The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1895, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1895. > As will be noticed, by a careful perusal of the following departments of sport, the in- | terest in.cycling, rowing, yachiing, angling, rifle-shooting; coursing, boxing.and kindred | #ports has increased wonderfully, and as a | sporting center California bids fair to out- rival many af the great Eastern States. The greatspurt that wheeling has taken | in the- past year is ‘nothing short of sur | prising. and ke same may be said of other lines of spoft; but.in a-smaller way. Oarsmen who have been resting on their oars:for ‘a nuniber of - years -have ‘at last opened fheir-eyes in surprise at the won- derful striges that other branches of -sport have recently takeén, and. an -effort is now being made to brihg into prominence the | once much-favoréd aepartment of aquatics. Bome very inleresting news will 'be found | in theletters from correspondents of inte- Tior-towns, x -follow the local budget | of weekly sporting. THE . -WHEELMEN. J.'E." Edwards Wants _the World's . Flve-Mile Road: Record. CLUB' Events. rai To-Morrow.—Acme €lib.| Wheélnieh runi 1o Birds Valley with trampers’ anhex, . - i Bay- City. Wheelriien - run- to Centerville, 9 A. M. creek-Toute boat. Califérnia Cycling Club run tc Petaluma, v and train.to 8an Rafael. fers shoot. with Gilroy Sportsmen’s tion at San Jose. Oiympic Club Wheelmen—Races at Central Park, 10:30 A M. Paeific -Cycling® €lub B:30 4. 3 Royal Cyeling Club run to Crystal Springs. San Jose Road Club—Five-mile roadrace. run to San Jose, Considerable interest is manifested in the performances of Walter "Foster, the Olympic Club racer, and Allan Jones, the pride’ of the Garden City Cyclers of San Jose, who' are now rac gainst the cracks- of -Southern California in “California” Cycle Racing. Circuit federation.”” " In that. word ‘‘confedera- tion’” I See the pet scheme of Charles FullerGates at last realized, and indeed T am told that it was Gates, assisted by T. H. B. Varney, who arranged this circuit of Taces, Mr. Varney is always doing something like ‘that to assist the sport, and-deseérves great credit for his willing- ness to alwdys foster anything tending to adda st to eveling. This southetn eircuit as now arranged is as follows: Races were held at Santa Bar- bara.on’ May 15 and at Ventura yesterday, and. will be held "at' Pasadena May 20, San Bernarding M Riverside May 23, Santa Ana-May 25, Los Angeles May 30 | and June 1, ‘San. Diego June 8, Bakersfield June 12, and Fresno June 15, thus making a 1ull ‘month’s circnit .of racing, ten | meetings in all, with intermediate days for resting. Last Wednesday the first races of the circuit-were ron at Santa Barbara, and | as alr eady Teported, Burke and Castleman | from Seuthern. California carried off all | the honorsin the class B events. Foster and Jonies each won a third place. Tt is safe to say, hewever, that Trainer Aylward ; will have'the Rambler team in splendid shape very shertly, and then the positions at the finishr may be different. -Burke and | Castleman .-each -won a first and second prize at the Fabiola Mayday fete races last | Saturday, and are in about the best con- dition of any of the coast class B men at present.. The programme of the ‘southern meets will be nearly the same, with prizes as follows; unless changes are made in_the meantime :"One-mile novice, gold ‘and- sil- ver medals; two-mile class B-handicap, $105 bicycle-first “prize, $40 suit of clothes second Yrize; mile class A, handicap, $40 suit of clothes first’ prize, $15. bicycle suit @ second prize. Mile county championship, gold medal. Mile open elass B, $I icycle firstp: 40 suit of clothes second. The Pacific Cycling Club will hold a run to San Jose next Sunday, riding down on this side of the bay. The start- will be at 5:80 o'cloek A.M. from Twenty-first and Valencia streets, A meéting of the Portuguese Bicycle Club was held at 525 Front street.last Tues- day evening. May 16. The officers of this | new club are: - President, Jose Baptista; vice-president, Manuel Henas; secretary, Jose J, d¢ Freitas; treasurer, Antonio A. Sarmento. * ° 3 . At a meeting 6f the Outing Road Club Jast Monday evening new by-laws were udopted. J. Hilborn was elected vice- | president. Five new riders were elected to membershi];, Tberoll is fast increasing, | and the club bids fair to become quite a - factor in wheeling circles here. Last Sun- day a run was held to Alvarado, and a week from to-morrow another country spin will be taken under Captain Davis. A match team race is about arranged be- tween the.employes of the Gray Bros. Paving Company and the Cushing-Wet- more Company. “The cyclersin the latter firm think they have a *‘moral™ if the race should come off, but their oppanents say they are all stale from overtraining and won't be ‘!in it.” . Frank M. Byrne’s name is up for mem- bership in the Olymvic Club. Heisalready | a member of.the Imperial Cycling mu{, and the Aeme Club of Oakland. Question: Will the Olympic Club Wheelinen now gather himin? 