The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 28, 1895, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1895. Judging from the many road runs that clubs will be well represented on the coun- ry thoroughfares. This afternoon the Academic League will hold a field day on the Berkeley cinder-path and next Satur- day the championship games will be held on the same grounds. kickers will open the season by a game to- row on the old Midwinter Fair und It is thought that a bitter fight will be waged this year between the duck- shooting bs and the sportsmen who are opposed to the preserve system. —— - THE WHEELMEN. Two Road Races From San Leandro to Haywards To-Morrow. CLUB EVENTS TO-MORROW. Bay City Wheelmen—Century run. California Cycling Club — Centerville. Camera Club Cyclists—Mill Valley. Crescent Athletic Club Wheelmen— Races Oakland Trotting Park. Diamond Cycling Club—Haywards. Golden City Wheelmen—Blind run. Golden Gate Cycling Club—Haywards. Liberty Cycling Club—Camp Taylor. Liberty Cycling Club Ladies’ Annex— Crystal Springs. Lily Cycling Club—San Mateo. Olympic Club Wheelmen—San Jose, Olympie Cyclers—San Leandro. Outing Road Club—Century run. Keliance Club Wheelmen—San Jose. Haywards. Verein Eintracht Cycling Club—Road race Haywards. Waverly Cycling Club—Haywards. Road racing s among the various cycling clubs and the results of so many-of them should mate- rially aid the handicapper of the ten-mile event of the California Associated Cycling Clubs which will be held October 13 either around the San Leandro triangle or from | ¥ruitvale to Haywards. There will prob- ably be from seventy-five to 100 entries in this race and but for the many club outs now being held every Sunday the handicapper would be in a sorry plight to try to place them correctly. The two races to-morrow will be among | members of the San Francisco Road-Club and the Verein Eintracht Cycling Club. The former start from San Leandro at 0in the afternoon and the latter half an hour earlier. There will be a big crowd at the finish, as several other clubs will go to Haywards to see the races. The entries and handicaps for both events were pub- lished in THE CALL yesterday. The benefit for the California Associated Cycling Clubs will be held at the Columbia Theater next Thursday evening. money derived from this source will be ex- pended on prizes for the annual ten-mile road race to be held October 13, and there- fore the theater party should be supported by all the cycling clubs. The Bay City Wheelmen, .California, Imperial and Olympice C s can be depended upon to take the gest blocks of scats, but the other clubs will all be represented, and will make up in enthusiasm what they lack in numbers. Not to attend this affair will be for a club to acknowledge that it is ‘‘not in it”’; but they’ll all be there, so there’s no fear of that. “Our Sett,” the “Blow Club” and the “Thirteen Club” (minus Jimmy Joyce, who is East) will occupy box seats, as will the press and other cycling digni- taries. The annual election of the Associated Clubs will be held Saturday evening, Octo- ber 5, at the rooms of the California Cycling - Club. H. H. White of Olympics will undoubtedly presidency and J. F. Hancock, the present secretary of the association, will unques- tionably be relected, as he is capable and etficient and represents a big club, the sup- port of which he can depend upon to carry him through. The application for membership of the Call Cycling Club will be presented to the California Associated Cycling Clnbs at its next meeting, October 5. It is the desire of the Call Club to enter a team in the next relay and also in the 25-mile race on February 22. Individual members of the club have also been strongly advised by the directors to join the League of Ameri- can Wheelmen. The club will shortly secure clubrooms and adopt some dis- tinctive uniform. There is no run called for to-morrow. M. D. Orr and Edward Distel have been appointed first and second lieutenants respectively. The club’s membership is now eighty-three. The ladies of lLe Camera Club Cyeclists should have an enjoyable time to-morrow. A run has been specially arranged for them, the objective point being the grounds and residence of George T. Marsh, the Japanese curio collector, at Mill Val- ley. The distance is about eight miles, over good roads and no hiils. Friends of members are invited. Take the 8 o’clock Sausalito boat. The Goiden Gate Cycling Club will have a run to Haywards to-morrow to witness the two road races. The joint run with the Diamond Cyclers of