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pull and in the recovery the thumbs should
press against the end of the SOULS, SO
enat the leather never comee away from
the swivel. This keeps the boat frme-
and under greater control. Above al
things, no rowing man should be allowed
out who is unable to swim; those who
cannot should at ono acquire the art
at Is essential that long, steady io,.s.
neys Of three or four miles without a ston
be INDUCED in At half or t~hree;quariers
duces staying power. If a man Is as
devoted to sculling as ! am he will be Al
it as often AS possible. During the winter
months ] never miss two or three good
pulls a week. This all the year round
practice helps to bring a man to perfec-
ton. There is nothing more satisfying
ing or afternoon. On returning to the
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away after conceding eight goals by III to
cup. In these matches j.. c. or Fl. c. Phipps
sometimes both-served as substitutes
for one or the other of the quartet now
abroad. There was no senior championship
last year but the records provethe Meadow
Brook team to have been %invincible. In
Foxhall Keene's prime he was a great
polo player. but only when a free lance
and the whole show He never played
the self-sacrifcing team game and does
not understand it even at this late day.
The only championship last year in this
country was the junior at Van Cortlandt
Park. which the New Haven Polo Club
won from the Squadron A team. l.. =.
Stoddart. who has been at birmingham
with the Meadow Brook pilgrims, played
or the winning team.
The venture at birmingham is essen
TALLY a Meadow Brook Club affair. The
1902 team wen over as challengers from
the American Polo Association. of which
H. L.. Herbert Is chairman and ". A.
Hazard the secretary-treasurer. but
this organization did not inspire the
present trip. Instead. the Meadow Brook
team went across to play in the ordinary
tournament. 1t was after the announce
ment Of the intended pilgrimage that
the Polo Association voted that it would
sanction the undertaking should the
team desire to challenge for the cup.
They are veterans on the Hurting
ham as we'll as the American cam. The
members will be Herbert Wilson,. Patter-
son Nickalls, +. NJ. Freake and C. u.
Miller. all but Wilson having been oppo-
nents to previous challen ging teams
from the United States. The truth is
that the number Of high class polo players
is as limited as the group OF champion
ship possibilities at court tennis or golf.
The very best men on a pony are barred
from ordinary tournaments by being
rated on the recent form" list. The
caption is fully explained in the
ment that precedes the compilation:
The birmingham Club having been re-
quested by the County Polo Association
and others to tabulate a list Of players who
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mended, and it is greatly improved BY
counting aloud during the operation.
1t is easy to do ZOO times, and II a man
is at all fatty this will reduce his weight
and give him plenty of good leg and wind
work.
1T goes without saying that when a
man is training he must study his diet.
He must live plainly and take only that
which suits him as regards food and
drink. There is no hard and fast rule.
for what is good for one man may have
a very different effect on another. can
only say therefore what suits me best.
I take a glass OF water about e:15 O'Clock,
breakfast about els. This consists Of a
steak or chop. dry toast. coffee with
milk and sugar and a little marmalade.
Three times a week | substitute Bass or
Burton ale for the coffee, II l have a
fish it ia boiled paddock. turbot. sole, or
brill. with dry toast. tea or marmalade.
! always finish up With two or three
till / o'clock. when I make a choice from
roast mutton. beef or chicken, with cab
bage, beans or caulihower. dry toast,
milk buildings and stewed fruit.
in the afternoon I sleep from $50
till 5 o'clock. when / have half a cup Of
tea and two biscuits. followed by ten
minutes walk to the boathouse, my actual
TOWluR "OIh COIitilicilSiliS az Oios 'iu
my trainer / then put in from seven to
nine miles. and on completing the pull
a run Of from two to -four miles with two
heavy sweaters on. This is followed by
a hard rundown, and when dressed
half a pint of ale Supper generally con-