4 § Messrs. Jobnson and Birdsall of the Cali- fornia Cycling Cluh rode a century around | the bay last Wednesday. They say the roads are excellent, except neat Alvarado, where they are nearly impassable. Thomas Watters, an old and well-known member of the -Bay City Wheelmen, was married last Sunday to Miss May Stevens of this City. They will take up their per- | manent_ residence in Sacramento, where | Mr. Watters’ business interests are. Here's | a chance for the Sacramento Athletic Club | Wheelmen !oget a good member. g | Captain_BHo ?e has called a run of the Bay City Wheelmen for to-morrow to Cen- terville, leaving heré on the 9-A, M. creek Toute boat. As this is a popular destina- tion, an exceptionally large attendance is expected. -Messrs, Scovern, Smythe and Spalding have been elected to membership in the Liberty Cycling'Club. The club has &' run called for to-morrow to the Presidio. The club’s new emblem, a liberty “bell, looks very greuy, wqued in gold silk and at- tached to their sweaters, ¥ B. E. Clark of the Garden City Cyclérs has gone to Southern California, and while there will do some class A ru:‘uifi. They an 'HflfimflffilfifimflflmflflfllfiiIL‘W!mil'élmflilflm}lE||h’lfl!Eflllfiiil“im\flll‘i IR the Kast San-Jose course on Sunday, May 26, in which.only the Slavonian young'men | of Santa Clara County will compete. The Lace is under the management of L. B. Slavich, W. A. Terrill, the : Bay City Wheelmen’s crack racer, who went East fo race with thé:Syracuse team this season, arrived at Louisville on the 8th inst. He says in a letter-to his_ ¢lub that. they have treated him splendidly since he :got there; that ! 'the weather is very hot—the thermometer | then beirg 8t 93 aeg.—but then we all | know Terrill is at his best when he- is per- spiring freely, so the news was gratifying. 'Ili)e Louisville. track is of cement, three 1aps to the mile, and very similar to the San Jose track, except that the accommo- | ‘dations at Louisville for theriders, officials | and press -are. much superior. ' Terrill’s performances in the East this year will be | watched with great interest by all his friends here, To-morrow the Olympic Club Wheelmen will hold tw track: at 1 A, M.; a_one-mile bandicap and: a half-mile handicap. There are a large' number of entrants, and the park will surely present a live picture to-morrow morning. The California Cycling Club will ride to Petaluma to-morrow under Captain Burk, starting on the 8 A. m. ferry and taking the train as far as San Rafael. The roads through Marin County are at their best this time of the year. ‘Ata special meeting held last Monday evening the Crescent Road Club effected a | Teorganization with a revised charter roll, (‘hzmgh)lg its name to the Royal Cycling Club.” The new ciub has secured quarters in the Castle mansion at Van Ness avenue and Sutter street, which it will occupy by Junel. To-morrow the club will havea vicnic run to Crystal Springs, and a five- mileroad race is scheduled for the early part-of July. On Sunday, May 26, J. E. Edwards will Thomas S. Hall, a Prominent Bay City ‘Wheelman. endeavor to lower the world’s five-mile road record paced by tandems over the San Mateo-San Carlos course. Query: Which he belongs to the Olympics, Itaperials and Young Men’s Christian Association, and also to some Southern California club? Racing men should confine themselves to one club’s colors; you cannot serve two | masters. Mr. Poole, who has had charge of the | Olympic’s wheelroom for a long time, will leave shortly to go into business. His successors will probably be Charles Krel- ing and W. W. Needham, of S8an Jose, than whom _better selections could not have been made. ST Last Sunday James Rogers of this city and George Thorn, a 13-year-old Alameda lad, rode a century around the bay within eight hours, starting from Fourth