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terday in thoroughly modern style. The
fine Italian hand of the Trojan could
be seen in every one of the five runs.
The Cubs made no more. More would
have been in the way, for Boston got
only three.
The third straight from the Doves
didn't put the champs any nearer Pitts
burg. but the local victory was greeted
with noisy beatings of the tomtoms
and hewgags just the same. While the
home hopes didn't go up the scale they
held what ground they had gained the
day before. That is going well enough,
for they are soon to feast upon Brook
lyn. while the Giants and Pirates are
tussling among themselves. Then will
be the time to make hay-and base
hits
Evers put up a great game at the
bat He sort of assumed the star role
which his side pard. j. Tinker, has
been playing lately At that, Jonathan
didn't batter the fences down nor burn
up the base lines. He merely delivered
two hard singles ct the right moment
and drew one pass and all the runs for
the Cubs followed those bits of clever
ness.
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CATCHES FAST BALL.

Washington. d. c., Aug. 21.-Charles
Street, catcher of the Washington base
ball team. today won a bet of $500,
made with John Bidd1e of this city, by
performing the unprecedented though
oft attempted feat of catching regu-
lation baseball dropped from the top
of the Washington monument.
1t was necessary to secure permit
from Colonel Bromwell, in charge of
the monument, before this feat could
be undertaken because of the extreme
danger involved.
The ball was dropped from one of the
small windows near the top of the
monumet, at a height of $50 feet above
the pavement where Street caught it
on the thirteenth attempt, the failures
being due to rather brisk wind, which
DETECTED the ball in its course.
Street was considerably Jared by
the impact of the sphere on his big
catcher's mitt but nevertheless caught
in this afternoons American league
game in this city.
Paul Hines, Buck Ewing. Charles
Snyder, and Malachi Kittredge are a
few old timers who have tried this
feat without success.
The ball, 1t is calculated, was travel
ing at the rate of 135 feet per second
when 1T reached the catcher's hands.
Street wore regulation catcher's mitt
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ARREST UMPIRE DURING RIOT.
Brennan FOrfeits Game at Des Moines
When Taken From Field.

Des Moines, Aug. 21.-An arrested
umpire, a riot and a hurry-up call
for the police combined to make today's
baseball game between Des Moines and
Sioux City the shortest on record this
year.
President John T. Higgins of the Des
Moines club demanded that Umpire
Brennan show his credentials before he
proceed with the game. He refused.
whereupon Higgins sent an officer into
the field to arrest him. AS the officer
marched the umpire away, he shouted,
II hereby forfeit this game to Sioux
City, 9 to o." Then the crowd took a
hand; it began to shout and clamor for
its money back; it made a swoop upon
the box office with such vigor that
the police were called. Order was then
restored and money refunded.
The umpire was taken to the police
station and later released on bonds.
Brennan threatens suit for false ar
rest. Brennan and Higgins have had
trouble before.
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Paris Pattern No. 2481, All Seams
skirt is one-piece
model with straight lower edge; the
edge being formed by the border, or
If made Of plain material, the lower
edge is simply hemmed. 1t is side
plated into the waist, the plaits form
ing box-plait at the front and an in
verte6 box-plait at the center-back
The pattern is cut in round length
and is an excellent model for the
skirt Of any of the thin summer
frocks as we'll as the separate skirt
of flannel, Panama or cotton voile
The pattern is in seven sizes-22 to
"a inches, waist measure. For any
size the skirt made of bordered ma
terial requires five lengths % inches
wide and 48 inches long following for
hem), the border running crosswise
If made of other material size &c
needs 81 yards 20 inches wide, 51a
yards SO inches wide, or 414 yards
AZ inches wide Width of lower edge
about 31la yards
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" of this paper
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number OF pattern
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SOUTH SIDE BALL GAMES.