sists Of some cold mutton or chicken;
dry toast and a glass Of ale or a small
tapioca pudding or a sliced tomato with
a squeeze of lemon, dry toast and a very
small quantity of butter. | then walk
for about a mile. have a glass of barley
water or lemon water just sweetened
and turn in before 10 o'clock. always
eat six or seven oranges or three apples
or a pound of grapes every day. Whenl
start training in February for the seasons
engagements l weigh LA pounds stripped,
and the above routine reduces my weight
$50 pounds, keeping strong and n,
and this was my actual poundage on the
morning Of the final Of the SOULS o., the
Olympic Regatta. On the last two Gays
of these races l took a tumbler Of cham
payne and stout mixed
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frequently observed In s~cullers is the
lack OF a good hard finish. The ideal
finish Is brought about by pulling the
last part OF the stroke with the forearm
and getting the hands well by the ribs
and on recovering Strengthening them
very smartly owe the knees until the
arms are perfectly straight. Tho BODY
must recover slowly. keeping the legs
straight and the leg muscles tight. with
a slight tendency to pull the toes forward
tll the body Ia perpendicular. Gradually
let the knees open out till when reaching
right forward with straight arms the
knees are under the armpits. The %scuiier
will then be well and evenly balanced on
his clogs. which by the way should Al
him as ordinary shoes.
I'm the execution OF this work the
souller must keep the blades feathered
right up to the moment he commences
to pull The blade at that period should
be within a few inches OF the water. On
no account should the hands drop down
when over the stretoher; that tends 10 make
the sculler plug the beginning and i'm
pedes the run OF the boat. Both In the
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they consider on recent form should be
barred under the conditions Of certain
restricted competitions has submitted
the following list, &c"
There are only thirty-two names on
this years list. which includes the four
Of the American team, a compliment, but
on the other hand a delicate method OF
limiting their matches to scratch com
petitions at tournaments. That to ac-
qulre the skill 10 gain a recent form
rating is as exceptional as for a camel
to pa ss without effort through the eve Of a
needle becomes apparent when the few
who are chosen are compared with the
clubs are birmingham. which makes the
rules and governs the game; Ranelaeh
Roehampton and the London. which has
grounds near the Crystal Palace. There
are forty-five clubs in the County Polo
Association, twenty in the Irish County
Polo Union and an Inter RegimentalP Polo
Union. There must be an army Of polo
lists in the combined membership Of these
clubs. vet not three dozen of them ever
reach the recent form list.
The London polo season is of ONE
three months. beginning On May ! or the
last week in April. After that there are
tournaments throughout the counties and
IN Ireland during August n September,
There is hut one polo club in Scotland, at
~ SA' " - iNi' 'i' ''''c II
little for sports on horseback. The clubs
all send teams to the birmingham tourna-
ments. many Of which are handicap .
The greatest is the annual competition
for the champion cup for teams made up
Of players irrespective Of their clubs,
II may be noted as a pointer that the
Meadow Brook is up to snuf that the
Freebooter teams TO win the champion
cup in 1902 consisted of Harold BraSsev.
A. Ra wlinSon and W. :. B~uCkmaster. with
Lawrence Waterbury as back,
Just a word about the trophy in play,
the prize that has made ~voyageurs Of so
many American horsemen and their
ponies. The game was only ten years
old in h United States when a Hurting
ham team captained Ivy John Watson
-%afterward Sir John-c1me over by
invitation to play at Newport. A chaf.
lenge cup was put up and won by the
visitors in two successive matches. The
Americans were W. X. Thorne, 4. Bel
mont. FoXhall P. Keene and Thomas
Hitchcock. Jr. There was no challenge for
the cup until fourteen years later. when
four American players who CHANGED to be
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RETURN or THE TOP HAT.
Its Regsined Sway This Spring Among
London City Men.

