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Late News by Wire.

Percie Hill of Cleveland, Ohio. sec
rotary of the Ohio State Bowlers' as
ISOLATION, and one of the best known
bowlers in the country. made per-
feet score OF SEQ in match game
Oct. 81.
The Royal Canadian Yacht club will
insist upon race for the Canada cup
Lext year, the Rochester Yacht club.
replying to the challenge of the Cana
dams. demurred at racing next sum-
mer on the ground of expense and
suggested that the next race for the
cup be held in 1907.
Director Charles Baird has been APP.
pointed by the Prince Royal of Greece
to membership on the American com.
mittee of the Olympian games TO be
held in Athens in 1906. He will &C
cept, but that does not necessarily
mean that he will go to Athens next
year, although he will do so II he can
arrange his work at Aan Arbor.
Oscar st. Cyr was the star perform
er In recent swimming meet at the
Chicago Athletic association, on a re
cent evening, winning the 100 yard
handicap race, In which he was
matched with r. T. Laughlin, former
| ly Of the Missouri Athletic club, as
scratch men, and two others, settinl
q new worlds record for forty yards
covering the distance In :21. Tht
worlds record was made In an exhi
bition race, in which the star broke
his own record of :22 rs. The
watches did not agree, however, one
giving 20 So as the time and the re
naming two 81
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The chamnlon Rutt.ln.

President Mccall of the New York
Life Insurance company was testify
ing the other day before the legisla-
tive committee about the corpora.
tons agency business.
What is the chief qualification of
a good agent?" he was asked.
We'll first class agent must be
a man who is able to butt in"
Just at that moment one of the re-
porters who was watching the investi.
cation felt some one touch his shoul'
der. Looking around, he saw stran
ger with glaring red mustache and
pale blue eyes. This individual lean
ed forward and whispered:
"I'd like to talk to you few min
utes."
What for?" inquired the reporter
irritated at being interrupted in the
busiest hour of the morning.
81 want to sell you policy in the
- Insurance company" confidet
the stranger, whereupon there was
an abrupt ending of the Interview
New York Post.
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sistant secretary of the New York
Giant baseball club.
The first baseball match ever play.
ed in Jamaica took place Nov. 2, be-
tween teams from the United States
cruisers Denver and Yankee. The
game which was won by the Yankees
team, was witnessed by large and
enthusiastic crowd
Ducky Holmes, Comiskey's utility
outhelder, has deserted major league
baseball for all time, he says. and will
become magnate In the Western
league. Holmes will not be with the
White SoX next year, but will have
control of the Lincoln club.
The Western Baseball league again
made Maurice CTip) o'Neill president
Of the organization at the annual
meeting at Chicago, and introduced
Ducky Holmes of the White Sox to
the role OF magnate by giving him
the management of the Lincoln
! (Neb0 club. All the old officers were
reelected, consisting of Frank My
rick of Omaha, and w. A. Burke and
George Tebeau, additional directors.
The quarter was passed In 80, the
half in :591s, the three-quarters In
1929 and the mile In 1;5SA.
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until it is time for him to go to Ra-
leigh, N. c., to coach the baseball
squad of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college of that city.
President Taylor of the Boston club,
has appointed Hugh ]. McBreen act
ing secretary of the club to succeed
Carl Green, resigned as business
manager. McBreen has been engaged
with the club in a clerical capacity
since it was formed in 1901.
Jesse Burkett has aspirations for a
baseball team of his own in Worces.
tel next year. He has been laying his
lines foI a ball club for several
months, but it may be some time be-
fore matters are in a sufficiently def
mite shape to make possible any an.
nouncement
Preparing for an emergency, the
| Cleveland club last week signed Scott
Ingerton, who played second base for
the Ashtabula Trolley league team
last season. He will be tried out in
the spring, and will be used at second
in case Lajoie is unable to play.
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rotting.