A large number of baseball games
have been scheduled to take place to-
morrow in and about South Chicago.
The Alma Matters will journey to Ho-
bart. Ind. where they will cross bats
with the Murrays of Chicago, who will
play with the Tolestons The game be-
tween the Calumets and Nationals at
MESSENGER park will draw large crowd.
The other games follow:
South Ends and Anderson & Drews
at Hands Park.
Suburban A. c. at Indiana Harbor,
Indiana.
Taylor Colts and Greshans at Eighty
sixth street and Emerald avenue.
Jones Colts and Englewood Grays at
One Hundred and Seventh street and
Indiana avenue.
Cheltenham Colts and Chicago Lawns
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TIM FLOOD IS INJURED.
Wants Negro to Take Papke's Place
Against Stanley Ketchel

Boston, Mass, Aug. 21-Jim Jeffries
has wired here asking Sam Langford,
the colored fighter, to take Bill Papke's
place against Stanley Ketchel in a
twenty-five round battle on Labor Day
Langford jumped at the chance to
meet the middle-weight champion and
wired Jeffries his acceptance. Whether
or not jeff has secured Ketchel's con-
sent to take on Langford is not known,
but it is presumed he has.
Fans here are of the opinion that a
Iangford- Ketchel contest would be the
fight of years. Naturally they think
the negro can whip Ketchel.
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BLACK HAND" THREATENS
TWO MORE BROOKLYN STARS.
Letters Say HummeI and Ritter VIII
Die When They Reach n. \.

Pittsburg. Pa, Aug. 2L-There are
some frightened ball players among
the members of the Brooklyn team.
Following the receipt of the Black
Hand letter in Cincinnati last week by
Pitcher Nap" Rucker. Hummell and
Ritter today received similar letters
Both letters were apparently written
by the same man and accused the play
ers of laying down when they faced
other teams than New York. AS was
the case in the Rucker letter, the
men are threatened with assassination
when they reach New York.
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BILLY PAPKE STARTS
FOR THE COAST TODAY.
Goes West to Close Details for Go With
Ketachel for Sept. z.

Billy Papke, with his manager, T. E.
Jones, leaves today for Los Angeles to
complete details for his middleweight
championship battle with Stanley Ket-
chel before Jeffries' club Sept. Z.
Papke doesn't expect any trouble in
coming to weight agreement with
Ketchel. Stanley has promised to make
the same weight he did at Milwaukee
and Papke thinks the champion will
keep his promise.
Citizens of Los Angeles in fifty auto
mobiles will meet Ketchel fifty miles
out of the city Monday and escort him
into the city.
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SPORTING NOTES.

The Bear Brothers and Probe team
down the crack Monarchs. The feature
of the game was the one-handed catch
of Ryan.
The Elmer A. c. would like to hear
from all teams avering IS years old,
the White Rocks or Englewood Blue
Juniors preferred. Adress Ben Mordici,
$3.50 Center avenue.
The Prairies would like to arrange a
game for Sunday with any 16-year-old
team. Address George Catelani, 1892
Indiana avenue, or phone Douglas 6672
between and p. m.
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YOUNG OTTO WINS EASILY.
Knocks Out Montana Kid at Jeffries'
Club in SO Seconds.

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 21.-Montana
Kid refused to go into the ring with
Young Otto at Jeffries club tonight
until the management had made him a
present of the forfeit money, $50 on
the side, and agreed to give him half
the purse, win or lose. Otto was over
weight. 1t was a nice easy arrange
ment, for Otto knocked him out in
about fifty-six seconds after the gong
sounded. Kid Webster easily won a
decision over Billy Snailham in a rather
one sided contest.
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To ImmortaIIze a Fashion.

A skirt, flounce, slipper, set in
a beautiful sentence, lives more than
a mortal life. l long for the finery of
our time to outdate its period, for it
to go down the centuries in SMILES,
exordiums and metaphors, and by its
very imagery to suggest to less splen-
did ages all the beauty and luxury of
Monthly
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AGAIN FAILS TO SWIM CHANNEL
Burgess Makes Sixth Intellectual At
tempt at Long Swim.

