THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 14, 1907.
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V. SLAUGHTERING TURTLE DOVES.
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jj NY ona who knows the habits
L and nature of turtle doves could
no more imagine that they -would
be shot than that men would kill humming-birds.
Tet they are slain by thou
sands while Wintering In the South.
These beautiful, dainty and easily
tamed little birds have a peculiar, swift,
darting flight. This appeals to a cer
tain class of "sportsmen" who like
to shoot at a fairly difficult flying
mark.
If the farmer, who has enjoyed hear
in? the soft, mournful notes of a pair
of doves that have rested regularly
for year on a certain rail of the garden
fence, misses these soothing notes when
the time for their advent arrives, he
may take It for granted that the birds
have been killed on their Winter mi
gration. In the South men who call themselves
"sportsmen" feed the doves for several
days in one spot, and thousands of
these beautiful little wild pigeons are
led to believe that man is really kind.
They become so tame that they are eas
ily tricked to their death by the shoot
era, who slaughter them by wholesale
and not for food.
After a big shoot the hunters bait
the doves in a new place, feeding them
for a week by leaving a bag of wheat
scattered about the ground. After the
doves' confidence has been restored,
the hunters again revel in the "sport"
of bagging them, 20 or more at a shot.
No bird commands more sympathy
than this dainty little mourning dove.
It was never known to destroy any
thing, and it is a mystery why man
should take pleasure in its Indiscrimi
nate slaughter. Why will they not be
content to test their marksmanship on
some other kind of target?
John L. Sullivan and the Whisky Business
The ex-Champion Declares it a Losing Game, Ko Matter Which Side of the Bar You Are On.
BY JOHN I SULLIVAN.
DURING the time I was In the ring,
many a good man went down an3
out before me, and all of them took
the count on the level. They didn't ar
range for It beforehand. Tet there isn't
one of my knuckles sprung. I haven't
any cauliflower ears, and my nose is as
pretty as when I used to go out to City
Point, in Boston, Sunday afternoons, to
watch the schooners go by. I took some
good clouts in my time, but I am less
marked up than some of the football
players, barring the places on my feet
where they used to spike me when we
fought en the turf.
We didn't learn how to sidestep a
punch, the game being to walk into it
and swap wallop for wallop. I looked
upon fighting as something to be done
up brown, and we didn't know anything
about handing out sassy slaps on the
wrist such as you see for your ttfoney
in bouts today. I've been told that some
of the fighters I've put away were scared
to death when they faced me in therlng.
Arthur Chambers, who was behind Tug
Wilson when we met, says he told Tug
to get after me bard, and although the
Englishman meant well, he said after
wards he forgot all about Arthur's ad
vice when he saw me dash at him "like
a bloody, bleeding bull."
A lot of new sports will say this dope
Is all right up to a certain point, but it
don't spoil the fact that it was the taps
of a fancy boxer that put me up Dizzy
Alley and took the championship away
from me. Correct, but It wasn't so much
the taps as it was the laps of the foot
race that did me up, so my argument
in favor of the old-time punch stays put.
When you're fighting, why not fight, and
cut out the Marathon racing in the ring?
Knocks for the Present Bay Fakers.
A lot of people think I don't do any
thing but talk of fighting and fighters.
I'd rather talk about a lot of other mat
ters. I'm nt ashamed of being known
fij s fighter, but there are so many
interesting discoveries coming up every
day that I want to know about that these
matters get more into my thlnk-box than
do the so-called fighters.
See that little skit done by Jack O'Brien
and T. Bums, Esq.? The Philadelphia
performer is getting most of the abuse,
while Bums has had some praise for ex
posing the trick. But Burns did two
things that O'Brien didn't. Bums went
back on his bargain with O'Brien to fake
and then gave him the double cross in
the ring. They're a pretty pair.
I could have put the public wise long
ago to some of these Imitation fightefc.
but what's the use of preaching to a
public that has stood for all these cold
deals that have been pelted at them from
Frisco to Boston, and back again?
By and by the fighting game will
straighten out, for the fakers are nearly
all in and the new crop ought to take a
lesson from the mistakes of ' the has
beens. There's too much science and
frazzled finance in the ring today. The
work may look prettier than in the old
days, but it isn't so honest, and pretty
fighters with dirty tails to their kites
will be forgotten when the men who
kept the sport on the level are honored
for their rough-house honesty. You can
take this prediction from John L. Sulli
van. He Tells Governor Hughes.
