The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1895, Page 8

' and fined $5 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1895 The wheelmen are more than pleased | with the change of weather, and a great | outpouring of cyclists from the surround- | ing country will be present to witness the races held at Oakland in aid of the Fabiola | Hospital fund. Several races are booked to take place this month. Amateur baseball is having a slight boom. This afternoon the Olympic and | Stanford teams will meet in Central Park. ‘ The bench show, which bas attractea | much attention to the Pavilion, will close ; this evening. | The oarsmen are industriously training | for the regatta at El Campo. According to the latest news from in- terior towns angling in coast streams has greatly improved. THE WHEELMEN. WIIl The National Racling Circult | Reach California In November? | Imperial’s Road Race. There will be some good bicycle racing | to-day at Oakland at the meet given for | the henefit of the Fabiola Hospital Asso- | ciation, which was postponed from May- | day on account of rain. All of the best men of both classes have entered the wvarious events and the programme prom- | ises some excellent sport. The entriesand | § ! i i 4 i ing Road Club made a century around the bay last Sunday. Mayer’s performance is particularly creditable, as he is but 16 years of age. William Christ of the Olympics paced the party to San Jose in good time. o-morrow the Outings will enjoy & run to Centerville, a twenty-two-mile ride, with prospects of an excellent dinner at the other end. The following officers were elected by the Imperial Cycling Club last Monday even- ing: W. H. Tooker, president; W.W. Earle, vice-president; A. D. Stealey, recording secretary; C. H. Dannals, financial secre- tary; W. W. Wilson, treasurer. Considerable interest is attached to the road race to be run over the San Leandro course May 26, by four teams of five men each, from the business houses of Dun- ham, Carrigan & Hayden Co., Baker & Hamilton, Neustadter Bros. and Levi | Strauss & Co., as exclusively announced in the CaLL last Wednesday. [t is said that there is the most material to pick from in the Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Co., but the others assert that it is guantity, not quality. Each man who goes on a team will have to prove hisability toride twenty- five miles at a three-minute gait, or he will not be accepted. All the clubs will turn out to witness the race. Should Oscar Osen make up his mind to ride in France this year with the pro- fessionals he will find himself in the fast- est company it has been his lot to meet. Jaidestioyoe Jr- wmlioirepressntaith8l06: lumbia people here, is personaily ac- quainted with many of the foreign and American racing men now over there, and he tells me that they are all crackerjacks. Banker and Wheeler, the Americans, com- SOME OF THE WATSONVILLE WEEELMEN WHO TAKE PRIDE IN DELIVERING THE SAN FRANCISCO ‘“ CALL.” handicaps have already been published, and there is no change in this respect ex- cept that the recent departure for the East | of E. C. Bald and W. A. Terrill, the class | B fiyers, who had intended to ride, leaves them out of the race, but there will be no lack of good class B men on the track. The management of the races held at| Santa Rosa last Thursday was excellent, and the success of the meet was largely due 10 the untiring efforts of President McGregor. Secretary Brooks and L. W. Burris of the Santa Rosa Wheelmen. Captain A. C. Thornton has called a run of the Olympic Club Wheelmen to Peta- luma to-morrow. If the present warm spell continues this will be a “‘scorch” in a dif- | ferent sense from what the wheelmen un- derstand it. I The California Cycling Club recently | held its semi-annual election of officers with the following result: W. O. Johnson, resident; J. W. Harvey, vice-president; . F. Wynne, recording secretary; D.J. Wren, financial secretary; A. N. Karl, | treasurer; William Reid, sergeant-at-arms. | The road officers continue the same, be- ing elected for yearly terms. Captain Burke announced that there will be no run to-morrow, but instead t:e club will run another of its one-mile handicap races on the Central Park track, open to club mem- pers only. This isthe third of a series and the three winners will then race among themselves to decide who shall possess the prize offered by the