The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 17, 1895, Page 8

events are on the card for to-morrow, in- cluding a couple of interesting road races from San Mateo to San Carlos, at which | delegations from nearly all the local clubs will be in attendance. Repo! of fisning on the Williamson River are of the most flattering kind, and an Eastern sportsman who recently visited | that local most remarkable sport of his lifetime. A new sportsmen’s club has been organ- jzed at Visalia for the protection of fish and game and for the promotion of sports in general. A party of sportsmen recently had big sport with the goats of Catalina Island, ging several head. . Nealon, the veteran handball ex- pert, has made his reappearance at the courts and will play with other local —_———— THE WHEELMEN. Olympic and Imperial Clubs’ Five- Mile Road Races To-Morrow. CLUB EVENTS TO-MORROW. Bay City Wheelmen—To Golden Gate Park. | California Cyeling Club—To San Mateo. | Camera Ciub Cyclists—To San Jose. Crescent Road Club—To San Mateo. Garden City Cyclers—To San Carlos. Golden City Wheelmen—To Santa Rosa. Golden Gate Cycling Club—To Center- | ville. | Imperial Cycling Club—Road race San | Mateo to San Carlos. Monarch Cycling Club—To Redwood | City. | Olympic Club Wheelmen—Road race | San Mates to San Carlos. Outing Road Club—To San Mateo. Pastime Cycling Club—To Golden Gate Park. Royal Cycling Club—Try-out races at Oakland Trotting Park. San Francisco Road Mateo. San Jose Road Club—To San Carlos. Santa Rosa Wheelmen—Joint run with Golden City Wheelmen. Waverly Bicycle Club—To San Mateo. Club — To San There are two importantcycling affairs scheduled for to-mofrow, both five-mile road races over the straightaway course from San Mateo to San Carlos, to be run by the Olympic Club Wheelmen and the Imperial Cycling Club. The former has thirty-five men entered and twenty will ride in the Imperial's race. The entries and handicaps for both have already ap- peared 1n THE CALr. As will be noticed by the foregoing schedule many of the other clubs have called runs to witness the two events, which, by the way, will be run between 2 and 3 o'clock P. and the starting and finishing points will doubt- less be thronged with wheelmen. Most of them will ride down early in the morning and the various contestants will take the train. It is confidently expected on every hand that either Walter Foster in the Olympic race or Frank Byrne in the Im- perial’s will ride faster than the present coast record of 12:03, made by P. G. Alex- ander June 16, 1895, over the same course. Captain J. J. B. Argenti has called a run of the Camera Club cyclists to San Jose via San Leandro for to-morrow. Members will take the 9:15 A. M. narrow-gauge boat. The roads at pre that the ride will be comparatively easy, though over forty miles will have to be| covered. A moderate pace will be set, so that every member can ‘‘keep up with the bulxlgnge.” Lunch will be had at Center- ville. The Liberty Cycling Club members will escort its ladies’ annex on a run to the park to-day. The annex is growing rapidly and already has a score or more of mem- bers. The two divisions should make s splendid appearance in the park. The Golden Gate Cycling Club, led by Captain Maass, will ride to Centerville to- morrow, leaving on the 8 o’clock broad- gauge boat. ‘The captain has made ar- rangements with Captain Estabrook of the Diamond Cycling Club of Alameda for a joint run Sunday, September 1, though the destination has not yet been decided upon. It will probably be to San Jose, re- turning on the steamer from Alviso. The Olympics made this trip last Sunday. The club’s emblem has been changed from a winged shield to a ‘‘Golden Gate’” within a wheel, worked in gold and lavender, the club colors. To-night the Bay City Wheelmen will enjoy another of its famous euchre parties, zo{)efollowed by an impromptu smoker. To-morrow the club will have a run to Golden Gate Park. Don’t clean your chain too often with! the idea that you are doinga good thing for the chain, is the sfi)lepdid advice offered by the L. A. W. Bulletin. The partsof a cham which come in contact with the sprocket wheels are constantly cleaning themselves. The dirt onthe outside deces no harm except to the looks. Every time you brush or rub a chain you work the dirt into _the joints where it does do harm. The California Cycling Club will have a club run to-morrow to witness the Olympic and Imperial road races, leaving