The Philadelphia Times from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 22

THE TIMES SUNDAY SPECIAL MAY 31, 1896. SUNDAY MORNING, 22 i 1 I i WALKS WITH THE BLIND work; of state league globs BAD LUCK SEEMS TO BE FOLLOWING THE SHAMOKIN TEAM. GYGLIJ1G GROWING IH EflGLfiflD APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP TO CLUBS ON THE INCREASE. RESULTS OF THE CIRCUIT RAGING THE OPENING IN CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN FULL OF SURPRISES. pression here Is that George has passed his days of usefulness on the ball ground.

He fields only occasionally the same with his hitting. As to Captain Westlake he's full of life aud what Is called glnger.but that doesn't throw a ball to second baae and catch a runner. Most of the League men are aware of this and they steal bases at will. Wlegand is a young player. He endeavors to cover short.

It is often painfully evident that Wiegand was taken out of the amateur ranks too early for his own good and the success of his present company. Plelss, who covers right garden, was picked up while the club was on a trip somewhere. He's a good, willing worker, but, like the balance of his companions, he can't bit the ball when a hit means a run, and runs win the games. Pfrom and Mattern, the other two pitchers, are periodical players. Pfrom has been sick, however.

Mattern is doing well enough, and It would be unfair to criticise him when he does not get decent support; the same with Jordan. This may appear rather harsh criticism at home, but in the interest of the sport here and for the benefit of the management It Is better put In print than to have all the enthusiasts In the city thinking It. Unless, of course, It is the desire of the men who foot the bills to get out of the business when they see that the people have had enough of base ball. It Is about the quickest and perhaps the easiest way. circuit and Niagara Falls has not had races from the big men of the path since 1890, when the national meet was held on its track.

The track was heavy In mud and the first pneumatic tire brought to this country created a great sensation, as the riders of the wheel fitted with this tire simply romped away from the solid tires. This debut of the atrshod wheel marked a new era In this country and not a bicycle rider bat looks back fondly to the meet at which the means of such comfort and ease was first shown to them. Rochester has held an annual meet for years and this meet is always a success under the able management of the Lake View Wheelmen. Little Falls is new and Utica not altogether new on the circuit. This is, however, the first meet that Utica has given oh the National Circuit, having been in the New York State Circuit, which preceded the National Circuit In June of 1894.

Springfield Is the Mecca of all wheelmen every fall, and no matter how important other meets may be, the Springfield meet never suffers. On this old and famous half-mile track Is yearly fought to the death the battle for final honors of the season. The circuit continues after Springfield, but somehow people look to that city to demonstrate just who Is the champion or 'who are the champions of the year. AVnltham and Boston both have tracks this season and both are following the Springfield meet closely, and will catch most of the men. In fact all of them.

Meriden is new in the National Circuit, Its meet of last season, just prior to the great Springfield meet, caught most of the men. New York Is to have a new track In place of the slaughter pen at Manhattan Field, and Manhattan Beach track Is well known. Plainfield hold the opening circuit meet of last season, and Asbury Park, which follows Plainfield. -was the scene of the Nntional meet of last year. Trenton, Philadelphia, Rending and Williamsport ail are well-known towns in the circuit, and Washington the closing city, unless the circuit should go West.

This city held the national meet some years ago. Wauseon.in Ohio; Ripon, in Wisconson, and a number of others, are missed, but time will tell whether professionalism Is a success, so say these weak-hearted promoters, and then they will come In, providing, of course, that It is possible to obtain a place. Owing to unforeseen circumstances over which they had no control, the racing men in California that were to have started East on the 27th of the present month, find themselves unable to secure a car In time, and will forego their novel method of circuit chasing until such time as one of the large palace car companies may be able to supply them with a car. As the party was to number eighteen and possibly twenty or more, it was necessary to have a large hotel car and this style of car could not be obtained. As It is, the party will travel In a special sleeper of the largest kind, and will stop over at each city at the hotels.

The plan of traveling in the special car was found so feasible that it was decided to engage a car to be ready at some of the later meets. Just which meet will see the starting out of the party In their novel living quarters has not been derided and cannot be until the matter of obtaining a car undated can be settled. W. J. Evans, of Lansing, Zlmmy Macfarland, of San Jose; W.

J. Edwards, also of San Jose, have been added to the circuit party, and John E. Edwards, the rider that made so sensational a record In the indoor races, may also be added to the party. The National Circuit has undergone some changes, but none that materially affect the make-up. Dates varant at the first announcement have been filled In as it was predicted they would be.

and as the circuit stands to-day, it will average three days of racing each week w-ith a "rain date, as Mr. Gideon speaks of the extra day allowed between each meet. In the West, San Francisco took the date made vacant by the withdrawal of Santa Monica for May 23. Los Angeles took the Decoration Hay date, as Phoenix was refused a sanction owing to the non-payment of prize-winnings In the past. San Antonio has a day earlier, taking June 5 Instead of June 6.

for some reason not known, as the date taken Is Friday and the date relinquished Saturday. Galesburg has taken a day earlier, June 30, Instead of July 1. and Davenport has taken up Its date according to dispatches. The latter was July 2. Apple-ton, has July 8 and 8 Instead of the latter date only, and Battle Creek has Increased Its meet to two days, the 13th and 14th of July, Instead of the latter date.

