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a length turning into the stretch. Sne
looked n promising winner. but at the
turn went wide, going TO the outside or
the track. which left Clements "a nice
opening. which McFadden was quick to
grab thereby saving a couple of lengths
Beggarman then challenged Clements ana
battle royal ensued down 10 the wire.
the latter having enough left to hold on
gamely and win by head. Tom Man
niX's Amontillsdo made a strenuous EFFORT
to get up. but had To be content with third
position.
A half mile scramble for ti!lies and geld
irgs maiden twO-year -Olds. was the sec
oud number on the program. Another
good start came from Mars Cassidy and
Tiana was first 10 show in front At the
turn into the stretch ClaQue went up and
hung to the lead until we'll down the road
home giving her supporters a thrill OF Joy.
But furlong from home. Cheek, the Ia
vorite, got through coming with railroad
speed and flashed under the wire A Win
ner by two lengths. Trappe also finished
strong and managed to get up in time 10
capture second place from Ciaque by
half length.
Maiden two-year-oid colts made up the
third event. the distance being four and
half furlongs over the old course. Great
Jubilee dashed to the front after the good
start and led into the stretch where Mt.
Green shot his nose IN front for lew
jumps. About filrfong and half from
home Mccarthy doubtless concluded ft
was time to stop ALI foolishness, and gave
rhe Madden colt. Schleswig. his head and
! Q breeZed home a winner by five lengths.
claiborne. the even favorite with Schles-
wig made his run at the same time and
captured second place. with Demetrios in
the show position.
The final race brought out several first
class p afers and the bettors had a hard
time wedding out favorite. the betting
neing almost even on Panique. De]phie.
ebert and killiecrankie. Delphie was the
tip and the yellow-backs poured in on his
support. but later on PaniQue and Obert
were also given big support Kiliecrankie
opened at rs. but the big play the
three horses named sent his figures back
to IS. The field got away from the post
in almost perfect alignment and Delphie
shot TO the front like a Wild horse. AT
the far turn Fanique let out a link or
two and dashed to the front. only to be
headed a second later by Obert- When
stretched out for home new contender
showed up in 1.ittleton Maid, and the
Hamburg flly led for about a dozen
yards The game Panique came again
and seemed to have the race tied up when
killiecrankie apparently dropped from the
clouds about fifty yards from the wire.
gained the lead by mastery struggle
and flashed under the wire the winner by
half length. PA" Days horses are
very popular with the Benning patrons,
but this once there was little cheering,
as everybody seemed to have overlooked
the good thing they had bet on Friday.
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trac ok at o'clock that amounted almost
to gale and the track was dried out
well as a result. the going for the horses
being fairly good.
The two hundred and odd soldiers added
color to the gay scene in the big grand
stand ard they were interested In every
thing that took place. The jockey club
displayed its enterprise and Iiberaltty by
admitting free all the boys in blue.
Several of the stables are already get
ting things in shape to move away To other
tracks. Messrs. Shields. Odom. Gala
CHER. Garth. Johnson and Coles will ship
over to Pimlico Wednesday morning, the
others going to the Aqueduct track.
There was quiet Tip floating around
the paddock on Royal Lady to win the
ha ndicap. but it was not appreciated to
its fullest extent on account OF the many
scratches scared out, it was supposed. ON
OXford's account. The stable money was
probably played out of town. and the pool
rooms are yet to be heard from.
The double start was tried again yes
terday Obert going in the first and last
race. but this time il failed. as the colt
was given quite gruelfng in his first
try. At that Obert looked st the head of
the stretch as If he might win
The failure Of Madden to get brackets
in the second race didn't fool the wise
BOYS at all. and they went after his en-
try Schleswig. in the next event like
pack of hungry wolves. 1t was only
rOmp for Schleswig.
There is no guessing the odds at the
Benning track. Out on the lawn the
bookies were holding Royal at IS and IS,
while at one time as good as 20 to
could have been secured under the grand
stand One man got $40 down at to
place .. .. ,. 80 ,,e
hospital. was at the track enjoying the
sport Dave looks a little drawn. but he
told a Star reporter that he had picked up
eight pounds since coming to Washing
ton.
Jack Morrisey, once well-known JOCK
ey in the days of ST. Asaphs, was bene-
flied by the winning OF Royal Lady to the
extent of several hundred. He told his
friends of the good thing early In the
afternoon, but 1t took cast-iron nerve to
bet against Oxford.
Ardwell was the surprise OF the stee-
n,echase. AS good az 10 to 1 could have
been secured for place as the horses were
going to the post.
Banner was running well within herself
when she stumbled and threw Hagan.
Had she been able to negotiate the jumps
without a cropper Recruit would have had
the time of his life getting home In front.
IJagan went off very easily. and the mis-
hap caused a great deal OF ugly talk.
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GREAT TALK OF MOREN.
Phillies Believe They Have Caught
a Star.

