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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05
AFTER BILLIARD
CHAMPIONSHIP
Gathering of the Crack ANA
teurs Proposed to Be Held
in Brooklyn.

CHICAGO. Ill, August 4.-Brooklyn
again may witness the holding of the ma
tional amateur billiard championship II the
provisional plans are successful. The Cres-
cent Athletic Club of Brooklyn has signified
it's intention of applying for the tourna-
ment Should the tournament be held I'M
der their auspices it will mark return to
Brooklyn of the national association cham
pionships which were first held here at the
Hanover Club of Brooklyn. in which the
national association had It's birth during
the days of the hotly-waged conflicts for
the control of the game
In a measure the object of letter which
is to be sent out by committee Is 10 as
certain the possibility of holding the tour
nament in some city in which the meeting
has not heretofore been held. At the pres
ent time this appears desirable, as there
Is In prospect an unusual number or pro-
fessional tournaments and matches TO De
held in New York and Chicago during the
coming billiard season. Philadelphia. Mil
waukee, St Louis and even San Francisco
are talked of as the cities In which the
meeting may be held. There are some
members of the committee who believe that
IL a more central point Is selected for hold
ing the national championship a greater
number of entrants from the western states
and the Pacific coast may be obtained
The tournaments under the direction OF
the present national governing body OF the
game have been held at the Hanover Club,
Brooklyn: the Liederkranz Club. New York.
and the Chicago A. A. The meeting was
held in Chicago during 1905 and 1906. So
Tar the only formal application for the tour
nament has been received from the IAeder-
kranz Club of New York. In Its applica-
ton the organization states that it lis will
ing to offer its fine concert hail. seating
1000 spectators, for the two weeks neces-
sary to the playing of the matches
1t Is hoped that Wilson P. Foss and Mar
tin Mullen may be won over TO compete in
the next championship. which would take
on additional interest by their entry.
Among those who appear to be assured
competitors were mentioned new asspirant
for the honors, 7. Mortimer g. Rolls of
Philadelphia. Charles Wright San Fran
cisco; Calvin Demarest and Charles F.
Conklin, Chicago: Edward W. Gardner, J.
Ferdinand Poggenburg and DR.. L. L. Mai.
In the letter being sent out to the clubs
throughout the country it is requested that
they reply before October /, and also that
they state whether or not they would be
naments OF 1905 and 1909 IL IL is impossible
for them to hold the tournament next Feb
ruary. In this way 1t Is expected that It
win be possible to designate the club and
place of holding the championship for the
next three years to come and so afford the
organization and players ample time to
make their preparations and arrangements
The present officers OF the national asso-
citation are: President. Frank ]. Howell.
Chicago Athletic Association. vice presi-
dent. DIR. A. B. Miller, Amateur billiard
Club Of New York: secretary. Lincoln
Brunn. Lisderkrans Club; treasurer q. o.
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own with any of the spit-ball opponents.
At this time the writer has not been able
to form a careful opinion of the infield OF
the southwest team. but Canivan. ford and
McGraw seem to have the real stuff in
them, but 1t needs to be developed. Dec
hard in the left garden seems to be fine
fielder and a good batter. All in all. the
recent setbacks received by this team and
the fact that the st. Domnic's have only
two postponed games put them about on
the fence, where victory or defeat will
make or lose their chances for the rag.
Trinity.
The work of Birch Dove. Kraft. Sc
bastian. Moore and particularly A. Chism
makes the Trinity team championship
possibility. At short Moore goes after
everything, and is another player of the
Dukey Mess type Although he does not
stand at the head of the shortstops, Moore
Is as good as any, and Is good batter.
Birch and Chism are also heavy hitters,
while the fine twirling of the latter has
won more than half of Trinitys games
.ecently In the outfieid Grove is a good
batter and fielder, while Murphy makes a
.eltable catcher
St. Peters
Langley's ST. Peters aggregation has
some of the steadiest players in the league.
His outfeld is especially good one. ].
.,oHffower, in left, has not made error
this season, and until recently Langley
himself had a clean sheet. George Coli
flower Reichard and Madden all have
pitched well throughout the year, but their
support has been of the foolish kind. and
there has been too much throwing the ball
about with the bases occupied. Rex Frye
has been a big help to the northeast club.
and now that he can alternate behind the
bat with Hurdle the st. Peters should
take a boost. Sullivan plays a fine game
at second. The st. Peters chances all de-
pend on how the players work together
the rest of the season and the form of the
pitchers. They can at least better their
position considerably If they hustle.
The Trailers.
IS. s." Rogers bunch Of ball tossers has
been the joke of the league long enough.
That gentleman thinks SO himself. and has
gone scouting. 1t would be funny II the
tail-end team should decide the pennant.
and it is by no means imposibilty. The
addition of OConnell and several new men
whose names are not yet to be announced
will strengthen the cellar champions con-
siderably. Bernie DAILY seems to be about
the only all-around good player on the
team besides Rogers himself The Holy
Name team will bear watching.
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MAY CUT QUALIFYING
ROUND TO EIGHTEEN HOLES