and Mission streets, which strikes me as being a pretty good performance. Herewith is a fac-simile of the emblem given by the Olympic Club Wheelmen to such of its' members who ride centuries, a bar being added for each performance. A “‘century’’ in wheeling parlance means riding 100 miles. If the rider covers the distance in.seven and a half _hours the bar he receives will be of gold; if it takes ten © CENTUR Olympic Club Wheelmen’s Century Emplem and Bar. hours, silver; thirteen hours, bronze. Of course, many will make the trip and there will be a great demand for bars at first, ‘but_after the novelty wears off the en- gravers will have a rest, for riding a cen- tury is no easy thing to the average man {and ceases to bécome a duty when the other fellows are off on some short jaunt on a picnic run. - Attention is called to the correspondence from Los Angeles in to-day’s CALL, which contains some particularly interesting wheeling news. W. W. Cleveland, Austin Sperry and E. D. Roach -have ‘joined the Bay City ‘Wheelmen this week. The Crescent Road Club having changed its name to the Royal Cycling Club, all communications intended for either shoula be addressed to the secretary, Joy Lichten- stein; at the new clubhouse, ¢orner of Van Ness avenue and Sutter street. The Oakland Y. M. C. A. Cycling Club is steadily improving its condition under the new officers, and many new members are coming in weekly. On Saturday, June 1, the cylers will give a reception to wheel- men in the afternoon and an entertain- ment in the eveming. On the following Saturday afternoon a five-mile handicap road'race will_be held over the San n- dro course. Early in July many of the members will join in a trip to the Y osemite Valley on wheels, and from the number who have signified their intentions of at- tending this promises to be the largest and Ioniesz club run on record. The Golden Gate Cyeli creasing in membership, and while the charter roll is still open it will soon contain the allotted number of names. The elec- tion of officers is set for June 28, and already members are talking about it and chioices are being yoiced. A ladies’ night will be held shortly, and many pleasant country runs are planned for the near o B. Th h on B. Thomas has resigned from the Olympic Club Wheelmen, xugd as he was a. detegate to the Associated Clubs Stanley will find him a good man in dicap events. S A There will be a five-mile bicycle race on ! ."8covern has been appointed to the place. Thomas will shortly open up a bicycle- renting establishment on Sixteenth street club racesat the Central Park | club will claim the record if he gets it, as | and ceatury bar which will hereafter be | DODRILDNBTRN G0 | and Telegraph avenue, Oakland. . Thomas was president of the famous ‘‘Our Set,” which cut such a dash in cycling circles here last winter. Of the other three mem- | bers Wilbur Knapp is selling bicycles, J. | Fagothey has opened a cyclery near the | park, and now Tkomas is trying his luck latit. Now, to complete the thing, if the {other member wo.u.i 2o into the trade— | “Billy”” Stinson—but it is unlikely. The San Jose Road Club will hold a race meet on Saturday. June 1, at the Garden City Cyclers’ track. The following com- i mittee have charge of the affair: J.T. Bailey, R. D. McFarland. C. E. Warren, C. C. Clapman, C. J. Belloli, C. Tischer, hweitzer and Al Louis. The events prizes will be as follows: | One mile novice, gold and silver medals; | two-mile handicap, class A, gold stopwatch, | suit of clothes, silver water service: one-mile serateh, class A, $50 unset diamond, $25 clock, | 15 plano-lamp; two-mile handicap, class B, | $100 diamond stud, $50 gola stopwatch, $25 | overcoat. | The entries will close at San Jose with 5Er;e last mail delivery on Saturday, May G. Hardenbrook of the San Jose Road | Club lowered the record from there to Gil- | roy by 19 minutes last Sunday, part of the | way unpaced. His time was 1 hour and | 30 minutes for the thirty miles. The Road Club will hold another five-mile | road race for the silver cup to-morrow, | over the East San Jose course. The start- | ers will be: T. E. Belloli and F. A. McFar- land, scratch; Navlet, 10 seconds; Har- | denbrook, seconds; Tremoureaux, 45 seconds; Benson, 50 seconds; Herrington, 50seconds; Grant Bell, 50 seconds; O'Brien, iHammon(ls and Carroll, 1 minute; D. E. i O’'Brien and C. E. Warren, 1 minute 15 | seconds. An adaitional trophy will be | given if the