PHILADELPHIA. April 1l.-That the
philadelphia Nationals have a star twiri-
er this year is generally believed by the
members of that team. for the players
who have already come north nave
brought the brightest reports of the wc.k
being done IN training by Lew Moren, the
Pittsburg boy. MOren is said to be heav-
Ter than he was last season. when ne was
a Colt. and that. instead of handicapping
him, will probably add to the power of
his batting. Ii is his development OF the
.knuckle ball. however. that IS causing
the singing of his praises by his team
mates. Moren used this delivery to some
extent last season. but this spring he has
it down pat, and says he intends to make
general use of it. The other pitchers of
the team have also given consideration TO
This hall. and Moren will doubtless have
imitators before the league season is
closed.
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PLANNING GREAT THINGS.
Cubs Preparing for Their First Home
Game.

CHICAGO, April 1.-THE Cubs are plan
ming great things for Their first home per-
Torrance on April % when they are 10
meet the Cincinnati Reds and give the
home fans their first taste of National
League ball. Next to the game itself the
most important ceremony will be the rails
ing o. the National League pennant,
which was won by the Cubs last year
and there will be talks and music as an
accompaniment for the swapping of the
flag. The plans also include some extern
sive decorations. in which the main figures
will be sculptured ball players one rep
resenting pitcher and the other a bats
man, and there will be small figures OF
bear cubs carrying bats and balls scat
tered artistically about the grand stand.
The ceremonies of the raising of the big
flag which stands for the worlds cham
p:onship will not take place until later n
the season. in order that the Chicago root
ers may have their JOY spread out until
the 1903 race for the flag is well under
way. After that the management expects
the game to take care of itsel.
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TURF AND PADDOCK NOTES.

Capt. Phillips. who rode Dan in the
Service cup race. had a trying experience
coming down the steps of the judges stand
after receiving the handsome cup. The
trophy fell from his hands and rolled
down the steps. being badly denied. Gen.
Winters set matters right with few
pleasant words to the mortified captain.
The erratic Clements warmed up yes
terday under heavy blanket, and as
result had no difficulty getting away
from the barrier.
There was a wind blowing across the
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cessfully defended his title for the third
year as national champion Of court tennis
at the New York Racquet and Tennis
Club today. His opponent in the chal-
lenge round was Eustace H. Niles OF
London whom Gould beat last year at
the Queens Club, London. in the chai-
lenge round of the British court tennis
championship.
Gould throughout had the better floor
game whereas Miles continued to drive
for the winning openings. lie scored -
nnints hy the openings to ~ for Gould.
Gould won the match by 3 sets to 1-l3
games 10 IL. The scores were O., ID.
1-6 IS.
The result was not unanticipated by the
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Best Revolver Shots.

PINEHURST, n. c., April ll.-Scores
i'm the recent twentyyard United States
Revolver Association state championship
pistol tournament were announced to-
day.
Lewis c. Hopkins OF New York wins
first with $50. and Miss NJ. NJ. Water
house OF Centreville, r. l.. for TWO years
the title holder second. with 3i2. David
r I,eahy of Brooklyn finished third. Rob
ert Hager jr.. OF New York fourth and
c. A. Lockwood of Jamaica. l.. L.. fifth
Mr.. HOPKINS and airs Dan *. Stucki of
Buffalo were thH winners OF the men :
and women's prizes in the annual club
champions ship tournament.
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Worlds Record Broken