Utica has taken the 27th of August, Meriden the 29th, filling in the space previous to Springfield. Asbury Park has two days following Plainfield, September 28 and 29. There are yet half a dozen dates open, but these will certainly be filled, as many of the old meet towns that In former years have always been late In coming In, are yet out of the fold. The layout of the circuit Is giving general satisfaction. fineness.

But many of the best known points have not been whipped into line on the circuit, and the circuit chaser will have to content himself with making new friends at many new points In the make-up of the year's trip. Old-timers would have a merry time along the route the coming season, for the number of old faces In the circuit Is many. Peoria is about the first of the many, and Peoria may be classed as one of the greatest acquisitions in the circuit made up for the coming season. In this city the East and the West made many a game battle for supremacy In '80, '90 and '91, and many are the stories that are conjured up by the sight of that new entry Into the circuit. Many of the old-timers of the path will come to Peoria to the meet on account of old times, and to see the modern racing men perform on the celebrated track, celebrated owing to its many past sensational battles between the best men of past years, and all hope to see one of the old style meets at Peoria.

In the olden days, not so many years ago, but old for the reason that few If any of the present generation of riders were seen on the path In those days, the city of Peoria joined in one grand merry making from the time of the arrival of the wheelmen to the time of departure. East and West made anuual pilgrimages to this celebrated point. The Eastern racing men came in force in '90 and went back to the East badly whipped for their pains. They took with them an office desk and a pair of silk socks and the West rejoiced. Then the West went to the East, but that is another subject The following year the East came to Peoria and brought along the very best of its talent.

Including Zimmerman, Windle, Berlo and many others. But the two former were the men of the meet and the battles that they waged resulted in some of the greatest finishes in history and in the debut of the man that wras later to astonish the world by his prowess and to carry the colors of America to every foreign clime and to victory. This was Arthur Zimmerman, who had been a good racing man before, but who, at Peoria, took the scalp of Willie Windle, the King, in, not one but two races. Those were great battles and the large crowd went wild over the results. Zimmerman was modest, and won the hearts of the West, even though he did carry back to the East with him a majority of the prizes of the meeting.

And what he did not carry some others of his crowd did. The East was jubilant and Joined In great merry-making, among other things presenting to the men of the West a picture of a large bowl labeled "soup," all of which the West took in jood part. Peoria's interest lagged, and outside of a meet at the State Fair In 1802, the city has been unknown for some years to the national circuit chasers. The meet of 1892 was on the Western Circuit. The Peoria meet of the present year Is the annual State meet of the Illinois division, League of American Wheelmen, is the starting point of the Illinois division circuit of a dozen or more cities, and Is on the National Circuit.

This will serve to draw to It nearly every flyer of the surrounding country, and the fields of entries will be very large. Already it Is said that the hotels of the city are crowded, so many have engaged accommodations ahead. This meet, so it. is -said, will see the greatest strength of the circuit for the first time pitted against each other. Appleton, the Wisconsin division meet, promises to outdo anything ever attempted at Ripon, the most famous meet town in the State of Wisconsin, this year out of the circuit.

Appleton is lively. Battle Creek, in Michigan, has two days and is one of the points that drew very heavily from the circuit last season. In fact drew most of the good men away from Williams-port. Detroit Is new to the National Circuit, having been out of meet giving since the national meet of 1893, when Zimmerman and Sanger met, and the Milwaukee man defeated the man from New Jersey In three races of the day. Detroit gave a great meet at that time.

The first of the big trio of meets of the year, this trio including Toledo, Louisville and Springfield, that the circuit chasers run across, is the great All Gold Viking Meet at Toledo. In this meet It is odds on that all of them en of any consequence will be seen, as $5,000 will draw heavily. Eight races will be given, two with $1,000 each, and six with $500 each. A. new third mile board track wiil be constructed for the meet.

Toledo has always been a meet town where the circuit chasers met with a warm welcome and good prizes. It was at Toledo in 1894 that Sanger and Johnson met and fought for two prizes, valued at $500 each, Sanger winning one and Johnson the other, Johnson's win on a toss up, after a dead heat had been run. Lima was In the circuit of 1894, and gave a good meet. This Is an enthusiastic meet town. Springfield, Ohio, has never been In the National Circuit, although it has had gome very good meets In the past, generally following the Labor Day meet at Columbus.

Zimmerman and Johnson raced In this town in 1893, and Johnson rode the fastest mile of the year up to September 4, 2.07 1-5. Zimmerman had previously ridden in a fifth of a second slower time at Columbus, and afterwards went direct to Springfield, and on Sunday rode a mile flying start paced in 2.01 4-5. After that Zimmy said: "I don't believe that they will allow that record, but the world will know that I can ride fast anyway." Dayton, Ohio, is a royal town in the circuit gatne, and draws the attention of the entire Country yearly by the phenomenal attendance which oftentimes runs to 15,000. The Dayton Bicycle Club bears a most excellent reputation for fair dealing, and for hospitality. Cincinnati used to come Into the circuits in the West in 1892 and 1893, but of late years has been out of it.