club. The local railroad and ferry companies should have the attention of the officials of the League of American Wheelmen now. Ihearitis proposed to charge for the transportation of all bicycles shortly. On the steamer Piedmont cyclists are no longer permitted to stand with _their | wheels on the forward deck outside the rope, which has always been a great con- venience, as the riders were the first off the boat and did not have to wait until all the assengers had disembarked. An or- inance at San Leandro, requiring riders to carry lighted lanterns through that town, also deserves attention. Re- cently several parties have been arrested or a violation of this law, | which they did not know was in effect. However, there is a way around this. Ifa i rider does not dismount in San Leandro, but keeps on his way along tke county road, he will not be molested. If you are on the county road going through with- out a stop, the Constable has no right to stop you. But he takes delight in round- ing up all unwary cyclists who stop for a rest or refreshiment, and at the rate of $5a time such luxuries come high. J. C. Crooks of Haywards and J. M. Hamilton have been added to the roll of the Bay City Wheelmen. The Liberty Cycling Club will have a run to-morrow to San_Mateo, principally to witness the Imperial Club’s roadrace. On May 26 the club will givea picnic at “Tamalpais Villa, Marin County, to its members and their friends and families. The club emblem, formerly a torch and crescent, has been changed to a liberty bell, which is more in keeping with the name of the organization. The Garden City Cyclers of San Jose bave a club run to-day to Oakland to wit- ness the races. They will come up in charge of Captain Delmas, paced by the Seybolt brothers on a tandem, and expect to make very fast time. Under the same conditions, six members of the club made this trip on Mayday in two hours and ten minutes, actual riding time, which is pretty fast going for forty-three miles. The Oak Leaf Wneelmen of Stockton will shortly go out of existence. All the club’s furniture and property has been sold to the Stockton Athletic Association, which will occupy the wheelmen’s old ?uaners on June 1. However, Robert Inglis, once president of the club, writes me they ex- pect to organize a live wheeling annex in the association composed of all the old members of the wheelmen and many new ones. The local wheelmen here always had a fancy for Stockton, and delighted to visit and race there at leastonce a year, and after the change has taken place some arrangement for a meet will be made to which the cyclists from all the bay cities will be invited. The San Francisco Road Club will have their weekly run to Haywards to-morrow, and from promises expect to have about 40 members. The club is in a very flour- ishing condition, having seven new mem- bers come in on last meeting night. Captain Davis, Lieutenants Meusdorffer &nd Solomon and Messrs. Stamper, Cook, #rown,Mack, Kayser and Mayer of the Out- | are favorably with Bald, Ziegler, Dirn- berger or any class B men, and when Zim- merman and Johnson get there our colors will be represented by a quartet of world- beaters. The French racing men are all very fast and Italy has some flyers of worl ide reputation. But there is al- ways room for one more, and as Osen’s suspension debars him from ever racing under the League of American Wheelmen’s rules again he will have to cross the water if he wants to continue in the sport, and Oscar is not slow by any means. Iam in- clined to think he ‘would win his share of the purses, which, by the way, are very liberal. Captain Joseph Quadt, Lieutenant Siebe and Messrs. Stiegler, Schwartz and Maass of the Golden Gate Cycling Club rode a cen- | tury, to San Jose and_return, last Sunday. For to-morrow Captain Quadt has called a club run to Camp Taylor. R. M. Welch, chairman of the local rac- ing board of the league, has issued his bulletin No. 7 as follows: The California meetings of the National Racing Circuit thus far arranged are as follows: San Francisco, Bay City Wheel- men, November 1 and 2; San Jose, Garden City Cyclers, November 4, 5 and 6; Los Angeles, Los Angeles Wheelmen. These are not sufficient to warrant the extension of the circuit to include California, and unless other meetings can be arranged California and the Pacific Coast will have to be left out. The time within which definite conclusion