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add to the attractive features of the even-ing. Topies on Hindu life and relIgion wIllaso, be briefly discussed. This meeting isone o.f the same series as the iirst men-tioned meeting. the Intention being to dis-cuss mIssIonary topics in the several sec-tIons of the city, so as to be convenient for

Nineteenth Street Baptist Society reportsthat it is holding joint meetings with thechurch during the revival service, the en-deavorers conducting the first part of eachservice. 'This society is also laying plansIsend a delegate to the London conven-

The juniors of Zion Baptist Church re-port that their officers were installed at aPtublic meeting recently, at which there wasa lIterary and musical program and an ap-proptriate addres by the pastor of the Met-re.politan A. M1. E. Church. The senior so-ciety of the same church lately held aunion meeting with the juniors, at whIchMr. C. F. M1. Browne, second vice presidentof the Christian Endeavor union, made an

Nearing ta SineB~ latereat Peutpened.Justice Ciabaugh. in Criminal Court No.

1. has signed an order extending until nextFriday the hearing of the mo~tion for a newtrial in the ease of Benjamin HI. Sntell. convicted of ths murder of Lizsie Weisenber-

Theo4. A. Kernan.

M'GRAW IS BLAMED

Richter Says That He Acted TooHaetily.

THREW UP THE SPONGE AT THE CRISIS

Baltimorean Says He Lacks Confi-dence in the Philadelphian.

CURRENT SPORTIN(I NEWS

Messrs. Richter and Reger of Philadel-phia are 4out with a statement to the effectthat McGraw had acted too hastily iniuitting the new base ball association. Mr.Richter was much surprised when helearne,l that McGraw had withdrawn fromthe association. and gave the followingstatement to a Philadelphia paper:"At no time since the association scheme

was formulated were the prospects for a

successful organization so bright as theywere last night. I am at a loss to under-stand McGraw's action. It is doubtlesstrue that he was somewhat disgruntledover the failure of Tom McCarthy to put inan appearance on the first day of the meet-

ing. but that mteo way justified him in act-ing so hastily. McCarthy's tardiness in ar-

riving was due to the time I ,st in preparingsome legal documents meant to show thesubstantial character of the backing of theBoston club. Mct'arthy has baking forT,.tMi-in fact, his team will be more heav-

ily backed than any other in the proposedassociation. Here in Philadelphia we willcapitalize at *40.tai. The St. Louis peoplehave ample financial backing, as haveLouisville and Milwaukee. As for Chicago,Anson never felt so much encouraged overthe prospect. With seven clubs assured,our i-lea was to buy the Providence cluboutright, thereby completing our circuit.McGraw's action was as inexplicable as itwas hasty. Ordinary courtesy should haveprompted him to refrain from any com-munication with the Philadelphia capital-ists until we had a chance to make our re-

port."It is said in explanation of Mr. Gilmore's

delay in securing the desired grounds inPhiladelphia that they belonged to the cityand It was necessary to obtain assurancesfrom the city council, which would havetaken two and perhaps three weeks. It isclaimed that rather than wait that timeMcGraw determined to sacrifice the entireseason.

What MeGraw Says.The Baltimore end of the association will

hold a meeting this evening, and doubtlesswill go out of business. Hanlon and Von-derhorst are greatly relieved over the turnaffairs have taken. and they tacitly admitthat the hole McGraw placed them in Inthe monumental city was very deep. Speak-ing of the base ball situation last nignt,McGraw said:"Anson and I were both suspicious of

Philadelphia. When the delegates arrivedat Chicago Richter and Reger. who were torepresent her. had no authority to sign tnefive-thousand-dollar forf.lt agreement, andwe had to haxe a showing of money to beconvinced that they meant busmecs. WhenMr. Gilmore telegraphed me that he couldnot secure grounds in Philslpia I knewit was all off. and wired Ansn ti that -f-feet.

I received a telegram from Peger andRichter. saying that they want to go on

with the enterprise. but they do not inspireme with sufeicnt confidence t, believe thatthey have the proper backing.

"I have a letter from Al Spink of St.Louts. in which he rays Reger remark-I atChicago. 'I'll bet 11-i the association doesnot play a game this season.' A man whowould throw cold water on the scheme inthat way is not the man we want. The re-mark made Spink suspicious, and he saysin the letter that I had better post over to.Philadelphia. and make sure that every-thing is all right.

"I aso received a telegram this morningfrom Whiteside of LouIsville. inquiringwhether the report is true that I am outof the association now.

"I have nothing to regret in my actionstoward the association. I have come outin the open to say what I had to say, andam so-ry the project fell through. Afteri'h!ladelphla failed to come up to the markI determined to quit, because it- is gettingtoo late to do anything this season, and Idid not wish to cause my backers here tolose their money uselessly. I Invested mymoney with the other stockholders, for itwould not be right to ask others to advancemoney and then not put up any myself. Ihave not seen Mr. Hanion recently, anddon't know when I shall."