record for the course of 13 | minutes 48 seconds is lowered. | | an Thomas 8. Hall, whose picture is pre- | sented herewith, is one of the y City Wheelmen’s fast class B men. e is hardly 20 years of age, but developed into {a good rider about eighteen months ago, and having the advantage of training with | the Rambler team soon showed himself to | be possessed of considerable speed. He is heavily built and an atl-round athlete, and | with another year upon the track shounld be up in front with the other class B men. He rode the seventh relay for his club in {29:07 4-5. Hall has had a happy faculty of w ng handicap races, but of late the | official handicapper has shortened his ! limit, which shows he was cognizant that ! Hall was fast enough to be brought nearer the scratch men. . The Garden City Cyclers will be active from now on in the way of Sunday runs, Captain Delmas having arranged some trip for every week. On the 26th inst. the club will ride to Gilroy to witness the finish of the San Jose-Gilroy road race between teams of five men each ffom four of the principal stores of San Jose. As these establishments have in their cmploy some fine riders, the race should be ascorch from start to finish. Then on the morn- ing of May 30 (Decoration day)the club will ride to this City to attend the race meeting of the Bay City Wheelmen. On i June 2 Captain Delmas announces a picnic | run to Llagas. On Sunday, June 9, a joint run is talked of with the Pajaro Valley Wheelmen, but, as this is the day set for | the annual picnic run of the California As- | sociated Cycling Clubsto Niles Canyon, this date should be changed. On Wednesday, June 12, the cyclers will attend the Santa Cruz water carnival. S0 it goes—something on the card every week. No wonder they have a membership of over 300. Some of the local captains might copy from Mr. Delmas to advantage, and they would cease to wonder why interest in the club was | Jacking and the members failed to come | around. Captain Kitchen will lead the Acme Club Wheelmen to-morrow on a run to Birds Valley, where they will be joined | by the Tranipers’ annex of the club. It is ot likely that L. W. Fox, the pop- ular Los Angeles racer, will be seen on the track here this summer, as he has too many engagements down south. Fox is representing one of the most popular wheels on the market—the Fowler—which Davis Bros. are handling here. Its ap- pearance and the evident care taken in its manufacture commend it to ail wheelmen asa xglendm road or track wheel. L. C. Whal of Colorado Springs rode fifty miles last Friday without pace- | makers in exactly two hours. He made | the first four miles in 8 minutes, and | forded the Fountain River, which is 100 yards wide. The previous world's record for the distance was held by Linton, of Herne Hill, England, 2 hours 27} min.; the best previous American record was hel by Kemnler of Asbury Park, 2 hours 30 min. 40 sec. Whal’s time is simply won- derful. Think of it! Twenty-five miles an hour for two hours on the road. Think you could do that? There will bea 50-mile relay road race next Saturday over the San Leandro tri- angle between six riders each from the Oakland and San Joce high schools. The San Francisco scholars intended to com- Bete, but examinations for Stanford and erkeley will prevent their entering or training. Each of thesix men will ride once around the triangle, 8 1-3 miles. The Oakland team will be: Gooch, Childs, Ma- honey, Baker, Orraand Colby. The San Jose team has not yet been selected. If you are a racing man, don’t forget that the entries for the Bay City Wheel- men’s great race meeting on May 30 will close at the clubhouse, 441 Golden Gate | avenue, with the last mail delivery on { Thursday, May 24, for handicap events, | and on the 27th for scratch races. SPALDING. There was a great excitement in the rear of the Palace Hotel last Wednesday even- ing, when Andrew Coleman, the pawn- broker, atwml‘ned to spread himself on a | bicycle. “Hold me up, Joe,” “Easy there, | Dave,” “Look out! don’t let me fall on | you,” etc., he cried to his hired men, Joe | Breckman and Dave Cook, who were straining themselves on each side of che wheel in a vain endeavor to propel the 327 pounds of humanity comprising Coleman’s elephantine form. he wheel moved a little, when there was a sudden creaking sound, followed by a crank. The two helpers jumped from | the sides of the bike just as the wheel broke in the middle, and the would-be