the club- rooms at 8:30 A. 3. There willalso be a try-out Sunday, September 1, to selecta team to represent the club in the track re- lay race to be competed at the meet of the Reliance Club Wheelmen at Oakland Trot- ting Park on September 7. (/Fupuin Korn has called a run for to- morrow of the S8an Francisco Road Club to San Mateo, at which the Waveriy Bicycle Club, 8 new cyclingr organization here, will be their guests. The start will be made from the clubrooms at 9 A. M. After lunching at San Mateo the clubs will continue on to San Carlos to_ witness the finishesof the Olympic and Imperial road races. The Crescent Road Club is another body who will guide their wheels San 0- ward to-morrow to see these two road | ordinar declares that he enjoyed the | ~ nt are in such condition | | rooms, 811 Octavia ‘street, at 9 A. M. sharp. The club will entertain its friends with a | smoker early in September. e the days of the ‘“good oid has Napa experienced such a cycling boom as now. In those times— Not | from seven to ten years ago—the Vineyard Valley Wheelmen of Napa were a promi- nent factor in wheeling circles, the League of American Wheelmen and cycle legisla- tion in general, but they eventually dis- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1895. LN = 20 O O LN meeting Ralph Wolf, Charles Mohr and Morris Clavere were elected to membet- ship in the Golden City Club, and there are several more applications to be acted on at the next meeting. The club is grow- infi rapidly. . C. Bald of the Columbia_team, on the National circuit, has regained his winning form, and is again piling “fp victories in the mile open events, his favorite races. During the course of the circuit through races. Members will assemble at the club- ] by the Santa Rosa contingent. Atthe last banded. Now we hear of a new club grow- | Ohio, until Toledo was reached, Bald met ing rapidly in the pretty town, to be called | with a series of reverses, due, probably, the Napa Cycling Club, with the following | to the exceptionally hard work to which officers: Lindow, vice-president; tary. Rovert Little, president; W. J. | he has been subjected. Having been on esid . 8. Scott, secre- | the path almost continually since we saw The club is little over a month old, | him race at San Jose on April 19 and 20, it C. m. SMITH OF THE GARDEN CITY CYCLERS. but bas a large and constantly increasing membership, and there is talk of holding a race meet in the near future. Dates have been arranged for the pro- osed coast racing circuit as follows: etaluma, August 24; Dixon, 26; Wood- | land, 28; Chico, 29 and 31; Sacramento, }Sepumher 2; Oakland, 7; San Jose, 9; Gilroy, 10; Watsonville, 11; Stockton, 14, ‘and Napa, 17, 18 and 19. Some of these | places, however, have as yet made abso- { lutely no preparation for holding a meet. The meet at San Jose should not be cred- ited to the circuit, as the Garden City cy- { clers would have held it and have for years past on that day, whether there was a circnit or not. This circuit, to come | down to plain facts, is being used to adver- | tise one or two favored dealers and a cheap | cycling paper, and has received no.en- couragement from those in a position to know this. There was not a club to be found in San Francisco that would take a date on the circuit, which speaks volumes for the city clubs’ good judgment. ‘The destruction of the Central Park track was delayed nearly two weeks in the hopes that” some club would use it for a circuit race meet, but the city clubs are too wise to attempt anything so likety to be a fail- ure and Possxbly throw them in_ debt. They would not be catspaws for the dealers in this instance. The cycling clubsin the cities where the circuit touches had better be careful how they jump at this proposi- tion or they may alterward have cause to regret it. % he Outing Road Club held an im- portant meeting last Monday night. It was decided to abandon the present club- house on Eddy street, and a_new one. has been secured at 2046 O’Farrell street, near Devisadero. The dues have been raised from fifty cents to §1 per month, but-this did not prevent several new members from. joining. To-morrow the club, in commen with most of the other: clubs, will have a races, leaving the new clubrooms at 9 A. ». The Pastime Cycle Club held its first run last Sunday to Haywards, where lunch was spread and the members had a most enjoyable time. To-morrow’s rum will be to the park and Presidjo. _ W.J. Gorham, a cycler of Alameda, has just patented a pneumatic saddle, for which be claims many advantages over the present leather affairs. It is hollow in the center and inflated around the sides, making a very comfortable seat. One forgets many of the difficulties and “hardships of a long trip, according to Mr. Gorham, when riding one of these saddles. They will be on the market shortly. A new bicycle club has been organized in Stockton and the following are the charter members: Thomas R. G. Kidd, Otto Salbach, Gottlieb Merz, J. Rothschild, E. Adams, Carl Steinhart, E. Salbach, Albert Castner, W. O. Bigelow, ‘W. H, Stone, George H. Duff, E. M. Brans- ford, Arthur Healy, Charles Yost, M. Con- way, Nat Cohn and Morris Levy. The Golden City Wheelmen will have a joint run with the Santa Rosa Wheelmen to-morrow at Agua Caliente, where they will be tendered the freedom of a water- melon patch, afterward riding to Santa Rosa, where the home club will entertain them. The city elub will leave here on the 8 A. M. Tiburon ferry and take the train to Sonoma, where they will be met ran to San Mateo to witness the two road was but natural that he should show evi- dences of the continued strain, but his victories during the present week indicate that the “Cannon Ball” has lost none of his speed. Harry F. Terrill and Captain Theo C. Dodge, the two Bay City wheelmen who started last Tuesday for a wheeling trip along the coast, have met with several set- backs, accoraing to a letter the writer re- | ceived from Ter:ill yesterday. He says: We had a. fine ride until we struck the Alpine road, when my sprocket broke. Dodge pushed me from there clear into Pescadero, and just as we reached here we had a collision and ‘wrecked my wheel afd aiso did eome | damage to Theo's. Will wait here—Pesca- dero—for two days to get some parts from the City, but as Pescadero has four pretty girls to one homely fellow, and as Theo and T are both | handsome fellows—weil, you can guess the | rest. We met Will Searles, an old-time Bay City, who works in the Bank of California, about ten miles from here fishing in the Pes- cadero Creek. Regards to.all the boys. Their trip has evidently been marked principally by delays thus far, but both are strong riders and will make up for lost time as soon as their wheels are in run- ning order. Tfie Royal Cycling Club has several try- out races scheduled to be run at the Oak- land Trotting Park track to-morrow morn- ing, and afterward the members will take 4 spin info.the country. Sunday, August. 25, there isto be a' big clambake at %Vnrm Springs, and all the various wheeling clubs of this City, Oak- land and San Jose have been invited. Mr. and Mrs. H. Darwin Mclirath, the lobe-girdlers, will leave by steamer for okohama next Saturday. The Liberty. Cycling Club will hold a five-mile road race on Sunday, the 25th inst., over the San Carlos course. The en- tries are already closed and the handicaps will be given out next Tuesday eyening. The Califernia Associated Cycling Clubs road-racing and records committee has al- lowed the following records for long-dis- tancé performances: . 195“! miles—P. G. Alexander, 12:03, June 16, “'rm; miles—G. A. Nissen, 25:45, July 28, leelvgsgeen mfles—E. Ulbricht, 57:01, January Twenty-five miles—W. F. Foster, 1:12:55 4-5, February 22, 1895. One hundred miles relay, ten men—Bay City Wheglmen, 4:56:47, April 7, 1895. wo hundred miles — Chris Sorensen, 14:14:30, June 9, 1895. Osakland to Hl{wndl-—Georn F. Faulkger, 42:24, October 8, 1898. 3 Oakiand to San Jose—O0. L. Pickard, 2:13, June 10, 1894. San Francisco to San Mateo—W. A. Terrill, 1:09:40, May 13, 1893. San Francisco to Olkllnldésv‘,:l San Jose—C. mego—owu Osen, 3 days 22 hours 10 min., May 20-24, 1894. The big race-meet to be given by the Gar- den City Cyclers on September 9 isalready interesting all the wheelmen, and many are in training for the races. it will be on a par with all the previous meets %wen by this club,-and will be unquestionably a suc- cess. To-morrow the Garden Citys will ride ‘l? to San Carlos to see the races. © C. M. (“Bunt”) Smith, whose picture is presented this week, has developed into a wonderfully fast Class A rider within the last few months. He is one of the good men that Chairman Welch, of the racing land about the same depth. board, proposes to place in Class B if he follows the racing circuit on this coast. Smith would be as much of a star in Class B as he is now in A, and