must be reached is limited. Clubs in California desiring dates are requested to at once notify R. M. Welch, the representative of the National Racing Board, 532 California street, San Francisco. The circuit cannot reach Cali- fornia earlier than November 1. It is to be hoped that sufficient dates can be arranged to warrant the National circuit being extended to California. It would bring with it all the prominent racing men of the East, many of whom might stay here for the winter, and would give the sport a wonderful impetus on this coast. The fact that such stars as the Eastern racing men are known to be would ride would draw a crowd to any race meet and make it a great success, and clubs need have no fear on that score when they apply for sanctions. Who wouldn’t ai- tend a meet in which a mile race brought to the scratch such_men as_Bald, Sanger, Tyler, Dirnberger, Macdonald, Bliss, Ter- rill, Ziegler, Coulter, Harbottle, Cabanne, Titus and dozens of men of equal racin, ability who follow the circuit for several months, always racing and always fighting out their races in the endeavor to get a prize. That’s when the sport becomes exciting, and the spectators at the National circuit meet are usually numbered by the thousands. By all means, let us do what r?lc‘m to bring the circuit out here next all. The picture presented this week repre- sents the CaLL carriers at Watsonville. They have become well known to the resi- dents of that thriving city in Pajaro Val- ley. A streak of dust is all that is seen two minutes after the morning train ar- rives, and aithough the routes take the boys all over the city all the papers are delivered within twenty minutes after the trainisin. No. 1in the picture is the re- liable Tommy Lennard, who delivers all south of town; No. 2 is John Miller, who carries all the extras to the CALL agency; Victor Tuttle is the third, and the fourth is Bert Weston, who carries all of the out- side routes. The people of Watsonville all iike the CALL and are pleased with the prompt delivery aflordes by the wheel- men, and theTI;aper has many friends in the valley. he dog in the picture is Nancy Hanks, a thoroughbred terrier from Montana, the property of George P. Martin. A party of Olympic wheelmen, com- posed of A. H. Russ, C. Euler, B. Hay- ward, W. B. Wegener, H. 8. Russ, A. G. Russ Jr, Ed Russ and R. R. Russ en- joyed a trip to Redwood City Sunday. The party were much _concerned, when, on the wnildown' they discovered the absence of A. H. Russ, who had been with them as far as San Mateo. They feared some acci- dent might bave befalien him, and a search was made, but he did not turn up. The next day he was met on the street, and said he had only stopped for a drink, and had then rode on 1o Redwood an :::Ick t‘x:,n ntv.eanogn.kBm Bob Russdoubts s story, and thinks he took the i home from Redwood. i The }mEerinl Cycling Club will hold a five-mile handicap road race to-morrow at 2 P. M., over the course from San Mateo to San Carlos. Frank M. Byrne and J. E. Ed- wards will ride from scratch, and endeavor, by pacing each other, to lower the coast five-mile record of 13 minutes 10 seconds, which Edwards now holds. The other en- trants are: B. F. Heard, 30 seconds; J. W. Harvey, 30 seconds; W. Reid, 45 seconds; E. Barley, 45 spconés; J. P. Jaegling, 45 seconds; Fox, 1 minute; F. Stnckgole, 1 minute; W. Radke, 1}{ minutes; L. Holling, 14 minutes; W. T. Johnson, 1% minutes; U.S. Egan, 1%{ minutes; J. F. Burns, 134 minutes; R. Iargar("' 134 min- utes; G. Geary, 13 minutes; C. Vanderbos, 134 minutes; W. i Wilson, 134 minutes: G. Panario, 13 minutes; J. Pike, 134 min- utes: H, N, Koche, 2 minutes; G. W. W. Roche, 2 minutes; G. H. Dannals, 2 min- utes; George Clabrough, 2 minutes. 4 ‘With such a large entry list the race will surely be well worth ~witnessing. The riders will go down to the start on the 11:45 A. M. train to-morrow. The following will be the officials: Starter, J. Catanich; referce, E. W. Adams; timers—H. F. Wynne, T. F. Egan, W. L. Elliott, W. W. Wilson, J. H. Millett, C. H. Dannals, J. R. Cook; judges—W. W. Earle, E. C. Doug- las, W. H. Tooker, H. W. Eisert, W. Joost, @. E. Tooker; clerk of course, R. Talfour; marshal, F. McCarty. SPALDING. Oscar Lewis of the County Clerk’s office has joined the ranks of the wheelmen. Oscar has purchased a wheel with the very latest improvements, and on Thursday evening he took his first