PHILADELPHIA. August "A minority
Of American golf players still oppose a
qualifying round in the amateur champion
ship. At the next annual meeting Of the
United States Golf Association. however,
It IL likely that the qualifying round will
be cut to eighteen holes. with sixty-four
to keep on at match play the second day.
The present plan OF thrty-six holes quail
flying play. in two rounds of eighteen holes
Is regarded as two bites of the cherry.
In Great Britain there Is n strong move
ment In favor Of the American system"
of wedding out the excessive entries In the
amateur championship. In which 166 were
named this spring. In condemning a sug-
gestion that only scratch players should
be eligible to compete from their clubs In
the amateur. the English expert. Garden
G. Smith. said recently that T the only solu-
ton Is a qualifying competition by stroke
play. which Will sift out all the weaklinHs
and confine the subsequent match play to
the best players.'
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FAST QUARTER MILES
WILL BE RUN THIS FALL

NEW YORK. August 4.-The array OF
long distance sprinters who are Lifting
themselves TO run the quarter-mfle this
year assures a race at this distance In all
the championship meets that will bring
the crowds to their feet almost from the
crack of the starters gun.
1t was only three years ago that Cham
pion Hillman won the event by thirty
i've yards in the metropolitan champion
ships. and in the slow time of 80 Is Sec
onds. He was the only man in the race
who was faster than 50 seconds. Men of
decidedly mediocre ability secured places.
Today there are dozen men who can
be rated better than 81 seconds. In the
struggle for championship the New York
\. C. will send to the mark five fiers in
Hillmsn. Pilgrim Sedley, Rogers (CornelD
and Dives (Harvard). Against these the
Irish Club Will start their regulars. Prin-
stein and Northridge, who have been right
on Hilman's heels In ali the big champion
ship quarters" The Celtic Park crowd
claim a wonder In Colliton (Lafayette). be-
sides Squires, who admits doing under
fifty" Lawson Robertson will devote spe-
cial attention to the 300 and quarter mile.
It is safe to predict that If the big Scotch
man masters the distance it will take an
awful fast man to beat him. Joe Deyere of
the Pastimes. who won the junior ''220
last year and finished well up in the~Ca-
madam championships. is the Indians head
liner.
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MARVIN HART INDUCED
TO RE-ENTER THE RING

LOUISVILLE. KY. August 4.-The offer
of good big sum of money will come very
near making a fighter who has already an
nounced his retirement from the ring
change his mind and again don the gloves
This has just been proven in the case of
Marvin Hart. the Louisville heavyweight
Hart declared he was through with the
fighting game after he had fought Mike
Shreck in a four-round bout in Madison
Square Garden a few months ago. Recent
ly Hart received an offer OF 5000 and 500
expenses from some sporting men of Aus
tralia to go to Melbourne and fight Bill
Squires, the champion heavyweight of that
country. in a twenty-round bout. Hart
wired back he would box Squtres II he got
5000 for his end and $1,000 for expenses
His offer was quickly accepted. Hart has
accordingly left for Melbourne with his
brother and the battle will be fought in
September.
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STEAM YACHTS KANAWHA
AND THE HA0ULI RACE