the increased val- uation of prizes and other reasons may in- duce him to make the change. He is very poxul}r, and a fair and fearless rider. olly party of Olympic Club Wheel- men have been spending the past week at Millbrae training for the club’s road race to-morrow. They are: J. E. Fagothey, F. R. Butz, Joseph F. Coffey, W. H. Stinton, James W. Coftroth and Thomas 8. Mulyey. They have engaged H. M. Collins as trainer and all are said to be in pretty good condi- tion. They call themselves the B. L. O. Club and Stinson is said to be the only one of the sextet who knows the real meaning of the initials, Their efforts in the race to-morrow will be watched with interest, as their methods of training are entirely at variance with all rules laid down in books upon the subject. The Pajaro Valley Wheelmen of Wat- sonville are arranging for a barbecue on Sunday, the 25th, and will invite the San Jose and Gilroy clubs. SPALDING. The Sunset Cycling Club held its first meeting at its new clubrooms at 921a Golden Gate avenue on Monday evening last, the affair being intended somewhat as a reception to E.Chapman, one of the members, who won a gold medal at the Redwood City races on the 6th inst. On Sunday, the 25th, the club will hold a run to the Cliff, led by Captain Morris. The San Jose Road Club and the Tribune Cyclers of Gilroy are making arrange- ments for a joint race meet at Gilroy on September 10. It is believed that such a meet in Gilroy would be a success, as a great many riders taking part in the cyclers’ meet at San Jose on the 9th would g0 10 Gilroy the next daiz. The_ Polytechnic Cycling Club of San Francisco made the run to Ban Jose from San Francisco yesterday afternoon, arriv- ing about 7 o’clock. st THE GUN. A New Enemy of Young Wild Fowl Discovered. An Eastern army officer of a sporting turn of mind has discovered in the succu- lent frog a new enemy of the young of the wild fowl, in addition to the game hog, who kills the birds before they are ready for their annual migration to the feeding- grounds. He says that for some years he has been well satisfied that frogs are de- structive of shore and marsh birds, such as snipes, plovers, killdees and sandpipers, and that a few days ago he had a practical demonstration of the fact that his views in this regard were correct. A fish-dealer in Cincinnati, Mr. Cain, recently sent to the Cincinnati Proof Club, a local organization composed of shooters and fishermen, a live green frog, which he claimed he had wit- nessed swallow a live sparrow which he had placed in a wire coop in which his frogship was confined. At first it was be- lieved Mr. Cain was perpetrating one of his witticisms, but he was not. The fro, in question was_ placed in a box an | handed to Police Lieutenant Mark Lang- | dan and the shooter, Wick, who called up Mr. Gibson and Mr. Schuler, the Vine- street caterer. The doings of the frog were | related to them and the frog shown. Quite a group gathered about listening, and though Mr. Frog looked a bit plump the story was doubted. However, at the re- | quest of the gentlemen present Mr. Schuler killed the subject, which, when opened in their presence, satisfactorily verified Mr. Cain’s claim. When dissected a fall-grown sparrow, entire, was found in the frog’s | stomach, proving the fish-dealer’s state- ment to be true and confirming Mr. Gib- | son’s former views. An instance recently came to our -knowledge confirming this interesting observation. A gentleman who was fishing in the Turtle waters, Wiscon- | 'sin, this summer caught a number of irogs with red flannel, for diversion and frog's legs, and noticing one with a largely dis- tended stomach he opened it and found within a downy white duckling, which evidently had been swallowed quite re- cently. Deer are reported numerous on the Llagas iu Santa Clara County. Last week eight were killed in that vicinity. Above Los Gatos several bucks have been killed in that vicinity, where they come to feed on the leaves of the vines. Fishing and doye shooting are attracging but little attention, as both sports are about exhausted. The inventive genius of the man who is always looking for something new for the comfort and convenience of the sportsman has hit upon a8 new idea in a combined seat, cartridge-bex and fish-creel. Packed up for a journey it looks like an ordinary zing box 18 inches long by 12 inches wide When the hunter or fisherman desires to sit down and rest or follow his sport