GEORGETOWrI'S FLEET Rr'NNERS.The Team Relay Raee to Be the Fea-

ture of Tonight's Sport.Tonight promises to be a big one in the

annals of athletics at Georgetown, for Itis the occasion of its second meet at Con-vention Hall. From the indications themeet will go down in the history of ath-letics at Georgetown as the most note-worthy if r~ot the miost successful of Itskind ever giv'en in the south. 'fhe enthu-siasm at the ur.iversity is almost un-bounded, and the work of gathering to-gether such a large nunmber of noted ath-letes had been a task of no mean propor-tions, and to W. L. Hirst of Philadelphia,manager G. U. A. A., and L. Burns, man-ager of Washington, assistant manaerG. U. A. A., the greater part of the creditis due.There are five events that are especially

worthy of note. The fifty-yard sprit- willprove a very exciting contest, as all themen entered are noted for their perform-ances. Of course, Arthur F. Duffy, therational champion, will be the cynosurefor all eyes. He is su~ciently rested fromhis recent trip to New York and hopes torumn in his oid-time form. Against him willtw. pitted his fellow collegians. Holland andMulligan, and a strong, fast race is pre-dicted by those who claim to know. Mina-han, who showed such remarkable speed upin New York last week, is entered In thisevent also. Pennsylvania wUl send theclever hurdler. Remington. and hence agood, fast race may be looked for. cer-tainly an Interesting one, and last, hut byno mean.least, is Jarvia of Princeton.The fifty-yard interscholastIc rua pr-

EORGETIOWN UNIVRSITY RELAY

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Ii. Desses. J. E. Sheridan.W. I. ilolland. J. E. Muallg

the local high schools have members en-tered. and their old-time rivalry will assertitself. Their star event, however, will bethe re:ay race, and a prediction as to thewinner is kilely to be erroneous, as the menfrom each school have been working dlii-gently and faithfully. The followers willcome along with the teams and will cheerthem on to victory by their yells.In the relay line will be seen another big

attraction In the contest between the ocalbranch of the Y. M. C. A. and the BaltZmore branch of the same organization.Baltimore is fully determincd to retrieve itslost prestige. The local branch is as fullydetermined to hold the championship at allhazards. The Baltimore branch is to bringan unusually large number of rooters with.them. who will endeavor to drown the yellsof their opponents.

Georgetown Relay Team.The victorious relay team that not only

defeated the crack team that representedHarvard at the Boston College games re-

cently. but clipped a good two-fifths off thetime previously held by Harvard. will bethe event of the evening. This team willbe matched against a strong aggregationfrom New York city, composed of old col-lege stars, and men who have had much ex-perience in running. They wcre picketi withintention of tinding about as fast a team asNe-w York could furnish, and consequentlythe %arious athletic clubs were visited anda remarkably strong contingent has beenscheduled for this race. The Knicker-hocker. the Pastime an.1 the Xavier A. A.will be reuresented. as well as St. FrancisXavier College.Joseph E. Mulligan Is the captain of this

team as well as the captain of the George-town track team. He Is from Philadelphia.and is a strcng runner, as well as a con-selntious trainer. He has been very prom-inently connect'd with athletic matters atthe university since his entrance there twoyears ago, and syndlilily won recognition byhis ahi'ity. lie prepared at one of the Phil-adelphia High Schools and ran on its team.showing his grit and endurance very mucheven thenWilliam F. Holland, medical. 'Ut. is from

Boston College, with whose athletics nehas been %ery ir.timately connected. ie isa strong. well-built fellow. and runs a hard,gritty race. He is one of the cleverest in-door quarter-milers that ever ran on anindoor track, which fact is indicated fur-ther by his holding the reecrd for the Indoortrack of Boston College at the quarter mile.He is a hard student, and is entering intothe training for this meet with a zest thataugurs well for the showing that he willmake.Theodore F. Dessez is a local boy, and

has shown in the many races in which lierepresented Georgetown that he is a stronig.gritty and heariy runner. He is a law stu-detit. and will finish this year, much to theregret of many of his fel'ow students, forlie is a very good man. He has shownfine form en several occasions. and alwayscan be depended opon to run a good race.The biggest surprise of the year is in

William Kernan, who has just enteredGeorgetown from the Catholic High Schoolof Philadelphia. He started in trainingwith other men, and so easily outclassedrany of them that he immediately wonrecognition. and on the day of the trialsfe the relay races gained a place on theteam. At Boston. In the race with Har-vard, he overcame a big lead that his manhad on him and romped away home aneasy winner. He was dubbed a "comer" bya leading Boston paper ani a man thatwould bear watching. The paper also said"He is out for a world record."John Emmet Sheridan. fifth member of

the team, was born in Iowa, and havingfinished the preparatory department ofGeorgetown entered the college. He hasbeen running about three years, and inthat time has appeared as a representativefor his college on many occasions, and hasalways acquitted himself well. He was amember of last year's relay team, but fail-ed to make it this year.The other- events, consisting of the Mn-

yard run (handicap). nio-yard hurdle (handi-cap), 210-yard run (handicap), 440-yard run(handicap), potato race (handicap), polevault (handicap), putting 16-pound shot(handicap). running high jump, are all wellfilled, and the entries show much talent.Another star attraction will be the meet-

ing of the Grant brothers in the specialtwo-mile race. They have met four times,and, although the finishes were close, yetreither cou!d be said to be the better.Another relay race has been added to the

already long program. and will serve tointroduce Villanove to the followers ofJohns Hopkins of Baltimore. 1

Unsurpassed Aggregation of Talent,The meets of the Boston Athletic Asso-

clation, which have for years been regard-ed as the beat in the country, never securedsuch an all-star team as the Georgetownmanagement has brought together. Na-tional, state,- division, Intercollegiate, col-legIate andinterscholastic association cham-pions and point winners have entered tocompete for the honors and prizes offeredby the local university, which is determinedto make Washington to the south whatBoston is to the northern collegiate worldIn athletics.Arthur F. Duffy, the American and New

