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New York Athketio Club Last Saturday 



the New York Atliletio Club held a meeting on 

 their Mott Haven grounds for the benefit of their 

 trainer and trackmaster, Mr. John Goulding. 

 The first event waa a twenty-five miles walk. 

 The entries were; H Burte, Harlem Athletic 

 Club ; J Haviland. Tremont, and W Bouton, of 

 Morrisania. Burte won in 5h 7m. 



In tne one huudred and twenty-five yards run, 

 the first trial heat waB won byH T Lauterback in 

 14a, with J Alexander second. The next heat 

 won by W J Kendrick, with a dead heat between 

 H G Steinhart and B Hughes. Third heat won 

 by J D Riblet ; Fred Buhl second. In the fourth 

 hoatF Saportas was firet, W H Griffin second. 

 The final heat was won by Saportas, with Lauter- 

 back second; time, 13 2-5s. 



The Four-miles Walk was won by T J Arm- 

 strong in 30m 3 5s, his only competitor, T J 

 Mott, making a good second. 



Thirty men started in the one-mile walk, and 

 soon presented an Indian file around the track. 

 The winner was M J Eunis, who orossed the line 

 in 8m 8a. 



The six hundred yards run was finished by G 

 Merritt in lm 19 l~5a. 



In the hurdle race, one-fifth mile, ten hurdles, 

 W J Duffy was the winner; time, 19m 2-5s. 



The concluding event was a novel match be- 

 tween Kichard Morgan, amateur one-mile run- 

 ner, and B C Holske, amateur one-mile walker. 

 Morgan was to cover one mile and 800 yarda 

 while Holske walked tne mile. The finish was 

 made by Holske in 7m 9 2-5s; Morgan, 7m 

 18 3-5s. 



New York— Cian-Na-Gael Games.— The eighth 

 annual picnic with the Itiah national games was 

 held at Jones' Wood last Monday. The events 

 were : 



Fatting the Fourteen-pound Stone— Won by 

 W Hays; distance, 45ft Sin. 



Putting the Fifty-six-pound Stone— Won by J 

 Daiiy, who cast it 27ft Sin. 



Standing High Jump— Won by W Murphy, who 

 covered 4r't 6in. 



One-half-mile Walk, for a Sharps Bine— A walk- 

 over for J Prindell. 



Hop-skip-and-jump— J Daily won by making 

 38ft 3Jin. 



Three Standing Jumps— Won by T Lynch; dis- 

 tance, 33ft 9in. 



One Hundred Yarda Bace— George Odell came 

 in in lljs. A foul being claimed, there was a sec- 

 ond trial, Odell winning in 12%s. 



Handicap One-mile Walking Bace— Won by E 

 Gurney in 8m 50s ; Holske starting two minutes 

 later made beat time, 8m 3a. 



Hurdle Bace of 100 Yarda— George Odell won . 



Sack Bace (same distance)— Won by M McSlat- 

 tery in 12>£s. 



The concluding event was a foot-ball match be- 

 tween the Geraldine and Napper Tandy teams. 

 Won by the former. 



New Jersey— Short Hills Athletic Club.— 

 The first annual meeting of this club was held 

 on their grounds at Short Hills, Millburn, Sept. 

 15. The several events were well contested. 

 The events were : 



One Hundred Yards Dash— First heat won by 

 A Noel ; W C Mentaul second. Second heat won 

 by P Noel, the Messrs. De Bonge making a 

 dead heat for seoond. Final heat won by A 

 Noel, Jr, in 1134s. 



Bace for Gold Medal presented by P Noel and 

 held by H Inman— Won by D C Wilmer in llj^s. 



Running Long Jump— H Iuman, 18ft 3in ; DC 

 Wilmer, 18ft lin. 



One Hundred Yards Bace— Won by C Graves 

 in 12%s ; W liavnolds second. 



One-fourth Mile Bace for Gold Medal Present- 

 ed by B I Godwin— Won by C De Bonge in 63*e ; 

 A H De Bonge second . 



Throwing the Hammer— Won byT H Brugiere ; 

 distance, 57ft. 



Hurdle Bace, One Hundred Yards, Eight Hur- 

 dles—Won by De Forest in 16^s. Inman sec- 

 ond. 



Bunning High Jump— C De Bonge won by 

 jumping 4ft 3in. 



Quarter Mile Bun— Won by W Biynolds in 

 68^8. 



One-mile Walk— P Noel won in 8m 37Js. 



One-mile Bun— A Noel won in 5m 41%s ; Wil- 

 mer second. 



Long Branch, Sept. 22.— In the Athletic Club 

 sports Ovington won the first race of 150 yards 

 in 15J4S; Hope, of Brooklyn, second. In the 

 second race, same distance, the winner was A 

 Chauncy in 15s ; Edward EtliB second. The third 

 race, same distance, almost dead-heat between C 

 Allen and Wm Hunt, Allen winner in 16s. The 

 one-mile running race was won by Bichard Yates, 

 Holske coming in good second ; time, 4m 21s. 