Alameda last Sun- day through the park was very much en- joved. After the run all returned tothe Golden Gates’ clubrooms and the visitors were royally entertained. The club hasa member, Harry Fowler, who is quite a trick rider. The California Cycling Club will follow Captain Burke to Centerville to-morrow, where they are assured of a splendid din- ner. Members will take the 9 A. M. creek- route boat. The club is enthusiastic over the éxoposed theater party of the Asso- ciated Clubs and will attend to a man. The Olympic Club Wheelmen have a run to San Jose vo-morrow to witness the con- test petween the Olympic and Garden Uity Cyclers’ shooting annexes. The latter team is said to be particularly strong, and Scov- ern, White, Allen and others of the Olympics must shoot true or they will stand little chance. The Pacific Cycling Club had a very en- joyable run to Camp Taylor last Sunda) under the command of Captain. L. W. Pryor. The roads were found in splendid condition after the recent rains. -The club is in a very prosperous -condition and as the members take great interest in its wel- fare they-all turn outon the runs. The club always has a run every other Sunday. The Reliance Club Wheelmen will jour- ney slowly to S8an Jose to-morrow, led by *Pop” Jerome, who has made pre-arrange- ments for a splendid lunch at the Ven- dome. The ride-is styled an “‘old men’s & the are slated for to-morrow the wheeling | The Gaelic football- | San Francisco Road Club—Road race 1 continues in high favor | The | secure the | Tun” and necessarily the pace will be slow. ‘The start will be made from the Reliance Club rooms at 9 A. M. Clubs will have a joint theater party at the Oakland Opera-house on Friday evening, October 11. To-night the former club has The result of the Garden City Cyclers’ | a run by moonlight to Haywards. election as shown by the telegraphic re- The Bay City Wheelmen are booming ports is not as complete as we would like | now as never before. A large influx of de- it and the following shows the actual vote | sirable new members has brought the list cast for every man and contains some sur- | up to nearly 175, the limit. The club’s-an- prises: President—H. M. 53; vice-president, S. G. Tomkins; financial | secretary—Howard A. Alexander 120, Joseph A. Desimone 71; recording_ secretary, George A. Pollard; directors—A. C. McKenney 184, seph A. Delmas 178, James A. Chase 174, George Anderson 168, Henry Lion 143, Fred Seyboldt 93 (all but the latier were elected); nual election seemed to suit all the mem- v, :pm.% 139, J. B. Lamkin | bers but one, and he has been compro- mised, and the newly elected officers, as announced in yesterday’s CaLy, have taken hold of things with a vim worthy of emu- lation by other clubs. The clubrooms are to be all retinted and every carpet in the house is to be taken up and cleaned. A captain—Joseph B. Carey 104, Charles P. Jar- | new flooring is to be laid in the wheel- SYDNEY B. VINCENT OF THE BAY CITY WHEELMEN. [From a photograph by Bushnell.] man 59, Ed Williston 15, William Lipsett 13; first lieutenant—Joseph Edwards 123, Al Hol- loway 62; second lieutenant, W. J bugler, L. E. Whiting; color-bear: moody 131, A. von Bendeleben 28. They say it was a very hotly contested election and the 192 votes cast for president show that a large proportion of the mem- bership was present.s There is a rumor that the new directors will arrange for a club road race at once, though this is not authentic. President Spring will make an excellent officer for the club and no better choice for the captaincy could have been made than Mr. Carey, who is well known as the editor of that up-to-date sheet known as Cycling. The ladies’ annex of the Liberty Cycling Club will have a run to Crystal Springs to- morrow, starting from Twenty-fousth and Howard streets, at 7 A. M. o The; Golden City Wheelmen have a “blind” run scheduled for to-morrow, des- tination unknown. F. G. Lacey and H. E. McCrea, Bay City ‘Wheelmen, will go East shortly and meet the National Racing Circuit when reaches Denver. They have been training assiduously for some time past, and hope to be in splendid condition by the time they are ready to race. To-morrow the members of the Outin, Road Club will have a century ride aroun the bay. H. Whipple and J. Morrison of the club made the trip last Sunday; and report the roads 1n splendid condition. guess the Pacific Cyclist has departed this life, for the little pink-covered cycling weekly has not been regularly is- sued since September 5. Some few copies of the issue of tlte 12th were