Helmenia, by Billy Wilkes, with a
pacing record of 2:0Sh and valued at
$4,000, was found dead at Pekin, ILL.,,
in the barn of her owner, Daniel New.
berry of Delavan. 1t is believed the
mare was poisoned.
At Philadelphia Oct. 81, Ed Bryan.
the bay gelding trotter owned by
William Robinson, in a trial against
the Belmont park track record, broke
the worlds two mile wagon record,
which has stood for forty years. The
time was 4;45 The best previous
record was 4:56A, made by Dexter.
br. g., by Rysdyks Hambletonian, on
Long Island, Oct n, 1865.
In an exhibition mile on the Mem
phis Trotting associations track Dan
Patch, the champion PAGER equaled
the worlds record without wind
shield, covering the distance in
1891. This record has been held by
Star Pointer for number of years
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$1,000 claim against the Buffalo club
by accepting $500 for himself and $50
for his lawyer.
Manager McGraw laughs at Chi
cago story to the effect that he intend
ed to retire. He said he never for
even a moment contemplated such a
thing.
According to President Hermann,
who ought to know and is TO be be
lieved, the Cincinnati club this season
made considerably smaller profit
than last year.
There is a story from Shelbyville,
Ky, Dan McGann's home, that the
Giants first baseman's first name is
Dennis. and not Daniel. Maybe 1t is,
but it didn't fit him this year.
King, the Chicago Nationals back
stop, is given the credit by ball play
ers and managers in the two big
leagues of being the best catcher in
the business at the present time.
Leo Hafford, the pitcher whom Gin
cinnati is trying to sign, last season
pitched in the Northern League un'
der the name of George. He halls
from Somerville, Mass, and is now
playing with the Bowdoin football
team
President Hart, of the Chicagos
only smiled at Louisville story, say
ing Capt. A. C. Arson was likely to be
manager of the Chicago Cubs. we
have two managers now" said Hart
81 don't think we want three"
Poor Frank Selee writes from Col
orado Springs that his physician has
ordered him not to engage in work o
any sort. Selee says he proposes e
obey his doctors, as he is too weak t
assume even light business cares.
Three Philadelphians, Capt. kid
Gleason, Courtney and Magee, an
Slagle of Chicago, were the only play
ers who participated in the full CON
plement OF games-154-scheduled b
the National League during the sec
son Of 1905.
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Why She Resiqned.

She had been in her mistress serv-
ice exactly two weeks when she an
nounced that on the following Satur-
day there would be vacancy as
lady's maid. Her mistress was puz-
zled. Their relations had been mutu-
ally satisfactory, at least to all out
ward appearances.
rs there anything the matter with
the place." she demanded. Il thought
| had been very easy on you"
Deed, ma'am, amt got no kick
bout de wuk," was the earnest as
surance. You shore am fine lady
TO wuk for"
DO you want more money!"
Moo, not exactly money"
We'll, what is the trouble?" ex'
claimed her mistress impatiently.
well, you see, maam, wherever
wukked befoh, de ladies, dey sent
notes to gemmen frens, an de gem
men frens, dey give me dollah fob
bringin' de note, an den dere was the
excitement. Yes'm, OATS de trouble
Dey amt no excitement here. ! got
to CO."
And she went.-New York Sun.
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National LEAGUE News.

The Cincinnati Reds will train at
Santa Monica next spring.
Pitcher Harry McIntire OF the
Brooklyn, has gone to Memphis,
Tenn, for the winter.
The regular fall story of circuit
shift from Brooklyn to Providence has
started on the rounds.
The Cincinnati Club is said to be
working hard to secure first basemen
Tenney from the Boston club.
The latest Cincinnati report is that
deal for the exchange of "Cy' Sey-
mour for Roger Bresnahan is on.
Ned Hanlon has made the state
ment that he would gladly give $780,
900 for Mathewson, Bender and Plank.
Dave Brain has compromised his
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Central League Chatter.

At the Wheeling meeting of the
Central League the bylaws of the or
ganization were changed so that here
after a majority Of the league direct
ors may not take franchise away
from any club for business reasons"
as stated in the bylaws, without com
pensation of $1,000, which gives a
Central League franchise value OF
that amount.
At the Wheeling meeting the
Schriver charges against President
Carson were brought up by the Wheel
ing Club and Schriver was ordered to
deliver over to the league the letter
which he claimed Instructed Umpire
Cline to favor the South Bend team
within ten days or he would be sus'
pended from organized base ball.
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A Wonder (Y) Secured.