 The one-mile walk was won by Fred Cook, of 

 Brooklyn, in 7m 30a. The 445-yard ran was won 

 by WB Hayes in 69s. In the second heat, same 

 distance, John Mann won in 68s. In the third 

 heat Walter Hohn came off victorious in 71s. 

 The fourth heat was won by D H Strong in 7034s. 

 The four-mile walk was won by E P Cummmgs 

 in 33m 6s, Lewis being second. The second 445- 

 yard run was won by Kelly in 59a. In the handicap 

 races Kent, Wilson and Weasel were the winners. 

 In the half-mile run Kelly, of Brooklyn, again 

 was declared the winner in 2m 16s. The conclud- 

 ing event was a handicap race of 100 yards, 

 George Wool winning in 11m 2s, Perry, of Har- 

 lem Club, second. 



A Crow Who Voted tor Hayes.— The follow- 

 ing account of a wonderful crow is contributed 

 to the Indianapolis Journal by Bev. J. C Fletcher, 

 well known in some of our eastern oities as a 

 lecturer : 



Kokomo, the county-seat of Howard county, 

 Ind., has aB one of its citizens a feathered biped. 

 a male crow, which is probably the moBt learned 

 of its species in the United States. I was the 

 guest of Col. Richmond, the Mayor of Kokomo, 

 and every fact stated by him waa amply confirmed 

 by others who have been daily observers of what 

 I am about to state. 



Col. Bichmond informed me that Dick, the 

 blue-black son of a corvus, was the property and 

 pet of his ohildren, ana that he (Dick) was a 



fa other 

 words, that this crow was learned, could Bpe-ak 

 many words, could laugh, was filled with mis- 

 chievous pranks, and daily went, to the grammar 

 school, and was a general favorite with all the 

 ohildren of the town. Mau has been considered 

 the only laughing animal, but here is an excep- 

 tion, for Dick not only laughs, but he knows how 

 to have the laughing come in at the right place. 



After delivering my lecture (during which Dick, 

 outside of the high school, could he heard de- 

 livering another lecture on his own hook), I 

 made more particular inquiries concerning the 

 history and deeds of the learned crow of Kokomo. 

 Col. Bichmond informed me that his father-in- 

 law, Mr. Kennedy, some two years ago, when on 

 a visit to his farm (only a short distance from 

 Kokomo), perceived a young crow who had evi- 

 dently prematurely issued from the maternal neat 

 high in the trees above. Mr. K. took pity on the 

 gawky fledgling, and carried him home. He 

 proved such a voracious bird, and, withal, was so 

 constantly crying, like the horse-leech'B daugh- 

 ter, "give, give," that Mr. Keunedy, to be rid of 

 the crow, gave him to his grandchildren, the son 

 and daughter of Col. Bichmond. These three 

 were soon intimate playmates, but Dick, becom- 

 ing too familiar with the hall, or entry, of the 

 house, he was frequently told in a very emphatic 

 manner by Mrs. Bichmond to "walk right out of 

 this." This expression waa not lost upon the 

 bird, for one day a visitor coming to the house 

 and finding the door open entered the hall with- 

 out further ceremony, when he was saluted by a 

 gruff voice in very decided English : ' ' Walk right 

 out of this!" And ever since that day many a 

 tramp, and many a respectable citizen, has been 

 ordered by Dick from Col. Richmond's doorway. 

 No pains had been taken to educate Dick. He ia 

 a genius, and eduoated himself in many phrases, 

 some much more emphatic than agreeable. I 

 took down from no leas than four persons the 

 phrases that Dick had been heard repeatedly to 

 utter. 



