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ITIMELY TiURF'TIPS.
Litte Tobe, 2:19%,‘has been gelded.
Robbie P is not winning over in Eu-
rope.
The track at Mystic was never in bet-
ter shape. .
John Splan prefers a side to an over-
draw check. .
Beadville’s next meeting occurs J one
28 to July 2'. '
Tom Medium, 2:16%, is in Merri-
field’s stable.
Prince Alert is carrying his head
straight‘this spring.
The dam of Falkland, 233%, will be
bred to Bingen, 2:12%.
A ladyat Westfield, N. Y., has pur-
chased Billy J, 2:151/4, to drive on the
road. ‘ - ‘
Three pacers and one trotter entered
the standard list at the Colorado Springs
meeting. .
At Versailles, 'Ky., recently Fanny
Foley stepped a half in 1:08% and a
quarter in 82% seconds. .
The few meetings thus far held'havc
furnished 42 new performers, of which
23 are trotters and 19 are pacers.
.-.. The,_late John _A._ Goldsmith won
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$140,000 for Mr. Corbett in three years
while campaigning the San Mateo
horses. _ .
John S, Mott Medium, Electric Prince,
Barre and other well known performers
owned by the late Charles Broad,
Wilkesbarre, Pa., are soon to be sold.
Belle G, that trotted in 2523/, with
32 ounces of iron in front last season,
will, no doubt. prove 'to be a sensation-
al pacer this season in the green classes.
. [Pen Picture of Slim-key. .
Sharkey was a revelation. Small, pig-
like eyeshset in a great, broad face, as
featureless as a 'canvaSed ham; a
mouth'ascalm and emotionless as a slit
inia ineal sack; low knows that even
inlrepfl‘c’ise jutted above his eyes in sinis-
ter]. drags; a: short neck, thick, heavy
and red and buttressed to. his body with
flutings of freckled brawn; shoulders
bossed and knobbed and ridged with
iron power; hair straight, stifl and
riant as that of a black lion; breast
blue with strange tattooing, and a body"
terrific even in repose—such was Shar-
kev. '
been a man of the'pliocene.
Looking upon him, one realized the
stupendoushiatus between mind and
' -' matter. ‘Dull, insensate courage gleam—
ed from his eyes, but that was all. Mi-
croscopic phrenology could not have
discovered a bump of tenderness or mer-
cy on his thick skull. .
, 'As‘sailor2 Yes; .his thumbs, bread and
powerful, had been flattened against
ropes and ratlines. His soul had been
flattened by circumstances and had nev-
‘ ersoared-above the __masthead. He was
V : afffighter by nature, a sailor ,by acci-'
- (lender-New York‘dournal.
, Should he a LLvelyBout. ,
Jack Downey and Martin Flaherty
have signed articles for a 20 round bout
at l28 pounds. It is probable that the
meeting will take place on June 28 be-
' fore one of the New York clubs. The
- men fought‘the first battle in Brooklyn
last September. It lasted 15 rounds and
ended in a draw. ~
With a stone ax in his hand and a"
dead bear under his foot he would have
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‘ him for amoment'and then smiled.
_~,,‘.‘»‘ Why don’t you buy chronomcters
for your, wheelsif’ iliefilurted out.
.ied the magistrate.
I THE
The Pick of American Athletes In One
Combination.
Although no international athletic
matches are on the tapis for this sum-
mer, Captain Bartow S. Weeks of the
New York Athletic club will have a
team which will be, perhaps, the stron-
gest combination of the sortin exist-
ence. Besides the college talent already
prominent in the club team Mr. Weeks
has enlisted the pick of the college ath-
letes who have developed this year. In
the sprints the.- club will be represented
by H_oliman of Pennsylvania, Champion
Wefers, Colfcrt of Princeton, Fisher and
Garvan of Yale, Quinlan of Fordham,
Lane of Princeton, besides Halpin,
Moore,'Bloss, Lyons and chman. In
the quarter mile run the club will be
represented by Hellman of Pennsylva-
nia, Gerard, Garvan and Fisher of Yale,
Colfcrt of Princeton and Lyons and
Feldkamp.. The club’s cracks in the half
mile and mile runs will include Cham-
pion George Orton and Aleck Grant of
Pennsylvania and Cregau‘ of Princeton.