I told Gov. Hughes of New Tork some
things a couple of months ' ago, when I
called on him to ask him to pardon an
innocent man who is doing time, be
cause he wanted to be a good fellow and
stand for another man's crime. "You
have the fighting eye. Governor, as I
size you up," says I, "and it would
help you a whole lot if you'd put on
the gloves and punch up some of those
fellows in the Senate." As Senator Pat
McCarren was along with me, It gave
him a chance to report back.
"I wish I had your constitution, Mr.
Sullivan." said the Governor, sidestep
ping my lead, and coming back smiling
with the remark that he was glad to see
me. as he had heard of me since he was
a boy.
One thing about Hughe that shows he
is game is the fact that he isn't afraid
to make fun of his own whiskers. He
wears quite a bush on his face, and
there's a hard jaw there, even If you
can't see It. He's no quitter, take it
from me, and he has a kick every time
there's a chance to work in a kick, and
that doesn't mean that he uses a ham
mer. If" he and Bryan get into the next bat
tle for the Presidency it will be a
peach of a fight. I met Bryan In
Bridgeport and saw that he was a fine
fellow. He and Hughes are Al kickers,
and it's kickers and fighters -the people
are looking for these days to pull oft
these arguments with the Trusts.
It's the Kicker That Makes Progress.
All my life there's been a kick coming
from me when there was any chance to
make one, and you can count me among
the kickers till I cash In. All the lead
ers in everything are kickers, never
hanging back because a kick meant a
fight with only the short end in sight
for them. A kicker is a fighter, and a
fighter is a winner in the long run. Ho
loses out sometimes, but he scores more
wins than he loses. '
Patrick A. Collins, who was Mayor of
Boston when he died, told me that it
was the flgnters ' and kickers that made
progress. He waa talking to me on
Washington street and he pointed to the
Ames building, at that time one of the
biggest buildings in Boston, and said:
'There's a monument to a kicker. One
Sunday Fred Ames came down to do
something in his office, which waa in a
building owned by a man who didn't be
lieve that people ought to breathe on
Sunday. Ames was told by the watchman
he could not get Into the building on
Sunday, and although Ames stormed and
argued, -tie couldn't get into the building
on Sunday. Ames was told by the watch
man he couldn't get by.
"'All right," says Ames,' after long
kicking, 'I'll build a place where the
doors won't be nailed up on Sundays.'
And that building Is the result. I know
the story Is true," said Mr. Collins, "be
cause Fred Ames told it to me."
Kickers? Count oft all the big men of
this Ration; living or dead, and every one
Is in the kicker class, and I'm proud to
be called a kicker.
Either Side of a Bar Is a Losing
Place.
By the grapevine telegraph I get the
news that Jeffries is out of the ring
for good, that he is well fixed and doesn't
need more money. Also the tip comes that
he is going lnt the booze business. I
don't know Jeff's financial standing, but
whether he's quit the ring or not, I want
to tell him he's a chump to go into run
ning a gin mill, no matter If he does need
the money.
I have had a lot of experience In the
booze business, playing it both ways,
and I solemnly swear that It's a losing
game, no matter which side of the bar
you're on. When I pelted from one thirst
parlor to another, with a crowd at my
heels, putting out money to buy liquor
for people who didn't need It any more
than I did, it was a losing game. I don't
mean the money part so much as the
rest, although I never took a nlckle of
change once my money was laid on a
bar.
And owning a gin mill is worse than
patronizing one. You have to help with
everybody, and Jeff, with his frosty
front, couldn't stand It for a week, even
If the gang would stand for such a' poor
mixer as he is.
I've owned upward of half a hundred
saloons in my time, and have traded in
red liquor emporiums from here to, well,
all over, and there's nothing in it either
way. I have proved that I didn't care for
firewater, hy dropping it for over two
"years, and you can bet you couldn't pull
me Into the owning end of a Jag factory,
not with all kinds of inducements.
My advice to the men who are on either
side of the bar is to cut the whole thing,
and change their luck while they have a
chance. Don't I know? Why. to be able
to give the above advice I've paid out
bundles of money, and wasted years
learning the lesson. And this advice Is
worth a bank account to any young man
who will follow it.
My Child aad I.
My child and I. my child ud I.
In f rmy or .unny weather,
Shall find a glory "neath the ky
When hand In hand tocether.
My child and I. my child and I,
Th. tender day .hall follow.
TVlth care away we'll far. away
Across the hill and hollow.
My child and I In land of play.
With love, around u. streaming. '
.Ah. me, how wweet. -with little feet
To tread th. dale of dreamtns.
Baltimore Sua.
Bridge Whist for Six Players at One Time
New Scheme by Which Three Rubbers Can Go on Simultaneously.
New York Sun.
