 126, as has been the case
in past seasons. 1t proposes to open
the campaign May and to close 1t on
Sept. 23.
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To Department Commanders.

Allan G. Blackwell, national patri-
otic instructor of the Grand Army Of
the Republic, has issued the following
letter to the department commanders:
Dear Sir and Comrade-As you are
undoubtedly aware, the National En-
campment assembled at Denver adop-
ted amendments to rules and regula.
tions whereby patriotic education is
to be governed.
The rules now provide for the ap-
pointment by the commander in chief
Of national patriotic instructor, and
by department commanders of depart
ment patriotic instructors, who, by
virtue of their Office, will be members
of the Council Of Administration.
In view of the Importance of this
department Of Grand Army work, Its
acknowledged benefit to the country
in whose interests every soldier and
patriot deems It his duty and priv
lege to serve, and which, through the
grand results attained, reflects credit
and renown upon the order, it is ur.
gently requested of you that the ap-
pointment for your department be
promptly made and that the appointee
be instructed to report his acceptance
to these headquarters.
1t will re of great benefit to the
cause Of which we are all so Justly
proud If the comrade appointed shall
be of those who have ability and phys
ical strength to take up this F.ice
with deep interest and energy, and 1t
is earnestly requested that the ap-
pointments shall be made only Of
those who will accept the same for
the sole purpose OF, aiding patriotic
instruction.
The rank of the department patri-
otto instructor will be designated by
an official badge with silver eagle
upon the strap, and he will be entitled
to commission issued from your
headquarters.
These instructors will be privileged,
when advised from the headquarters
Of the method, to appoint, with your
approval, district aides, whose rank
will be designated by one gilt bar on
the badge strap.
Full instructions to department in
structors will be issued from these
headquarters, and blank forms for re-
ports, ETC., to be made annually, will
be furnished from national headquar-
terS,.
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outHeIder Of the Athletic American League Club
-RRg5CQk -L22D

Charles Mcintyre has been released
by the Montgomery club.
The Atlanta club has drafted Paul
S. Curtis from Sedalia and e. B. Dom
lap from the Meridian club.
The Shreveport club has drafted
Robert Byrne from Springfield. ILL.,.
Charles Fritz from Columbia, s. c..
and William Sorrell from the Houston
club.
Edward " O'Connor, manager OF
the Mobile Cotton States League is
negotiating for the Shreveport South.
ern League club, and franchise Capt.
Crawford wants $13,500 for his Shreve.
port property.
In Toledo. where Robert Gilks Is
wintering, the report has been spread
and is believed that the former
Shreveport manager will be at the
Memphis helm in 1906.
Manager Frank of New Orleans, Is
in favor Of Vicksburg being placed In
the circuit II a change is contemplat.
ed for the reason, he says, that Vicks
burg is In direct line of travel for all
clubs travelling from Memphis to New
Orleans and back.
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Trottlng.

c. X. G. Billings string of eighteen
harness horses brought $46,270 at the
Old Glory sale at Madison Square
Garden.
Thirty-four trotters acquired rec
ords of 2:10 or better the past season,
and ten of them were bred west of
the Mississippi river, while the sires
of six others were either bred or have
been owned there.
Cresceus, the worlds champion
trotting stallion, record 2:02A, was
sold at auction for $21,0 900 to M. w.
Savage of Minneapolis, Mimi, at the
recent New York auction. Mr.. Savage
is the owner of Dan Ratch and
Directum. George H. Ketcham Of To-
ledo, Ohio. was the former owner Of
Cresceus. Until Lou Dillon made her
unbeaten record of 200 fiat at Read
vile, Mass, on August "a, 1908, Cres-
ceus was the acknowledged leader Of
the trotting turf.
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Had Tomb Ready MANY Years.