England champion, will start in the sprints.int which will also appear Frank Jarvis ofPrinceton. an intercollegiate point winner;J. W. B. Tewksbury of Pennsylvania, theintercollegiate champion; J. E. Mulligan.the Pennsylvania state champion, southernchampion and an intercollegiate point win-ner; Williafi J. Holland, Boston's fastestindoor runner and world's record holder forthe 440 yards indoor; J. B. Mace, who de-feated Tewksbury and Mulligan last yearfrom the one-foot mark; E. B. Minehan,the novice who electrteed the collegiateworid last Saturday by his clever work inNew York, when he captured both sprints.The open onty yards, In addition to the

collegians named above, will bring outKent of New York, Flores of the Xaviers,severai Johns Hopkins men and a host oflocal runners who, by reason of the genetr-ouis handicaps allotted them, hope to cutout the better-known entries.The 22i0-yard run has thirty-five entries

and the handicap. have spread the men allover the track, and the scratch men whosucceed in gathering the held will have todo record time.The 440 yards run will have several heats

and a final, and Long, the- intercollegiateand American record holder, will have noend of trouble to find the limit men whohave been set out for the purpose of pre-venting runaway races.

Every 5tarter a Chanspion.Then will come the intercollegiate 880

yards run, in which every starter Is achampion. -There will be Bray of Williams.the holder of the 1,000 yards record andsecond man in the I. C. A. A. A.; .Alex.Grant of Pennsylvania, who won the eventlast. year and who finished second in the in-tercollegiate half after winning the two-mile in good time; his brother Dick, theHarvard runner, and twice- winner of thisevent at the L C. A. A. A.; Desses ofGeorgetown, the southern champion: Stuartof Pennsylvania, who, a a Washingtonschoolnboy, asm. ran. ..... ar.un hi

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competitors. and who will stajrt for thefirst tim# in an intercollegiate half; Sheri-dan of orgetown. who is also h. southernchampion at the mile. The other starter isJohn Cregan of Princeton. and as he wantsto win in such a conclusive manner as toleave no doubt of his superiority over hisfield, a hot race should be seen. In May heand Bray fought every inch of the lastCluarter of the mile run, the Tiger captainwinning by less than a foot.Practically the same men will be seen in

the mile, with the additi)n of a dozen lessermen, but all of whom have a chance byreason of the handicapping.The two-mile scratch race will be limited

to the Grant brothers, each of whom haswon two races at this distance, and as thisis the deciding match, new figures shouldsupplant the old mark of 10.04.The hurdles will have Kernan of George-

town, the Pennsylvania state and inter-scholastic champion; Remington of Penn-sylvania. another 1. C. A. A. A. point win-ner; Hutchinson of Princeton; three fastmen, whom that able ciach, Mackdermott,has developed for Johns Hopkins, and acouple Y. M. C. A. men, all anxious to de-feat A. C. Kranzlein of Pennsylvania, theworld's record holder at this game of tim-ber crossing, and admittedly the greatestall-around athlete who ever wore spikes.Carroll of Princeton and Baxter (if Penn-sylvania will have a pretty fight in thehigh jump. but Royce Hough of this city,who has been treated very generously bythe handicapper, will make them go totheir limit to win.McCracken of Pennsylvania. who has won

so many prizes with the sixteen-pound shotthat he cannot keep account of them, willhurl the sphere from scratch, and as lastSaturday 42 feet 0 inches were recorded a.his distance, he will most likely take ieoneanother souvenir.The relay races will bring the crowd totheir feet. Washington Y. M. C. A. shoulddefeat Baltimore: Central High appears a

few yards faster than Eastern or Western;Johns Hopkins. who always can be depend-ed upon, will meet Villanova, and George-town goes up against the All-New Yorkteam. Trainer Foley of Georgetown saysthere is not a team on earth that can de-feat his flyers, and as the- New York menare out for scalps. some one's prediction I.bound to go wrong.

CARROLLM WON TWO GAMES.They Tighten Their Hold on First

Place In the fiowilla League.Through the falling snow the Carroll in-

-titute bowlers'nade their way last nightto the alleys of the Young Men's ChristianAssociation. They wer'e well repaid for their(ffort. for winning two games from theassociation team, the Carrolls cement theithold on first place in the bowlng league,and approaching the end of the season theystand an excellent show of maintainingthe position till the home stretch is reach-ed. Harlow returned to the game for theirtitute an.d made a good impression,bowling good scores in each of the games.The teams were both strong In strikework. The association introduced a newplayer, Miller, who played in erratic form,getting a very high score as well as a verylcw one. For the first time Von Boeck-mann did not appear with the associatiorlive. It is said that he has permanentlyretired from the game.The Carrolls were simply in great luck

to have won out in the opening game. Theirscore was low, but as the association totalwas worse, the decision. of course, went tothe visiting team. The home team led atfirst, but steady work on the part of theCarrolls slowly drew them to the fore. Thescore follows:

FIRtsT GAIMllY. M. Christian Ass'n. Carroll institute.

SSt. Sp. S.D"yle...... 1 4 132 Harlow 1 6 151lRe....... 2 5 157 o'cnnnor.3 3 148Miller...... 2 4 151 Merritt 1 2 112tunm....... 3 4 157 Goman 2 5 l5Sith.Ha.2 2 117 tt1. 3 6 174

Totals.... 10 1 7141 Totals.... 10 21 74(The home team ran away from their vis-

itors in the text game. Carrolls being overa hundred pins behind at the close. Theassociation bowling was wonderfully uni-form. the payers all securing good strings,161 being the lowest game. Smith put upa great finish. bowling down 107 pins in thelast four innings.. Nearly all of the asso-ciation men had double headers. The scorefollows:

SECOND GAMELY. M. Chriatia Ass'n. Carroll Institute.