NEW YORK, August Al. H. Rogers
steam yacht. the Kanawha. a few days ago
defeated the Haouli. owned by F. NJ. Smith,
In one OF the most hotiye contested races
ever run in these waters
Mark Twain was guest on the Rogers
craft, fand during the contest he entertained
his host with true tales of steamboat rae
ing in the old days on the Mississippi. For
several years Smith has tried to defeat the
Rogers yacht. When the Kanawha won
the James Gordon Bennett cup Smith built
the Haouli with the object of supremacy
But in match race two years ago the
Kanawha beat the Smith racer by five
minutes over a thirty-mile course.
The most recent trial came about through
a challenge by Smith. The Kanawha had
just left New Bedford when the Haouli
steamed up. with broom at her masthead.
After an exchange of courtesies the two
vessels went away. stem to stem. With
Rogers besides Mark Twain, were his wife,
a Mrs Coe and Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Rogers
IT. The race was extremely close for three
hours, when the Kanawha began to draw
ahead She led the way into the East river
by several hundred yards.
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tongue Is apparent The team itself Is well
managed and perfect discipline reigns. and
provided accidents do not break up the
combination Daley's team will not be
headed this year. as there remains but one
more game to be played between the two
leaders and the Immaculates have won all
four games they have played with Callan's
men.
st. Peters.
Manager Callan's braves from 10th street
are tied with the Immaculates for first
place. but the team is not playing as well
together as in the earlier part of the
son. The defeat last Tuesday with the
Immaculates can be attributed to a mis-
take on the part of the pitcher and was not
lost through any fault of the team itself.
Without playing a remarkably strong game
this club has hung on the top of the ladder
and has led nearly all the season. Much
of the credit for the teams strong showing
can be attributed to the headwork and tact
displayed by Manager Callan. who, al
though practically new to the game this
year, has shown wonderful managerial
ability throughout the season. A feature
of ST. Patrick's playing this year. especially
In the early part of the season. has been
Its knowledge of inside base ball, and the
fact that the players are always in the
game from start to finish. ready to take adj
vantage of their opponents mistakes.
Marceron. behind the bat for the St Pat
ricks. can hold his own with any of the
Dackstoppers and in the clash with the
Daleyites last Tuesday displayed good
judgment in his throwing and at the bat.
bills" batting makes him a valuable ad-
dition to Callan's ranks and he has more
than earned his position In the lineup. In
the pitching department Cook and McDon-
aid are both fine fingers and can put up
great game at any time. Their work
throughout the season stands as their best
recommendation The infield composed of
Chaffiot, Casassa, Malloy, Shedd and Law
son, the last two named new men, COM
pares favorably with any In the league. al
though the Immaculates are better batters
The outfield, composed OF Reagan. Cal
lagher, Callan, Tierney and Mcdonald is
about as good any when they play to-
gether. Unless some of Cleyeland's hard
luck Is experienced by the st. Patrick's
there will be some hot contests in the near
future and Callan's team will be right there
when the gong sounds.
st. Domintc's.
The st. Dominic's have dropped from first
to third place inside OF week and unless
Canavin's men break their hoodoo pretty
soon they will keep company with the Holy
Name team at the bottom. Mcdonald Is q
good backstopper. and Ebbert. the st. Dom
mics mainstay in the box. can hold his
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ABSURDLY LONG NAMES
GIVEN TO SOME DOGS

NEW YORK, August 4.-Field and Fancy
is trying to call halt on the practice of
giving dogs absurdly long names. Recently
small canine was christened Lady's Noble
Count Gladstone's Royal Bay. Aside from
the foolishness of calling a dog a name
like all the studbook combined, 1t is unwise
for other reasons. In the first place, a vast
amount of extra work is involved In these
long or out of the way names. 1t takes
more time to write them. In fact. there is
not a pedigree blank with large enough
spaces. Beside. family names are not 50
distinguishing as individual names. and
they are much apt to be confused and for
gotten The Plain Sans. the Gladstones.
the Mobiles. the Rip Raps and the Rod
stones of the country all number In the
hundreds.
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TO BOOM ENGLISH
RUGBY FOOT BALL
Strong Movement to Send a
Team to This Country
President Hills Letter,

