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THE CUBA REVIEW 



GENERAL NOTES 



BASEBALL, FOOTBALL AND RACING 

 PLANS 



Eight members of the Phihidelphia 

 National League Baseball Club left bj' rail 

 November 1st for Cuba for a series of 

 twelve games with Cuban teams. 



The peculiarities of the game in Cuba 

 are many. The admission is from 20 cents 

 to $1. The 20 cent seats are back of the 

 center field. The stands surround the en- 

 tire field with the exception of a small 

 space in center field. It is only on Sunday 

 that women attend the games. There is 

 betting all the time, and the men bet on 

 plays and not on the result of the contest. 

 When a player is at bat, the betting is 

 whether he will reach first and if he makes 

 the bag they will bet upon his chance of 

 reaching second. 



Cubans do not stand for any roughhouse 

 at the ball park in Havana and at every 

 game there are sixteen cavalrymen, fifty- 

 five policemen and a patrol wagon is drawn 

 up close to the entrance. If a fan starts 

 anything that the police do not like they 

 rush him to the wagon and carry him off 

 to the calaboose. 



H. D. Brown has made announcement 

 of the twenty-eight stakes that will be run 

 during the race meeting at Havana. The 

 meeting is to begin December 12th and it 

 will continue for ninety or more days. 



The stake list is a particularly attractive 

 one for the winter racing, the values rang- 

 ing from $5,000, the monej^ to be hung up 

 for the International Handicap, down to 

 $1,200. There are handicap, selling stakes 

 and condition stakes. They are at various 

 distances, and almost every condition of 

 horse will have an opportunity. 



It represents a remarkably liberal lot of 

 offerings, and they are sure to attract a 

 ready response from the horsemen. 



The stakes are to close November 27th. 



From Norfolk special boats will be run 

 directly to Havana and at that time the 

 stables will be ready for the accommoda- 

 tion of the thoroughbreds. 



A. J. Wilson is busily engaged with a 

 large force of workmen putting the finish- 

 ing touches on the improvements to the 

 Havana track and with the work that was 

 done before it would be possible even now 

 to conduct a meeting. 



Providing the consent of the directors of 

 the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Asso- 

 ciation can be secured, the University of 

 Mississippi eleven will invade Cuba during 

 the Christmas holidays, an invitation hav- 

 ing been received for a series of football 

 games from the Havana Athletic Club, 

 which is said to be one of the strongest 

 athletic aggregations in the island. 



All that is necessary to bind the agree- 

 ment is the S. I. A. A.'s sanction, which 

 is imperative when an association member 

 indulges in athletic warfare with an out- 

 sider. As the Havana Club is in good 

 standing and the Oxford delegation has 

 never asked for any big favors, Coach 

 Stauffer and members of the eleven are 

 confident no technical barriers will be 

 placed in their way. 



PORTS IMPROVEMENT COMPANY CON- 

 TRACT LEGAL 



The Supreme Court of Cuba early in No- 

 vember, in a suit brought to test the con- 

 stitutionality of the concession granted to 

 The Ports Improvement Company of Cuba, 

 an American concern, to dredge and im- 

 prove the harbor of Havana and other 

 principal ports of the island, rejected all 

 the arguments of the contestants and fully 

 confirmed the constitutionality of the con- 

 cession. 



The bill giving the concession to this 

 company was passed by the House of Rep- 

 resentatives last February, and on account 

 of the great interests involved the matter 

 has recently been the subject of much dis- 

 cussion, and the final decision of the court 

 \\ as anxiously awaited. 



The concession grants the company the 

 privileges of dredging and making improve- 

 ments which shall include the removal of 

 all wrecks and other obstructions in the 

 harbors of Havana, Cienfuegos, Cardenas, 

 iMatanzas, Esperanza, San Fernando de 

 Nuevitas and Guantanamo. It will run for 

 thirty years. 



T. L. Huston is president of the conces- 

 sionary company. M. J. Dady, Snare and 

 Triest and the MacArthur Perks Company 

 are the sub-contractors. 



NEW STEAMER IN SERVICE 



The new combination passenger and tow- 

 ing steamer "Frank Tenney," which the 

 Maryland Steel Compan}' has just com- 

 pleted for the Spanish-American Iron 

 Company, sailed November 1st for San- 

 tiago, where she will be turned over to 

 her owners. She is 125 feet long, 25 feet 

 beam, steel hulled, and designed for both 

 passenger and freight service, being used 

 mainly to transport iron ore from the 

 mines of her owners at Daiquiri and other 

 places. 



The vessel is named for the secretary of 

 the Spanish-American Iron Company, 

 which, says the Baltimore Sun, is an affi- 

 liated company with the Maryland and 

 Pennsylvania Steel Companies, of w^hich 

 Mr. Tennv is likewise secretary. 