St. So. Sc. SLt SeDoyle...5 173. Itarlow..4 19(Rase...3 4 16t''Connor... 2 8 141Miller.a. a 1751 Merritt..2 4 14tBunn...2 7 I81 Gorman.... 3 2 14:Smith...5 1 190 itlce...2 4 144

Totals.... 18 19 8110 Totals.. ..13 17 761Y. M. C. A. again fell dawn in the wind-

up game, leaving the Carrolls an easy viectory. Outside. of Doyle all of the hometeam's strings were low. Doyle's quad bold-ing up his score. Harlow had a run of foumstrikes, and Gorman bowled two tripleheaders, so the good totai is easily account-ed for. The score follows:

THIRD GAME.Y. M1. Christian Ass'n. Carroll Institute.

St. Sp. Sc. St. Sp. SeDoyle...4 3 1711 Harlow.... 5 2 18Rose...1 6 146 O'Connor... 2 *3 141Mier...2 3 130 Merritt..2 2 121Itnn... 53-414 Gorman.... 7 1 21FSmith...1 5 146 itice...1 5 14)Totals..11 20 747 Total....17 13 811Monday evening the Saengerbund lean

will play at tlhe Business Men's alleys itSouth Washington.The standing .4t the clubs follows:

e --Won, Inst. P.CCarroll Institute. .y......... 2 16 .581Saengerhund.... . ...... .......19 17 .521Golden Eale ClutC..:.......18 18 .5otYoung Men's Chriln Asociation. 16 17 .484Columbia Blowling Club,.d.....16 20 .444Business Men's Clab..........16 20 .444

CHOYNSI3J WJSHPS MAMER.

Cautious Pigh3W by the FormexCauses tin Letr's Dewufall.

Joe Choynskiiras ivan the decision ovenPeter Maher ia v-round contyat lastnight before t~e Fort Dearborn AthletkcClub. Chicago. 'The blonde Californian evi-dently had not1 orgotten his former defeatat the hands of the Irishman, for through.out the fight he took but few chances, con-tenting himself with jolting Peter with hisleft, a task which he found comparativelyeasy.In the last two rounds of the fight,

Maher, maddened by the sting of Choyns-ki's left glove, rushed furiously, but almostinvariably straightened up, and during theclosing mfinute of the last round was mcbadly punished ties- be was staggering asthe bell rang.In the first round Choyneki caught Ma-

her with a left bock squarely on the pointof the jaw a second ber. the bell rang,and it is probable 'that if the round hadllasted a moment meore Cho)'uski wouldhavs won right there, as the blow madiMahe reel like -Tdrnks.a man Mahmimade Joe go to the. ba.r.s in ten --cc

with a hard left to the chin and stomach.and had a clear lead during that round.Thereafter, however, Joe had the better ofIt. Choynaki left the ring with carcely amark,- while Peter's right eye was In badshape. Probably 6,000 people saw the fight.which took place In the 2d Regiment Ar-mory.

IN CHESS CIRCLES.

In the pending championship tourney thisweek Mr. Hanna won from Mr. Harris andMr. Prender by a careless move lost his ad-journed game with Mr. Sournin. Thisleaves but one game to close the contest.an adjourned game between Hanna andSournin.The score of the participants who re-

mained to the finish now stands:Won. Lost. Won. Lost.

V. Sournin .... 12% % E. A. Tibbetts 7b 6%E. P. Hanna..11% 1% J. W. Harris.. TG. F. Adair... 9% 4% Capt. O'Farrell 6 7F. B. Walker. 9% 4% Dr. Hadges... 6 8W. H. Smith.. 9% 4% Allen Prender. 5% 8%T. B. Lyman.. 8% 5%!j. C. Boykin.. 4% 9%As will be seen, Messrs. Adair. Walker

and Smith are tied for third, fourth andfifth places. A match of two games eachwill be played between these gentlemen tosettle positions.Capt. O'Farrell has made a donation to

the library of the chess club of his accu-mulation of chess magazines, covering aperiod of many years. Besides the recenteditions of American Chess Magazine forthe years 1897-99. and the British from1S94-9. the collection contains many rareand valuable publications. that are eagerlysought for by the collectors at high prices;valuable for their current notices of themasters of those days and exhibiting thegradual building up of the openings as theyare generally accepted now.Among these are: The Chess Monthly,

from 18-8 to '61, of which Paul Morphyand D. W. Fiske were editors: The ChessJournal. edited by 0. A. Brownson, 1871-74.published at Dubuque. Iowa: the book ofthe secor.d American chess congress, Cleve-land. December, 1871; Brentano's ChessMonthly. IR88; The International ChessMagazine. 1890-9)1; Bird's Chess Brillian-cies, in four volumes, and The Game ofDraughts. 1832.The following game was played In the

last round of the pending tourney:Ruy Lopes.