given out. The advertisers did not look upon it with favor, and as it was never up to date in cycling news it could not survive. Thisis ihe paper that entered into a dispute with Tre CALL’s cycling correspondent some months ago over Foster and Jones and the Olympic Club Wheelmen, and retired from the fight with its colors trailing in the dust created by its own retreat. The Liberty Cycling Club has decided to join the Associated Clubs again, this time “for keeps.” To-morrow the club will have a run to Camp Taylor. W. Hochna, George Springer and H. A. Hall have been elected members, The club is just quieting down after an exciting election, particulars of which appeared exclusively in THE CaLL yesterday. The Olympic Cyclers will have a run to- morrow to the Souther Farm, near San Leandro, taking the 9 A. M. boat. The trampers’ annex of the club goes to the same place half an hour earlier, and they will join together in the merry-making. The new wheeling organization in the Olympic Club, it will thus be seen, has made itself popular with the devotees of other outdoor sports, which could never be said of the old annex. The latter is prob- ably on its last legs now, as since the Ful- ler-Hunter regime has been broken up the better class of members are fast deserting it to join the Olympic Cyclers. As the membership of the latter will be lim- ited to a hundred, however, a good many who come late will be left out i‘ the cold, and as Jimmy Coffroth plits it: “That’s the intention. We can have our pick of the best members and make the Cyclers what the wheeling annex should be—a band of young gentle- men interested in wheeling. "With a lim- ited membership we can close the doors in the faces of . undesirable members. There will be no factions, party fights or axes to grind with us. e have no enemies umon§ the other clubs—we want none. One of the first things Captain Butz will do will be to arrange a joint run with the Bay City Wheelmen, that we may extend the glad hand we have so long been forced to withhold against our wills just- to suit the whims of a few disgruntled ex-mem- bers of the old San Francisco Bicycle Club.” To all of which his fellow-mem- bers surrounding him cried: “Vive Ja Olympic Cyclers; away with the wheeling annex.’” v The Diamond and Alameda Cycling it | room, and the training-rooms are to be provided with additional accommodations. A ladies’ night will be given in a couple of weel Captain Plummer has called a run to Stockton by boat Saturday evening, Oc- tober 5, which will doubtless be attended by all the members and their friends. If the following Monday is a holiday (Labor day), as some’ think, a two days’ stay will be made. The club’s annual entertain- ment at Odd Fellows’ Hall will be a high- class vaudeville instead of a minstrel show this year, and the date has been set for Monday evening, November 4. To-mor- row a number of the members, paced by George Andrews and Alfred Griffiths on a Rambler tendem, will endeavor to ridea century under seven hours. If it is as warm as at this writing they will have a | hot time of it surely. Chief Consul Melrose tells me the new league roadbook will surely be ready for delivery by October 15. Several vexatious delays have held it back longer than was intended. Mr. Melrose has worked hard and earnestly for the completion of this work, ahd long after his term of office has expired he will be remembered by this very book, to which Le has devoted all his spare time for many months past. To him and to Victor A. Hancock, who toured the country securing data for the roadbook, belong all- of the credit accruing, and it must be a relief to them to now approach the end of their arduous task. The new book will be of inestimable benefit to all wheelmen, and can only be obtained by joining the league. The inmitiation is $1 and the yearly dues $1. The book itself is worth five times these figures, to say noth- ing of the many other benefits you gain from.membership. The ticket. for new league officers, which names Frank H. Kerrigan for chief consul and Stanley G. Scovern for secretary-treas- urer, seems to meet with general approval, and there will hardly be any opposition. Sydney B. Vincent of "the Bay City ‘Wheelmen, whose picture is presented this week, is built like a racer and rides as one. He has long been known as a particularly fast man on the track and mndl.7 and it was not a great surprise when he won the Bay City Wheelmen’s five-mile road race last Sunday, though he had to put forth his best efforts to do it. Last May and June he was riding