he pulls the cover up to a_height of a foot above the ordinary position, fastening it there by a simple device. The rod which holds the seat in position permits it turn in any direction like a_piano-stool. The box be- low is then ready for a supply of cartridges, oris used by ap angler for the fish he catches. Deputy Fish and Game Commissioners, who are patrolling the marshes of Plumas County to protect the young wild ducks from the attacks of game butchers until the season, opens, report that the breeding has been Yery prolific this year and that the swamps are literally alive with little floppers, who will eventually delight the heart and stomach of the sportsman. It is said that the game of the Wood River country has been deserting that sec- tion in vast quantities during the past week or ten days. The Indians attribute the exodus to the coming of the great hunter so often spoken of in Indian legends and described as an awe-inspiring individual, with flowing locks like the mane of a lion and a voice ifke a robust fog horn. The aborigines are also preparing to move, and declare that they have seen the destructive spirit at whose awful presence and stern command the deer fall dead on the hills and the fish leap from the streams and die on the banks. fcaiicg i BOXING. George Green Retires Permanently From the Prize Ring. : After a more or less satisfactory career in the prize ring George F. Green, who, from his style and association with the champion boxer has been dubbed Young Corbett, has decided to retire permanently from the prize ring, as he explains in the following letter to THE CALL. To ths Sporting Editor of the Morning Call : Will you Hndly’nnnounu’w my lrlengiu and the public in general and pugilists in particu- lar that as on and after this date—August 14— itis my intention to permanently withdraw {from the ring and turn my attention to mer- cantile pursuits, there wiil be no use to chal- lenge me, for I will pay no attention whatever to any defi that may issued. I hereby re- nounce_m¥ right and title to the name of champion lightweight pugilist of the Pacific Coast, and whoever wants it may have it. Thanking you snd my frieuds for_past cour- tesies extended, I beg leave to subscribgmy- self, yours mosttruly, _ GEORGE T. GREEN, Ex-Champion Lightweight Pugilist of the Pacific Coast. - The worries of the Colma Club over the Gallagher-Turner match, which was in danger of being called off because of Gal- lagher’s tardiness in starting. for Califor- nia, have been removed by the receipt of a telegram from the pugilist announcing his departure from. New York. He issaid to be in food condition already, havi trained for a match in the Eastthat to come off, and wil! need but a short time to get himself into perfect trim for the contest. g In consequence of his refusal to fight big iffe, after getting a look at his Joz McAul massive frame, Tom Sharky, the pride of the navy, seems destined to go matchless for gome time to come. He is signed to fight Bill Dun at Vallejo to-night, but as the citizens of that town aré on the war- th against the match and have enlisted he aid of the Sheriff of the county their chances of coming to any conclusion in the matter look dim. Jim Corbett is talking again of the short shrift he will give Fitzsimmons in_their- match at Dallas, Texas, -and estimates that he will finish the lanky Antipodean in six to ten rounds. Corbett has been guaranteed that the fight will go on with- out interference and has engaged a special car to carry himself and party to the scene of the battle. Should any hitch in the arrangements occur the battle is likely to be called off for the present, as President Diaz has an- nounced that the fight cannot take place on Mexican soil under any consideration. R s T THE ANGLER. An Eastern Man’s Catch on the Willlamson River. Duriug the past week the Fish Commis- sioners have received the record of a catch made by an Eastern sportsman on the Williamson River that convinced the Iucky angler that in no place on the face of the globe can such fishing be found as on the river named. J. R. Moore, who had exhausted the pleasures of tarpon fishing in Florida waters, and fought the gamy salmon of Canadian streams until the sport became tame, came to California to try the rain- bow trout. He was a little skeptical of finding anything out of the usual run, but he has chan, his mind now, and will tell his friends_in the East that California beuts the world for trout fishing. On his arrival here he applied to the Commissioner as to the fishing and was directed to the Williamson River. On the first day out he tried a 7)¢-ounce rod and his first strike was a 10-pound_rainbow that taxed all his skill toland. His next was a b-pounder, and then he went back to camp and getting a heavier rod pre- pared for the fray. On July 28 his catch was as follows: Morning, two hours—One 7-pounder, five 6-pounders and one 4-pounder. Afternoon, two hours—Eighteen fish, weighing 45 pounds, scale weight. This, §{r. oore writes, was the most re- fishing next season the streams in. the future would be well stocked. 