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THEIR GRIP TIGHTER
Jolly Fats First In the Dis
trict Bowling League.
ALlIS0N'S SMALL LEAD
RACE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL.
CHAMPIONSHIP.

The bowling experts in the District Bowl
ing League found the pace they had set
100 terrific to be maintained and have
Iallen considerably off their stride 93S By
the Actnefs and 931 by the Market House
being the highest games rolled in the past
two weeks. 2.72l and 2,64S by the two
teams named were the highest sets rolled
during that period.
But the jolly Fat Men, notwithstanding
some very poor sets, are strengthening
their grip on first place, and the champion
Saengers. while slightly increasing their
lead in team average are dropping still
further away from the leaders In team
standing, losing all three games in their
last set. The leaders have been very for
tunate in landing the winning score by
narrow margins and low totals, getting one
game from the AGNES by eighteen pins
and another from the bank clerks by only
six pins. They took one game from the
bankers with a score of only 753. BY los
ing one game to the Acmes the Fats
have dropped fourteen points in percentage
the Saengers triple defeat by the Market
House costing them 15S points. The Bank
Clerks and Florists have also fallen off In
standing, and the AGNES have Just held
their former figures.
BY far the best showing was made by
the Market House quint, which was the
only team to increase its percentage, clean
sweeps of six games from the Saengers
and Florists pudding them UP from .27s to
ass per cent. 1t is also the only team TO
show any advance in team average, gaining
five points. the Saengers having lost eleven,
Fats sixteen, Acmes four and the Bank
Clerks eleven points in pins per game.
Allisons margin Of lead over Miller in the
race for the Individual championship has
been still further narrowed down. Both
are maintaining a great clip, and the
fight for premier .honors was never a pref
tier one. There is a postponed set between
the Saengers and Fats to be BOWED off.
but If this set had not been bowled prior to
January l, Allison wins the prize of a quart
of old rye and a like measure of good old
sherry for the league leader on January l.
A handsome scarf, II appears, will adorn
Rodrick of the Fats. This prize Is for the
greatest number of games of 215 and not
over 220. Rod has 216 and go. Several
others have single qualifying scores.
Allison easily leads in double centuries
with ten, several players having six and
less.
Brand, who was third in standing for IN
dividuaI championship. has dropped out OF
the first Ave. his berth being taken by Bur-
dine who pulled UP from the eighth peg.
Harlow is pressing him closely.
Walkers last set gave the lead on the
Bank Clerks team to Worthington. The
leadership on the other teams remains I'M
changed.
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NOTES OF THE HORSES.