second to Harry F. Terrill in class A, which of itself is a reputation for any man. He has not given much atten- tion to racing of late, except ont the cable slot going home every morning at 3 . ., for he woris nights for the Associated Press. He's been doing this so regularly and often that all the people along his route home know him, and when a dark stgeak crosses their vision for a second and soon is lost to sight in the distance, they think: “Syd must be late to-night, or else he’s training again.” E. Ross Lozier has been spending the past week with friends in San Jose, and doesn’t seem in any hurry to return to business. On Sunday, October 20, Emil Languetin, the fast class A rider of the Bay City ‘Wheelmen, will EIX for the five-mile coast road recon{, now down to 11:35, over the course from Warm Springs to Milpitas, paced by three tandems. The Lily Cycling Club has organized at Twenty-seventh and Folsom streets, and will have a run to-morrow vo_San Mateo. The road officers are: David Hanley, cap- tain; James Sheridan, William Conroy, George Smith, Edward Rosenburg and August Butler, lieutenants. Thomas Hughes is secretary. The latest convert to cycling is “King” McManus of the Potrero, and he is fre- quently seen gliding A[ong Kentucky street. Three prominent Eastern traveling men were here this week. They were Messrs. Dickinson (Henley), Larson (Fowler) and Benjamin (Barnes). They visited some of the clubs and were entertained so well they thoroughly enjoyed their stay in the City. flm Cleveland peopie have received a wheel which bhas on it a 120 gear, The [front sprocket has 30 teeth, the rear one 7. The way to tell the gearing of 2 machine—a principle which all should know—is to multiply the number of teeth in the front sprocket by the diameter of the rear wheel—invariably 28 inches—and divide.the sum by the number of teeth in the rear sprocket. Thus: 30x28—840; divide by 7, and you bave the gear of this new wheel, 120. T. A, Griffiths, the Bay City scorcher, is thinking of riding it in the ten-mile road race on October 13. George Conroy has been elected second lieutenant of the Olympic Cyclers. The Olympic, a popular local cycling journal, has given an elegant silver cup to the Associated Clubs, to be contesied for in the three annual road events of the as- sociation. The possession of it will be_de- cidedfiby the number of points scored in the three races, the winner counting 5, the next man 4, and so on. It is a beantiful trophy, and, unlike any similar prizes heretofore given, it is fully np to value. The Crescent Athletic’ Club Wheelmen of Berkeley will hold several club races at the Oakland Trotting Park track to- morrow. The Waverly Cycling Club, resplendent this year as wild ducks are said to be as- tonishingly plentiful. Some of the old professional hunters contend that the un- expected appearance of 80 many young birds_in the vicinity of the preserves this year is because of the number of wounded ducks that have raised broods near the grain-fed ponds the past summer. Of course the professional duck-shooters are not, by any means, on friendly terms with the gun clubs and as a matter of course they will not hesitate to say anything that may annoy the club members. he increase in the quantity of aquatic game this vear is evidently owing to the recent cold snap in the north and the heavy rain which visited us some four weeks ago. The Cordelia Club is making extensive reparations for the opening of the season. he ponds upon which the members in- tend doing the greater part of their shoot- ing are being well supplied with wheat, and as a result thousands of ducks visit them during the darkness of night. The Mal- lard Club members are making ready aiso to §lve the greenheads a warm reception, and between the Cordelias and the Mal- lards the outside world expects to hear of in white duck suits, will journey to Hay- wards to-morrow to witness the road races. SpaLDING. Sl THE CYCLER'S SONG. There's jov in a sall in & merry gale On the deck of a flying yacht, And a burst of speed with a gallant steed Is with liveliest pleasure fraugnt. And an ocean trip on a bounding ship On the breast of the sparkling sea Brivgs vigor again to the weary brain, But & spin on the wheel for me. REFRAIN. Wheeling, wheeling, swift as the rushing wind, The wrinkles of care fade away in the airas the city we leave behind, The heart grows light and the eyes grow bright as the kiss of the breeze we feel ‘While speeding along with a merry song astride of the noiseless wheel. . ‘We hold in disdain the