The Boston American club has also
signed a new first baseman who is
said to be an athletic wonder. His
name is Harry Murch and he halls
from Sebago, Me. He is "a years of
age, and despite his youth has cut a
wide swath in the athletic meets up
In that neck of the woods Murch
stands feet 3 liz inches in his stock
ings, weighs 20S pounds stripped,
reaches so inches five longer than
Fitz and six more than jeff, chest
A IL. On Labor Day he ran 100
yards in 10 SO seconds, put the 16-
pound weight As feet and jumped
three standing jumps to 81 feet A
friend writing from Maine says: 81
am so positive he can beat any man
in the world in an all-round contest
that | will bet on it. Amount no con-
sideration. | don't think he can lick
Jen, outwrestle Hackenschmidt, out
run Duffy, beat Mitchell at the
weights or outthrow a champion, but
l know he can beat any one at a
mixed programme. | think he Is the
next fastest man to Chase | ever saw
on first base, and he can hit, run,
throw and field like fiend."
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American League Notes.


Dick Padden, late of the Browns
Will next season manage the st. Paul
club.
IT'S said that pitcher Frank Hahn
will be given trial by Comiskey in
the spring.
President Johnsons secretary, Rob
ert McRoy, is on a hunting and fish
ing trip in Wisconsin.
The New York club has flled an
agreement for the purchase of pitcher
Jimmy Whalen, of the San Francisco
club.
The Washington club is making an
effort to sign pitcher Grant (Stony)
McGlynn, of the outlaw York club.
The Cleveland club will send pitch
Ell Monte Wood, the Michigan phe-
Rom, South next spring with the team
for try-out
Elberfelt has promised Clark Grit
fifth that he will return to the New
York Americans next spring in first
class condition.
The Chicago American club has
| signed third baseman Hans Lobert
| Tor whom the Chicago National cluh
would not pay the price set by the
Des Moines club.
Monte Cross, of the Athletics, gives
the Giants lots OF praise for theiI
work in the post seasons games. 81
never saw any better baseball
played" said Monte.
The report that ICY" Young, of the
Boston team, was to retire seems te
be untrue. ICY" thinks he is good FOL
another year, and will be with the
Boston Americans next season.
Says silk" OLoughlin: "The Ath
letics would have given the Giants {
royal fight for the post-season honors
IL they had been in better shape
They are capable Of great article
of ball"
Catcher Malachi Kittredge is get
ting ready to spend the winter II
Maine, and will do lot of hunting
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Automobillng.

w. c. Chadaeyne of Buffalo, N. Y.
has completed a motorcycle run from
New York city to San Francisco in
forty-seyen days twenty-three hours
and fifty minutes.
The 100 mile record for stock cars
in competition was broken by w. F.
Clemens at the annual meeting of the
Indianapolis Automobile Racing ASSOC
citation. Clemens, who drove a thirty
horse power car. negotiated the dis
lance in 1:53:21 2-5, which Is almost
five minutes better than the previous
record. In the race with Clemens and
while rounding the stretch on his
ninety-fifth mile the machine driven
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ANIMAL REQUESTS ARE COMMON
Wealthy People Leave Money for
Maintenance of Pets

maintenance OF Pets.
free bed for cats is maintained
in an animal hospital in Philadelphia.
1t is large cage of polished nickel,
with a porcelain floor that slides out
for cleaning and with an outfit of por-
celain feeding utensils, pneumatic
bed and an abundance of soft, clean
blankets.
Standing beside this bed the hos.
pitfalls superintendent said:
1T was bequeathed to us seven
years ago by rich old woman. The
income of $1,000 Is set apart for it's
maintenance. 1t does a deal of good.
Requests to animals" he went on,
become more and more common as
the various S. p. G. AS increase in
number.
"a San Francisco woman left the
income Of $4,000 to be expended in
keeping the streets free from broken
glass, tin cans and all such rubbish
as might cut the feet of horses.
There is a hospital for birds in
New York, and / know a woman
whose will when she dies, will make
1t richer by $3.50 year.
"A st. Louis millionaire left a good
sum to be devoted to making easier
the lives Of aged and broken-down
horses and mules.
Animal requests Of this kind are
wise. There is another kind of ami.
NAL bequest, though, that is very fool
ish. This is the setting aside of ex.
travagant sums for the luxurious
maintenance, after the masters or
mistress death, of pet animals. Such
requests cause swindling. The per.
son who has 5000 or $500 year to
keep a cat or dog on is profiting
| largely, and, when the cat or dog dies.
substitutes another for it in order
| that the income may not cease.
| 81 know of requests of this foolish
sort to cats, dogs, birds and even gold
fish. In each case there was cheat.
ing. AS the real pet died another that
resembled it was substituted"
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-eNpIp FIELD FOR ROMANCE
Gilbert Parker Says There Is