spin. He left the City Hall with some expert riders, and aftér riding a few hundred yards he grew tired and weary and wanted to dismount. He found that the task of getting off his wheel was not <o easy as he had antici- pated, and rather than have any altercation with the rocky road should he come to a sudden stop, Oscar headed his wheel for the Cliff House. ; Arriving at the beach in an exhausted condition, he permitted his poor anatomy to lodge itseif in an mviting sanddune. Some people who were passing in a car- riage on seeing the body of a man stretched at full length on a hill of sand reported their find when they arrived at the Cliff, and the ambulance wagon was sent for the supposed corpse. Lewis had sufficiently recuperated, however, to take the cars for home, and as a consequence the ambulance driver was cheated out of a passenger. Oscar is now thinking what kind of exer- cise is necessary for a fat man to ridea bicycle against wind and sand without having to stop over for refreshments. bl e FAIR WHEELWOMEN. “The Girl” Discusses the Ladles’ Cycling Club of San Jose and Other Matters of Interest. I have so enjoyed the past few days spent in interviewing members of the Ladies’ Cyeling Club that I propose to share my enjoyment with you and to the best of my ability describe this very pleasant organi- zation. “We are not very business-like,” one of them said with a little sigh. ‘‘You see we missed our official meeting this month on account of the rain, but then,” she added brightly, “‘we all know what business would have been transacted, for we see each other o often.”’ Bless their hearts, what bank directors they would make! The club costume is at once practical and pretty. It consists of Eton jacket, long skirt and bloomer of dark blue storm serge, with cap or sailor hat of corresponding hue. When the members enjoy a country run, they usually discard skirts after leav- ing the city and ride in bloomers and leggins. The latter I consider ungraceful and un- necessary. They certainly restrict the muscles, besides being uncomfortably warm. The L. C. C. emblem is a wheel and crescent. Their colors blue and white, “just like Eddie Bald’s,” as one rosy- cheeked lass remarked. Every Monday at 6 ». M., weather per- mitting, a club runis held. Forsome time the interest necessary to keep an organ- ization of this kind alive seemea to nave been lacking among the damsels fair, un- less the boys were invited to participate, when, of course, they turned out ina body; but the run held last Monday evening fully demonstrated to your correspondent the fact that the club was as full of life as in the old days. The brightest and wit- tiest of the members were there, and after a most enjoyable spin in the moonlight all returned to the home of a fellow-member, where they were royally entertained for a Miss Gladys Carlisle, a Prominent ‘Wheelwoman of the Garden City. number of hours. The president, Miss Laura Jones, is both charming and popu- lar—certainly to be envied—while Captain Celine Delmas, with her winning ways, manages this band of beauty with a firm but friendly hand, thus proving herself §ulte as ablea caé;taln as her genial brother oe of the G. C. C.’s. This week I send you a picture of one of our most prominent wheelwomen, unat- tached. This costume is an exceptionally neat one and the fair rider presents a very Frxcelul appearance as she spins by on her 95 featherweight. Do you know I wish people would over- come the idea that simply by wearing bloomers a woman lies herself liable to comment. A modest woman is modest in any garb, be it bathine suit, bloomers or tailor-made street gown. Because we are unfortunate enough to have upon our streets the be-jacketed, be- bloomered female, with yellow hair and drugstore complexion, it does not follow that the suit itself is immodest. A true woman never loses her womanly sweetness and purity, and the girl of to-day who rides the bicycle, glsys golf, polo and tennis, and is capable of walking ten miles before breakfast is better fitted for wife- hood and motherhood than the spoiled darling whosits with hands daintily folded until a fond mother orders the carriage and exhibits beneatn dainty parasol this bit of Dresden china w(iat sorry audi- ence—the world. Girls, wake up to the fact that the men of to-day want merry- hearted, level-headed chums. Don’t think you must be masculine to meet this de- mand; rather