Senator Bailey has sent ten of his year.
lfngs by Prodgal to Selma, Ala, to be
wintered and trained. He recently sold a
yearling colt by Prodigal for the large
sum Of 81 900 to an Alabama gentleman.
1t is rumored that the celebrated Billy
Buch, 2.o7A, will be brought to Wash
tngton in the near future by w. Fl. Rich
ardson of Baltimore, when he will stand
in readiness to try conclusions with such
members of Charles McDermotts string
as til cir owners may elect
Robert Brawley, the celebrated trainer
and driver who has charge of Mr.. Nc
Dermotts horses, is the only Washington
trainer who ever won the mdch-coveted
Detroit Mich. NJ 81 NJ. stake. This he
did with ]. NJ D., a Baltimore owned
gelding, about ten years ago.
w. ii. Richardson, who recently secured
the pacing geldins, Wight through an eX-
change with Jayins Bros, took the first
offer made-$1oo. Roy Hail. for which he
exchanged Comanche Boy, was let go for
trifle higher figure.
One of the handsomest saddle geldings
ever seen on the streets and parks of
Washington is owned and ridden by r. J.
Marshall. He is a blood bay nearly six
teen hands, has all the gaits, carries his
tail like banner in the breeze, and is
perfectly tractable Mr. Marshall refuses
to price him, and The was bred in old
Kentucky
Weather permitting, there may be some
speed contests over the new speedway
Christmas afternoon.
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vicious kckeTs IN check. A model umpire
doesn't have to come on the ball field strut
ting around like a turkey gobbler with a
chip on his shoulder 10 gain respect from
both players and spectators. 1t is the man
of a dignitied and determined mien whom
the kicking ball player fears. This class OF
senseless kickers see through the calm ex-
terror of this class Of umpires the lion and
tigers heart. l could write pages on this
line of human philosophy where the per
sonality of one man governs hundreds, but
base ball letter is not the place for it.
Sheridan and O'Day are the highest types
Of this class Of unpires. l have heard many
men, both magnates and votaries of the
game, say what they would do and what
they wouldn't do If they occupied the posi-
ton of umpire. but l say to those that are
very courageous while sitting in the grand
stand that If they were under the fire of two
contending teams and rabld bleachers their
hair would turn gray in one afternoon.
There are different kinds of kickers on the
ball field, according to temperament and
manners. The wolf kicker must not be met
by man who has the manner of a lamb as
the former would feast on him, but he must
be dealt with by man who has the heart
of lion and the grit of the tiger. A bully
always CONSTITUTES gentlemanly actions as a
token of timidiJy and cowardiCe, so he has
10 be handed out his own kind of cash.
The first great umpires of the game were
Bob Ferguson, Jack Chapman and a few
Others who umpired games for the first pro-
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the position of the American base ball UNI
pire. The first umpire l ever saw held an
umbrella over his head and stood six feet
TO the side Of the batsman. OF course he
had no curves to squirt! at for the pitcher
did not have those mystifying things in
stock at that period of the game. But still
] insist his position is not complete as yet,
and will not he until he incloses himself IN
q movable ba~N-u-ire Enclosure, that the
running-in ball player will be held at safe
distance by the prongs of the barb wire.
To speak seriously of the great umpires of
the game. both past and present, there were
some great personalities who occupied that
position. In all my writings 1 have stated
that umpires are born, not made or coached.
There are certain requisites of nerve and
pluck that make up the ideal umpire. and
if he is not the Iossessor of them he is out
of 1t. The demeanor and individuality of
an umpire both off and on the field count
with both ball players and public nova
days. You cannot take the heart of q tiger
or a lion and put it into a sheep. There is
a. hidden friction on the ball field between
players and umpires which the spectators
never detect or see. That Is why some UNI
pires can hold players a a safe distance
and others cannot. l have seen the great
est umpires that ever figured in a game
make the worst kind OF decisions, yet their
demeanor and individuality held the most
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fessional clubs when their own team was
not contestant. Nick Young was the first
conspicuously good umpire. Then came
Billy Mclean of Philadelphia. He was the
first aggressive umpire that had to meet
the first aggressive kicking captain, and
Mclean was more than a match for him.
The first kicking captain of the game was
the stalwart Captain Arson. but with all
his tearing and paving of the ground on
certain decisions that didn't suit him still
] will say / never heard from any source
that the grand "old stalwart" ever soued
his tongue with the epithets of the modern
supposed aggressive captain. slight kick
that goes With the friction of the game and
comes with a quick impulse Of the hard
working ball player. when he gets the worst
OF a close decision is all right, and 1t is
natural attendant 10 the game, but the
kick should go no farther than the first pro-
test. When il goes farther 1t Is ssnseless--
Il Is bad. and 1t sayors of a tough-so this
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western sire, traces his paternaI ancestry
to Andrew Jackson through Long Island
Black Hawk and the Kent mare. dam OF
Hambletonian 10.
~
That the United States is 1t. with big
I. in furnishing general purpose horses
to the world at large has been amply
demonstrated during the past ten years.
1t is doubtful whether the British gov
eminent could have conquered the Beers
had they not drawn on our vast resources
for horse and mule flesh. The American
trotting bred horse Is to be found in
every civilized country on the globe. and
large shipments are being made each
month. As an alI-around horse the world
has never seen his like. Russia and ia
pan recognized his utility for general
service and found him far superior to
their own breeds. For some years to
come Japan is going to be one of our best
customers for thoroughbreds and trot-
ters. The native Jap horse is pony
about thirteen hands high. Like all small
horses he is great weight carrier. Among
the first Americans to- sell the Japanese
government thoroughbred was Pay
master General Smith of the navy. The
horse consigned was kinsiey. by Concord,
son of Lexington; dam by imported Glen
coe. Another very handsome horse con-
signed by Gen. Smith was GovernelEr. son
of Scythian, dam trotting mare. Jap
anese agents have been in this country
for some time selecting stations and
mares for the imperial breeding stud.
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AUToIsTs WILL TRY TT.
New Beach Course Discovered Near
Galveston.
Special Dlspat cil to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK. December 23.-Many ru.
mars have been In circulation since e. III.
B. Green discovered beach down near Gal
weston. These have been gone into pretty
generally, and now the drivers of fast cars
are anxious to have the newly discovered
beach demonstrated, 1t is proposed to an
mex Galveston to the beach circuit follow
Ing Pablo Beach in April, and w. ]. Nor
gan has written Mr. Green regarding the
matter. The chances seem excellent OF, fill
Ing In the circuit with this meet after
which the racers will return norta for the
faster meet at Atlantic Cifs and meets
stretches. Mr.. Green is having his Frank
lin racer and other cars made ready for the
Ormond meet.
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Team Standing.