clattering train As it files o'er the gleaming rail, No joy is 50 bright as our rapid fiight As we speed over hill and dale; Through beautiful lanes where the leaty manes Of the trees in the breezes play, With a laugh and a song we speed along, From the cares of the world away. Hurrah for the wheel, for the whirling wheel, Hurrah for the riders so gay, A rollicking cheer for the country dear, ‘And the scent of the new-mown hay. Hurrah for the blush of the cheeks aflush With a ruddy and healthtu glow, And a three times three for the life so free ‘Which the cyclers alone may know. —J. B. A., in the New York World, o gt CORBETT-FITZSIMMONS. Sporting Men Who Do Not Expeot to Hear of a Fight In Texas. Many of the well-known sporting men of the City display a singular lukewarmness in the coming Corbett-Fitzsimmons mill. Several even go so far as to predict that it will never take place. The action of Texas’ Governor in calling a special ses- sion of the Legislature of the State, they think, will have a telling effect on the financjal interests at stake. If the least doubt’ lingers about the contest taking place it will deter thousands from going to the Lone Star State. It is also put forth as a well-consid ered opinion that the Texansin their legisla- tion, in view of the fact that the fight would bring a million of dollars into the State, will ?nil to comply with the wishes of the Governor in the premises. As busi- ness men, with an eye to the dollar, it is asserted they will do nothing with the laws which i§ calculated to prevent the mill taking place within the borders of their State. Be this asit may, there seems to be less interest taken in the fight here in Corbett’s home than one might natur- ally expect. The friends of the cham- pion, and they are many, think he would have no trouble in stopping ‘‘Fitz" in the tenth or twelfth round, and that if Maher is substituted it will be the tamest fight “Big Jim”’ ever had. Itis contended that Jim’s manager, Brady, 18 too shrewd a man to want Maher ut in Fitzsimmons' place. It would not & money proposition. Neither would it be profitable for tuoseinterested in_the money end of the enterprise to have Fitz- simmons superseded :Y Maher. Jim’s friends also assert that all the talk about his sore knee militating against his success in the prospective mill is nonsense. They ascribe it to a shrewd scheme to influence the betting. Those who claim to know whereof they speak say the champion’s knee is all right. Becretary Kennedy of the Olympic Ciub thinks Corbett will best his man if the mill takes place. % James Farley does not think much in- terest is taken in the fight generally. He also thinks it doubtful if the fight will come H, Cook, an old California Club man, has his doubts about the fight taking place. Fulda believes “Big Jim” would rather meet Maher than the Australian. Leonard Giil of the Olympic says he has reason to believe that Corbett is in good condition and that if he meets “Fitz" he will stop him in the tenth round. Billy Jordan is positive that Fitz will stop Corbett in, pretty short order. He saw the fighters punching each other in a dream the other night and says that the nightmare left him when Fitz landed his right on Corbett’s jaw and James went down and out. Jordan is of the same opinion as many others who do not expect to ever hear of the fight coming off. Barney Farley thinks that Corbett will meet his Waterloo if he ever puts up his dukes in front of the Australian. “This man Fitzsimmons can hit as hard as a kicking horse,” said Farley, “and he will do Corbett sure.” s N. Van Bergen has money to wager that Corbett will whip Fitzsimmons in quick order if they should meet. George Walker would like to see Fitz- simmons whip Corbett because the latter spat in the Australian’s face. Walker, thinks, however, that Corbett is the better flflhter. ack Lemmer thinks that Corbett should whip Fitzsimmons with one hand. M. Belli of Colma can’t see how Fitzsim- mons can whip the man who made a chop- ping-block of Sullivan, Detective Stillwell said that he could not express an opinion as yet, and that he must see the men before he will be able to ive a tip on the big fight that is yet in oubt. George Harding is satisfied that Fitz- simmons has a very small chance of win- ning the championship. Charles Bergen says that.there is only one end to the game, and that is Corbett’s. Al Cumming wilt bet that Corbett will win inside of twenty rounds, if the fight ever takes place. Lloyd Eaton hopes that, for the good of the sport, Corbett will not hit his