rider landed with a smothered sound on the bituminous pavement and settled into a huge impression caused thereby. The . shock shook the Palace and neighboring houses, and cries of earth- quake were heard, followed by a hasty exit from some of.the tenements. The truth was soon learned, and some of the neighbors with a long and strong pull ex- tracted the rider from the damaged pave- ment. The wheel, past repair, was sent to a i’nnkmhon and ‘it is now said that Coleman will ride no more until a bike made with truck wheels, which he has ordered built, arrives. el BICYCLE TIRES. They Are Amply Protected by City Ordinances. The CALL is! requested to inform all cyclers and others interested in clean streets that if they will notify Captain Haley, clerk of the Chief of Police, at the New City Hall, whenever they see broken glass, wire or any refuse matter on the public thoroughfare, giving him the street and house number, he will see that the matter is prumgrfly attended to by the proper officers. The City ordinance relat- ing to the throwing of garbage on streets is amply sufficient gf it ‘i:s cargieed out. pat i adnd oy THE OARSMEN. In Training for the Re- gatta—Old Shellbacks. Owing to the many years of indolence that have been enjoyed by men who had professed a love for aquatic sports it is no wonder that the sporting public looked rather dubious when the announcement was made through the Cary that a rowing regatta would be had at E1 Campo May 30. Certainly, if the lovers of aquatic sport thought for a moment that the old shell- backs of the Pioneer and other silurian rowing clubs of sluggis h fame had washed the sleepy kinks fromw their eyelids and ceased to hibernate there wouh{ be some Crews excuse offered for their surprise. No, the club, Bob MacArthur is stroke, Julius | Gun Morton after waist, H. B. Grabam forward | Poin waist, H. L. Grimm bow and Tommy Gil- feather coxswain. Every day sees them upon the lower bay with the racing barge which the SBouth E’l’ld Boat Club has loaned to them. Should they win the race a boom in boating and rowing is sure to follow in the. club, and in any event the annex is almost an assured fact. Len D. Owens, who has helped to start nearly all the Olympic annexes, is in this one, too, and he says as soon as the gun club is fairly started he will go in for boating. el THE GUN. Kind of Trap-Shooting That WIll Be Patronized. Trap-shooting is, unquestionably, a very popular pastime this year with sportsmen, SENIOR CREW OF THE SOUTH END ROWING CLUB. antiquated oarsman is still resting on the *‘honors” he achieved in the good old days of the past when Dan Leahy, Tom Flynn, Johnng Sullivan, Oar-smasher Growney and other men of great fame were known for their prowess us far as old Sausalito. A new generation has sprung up within the past vear, and, judging from the rapid | strides the boys have been making toward | success, the future of aquatic sport in this bay looks very promising. he El Campo regatta will have a great ““field”’ of starters, as crews which will rep- | resent the OI mé)ic, Ariel, Pioneers, Tri- tons, South i‘,n s, St. M‘ary's Coilegc, Acme, Vallejo and Stockton rowing clubs will contest for handsome prizes that have been offered by Johnny Mitchell and other prominent young men who have an in- terest in the success of one of the best | sports of the outdoor line. It is amusing to watch the old past masters of the oar on Sunday mornings, when the junior members of the rowin; clubs are exercising in the vicinity of Long Bridge. The comments of the shell- backs are both amusing and ridiculous. One would imagine that the ex-champions of the mud flats were rivalsof Hanlon, Teemer and other great scullers. The yarns these old crab-catchers spin when watching the progress of the boys who practice for | the coming races would actually cause | the spiders of the old Pioneer headquarters | to vacate the premises, if those nouse ! who cannot resist the temptation of throw- ing a gun on their shoulder occasionally by way of exercise, as it were. Live-bird shooting is favored by many men over the clay bird, because the latter is too cheap a pastime and does not afford the same kind of excitement. Be this as it may, the time is not far dis- tant when live-bird shooting will play sec- ond fiddle to the artificial, which, as a means .of enjoyment, should be good enough and difficult enough to satisfy the most exacting. There can be no gainsaying the fact that