Four four-igure games by the Bund give
it big lead for the prize for the greatest
number of loco games. The Bund has top
pied the pins for games of 1,O57, ], 013. l,012
and 1O12 The Bank Clerks have 1908
and the Acrnes an even 1.oa0 game
The Acmes are closing the gap with the
Fats in team average being now only one
point to the bad.
The best average of strikes goes to the
Saengers, and the Market House leads In
spares.
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BOWLING GOSSIP.
Current Notes of the Local Alleys.

All of the bowling leagues of the District
have discontinued their schedules until after
the holidays The only league game to be
rolled this week is postponed one between
the Fat Men and the Saengerbund teams
of the District League which will be rolled
on wednesday evening on the Fat Mems
alleys.
The schedule of the Railway Relief Asso-
citation League, which was discontinued
about month ago, owing to the dis agree
ment which arose between several of the
teams as to the pin-spotting by hand, Will
be resumed January 81 The alleys have
been equipped with the new American pin
spoilers.
The New York Bowling Association,
which has a membership of between 1900
and l7OG0, has made application for mem
bership in the American bowling congress,
the national organization. The New York
organization wants the national congress
to allow it home rule" far deci-
sions of its officers are concerned. TT now
remains for the executive committee of the
American Bowling Association to report
upon the application of the New York or
ganization.
a rule which should be adopted in all OF
the large cities goes into effect in Cteve-
land, Ohio, February /, declaring that
bowler in the city will be allowed to roll
on more than two teams. IL is said that
many bowlers will be affected by the new
rule.
Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia has given
the bowlers of the Quaker city his assur-
ance of letter to the Louisville conven-
ton inviting the championship to that city
in 1897 The Philadelphia boys are leaving
no stones unturnea to secure the next con-
vention.
Dave Shman of New York and a San
Francisco bowler whose name is being kept
quiet have been matched for series OF
games to be rolled at the Louisville
tonal tournament. The match is said to
be for a side bet of 81 ,00) best eight out
of fifteen games. Louis Stem of New York
Is backing the eastern man and w. V.
Thompson of Chicago is taking care of the
westerner.
-Four men have a total above $500 in the
holiday tournament which is being rolled
an the Palace alleys. They are: Rodrick,
1888: Brown. 2,314; Campbell, 1927, and
Duraud. 1924.
The standing of the teams in the Govern
| Di.in1 IAfficA Lea
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Ted Sullivan on the Qualif-
cations of an Umpire
IN DAYS OF THE PAST
<'NICK' YOUNG WAS A CoNSPICU-
oUsLY GOOD ARBITER.
Anson the First Great Kicking Captain,
but He Never Violated Decency-
Sheridan and o'Day Praised.
Ply TED SIrIIINAN-