oppo- ne;lt too bard when he aims for a knock- out. M. Lynch would like to have a cool thousand on the long end, no matter what Corbett’s condition may be. John Grindley thinks that Fitzsimmons will give Corbett a harder run for the long green than Sullivan gave Corbett. Tom Barry of Bakerstield has an idea that Fitzsimmons will prove to be a sur-| prise party to Corbett. Phil Ryan thinks that if Fitzsimmons should lose he will profit financially by having failed to win the championship. John Mallon says most emphatically that if Corbett will be in_condition when he enters the ring he will make mince- meat of the Australian’s face. F. E. Mulholland, a noted authority on turf matters, says that the fight will all depend upon the start, and the man who can jochay best and spar the hardest will come under the wire é:c. { Walter Watson has a very good opinion of Fitzsimmons, but he is of the opinion that he will meet his master when he toes the scratch with Corbett. Watson will be surprised if the fight takes place in Texas. Mt o, GUN’ AND DOG. How Four Hunters Hoodwinked Fish Commissioner Emeric. Duck-shooters of high and low degree are anxiously awaiting the 15th day of October when the law protecting game birds will relinquish_its claim to further rotection. From all accounts there will splendid shooting in the Suisun marshes 4 some great sport this winter, There are uite 8 number of arks being fitted up and their destination will be the Suisun marshes. Professional duck-hunters fear no law so long as they can kill and sell their game without fear of arrest. As there ap- pears to be no particular desire on the part of the Fish and Game Commission- ers—H. F. Emeric, William C.Murdoch and J. M. Morrison—to dispatch deputies in search of the law-breakers, the profes- sional duck-hunters have been enjoying a feast of clover during the past month. The booming of heavy duck guns can be heard each morning and evening near Suisun. The shooting is done principally in the ponds near the river, and the birds bagged are shipped by steamers to Stock- ton, Sacramento and San Francisco. The game warden of this City should not overlook an occasional visit to the river boats upon their arrival. John K. Orr bagged one dozen English snipe last Sunday at Point Reyes. Duck and rail shooting is the principal sport of a number of men who never miss a Sunday’s outing on the San Mateo marshes.” What are the Fish Commis- sioners doing? It will be remembered by duck shooters thatlast year H. Emeric of San Pablo or- dered all hunters from trespassing on the marsh which lies immediately west of the town of San Pablo. Mr. Emeric and his club members have enjoyed some good duck-shooting in the early months of the season, and as a matter of fact they now jealously guard. their preserve from the depredations of outsiders who in former years made the Emeric marshes their prin- cipal headquarters during the duck-shoot- ing season. It happens, however, that a large strip of the marsh adjoining Emer- ic’s property is owned by a farmer who has not entered the least objection to hunters shooting ducks thereon, provided that no injury be done his property. Four oung men, who have proven to be thorns ?’n the sides of the members of the Emeric Gun Club, have leased from the obligin, farmer a small strip of ground, upon wgic they recently erected a ‘‘shanty,”’ where their boats will be heused and where they can dream in comfort of duck-shooting galore. Mr. Emeric was, of course, un- aware of the fact that the four young men who caused him s0o much mental anguish last season would attempt to shoot on the marshes this year, and especially in the face of the fact that they had been cautioned to keep off the grass, or other- wise be punished for committing a misdemeanor. The warning apparently did not discon- cert the four young roues in the least, but, on the contrary, they became all the more aggressive and determined to give Mr. Emeric, in the language of the tout, a “run for his money” this year, hecause the law says that hunters may enter upon salt water marshland, etc., etc. The erection of a shanty was the only thing that puzzled the young men, be- cause the material had to carted through Mr. Emeric’s grounds to the place of debarkation, and they well knew that his keepers would not permit of any such liberties without permission from their employer. After holding several sessions a scheme was finally concocted which proved suc- cessful. One beautiful moonligcht night not very long ago ‘‘the big four” stole a march on the %ood keepers