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THE MACON TELEGRAPH: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1908. Drew In “Ja^ck Straw” Rose Coghlan Scores In English Play. “The Battle In the Skies" a Stirring Scene — “Schooldays” Succeeds (SlSEIS) Grea.t New Hippodrome Spectacles ater, Is an enjoyable performance that has won an enthusiastic welcome. Hcrtnan Timber* as Izzy Levy, a peddlfer; Janet Priest. Joe Keno. Agnes Lynn. Wilfred Jierlck. Gregory Kelly and Bert mica Faye appear to advan tage • “School Days" Is the outgrowth of the (Prom Our New York Dramatic Corre spondent] J OHN nitinv has at last become an actor, according to the views of various people who have seen his performance In “Jack Strawthe Kngtlsh Importation at the Empire theater. . . Written by Edward ffomeraet Maug- hum. tin* i/.ndon playwright of the hour, "Jack Straw" gives promise of repeating In the United Mate* the long run It enjoyed In London. 'It wn the Vaudeville theater that Charles llawtrey of "Message From Mere* fame appeared in the English produc tion for a record number of perform- Mr. Draw's Aotlng. Mr. Drew of course does not class In the foreground of American dramatle nrt He Is really not an actor because of his Inatiillty to do actual character work, but ha passes for more than a liter** lyceuin entertainer or reciter when given n play like “The Duke of Kllllcrankle" or "Ills House In Order” or "Jack Straw."' In a play Ilka "Kllll- crankle," for Instance, Mr. Drew had nothing much to do but the lightest sort of Impersonation, yet the play was a success because that waa simply the nature of the work necessary for the completion of the ensemble. Mr. Drew's handsome clothes and Ills faultless and studied dsportment in those same clothes constituted the ma jor part of his acting In that drnma. In “Jack Htraw"■ lie his a peaceful sort of role that ho curries to a sue-1 ciss without much nervous wear'and I Par. and he should pray nightly for| the preservation of those astute man- j (•serial experts whose business It Is to choose for him his plays. When they I lose their cunning, then farewell, Mr. Drew. Rose Coghlan Scores. Rosa Coghlan fti even with Mr. Drew In “Jack Htraw." Her performance Isj practically flawless us Mrs. Parker, Jennings, a vulgar parvenu who boosts and shoves her way relentlessly Into, the altered Inner precincts of society.; Miss Coghlan threatens frequently to, topple Mr. Drew off his pedestal of! stellar supremacy. ordinarily termed ft comedy, "Jack! Htraw" Is pretty much of a farce. The compllcullona arising from the ad-j ventures of Archduke Hobsstlan of 1 OF ACTRESS OF UNUSUAL BEAUTY. Pomerania In the guise of a waiter are thoroughly farcical In description. In tint capable supporting company are Mary Poland. Edgar Davenport. Fred Tyler. Adelaide Prince and Grace Henderson. Great Hippodrome fpectaclas. The new IHppoUrotno spectacle Is more elaborate In many respects than any of Its nmnr.lng predecessors, and the present programme nightly and dally shown at the giant playhouse should establish new records for popu larity. The most Impressive feature Is prob ably the atlrrlngly realistic “Hattie In the Hkles," which, In four acenes. wns Invented hy Arthur Voegtlln and writ ten and produced by It. II. ilurnsldc. 8tsry of "Battl* In th# Skies." Tills spectacle opens In a street of the United Hfutes In the period of 1050. It Is the age of airships and still other progressiva Inventions. Rumors are In the air that the city Is to be attacked by th# United States of Europe. Gen eral Fairfax, who Is in command of the United States aeroplane army, tells the people he Is fully prepared to meet and repulse their ‘fleet of airships. The skeptical sneer, and many doubt him. To his gld comes Geoffrey Gedlson. a young Inventor, who Is In love with the general's daughter He tells of his new discovery, a radium gun, that will destroy without fall. The general Is greatly pleased, and word goes forth to Europe that should her air fleet cross the sky border of America the latter's army aeroplanes will destroy every city on the other continent. 8jde* kidnap the general'! daughter, believing that her presence in their capital will save destructh Geoffrey takes his airship and goes In pursolt. She la rescued. General Fair fax and his fleet follow. They recon- nolter about the fortifications. The bsttle begins, snd the winged warriors are In conflict, Armed aviators guide their machines over the city. A shower of rudium Is poured, over the buildings. It Is night, and the sky becomes red with the fire of the city first being destroyed. Build ings fall and Steeples topple. Then all Is smoldering ruin. Quiet reigns. With a rush a great tidal wave flows over the debris sntPTeave.s the open sea. The concluding scene takes the spec tator to thu Golden garden, whore Gen eral Fairfax and Ids*followers cele brate their triumph, the act closing with festivities In honor of the triumph of