O'Farrell. Lyman. O'Farrell. Lyman.1 P-K4 P-K4 30 Kt--B6ch BxKt2 Kt-KIS Kt-QB3 31 QB it--33 B--QKt5 P-Qt3 32 Q--Kt5 Kt-K34 B-R4 B-Kt5 ':13 Q-Q2 B-B35 l'-QB3 B-R4 U.-1It4 Q-B26 Castles(a) KKt-K2hth 35 KR-It P--B5i P-QI PxP -" '15 PxP8 PiP Kt-Kt3 8T BxP K-R9 Kt-IB3 Castles 8 BxKt QxB

if Kt-K2 P-Q4 .5 R-R11 P-K5 QKt-K2 4o t-t Q-K212 B-B2 B-Kt3 41 QR- KB P-Q513 I--QKt4(c) B-Q2 42 Q-B4 R--KKt14 Kt-Kt3 P-Qitt 43 R-B2 Q-Kt515 It-RS Kt--P5 44 P-KR3 '-Q61f; Q-B Kt-K3 45 --4 Q-Kteh17 Q-K3 P-KB4td) 46 K--t2 4-K518 'xItXP RaP 47 QxQ B1Q11) BxKt QxB 49 P-K6 B--Kt321 KtxP Q--K 49 P-KT P-BG21 Kt-Kt3te) ItxKtf) 5o R--Q6 P-It22 QxIt KitxP 51 11-B K-Kt223 Q-QMt I'-KKt3 52 R--QS R-K24 Kit-K Q-112(g) 53 R-K K-l1225 -Q42 it-Rhi '54 R-QT7 B-K526 K-It P-Q1t47ti) 55 itxB P queens27 KIt-QBii) B-It4 56 ItxQP Q--B2ch28 Q-Kt5 Q-Kik) 57 K-Kt RIP29 Kt--It5 B-Q 58 itesigns.(a There is nothing in 6 IxKt, QPxB; 7 KtxP,

Q-Kit4 for White.(h) This is Mr. Alapi's variation.(c) A hold thrmt to make room for the bishop

at K12 or R.(d (living up a pawn for freedom of attack.4ei This seens *inewhat timid; ie might have

proe.eded more rigorously with 21 Kt--K5 andthe -xchantge would all have been lit his favor.But the threatening aim of the bishop is worthconidering.

(f Good-even If not absolutely sound, it has Itsterros.

gi Queen to B would have turned out better Inthe future development.

(hi A pretty neat ending might have occurred by25 It--It if 26 K--It, Kit-B6; 27 Q-K2, followedby KtxR or B-K5! With the queen on KB sq.opportunities to visit R3 merit attention.

i) te sanie enove Kt --B6! is more effective anddoesn't shut up the range of the B.

itj It was hard te find anything better; this moveIs safe; Ieing rrher on the defensive. he makes a

rsitlonal "np de reis." 27 It--K3 is certainlynferor, as it ilocks the queen. Black couldatnswer R home and give White more difficulty indeveloping his men that, ever. -

(k) Other moves examined were: 28 A. Kt-K3B. B1-B6.

A. Kt-K* B. B-B62I Q--BI B- iS 29 QR--Kt B--B330 P--B3 It-K6 30 B--Kt3 Kt--K331 Kt-B R-KT 131 Q-- QQ32 B-Q3 It-KBT 32 P -BxP33 K-Kt R--QKtT 33 KR--K Kt-B5and builds up some fine with good gain. or thiscombinations. might occur

*30 P--KB4 kt-K331 Q-Kt4 RaRP32 B---Kt3 , RKtP,3 KxR KtxBPch34 K-Kt B-Q235 Q-R4 Kt-R6btc

Played in the recent Kolisch memorialtournament at Vienna. It is a vigorousspecimen of the game, and is an agreeablechange from the conservative style invogue at that center.

Kostz. Wolf. Kots. Wolf.1 P-K4 P-K4 25 Q-B K-Kt2 Kt-K B3 Kt-Q3 26 P-KKt4 Kt-B63 B-Kt5 P-QR3 27 P-Kts Q-Kt24 B-R4 P-Ql 28 P-its B-Kt6(e)5 BxKt(a) PXB 29 P-Ro 4-B26 P-Q4 P-KB4(b) 30 P--ticb K-R7 QPaP BPxP 31 KtxPch QxKt8 Kt-t5 P-- 32 R--R6 QxR9 P--K6 3 33 PxQ BxIt10 Kt-BT V.P 34 QxB KxP11 KtIt P-KKt3 35r P-ItS R-R212 Kr-Bi B-3 36 Q-R l'-Q513 Kit-K2 Kt-K2 37 PiP PxP14 B-K3(c) P-B4 38 BxP R-K2(f)15 P-QB3 Kt-B3 39 " P-B416 Q--R4 B-Q2 40 K3 B-K417 Q-B2 Kt-K4 41 raP Kt--Q518 CsIs(QR)(d) B-Kt4 42 K-t B-B1319 Kt-B4 P-Ba 43 Q-116 K-Kt320 P-KR4 P-QR4 44 Q--S Kt--K321 P-KKt3 P-R15 45 Q-Kt8eh K-B422 KKtxP PxKt 46 P-RT R-Kt223 K-Kt K-B2 47 B-iB P-K624 K-R B-B5 48 PxP Resigns.

(Notes by Mr. Adair.)(a) The exchange of the long-reaching bishop for

the knight Is not considered advantageous.(b) This move. v-hile not considered sound by the

best players. leads to a free and open game. Thisstyle of play was more in vogue in Morphy's timethan it is today. ,

(c) White develops his game instead of captur-ing the knight's pawn.

d) This Is a bAd move. but perhaps all thingsbeing considered is as good as any.

(el A very pretty move. If PuB-PxP ch., K-Kt,Q-QR2 and mite ts-inevitable.