The evolution Of rapid transit from the
plodding stage coach to the limited light
ling express has not passed through any
more changes from its primitiveness than
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Signs are not wanting that the new year
will provide those interested with quite a
liberal crop of billiard matches, says a
London special. Roberts vs. Dawson ap-
pears to be hopeless, for the veteran has
made no reply to the Huddersfelder' re-
peated challenge; but there are prospects
of games between Harverson and Dawson
and lnman and Reece. Harverson's victory
over Dawson at Manchester has added fuel
to the fire, for the latter badly wants re-
venge. 1t appears that during chipping
argument in Manchester a few days ago
Dawson offered to give the South African
1000 in 1900, but now that Harverson is
willing to take these points, has reconsid-
cred and wants to make it 5000. In the
meanwhile Stevenson has stepped in with
an offer to concede the 1900 points and
providing the engagements of these two men
permit there ought to be no bar to the.
match. Haryerson says he has a whole
some respect for Stevens billiards, and will
play him for $3.50 a side (the latter wants
it to be for $500 side, but against Roberts
or Dawson his hackers will wager a cool
$500. As matter of fact, his victory over
Dawson in Manchester was quite one or
the best things he has ever accomplished
in billiards,
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The Treasury and Agriculture teanla are
pushing each other hard for second place,
and the Bureau and Navy boys are l}aving
a like struggle for the fourth position n
the Departmental League. the first two hav-
ing total of .615 each and the latter two
$50 each.
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PLAYS THE VETERAN
Willie Hoppe to Meet Maui
rice Vignaux.

The billiard contest between Maurice
VignauX and Willie Hoppe for the emblem
given by the Brunswick Balke-CoIlender
Company a trophy for the worlds cham
ptonship at eighteen-inch balk line, one shot
IN b2lk. Will be played in Paris January 10.
In accordance with the rules governing the
trophy the game will be of 800 points
Hoppe is the challenger He recently went
to Paris.
The last contest for the embler was be-
tween Nignaux and George Sutton in Paris
last winter. the former winning after a
close and exciting contest
Great interest is shown by players on the
continent in the result of the coming game
and the success of Hoppe, the youngest
of the leading professionals, against Wig
naux, the oldest of the champions in any
line of sport, would have a peculiar signifi-
canoe in billiards. Not only would an
American have the only claim on the
worlds championship emblem (the 1872 balk
line trophy having become the personal
property of Vignaux), but he would be the
Youngest of players to hold a trophy under
similar conditions.
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WANTED BY THE EAST
Efforts to Be Made for the
American Derby.
NEW YORK AFTER IT
EVENT CANNOT BE RUN AT CHI
CAGO ANY MORE.
Believed That the Washington Park
Club Will Agree to the Transfer
Other Racing Gossip.

Eastern turfmen are going to make bid
for the American Derby, the greatest three
year-old race on the American turf This
even cannot be run off in Chicago any
more and the New Workers are anxious to
annex It,
Although the east is pretty well provided
with rich stakes for three-year-olds there
Is plenty of room for race of the Ameri-
can Derby sort. Many horses have deveI-
oped quality not thought of when the en-
tries to our big three year-old events were
made, and such a race would provide a big
possibility for such horses as we'll as for
those of established merit The value of
the event would attract big lot of entries
and big field of starters Although # is
not known that the Washington Park Club
would consent TO transferring of the stake
10 an eastern track, there Is hardly a doubt
that the transfer could be made The club
naturally would like to see the great stake
Tor which 1t stands sponsor continued. and
IN future years with racing safely re-es-
tablished in Chicago, the American Derby
would still be the principal fixture and
without loss of prestige by long lapse In
the running
The Coney Island Jockey Club or the
Brighton Beach Racing Association might
easily effect the transfer. and if it could
De zone the move would be a decidedly
popular one. The race has always been
run in the latter half of June at Washing
ton Park, and a date to correspond as
nearly as possible sheuid be one of the con-
Siderations.
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George Slosson has decided that If the
Paris academies are not closed before the
latter part of January he will go to France
for a short time. Slosson says that If
Hoppe beats VignauX he will play Hoppe
for the championship, but that he would
prefer that the contest be held in New
York. Early In January Slosson will give
a three-cushion handicap tournament with
not less than twenty players. One round
Will be played, the losers dropping out on
each game. Besides the special program
by slosson the winner will receive $500
fur-lined overcoat
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The Great Republic Stakes.