We "VBsheu sway kHis SpTInR Among
London City Men.
Top hats says the English Gentle.
nomdn, ARE on top again. II Is not 10 be
denied that the silk hat has of late yean
experienced a somewhat anxious time.
A succession Of unusually hot summers.
aided and Allotted by a fashion among
busin ess men for offending city sartorisl
tradition bv going to their work In lounp a
suits and bowlers. to say nothing Of he
panamas. gave the silk hat a very seyers
knock.
This was made pretty plain hy the silk
hat manufacturers meeting at the Whit.
City last year. 10 protest against DIR d.
sertion Of a tile by which they thems.lys.
kept a roof over their heads. But their
troubles. II ever they were very serious,
are over now. The silk hat has mo.t
surely como into It's own again. and va
shall hear no more, for some yearr NJ
least. OF strawyard Asoots and panama
Goodwoods.
1T ia o and will be during the saasor
absolutely the correct thing for all dressv
occasions. All the best dressed men both
OF the West End and the City. both OF the
club life and the office life, have disosrdad
their less formal hats and taken ysrv
seriously to their silk hats and mornins
coats. The excellent example shown il
thlh respect by the King and the Princs
OF wales 10 having its effect ~
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A GOOD FINISH.

boathouse a cold shower. q thorough rub
down and a glass Of good ale makes you
feel that life Is worth living.
1One or two hints for winter work NAV
be useful. l am a great believer in cross.
country running. 1t is good for the legs
and back and improves the wind wonder.
fully. a i've mile run once or twice a
week will do a sculler an immense amount
Of good, while another method for iu-
proving and shaking up the wind is to
60 for a two mile journey IN the road.
sPrinting 100 yards az last as possible;
trotting. sprinting again. and vice versa.
/ have often heard Mr.. Vie Of the Thames
Rowing Club say it was his club that first
originated cross-country running and
brought into being the Thames Hare and
Hounds. He informed me that their men
improved marvellously through the win
ter and were in good fettle for the next
years rowing when they took to this,
then novel, kind of training. Skipping
is another kind OF exercise to be recon
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a racing boat Is only a seasop, but this
is not always 80. In 1905 I had a boat
built by Sims Of Putney. She was 70
feet long. with loA inches beam. and she
was Q inches deep IN the centre. The
spread Of her riggers was 4 feet o inches
from swivel to swivel. the slide 2s inches
long and the total weight rs pounds. This
was the smallest boat ] yer had and the
most successful. In her I won the Wing
field Sculls in 1905. 1908 and 1908. the Lon
don cup in 1905 and 1908, the Diamond
Sculls in 1905. the Amsterdam Sculls in
1903 and the Olympic Sculls in 1908. Al
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Netherlands in that year. The short boat
seems to go over the water. whereas the
other drags through. Now Of course the
long boat has practically ceased to exist
as far as racing is concerned.
"A man who wants to be a good sculler
must procure the services OF some COM
potent person to rig him up and coach
him properly. otherwise he will develop
many faults which will be very difficult
to eradicate. Although it is impossible
TO learn sculling by book tuition. there are
many hints a man oan acquire from
written advice, One serious fault I have
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though I do a fair amount Of sculling
through the winter. I put this boat by
for tho racing eason and use a heavier
craft.
When Tom Sullivan, professional
champion OF England, was coaching me
in 1899 he convinced me Of the capa-
bilities Of the short boat Of from rs feet
to 20 feet in length. the boat then univer-
sally used being from 80 to 81 feet long.
I was the first amateur to test the merits
Of such a boat in racing, and although
very generally ridiculed at the time
easily won the championship of the
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POLO FOR THE AMERICA CUP
AN ATTRACTION AT HURLING-
HAM THIS WEEK.

Hand OF Independent Meadow Brook
Players Intent on Recapturing the
, Trophy Taken From This Country by
Sir John Watson's Team-POuies.
When the mallets hit the ball In the
America cup matches at Nottingham this
week the clips will be heard around the
world. This London club is the Mecca
FOR poloists and there are now teams there
for the season from the Argentine Repub-
lin, India. Spain. Hungary and Franco.
In all these countries and in whatever
lands ponies are saddled for polo there
will be the keenest interest in the for
tunes Of the Meadow Brook Club, West
bury. New York, U. S. A.. as challengers
to the picked players Of Great Britain.
One point Of advantage with the Ameri-
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sign Of Rainy rsys

From the FHsdbefhioVr 70"
Close observers announce that biras ma
built their nests well under. cover ny, SCI
son, indicating tina in all likelihood ths,'
will be plenty OF rain for the next ie" "eeh''
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Ancient Skates.

The English chronicler has recorded that the youth of London in the twelfth century understood the art of flying over the ice like birds in the air, but the origin of skating is far more an cicnt An lcelandic saga relates how the Norwegian hero Frithjof not only traced verses upon the polished mirror but also cut the dear name of lnge bord. Skates have been discovered near Sp;!:stlau. in Germany, which those competent to express an opinion at tribute to q period of 5000 years ago. These skate; were made from bones of horses. figured and perforated to at tach to the sandal Similar skates have been found it Moorfelds. in Fins bury, and l!1e discoveries have been rs,lde ill Hcri!n in the bed of the Spree. These and similar discoveries, we learn. enable the authorities to con cluGe that tue European ice area ill prehistoric times extended from Great Britain to Finland and from Norway to Hungary Globe.
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A Horses Toe Nails.