BERk ELEY, Cal, April 11.-At the re-
lay racing carnival today on the Univer-
s!ty Of California track. Andrew Glarner
of the Olympic club. San Francisco
broke the worlds record FOR the 9s,-ya I'd
run. lis time being 2.01 -. The previous
record Of 2.ol f., WAS made by NJ. w
Sheppard at Long Island City, Septem-
Der l. 1907.
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BRITT WILL QUIT THE RING
KNOCKED OUT IN SIXTH ROUND
BY MCFARLAND.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 11.-"Packey"
Mcfarland. Chicago light weight. whipped
Jimmy Britt in the sixth round this
afternoon in their twenty round pugilistic
contest at COlma. Britt was Knocked to
the floor three times in the fifth and
sixth rounds by powerful right-hand
blows on the point of the jaw. He took
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Hunting for a Name.

PORTLAND. Ore. April 1l.-Portland
fans have expressed a desire for new
name for Mercedes players Oregon
papers have called them the Beavers but
the fans aver that there is hoodoo 10
this name. aud they want change They
lave also been dubbed the Webfooters
but this is considered ineegant
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Soccer in a Snowstorm.

ITHACA, ~ Y, April lin a driving
snowstorm today the Pennsylvania SOC
GER team defeated Cornell on Percy
Field by the score, 4 to o. The game was
close. Pennsylvania scoring practically all
its points toward the end Of the second
half
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Another Navy Yard Team.

The secondary mount shop of the naval
gun factory has reorganized its base ball
team. which, it is claimed. is much
stronger than last year. u desires games
with teams averaging eighteen years
Business High School preferred. This
wears lineup is as follows: d. Brown,
j. Campbell NJ. Crowley. w. March NJ.
OGenwald. j. Dade. II. Middlekaun, j.
Holland +. ID. Strother. Address ii.
Lybrand. secondary mount shop, Wash
ington navy yard
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Massachusetts, A. c., 8; Brown, 8.

PROVIDENCE. r. l.. April Thrown
went to pieces in the sixth inning To-Day
giving Massachusetts Agricultural College
six runs and the game. to 3. Cold and
a high wind were responsible for the poor
playing, but Brown was unable to hit
Cobb much. Score.
R.H.E.
N C O q O O-G s 6
Brown ,. q d U o l % .
Batteries-Cobb and French; Nourse and Rays
mOud,
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American players of court tennis aud
Gould was the favorite i'll the betting.
The latter now says he may go abroad tn
defend his British title in May. Miles and
Peter Latham left for Boston to May
for two days at the Myopia Hunt Club.
Tie full score of the match follows:
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There Will be a gathering at the Poo
macs new house today at s:30. Inspec-
tion boat space and selection Of lockers
are on the bill.
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BENN1NG, SATURDAY, APRIL II.


good Won driving easily Time s3 % Winner
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ld srnga would a umu
~
' course
~ Dmpe Owner Tyret afnr, w. I.
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Eiiecrsnk. kinder than usual and Won hard held.
peiphie position all the way and had excuse
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.,uIl.rl

n a Ardw.uf mpw had
plenty If speed y his My nred womnes
c,-. a %
Winner Ell trainer Cesmer
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way others safe. Dneris ran a a irrace "
andn
added
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THIRD EAE
fk Onsr and traner
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Neyious and Neale are the Analostan
Pairo has been kept back this year by
touch of the grip. but it is certain this
warm weather will lure him to the boat
house.
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Psnique easily best Of The others.
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all d smker igamedGu
a. the as
nur,ea inward:
of Mt Start good. Won easily:
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M Clarence Dunbar Davis will prob
ably be The only entry from this city at
tie American Henley regatta at Phila-
dephia next month. He is training hard
every day and is in splendid shape at
present.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-21
Docs notColor the HairI
Stops a11ing Hair
AYERS HAIR NGOR
e'S HAIR NGOR