Since the new track was built In that city race meets are becoming an almost weekly occurrence, and the present year will see many great contests. In fact two great races have already been seen, Cooper defeating Gardiuer in two events at the first meet of the season, and lowering the world's record In the two-thirds doing 1.25 without pace maker In the race. Evansvllle was in the circuit In 1892, when the Chicago team, Lumsden, Bliss, Githens, Birdie Munger, IthodeB and others, captured all there was at Evansvllle and on the entire circuit. Evansvllle has held no meet since. But the Louisville National Meet Is where the national championships will be run.

and where some of the greatest racing of the entire year will be seen. It is said that Macdonald, Weinlg, Tony Johnson, brother of Johnnie, and several foreign riders will start their American season at -this meet. The Louisville track is really the first track In years on which the national championships have been scheduled that would enable the fair running of these. At other points the track has been a great drawback, but here is one of the very finest tracks in the world, and the racing will be on Its merits in every contest. The prizes at this meet will aggregate $3,000 In three days.

Louisville will probably have the largest representation of Amerfcan racing talent that it is possible to get together, and this means much, as two to three hundred professionals will be taking a part In the game this season. Following Louisville Brie Is new In the An Amusement in Which Society Ladies May Exercise an Interesttne Zeal. From the Chicago Record. "No one is so poor but that he has something to give Bomebody," and the best giving often expresses itself only In the beauty of service. A few kind, sweet-souled young women, desirous of doing something to brighten the lives of the less fortunate, and not being able to give "of their substance," have recently found a unique way to add their quota to the sum of the world's cheeri-ness.

During these bright, glad, new days of early spring, among the crowds that throng the Boulevard, may be seen here and there a fresh, youthful figure, leading by the hand a companion no less fresh and youthful, but from whom all the beauty of sky, tree and flower has been cut off by blindness. These charitably-Inclined young women found that by calling at the Asylum for the Blind at certain prescribed hours they would be allowed to take out for a little outing the young women inmates. So, band in band, they tread the gay crowds, seeking always the most attractive points of Interestup and down the boulevards, by the river. In the Park, wherever there Is most beauty, joy and gladness, and the seeing eyes become Indeed a light to the blind. Through them the sightless one Is made to feel the beauty of a wide sky, the tender line of the horizon, a waving branch or delicate flower.

Interesting details are given of the "people we pass," and such is the aeuteness of all other senses when deprived of one that these unfortunate ones seem to catch the form as well as the spirit of the scene, and are at leat much better and bap-pier for the fresh young companionship. It Is said of Helen Keller that when taken out upon the lagoon at the World's Fair, so acute Is her sense of feeling, she was able by the aid of her inspired intelligence alone, to discern the form of her surroundings. A new way of entertaining the blind has recently come to my notice. A bright and intelligent man -of my acquaintance, who became blind In middle life, finds his greatest resource in plnylng whist. He haB his own pack of cards, each bearing in a corner its value in raised characters.

After his hand Is dealt, it Is exchanged for duplicate cards from his private pack. As each player lays down his card, he mentions its name and the blind man has so trained his memory that be Is able to remember every card as It Is played, and plays himself, in consequence, an absolutely scientific game. When one comes to think of it, It seems strange that this delightful amusement has not been resorted to more frequently by the blind, and that many other games have not been arranged in like manner with special reference to their entertainment. WATCHING THE PAPERS Scotland Yard Detect ires Look Carefully Over the Advertising Columns. From London TId-BIts.

There Is one official at Scotland Yard who is but little known to the public, but who, all the same, works very hard and success' fully for the public good by closely scanning, day in and day out, the advertisements appearing In every London newspaper. This official's primary duty is to keep a bright lookout for the very numerous swindling class which advertises for managers and so on prepared to invest money; but, quite beyond this, he. In the most careful manner, notes all the advertisements that strike him as being In any way suspicious, handing them over to the heads of different departments. He is himself an expert in all matters that deal with cipher writing, and part of his duty Is to translate every cipher that may appear, handing over a copy of his translation to active members of the staff when anything Is revealed that justifies such a course. The writer had the privilege the other day of a short chat with this official a bright young fellow, speaking several languages, who said: "1 am afraid that I am not allowed to tell you much, but I may say that no day ever passes without my handing over some advertisement for inquiry.

Our scrutiny In this way has become very keen recently, for It is an open secret that certain foreign catch advertisement swindlers are expected here again ere long. "Besides, there have been exposed In court many cases of swindling recently which have depended solely on alluring advertisements. In two of them I gave warning long ago, but no prosecutor would come forward. Were I allowed to do so. I could show you hundreds of most mysterious cipher advertisements In the book over there, the bulk of these, of course, being between lovers, but many of them containing warnings from one educated swindler to another.