BRIDGE for less numbers of players
than four has long been known,
and the Sun has published several
methods of managing two or three at
a table, but it remained for some im
patient Englishman to Invent a way
for six to play at the same time.
But the new echeme allows a table of
six to play simultaneously. All that Is
required Is that two ordinary square
card tables shall be placed so that they
make a single table of twice the usual
length.
The arrangement of the players, as
originally outlined, has been much im
proved by an American, Algernon Bray,
who suggests that each seat at the
table shall have a number assigned to
it, and that after cutting for partners
those who are paired shall occupy seats
with a difference of three between
their numbers 1 and 4, 2 jnd 6, etc.
The partnerships are decided in the
usual way, the two players cutting the
lowest cards having the choice of seats
and cards and the first deal, the only
difference from the ordinary game be
ing that they both deal at once.
If we suppose that the partner hav
ing the first deal occupy 'seats Nos. 1
and 4 at the table, the positions of
their adversaries will be as follows: 2
and 5, S and 6 being the opposing part
nerships. S
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The cards being shuffled, are pre
sented by 1 and 4 to 2 and 6. respec
tively, to cut. Four hande are dealt in
the usual way, dummy's cards being
placed opposite the dealer on his own
table. J
If the dealer can declare on his own
hand, he does so. If not. or If there Is
any doubling, his partner, sitting op
posite him, must look at the dummy
and declare for him. Suppose No. 1
passes the make; No. 4 must take No.
I s dummy and make the trump.
It Is neceesary, of course, for the
combination of players at one end of
the table or at one of the two joined
tables to wait until the combination
at the other end is ready to play, so
that they may not be interrupted by
the dealer at the other end calling upon
his partner to help htm. out. As soon
as the declaration and doubling, if any,
at each end Is settled, the play pro
ceeds in the usual way, dummy's card
being turned face up as soon as the
eldest hand leads. It Is Juet the same
as it the two dummy players in an
ordinary game had left the room after
laying down their hands face up.
The results are scored in the uBual
way, but -three separate score sheets
must be kept, or there must be room
on the sheet for three rubbers side by
aide, because three distinct rubbers are
played, two of them simultaneously. In
the position shown, one rubber Is be
tween Nos. 1 and 4 as partners against
Nos. 2 and 5. at one end of the table,
and against Nos. 3 and 6 at the other
end. The rubber between Nos. 2 and
5 and 3 and 6 will coma on the tapis at
the next deal.
The first deal finished and scored',
the players move in such a manner s
to bring each of them in turn to a
lesser number of seat than the one he
has just occupied. This will take No.
S to seat No. 5. S to 4, '4 to 3, 3 to 2,
and 2 to 1. No. 1 going to No. . This
will make the arrangement for the
second deal, if we suppose for a moment-
that the players have retained
their original numbers, as follows:
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assuming for the sake of convenience
in explanation that it is the players
who are numbered, instead of the seals
at the table: 1 2, '
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3 4
The scores for this position will be
those of the two rubbers that Nos. 2
and 5 are to play against Nos. 1 and
4 and against Nos. 3 and 6. 2 and 5
having the deal. All three rubbers are
now started.
Upon changing seats again the play-
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It Is now the turn of Nos. 3 and i tt
deal, and they play the second round ol
their rubber against' both the other
pairs.
If the players continue to move In
this manner after every deal It is ob
vious that by the time six deals have
been played they will have Individually
occupied every seat at the two tablet
and also that all the combinations oi
partners and adversaries will have been
exhausted because in one dal No. J
had 2 and 5 against him. but the seconi)
time he dealt he had 3 and S against
him.
It Is also pointed out by Mr. Bray
that the numbers of the seats original
ly occupied by each player will be the
number of the hands on which he and
his partner will dear when he sits at
one end of the table.
Although there must be an equal
number of deals between each set o(
opponents It does not follow that the
rubbers will end equally, As soon a?
a rubber is flniahed it can be scored
to the individual accounts of the fou
composing It. Just as In the ordinary
game, and the next rubber can he pro
ceeded with, if it Is agreeable that
there shoufd be no change of partners.
But if it is desirable to change part
ners after each rubber the combination
that is finished must either sit idle for
a deal or play a deal for fun.
Distinction With a Difference.
John s ilken in IJpplncott'e.
A man may rant and a man may rail
1Vhen a honk-honk honka at him:
A man may pant and a man may wall
Aa the honk-honk-honk growa dim;
But the urns man amirka and the tarn, rnaa
smiles
And to honk-honk-honk is vrone.
Sc. the fame man's quirk and th. elm.
man's wile
Whan, ha gats a honk-honk of his owal
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