be sweetly feminine—not weakly so. Meet them on a common level until, by subtle influence, you raise them to yours. Next week I hope to have a number of pictures of unattached riders, showing you at least two styles of costume favored by > GIRL.” S THE ANGLER. Some Streams Which Should Be Whipped This Month—Local Casts. The past few days of tropical weather should improve the sport of angling in coast streams. If there are any trout worthy of a place in an angler’s creel now hiding under bowlders and sunken logs this weather should certainly stir them up to a feeling of acknowledgment for floating insects of the winged variety. The cun- ning old warriors that have in the past month refused to partake of the most tempting of lures—nicely sconred worms— must now look up from their dark and gloomy retreats at something more fascin- ating and suitable to their fastidious taste than drifting larve. The “‘June bug” is now on the wing, and anglers who are expert in fly casting should enjoy some good sport on many coast streams that have been reported barren of trout. It is said that the Fish Commis- sionersintend to stock some of the coast streams this year with young steelheads and rainbow "trout. It is hoped that at least a few of the Loch Laven trout that arenow enjoying the freedom of a moun- tain lake near the Sisson hatchery will be liberated at the headwaters of the same stream adjacent to this City. The Country Club has received 20,000 fry of the German brown trout from Captain Doherty of the Hoopa Valley reservation. The captain secured from United States Fish Commissioner McDonald some of the eggs of the brown trout a few years ago, and now the streams in the reservation contain large numbers of these fine gume fish, which, unlike the steelheads, remain in the sweet water during all the year. Anglers who are desirous of good fishing should now visit some of the following streams in Marin and Mendocino counties, as excellent reports from them have been recently received: Redwood Valley Creek, ten miles from Ukiah; Walker Valle Creek, Mill Creek, Seward Creek, Forsyt% Creek, Cold Creek, Ackerman Creek, Orr Creek, McClure Creek and Mill Creek, all of which are within a pleasant drive of Ukiah. Robertson Creek, which gives eight miles of good fishing, is convenient to El Robles station on the San Francisco and North Pacific Coast Railroad. Then there are Morrison, Parson and McNabb creeks, near Largo, which should pan out well now. McDowell Creek, near Hopland, is a favorite spot, also Feliz Creek and ‘Wise Creek. Pieta Creek, which flows within short distance of Pieta station, is probably the most productive of any stream on the line of the railroad and the fishing there now is first-class. The Pulton River and jts trib- utaries—opposite Cloverdale —comprising Devils Den, Little Sulphur and Squaw creeks, furnish twenty-five miles of excel- lent fishing. and now is the time to give it a trial. Small flies are best, but if the ang[er does not fancy leaving his hooks and feathers in good fish he should not go away from home for flies that are not con- structed on lines equal to any emergency. It must be said that the fishing in Paper- mill and Lagunitas creeks is not worthy of notice. What fish remain are small and certainly unworthy of a place in any ang- ler’s basket. The fishing stillhig her up on the line of railroad, that is in and around Cazadero, is worse and will not repay any angler for the time and money he must ex- pend in giving the old waters'a trial. Arthur Weston, an English gentleman who is visiting 8an Francisco, has a ranch in Colorado, through which a gray- ling stream runs. Thisgameand delicivus fish is not found in any Pacific Coast waters, and there are only a few streams in England where it inhabits, principally the Dove. It was, so the legend goes, originally brought from France by the old monks to give variety to their Lenten dinners. 