Cir Gilbert Parker Says There Is
Room for American Novelists.
Sir Gilbert Parker, Canadian novel
II and historian and since 1900 mem
I M of the English house of commons,
1 allied back to England Saturday on
4 me Campania, according to the New
York Herald. He had been on two
months visit to Canada. The last
six days he had spent in New York.
When seen on the Campania just
before it sailed he was surrounded by
friends and relatives who had come to
see him off, but he found time to say
IA few pleasant things about the United
states and it's people. OF its wonder
full potentialities in literature he spoke
with Enthusiasm.
mo country in the world" he said,
apresents so wide and wonderful a
field for the novelist and the romancer
as the United States. You have a his
torical past of more than 300 years
of exploration, adventure, episode
ard incident wherein to draw. You
have a hundred great problems of ma
tional life to solve which present the
most fascinating elements of romance.
You have not only room for the great
American novelist who has been ex-
pected for so many years, but for
twenty great American novelists."
AS to his own literary plans Sir
Gilbert said that he was at present
engaged upon novel which will be
published serially in Harper's Maya
zine next year. 1t will follow the
lead of his most recent book. "a Lad
der of Swords" in the fact that 1t
will continue his DETECTION from Can.
adian soil as a field of fiction. The
scene is laid partly in England and
partly in Egypt and the time is some
forty years ago-the period OF Ismail
Pasha, who Is one of the characters
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Willie Wanted to Know.

Here is statement that 12,O00,OOO
frankfurters were eaten at Coney
island last summer"
What is frankfurter. pa?"
"It's a kind of a sausage. my SON.
What is it made of. pa?"
"a conglomeration, my SON."
And what's con-what you said
pap
ITS a mixture that suggests de
duction, my SON."
"And what's deduction?"
There are various kinds OF deduc
lions. In the case of the frankfurtei
the deduction is that II there were
less dogs there wouldn't be SO man,
sausages. Now run right along and
play."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
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that the boy was worth saving. The
father remarked that honey and salt
saved him, as for many years the
Group hung around the house like
bat In the night, and nothing helped
until some one put them on to this
God-given remedy.
How did you use it?" asked the
painter, The father replied, Mix q
half teaspoonful each of honey and
salt for any kind of a croupy cough
unless due to bronchial cold that
remains on all day and night For
the latter drink hot corn.meal cruel
very thin with or without milk, but
sailed, and put honey on the chest as
warmer and tonic From Honey
Money Stories.
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Baseball.

William j. Clymer has signed con-
tract to manage the Columbus Amerl'
can association baseball team during
the season of 1906.
Henry Harris, manager of the San
Francisco baseball team, has sold
Pitcher Roy Hit to the New York
American League club for $4,000.
l.. A. Mitchell, who was Guy
Vaughan's associate in the 1000 mile
record ride at the Empire City track
in July. has accepted position as as
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His Judgment Was Good.

Among the many good stories Of
humorous happenings in court told by
Attorney Watson of Pittsburg is the
following:
A prominent attorney Of Kansas
City who was retained as counsel for
the defense in a criminal case In the
city named succeeded in getting his
client out of pretty bad situation by
means of an alfbi, which the attorney
Presented to the court in so novel a
way that it was little short of mas
terful.
AT the end of the trial the attorney
Vas overwhelmed by congratulations
from his colleagues of the legal fra
ternity, who spoke in the highest
terms of admiration of his able work.
To these fluctuations there were add.
ed those of the learned judge himself,
Who observed:
"a fine alibi, that, and mighty well
putt
Well,' modestly responded the
lawyer, I myself think it was rather
neat. OF those that were offered me
i was by far the best "-Harper's
Weekly.
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This most remarkable of sprlnters
bias fired a terrific bomb into sport
dom by declaring that for years he
has been a professional while posing
all the time as simonpure amateur.
Duffey is holder of the fifty, sixty. 100
and 120 yards worlds records; was
winner of the American championship
in 1899, winner Of the British cham
rionships and holder OF the Prince
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SE E j s : 3 ) G. s :