Few persons realize that horses hoof is really llfr same thing as the toe nails of human beings CT of ami mals having 1oes The horn of q hoof grows just as d toe nail does. The hoof grows more. rapidly in unshod horses than in those wearing shoes, and it grows faster in horses which are we'll groomed and we'll fed. But on an average the horn grows about a third of an inch month. Hind hoofs grow faster than fore hoofs. The toe of the hoof being the longest part, it takes longer for the horn tc grow down there than at the heel For in stance, the toe will grow entirely down in from eleven to thirteen months, while the heel will grow down in from three to five months. As the new horn grows out any cracks or defects in the old gradually work down to where they can be cut off, just as with human finger nails you can watch the progress of bruise from the root to the tip.- London Answers.
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GRAPHI
Jesephins.e Many Nsmea

Josephine, empress of the French. was Yeyette to her intimate friends Her name in reality was Marie Josephe Rose. Napoleon after the marriage exacted that she should be known as Josephine. He had mania for re. bnptizing the women If his entoura ge He made his sister Marianne ail Elise. of Annonciade Caroline, of Paulette a Pauline.
 Among h"r numerous friends Joseph inc re1rai,. Il Ycyc:;c. Barras never "alled her otherwise.
 The pope vas so unfamiliar with her name that when he sent his bene, iicticn the letter borne by his lcgate was addressed to Our Sister In Jesus Christ. Victoria Bonaparte."
 ln 1874. oD the dep"rtu. for Eiha, the Debats designated .To"ephine under the paraphrase the mother of Prince Eugene"
 At Ruell her tomb bears this simple Inscription. "A Josephine Eugene ct Hortcnse, 1895" The restoration did not permit her recognition as empress -Cri de Paris
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Pretty Absentmindsd.

A book about George Canning and his friends contains among its anec- dotes two which deal with Hoolzha m Frere and the absentmindedness for which he was noted. Frere. married Lady Errol, and while they were en- gagged he took her into supper at a
 ball. While they were talking he drank up the glass of wine he had poured out for her and then took her back supperless to the ballroom. After the wedding he went straight from the church to> Mr. Murray, the pub fisher, who asked him to stay to din- ner. to which he very nearly agreed,
 remembering only just in. time that Lady Errol was waiting to start on
 the honeymoon"
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Whistler ss . Letter Writer.

LaFfy MT. W nlStlef as Iettef wr1teY became parsonage to be reckoUed with. His pen was very frequently dippSl. in gall, but it Is a Joy to read him, with his very delightful personal style. No one ever wrote quite like him. Hamerton, with whom he had many passes, always to the critics great discontinue, once, in reviewing his Symphony In White,' stupidIy called attention to the fact that there were many other tihtS in the picture besides white. There was, he main tained, the reddish hair of the woman, for instance: her flesh color. bit of blue ribbon. and so on. Whistler re spondcd: Bon Dicu. did this wise per son expect white hair and naked faces? And does he then, In his as founding consequence. believe that q symphony ill F contains no other note, but shall be d continued repetition of EFF F? - Fool" And. of course, the world is familiar with Whistler S studied insoleuce In his reply to a com municatlon i'll the New York Tribune by Hamerton, who complained that Whistler refused to answer his letters. Whistler referred to the writer as "a Mir Hamerton," which made Hamer- ton perfectly furious and 50 served WhistIer's ends-Arthur Hoeber in Forum,
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The Substitution.

1t Is q well kHnNii fat that both Sir Arthur Sullivan :nd Sir ". &. Gilbert had horror Gf the titles of their operas becoming known until the very riEht If tfeir performance. This ,t";sr shat they il.i-at To forcSta,lch ere itcd coEsiLiera blc confusion at the mi tial production of "loianthe or The Peer and the Peri" The opera was rehearsed for weeks under the title of "Perola." 1t was only at the dress rehearsal that the company w:ts in- structed to substitute the name "Io- lanthe" for that of "Ferola" wherever it occurred fin the text or lyrics. It was no easy task to replace vocally and in the dialogue name of three svllab bles for one of four. Sullivan however, said (maybe aside9 to one or two of the actors who were nervous GO ahead and sing the music. Gil bert won't be in front (Gilbert never attended the first night, ''so use any name that you think of first If you are rattlcd No one in the audience ril. Ec any wiser r"-Enston Post.
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Younr's irprcnp.u.