For the hurdles will be Williams of
Harvard, in addition to Halpin, Fold--
hump and Winship. The weights will
he, as usual,"one of the strongest points
of the team. Flanagan, the Irish cham-
STRONGEST TEAM. -l
pion, is, of course, the “bright, portion
ular star” of the lot, but he will be well
nia, Chadwick of Yale and Larkin. Car—
roll, thc Princeton high jumper, will
be ,a member of the New York team,
and Garrett and Bottger of the same
institution will compete in the broad
jump. The pole vaulters will include
Van Winkle ‘of Yale and Paulding and
Hurlburt. The latest addition to the
programmes of field events, the discus
throw, will be pretty safe in the hands .
of Garrett, the champion ,at the game
both in this country and Greece. Flan
agan may take part in the discus throw-
ing before the season is oven—New
York Sun.
\.’:rat hm no Mean?
“What you fellows want to get is one
of these here—what you may call ’ems
—-—oh, what are they? One of those
things that . tell you how fast you are'
going—don’t you know what they are?”
' The prisoners—for it was City Mag-
istrate Poole who spoke to two young
men who had been arrested, for scorch-
ing—admitted that they did not know.
“What do you call it, officer?” ~quer-
mean?”
_ “Mr. Clerk, what is fit”?
“What is it, your honor? I never
were one,” whisptrcd the clerk.
“It begins with a meter—it’sa meter.
or something/like that. It's like a
watch, you know—what do they call
them?”"*i ’ ,- '
The magistrate gazed hopelessly about
"Give it up, your honor. What do you
.[zls’tantlyithc courtroom was in a tit-
ter, and while the'twopprisoncrs stood
there *dumfoundcd ' the; 'magistrate'
scrawled ":.§'.5 fine” across the affidavits.
What (Til the justice'mcanL-l‘lew
Iork‘Jourual. . ' ‘ .
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——All_ the Successful Merchants ol
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this City Advertis: in THE ,GAZETTE: ’
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WITH HIGH WHEELS.
Gentry or Star Pointer “’ill Try to Lower
the Old Record.
Mr. Tewksbury, owuer of champions
John R. Gentry and Robert J, has an-
nounced that July 5 at Charter Oak he
will send whichever of his pacers he
does not start in the great free ‘for all
pacing race to high wheeled sulky to
beat the record of 2:0'6},{ established by
Johnston. It is most likely that Mr.
Tewksbury will not know himself which
one of: his pair he will send on this
most diflicult errand until some day
close to the race, for, of course, he will
naturally start the best one against Star
Pointer and Frank Agar). It certainly
is a difficult task Mr. Tewksbury in-
tends to set one or other of his pacers.
Since the bicycle sulky came into gen-
eral use no horse has ever‘yet managed
to equal, let alone surpass, the records
established, by the old time record hold-
ers, though some few attempts have
been made to do so. It is in consequence
plain that the feat is notveasy of accom-
plishment. Furthermore, to be given
the best possible opportunity to_ do
themselves justice, when hitched to the
old fashioned track vehicle, the pacers
should be worked to the high wheels,
but to do so means to detract greatly
from the value of this work in prepara-
tion for the free for all acin race to
supported by McCrackcn of Pennsylva- ‘ p g ‘
be decided the same day as the attempt
against the watch is to be made. If the
. chosen representative should be defeat.
ed in the race, the defeat will be a bit-
ter one and
tion lowereda Consequently it seems that
Mr. Tewksbury has no right, in justice
to himself, to run any risks of not hav-
ing his candidate as far forward in con-
dition as can be got by July 5. It re-
mains plain, then, that the pacer which
is finally selected to pull the high
wheels will be at a very grave disad-
vantage, and that his owner is possess-
ed of more than average pluck and
sportsmanlike' sentiment to be willing
to have one of his favorites make the
eifcrt with the chances so very much
against him...