1t isthought local sportsmen will take steps to see that the fish are well protected next season. S COURSING. Five California Dogs Entered for the American Waterloo. It is now an assured fact that five of the crack greyhounds of the coast will leave here in October to take partin the greatest coursing stake of the year—the American Waterico. The nominations closed some time ago, four dogs—two from the Alameda, kennels, and a like number from the ken- nels of Mr. Patten of Santa Cruz, being entered. Recently word was received that a gen- tleman of Great Bend, Kansas, had a nom i- nation for sile, and yesterday John Grace, the well-known judge, at the instance of Mr. Patten, telegraphed an acceptance of the offer, and one of Mr. Patten’s dogs will take the place of the dog that was withdrawn. Both the owners of the Alameda kennels and Mr. Patten have some fine dogs, and expect o be in the money. n addition to their Waterloo entries they will take with them on their Eastern trip a number of dogs to run at other meetings which occur subsequent to the bi§ stake. ohn Grace recently made a trip to San Jose to inspect the Cooney kennels at that Dlace and reports that a fine lot of young dogs will soon be readi for the slips. Among them are a litter by Warrato and another by Dashaway out of Valley Queen. The stories told of Tom Wilkinson in the obituary notices recently published led L. Hall to tell the following remark- able story of Tom Raper, who was the most remarkable slipper England ever saw: “Tom Raper—-the prince of all sli%pers— as a splendid man on his legs, but he | w | markable day’s fishing he ever enjoyed. Duriuithe twelve days of his stay on the river he caught 127 trout, weighing 271 pounds, actual scale weight. He says the fish wereall in fine condi- tion, fighters and entirelv free from the fungus which so often spoils the fish of Eastern streams, The average fisherman who takes the trouble to go as far as San Mateo County in gearch of sport may fairly be presumed to be a sportsman, but there are certain men in this City who aspire to that honor- able title who might take lessons from even the untutored Indian, who spares the smallor denizens of forest and stream, that they may grow larger and eventually come to his net in acceptable size. In several small lakes in the count; mentioned black bass have been placed, and they have bred and multiplied until the waters teem with small fish that if let alone for a few seasons would furnish ex- cellent sport for the angler. Last Sunday Fred Venker and Tom Irvine, two pseudo sportamen, visited one of these lakes and took from 1t 125 little bass, the largest not being over 3% to 4 inches in length. Such an act is on a par with the butch- ery of spotted fawns, and should not only be frowned upon by genuine sportsmen, but brought within the pale of the law and unished as the killer of the fawn is pun- 1shed when caught. . W. H. Brush of Cloverdale, who has been doing considerable fishing in the McCLOUD RIVER TROUT. would not stand the horsemen’s pace; they had to take his. Nor would be at- tempt to slip at a hare that he could not get fairly well behind. But she had to come very awkwardly if he could not reach her, for he was a marvelous man at carry- ing his dogs round. And what a judge of distance! ~He gave a most remarkable illustration of that upon one occasion at Altear, and at the same time a wonderful exposition of his own skill, He was ap- proaching a drain with his dogs straining, and he saw that if he slipped inside the jump the slip would be too short. On the other hand, if he flew the drain, by the time he again got his dogs steadied to- ether for the spurt which precedes the glivery, th p was going to be too long. There was still a way out of the difficulty for Raper, though probably for no other