The directors or the Saratoga RACING AS
ISOLATION have decided to continue the Great
Republic stakes, but under vastly different
conditions from those which governed it in
the two years it has been run. The Great
Republic was guaranteed for $4,000, and
the conditions made it the most expensive
stake for subscribers ever run in this coun-
try. 1t was an early closing stake for
horses three years old and upward, with
an accumulated tax of 5000 for starters that
were entered at certain age. The lowest
starting fee was $780, II was not only an
expensive stake for an owner to become
subscriber to, but the forfeits rolled up rs,t
irresponsible persons who thought to- ~iff,
crease the value of their stock by SUBJ
scribing to it were something enormous.
The stake did not thrive under these condi-
lions as 1t was belieyed that a race of this
vaule would. During the two seasons il
was run it attracted small fields. Both sea-
sons it was won by James r.. Keene, Delhi
capturing 1t in 1904, while last year Syson-
by encompassed the defeat of Oiseau. sup
posed to be one of his greatest rivals for
three-year-old supremacy. But the race did
not serve the purpose intended for it.
After the first running it was decided to
discontinue the race under-ttae conditions
that prevailed. This could not, of course be
done until after the second running, the en-
tries for which had already closed. But
the word had gone forth that the $50 COO
Great Republic stakes was thing of the
past. Also 1t was announced that an event
would be planned to take its place, and one
that would fit In better with the IDEAS of
the association and be more pleasing to the
rank and file of the horsemen.
The conditions for the race in 1906 and
1907 have just been decided upon. In order
that there will be no !apses in the running
of the event the conditions for the 1906
race are different from those for the pre-
ceding year. For 1906 the race will be at
mile and quarter, for horses three years
old and Upward. with $4,000 added. The
entries will close early in March along with
the entries to the Saratoga handicap and
olner events
The cost of starting In the race next gear
will be $500 for horses nominated as tive
year-olds and $3.50 for horses three years
old and upward. In either case the start
ING zee = nor aSssssase waen me sal ,e t %
tiles will accumulate al under the former
conditions for the race
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The Foundry boys in the Government
Printing Office League have been rolling
in excellent form during the past two weeks
and as q result of it have pushed the Re
serves from the leadership in their league,
now having a lead of nineteen points
The standing of the teams in the Depart
mental League is:
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western sire, traces his paternaI ancestry
to Andrew Jackson through Long Island
Black Hawk and the Kent mare. dam OF
mbletonian TO-
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Stakes to Close January Q

The Coney Island Jockey Club has already
sent out the announcement of stakes to
close on January 2, 1906, and ~horsemen will
therefore have few days in which to de-
eide upon their nominations for such i'm
p0tant races as the Suburban and Com
monwealth haridicaps, the Advance, Great
trial, Double Event, F4atbush and Greax
eastern STAKES and many other events to
De run at Sheepshead Bay in the June and
autumn meetings next year. There will be
no change In the value of these events, in
dicating belief that the eastern turf has
reached an era of steady prosperity that
VIII not be disturbed for some time TO come
Inc Brooklyn JocAey Club and other rae
ing associations will issue their entry blanks
shortly, and the task of preparing for next
years engagements will keep horsemen
busy. although the racing season of 1908
seems to have fairly ended
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BY T.. D, SALE.


Turf history does not record any trotting
family, other than the Clay. that can trace
its lineage In an unbroken line TO barb.
The paternal ancestor of the Clays and the
Bashaws WIS imported barb from Tri-
poll, which was presented to an officer of
the America navy early in the nineteenth
century by the Emperor of Morocco. On
the other hand there is not running horse
in the world today that does not trace to
some barb ancestor. The Godolphin Ara
bian ws.s a oarb. 1t is not certain that the
barley Arabian was not also barb. Grand
Bashaw, such was his name. stood In Berks
county. Pa, the better part of his life
Crossed with the blood of Bonds First
Consul and imported Messenger the prod
uee was horse called Younk Bashaw
which showed an inclination to trot A
Philadelphia briekmaker owned a mare
which he thought highly of--at least she
could draw brick--and he bred her to
Young Bashaw. The result gas n foai of
which its owner was so ashamed that he or
dered 1t destroyed, but the feafs owner had
reckoneds without his WIFE who stepped for
ward and voew that the man who killed
the ornery youngster should never sit again
at her table, and his life was saved The
foal grew to be the famous sire, Andrew
Jackson. and fast for his day. He not
only sired Henry Clay VIII, hut also KEN
BILE Jackson. a fast trotter, and others that
could step some. Bashaw ~. the noted