'Some of the latter day admirers of
the harness race horse may figure that
there is such a wide difference between
the records of John R. Gentry or Rob-
‘ ert Jand thnston—between 2:00}§ or
2:01’}§ and 2:06}1——that it should be
little trouble for either of them to reel
offra'mile 'to 'thehigh‘ Wheels in, say, "
2:05 or thereby, but it must be remem-
bered that Robert Bonner kept stand-
ing for a long time an offer of a prize
of‘ $5,000 to go to the trotter pulling a
high wheeled sulky over'a mile track of
the regular pattern, similar to that at
Cleveland, and that no trotter has ever
yet beaten 2 :08% under these condi~
fleas—Horseman. '
'rnéy' Locked Something.
A tandem pair of cyclerswith only
one pair of arms andglegs between them
was the unusual sight which greeted
Broad street promenaders recently. The
two men rode a fine tandem wheelcf the
latest model, and they w‘hizzed along
Broad ’street as smoothly and gracefully
as you please. The fellow in front
had but one hand to steer with, but
that was a good right one, and his left
leg seemed to bring plenty of power to
bear upon the 'pedal. The other man’s
right arm and left leg were missing,
but. the remaining limbs supplied his
needs—Phi ladelphia Record.
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the value of his combina: ‘
.week in'the chapel.
bicycle to the work of Christianity by
‘ Yo'rk Advertiser.
Something About Them Whieh ls of In-
terest to All Riders;
Dealers in bicycle sundries say that
the demand for cyclometers 'is increas-
ing remarkably. ' A cyclometer can
scarcely be included among the neces-
saries of cycling life, yet it is certainly
one of the most important of the luxu-
ries and adds materially to‘thc pleasure
of cycling, whether the rider be a scorch-
er or a tourist. There are cases, in
which it may be set down as little short
,of a necessity. For example, when tour-
ing in districts where there are no
guideposts or milestones, a ' cyclometcr
will be of great help inmaking use of a
map. The rider sees by his map that so”
many miles iron: such and such a point .
he has to turn to the lelt. Unless he
knows the distance he has traveled he
cannot tell who her or not he has or-
rived at the right turning point. It is
impossible to get a cyclomctcr to regis-
ter mileage with absolute accuracy.» Ev—
ery one knows this. It is usually advisa-
ble to test the instrument over a known ,
distance to ascertain how much it is
out, and then an allowance can be made.‘
It is not to he expected, however, that
any cyclometer will be as accurate as
the surveyor with his mathematical in—
struments. No rider can steer an abso-
lutely straight course, and even the
hardness to which the tire is pumped
will make a slight dilfcrence to the dis-
tance it travels with each revolution cf
the wheel. There are many varieties of
cyclometers on the nzarket. Most of
them" are Lt. .::..Ele to [ti—attached to
the bottom of the front forks and are
actuated by a catch fixed to one of the
spokes, which engages with a star
wheel on the cyclometer. When a cy-
clometer acts on this system, its accu-
racy depends on the size of the front
wheel“, and the purchaser should be care-
ful to get one intended for the size of
the wheel he has on his machine.
There is one point about which it is
always well to inquire when purchas-
ing a cyclometer—namely, whether it
f 'r H E E vENI n GG A ZET r E '
MANY- c‘YcLOMETERs USED} "
7“ -sPOR"I’s IN ENGLAND. "
A. Member of Parliament W'rltes a Review
\ of British Pastimes.
The Honp H. J. Gladstone, M. P.,
recently published a long and exhaust-
ive review of- British sports from the
beginning of the Victoriap era. _ '
0n the subject of‘ athletic sports he
said: . '
“Attention is more than ever given
to ‘running, jumping and gymnastics.~
The Amateur Athletic as'tociation con-
trols, with wise and firm judgment, the
vexed questions arising on the status of
an amateur. The National Physical
Recreation society, with its organized
classes under voluntary .instruction,
numbering over 60, 000, looks after the
physical welfare of the young people in
crowded districts. Every town now of
any importance has its own gymnasia,
and physical exercises now form part
of the curriculum in our national ele«
mentary schools.”