the Americun airship fleet. “8porting Days." The opening spectacle, made up of Several scenes. Is ‘‘Hiiortlng Duys," a rnelodruhm. In the cast appears J. Parker Coombs, Edwin A. Clark. George Mordccul. Marie Tyler, William H. Clark, Oeorge Melville. Harry Dale. Frank Melville. Marcellne, the clown; Nannette Flack and many others. The action opens with a baseball game on the Newtown college grounds, next follows a wonderfully staged boat race between college eights, and ns a finale la shown a horse race at Sara toga which thrsutens to make the cole- brated "Brn-Hur" chariot race pale In to insignificance. The usual Hippodrome circus pro- i gramme Is made up of a largo number I of new acts and specialties. Including] Alber's ten performing polar bears, Paul 8anders' dog circus and downs! equestrians, acrobats, wire experts snd 1 equilibrists galore. No visitor to New York should miss the new Hippodrome show. “School Days," at the new Circle the*! EDWIN STEVENS AS THE DEVIL IN “THE DEVIL,” GARDEN THEATER, NEW YORK. forty-five minute vaudeville sketch of last season. Gus Edwards' “School Boys and Girls." Aaron Hoffman has taken hold of it and whipped It Into a three act musical comedy, and. of course. Mr. Edwards has added a num ber of songs, which, judging by the way they were received, are going to be hit# for a few months to come. Ed Gardenler and Vincent Bryan wrote the lyrics. GERTRUDE QUINLAN. Gertrude Quinlin is back from Paris wearing one Af those new hats with a cock's plume stuck in the band and the tip waving In the atmosphere nearly three' feet above the crown. Miss Quinlin doesn't seem a bit stuck up by the English praise she received for' her Flora Wiggins success In the London production of “The College Widow." There's a chance that the United States may not be able to hold her much longer. She has only to make a scratch of her pen on either of two blank contracts brought back In Jier € by 8 gold purse to have a production ready for a tempting starring venture in London. “THE DEVIL." It never rains but It pours. Fran* Molnar was a struggling and unknown Hungarian newspaper writer In Buda pest until his play of “The Devil" took Vienna by storm. The piece Is now scheduled for separate productions In twenty-four Eurupeun cities for tho coming season and managers arc bid ding In as many different tongues for the rights to'his next* effort. MISS DESMOND KELLEY. Miss Desmond Kelley, who played the part of Jane Hainmond In “Her Sister" with Ethel Barrymore last season and was previously In “The Spoilers" and other Frohman produc tions. will be seen next season in an linportnnt role In "The Richest Girl,” the play In which Marie Doro Is to bo starred. i POPULAR “BEN-HUR.” The original "Bcn-Hur" company has given over 2,000 performances of that play. Worlds Series Baseball Talk—Re-reformed Foqlba.ll For 1908; Chances of Pennant Leaders—Trick Plays a Gridiron Favorite T HE forthcoming world's cham pionship series Is now no cupylng the attention of tlm bast-boll slurps. Most of the "fans'* have been calculating nn the probable result of the series and dur ing the latter part of the season have figured the likely result If the follow ing sets of teams ttt«t III the motnen- tons and climaxing grsen diamond battles: The New York, Chicago orj Pittsburg Nationals against either tlio Cleveland, Chicago or Detroit Ameri cans Tho writer has token especial pains scribes pick tho National teams' chances us superior to those of tho American league clubs tor the fallow ing reasons: In the first place, tho pitching strength of tlio lending American league teams Is Inferior to that of New York. 1'lttsburg and Chicago, though tho Clth-ago Americans have a twirl ing department tlmt probably I* 'the best In the league. Tho Chicago and Pittsburg Nationals nr* stronger In (ho box' than New York. Chicago having tho beat pitching staff In the country, with Brown. Pfelster and Overall at THREE LEADING EASTERN FOOTBALL WARRIORS. G. F knunfiy i» the last captain of tho Dartmouth university eleven, which Is feared.by tbt colleges that hope to capture Hie football champion- ahtp of the cast. Eddie Djllon Is the captain of ths Princeton university eleven, and hla equal a quarterback and field general Is dllhculi to name. Dillon has sixty- five eetuPd.’iWs for the \arrltv »levm out for practice at Princeton. F. E. Donnie Is the quarterback of the llrown university eleveh. He It a capable punt catcher, runs a team well and la one of the fastest runners la hla college. to poll a tong Hat of acknowledged ex perts throughout the country as to what teams would prove superior In post season contest* and definitely why. Th* next best thing to haring •b expert's \ leer* on a given subject D to know the grounds ©n which he bases his opinions. 