To most persons Edward Young Is ,le author of Night Thoughts and nn:h.nr more. but he was also man of the world and a shre ewd and caustic wit as well as the rector of St. Mary's church at WelWEn.
 It was there in the garden of the rec tory that he composed sof!le of the best impromrtu verses known. He Was walking with two ladies when some one summoned him to the house. His companions were agreeable, and he was in no haste to leave them. Turn ing as he reached the gate. he said: Thus Adam looked when from the garden
 driven
 And thus disputed orders sent from
 heaven.
 Like him go and vet to gn am loath: Life Eir. 90, for angels drove US both. Hard was his fate. but mine still more
 unkind:
 His Eve went with him. but mine stays
 behind.
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What Was the Matter.

N. A. Sothern once told dilemma he got into:
 "i was acting in comedy. when ! had to speak the words, What's the matterT Well, one night was rather slow about taking my cue and WAS prompted. forgot myself for the no ment, and when the words came Whats the matter| l thought some thing or other had occurred out of the common. l r:used and looked round EVer> thl'g seemed normal. and th" stuge waited Then came another w hats the matter" from the 0. T. side. They were All getting anxious bci.;nu the scenes, and so waS l. for that matter. l looked myself up and down a,d then scanned my fellow actor. hs:t for the life of me couldn' t see anything wrong. At last an audi ,,le wbSTcr came: Go on wi.b your itnes. you idiot! Whats the matter rt-,.tl yo,i!' Then it sudden:r dAwu"tl ' ne wh gre 1 was. but ho iinu%,. had
 ,l4},;::.i t. t'ie sit ;ia:iuA ord cam" s,""':i in coEtuiSions. -H4i:ncapoliS fn.rnal
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Scotch Profits.

I've have decided" said the head of . Glasgow firm, ito conduct our busi- ness in future on the profit sharing principle We shall begin at once on the basis of last years results"
 we are delighted to hear it," replied the foreman. speaking for the men. ''May we ask what were the last years results!' .gu
 we lost thousand pounds" said the employer. "and !"refore, on the profit sharing princi l., there will be . reduction of l'' ger eentf in your wARes."-Dundee t,i,.riiser.
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The kltcrnative.

If the window had been eight feet from the ground" m.nted the your: wife. instead of eight stories. I'd have thrown myself out when you 1uarreled with me. Then you'd have had 10 be sweet to me when you picked me up. A lot of wives attempt suicide. they say. just to be pettcd when they come to-
 'Yes," said he, "but sometimes they don't come to, remember."-New York Press.
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Her Hands Full.

Poor woman; she has scarcely time to eat and sleep"
 Nonsense! Why, she is rich and has no duties whatever"
 But she tells me she reads all the latest novels. s."-Clevelan Leader
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Rteod ur fer Him.

Dolan-So Case. was runnin' me down an ye stood ::p for me? Gala han-Oi did. N s'z to him, Casey y sig Oi. "ye're toAest an truthful an ye're no coward, an ye work hard an pay yer dibtA an ye don't get drunk an lick yer wolfe, but in other re spects ye're no better than Dolan"- Puck.
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His Precaution.

e The Artists Wife Gin Q whisper - There's some one knocking. Jack Shall open the door? The Artist No; it's Jabber's knock. It's a special knock I gave him. so l wouldn't let him in by mistake.-Life.
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One For Every nax.

i've been reading about one of them rich men wot's got CT suit of clothes for every day in the week" said one tramp to another
 That's nothin'. So ave l. This Is t' I've got on now"'-London Globe.
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He Wanted to Know.

Johnnie-Mother isn't blind. Is she Pa-Of course not. What put that into your head? Johnnie-Mrs. Row. ser who was here today. said mother d never see forty again.-Boston Tran script
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Not q Cnck Shot.

My aim is truth-always truth" eatd . man.
 Possibly" rejoined an acquaintance. but you were always . bad mArks- man.
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Eaxors.

Stella--What were the favors at her dinner? Bella-Well, all the guests thought they did her favor by com ing, and she thought they did her a favor by leaving.-New York Sun.
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Not Quito so Bad.

Polly Prim-They tell me you are . dissipated young man. Now sup ''poss you never see the sun riae, Jack AapjaAe-No; l don't stax sup eu1ts iS9f hts.- -phnad deiphls Sco6.
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\ mans fate Hee ID his chaIaeogs !. and .assl RAt it Ais eoadi 9 lions llGNlA M
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fn..rnal.