'he grayling always suggests Tennyson’s brook: 1 wind about and in and out, With bere a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, ‘And here and there a grayling. It might be placed to advantage in Cali- fornia streams, for no fish requires more skill in capturing than the grayling. The lightest of tackle, the utmost cautious- ness in approach, and the most delicate handling when hooked, will alone make the angler successful. Omitting any one of these qualities, and he may fishall day without securing a fin. The plan of the grayling is not unlike the pompano. It 18, excepting the mullet, the most delicate of fresh-water fish. When hooked the rayling makes a gallant fight for the first ew minutes, but has not the staying quali- ties of the trout, though more ingenuity in devising plans to disgorge the hook and foul the line. The sea-trout anglers] have had good sport along the Sausalito and Tiburon shores this week. A favorite point is the bench of rocks fromini the fog whistle on the reservation at the Sausalito peninsula. Bhrimp is the most taking bait. Then a short, stout rod and a light-running reel for a long cast make the angler’s outfit complete. This sortof fishing is justabout as good sport as one can expect along shore. The sea trout is certainly a first cousin of the speckled inhabitant of the brook. He can show his spots to prove his relationship. The Pescadero will be a late stream this season. The waters from the last rains are still high and muddy. The trout of the Pilarcitos are reported in fair condition. Henry Bkinner, the champion fly-caster, worked the lake the latter part of the week, but has not yet made up his record. The Corte Madera and its tributaries are full of carp and catfish. Some large speci- mens of the latter fat, oily, but good-to- eat fellow were taken on the marsh this week. Dan O’Connell, Ed Bosqui and Rev. Dr. Miel had a few days’ sport on Lake Lagunitas this week. The trout are fat and gamey, and rise freely to any sort of fly with a red streak in the body dressing. They will average, the best of them, about five to the pound. SERCHY ol THE OARSMEN. How the Amateur Scullers Traln for the Big Regatta—Spoon- ing at Night. The rowing fraternity is all agog over the great regatta to be held at El Campo on May 80, and the rejuvenated activity and enthusiasm which is manifested by the various clubs entered indicates that the affair will be a great success. All the crews and single-scullers are training like Trojans, and nightly may be seen plying their shell-like crafts through the placid waters of Mission Bay with fervid vigor, under the guidance of their several coaches. Several old-time oarsmen and past masters with the spoons were noticed along the bridge Sunday and during the training nights of last week. They were favorable in their comments of the work of the various crews, and expressed the opinion that it will be no easy matter to predict the winner. ‘Word from Stockton and Vallejo tells of the diligent manner in which the up- country boys are training, which seems to have set the crews about the bay here to work with renewed energy, for they look upon tie Stockton boys and the Vallejos as dark horses from the showing they made with the SBouth Emds some years ago. Bob McArthur's Olympic Club crew is going to make a strong bid for the junior race. Bob is not content with aliowing his men to simply train with the oars, but makes them go through regular exercise at the Olympic Club nightly. He says he is going to have them trained down as fine as granulated sugar when they enter the race. The Acmes, under the tutelage of Henry Tank, now row in perfect rhythm, and while they say nothing they are neverthe- less determined, win or lose, to make the other crews know they were in the race. 8t. Mary’s College crew handle their oars as if they were toothpicks, and the way they make them bend in their practice spins needs but a second thought to con- vince one of the muscular development of the men. W. A. La_Chapelle (bow), Jim Fickett (forwardwaist), D. Connely (afterwai c&. F. La Chapelle (stroke) and George McGrill (cockswain) will comprise the South Ends’ junior crew. Although the lightest men in the race, the South Ends repose great confidence in them and exgect them to carry off the honors of the day. They are strong little fellows and possess that qualification so essential to a good oarsman—sand. The La Chapelle brothers are black- smiths and the swinging of a 25-pound sleage for ten hours a day has given them muscle and wind power to withstand the most killing pace in any race. Jim Fickett is a trained athlete, having been a member of the Olympic Club; D. Connely has dis- tinguished himself as a Whitehall rower on more than one occasion and their cox- swain, George McGrill, is considered with- out a peer. They train regularly, and neither smoke nor drink, and the way they g0 over