In speaking of rowing the historian
touched with pardouahle pride upon
the Henley regatta and the fine records
. there made:
“In 1839 the famous Henley regatta.
was instituted and has become one of
the sights of Europe. Regattas are now‘
annually held on the broader reaches of
all the more important rivers in. Eng-
land. The annual Oxford and Cam-
bridge race, first rowed in- 1829, has lost
none of its popularity. We have been
teaching the civilized world how to
low. The finest oarsmanship seemed
till comparatively recently to' be our
exclusive possession. The four cared
race between Harvard and Oxford in
1869, in which the visitors were badly
‘ beaten, was the precursor of other chal-
lenges' from America, Canada, Austra-
lia and, last of all, France. For the
time, at any rate, the sculling cham-
pionship has passed tothe colonies. And
quite recently, to the astonishment and
almost the dismay of Englishmen, a
strong London rowing club eight was
beaten on the Seine by a French crew.
France has not been able to repeat her
victory at Henley, where, however, her
gallant representatives have received a
characteristically warm welcome. The
uspeed of races has greatly increased.
This is due to finer oarsmanship and
the improvements in b'oatbuilding.
The two principal changes have been
can be set back at any time to zero.
Some can and some cannot. The rider
may like to start afresh at the begin- .
’ning of the season, or if he purchases a
new machine, and if his cyclometer can
be easily set back to zero much’troublc
is saved.—-—New York Advertiser.
, Married Iii Bicycle Clothes.
While Justice Hart of Cleveland was
sitting in his office on a recent after- ’
noon he was aroused from his medita-
tion by a ripple of laughter at his office
“door. A company of three young ladies
and an elderly gentleman entered. The
girls each were a neat bicycle suit, with
short skirts and cap. One of the mer-
ry wheelwomen announced that she de-
sired to be launched on the sea of mat—
rimony and to- have her name changed
from ‘Miss Martha Elber to Mrs. Charles
T. Wilkes. ‘gThe justice _looked_;ou_t ohthev i121:
door for the would be bridegroom, but ' .
the young lady pointed to the elderly
gentleman. The bicycle bride was about-
17 years old, while the bridegroom ap-
peared to be 30 years her senior. The
bicycle bridesmaids giggled, the bicycle
bride blushed, and the husband to he
looked serious, while the justice per-
formed the _ceremony.—Chicago Trib-
uue.
A Bicycle. Sociable.
The Christian Workers of Plaintield,
N. J., are responsible for a novelty in
connection with the wheel. Chapter 1
of the Epworth lcague'arranged a bicy-
cle sociable. The suggestion for this
was prompted by the falling oil? in the
attendance of the sociables, held once a
This diminution
was attributed to the-influence of the
“Wheel, and itwas proposed to adapt the
organizing bicycle sociables. ——N_ew'~
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the introductidn of keelless boats and
sliding seats.”
' John D. nocné'fiiéia 'itidcs.
John D. Rockefe‘rer is an enthr sia‘s»
tic cyclist. 'He is laying out a under
path on his country wsra’e,vBoxwood
Pocantico bills, for his own use. Mr.
Rockefeller sit: crect 01). his \vln‘elf
While the Standard Oil multimillion-
aire is at his estate-"he is much of the
time on his wheel. . He takes long rides
and often goes so 'Anlsley casino, {of
which club he is‘a director, and to his
brother William"; place. at Seazhcro.
His bicyclin:;,-'.uit‘ consists of, rated
cloth lmickerbnckcrs, brownleathe.‘leg
gings, sack cc at and a black. alpine hat.
' on his hand.-r hv wears brown'~kid gloves.
