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9 OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY. BROOKLYN LIFE. -US- 1 'v i vl THE first matches in the Inter-Club Whist league tournament of this season were played on Friday evening of last week. They were between-the Montaukand Ridge Clubs, the Lincoln and. Mid wood, the Irving and Hamilton, and the Carleton and Excelsior, the games being played at the clubs first named.

The Montauk team, under Mr. Robert Weems, was Dr. W. E. Stratton, Mr.

J. J. Hinch-man and Mr. George A. La Vie, a championship combination which simply overwhelmed the comparative novices from Bay Ridge, as represented by Mr.

J.W. MacKay, Mr. H. G. Plimpton, Mr.

F. R. Whittlesey and Mr. Howard S. Bowns, by an excess of thirteen tricks.

The Lincoln Club, represented by Mr. R. P. Rowe, Dr. H.

S. Williams, Mr. Jay Stone and Mr. David Boyd, all new men, but the first named were defeated by the Midwood team by one trick, after a plucky uphill struggle to overcome a gain of three tricks, by the Midwood men in the first round. The latter were Mr.

A. B. Tremaine, captain Mr. J. W.

McDermott, Mr. Hodgeman and Mr. J. S. De Selding.

ANOTHER struggle to the death was between the Hamilton players, with the Hon. William C. De Witt as captain, and under him Mr. D. G.

Leggett, Mr. F. H. Lawrence and Mr. N.

D. Putnam against the newly admitted Irving Club. The Hamilton Club is a stronghold of whist, and the players were therefore unprepared for such a pace as the new acquisition to the league, which goes in for football and athletics, set them. The Irving team started off with a rush, and secured a lead of seven points in first round, which opened the eyes and stimulated cerebral activity in the visitors, who then got together, gained two points in the second round and six in the last, coming out with a bare margin of one trick. Mr.

O. W. Simons, Mr. R. Rodriquez, Mr, J.

F. Elwell and Mr. J. Powell represented the Irving Club. Where a close fight might have been reasonably expected, between the present champions of the league and so active a whist club as the Carleton, the contest turned out a rather easy thing for the latter, though the Excelsiors were represented by their old players, Mr.

Dan Chauncey, Mr. Frederick S. Parker, Mr. Charles E. Bigelow and Mr.

E. W. Bigelow. The Carletons won with a margin of no less than seven tricks, being represented by Mr. H.

B. Van Vleck, Mr. M. J. Bailey, Mr.

C. W. Wheeler and Mr. John A. Sweeney.

LAST week the Union League Club took the new challenge cup of the Inter-Club Bowling League away from the Midwood Club, after some brilliant work. The match being played on the alleys of the Union League, the conditions were naturally somewhat in favor of the winners, although the alleys being new the advantage was less than it would have been had the home team been longer familiar with them. There is, I thinkno game in which the home team has so great an advantage as in bowling. The Flatbush men played 4 4 1 1 4 i A. 1 11 1 A MR.

WILLIAM H. FORCE. ONE of the best known drivers and 'cross-country riders in the Riding and Driving Club is William H. Force, senior member of the firm of William H. Force Co.

He was born in Brooklyn, on May 11, 1852, and is the son of the late William Force, of the manufacturing firm of Ingersoll, Watson Co. He attended the public schools for a time and finished his education at the Dutchess Academy, Poughkeepsie, New York. After leaving the Academy, he was employed by his father until the latter died, when he entered the employ of the grocery firm of Philip Dater Co. His next venture was in the shipping and commission business as a member of the firm of Glover, Force Co. This partnership existed eight years, when the firm name was changed to William H.

Force and later to Waterbury Force. Upon the death of Leander Water-bury, in 1892, the firm name was again changed to William H. Force and under that name business is now carried on in New York. Mr. Force is interested, to a great extent, in stock raising he is Vice-President and Manager of the Royal Horse Association, a company composed of Brooklyn, New York and Pittsburg capitalists, who have invested $1,500,000 in land, buildings and stock, near Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The association has a breeding ranch ot 120,000 acres, surrounded by a fence over two hundred miles long. The association has stables in Brooklyn. In January, 1889, Mr. Force married Miss Kate Talmage, daughter of T. V.

P. Talmage, and a granddaughter of ex-Mayor Talmage. They have two daughters and reside at present at Lawrence, L. having rented their house on Remsen street. Mr.

Force is a member of the Riding and Driving, Hamilton, Crescent, Brooklyn, and Robins Island Clubs, the Cheyenne Club, of Wyoming, and the Down Town Club, of New York. He worships at Grace Church. He is a lover of music, an admirer of art, and owns some of the handsomest equipages in the city. with N. A.

Forman. A in addition to the wins recounted captured the half-mile novice with W. Rollins. A seems to be strong in sprinters, jumpers and weight-throwers, while has the call on distance runs, bicycling and walking. THE Amateur Athletic Union, with the immaculate Mr.

Sullivan as its patron saint, has been so successful in purging athletics of the slightest taint of professionalism, that it now talks of redeeming football from its fallen estate. There is not a question but that "it will be quite as successful in this as it has been in the other. The Official, piucitiiy, ana managed to taice one game oui 01 ine inree, dui in the other two the Union League men simply swamped them, making totals of 822 and 825 respectively, which exceeded any scores made by league teams up to that time. Mr. Burroughs, of the Union League, made the high score of the evening, 201, and Mr.

Wells, Mr. Houghton- and Mr Robbins played very consistently. Mr. Steinbugler and Mr. Matthews, of Flatbush, however, put up a fine, consistent game throughout, and had the other three men been up to the standard set by them, Midwood would probably have retained the cup.

FOR some years a strong fraternal feeling has existed between Company of the Seventh Regiment, New York, and the company of the designated by the same initial, This feeling has been fostered by Captains.