"Of course, you know that thieves even are all specialists nowadays, and It Is surprising now soon a bogus advertisement swindler gets to work again in the same direction when he is released from jail. I am advised of the release of these men, and the characteristics of their style are soon observable again in the advertisement columns. "We, as a rule, warn them at once that we recognize the new plant, and in this way hundreds of warnings are sent out yearly, and do an amount of good that the public knows nothing of. My duty is very monotonous, and I dare not even get a single edition behindhand." Base Ball at Mlllvllle, Special Telegram to The Times. Millville, May 30.

Millvllle's aggregation of ball players all arrived this week and are putting in the majority of their time at the ball park preparatory to the opening of the season. The Board of Directors of the Mlllvllle Base Ball Club met this week and elected Councilman Edward Corson president; George Hay, secretary, and James Doughty, manager. The city Is base ball crazy and the fans could hardly wait for the opening two games with Germnntown to-day. "Hank" Smith, of Philadelphia, and William Todd, of Paw-tucket, R. are two of Millvllle's twlrlers, while a force of three catchers, headed by the veteran Pierson, leaves no weakness in either place.

Three Millville players make the team this year William Harris, on first base, and Riley and Penn.ln the field. O'Neil, formerly of the Texas League, and Fisher, of Altoona, are two favorite players. Steel, from Delaware College. Is a nice little piaver and a fast fielder. Crooks, on second base, appears to fill the bill completely.

The team are hard hitters and are of great aid here, because that was a fatal weakness to Mlllvllle last year. Signals for Street Cars. From the New York Post. A test Is being made In New Orleans with an electric alarm signal and Indicator for trolley lines. It is an arrangement by which a car gives warning of its coming one block ahead, by displaying a red signal and ringing a bell on a box at the corner of the intersecting streets, and Is designed to lessen the liability of collision with other vehicles.

The signaling Is effected by means of a double trolley strung alongside of the regular wire. Upon the end of the trolley Is attached an -extra wheel, which Is arranged to run on this auxiliary trolley. This extra wire, beginning as It does a short distance from each comer, connects with a little bell and a glass box attached to the post on the next comer. As soon as the auxiliary trolley hits the wire, which, of course. Is not charged; the current Is conveyed from the regular trolley to it, and from thence to the corner, where the signal is given to vehicle and pedestrians that a car is coming within a block.

RIDING OF CHASE IS OF INTEREST He Has Beat Many Records, and Before the Season Is Over Promises to Reduce Many More Opening of the Cricket SeasonMany Centuries Were Made Daring the First Week of Playing. From a Correspondent of The Times. London, May 16. The cycll'g age is reflected here In the increasing applications for membership to the Cyclists Touring Club. The club is a valuable organization to everyone who uses a cycle and has secured for Its members many advantages.

It obtains reduced rates for members when on tour, secures the free entry of their machines at continental ports, supplies accurate and trustworthy information, publishes gratis a first-class cycling magazine and in many other ways adds to their comfort and convenience. During the first five months of last year the renewals and new members numbered 12,293. In the corresponding period of the present year they were no fewer than 21.422, or nearly 10,000 of an Increase. Indeed, so rapidly has the club advanced in the past year or two, aud so groat are the demands upon it, that the old quarters in Fleet street have had to be abandoned and new and larger premises taken at 17 Victoria street, Westminster, where the work of the club can be carried on more satisfactorily than In the past aud can meet all the demands made upon it. The accomplishment of A.

A. Chase this week is one that is sure to interest American wheelmen. He beat the fifty-mile cycling record on the Wood Green track. The pace was a very hot one from the start. The two, three and four-mile professional records were altered, and then, after slowing down a bit, he began again, and from the eleventh mile, inclusive, he rubbed ont all previous bests, Including Michael's records, up to twenty-seven miles.

J. W. Stock's time for twenty-eight miles was beaten, and, riding splendidly, new records were established to the finish. Chase finished up by beating the world's record by 2 minutes, 69 4-5 seconds. In his first hour Chase covered 29 miles and 300 yards, thus beating Stock's previous best 29 miles and 255 yards.

The fifty miles he covered in 1 hour, 45 minutes, 38 3-5 seconds. The Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company'was this week floated with a capital equivalent to $25,000,000, and we are told that the applications were for four times this amount. This says much for the growing popularity of the pastime and further evidence to the same effect comes from the cycling centres-Birmingham, Coventry, Nottingham and other places where other trades are being neglected because of the demand for useful men at high wages in the cycle factories. A remarkable feature about the Dunlop prospectus Is that the price to be given for the amalgamated business is not stated In the prospectus. The omission is unprecedented in a prospectus of the kind.

Perhaps It Is not of much importance to the ordlunry subscriber. Here is a business, he says to himself, whose present profits are ample to pay dividends on the capital issued and it does not matter to me how that capital is expended, providing my dividend is forthcoming. It is a matter of confidence all through, confidence that the cycle will not wane, confidence that the Dunlop organization will hold Its own against hungry competition. Last week the county cricket season opened in very fine style, and If things keep up in the way they are going the month of May will surpass the unprecedented May of last year, when runs were knocked up at a pace never before known so early In the season. In the first half of the week the only county to mark hundreds was Surrey vs.