1 have communi cations from a score of sources widely separated, and hy a Urge majority tho Its top. No American league team has a pitching array like that. It has been shown In previous world's championship series that pitching la thv controlling factor and that a team with one srnratlona! box man t* better equipped, as a rule, for tho aeries than a team having two or three falrty good t wirier*. N«-w- York with Mat hew son. Chicago with Brown and I'ltUhurg with Willis would, on form, have an advantage over any American league competitor. About Even In Batting. In batting tho two big leagues' beat teams are fairly evenly matched. Tho Chicago Nationals and tho Detroit Americans arc probably tho most con sistent teams In hitting. In Holding, Infield and outfield, tho National league la considered by most of the critics to tuko superior rank, for the Individual players, as a whole, abler In tho older organl- i ..(inn »rii» work of the National bo smoother that of the article merely ex presses the weight of opinion of au thoritative correspondents chosen Im partially. Several critics of tho mi nority. those favoring the American league's chance* In the world'* cham pionship scries, claim (hat Detroit would prove stronger than the Chica go, Pittsburg or New York Nationals because of Its great balling strength and Its two leading pitchers. Donovan and Killian. Three other Detroit pitch er* won a majority «r their games— Wlllets. Hummer* and Mullln—and on form the Detroit* should have won the American pennant by a wide margin of points. Cleveland Erratic. Cleveland 1* an erratic tram and for lh.it reason Is not widely favored as being or world's championship cullber. The Chicago Americans have one of the best plichers of (he country In Ed Walsh. lie ha* the best record In the American league, lie has pitched more games than any oilier American twirl- er nod |*erfonued tho sensational feat of winning over thirty contest*. Afler finishing hi* forty-third same he had j the high percentage of ill. Jots the Cleveland Leader. ! Adrian Joss ha* again taken his J place as leading pllcher for th* Cleve- ! land club. Donovan. Killian and| i \Yel*h art the only men who have bet ter avernm s tn the American league. ' Killian and Donovan have worked sparing^ snd only wheh circum stances favored llpm. so Walsh Is the j only pltvln.r who really has done I better work than Joss, taking Into con- i alteration the number of games worked Control 1* one of Joss' strong points. He has labored In almost forty con tests and gave ortly thirty base* on balls. Cy Young of Boston Is next be hind Joes In point ef gamrs won. Smith Tricks Schmidt. Sid Smith, the burly catcher whom Connie Mack was so kind to give to McAlrer. pulled eft a good trick on Schmidt, the Detroit catcher, a few days ago during the St. Louis-Detroit series. With Jones on first tn the eleventh I Inning. Smith deliberately turned his back on th* pitcher and pretended to recognise some one tn the stand- Catcher Schmidt turned around to see to whom Smith was speaking, and when he did #o Jones stole second, Schmidt never throwing the ball. Smith, followed this by bringing Jones homo with a single, winning tho game. That one stunt has mude Smith in SL Louis. e Trick Plays In Football. From trustworthy indications the 1901 football season will be largely a campaign of tritk plays. Since the new rule* make "straight football" less remunerative In the amount of ground gained, coaches and captains, being practical p*op)«y opine that If they would produce winning teams they must develop numerous new trick plays. It Is the unusual (and much disliked by yyteran players) openness of the game qf today that makes trick playa especially popular, for, while their danger Is naturally greater to the team In possession of the ball, the chances of large gains arc correspond ingly greater. So tho ever present principles of ‘universal compensation are again seen to apply. Fumbling la the bugbear of almost all trick pl*y* The added nervousness of the players and their pressing de sire to start the maneuver as quickly a* possible superinduce considerable fumbling. Therefore practice in han dling. passing, catching and falling on the ball Is more Important than in the days of dote'formation plays Indications are that most of the trick plays of th* year will Involve the forward psss and that long passes will be largely relied on. The loiy forward pass Is ono of the prettiest spectacles ] tho bout started. Billy walked up to ( agaInst_Mlnnesota Nov. 21 and at St. in tho new, revamped, restcrllixed, rc- * emasculated, re-reformed game, and Its frequent use will contribute consider ably to the game from a spectator's viewpoint. But It wi(l give various de grees of nervous prostration to coaches and players. ARTHUR ROCKWOOD. NEWS OF THE PRIZE RING. Jack ("Twin") Sullivan, the New England heavyweight, has turned down tho offer made to him by Jim Jeffries to fight Bam Langford, tho colored fighter, a twenty-five round battle nt the Jeffries club of Los Angeles, Cal. Sullivan has been made several offers by club managers of California to fight Langford, but