there 1s an element of brutality in live- pigeon shootiag, as any man, it matters not 1n what class of society he may travel, | who will stana before a trap with a gun pointed at a bird that has been sprung from its iron prison and is picking its feathers before taking its departure, must have a heart of the temperature of ice. Live-pigeon shooting may be a grand sport for the professionzl, but for the ama- teur artificial-bird shooting is certainly a better and more appropriate form of sport. The professional pigeon - shooter will argue that so far as brutality is concerned there can be no line of distinction drawn between pigeon-shooting before the traps and quail or duck shooting in the field. SENIOR CREW OF THE ACME CLUB OF OAKLAND. canaries could but understand the lan- guage of the know-it-alls, The scene on Long Bridge on Sunday mornings especially is quite lively now- adays, and 1if form speaks for anything among crews the lovers of good rowix]\fi will witness some excellent sport at Campo, when the different cresws now en- tered will race for honor and glory. hile the crew whish is to carry the Olympic colors in the great boatrace on May 30 is actively training, its friepds_in the club are as actively agitating the idea of forming a boating “annex to the club, and of gunn_xenng to it all of the club mem- bers aq atically inclined. Inquiry is being made in a quiet way as to some suitable site for the clubhouse and where are the best bargains in boats. So far the intention is to erect a clubhouse in some convenient spot on the water front and to purchase tmee or four_boats, at least one of which will be a racing barge. But nothing is being done until after the race, except to agitate the matter on every “LoD. Gwens of th directors b - D. Owens of the board of LS ane signified his intention of going in with the boating annex, as he has with the shooting annex, and of looking out for its interests in the board. The boat crew will also work in its interests, and under the vari- :us \nflngnce':, l":;oughz to bear the nle't.n- ex is goin, com inent feature oflege gluh.s ; e a promine! e Ccrew is now composed of four as enthusiastic men as cmpone lbu?d in the | The comparigon is certainly foolish and not worthy of consideration, as in the field wild game, by a wise provision of nature, will resort to many schemes to baffle man’s plots and plans. How many times have sportsmen wished they were somewhere else after having missed five or six shots at quails. that when flushed “ducked” around trees just as the s})ortsmnn was about to draw a bead on the feathered ‘“bullet?’’ In open countr quails lie close, but when flushed they will Eg fast enough to test the skill of the very st marksmen. How different is the alleged pleasure of shooting tame pigeons from a trap. Just imagine a man standing pointing and wait- ing a chance to pull the trigger on a tame —very tame—pigeon that 18 walking and cooing around a trap it had just been ““fired’’ out of. Can it be called sport when the sports- man (?) trap-shooter opens tire upon the bird as it leaves the gronnd ? No- genuine spoitsman will say that pigeon-shooting from the traps is humane sport. [t is to elevate the standing of trap- shooting that the clay bird was introduced, and as previously stated it will not be many years when the slaughter of live birds will be an alleged “‘sport” of the past, The shoots booked for the near future are: To-day, the Gun Ciub, Oakland track; to-morrow, the Recreation Club, Oakland ;‘(‘“sfi““‘? 'lémmlt:yc‘l:r}b bll Alameda mole. ay e Coun ub will shoot at the Oakland track and on the 26th the Empire Slub will pulverize clays at Alameda flms L THE ANGLER. Indications That Point to a Late but Good Season’s Fishing. Occasionally some member of the happy angling fraternity of this City re- turns from some of the near coast streams or their tributaries with a nice display of trout. The exception is, however, the rule, as, ordinarily speaking, the fish so far taken have been under the size which anglers take pleasure in consigning to their creels. There can be no gainsaying the fact tnat the creeks which are within easy distance of this City—excepting a few streams of Marin County that have been fished out— are literally alive with small trout of from three to five inches in length. This in it- self is good evidence that stream fishing will be first class in the latter months of the year, when a great number of the lovers