young girl. Her mother demurred at
the hour and place, but Miss Evans
donned her travelling coat and lap
robe and stepped out with a quiet con-
sent. There, in the chill midnight air.
with her great masses of hair. floating
in il, her face upturned TO the full
moon, the future great authoreSS stood
on the mountain ridge. In a crowded
semi-circle about her sat and crouched
the men, still and intense. And then
the strong young voice sent out upon
the night the great battle song OF her
dear friend, Maryland, My Mary
land!" AS its last notes echoed back
from the crag and gulch beyond, some
thing between a sob and cheer rose
from the veteran group; an impera-
tive encore. Again she sang the
strain from first TO last inspiring
word; deep and continued silence
holding Il moment and then shorn
through Dy the jagged vocal lightning
of the rebel yell. And then without
command the mixed crowd fell into
double ranks and through them slow
ly passed the mother and daughter tc
their -ttle hut.
Next day the disastrous battle told
its direful tale. Probably many
brave fellow charged more hotly for
the ring of that song through his
brain. Possibly the smile on more
than one ice cold face turned up to
next nights moon, was that left by
its refrain in the brain as the fatal
ballet SDed home
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-21
\ CANAL ACROSS FLORIDA
Tampa Tribune.


A ship canal across Florida will
come in time-but not soon. The gov
eminent has about all it can attend
to now in the Panama ditch and con-
gress will not give favorable consid-
GRAFTON to a S50,000,00 job until the
Isthmian canal is completed. Senator
Fletcher, however, is, wise in calling
attention to the merits of the project
and it will not be very many years
before the scheme is made q part of
the national waterway Improvement
plans. In outlining his ideas OF the
canal, Senator Fletcher said:
I'VE must meet waterway improve
ment in foreign countries by water
way improvements at home, il we
would maintain supremacy or even
standing in markets abroad.
The problem OF the cheapest and
safest means OF transportation now
required by the Southern. Western
and Northern growers is solved when
the United States gulf ports are
opened and the Florida ship canal, on
the lock system, is constructed.
"A ship canal across the peninsula
of Florida world shorten by about 800
miles the route from the Atlantic
ocean into the Gulf of Mexico, espe-
clally 10 the gull pOflS OIL TIE OHIIed
States and avoid the dangerous naVl-
CATION of the gulf stream through the
Straits of Florida. By this canal the
commerce of this northern continent
would be placed more than thousand
miles nearer to the Central American
republic
The general opinion seems to be
that tidewater canal is impracticable.
For the lock canal almost straight
line across the narrowest part of the
peninsula could be selected, passing
through a number of large lakes, and
using some portions of rivers. This
canal would be a part of the contem-
plated inland water circuit of the
whole of the central and eastern parts
of the United states, east of the Rocky
mountains
ct is estimated that the canal can
be dug for $50,000,000. 1t has been
estimated also that more than 10000
900 tons would pass through the ca
nal yearly, which does not include the
enormous traffic from Mexico, Mica
ragua, Costa Rica, or certain other
countries whose traffic would bring
the tonnage, under a reasonable esti-
mate, to a total of 60,000,000 tons an
nually"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-21
, . Q . . . . ~~>~~~%~~ .
A GREAT SOUTHERN WOMAN 3
+ . o . o Q . . . q . Q Q 9 Q Q

In his magnificent tribute to the Wo-
men of the old South. Mr.. T. C. De
Leon has just paid the following tri-
butte to Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson,
Of Alabama, the brilliant author. and
a sister of Mrs. J. w. Bush, of Birm-
ingham:
Although her career as an authOreSS
was already begun, a young Alabama
woman made her first great reputation
as a nurse. The father of Augusta J.
Evans had moved to Summerville,
near Mobile, when she cast aside he.
beloved pen for the nonce, to take up
the toaSter and the soup pot. As in
all her lifework she used these
weapons with earnest purpose, and
with perfect purity. The Evans home
became the center of great camps,
with much sickness among green
troops. And to each and all of these
in the hospitals Augusta Evans was.
nurse and comforter, cook and almon-
er, confidante and amanuensis. She
cheered and fed them. wrote their
love letters and home ones, and broke
the bitter news of it's loss TO many
distant household. The slim, willowy
girl, with masses of brown hair coiled
in the funnel depths of a poke bon
tin buckets, became the typical guar.
dian angel of the nearby hospitals.
One night Miss Evans made a raid
on Lookout Mountain and captured
Bragg's army with a song. She had
clear, strong and carrying soprano in
those days, which she managed quite
artistically, and she had besides the
gift of interpreting the soul of a song
1t CHANGED that Captain Howard
EvanS-a true man and gallant sol
der, who has only lately answered
the last roll-waS with his company
on the slope of Missionary Ridge, just
before the battle of ChickamaUga. His
mother and sister went to surprise
him with a visit. Arriving in the noun
tan top camp after nightfall they
found his command had moved to the
front. but the officer in command gave
them the only hut on the slope, a fire
coffee and a warm welcome. At mid.
night Mrs. Evans was awakened by
stealthy steps and low whispers abou;
the shack. She walked her daughter
and then challenged, the answer beng:
Friends, ladies, We want to speak
with Miss Augusta Evans
A great number of the men had
craDt through the post lines and as
sembled to hear a song from the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-21
Odd Things
in the News