If) If KtxB, QxP ch., winning a pawn and re.gaining the piece.An interesting visitor at the club this

week was Mr. Win. H. Morrell of NewYork. who is known as Rapid Transit Mor-re'l, from the fact that he was a primemover in the construction of the elevatedtallway system of New York. Mr. Morrellcontested three games with Mt. Campbell,but is out of practice and no doubt hisyears are against hIm, for he found him-self outplayed each time. Those who werefortunate enough to be present becamegreatly interested in the old gentleman'stalk of chess In the days of another gen-eration. "I have helned,"~ he said, "in de-feating Europe on two occasions. I helpedto equip Morphy and Mackenzie for theirtriumphs. Mackenzie being at that timechess editor of my publication."Johnston of Chicago. on last year's cable

match team, sends word that It is not likelythat he will be able to play this year andrecommends Medinus. also of Chicago, Itotake his place. De Visser, champion ofNew York state, is being pushed for aplace. In previous years he was unable toparticIpate. It -Is also believed that theteams can be strengthened by going toPhiladelphia for another player.Steinits, the long time champion of chess,

Is in an asylum for the insane, and manyof the notices of that fact In the paperstalk as if It is a ten to one shot that allchess players will land there. The oppo-site Is the truth. It ought to be recog-nized by this time that- brain workers inemployments in which order, number andcalculation form the basis is the least like-ly of all mankind to become mentally un-hinged. Morphy is the lone previous exam-ple to which all refer as proving the case.But it Is a mistaken reference. Morphycommenced to play chess at the age of tenand played with enthusiasm to the age oftwenty-one. By that time he had losthis interest in the gsame. At about thattime he bad won his laurels in the firstAmerican congress, his mnatches in Lon-don. with Lowenthal, and In Paris withHarrwitz and Anderson and early in 1879,before he was twenty-two, he had returnedto this country, and his chess career wasclosed. He died in 1884, and for someyears before his death was insane, foundto be caused after his death by soften-ing of the brain. If phy'sical cause had notbeen at the bottom of It, it would be muchmore likely laid to moral conditions ais-ig from the fact that previous to the warhis family was well-to-do, and in commnonwith most southern families It was en-tirely reduced by that unfortunate contest.Steinits's hallucination,. It Is worth whileto note. Is not chess, but electricity. HeIs more noticeable as a chess player, andit is wrongly Inferred that he was neveranything else. But thrnt is a mistake. Hehad more diretions than one. Cheshow-ever, is a finseamusement, hut a poor pgo-fession.-Medinus of Chicago is playing a matehwith Marshall. The score is two apang..The eben club of Nanana-Club de

dres-bas lewited PIlbuy to eatanatour to that city this eseanik er nest,ste foenn.g gan a.. worn b., Plna...

In a blindfold contest against eight play-era at Toledo. Ohio. It is a bright sped-men. involvIng the sacrifice of rook andqueen:

Quee's Pawn Opentaig.PIIdIbry. 'Ilede. Pillsbury. Toledo.

2 K B13 M Kis R-3 P-K3 Kt---KB3 14 B-R3 P-QR44 B-Q1 QKt- 16 P-B4 . t.-KS5 Catbe P-Qit3 16 PxP KI-Kt46 QKt- -Q2 B-3 17 Q-Kt3 R-7 P-K4 PXP 15 PxP Kx8 KtxP B-Kt2 19 RxKtcb PxR9 Ktxlch PxKt 20 Q-Kt6eh PxQ10 R-KB4 BxKt 21 BiP mate.11 QB P-Q4Mr. Vladimir Sournin. the well-known ex-

pert of the game, a native of Russia,where he gained the fine points of the gamefrom the Russian master Schiffers., was thecenter of a simultaneous chess seance atthe rooms of The Evening Star Club Thurs-day night. Play commenced at 8:15. withten players up against the single perform-er. The openings on all the boards werequeen's gambit offered. which was declinedon all the boards excent Dr. McConnells.The first to go down was the expert's fel-low countryman. Mr. Gatskoffsky. who wascurled up in short order. On all the otherboards respectable contests were maintain-ed for an hour and a half. when Messrs.McConnell, Bates and Southland went downIin a bunch-a tie for second place. In 1,-nminutes more Messrs. Field and Seamanwere out. At this stage Mr. Sournin. whohad conducted his opening very si. ly,was moving along very rapidly, keeping hisopponents on *he jump. Shortly after inMr. Derner had his accounts closed. iyhalf-past 10 the remaining four games w,-finished; Messrs. Corning. 11arshall, Gais-koffsky ta second game) and Heydler wentdown in order, the single player havingwon every game.

AMONG THE WHEELMEN.

The run of the Arlington Wheelmen lastSunday was mai-ked by the largest atteatd-ance of the year, seventeen winged A'sjoining Capt. Murphy in an interestingtrip to Oxon Hill. Those present wereMessrs. Potts, Utz. Moore, Dykeman. Leis-ler, F. Loeffler. W. E. Clark. W. D. Clark.F. C'ark, Mayer. Broadbent. Mitchell,Christman. 0. Miller. C. Miller, Rhine andJ. Walker.Capt. Murphy has arranged an interesting

event for tomorrow. The club will startfrom the corner of New York avenue and14th street at 9:.1 o'clock. and will pro-ceed to Overlook len. where a hil'-climbingcontest will take place. This event promisesto be one of the most interesting featuresof the Arlingtons' winter program, and itis expected that the entire membership ofthe club will be on hand to try for honorsin hill climbing. A short run will be takenat the conclusion of the contest.A great deal of interest is being mani-