of the sport will be either whipping enjoying the excellent trout-fishing of Northern California. Two gentlemen who had taken a cue from an article which appeared in last Sat- urday’s CaLL, had a most enjoyable outing last Tuesday and Wednesday on Pieta Creek, which stream is on the line of the San Francisco and North Pacific Coast Railroad. They drove from Pieta station about six miles up stream and then fished down. The combined catch amounted to 180 trout, several of which weighed from a quarter to half a pound. The average len%th of the trout taken was eight inches. Although the effect of the warm snap of a week ago can be easily noticed in al{) of the coast streams, there is yet too much volume in some of the creeks which in past vears panned out very well in May and June. Experience has demonstrated that (food stream fishing can ex- pected only when the water in any river or creek has reduced to - its lowest state in the summer season. large fishes, which have remained over, 80 to_speak, will condescend to recognize with favor an artificial fly that glides over the water after the fashion of the natural insect. It requires, however, much experience on the part of the angler to so place his fly that it will pass over the nose of a silver-sided aristocrat who is watching in the deepest and darkest spot of the pool for something in the line of insect life to pass overhead. the placid waters of San Andreas Lake or | It is at this time of the vear that the | about fishing you would not ask such a foolish question.”’ RO ; “Oh, I beg your pardon,” quickly re~ torted the stranger. “In the Eastern States we call those trout, or rather the fry of trout.” 3 : T The Doc gave his ‘newly made acquaint- ance a parting glance through hisall-fours and then shot down stream, puffing & cigarette in a manner -that plainly indi- cated that if the Doc had had his say in the matter he would have consigned that stranger to a'spot on the other side of Jor- dan ordinarily known as the warm belt. It is hoped thatthe honorablé Board of Fish and Game Commissioners will not neglect to teach the Chinese fisheroen that the time has arrived ‘when the de- lgleetmg of the bay of its small fishes must stopped. . Unless the Commissioners will take act- ive measures to prevent those- Mongolian shrimp catchers from catching tons of small rock fish and many other kinds of- miniature sea fishes, it ‘will not -be many. vears hence when the waters of the bay will be in as much need of stocking as the coast streams of to-day. ' Boulder Creek is putting -on its snmmer appearance, and good sport may be expect- ed in that locality about June t. Some of the tributaries of the creek “are panning out well now. The snows of the Sierras are melting fast, and as a consequence the Sac: River is rising rapidly. This means that angling near the bead waters will not be. in season until about the middle of June. Judge Hunt and some friends fished some of the streams within easy reach of Pleasanton last Sunday, but the sport was not good. - The Judge states that there is too much driiting food in the streams yet. Mr. Walker fished the Sonomg . Creek near Glen Ellen with tolerably good suc- cess last Sunday. ) Charles Precht canght a nice basket of fish in some stream in Mazin County. Deputy Fish Commissioners have been catching small black bass in the Russian River for stocking purposes. ¥ Robert Hewson has had some good fish~ ing in a small stream that runs near ‘Wrights station. % Thomas E. Flynn bas purchased an ang- ler’s outfit in anticipation of enjoying some great fishing in the mountains this sum- mer. : Jeweler Sniith says that the smallest trout he has ever seen are now in Olema Creek. P Some rice fish were caught in San Pablo Creek last week. Al Cummings will leave for the East in a few days and on his return -he will. spend two months on the Truckee River. According to the excellent condition in which the trout of San Andreas Lake are Some people contend that fly-casting is | at present, it is very probable that the BAGGED BY A CAMERA ARTIST AT LAKE PXLABCZTOé.' not much of an art, but those who have made it a study think very differently. An angler may be so far advanced as to cast a tolerably nice fly, but unless he has had considerable experience—which can be attained only through years of prac- tice—he will find that after whippin, three or four miles of a stream his catcl will not compare with that of an expert who has followed