Mrs. Katharine Hobbs Llley, a New
York woman, started suit in the New
York supreme court for divorce a few
days ago only to discover that instead
of would-be-divorcee she was wild
ow, her husband having been killed
by a fall from the rigging of ship
John Bauer, pioneer manufacturer
in this country of machines for pro
ducing the ultraviolet rays, whose
death is reported from New York, is
declared a martyr to the science OF
Xray work His death was due to
what is known as X-ray cancer.
The skeleton of Sysonby. the famous
race horse, is being exhibited at the
American Museum of Natural HIS
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-21
Bits SpeciaIty.

They found the old man sitting on
the fence smoking his corncob, says
Judge.
''Howdy, pap: What's your. son
Jim doing these days?"
Jim? Oh, he's running a telegraph
key at the depot Jim's an operator
And how's Zeke2"
"Zeke? Wa-al, Zeke is a captain OF
a lake steamer. He's a navigator"
And Pete? Is he still living?"
"Oh. yes. Pete's working on an air
ship. He's what they call an aviator -
We'll. what has become of Bill. Is
he doing anything"
The old man blew a guild of tobacco
at wide-eyed grasshopper
Yep, stranger, Bills hanging around
the house all day grum bling and COM
planning and saying the cOuntry's going
TO smash Bits just an aggravator.
just a plain aggraYator"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-21

The Journal congratulates Bro.
Gray, of the Havana News, published
in Gadsden county, that in the big fire
which raVaged that little city recent
ly and destroyed property all around
him his office escaped and received
no serious injury. Mr.. Gray has but
recently established the News in Ha-
vana, and as We personally know that
there isn't a finer young man on the
press of Florida, we feel a peculiar
pleasure in the fact that his plant es-
capped the flames.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-21

That the cotton planter is not COM
PEELED TO suffer the fragrant, bare
faced robbery of the trust that con-
trolls the jute market and is protect
ed in robbing the farmer by the tariff
is insisted upon by the Pensacola
Journal, which says: The farmers
should find a way out of l. by resort
ing immediately to the use of cotton
bagging. which is said to be much
better for the purpose, anyway" than
jute bagging- Its hope that the Farm
ers' Union in its convention at New
Orleans, would consider the subject
seems to nave been disappointed If
cotton bagging is as good for cover
ing cotton bales as jute the journals
devoted to that agricultural industry
should take up the subject.-Jackson-
vile Times Union.
Experts who claim to know say that
the cotton bagging is really better
than jute and as the farmer is being
taxed without any justice whatever on
every pound of jute he uses it is hard
to see why he continues to submit to
such an imposition. We had hoped
that the recent convention of the
Farmers Union in New OrIean-l would
have taken hold of this very practi-
cal question and formulated a policy
to which every cotton grower in the
South would have adhered, but the
matter seems to have been overlook
ed
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-21

Mr.. Bryan says that if the legisla-
ture of Nebraska should elect him to
the United States senate he would
accept. Unfortunately the democratic
legislature recently elected cannot
choose a senator, and two years
hence, when such a selection must be
made there may be wicked republi-
can majority in that body Mr.. Bryan
would be as great a senator as John
c. Calhoun.