Each morning during term time he goeB to 

 school as regularly as the children, and usually 

 noes to the room where Col. Bichmond's son and 

 daughter are. If in the Bummer, he enters by 

 the window and perches upon the teacher's desk 

 and surveys the assemblage with due gravity, as 

 if on inspection. Very often hia exclamation is 

 " bad boy," and more rarely "good boy. ' Dur- 

 ing the colder months Dick seats himself on the 

 window-sill outside until satisfied that all ia right, 

 and then, as in summer time, he flies to "pas- 

 tures new.'' He seems to understand the school 

 bell as well as the children. At recess he ia sure 

 to come back, doubtless attracted by the sound 

 of merry voices. It is at this time that he dis- 

 plays his love of mischief. He has frequently 

 been known to swoop down upon the play- 

 ground, and snatching off the cap or straw hat of 

 a boy, has gone sailing off with it, amidst the 

 shouts and clamor of his unfeathered playmates, 

 and when at such times receiving the objurga- 

 tions of the boys, he will retort by calling out in 

 a moat ludicrous manner, " Very bad crows." 1 

 am sorry to say that Dick is not gallant, for the 

 scamp will sometimes ny off with the light hat 

 or bonnet of a little girl, and alighting upon some 

 fence, he will deliberately diBsect this piece of 

 millinery in order that he may obtain the feath- 

 ers of South American or Asiatic birds which 

 adorn the bonnet. It grieves me also to say that 

 Dick ia a thief, or to be more polite, ia addicted 

 to kleptomania, for he has often been known to 

 run along a clothes-line and steal all the smaller 

 clothes-pins and tne lighter articles, like pocket- 

 handkerchiefs and stockings. But Dick does not 

 confine his mischief to children. He is a great 

 consumer of young chickens, and Col. Bichmond 

 tells me that he has seen Dick, with malice pre- 

 pense, watch a cat with the greatest patience 

 until pissy's attention was directed to something 

 else, when suddenly hia corvine majesty would 

 seize the tip of tabby's tail in his beak, giving the 

 poor animal a severe nip, which would cause a 

 terrifio meow, upon which Dick would fly to the 

 branch of a tree near by and laugh in the most 

 side-splitting manner. 



Dick, I am forced to confess, ia somewhat pro- 

 fane. Not, it is true, calling down maledictions 

 on people and conferring d. d.'s— in small letters 

 — but he indulges in expressions such as " O 

 Lord !" in which it is evident that veneration and 

 piety are not intended. 



Dick's patriotic qualities are unmistakable. 

 Aud what I am about to relate seems almost in- 

 credible, but there are hundreda of persons in 

 Kokomo who are ready to atteat the truth of it. 

 During the late presidential campaign Dick took 

 an active part, and waa a " black Bepublican" of 

 the deepest dye. Every time there was a Repub- 

 lican demonstration he was on hand, flying 

 around and shouting "Hurrah for Haya." But 

 when the great Democratic rally took place at 

 Kokomo, my informant told me that Dick hid 

 away in the woodshed — would not come forth— 

 but constantly muttered "bad boys." On the 

 day after the election, when the returns were 

 coming in, and hundreds of peoplo were gathered 

 at the telegraph office, Dick was there "in full 

 force," and when he saw his political friends joy- 

 ous he would shout at the top of his voice, "Hur- 

 rah for Hayes !" He went early in the morning 

 to the telegraph office, and was soon surrounded 

 by crowds, who were amuaed and aatoniahed by 

 Dick's vociferations, and by hia evident attempt 

 to make speeches. 



There are many instances on 'record of not 

 only parrots, but crows and magpies being taught 

 to speak a few words, but for a bird to enter 

 heartily into speaking and laughing from "self- 

 culture," and from apparent downright fun of the 

 thing, I have never, in my experience on four 

 continents, found the equal of Dick, the learned 

 corvua of Kokomo. J. C. Fletcher. 



September 18. 



Fishisg and Caught. — An admirable picture 

 by F. Sonderland, on exhibition at Schaus' art 

 gallery, New York, is "Fishing and Caught." 

 One of the Prussian land police has caught a 

 couple of young poachers, red-handed, fishing. 

 While he takeB down their names and those of 

 their parents they stand before him. The boy 

 looks up over his cap and holds hia crying 

 little sister's hand. A comical little dog, staring 

 up at the gruff old man, and asking what it is all 

 about, and if hiB address is wanted, completes the 

 comical group. The boy has hia fishing rod, and 

 the girls holds freshly gathered flowers. Just 

 where they stand a huge sign on a post prohibits 

 fishing and trespassing of any kind. Books, 



shoes aud stockings on the ground show that 

 they are truants and have Btolon a day from 

 school for then: excursion, which lias come' to such 

 a lamentable end. 



—Here ia a droll story told by the late Lord 

 Mayor. His Lordship, then Lord Naas, was fond 

 of acclimatizing animals, and among other crea- 

 tures which he had imported waa a female emu. 

 While his Lordship was away from home, the 

 emu laid an egg, and his perplexed bailiff, writ- 

 ing to inform him of the occurrence, began his 

 letter as follows : " In the absence of Your Lord- 

 ship, I put the egg under the greatest goose I 

 c Id ." 



For Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun. 

 "ZEB." 



Well, squire, I'll allow 

 Ye do twist a tortile yarn : 

 * Somehow 

 It ever waa In me ter lam 

 How ter set off a story right good, 



And be understood. 

 But. I stick on facts, 

 Like shoemaker's wax. 



Yes; 

 I hers ketclied trout ; 

 My chum and I shantv'd out 



On'st, 

 At Brier Lake, 

 We was on the make- 

 Dead set, in them days, ' 

 Tryia' ter raise 



Stamps for a weddin'. 

 Ye see, Jemima and Hal, 

 And me and my gal 



Had pooty rough sleddin'. 

 Now, squire, 

 Ye ketch the pint. 

 51c and Hal worked on the j'iut, 

 As ter sheers ; 

 And 't appears 

 We took ter town, 1 "* * * 



Weill 

 That jag was a hummer, 

 (Two brides that summer) . 



How many fish we got ? 

 Never stopped to count the lot. 



But, 



Solid truth— f never flinches— 

 Them three days' take 

 Let down the lake 



About— nine inches ! 



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