fested in the dinner dance to he given bythe club on the evening of February Z.The committee in'.charge of the affair havebeen working hard to make it an unquali-fied success.F. G. Wurdeman has made an unique

collection of photographs, taken during therecent runs of the club. Included in thecol'ection are bits of interesting scenery atTakoma Park. Suitlahd Park and variousplaces in Virginia.The Columbian wheelmen's run last Sun-

day was attended by the following mem-bers: Messrs. Byrnes, Bolden, Werner.Sheehy, Foster, Conway, Griffith and Fen-ton.The road officers will present at the next

meeting of the club a motion for a centuryrun to be given in the spring. under therules, of fourteen hours, and it is likelythat Frederick, Md.. will be the objectivepoint. It has been some time since any ofthe members have made a run to this town.and there is every prospect that a largedelegation will be in line. It will be a pub-lic century, open to all riders.The committee appointed to make the ar-

rangements for the coming entertainmentand dance will hold a meeting on nextMonday evening at Hotel Regent, at 8o'clock. All members of the club are in-vited to attend.Mr. Howard Fisk. the secretary of the

organization, has withdrawn his originalintention of giving up the sport, and willget down to active work with the sameenergy that has been characteristic of him.The regular monthly meeting of the club

takes place Monday. March 5, at 8 o'clock.Mr. Jos. N. Benner, the club treasurer.

has been quite sick for the past week, buthas improved.Mr. Charles H. Coons, formerly centurion

for the District of Columbif of the Centur'yRoad Club of America. was In town for afew days the past week and visited anumber of the club boys. Charlie willshortly remove his residence from Phila-delphia and join the Columbian Wheelmenranks.

The famous Century Cycle Club. withheadquarters at No. 627 E street northwest,has passed into history.The last meeting of this bicycle organi-

zation was held Monday night. when itwas decided to disband. sell all of its prop-erty and divide the profits among the mem-bers on the rolls of the club. A meetingwas held last Sunday. when the affairs ofthe club were discussed at some length.and the entire situation gone over. Themeeting adjourned over until Monday even-ing at 8 o'clock.At the meeting Monday night Vice Presi-

dent William A. Hasler presided, in theabsence of President Samuel G. Fisher,with Secretary John Q. Sheehy recordingthe minutes of the last meeting beforepassing out of existance. Nearly all of themembers on the-rolls at that meeting werepresent and wore a grave expression ontheir "bicycle faces."Vice President Hasler ceased to sound

the gavel and handed It over to the auc-tioneer for use during the auction sale,which followed the last meeting. Mr. Geo.B. Wells was selected as the auctioneer.and the work of selling all of the club'sproperty, valuables. bric-a-brac, furniture,trophies. etc., commenced. It was notnecessary to hang out the red flag. It wasopen to club members only. The memberscame prepared for the event, and had bigrolls of money with which to buy in thebelongings of one of the best known bi-cycle clubs of Washington. The furniture.pictures, tables, phonograph, albums. pho-tographs went one after another. even tothe brooms and dusters of the club.The last valuable article which had much

to do with the history of the club put up atauction were the trophies. When the lastarticle was sold the lights in the club housewere turned out. the rooms locked, and allwas over. The club died an easy death.which will be mourned by the remainingmembers and ex-members of the organiza-tion.The officers of the organization up to the

last meeting were: President. Samuel G.Fisher; itce president, William A. Hasler'secretary. John Q. Sheehiy; treasurer. LouisF. Abell: captain. Thomas F. Doyle; lieu-tenants. William C. O'Connor, A. A. Hol-lander and Louis Anderson.The Century Cycle Club was organized on

the evening of August 17. 1806. 'Te organ-izers of the club were Charles H. Coons,Faber Stevenson. Robert C. Williams, A, E.Wersner. Edward S. Byrnes. H. T. Galla-gher. Samuel Barnhart, James Makover andA. S. Grimes. The first offieers were: Presi-dent. Charles H, Coons; vice president, Fa-ber Stevenson; secretary, Robert C. Wil-liams: treasurer, A. E. Wersner; captain,Edward 8. Byrnes, and H. F. Gallagher,1:eutenant.The growth of the club continued until it

reached a membership at one time of overeighty.

BOSTolI VISITORS,Cosmmittee of Aldermen Prem the flub

at Pollce Hleadguartera.Major Sylvester. superintendent of police,

Thursday and yesterday bad as visit-or. the members of a committee ofthe board of aldermen of Boeton, whohave been making a tour of the prin-cipal cities of the country in connec-.tion with contemplated ilmprovemnents inthat city. The delegation was comnposed ofMessrs. Michael W. Norris, chainman; Wil-bur F. Aams Patrick Bowen, Geo. Hbi-den Tlnkhain A. C. Ratcheky ad Joseph.1. Norton, also Wilfred 3. Doyle, amiantclerk of committees of time board, andEdward 3. Leary, city messenger. Theystarted for home last evenikg Beforeleaving police headquarter's for the trainthey estprmed. themselves ashi lesedwith the courtesis shwin am MajorSylvester. Regarding the polio. aminisaa-tion, they said it was the best they hadever see. bUt were .urprised at the smal-nlees et the salarise paid somle of the eff-

A...... ad Plu. Redomed.Judge Scott today reded the Gee of

Eldward Uroc----eg tream USi to as'T4e -cne was eenvieted several daysag by' a Jury ha the Pollee Out ad-'.3dm.. destructon of gerpesty Iy beninsun a dne ,whenn smngu n. . e.. t. -

TheAmericanGentleman

ftes bi i.a.t whim his heeeds it ad physcim pescMe I.

me takes it whim diensaeusb8ll-ty =1 whie rmiitis uequir ft.