Gen. Daniel w. Benham, U. s. A.,
retired, who died at Tifin, Ohio, re-
Gently, was buried at Arlington GEM
etery under peculiar circumstances.
His tomb has stood for some time
where he now rests, in the officers
section, few yards to the left Of the
main west gate, as one enters the
cemetery. This tomb was designed,
inscribed and erected under the per
sonal direction Of Gen. Benham The
epitaph was written by him and carv-
ed on the granite under his supervi
sion.
There are many "tombstones" in
Arlington cemetery which have never,
so to speak, been occupied Many Of
ficers of the army and navy have Sc
lected the sites for their graves, and
some have caused to be erected over
these sites "tombstones," duly in
scribed with the exception of the date
of death.
Gen. Benham two or three years
ago caused such a monument to be
erected over grave which he had
selected. II is inscribed as follows:
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American League Notes.

The New York club has signed
pitcher Frank Hahn, late of Cincin-
natl.
Clark Griffith has decided upon Bir-
mingham, Ala, as the place for the
Highlanders' spring training.
John Cancels release will be bought
by the Browns management, II he
will consent to go to st. Louis.
william Keeler will return to Har-
ward in the early spring to give in
structions in the art of sticking.
Lee Tannehill's fate with the Chi
cago Americans is in the balance. He
is grand fielder, but can't hit a little
bit.
The st. Louis club has purchased
from San Francisco outfelder George
Hildebrand, once given a trial by
Brooklyn.
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Edward Conahan, who umpired in
the New York State League last sea-
son, has been added to the American
League stan for next year.
Those who assigned Conroy to New
York's center field seem to forget
that Frank DeleEanty is still in the
running. This young man cannot be
overlooked il there is anything in a
name.
There are three Hugheses In the
American League-Tom, of the Wash.
ington club; his brother Ed of Boston
and Tom, the second Of Chicago. All
three are pitchers. The newcomer
was drafted from Topeka.
Jesse Burkett says he has an offer
from Patsey Donovan, who is to man
Age the proposed Pittsburg Tri-State
League club, which will he, 1t is said
backed by w. Kerr, one-time owner OF
the Pittsburg National club.
Manager Ed Barrow Of Toronto, has
informed the Detroit scribes that
pitcher McCafferty of Evansville, and
catcher Schmidt of Minneapolis, are
promising youngsters, who will sure
ly make good for Detroit next season,
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sZlh 3 ,zzzzzzA|
|kAAs NzzzZ:z72ll7SS|
Old Age.

Old Age.
In is too latel Ali nothing is too late
lin the tired heart shall cease to palpi-
tate.
rato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles
wrote his grand Oedipus. and Simonides
Bore off the prize OF verse from his COM
peers,
When each had numbered more than four
score years;
And Theophrastus at four-score and ten,
Had but begun his Characters OF Men,"
Chaucer, at Woodstock. with the night
ingales,
At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales"
Goethe, at Weimar, toiling to the last,
Completed Faust" when eighty years
were past.
What, then? Shall we sit idly down and
The night hath come; it is no longer
The night hath not yet come; we are not
quite
Cut of from labor by the failing light;
something remains for us to do or dare,
Even the Oldest trees some fruit may
bear
For age Is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another
dress;
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by
Henry w. Longfellow.
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Football.

The athletic board of the University
Of Nebraska has taken up request
OF Kansas for resumption OF athletic
relations, broken off two years ago,
by appointing a committee to confer
with like committee from Kansas.
The gross receipts from Minnesota's
football games for the season amount
to $4,000. or this $4,000 will be added
to the athletic clubhouse fund. The
receipts from the Wisconsin game
alone amounted to nearly $4,000.
The twenty-first OF the series Of foot
ball matches which the New Zealand
team is playing in the united kingdom
was played Nov. rs at Dublin. The
score was: New Zealand, 10; Ireland
0. The New Zealanders have won ev'
cry match so far.
Football games Nov. 25: West
Michigan, rs; Oberlin, O. Minnesota
~; Northwestern, 6. Chicago Fresh
men, Is; Illinois Freshmen, 6. Beloit
AZ: Knox, 5. Nebraska, 43; Doane. s
Wabash, 81; Depauw, 0. indiana
Freshmen, 46; Franklin, o. Kansas
II, Kansas Aggies, 0. Ohio State, 10
Wooster, O. Moringside. o; lowe State
Normal, 0. Central (Kentucky), IL
Kentucky State, II.
East--Yale, 6; Harvard. 0. Penn
%; Columbia, 0. Dartmouth, "a
Brown, 6. Carlisle, Il; Wash. &. JEFF
O. West Point, II; Syracuse. 0. An
napolis. IL; Virginia Poly, 6. Lafay
cite, So; Lehigh, O.
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Western LEAGUE.