while they were dreaming of their monthly salaries, and uninterruptedly they drove a four- horse team with an immense load of lumper through Emeric’s property to the place selected for the erection of their winter’s home. All hands went to work with a will, and in a very short time a building loomed up on the margin of the marsh, much to the chagrin of Emeric and his clubmates. The new house is com- fortably fitted up, and a man will be placed on guard to protect the property against any malicious attack that may be made upon it. Mr. Emeric says that, law or no law, he will prosecute every man who trespasses upon his property this year, and there can be no gamsa{mg that some very interest- ing news will be heard from Ban Pablo just as soon as the duck guns open fire upon the feathered invaders of the San Pablo marshes. John Sammi hasissued a challenge in Professor Bergen’s Promoter to Al Cumming. It states that Sammi wil! run his brace of Irish water spaniels, Brocky Tom and Oiley Fred, a mud-flat trial on rail or turtles against Cumming’s brace of spaniels, Dude and Dudeen. The Scotch- man will doubtless accept the conditions of the flour merchant, and if so sportsmen will be treated to a very interesting con- test on the flats. Sidgs e AMATEUR ATHLETICS. Champlonshlp Games—Cross-Coun- try Run at Souther Farm. There will doubtless be an exceedingly large gathering of college boys and their friends this afternoon on the campus of the university of Berkeley. The annual academic field day will certainly bring out a large number of athletes, and as well- contested games are always the rule and not the exception the many ladies and gentlemen who will attend can expect to witness a splendid afternoon’s athletic entertainment. The schools that will be represented are the Lowell High School of this City, Mount Tamalpais Military Academy, Berkeley gymnasium, and the high schools of Stockton, Alameda, Cen- terville, Berkeley, Oakland and San Fran- cisco. Athletes who are conversant with the athletic qualities of the young men who will contest to-day pin their faith on the success of the Oakland and Berkeley high schools. The latter having very good ma- terial, doubtless the palm of victory will be captured by the Berkeley lads. They have had a splendid course of training and are very confident of achieving a grand victory. -The Young Men'’s Christian Association athletes of Oakland are actively engaged in the preparations for the grand Penthaion field day, and on Wednesday afternoon a special try-out to determine the advances made by the boys in field and track ath- letics will be held on the Berkeley cinder path. There will be five events and the three candidates who will secure the high- est scores will comprise the team. Lynch, Bock, Dawson, Flood' and West are the most promising competitors. The cyclists of the association will also have a try-out next week. The Pacific Athletic Association decided some time back to hold the championship meeting on Labor day, but as the college teams will be otherwise engaged on that day the officers of the association, at the request of the captains of the college teams, changed the date to Saturday, Oc- tober 5, when the. Eeflut outdoor meeting probably ever held on the coast will take place on the Berkeley cinder path. The university at Berkeley will be represented —_— by its star athletic team which made aucl}l a very excellent showing against _some O the leading college teams of the East last spring. Fourteen me: will sport the U.C. colors, and among the most promising are Koch, Merwin, Bradley, Edgren and Dyer. The Olympic Ctub will probably enter ten men, some of whom will give good ac- counts of themselves. The Stanford team has not as yet been selected, but 1t is safe to say that Captain Brown will have something up his sleeve in the nature ofa very nnex%ec!ed surprise for the Berkeley and Olympic Club sprinters_and jumpers. The eliance, ‘Acme and Sacramento Athletic Clubs will have contestants in the games. The events are: 100-yard, 220-yard, 440-yard, 880-yard and one-mile runs, one-mile walk, 120- ard hurdle, gut!inglfl«poux_xd shot, throw- ng 16-pound hammer, running high jump, running broad jump, pole vault and stand- g broad jump. T The outlook fora promising season of outdoor athletics is assuredly forming definite shape. There will be a cross-coun- try run to-day at the Souther farm near 8an Leandro, the particulars of which bave already appeared in THE CALL. The short distance races will precede the cross- country run, A granddinner will wind up the