Warwickshire, at Kennington Oval, when Abel put up 138 and Mr. W. W. Read made 112. The "hundred" game began properly oa Thursday, when out of Surrey's score of 443 against Leicester, Abel contributed 152 and Holland 110; Gun for the Marylebone Club, against Sussex, made 138; S.

M. J. Woods, for Somerset, against Gloucestershire, ran up 108. and Yorkshire began to pile up a score against Warwickshire at Birmingham, which was on the following day to pass far bevond the previous county record of 590, made against Lancashire in 1887. To their magnificent total Walnwrlght contributed 126 and Jackson 117; while Peel put together 210.

Lord Hawke, the captain, came after him with 100 and the innings did not close till the colossal total of 887 had been reached. Such an achievement as this naturally suggests comparison with other big scores. The previous highest in first-class cricket was the 843 compiled by the last Australian team against the Past and Present of Oxford and Cambridge Universities at Portsmouth, on July 31 and August 1 and 2, 1S93. At Mel-bourne, in 1887, the Non-Smokers, playing against the Smokers of the combined Eng. llsh and Australian sides, put together 803.

The first-class county record, which falls before this latest score of Yorkshire, has undergone more rapid changes. At Kennington Oval on August 9. 1SKS, Surrey put together G98 runs against Sussex, which held the premier position until last season, when, at Trent Bridge, on May 16, 17 and 18, Notts succeeded in making 726 runs against the same county. This, however, was not to stand long, for on July 15 and 16 Lancashire, in meeting Somersetshire, at Taunton, credited themselves with the champion score of 801, which the budding energies of a new summer have already placed out of date. Outside of first-class cricket gigantic scores lose their Importance, but it may be noted that Yorkshire came very near outstripping some of the best-known performances, even in this misty region of statistics.

The highest score recorded in England Is the 920 made by the Orleans Club vs. Rickllng Green, In 18S2, so that Yorkshire were not far off from Including this honor also among their trophies. In the matter of monster Innings, we must always be handicapped compared with the Australians, who extend their matches on occasion in the fourth, fifth and even sixth day, while we never go beyond three days, and It Is just worth recalling that the biggest score ever heard of In that continent has recently been authenticated after Its accuracy had been in doubt for many years. In 1876 a match was played at Sydney on four successive Saturdays between the Ulster Club and Mac-quarle, when the former, for the loss of nine wickets, made 1.238 runs, the principal contributions being 249, 147. 247, 178, 186 (not out) and from "extras" 100.

This week has seen a few more scores of a hundred and over. Thomas Abel made 231 for Surrey against Essex, Lionel Palavet 113 for Somerset against Yorkshire, Moorehouse 113 for Yorkshire In the same match, Sugg 110 for Lancashire against Sussex, Hay-ward 193 (not out)for Surrey against Derbyshire and 0. W. Wrlirht 114 for Webbe' eleven against Cambridge University. EASTON FANS ABE PLEASED The Showing of the Team Has Aroused the Hopes of Its Hooters At a Low Ebb in Hazleton The Outlook for the State League Outfit Is Not Very Promising, Special Correspondence of The Times.

Shamokin, May 30. The run of bad luck continues. Shamokin Is still sliding down the toboggan, and In a few days. If things keep on as they have been for some time past, Milllgan's men will be wrestling with York for the tail-end position. It Is not that Shamokin is playing such poor ball.

The players have not been making any more errors than those of auy other team, but the errors they did make were so untimely. The Wednesday game actually belonged to Milllgan's Colts. The visitors earned but one run, Kutzner and Hill allowing the others to come Iu by making mistakes where clear-headed work was absolutely necessary. The stick work of the local club is far above the average, too, but that does not seem to avail it much. Manager John Milllgan, the veteran National Leaguer, has gone behind the bat regularly, and his presence there seems to lend considerable strength to the team.

Milllgan has lost none of the cunning for which he was noted when the Phillies were not considered complete without him at catcher's place. In the contest with the Athletics his arm proved as accurate as ever it was, and several of the visitors died at first and second through his watchfulness. Ellis Is probably the favorite of the club with the cranks. Not only Is he highly thought of here, but throughout the towns of the league the papers state him as being the best third baseman in the organization. Eleven o'clock Is bed time with the members of the Shamokin Club.

At half past 10, like a watchful father who wants to know exactly what hour his boys come home, Jack stations himself at the hotel door and lays for them. Hill generally manages to appear a moment or so before the appointed hour, but Costello falls beneath the ban occasionally. The big and jolly left fielder failed to make an npppearance at 11 o'clock Tuesday night, and five hours later Milligan heard him kicking up a racket In the office. The veteran crawled down the steps and whispered to Costello through the door, if he was not In condition to appear openly, that when pay day came around he would find his check $10 shy. Costello has been In bed promptly at the appointed time since then, but there is no telling when he wiil break out again.