in his footsteps over the same stretch of water. If he should ask the question of his more fortunate brother angler who was handicapped by following up how such a_difference in their baskets could pos- sibly have been, considering that both of them had used the same flies, etc., the “follower-up” will say, ‘“‘if he will”: “My dear boy, you cast a very pretty fly, I will admit; but you neglected to study the water and the places where the fishes hide. Your flies floated over waste round, while mine dropped under over- Hangine "banks and Iimbs, where Mr. Trout can always be seen during feed- ing hours, watching and waiting for his quarry.” Yes, there is much more required of an angler than perfection in fly-casting to in- veigle a cunning and lazy old denizen of the brook from his summer’s residence. The condition of the water must first be taken into consideration, then again the colorings of the natural fly which can be found among the trees must be imitated as closely as possible. If the day is brith and warm trout that gre feeding will be found in the ripples near the head of a deep pool, and as evening approaches the largest fish generally drop down to the end of the pool, where the water is shallow and placid. It isquite amusing to hear some men, who are supposed to know something about fiy-fishing, tell you of the great suc- cess they had on the "gray hackle,” ‘‘red hackle,” “black hackle,” etc. Why, if an er came to a fly-dresser for a dozen ray hackle or red hackle flies, so called, ge would be at his wits’ end to know what kind of a fly the sender actually desired. A hackle, for instance, may -ggenr over a red, black, yellow or white dy. Then, again, the wing may be of different colors so as to imitate divers kinds of insects, and there may be no wing needed for that matter. 1f the desired fly or fliescannot be named according to their given title, anglers, when sending for “killers,” should mention as near as possible the color of the wing, body and legs of the flies, inhabitants of the s river or stream they intend to whip. As jimmy Watt was plowin, through the rippling waters of Paper-mill Creek a few days ago in the vain endeavor to catch a trout of a size larger than five inches, he was accosted by an Eastern gentleman who had grown tired and weary of returning fingerlings to their element. . ““What's your luck, sir?”’ asked the stranger. *Oh, pretty good, pretty good,” was the quick rejoinder of Mr. Watt. ‘‘Just takea ep into this basket, my friend, and see or yourself,” Mr. Watt, who is probabl{ better known as_the “‘Doc,” was all smiles as he gently raised the 1id of his imported creel. He expected to hear the stranger remark, *‘Gracious, what a beautiful basket of fish I"* but such was not the case, however. _The Eastern angler drew back in abject disgust and astonishment when he had feasted his eves on the mess of sprats, and looking the Doc in the face, said: *'I am surprised, sir, that a gentleman of your appearance would pollute his basket with 80 many little fingerlings. I have returned to the creek, my dear sir, many fry of larger size than your largest fish. By the w? what do you call them ?”” 3 'he Doc’s smile had departed and his eagle eyes flashed fire. “‘What do I call them, eh? Steetheads, sir, steelheads: and if you knew anything | Spring Valley Water Compuny v,:ill open. that lake to anglers this year on June LP S IN THE RING. Peppers and King Are Ready: fora Hot Argument. The managers of the Imperial Athletic Club at Colma have completed all the ar- rangements necessary.for the comfort of those who propose to witness the twenty- round contest between King and ‘Peppers next Friday evening. 3 The club can be reached in twenty-five minutes’ ride from this City on the electric: railroad, and a sufficient number of cars will be placed on the line that evening to accommodate several hundred ' people with seats. Some good preliminu{ bouts -between boxers of prominence will be witnessed be- fore the event of the evening is called. King and Peppers are now at-the weight they have agreed to fight, and, although King is a strong favorite with the betting men, there are a number of Peppers’friends who are taking up all ‘wagers with odds given on King. The supporters of .the last named lad contend that as he has not yet met with a defeat King has no chance” to whip. him, either in a limited contest or a finisg fight. 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