The old fire insurance agent sat on
H. wagonmaker's sawhorse. He was
bright man but not the only jack.
Etfe in the show case. Some were
|tter some we're worse; others were
|hst like him. He had been jollying
IA mechanics boy who was tinkering
n the wise, and had got the laugh on
se boy. A painter was working at
he other side of the room and en-
wing the fun.
The agent got up and went to the
s.nch, picked up an apple and asked,
what is that?"
Before any one could answer, the
Nov jerked out, IAN applet"
The laugh was on the agent who
vas struck dumb. The painter said
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Hassan cup, 1900 1901, 1902 and 1868;
winner of the intercollegiate 100 in
1901, 1902. and 1908; winner of the
New Zealand championship in 1904;
holder of the British record OF
0:O9 As on grass and the 120-yard rec
ord of 0:11 As, and holder of the
Australasian records on grass TOR
fifty, sixty and seventy yards All of
his records now are likely to be
blotted off the books.
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gate for twenty-five round mill be-

gate for twenty-five round mill be-
tween Battling Nelson and McGovern.
Battling Nelson received an offer
from Michigan of $4,000 for a fight
with McGovern in December. Nelson
says they must come across with
more money They expect TO go to
Europe in eight or ten weeks.
| Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Bob
Fitzsimmons will meet in San Fran
cisco in a twenty round encounter
Dec. 20. A dispatch came from New
York saying that j. w. Coffrotn, who
is now in the big city, had promised a
match with O'Brien to Fitzsimmons.
Jim Jeffrles is said to have been
offered a $4,000 purse for fight
with an Australian heavyweight cham.
pion at Melbourne. Billy Delaney is
responsible for the statement that
nothing could again induce the big
American champion to enter the ring
Tommy Ryan, the new manager
ard trainer of Marvin Hart, speaking
for the Louisville boy, said that he
would accept the offer of the Colma
Athletic club for a fight between his
man and philadelphia jack O'Brien
the battle to take place some time in
December Ryan says he can fix Hart
SO he can do O'Brlen in about foul
rounds. despite the admitted clever
ness of the Philadelphia. Fitzsim
mons is the next game Ryan is after
He says the lanky one has bluffet
long enough. and he proposes to g
right after his scalp.
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Mountain Sheep Prisoner in Glacier.

ab 0bSSp Ti'oShSt ~ esNS'S' .
The entire carcass Of mountain
sheep was found embedded in the ice
VI the Arapahoe glacier by party of
scientists from the university. No
one can tell how long it had been
there.
Very likely the animal was caught
one of the deep crevasses which
extend into the glacier. The ice
'a-t nave closed in around it soon,
ueIore there was time for putrefac
e'o and thus the sheep was placed
natural cold storage.
the slow movement of the ice in
as glacier, as in all glaciers, brings
"efything eventually down to the ter
%inai moraine. 1t was here that the
s'cass was ound-Boulder CORE
'"ndence Denver Republican.
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Sherwood Magee is of Scotch descent and
was born at Clarendon, Pa, Aug 6, 1884 He
played his first professional engagement with
Allentown, in 1903, playing with that club
with Mt. Carmel. He started the season of
1904 with the Lindner Club, Of Carlisle, when
he was discovered by an agent OF the Phila-
delphia National League Club. He Joined the
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Boxing.

Coffroth, it Is reported. is ready to
give a purse of $4,000 for twenty
round fight between Jimmy Britt and
Terry McGovern, or a big slice of the
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outneIder Of the PhlIa deph!a IN. - Club.
-1zZZ2TOOD Lz4lLx

Phlllles in July, 1904, and made good from
the start, his hard hitting and equally hard
and accurate throwing making him at once
valuable player. He was resigned for 1905
as one of the regular outfelders OF the club,
and has made good in all departments, He is
a splendid fielder. hard and timely hitter and
excellent base runner, leading his team in the
last two important departments.
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by Charles Merz crashed in fence.
He was uninjured.
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