ITHACA. N. Y, August 4.-There Is
chance of team of English Rugby foot
ball players visiting the United States next
year. There has been a strong movement
on the part of friends of the game on both
sides of the Atlantic to secure its intro
duction into America If the universities
and colleges will seriously take it up, and
steps are now being taken to ascertain
what reception such a movement would
meet with here. To this end President J.
Rowland Hill of the English Rugby Union,
which governs the game on the other side,
has addressed the chairman of the faculty
advisory committees of the various leading
universities to learn their temper on the
matter, and if the replies received are IA
vorable to the undertaking team viii be
sent across. These letters have gone to
Yale. Harvard. Princeton, Pennsylvania,
Columbia. Cornell. Chicago, Michigan, Min
nesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin. California.
Oregon and Washington and to a number
the United States. The letter sent out is
follows:
Rugby Foot Ball Union,
IS Surrey Street, Strand w. c.
Sir: My committee has received many
communications from the United States and
from our Australian colonies. Canada, etc.
suggesting that We should endeavor to get
the principal universities and schools in
English Rugby game of foot ball.
While having no desire to attempt to take
the place of your national game of foot
ball. my committee thought that, in view
OF the correspondence received and the
many expressions of opinion In the Amer
lean press Of recent months as to the de-
durability of a drastic change 1.-THE Amer
lean game. and In order that there might
be one game OF foot ball In which all Eng
disappearing races might meet periodically.
this would be a good time for the intro
duction Of our game into America
At the present time the rules of this union
onies. British team has visited South
Africa on three occasions. New Zealand
sent a team to England last season. South
Africa Is sending one next season New
South Wales and New Zealand both wish
us to send q team to them in 1905 and we
think that IL such International matches
could be arranged with the United States
or America 1t would do much to promote
the good feeling and fellowship in the game
OF foot ball which already exists between
the two countries In many other branches
of sport. may add that last season this
union made arrangements with France to
play an international match with them an
nually.
In view of the above correspondence I
wrote Mr.. Whitelaw Reid suggesting that
there might be somebody connected with
the embassy who would be well acquainted
with the athletic movements In America
and received very courteous reply from
Mr.. ID. X. Jay, member OF the embassy
making an appointment for our secretary
Mr.. Percival Coles, and myself to meet
him and Mr.. Longworth to talk the matter
over. Thsy both agreed that W. might
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TWELvE-YEAR-OLD LAD WHO
IS AN EXPERT CHAUFFEUR

BOSTON, Mass August 4.-W. r. Bui-
lard of New Bedford. Mass. son of Dr.
John T. Billiard. Is the youngest fuh
f1edged chauffeur in the Bay state, and il is
not likely that the country can boast OF
many lads OF his size and age who have a
big automobile so completely at their mercy
as has young Bullard.
When Billiard drives his big machine
down the street pedestrians line up on the
sidewalk and gaze at him in open-eyed
wonder He looks like Tom Thumb behind
the big wheel. but the lad can manipulats
his car about In the most crowded thor
oughfare, and. to use street vernacular. the
older autoists have nothing on him.
Billiard is almost twelve years old. bat
he stands only four feet eleven inches In
T.. Davis, professional chauffeur. who
was his sponsor, appeared a few days ago
In Boston at the Office of the Massachusetts
highway commission.
There application was made for license
and when the boy came forward the
applicant the clerks all came on their
high stools and gathered around him In a
bunch. Secretary Fletcher OF the commits
sion was the one most astonished. and he
was at first inclined to laugh at Billiard
He began to question the boy, however,
and soon found that he had pretty good
idea of what automobile was But Sec
rotary Fletcher is thorough man He
would not give the boy a license until no
saw him operate the car. This did not
disturb the youngster. who soon had the
secretary seated In his car.
Then they went out into the heart of
the city Billiard took particular pains to
take the investigator into the very con-
gested sections and Mr.. Fletcher chung to
the seat in terror as he thought how he
was entrusting his life to a mere child.
But Billiard lodged trucks. headed on
trolley cars and took corners so cieverly
that when they returned to the highway
commissions Office the secretary wrote out
license. and. patting Billiard on the back.
told him that he was q mighty small boy,
but II he couldn't run an automobile b
didn't know anx one who NaA QualtHAd
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BASE
BALL IN WASHINGTON