he luts always side stepped the offers. Sullivan says he will fight Hugo Kelly of Chicago. Jimmy Coffroth, the fight promoter of California, has practically arranged a match between Packey McFarland, the Chicago fighter, and Buttling Nel son. the lightweight champion, tp l*e fought at ColniH, Cal., on Thanksgiv ing day afternoon. The only thing that hinges on the bout being clinched for good Is a percentage of the gate receipts, which Nelson Is holding out for. Coffroth expects to sign Nelson j soon. They will battle for twenty-five: rounds if they get together. | T. E. Jones, manager of Billy Papke, | the middleweight champion, ha* ar-1 rived In Chicago. In speaking of Pnp- i ke's fight with Ketchel, Jones says I that Papke had Ketchel beaten before j Ketchel In his dressing room and sa|d: “Well, Stanley, I am going to give you tho worst licking of your life. I am going to slug with you every Inch of the way, and when I get you going I will put you out. Louis Thanksgiving day against SL Louis university. Kcnnard has shown the signs of a good* drop kicker at Cambridge. CHICAGO’S MARATHON. The annual Marathon race at Cbl- cago was won hy A. L Corey of Chi cago, unattached, In the official tlmo of 2 hours 57 minutes 30 seconds. One minute behind him came Sidney Hatch of the Illinois Athletic club, while the third man was J. A. Feltes of Chicago, unattached. Feltes* time was 3 hours and 12 minutes. Corey, his friends say, might have equaled or lowered the record for the course, 2 hours 41 minute* 43 second*, had ho not been troubled by a pebble which got into his shoo some miles north of the city. He maintained his lead some time even with this hand! cap, but finally had to stop and remove the annoyance. FOOTBALL DOINGS. Tad Jones pays Tibbott, the Prince ton halfback, the compliment of saying that he was one of the best backs do veloped last season. Walter Camp, however, did not mention Tibbott on any of his three All-American lineups for 1907. The Carlisle Indians play Pennsylva nia Oct. 24. Annapolis Oct. 31 and Har vard Nov. 7. The team winds up the season with a game at Minneapolis CRACK NEW BRITISH RACING SLOOP SHAMROCK AND HER OWNER, SIR THOMAS UPTON The latest Shamrock, the fourth built by Sir Thomas Llpton, has been a leading figure In the big yacht races of the summer In European waters. She has provtd remarkably fast. She Is a seventy footer, and 8ir Thomas is certain that If the New York Ya(ht dub decides to chance th* America's cup racing rules so that seventy footers Instead of ninety footers can compete he will capture th* envied trophy. In Quest of which be has spent for over ll.IM.OM. >> CAP.TAIN A. ZINK, COLUMBIA ■ VARSITY TRACK TEAM. Houghton Is sure to equip his team with one of-these If there Is a possi ble chance. The Brown football players began practice on their own field recently after getting Into fine condition at "DaAT Gammons' farm In New Bed ford. Cornell and Pennsylvania mads the moat of the forward pass last year, successfully using playa In which the ball waa thrown forward for distances varying from forty to fifty yards. Head Coach Percy D. Haughton of Harvard spent a week at Washington, hla mission being to see Graves, th* old army tackle, and to try to Induce him to go to Cambridge this fall to coach the Harvard llna. WARNER'S ABORIGINES. Glenn Warner says that he Intends tliat hla Carlisle. Indians must use their American names In the lineups. If he didn't he would have some artls- ones tn Man-Afrald-of-a-Bear, Dave Wounded-Eye. Dave She-Bear. Two-Hearts, Harry Cres-For- Ribs, Tall Crane and the veteran. Lit tle Old Man. * Jolla "The Dryad “ She will be seen In thlel which Walker Whitesides Is to be pre- j are considering the organisation of a Carle In "Mary's Lamb' 1 country next season in this ballet but! sealed by Uebler * Co. fifth company. (Ralph. Maud* Adams will play the principal married woman It Is eajd the play la j this season w 111 nuke a road tour la! "Paid In FUU" la now being present- j The Shuberta have signed a contract; Uebler company has signed a con- part in Barrie's new play, “What baard on the author's own life. j "The Soul Kiss." ed by four companies, one tn New ; with Gertrude Hoffman and will pass 1 tract to Mar WUIlam Farnum for a Every Woman Know*." In this play Adelaide Genre has produced In Bu- Israel Zangwill has written a new* York and the other three on tour.under their banner. long term. He will make his appear- — * — “ * * — * “ — " — *“* '—“— with Richard [ once under their management In a THEATRICAL NOTES. a.very woman anow*. in uu* ^unaiur wnrr nv iii liu- ■»» • «—* iw -• >>>«• ■ | ———— —— fur th* first iiw she will enact a i rope successfully * new ballet called (drama entitled "The Melting Pet," InJ Wagenhals A Kemper, the managers,, The leading play by Paul Armstrong, called "The lUstfsIe." Edith Luckett, a Washington girl, haa been engaged to play th« Ingenue role with Nanette Comstock in her new play, "Jet."