Abbott Witman, the Reading manager. Is disconsolate. Despite his assertion that no taii-enders are good enough for the Pretzel town, he has been trying hard to Induce Milllgan to take his men there. Witman was in the Coal Metropolis before the sun was up the other morning. He raked Milligan out of bed, and said he had a proposition to make to him.

Shamokln's manager waited until Witman was through, and then said that he conld entertain no Idea of taking the local club to Reading, and referred hlra to Mr. Markle at Hazleton. The state of feeling that exists between the Reading manager and the Hazleton magnate Is too well known to be told over again, so the result of WItman's overture can be readily imagined. PottsvIIle has cheated Shamokin out of a game of ball on Decoration Day. A contest was to occur there in the morning, and another here In the afternoon.

The Potts-ville management has refused to call the first game until 11 o'clock, and by the time it is finished It will be too late to catch a train for Shamokin, so both contests will have to occur at Schuylkill's capital. The local fans are In a rage over the affair, but Milligan says there is no way out of It, so he must submit. The second game with the Athletics, which was to have occurred Thursday, was postponed until Friday on account of rain. The local management, too, rented its grounds at Maysville Park to the Mt. Carmel, Central Pennsylvania League, team for Decoration Day.

The diamond is still a little rough at places. These defects President Smith, of the Shamokin and Mt. Carmel Street Railway, will have fixed while the club is away at Lancaster during the fore part of the week. AT A LOW EBB IN HAZLETON The Outlook for the State League Outfit is Not Very Promising. Special Correspondence of The Times.

Hazleton, May 29. Base ball enthusiasm in this town Is at a low ebb. The work of the team assigned to represent Hazleton In the State League this year 1b not coming up to expectations, and unless there is a big Improvement made In a short time there will scarcely be a corporal's guard attending the games. As It Is now, the local press Is Jumping on the men on every occasion they appear at home, and under such circumstances it will be found a hard matter for the management to keep up interest In the game. It cannot be said that a fair show hae not been given them.

The record made away from home when compared to the success met at home was even better, and that was always on the side of their opponents. It is therefore plain that something decisive will have to be done. The work done by the men at times has been very good, but they are not stickers, and the very next game played the exhibition is simply execrable. At the opening of the season Manager Westlake promised that his selections would open the eyes of the countrymen. Just what he meant is open to different construction.

If he wanted to Indicate that their performance was simply gilt-edged he tried to deceive; but if he was honest, and simply adopted this means for holding back the blank astonishment that the antics of his men would- produce. It was exceedingly kind of him. Never was there an aggregation In thjs vicinity that opened the eyes of the cranks wider. If anything can do this rank ball playing can, and this his men have shown to a degree labeled here perfection. As to the work of the men, Hobrlght and Cooper alone do anything that Is like ball playing.

Young Jordan, who last year was the pride of the cranks, is not doing near so well. This, however, may be accounted for by the miserable support he has received. His work has been rather Indifferent. Smith, the first baseman, is doing fetter In the field, but at the bat well, he) seem to be able to connect. Then 4 jte Is George Westlake playing at third.

The general Im SOME OF THE FAST WORK ACCOMPLISHED A Large Party "Will Follow the Circuit East, and It is So Arranged This Season as to Avoid Many of the Long Jumps Found So Tedious In the Past They Will Travel in a Special Car and in Style Equal to Any. With the meet of the 23d at 'Frisco Northern California saw the last of the circuit chasers of the year '1)6. Five days of racing have been given In the north of the State. These five days have been well attended, the people turning out in greater numbers than ever before to see professional riders, quite nonplussing the "croakers" who would have It, prior to the opening of the circuit, that professionalism was never to be a success, and that meets given at any of the scores of tracks In the State would be rank failures. Twenty-five thousand, actual count, have attended the meets in four cities.

Southern California was, to have the meet of May 30 of this year, and it is predicted that the attendance will be the best ever seen in that part of the State. Twenty men will follow the circuit from California Eastward, most of the number from the Golden Gate. Those assured include the following: Charles S. Wells, the California Giant, a rider well known on Eastern tracks last year. Wells did little in '95 until after the circuit started West from St.

Louis, when he surprised the riders by several clever wins. He is a man of 208 pounds' weight, and a great sprinter. Clinton K. Coulter, of Mansfield, Ohio, led the percentage list at one time last season, being the only man to gain that proud position after Bald entered the circuit. His position was not hold for a great time, the man suffering from the run of hard luck during the season.

Falls had much effect on him during '95, and ill-luck has folowed him thus far this season, inasmuch as a fall of a number of men disconcerted him in his first race, his cranks loosened in his sec-one and Inability to hold the turns placed him at a disadvantage on the six-lap track at San Francisco. Wilbur J. Edwards of San Jose, present leader in the percentage table, with 1,000 per cent, to his credit, raced in the East in 94, but was handicapped at the outset by a hard fall at Asbury Park, and really did nothing for the balance of the season. Thus far in 'DO the lad has done splendidly and has led an unchecked career. He decided late in the day to go East and to once more try his luck.