mates secured those five players from Gin
cinnati the town literally went GRAVY and
the opening game between Boston and
Washington In the spring of Is7i was
awaited with all kinds of excitement ira
Dali grounds on the White Lot were given
up and whole block at the corner of 18th
and 5 streets. then a veritable wilderness
of blackberry bushes, was secured and
turned into ball field of magnificent nro
portions. The means OF reachina the
grounds from down town were by a single
track on l4th street. and then a walk OF
two squares through lane of apula trees
on what Is now T street as the place was
then devoid OF habitation On the day Of
this great game the street railway nut ON
extra cars and utilized mules also to haul
the crowd, while from the central portion
of the city omnibuses, wagons ana carts
were utilised TO get spectators out to the
grounds. 1t was perhaps the largest crowd
that ever assembled in Washington at a
game. II being estimated that 20.o00S persons
Witnessed the contest. inside and outside
the Enclosure. There were over $4,000 per-
sons inside the grounds for besides the
oyerfowing on the field there was a fringe
OF human beings on top Of the entire
carts also lined up around the outside and
50 much per head did a land office business
I have seen all gatherings of note at ball
games. but this one was the RECONSIDERATION
and II was also heart-breaksr, as the
Bostons didn't do thing to our Washing
tons. winning by a score OF ID to 7. Brain
ard pitched and Allison caught for Wash
ington. while Al. Spaldins pitched and Mo-
yey caught for the Bostons. 1t was a
grand contest and though the locals went
down TO defeat, and thereby disappointed
the home fans considerably. the game
throughout was full OF ginger and excite
ment. Doug. Allison. the star catcher
stgraled his first appearance In Washing
ton by hitting the bali over the center field
fence, feat seldom afterward ever ac-
much as II did the vast concourse. for his
forte was anything else but heavy hitting.
This game practically opened UP RI pro-
fessional ball playing In its entirety at the
tinuously, with the exception OF two sea
sons, aver since"
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% good Ia writing to the athletic associa-
tons OF your leading universities and
schools with the idea of making arrange
nsnts Tor an Engtish team TO visit Amer
lce next year ue07).
shah be obliged IL you VIII lay this
matter before your athletic association and
let rs know their opinion on the following
points:
1. Is there any chance of the game being
taken up seriously In your university
Q. What steps II any. should be taken by
US to introduce the game into American
inclose a copy of our book OF laws, and.
apologizing for troubling you at such
length. beg to remain. yours very truly.
]. ROWLAND HILL. President
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and rides his own race horses When J.
Ransch. Mr.. vanderbilts regular Jockey.
was taken III before the Derby, Mr.. Wander
bilt showed his high regard for WOOD
lands as a rider and confidence in his abtl-
ity by asking him to accept the mount on
Maintenon in both big events He rode
the colt successfully In the Derby, but fall
Maintenon's poor exhibition helped Spear
mint materially to finish in front and to
land for Maj Loder bet of $4,000 on his
colt. This money was placed in the French
Aiutuais. as bookmaking is prohibited IN
France.
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Japanese Studying Horse Breeding

/ LEXINGTON. KY. August 4.-John
Mackey. formerly manager OF the Rancho
del Paso breeding establishment in Cali
fornia, has arrived here with two Japanese
boys. sons Of M. HASH Of Toxic. They will
remain at ElmendCrf stud for several
months to study the art OF breeding as prac-
ticed in the blue grass country. The lads
will make their home at the Haggin farm.
viii return to Japan and begin the breed
Ing Of thoroughbred on large scale