\Villiam R ic'aefcllcr has 25 wheels in
his stable fo: the use of Iris family and
friends. He. has (veryut-iug, from :1 fans
dem to a motocyclc. The wheels are.
kept 1“. his riding :'.cadcmy, which he
usrs I l rainy days. this branch of "the
RocLefdier ia: lily :pends a large part
'of.its time in wheeling.—Exchange. '7:
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CENTURIES sv'oiéllrosEN. L
may 'A‘re Injuriou's ta- Young Folks and
Should Be -Dlscouragcd.
TWO childrenitcok' part in theccntu-
ry runof the Kcnilvorth Wheelnicn, it
Philadelphia club, recently. One was a:
gialof 9 years and the otlur a lzoycf
13,‘an_d both made the fail run. The:
buyrode 116 miles before he got homt,
when, no doubt, he was put? to bed by
his anxieusmother. The following day
he boasted that he was not tired a bit.
“E’m going to ride 200 miles soon,” the
little chap said. _ _
Adult riders know what thestrain of
riding a century means to the nervous
system. Only the man in perfect phys-v
icul condition should ever attempt the
feat. True, it is accomplished every day
by'persons who are not- in good physical
condition, and even by others whom. a
physician, after an examination of
heart and lungs, would pronounce uu— '
sound and therefore. unfit to‘attempt
i such a performance. Prdbably one-half
the century riders of the country are
steadily exhausting their, vitality and
as a consequence shertening their lives.
They have heard the physician’s Jvarn-
i ",3, but few of them heed it. Nobody
is. much '* concerned about the matter
‘Winere the victim of the century craze
its. an adult and supposed to he cf sound
mind, but it is the duty of society to
same that children, especially girls, are
netdevitalized and physically worn out
by excessive bicycle riding. A Philadel-
phia. newsPaper printed 12 picture of lit-
tle 9-year-old Lilian Dillmore, who
rode a century viith the Kenilworth
Wheelmen on the same run. She is
xastride her bicycle andis thus held up.
'to the admiration and emulation of 0th»
or children who ride bicycles. “She cam
itistly lay claim,” says the Philadelphia.
2 paper, “to the title of, champion long.
- distance child rider of the world.” Of
room-so this glorification will produce 3
(STOP of Children ambitions to eclipse
the child's achievement. “The ride
was such as todaunt the most daring
-'nyelist,” we are told. The day, it
deems, was hot, close and unsuited to
fiihysical exertion.
This little girl and her rivals will,
no :doubt, be incited to, ride‘ceuturies
arsllong as their strength will hold out, _ ,
“mirth the result that their growth will
>le arrested and their nervous systems
shattered. It is not necessary to point
out the significance of this in the case
of the girls. The law protects young
. children against cruel usage. Why
sihould it not save them from them--
solves and their fool friends who aide:
c‘emfiuries—not for health and recrea~
tiinm, but for the counterfeit glory of the)
tlfimig?—New York Sun.
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.Ex-Governor'Altgeld Awheel.
‘ ' John P. Altgeld has taken to the,
wheel.. He electrified people along the
north shore boulevards, Chicago,1'ecent-
ly by making his debut on a bicycle.
The ex-governor made good progress in
his first public appearanco‘as a cyclist.
For several weeks he had been under
going the Kneipp treatment for threat.
ened locomotcr ataxia. Tramping around
in the grass was too'tame for the ex-
governor, so the doctor prescribed a bi-
cycle. '
The ex-governor has recently im-,-
~m
first degree on a wheel. An; assistant;
walked at his side, but after riding a:
_few rods Mr. Altgeld gained confidence 2
1and went alone. Then he realized the:
predicament mentioned in Rocky moun- .
tain literature of the hunter who hadl.
._
; let go; , .
i , The attempt to maintain the. guber-‘-
material. equilibrium resdlted in a zig--
rag course. Scorehers fled; mothers bur--
, :fied their children to safety and‘park:
policemen got ready for emergency du—
ty. After a .trial which frequently im-
periled his personal safety the ex-gov-
cruor returned to hishptel and declared
"the bicycle a good thing. .Hc new ex-
pects to ride a wheel oil’ and on through- .
out the summer. eEscliango.
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