Dover, England. Aug. PIT. w. Bur-
CESS, the English swimmer, today made
the sixth Intellectual attempt to swim
the English channel He started at
Dover at 1 o'clock this morning and
was taken out of the water at 11:45
tonight. period of % hours As minutes
Ia new record for remaining in the
water. There was much jubilation here
shortly after o'clock. when it was re
ported that Burgess had succeeded in
swimming the channel.
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JEFF AFTER LANGFORD.

st. Paul, Mimi. Aug. 81. While
coaching on the third base line in
today's game, Tim Flood of the st.
Paul team was run into by Third Base
man Mccarthy of the Toledo team and
the formers cheek and jaw bones were
broken and his nasal bone fractured by
the impact with McCarthy's head.
Flood will probably be out of the game
for the rest of the season.
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WANDERS CRICKET CLUB OF
PARKSIDE DEFEATS RACINE

The Wanders Cricket club of Park
side defeated the Racine Cricket club
of Racine, Wis, by 157 runs. The
Wanders club has been practicing for
the past few days for the meet with
Racine and were able to defeat the
visitors with ease
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at Chicago Lawn.

at Chicago Lawn.
Jones Colts and Hans Athletics at
Seventy ninth and Woodlawn avenue.
Morning.
Cornells and Fernwoods at Seventy
eighth and Cottage Grove avenue.
Jones Colts and Paranites at Sew
enty-ninth and Woodlawn. Saturday
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SAILING Vessels Coming Back.

Sailing vessels are coming into
vogue again, especially within the last
five years, after having been practical
" banished from the ocean by the
quicker and more easily controlled
steamships.
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DEFEAT WEST HAMMOND JR.

The Young Cubs again defeated the
West Hammond Juniors by the score of
II to 8 yesterday. The Cubs have won
two out of three games played
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LADIES' oNE-PIECE CIRCULAR
SKIRT

Paris Pattern No. 1886. All Seams
Allowed.-Any of the plain or striped
serges, or broadcloths, Venetian
cloths, mohair, Panama cloth or fan
mel will develop well in this style. 1t
may be cut in medium sweep or round
length, and is especially suitable for
the skirt of the early autumn suit.
The fullness at the front and back is
supplied by the inverted box plat, and
the skirt is fitted TO the waist line by
a dart over each hip. The front of the
skirt either side of the plat is trimmed
with small buttons and loops of mar
row soutache braid. The pattern is
in seven sizes-22 to 81 inches waist
measure. For &c waist the skirt re-
quires Sss yards of material 20 inches
wide, AZ yards &c inches wide, AZ
yards AZ inches wide, or 81 yards 81
inches wide Width of lower edge
about Az yards.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number of pattern.
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CUBBIES GET A LITTLE ONE.

In a quiet way John Evers put the
Cubs in line to take game No. from
Boston, which they accomplished yes
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
r,ENTRAI LEAGUE.
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Chicago, 5; Boston, 3.
Pittsburg, 2; Brooklyn, l.
st. Louis, 4; Philadelphia, 8.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Boston. 7; Chicago, s.
Washington, 3; Detroit, l.
Philadelphia, s; Cleveland, 4
New York, 8; st. Louis, 4.
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MISCELLANEOUS BALL GAMES