Floyd A. Macfarland, of Ran Jose, the 2immy of the Pacific coast, was also a late comer in the ranks of the circuit chasers. Macfarland is a large rider, but not a stout one. He is of slim build, and when riding humps his back and has much the same motions as the mighty Zimmerman. Macfarland has ridden very creditably in handicap races and has made good time in his practice work on the track.

He was the leudlug amateur on California tracks last season. John Edwards, of San Francisco, is the rider that made so sensational a record in the indoor race in San Francisco in the spring. He had been known as "Wabbly" Edwards in the past, but this season seems to have given up this style of riding. His clever win of the handicap race, the first professional race of the National Circuit, brought him credit all over the coast. It was predicted that the man would be a failure on outdoor tracks, but his work thus far has been of the finest order.

Dr. Parker, of Detroit, gives indication of being one of the good riders of the year. He is a rider of great strength and is one of the finest-bailt men that was ever seen on the track. Parker won the handicap at Santa Rosa, but has done nothing since in the large field. EU Winesett, of Olympia, Is as large a rider as Wells, and a man who at work in training bespeaks a good rider, among the best on tbe'eireuit.

Winesett has the confidence born of rough races in the Northwest, and is a man that others watch In every contest. John Campbell, of Spokane, Is a rider of the size and build of Bliss, and a great place-winner, as he is a leech on the rear wheel of any man that he thinks will win a place. He hangs to his position and cannot be shaken off, following the man over the tape. Marion Black, of Fort Wayne, is a good man in the amateur class of Indiana, as was his side partner, H. W.

Peltier. The two have been training at Los Angeles for a month and enter the circuit oh Decoration Day. Their work is of unknown quantity as yet. W. J.

Evans of Lansing, Is the rider that has been breaking into the amateur list during the winter. He has been transferred to the professional class since the start of the circuit. He has won only a single third, although he has shown up finely In all his heats. Frank E. Schafski, of Salt Lake, entered the National Circuit at the close of last year and was a factor in the closing races of the year.

He Is called a game rider and is always found In the thickest bf the fight. After winning his heat at San Jose, his first contest on the circuit, Schafski was brought low in a fail in the final, and this closed his riding for a time. These eleven men will follow the circuit and some of the gamest riding ever seen in the country to be visited will be the result. Many of the men go out at their own expense, and when a man is riding for the wherewithal with which to keep moving his riding is desperate at all times. Fire men of the above party Wells, Winesett, John Edwards, Macfarland and Coulter are among the largest men on the track, being all near six feet, and the first three about two hundred pounds in weight.

Many fond recollections linger round the towns on the circuit for every one of the circuit chasers. As they glance over the list of meets for the circuit they con up these recollections one by one and mentally decide whether it is to be a good circuit from the point of enjoyment or no (not noisy and boisterous enjoyment, but social pleasure), for the racing men make friends in every city and these friends make things pleasant lor tnem whenever they come to town. Fond associations linger round many of the cities in the country. This man may have beaten prominent men on the track of one city; that man may not have such fond recollections, because of defeat on that same track; at this point one of the men may have a score of friends and at another city some one else has the friends. The single men are blessed with lady acquaintances without number at many points on the route, and in some places have but one, but that one very dear to tnem.

This year's circuit Is a grand one as far as the elimination of long trips enters Into the EASTON FANS ARE PLEASED They Have No Complaint to Make Over Their Team's Showing. Special Correspondence of The Times. Easton, May 30. The local fans have been well pleased with their State League team this week. The games here disclosed that the men are playing ball and are holding their own very well.

They have won half their games so far, according to the schedule, while they have suffered to the extent of several games lost through admittedly rank umpiring. The team Is now off on its third tour and will not be here for ten days. Meanwhile there will be some important changes. The most Important relates to finances. The management Is convinced that the location of the grounds thus far used is not advantageous to them in the point ot attendance.

The club has been playing on the Lafayette College athletic field. These grounds are not reached by the trolley cars and are away from those portions of the city where the greatest crowds come from. Consequently it has been decided to use the fair grounds. They are located nearer the majority of homes In both South Easton and Easton and are more conveniently reached by trolley cars. The Transit Company will put the grand stand and bleachers In order.

Patronage will undoubtedly be more liberal. Another Important move ere the club again plays here will be the securing of "Kid" Kellcy, a phenomenal left-handed pitcher. He has been playing in a New York State town and has decided to accept Manager Ramsey's offer in preference to going to Toronto or accepting other tempting offers. He is a great friend of Tlerney and of Ramsey. This will give Easton four excellent pitchers, for Setley, Koehl and Gray are all very good, and when properly supported always win out.

Easton Is now having her first tussels with Carboudale. Two games were scheduled there for to-day and two more the beginning of the week. Cnrbondale is believed here to be capable of making as good a showing as any in the league. Lancnster and the Athletics, of Philadelphia, are ahead, of course, but the former has the advantage of having played several years together, while the Athletics have farnied-out players from the Philadelphia National League team, and consequently are able to make a big showing. But of the clubs organized this year and standing on their own merits, Easton considers Carbondale Its strongest rival.