the three-mile course, keeping up a 38-minute stroke from start to finish, is a safe presumption that they will make their heayier opponents hustle to keep out of their wake. Jack Dunghy, the noted single-sculler, bas taken the’ junior and senior crew of the Pioneers in hand and will, no doubt, have them in fine fettle on the day of the race. The various other clubs hoast of the prowess of their crews, and it is safe to say that from the word “go’’ a most_exciting and interesting race will be rowed and the cleverness of the coxswains will be called to play in keeping their course among the many entries. W. H. McGRILL. e BTy GUN AND GAME. Sportsmen Who WIill Have Inland Preserves—Curlew-Shoot- ing. This afternoon the Alameda Gun Club will hold its monthly shoot at the Oakland Trotting Park, ana to-morrow afternoon the Olympic Gun Club members will try their skill on artificial birds. It is said that the Olympic sportsmen have made complete arrangements with the owners of the property through which the Lagunitas Creek flows for its lease for one year. At the expiration of the term it will be op- tional with the sportsmen if they intend to hold the land under lease for a further term of years. It is said that keepers will be detailed on the 1st of June to keep ang- lers and sportsmen off the grounds. Some sportsmen of this City and San Rafael have leased the De Long ranch, which includes 14,000 acres of good shoot- | ing and fishing for a term of five years. The land is situated north and about fif- teen miles from San Rafael, and affords E;ood deer shooting during the season oren or that kind of sport. Sydney Smith, a prominent business man of this City, is | one of the leading members of the club. Within the last ten days there has been some fair sport on the marshes along San Leandro Bay, and also the low lands run- ning from Waldo Point to Alta on the Sausalito and San Rafael Railroad. Cur-| lew and plover and the sand snipe have | been shot in these localities, not in any great numbers, but enough to make a bag. Charles O’Connell bagged nine curlew near Victors, on the Richardson Bay side, | on Tuesday, and knocked over twenty- eight plover, which was not a bad day's work. There is a certain sportsman from San Francisco, name unknown, who would take a prize as a champion curlew-caller. ‘With his fingers to his mouth he can ar- rest the Hlight of a flock of curlew and bring them within gunshot. Even after the %ischarge he is able to keep them within range. The weird and plaintive cry of this shy bird he imitates to perfec- | tion, and it is interesting to watch the | flock pause when they fienr it, waver a | moment on the wing and then wheel back | toward the destroyer who is calling them to their death. The yellow-leg plover and the gray sandpiper afford lots of fun these summer days, and by a judicious treat- ment they can be prepared for the table without a trace of the marshy taste. The curlew should be hung at least three days before eating. A hot bath in salt water in which a lump of charcoal has been dis- solved will improve the meat. i THE RIFLE. Marksmen of This City Who May Compete in the Big Eastern Shooting Festival. The thirty-sixth annual May festival and grand prize eagle shooting of the San Francisco Schuetzen Verein will take place Sunday and Monday, May 19 and 20. The amount set out for prizes on public and company targets is $1850, and is the largest amount ever before offered at a May shooting festival. The first day will be devoted to company and public prize shooting and the second to the Eagle King shooting. There is also $175 set out for bowling and a large amount for raflle prizes. The challenge issued a few weeks ago by Gus Zimmerman of New York in behalf of Mr. Ross to shoot Mr. Vandeusen of ‘Winona one or three matches, $1000 a side, at 200 yards, off hand, 25-ring target, has been accepted by Mr. Vandeusen. The conditions will be made known soon. Among the marksmen of this City who might go to the American Bundes_shoot- ing festival in New York are Messrs, Jungblut, Faktor, Strecker, Helm, Young, Bendel, Garns, Ehrenpfort, Schuster and others. To-morrow at Shell Mound Park the San Francisco Schuetzen Verein will hold its regular monthly medal shooting. The regular monthly medal shooting of the Germania Schuetzen Club and the Nord- dlemscher Schuetzen Club will also take | place. President Cleveland has accepted