He takes i for cheer, coset, happi-mil discreedly ad Moderaiey.tie Wll have the pre type of thepirts-.

HunterBaltimore RyeOld, Mellow, Rich Flavor.

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AMONG THE WHISTERSGratification at the Sucess of the Balti-

m~ore Four.

At theReadof the Team* In the East-Dieserliption of Ito %tyle

of Play.

Tha victory of the Baltimore whistersover the American four of Itoston last Sat-urday in the latter city. as told in mon-by's Star, was a pleasing surprise t., thefollowers of the fascinating game in thiscity: The Baltimore four is undoubtedlyone of the strongest team# in the country.but the Americans have simply been havinga walkover among the eastern clubs lur-ing the past three months. and for thisreason it was thought the Marylanders hadonly a fair chance of winning. This trophyis now considered the most important inthe American Whist League, and the dlf-ferent games that will follow will bewatched with great interest by enthusiastsall over the country. It is to be deploredthat Washington has not had a team in thefirst ranks of whisters for several yearspast. but the sunshine of expectation isbreaking through the clouds of disappoint-ment in the fact that it is anticipated thatprominent fours of the Ladies' WhistLeague will be allowed to contest for thetrophy. Should such a step be taken bythe American Whist League, and there isnothing in the constitution to prevent it.great interest would be added to thematches and many more cities embracedin the contest. There are teams In theLadies' Whist League fully capable of con-

testing for the big trophy and there arenot a few of the whist experts of the coun-try who claim that these fours are beingkept out of the contests through prejudiceor jealousy. Be that as it may. when thetime comes for the Washington club fourto confront either of the top-notch teamsof the country laurels will come to thiscity that in years past were made promi-nent by the Capital Bi Club four.Today the Baltimore team will have to

defend the trophy, won last Saturday fromthe Americans. against the strong Wal-brook four, also of Baltimore. This trophybecomes the permanent property of theclub winning twenty matches. and the fol-lowing table shows the victories of the dif-ferent teams:Minneapolis Chess and North Shore (lub ofWhist Club.........16, Chicag ............

Chicago Whist Club... lo New Jersey Whist Clublialtinaae Whist Club.lj; of Newark. ......... 2American Whist Club iClcro Whist Clubof Ik'ston. . 9 qChicap........... 2

St. Iaul Chess and The Whist Club of NewWhist Club 61 ....

Philadelphia Whis t Tote&.' hlt IClub ............... 5'Knickerboker Whist

Chic ag Duplicate Club of New York... IWhist Club... 4; Dfalo %idt (,lob...

Hamilton Club of Ci- Auror City (lab.1S ..... Walrnk Whist Club

Albany Club.3 of oltims,.. IPark Club of Plain- Rsse-d WhistSeld. N. J..........Z Club rtieage,..

Milwaukee WhiWt Club 2;The sensational string of victories se-

cured by the Baltimore four lat season.before the trophy was turned oer to thewestern section of the league, attracteduniversal attention, and the system of playadopted by the Orioles was diseussed proand con by the whist writers and expertsof the country. It is more than probablethat the Baltimore four will repeat their.great playing, and for thus reason i here-with given the team s system of play.The original lead of a king or Jack an-

nqunces strong trump (four or more), whilea queen or ten originally led declares weak-ness. The original opening of an ace doesnot indicate in itself either trump strengthor weakness, except when it is accompa-nied by the king. when the lead would nat-urally show weakness. It is the card whichfollows the ace which tells the story. Ifthe lead of ace is followed by the jack orthe lowest card in the suit strength is a1-firmed; any other card following the leadof ace declares weakness in trumps.Among low cards (and all cards below the

ten are such) the invitation lead is used toannounce strength, and it carries with itthe conventional significance of a suitworth playing for, strength in trumps. anda card of re-entry in another suit than thatopened. The lowest card in the best plainsuit the hand contains is used for invita-tion purposes. The negative infeaumosnaturally attaches to the lead among leercardis or any other than the lowest.American leads are not used except in

the trump suit, where they are followedrigidly.Do not invite when your plain suit is a

worthless one of not more than four cars.snor when your trumps are headed by alower card than the jack. In either ofthese cases open either an intermediatecard in your best plain suit or start trumps,whichever your hand will beat justify.False carding with honors in sequena

third or fourth In hbna is ordiesily sag-gest,ive of weakness in trumps.Use force-me and don't-force-me leads

and discards. For discard purposes thefive is a high card and is the dividIng line.After ruffiag the lead of a four or lower.and from high-card combinations a kiglack or nine, indicates willingness to takeanother force; also ace followed by lowestof suit. All other leads ask partner mot teforce again.An Invitation lead made when king or

eusen is turned on the leader's right is acall through that honor.The echo to partner's lead .t tse

shows three exactly.The book discard is used eaeept that we

the discarder's partner haa the tnUttal tnat the deal ad ees trumps, the rotaryIlecard. in the ordier spades, beasts, eteha,ilamoads, is made.Peneiag in partns's eat, whether- plain

se trump, is seldos paels the singlenips being with ae, queen ad esmiin WIth aoe aad een only playsad return queem! with ace, een ada' mesashe play aee ad ltus Mel

Thssamelk a lang and etedles seatesa cempletn esaves.s -bet a miemeemal stu d enadeffeidmame.t tim

re nasaItdarn the mete theLinseria leads adthe .

a'...eeies