man. He went fast at the drain, and as all three were in midair the pin was drawn, the dogs landing together with the leash falling from their necks.” Coursing will be held at Kerrigan’s Golden Gate Park and Casserly’s Ocean View Park to-morrow. The drawings, ;vhich took place last might, were as fol- ows: KERRIGAN'S. J. 0'Connor’s Kildare vs. J. Donnelly’s De- fender, R. Pringle’s Ace of Spades vs. A. Searle’s American Boy, G.Smart's Nellie Bly vs.J. T. Hannon's Nancy Till, P. Kerrigan's Foxhall vs. W. Dalton’s Napoleon Jack, J. Seg- ersen’s Oregon Boy vs. W. Perry’s July, W. Dal- ton's Famous vs. J. Sullivan’s Littié Tom, D. EERN RIVER TROUT (SALMO GAIRDNERI GILBERTI). streams in the neighborhood of his home, reports that the trout are just beginning to take the fly well, and that good baskets can be taken in the Pieta, Sulphur and Squaw. he fish average well in size and are in fine condition. g Dr. F. L. Platt and wife left yesterday for a three weeks’ trip in the country about Placerville, where they' will spend their time cooking the gamy trout from the shadows of the banks and snags of the American River. A portion of the time will be spent at Bligpery Ford and in Strawberry Valley, where the fishing is said to be unusually good at the present time. Herman Denhard, the genial boniface, is enjoying himself among the rocks and coves of the waterways about Seattle in company with Jim Johnson, formerly of San Francisco, in the latter’s handsome acht Linda, and many are the stories of !ig catches of strange fish that have floated down to the friends he left behind him. : Herman declares that excevnt for the fact that one small flask—to be used only in case a member of the party was bitten by the sea serpent—was all the spiritual consolation on board the craft he might have imagined himself a victim of over- confidence in his own capacity so stran and grotesque were the denizensof the deep hauled on board. First came a ratfish, then a catfish, and finally one of the party, to complete the h%PDy family, brought a dogfish over the side. “Then,” writes Denhard, “to avoid get- ting the rest of the menagerie, we quit fishing and went to spearing soft-shell crabs with table-forks tied on sticks, a sport not quite so exciting as catching you knew not what, but more to the advantage of the commissary department.”” Mr. Denhard expects to make a trip to some of the celebrated trout streams in that vicinity before returning home. ‘When Joan Siebe and Al Wieland started on their European trip they did not forget to carry with them a few trusty rods and a supply of flies, and that their forethought was rewarded is shown by the following letter which their friend, Henry Skinner, received a few days ago: ine CHENFELS ON RHINE, July 27, 1895. Dear Henry: Fished a branch of the Rh called the A some of Benn’s coachmen, The streams flow- ing into the Rhine contain some very fine trout, pike and bass; carp are quite plentiful. but we think the Truckee trout knock spots out of all the other varieties. Ym& truly, 4 o8 JOHN AND AL Game Warden Mackenzie of Santa Clara County expects to receive 100,000 young trout ‘during the coming week for distri- bution in Santa Clara County streams. This second installment will make 150,000 trout planted in the streams under the directions of this game warden, and if the Board of Supervisors would prohibit trout- e eeeeee— Baking Powdes ' Absolutely Pure ‘gie and caught quite a mess with | Leonard’s Moonlight vs. R. Prmgle's £now, C. Anderson’s Nigger vs. D. Dillon’s Mary Best, A. Searle’s Barcaldine vs. J. O’Connell’s Ten Cents, A. J. Sullivan’s Reuben Glue vs. P. Tierney’'s Gentle Mary, W. Perry’s Gee V iz vs. . C. McDonald’s Mayo Boy, G. MeDonald’s Lissak vs. T. O'Brien’s leylighter, V. 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FAST, STRONG, DURABLE, POPULAR. Comparison will convince you of the many points of superiority of the CLEVELAND Over All Other Makes. LBAVITT o BILIL, 303 Larkin st., Corner McAllister. LRBIeYCLES — e THOS. H. B, VARNEY, 1825 Market st.. 5 oféce $27 South Bpring st., Los Ange A NEW DEPARTURE! BICYCLE STORAGE DEPOT On-the Eastern Plan. FALCON BICYCLHESI| SUITS AND SWEATERS. R. LIDDLE CO., Sporting Goods. 110 Montgomery 8t, ! Plerce's. Pamphlet No. ! 2 tells all about it. Call or write for a free copy. Addross; : AGNETIC TRUSS CO. (DR. PIERCE & S8ON), 704 Sacramento st., & F. JURPRITR G A. DANZIGER, ATTORNEY - AT . L.a" 21 CROCKER BUILDING. ) ¥ p