the honorable presidency of the forthcoming reat Bundes shooting festival in New fi’ork. He will review the procession on the first day of the festival, June 30 next. A iy HANDBALL. Games That Will Be Closely Con- tested In the Courts To-Day. The following games of handball will be played in the San Francisco ball court to- morrow. As will be noticed among the | players are some of the leading experts of the State: First game—W. Darius and J. Brown to play C. Butterfield and G. Ward. Second garne—W. Kennedy and J. Far- rell to play J. McCarthy and M. Smith. Third game—P. Ryan and G. McDonald to_play M. McNeil and J. Rodgers. ourth game—Jean Vogelsang and W. Fuller to p%ay H. Moffett and P. Barrett. Fifth game—J. Sullivan and D. O’Neil to play J. Fitzgerald and Thomas Kiley. Sixth game—J. Jones, the Australian champion, to play J. Harlow (the coast champion) and Al Pennoyer the best three out of five, 21 aces. At the Union court the games an- nounced for to-morrow are: Riordan against Pennoyer and McManus; Lynch and Johnson against Hendry and Haus- man; Dillon and Wren against Feeney and Lenihan. —e OLYMPIC CLUB SPORTS. Baseball at Central Park—Swim- ming and Boxing Contests. The exclusive article published in the CAvL in regard to the fence of the Olympic Club grounds being crushed down by the contractors who are finishing the roads parallel bars, tumbling mat, horse, club- swinging and a hot‘liy contested fencing match. The pyramid work was especially well done, considering the time that has been given to that form of exercises here. Among those who took most prominent art were: Farmer. '95; Gamer, '98; leming, ’98; Raisch, ’98; Howell, '97; Ames, '97; Carle, '98; Kaufman, 96; Heth- erington, ;9:;; Baldwin, '97, and many oth- ers. The rformance was given to a “‘crowded’’ house, for hundreds of students turned out to witness the initial exhibition of the gymnasts. On Wednesday last the San Mateo Stanford diamond by the freshmen team. Score: 9to7. The visitors put up good ball, but were poorer at fielding than their opponents. The “freshies” hit San Ma- teo’s pitcher for further orders, and had little trouble winning out. The field day to be held on the field and track here next Saturday, May 11, is going to be an event of the sason. Most of the athletes are keeping in elegant condition and have been training conscleqnous]y for the past three weeks. The prizes for the various events amount to a total of $150, besides the honor coming to an athlete who heips to gain the championship for his class. It will be strange if the coast mile running record jsnot broken. Brown ran_an unofficial mile in the c“f recently in 2:33 25 and is expected to lower the present record to 4:33. If Copeland, ’95, runs in the half another record may come down. Dole, 98, may possibly lower the coast pole-vault record, and is give Culver a hot run on the hurdles. Watsqn, '95, threw the sixteen-pound ham- mer 107 feet in fi;ractice. and Fickert, '97, has made an equally good showing. Following is a list of eventsto occur: 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 880-yard run, one-mile run, 120-yard hurdle, 220-yard hurdle, one-mile walk, two-mile bicycle race, running broad jump, running high jump, pole vault, throwing 16-pound hammer, putting 16-pound shot. 'he championship tennis tournament for the ladies of the university beginsa week from to-day and will end on the Saturday afternoon following. The pres- ent list of entries shows a decided interest in the game and promises an excellent tournament. Those looked upon as among the best players are Misses Williams, Mar- tin and Brown, but there are a number of other ladies who play a sharp accurate game who may surprise the prophets. At any rate the finals will be a most exciting series. The Ladies’ Bicycle Club, after a bril- liant beginning, seems to have come toa temporary halt. The club members re- ceived professional instruction as to the managenient of the iron steed and are as gmliclent as most male riders. The loomer costume has not been adopted by the club, notwithstanding contrary re- ports. S. B. OSBORNE. L i gs e SAN JOSE SPORIING. What the Wheelmen, Horsemen and Sportsmen Are Now Doing. School baseball nine was defeated on the | foing to | h KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and | tends to (Fersunal enjoyment when rightly used. 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