At winslow, Md.-Augusta Stars, -;
Petersburg Reds, Z.
At Maquoketa, Ia.-Maquoketa, g.;
Muscatine, l.
At Mount Vernon, Ill-Mount Vernon
Merchants, 6; Sterling Infants. Z.
At Flora, Ind.-Bringhurst Unions,
Z; Logansport, NJ and F., 5.
TELEPHONE YOUR NEWS TO THE
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A Definition.
The difference between a liar and a
humorist is that one distorts a state
ment and the other states a distor-
ton.
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prisoners every facility 10 get out The
incident. which would have caused ire
Mencous sensation in any other country
was hushed up and the newspapers were
allowed 10 give only bare account of it,
In these accounts il was said that a fac
tor had smuggled the discharge sheets
into the fortress and bribed the guard.
by means OF brandy and cigarettes. to
give them 10 the prisoners but the true
version OF the affair is much more star
ling and sensational. The colonel used
to arrange with the factor to supply the
fortress with hay and oats. 1t was the
factors practice to deliver just cne-half
the amount that figured on the bills In
cidentally the colonel secretly pocketed
several thousands or roubles a year with
which he used TO travel 10 Paris and the
sonth of France every winter.
One day the factor made an uneynected
call upon the colonel
II have TO ask you a favor" he ga ID
bluntly- Seven socialists. who happen TO
belong to the same political party as my
self. are imprisoned in your fortress. The
court martial Will probably sentence them
to death. ! want you to give me seven
discharge sheets, duly signed and sealed
which L VIII see are properly delivered
to them. The explanation will be that
we socialists have forged your Signature
A Grating Colonel.
At first the colonel waxed indignant and
roared al the factor to leave the p,aca
at once. But the factor stood his ground
Very WELL he said calmly. Il have
made up my mind to persuade you in
another way. If | have not these t4s-
charge sheets within an hour / shall send
in our corn and hay accounts to head
quarters, by which they can see at
glance that you have defrauded the gov
eminent Of two hundred thousand rou-
bles' ($10O, 600.
The colonel lost no time in furnishing
the factor with the discharge sheets
Thch are today looked upon as the best
piece of forgery ever committed. Need
less to say the same factor still supp..e s
the fortress with grain.
The schools in which such officers are
trained are almost beneath all criticism
Discipline is quite unknown. In the large
Russian towns where cadet schools are
located. these young gentemen-aged
from ten to siXteen-can be seen rolling
home dead drunk at 3 and 4 o'clock in
the morning. The system of teaching Is
antiquated and inefficient and they leave
the schools without a notion of the duties
that await them in the army. Professors
and pupils are equally frank about their
inefficiency. One professor of military
history told a military visitor from Ger
many that his pupils knew nothing of the
subject except what appeared in a book
published thirty years previous. because
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he himself knew that book by heart and
could recite pages from il at the lessons
without giving himself or the cadets any
trouble. The same visitor asked one OF
the elder cadets in the college at ST.
Petersburg what they learned and how
many classes they were divided into.
We have three classes was the reply
I'm one the boys only drink in the second
they make love. and in the third they do
both. | am in the third"
Unhappily. this is not merely a bit OF
hoyish hrag. but fact. as the number
of morally and physically ruined boys
who yearly leave the cadet college for the
army and navy show
Navy in Worse Condition.
Bad as the army is. the navy is in an
even worse condition. The battleships are
bereft of officers because those pleasure
loving incompetents stay on land. In
deed. most Of the sailors remain in bar
racks. whence they embark only once
year for short voyage. Strange as it
may seem. il is fact that only one-third
of the Russian navy-officers. men and
ships-ever go to sea. Truth 10 tell there
are not enough ships for them. though over
Sl60.u0UW0 las been spent on tie Rus
sian fleet in the last ten years But this
enormous amount. instead of going into
battleships and guns and ammunition, has
Grand Duke Alexis. who has covered his
favorite ballet girls with jewels. ore OF
the grand duk : favorites. who appeared
on the stage at a Petersburg theater in a
glitter OF diamonds recently. WAS greeted
with this cry from tie audience:
Take of those jewels You know they
cost Us three battlss..ipS
Alexis was in a private box and had the
offenders arrested. Eut everybody pres
ent knew that they had spoken the truth
and the danseuse was obliged to leave
Patersburg-with her jewels-till the az
fair which threatened to become a ser;-
Gus one. blew over.
1t is this NE grand duke who is Or .si-
dent Of the Red Cross Association. which
is supposed 10 build military hospitals.
But, though people have subscribed mil
lions for this purpose. half the reSimental
hospitals are useless and many of them
are without doctors. IL is an open secret
that all on the committee, the grand duke
included. make free use OF the funds for