Thomas Reynolds has signed with
Denver.
Charles E. Fair, w. Wilson and
II. r. Reynolds have signed st. 10
seph contracts.
Sioux City has announced contracts
with Joe Willis, ]. Bartos, j. Haviland
and Conrad Collins.
Robert Carter. Lewis Womble, H. G..
McNeely, F, J. Pat and A. Fenlon
have signed with Omaha
The Omaha club has drafted George
Perrin from Beloit; Denver has draft
ed short stop Jimmy Smith from
Shreveport.
The Des Moines club has given VIII
liam McGilvray, known as Hayes, his
release from reservation In accord
anea with an ante-season agreement
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Boxing.

The Fitzsimmons-O Brien contest
will be held at Mechanics pavilion,
San Francisco, on Wednesday, Dec 20.
This announcement of the date Is au-
thorized by Promoter Coffroth.
1t Is probable that Young Erne Of
Philadelphia and Charlie Neary of Mil
waukee will be matched by the Mil
waukee Boxing club for Dec. s. Erne
wants catch-weights and Neary will
accept.
Sam Berger, the heavyweight, met
with painful accident while skating
at Mechanics pavilion, San Francisco.
He was hurried to the hospital, where
an operation was performed to stop
the flow OF blood, as he had broken a
blood vessel. He came through the
operation IN good shape.
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National League News.


The Giants will next spring open
at home April against Yale.
Third baseman Mowery has assured
President Hermann that he has no
Intention of making himself an out
law.
President Dreyfuss of the Pittsburg
club, declares there will be no merger
between the National and American
leagues.
Tommy Leach wants to remain in
he outfeld, but Barney Dreyfuss
wants Tommy. tie Vice." to cover
third base again.
The National Commission has
awarded player Bennett OF Nashville,
claimed by the st. Louis and Seattle
clubs to the latter club.
A st. Louis story is to the effect
that catcher Grady may be traded
to Pittsburg in order to break up the
cliQues in the Cardinals ranks"
Frank Selee, compelled to remain
In Colorado for his health, will next
season put in his time managing the
Pueblo club of the Western League.
Manager Clarke OF the Pittsburgs
Is of the opinion that either Pittsburg
or Chicago could have defeated the
Athletics for the worlds champion
ship.
Harry Wolverton threatens to Jump
to the independent Tri-State League
on account of fine imposed on him
by the Boston Club management
when he stayed away from the team
for some time to attend the funeral Of
| his mother.
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POI! NEWS 3
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Marvin Hart has received word from
Tommy Ryan that he had signed
seventy-weeks contract to tour the
world. This means that the two will
not only go on the stage, but, as Ryan
puts 1t, will meet all Corners"
Honey Melody knocked out Jack
Okeefe at Spokane, Wash, in the
fourteenth round, after hard battle,
in which O'Keefe showed much clever
ness. His blows, however, did not
possess the steam Of those delivered
by Melody.
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Three-I. League.


Peoria has signed George Hughes.
late second baseman of Dubuque.
Jack Dowell, the new pitcher secur-
ed for Decatur, looks to be a find. He
made great record for Nation this
year.
President Holland has been notified
of protest by Toronto in the case
of Arthur Owens, recently signed by
Davenport.
Peter Coover of Galena, will prob
ably play right field for Decatur In
place of Manager Mcfarland, who
goes to Dubuque next season.
There is a chance that shortstop
Bryette and third baseman Prrtell
will not be with Decatur next season,
and II will be necessary to find good
men to take their places.