These four games will put Enston either In the third or the fifth place. The team work Is very much commended. Heine covers a great deal of ground and is a valuable man at second. Toman has won favor for his work with the bat and his im- roved playing at short. Mayer Is doing etter at third and the Intleld generally shows up stronger.

Criticisms of the outfield have resulted in more sprightly work and a cessation of letting the ball roll by, an act in which the fielders were expert at one time. In fly-catching the field is making a big record. The club, as a Is In much more favor than during the first weeks of their playing. Manager Ramsey is not disposed to weaken, but to strengthen, them. As a consequene he makes no change save in the batteries, and encourages all to do their best.

As a result the players are putting up as good games of ball as one would care to see. BASE BALL AT PRINCETON They Are Looking Forward to the Next Game With Yale. Special Correspondence of The Times. Princeton, May 30. The eyes of all the Princeton enthusiasts are anxiously centered on the third game with Yale, which takes place at Princeton next Saturday.

The memhers of the team have not been slow to realize that the outcome of the collegiate series hinges to a great extent upon the result of this contest, and early in the week the men settled down to work with a determination that augured well for success. The wretched showing made in the Virginia and Yale games indicated that something was radically wrong with the team, and the coachers decided to materially alter the make-up of the nine. In Wednesday's games with Cornell Kelly and Wheeler were relegated to the benches, Bradley and Smith taking their positions at first and second base respectively. The vacancy which Bradley's departure from centre field had made was filled by Easton, while Sutor succeeded the latter in the left field. Sutor, who It will be remembered was Princeton's plucky quarter-back on last year's foot-ball team, had been playing a sharp game on the freshman nine, and was taken on the 'varsity temporarily early in the week.

He has played a brilliant game both in the field and at the bat, which will' entitle him to the place the remainder of the year. Smith, at second, covers a large territory, and is particularly sure at catching the throw down from catcher. Bradley, at the Initial bag, has sustained his reputation as an all-round player of remarkable ability. His position In the Infield enables him to guide the team to better advantage and also has a steadying influence on the men. The work behind the bat will be thrown entirely upon Titus now that Smith has been removed to second base.

Titus is a reliable backstop, but is weak In throwing to bases and has never worked well with Easton. The remainder of the team has been playing much the same gime as last week. Ward and Gunster have improved In their batting, while the fielding of the latter has deteriorated slightly during the week. The outfield has shown advancement along all lines, and It is safe to say the trio surpasses any of recent years in general effectiveness. Sutor has been hitting the ball hard and often and covering plenty of ground when in the field.

Easton In centre field is putting up a clever game both at the bat and In the field, being especially sure in throwing to bnRes. This position will be filled by either Altman or Wilson when Easton Is officiating In the box. These two will alternate in occupying right field when the other is pitching. The brunt of the pitching has fallen upon Easton In the recent games, owing to Wilson's and Altmnn's erratic work early In the season. The latter was given a trial in the Cornell game Wednesday, and recovered his lost fame by allowing the Ituacans but three hits and striking out ten of their men.

The heavy batting of the three pitchers has entitled them to positions on the team In some capacity, while they have exceeded expectations in their work In the field. THE CRUEL COMANCHE An Instance of Ficndishaess In the Torture of a Prisoner. From the Popular Science News. Colonel R. I.

Dodge was for many years engaged in operations against the hostile tribes of the plains. He had abundant opportunity to study Indian manners, especially those relating to war. In his book he speaks of many acts of Ingenious cruelty practiced by the Apaches Sioux and Co-manches, showing to what depths of degradation savages may fall. "Of all the horrible stories which I have heard of Indian cruelty, one told me by old Esplnosa (his guide) Is the most vivid In Us ghastly horror. "When he was about 24 years old a party of Comanches from the same camp in which he lived, while on a raid In Mexico, attacked a large ranch.

Taking with them as prisoner the one man who had signalized himself in the defense of the ranch, the Indians departed for their own country. On the long march the prisoner, though closely watched and guarded by day and securely bound at night, was treated with extreme kindness. They complimented his courage in the highest terms, told him they Intended taking him to their camp, adopting him into their tribe and making a great chief of him. The trail followed, after leaving the head of the Nueces river across the southern end of the high tableland known to the whites as 'Staked At a water-hole on this tableland the party halted for several days. Telling the prisoner they wanted it for some religious ceremony, they set him to digging a hole in the ground.

Working with knife and hnnds, he in a day or two completed a pit about three feet in diameter and over live feet deep. Early the next morning a rope was tied about the ankles of the captive and wound spirally round his legs and body to the neck, binding his arms tightly to his sides. Rigid and immovable the man was then planted upright like a post In the hole, the dirt filled In and tightly rammed down around him. When all was completed nothing but his head was visible. They then scalped his head, cut off his lips, eyelids, taunted and left him.

"On their arrival at camp the party described in detail their punishment of the Mexican, and in all the tribe It was regarded as an exquisite piece of pleasantry. The man would live, they said, eight days, revived at night by the cold of the high plains, to be driven mad the next day by the hot sun beating on his scalped head and defenseless eveballs. etc." That human beings can practice such cruelty seems Incredible..