their private purposes. When the Jap
anese war was In progress the Grand
Duke Alexis levied tax of $50 on every
foreigner leaving the country, even for a
day. Although the war has been over
these three AID ii half years the tax is
still levied ana the money is supposed to
go to the Red Cross.
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says anything. because it is convenient
that each regiment should have it's num-
Der of Well-tO-do recruits. who can SUD-
plemert the officers pay The second
source OF brides to officers comes from
The factors who are ready at hand to the
interruptions officer in search of money
The factors know their business well
IheE supply the regiment with everything
-food, clothing, fodder and even amnlu-
hltlon Their contracts depend chiefly
upon the colonies of the regiments and
are renewed annually. The result Of this
system Is that the colonies are each in
receipt OF yearly brihes ranging from
%lto to S1.o0) from each of some half
'ozen factorS--amounting in the aggregate
10 a very fat purse.
All Share in the Graft.
The colonel IS not the only one. how
ever, who gets his little bit The under
officers take very good care that they
also get their share. The lieutenant COL
onel gets half the amount of Che coloncl's
brides and gives some Of them to the cap
ta!ns. who again remember tie needs of
the. subalterns. Ard as this wholesale
sharing makes the bride money melt
IKE snow before a summer sun they
have other resources.
The factor who supplies the regiment
should. as matter of fact, send enough
~ d low every SOl0lef 10 nave one pound
cf meat boiled up with his soup. That is
me regulation ration, and the Russian
soldier gets it-on paper. AS matter OF
fact he gets less than three ounces Why?
Because the factor arranses with the
colonel that. instead Of sending 400
pounds of meat day for a regiment
of tina: number of men. he will send
Just half that amount. though the ac-
counts will show that the regiment has
been served with the regulation pound
of meat per head. The pruning down does
not stop there. The other officers take
their part in II. and after the colonel each
officer gets one ounce from every mans
piece of meat. In some regiments, more
honest or more cautious. the officers are
satisfied with half ounce. but neither
soldier nor officer would think the colonel
fit for any place but a madhouse if he
gave the reeimental cooks one pound per
head q day.
In some regiments this system of steal
ing has reached su0h a pitch that only
nut-sized pieces of meat and a few bones
are thrown into the soup Sundays and
holidays. and other days its place is
taken by cabbage dried peas. No other
form Of meat Is given, so that. with a
particularly INSCRIPTIONS colonel, the
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the soldier fit to stand the rigors of Rus
sian service.
And all this deplorabie state of affairs
is due to the rule of the grand dukes. the
chief culprit being the Grand Duke Nicho-
las Nicholevitch, commander-in-chiefo of
the guards and of the st. Petersburg
military district. president of the council
of national defense and the ruling spirit
of the war office. who has successfully
blocked every reform, curtaiied every eX-
penditure and has mysteriously jugg ed
the immense amounts OF money that
passed through his hands.
Plethoric Posts for Relatives.
With a powerful party behind him this
incompetent relative of the tsar has
given the most important posts in the
army to his nephews and cousins, so that
the Grand Duke Serge Nichoevitch pre-
sides over the artillery. Peter Michele
witch rules the engineering corps and
Constantine Constantinovitch is the auto
crat of the military academies. None of
these profusely decorated gentlemen has
the slightest idea of his duties. They
learn nothing, see nothing and do moth
ing.
The only two phases of their duties in
which they take the slightest interest are
in appearing on horseback from time to
time at reviews and drawing blOated sal
aries. Their practical inexperience is
only equaled by their theoretical isno-
rance.
These officials in turn give all the best
places to their favorites. men whose sole
interest in life is the constant pursuit OF
pleasure and who openly use the funds
intended for the army on themselves.
This system of dishonesty runs all
through the army. and the two reasons
for such a deplorable state of affairs
given by the officers Themselves are:
First. their very small pay: and second,
the system of supplying the army with
food. horses, fodder. etc. by means OF
factors. A Russian officer cannot pos
sibly live on his pay. At the same time
he is usually the son of parents belong
ing to class Of officials and small land
owners who have no money to spare for
their sons His life is spent in SOM
more or less provincial town where he
has nothing 20 do but drink and gamble.
1t Is notorious fact that officers of
the line and artillery all draw their sal
aries In advance. and generally to such
an extent that by the first of the month
when payday comes they get nothing but
their receipts for money already paid
Their only resort is to brides and
factors.
The Two Sorts of Brides.
Brides are of two sorts and come from
the sons of well-to-do people who have
to serve in the ranks or from those who
wish to supply the regiment with neces-