day’s festiyities. Siirie FOhAT COURSING. Result of the Drawing for Sunday’s Meetings in the Parks. On Sunday the hounds that will meet in Kerrigan’s Coursing Park are: J. O'Connor's_Jim Douglas vs. J. Dough- erty’s Belle, J. Strebe’s Annie Rooney vs. J. O'Shea’s .Active, C. Buckley’s John W vs. K. Cullen’s Catchem, R. Cullen’s Loe Star vs. G. Smart’s Lady Fitzgerald, T. Largomasini’s Sea Weed vs. Villa kennel’s Maud G, P. Riordan’s Chicopee vs. D. Tweedie’s White Rustic, J. Parkinson’s Marvelous vs. J. O'Shea’s Fearless, G. Mattson’s Belmont vs. D. Dillons Jersey Queen, Villa kennel’s Twilight vs. F. C. Ran- dolpl’s Dixie, D. Mulcahy’s Benicia Boy vs. G. O'Brien’s Little Bob, P. Carney’s Annie Daly vs. Villa Kennel's Electria, T. Largomasini’s Blackthorne vs. Villa kennel’s Bonnie Lass, A. Sharpentier's Saucey vs. C. Anderson’s Nigger, [ Emin Pasha, Winner of the First Prize at the Admission Day Meeting at Cassidy’s Park. [From a photograph.] | D. Tweedie’s Fairy D vs. J. Quane’s Captain Morse, J. P. McDonald’s Mayo Boy vs. J. Ker- rigan’s Lord Clifton, W. Walsh's Jennie H vs. J. Dougherty’s Iron Clad, J. Strebe’s Lillian Raussell vs. Villa kennel’s Tempest. At Ocean View Park the following dogs will contest: J.0’Connor’s Ambition vs. W. Trance’s Little Beauty; J. McBride’s Flashlight vs. D. Donlea’s Nellie D; J. Tracy’s Sounder vs. W. Dalton’s Ilene; T.” J. Cronin’s Dick vs. M Roger's Sly Bog; T. J. Cronin’s Jasper . J. Norton’s Midnight Second; W. L. Trade’s Lamplighter | vs. W. Dalton’s Happy Jack; J. H. Perigo’s Wee Lassie vs. T. Neenan’s Regent; M. Lucy’s Rosa H vs. J. J. Donnelly’s Defender; C. Jen- | ning’s Red Rose vs. J. O'Connor’s Tee Wee; J. E. Cohen’s Daisy Bell vs. C. Welsh’s Mission Boy; R. O'Shea’s Erin’s Maid vs. J. Dear’s Ful- lerton; D. Dillion’s Little Willie vs, T. Bren- nan’s White Chief. e CRICKET CHIRPS. About the Great Anglo-Philadeiphia Match—Ancient Scores—Events. Never before in the annals of American cricket has so mueh general interest been aroused as in the Oxford-Cambridge vs. Philadelphia match, played at Manheim last week. In spite of the fact that the weather was intensely hot, fully 10,000 people were assembled on the ground each day. The grand stand, which will seat ! about 1000, contained almost twice that | number. The ladies’ quarters and the main club were also crowded to over- flowing, while around the rope the crowd was standing ten and twelve deep. The ground itself is described as a picture of natural loveliness, with its acres of green turf, its majestic clubhouse on one side of the ornamental stone-wall inclosure and its picturesque grand stand on the other— both of the colonial style of architecture and subsiantially built. In the back- ground is a forest of stately oak, cedar and | maple trees. ‘When California can boast of such a cricket-field the game will grow in u- larity with the same rapid strides as it has done East of the Rockies. In regard to the match itself, the batting of the home team seems to haye been somewhat sporadic, though a total of 234, whieh included a century by Patterson and 53 by Ralston, must have been well worth watching. The fielding of the visitors is reported as being exceedingly good. n connection with the event it is inter- esting to note that similar contests have taken place on twenty-four occasions since 1859. In each case Philadelphia was pitted against representatives of Great Britain, mostly from England; from Australia twice and Ireland once. Of these games the visitors have won sixteen, the Phila- delphians seven, and one match, played in 1878, was a draw. An interesting article, entitled *“The | Evolution of Cricket,” appears in the cur- rent issue of an English magazine. In it a heroic poem, “Cric#tet,” published in 1770, is quoted from, and the many theories of the game’s origin are discussed. The earliest matches of which the scores have been preserved are also mentioned, the first being Kent vs. All England, played on the Artillery ground, Finsburg, in 1743; and Hambledon vs. Kent,which took place at Bishopsbourne Paddock, Canterbury, August 17, 1772. The latter portion of the last century was notable for the formation of the now world-famous Marylebone Oricket Club. This institution, destined to become the supreme controller of cricket, located itseli in Dorset Square, Marylebone, London, re- moving subsequently to Regents Park, ana finally settling, in 1814, in its present quar- mi_shin St. Johgu W;&d. g e game has n ming in Lake County of late. 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