The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 26, 1895, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1895 OUTDOOR SPORTS. Interesting Events World and in Athle The first of. the intercollegiate football games that have been arranged by the Reliance, Olympic, Stanford and Berkeley clubs will take place to-day at Central Park. sent the Reliance and Berkeley clubs, and a spirited game is loooked for. The Acme Club of Oakland will hold a - handicap bicy Haywards and events are also on the slate which cannot 1 to interest patrons of cycli Now that the season for duck and quail t hand sportsmen are having ood rainstorm would, tly improve the pleasures of however, quail and smipe shooting. Coursing is now enjoyed by many peo- ple who visit the coursing parks. The next important meeting will be held on the plains of Merced. The ozrsmen are in hopes that Henry Peterson, California’s representative, will return from Texas with many winning laurels. The Olympic Club’s handball tourna- ment will finish to-morrow. THE WHEELMEN. The Racing Board Will Be Petitioned to Relnstate Oscar Osen. CLUB EVENTS TO-MORROW. California Cyecling Club—To CALL Bicycle Club—To Golden Gate Park. - Camera Club Cyclists—To Sonoma. Crescent Road Olub—To Petalama. Garden City Cyclers—Koad race, San Jose. Imperial Gate Park. Liberty C Club—To Golden Cyecling ling Club—Blind run. Libe cling Club, ladies’ annex— to Centerville. Olympic Club Wheelmen—Blind run. 0 Fra Road Club—To Pet- aluma. al of the The a coast department is edited by Sydney B. Vincent, the popular racing man, The annual election of the San Francisco Road Club, now one of the jargest and most prosperous wheeling organizations in the will be held Tuesday evening, November 5, and nominations will be made at the regular meeting next Tuesday even- ing. The club goes to Petaluma as the zuests of the Petaluma wheelmen to-mor- row, taking the 8 . . Tiburon ferry. There will also be a clubrun of the Crescent Road Club to-morrow to Petaluma tain Bearwald, leaving by the The contesting teams will repre- | le race to-morrow on the | an Leandro course. Other | under | | gold medal, 'which he will wear until the Presidio. | | Petaluma, are said to be in very bad con- | milk will be supplied on the grounds and | the disposal of the cyclists. i will accompany the party stern racing talent | formance last Saturday remarkable when | and his friends think he will be wearing it in the Cycle tic Fields. same ferry. Invitations have been issued by the Im- perial Cycling Club for its first annual party to be held Friday evening, Novem- r*or , at Union-square Hall. This will be no bloomer ball, for the card reads “‘strictly evening dress.” The hop will be largely attended, as invitations are much sougzht for. The Royal Cyeling Club will hold an eletion of officers at the regular meeting next Tuesday evening. Captain Rosen- berg, who has been suffering for some time with rheumatism, has returned from the springs fully recovered. Guy Frost, the i of the first of the Royals’ series of five-mile road races, has been presented with a trophy in the shape of a handsome next race is decided esrly in November, after that time. The ladies’ annex to the Liberty Cycling Club will hayve a run to-morrow to Center- ville; 8 A. M. boat. The roads outside of San Rafael going north, partieularly the one leading to dition at present. - That is one reason why the Camera Club Cyclists will take the train as far as Schellville on their run to the Johnson estate near Sonoma to-mor- Members are requested to bring their own luncheon, but hot coffee and the grape vines and fruit trees will be at Many ladies We thought ssen was doing wonder: when he rode ten miles on July 28 in 25:45, and considered Frank Byrnes’similar per- | A. B. WILSON, WHO RODE TEN MILES IN 23:08 2-5. here next week will be of great interest to the wheelmen of this coast, for besides several of our own men and a trio of East: ern fiyers who have been here before there will come several with world-wide reputa- tions for speed whom we have only read about. After a few days’ stay in this City, during which they will be entertained by the large local clubs, they will depart for San Jose and go into active training for the two big meets to be held there on No- vember 8 and 9. A party of prominent local wheelmen is being made up to go up the road as far as Sacramento to meet the visitors. The Bay City Wheelmen are ar- ranging for a monster smcker at the club- rooms in honor of their returning club- mates and their racing companions. From the time these men get here track-racing will receive a great impetus, and as they will all winter at San Jose and try for rec- ords it would seem that while the season is practically over in the East it will never close in Califorma. Theannual league election, as announced in last Tuesday’s CaLL, furnished some surprises, but it is the eeneral opinion that asplendid board of officers has been elected and the organization should boom during 1896 under their guidance. The committee appointments made by President White of the California Asso- ciated Cycling Clubs, as printed in THE Cacy yesterday, are particularly well made and with the large membership the asso- ciation now has it should become a power in the wheeling interests of this coast. The ordinance to be drafted and pre- sented to the Supervisors for their appro- val will be perfec acceptable to the wheelmen of this City, as expressed by the representatives at the meeting heid last Monday night. .With this matter settled and the proposition for lighting the park by electricity under way things are look- ing brighter for the riders of the wheel here. Harry F. Terrill of the Bay City Wheel- men seems to have been having a very en- joyable time down South. In a letter to a iriend here fe states that he has been traveling all over New Orleans and the surrounding country with F. Howard Tut- tle of Chicago, whom we all know out here. Terrill met Chairman Gideon of the racing board in Philadeipbia and received. a special sanction from him to race in class A wherever he wished, so he will ride at Tampa, Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Fla., next week. He will have but little time to train, however. At 2o'clock to-morrow afternoon Emil Languetin of the Bay City Wheelmen will start from San Leandro and endeavor to ride five miles to Haywards in less than 11 minutes 35 seconds, which is the coast record. He will be paced' by his club- mates, Andrews and Grifiths, Hall and Menne, on tandems, and feels confident that he can ride the distance in about eleven minutes flat. $ The American Wheelman, one_of .the leading weekly wheel papers of the East, is now publishing over a page of Pa- cific Coast cycling news every issue, which evidences that the coast is being recognized in the Kast as a great field for the trade and a desir- able wintering place for racing men. The | he did it in 24:26 45, but how these records | pale beside the phenomenal ride of P. B. | Wilson of the Chicago Cycling Club, whose picture is presented, in the club’s ten-mile | Toac race two weeks ago to-day. He rode a wheel geared to 80. started from the fifteen-second mark, and with the aid of two tandems pacing him he passed thirty men and finished in third place. And the Teports say that at no stage of the race was he ridden out, for he continually called for a hotter pace. The time made is a world’s record. There were otnersin the race who | The fact that one got s did clever work. under twenty-four minutes, under y-five, six under twenty-six, seven under twenty-seven, four under twenty- eight, Whree under twenty-nine and two under thirty—in fact all finished under i the course to have been fast, thstanding the fact that over two dozen railroad and several streetcar tracks bad to be crossed on the out and home trip. The first thirteen men rode the course at an average of about 24:51, while the average of the twenty-nine finishers is about These times are so remarka- ble that they have set the coast men to thinking, and Wilson’s ride has been the principal topic of conversation around the clubs this week. It 1s rumored around the Olyrpic Club thata petition isto be circulated shortly asking Chairman Gideon of the racing board to reinstate Oscar Osen, the Garden professional. The matter is. being fathered by the popular trainer, Jack Mc: Glynn, and is, therefore, in good hands, but I can’t help thinking if Osen is rein- stated under what club's colors will he ride—Olympic or Garden City? It would be a strange coincidence, wouldn’t it— Jones and Davis, and now Osen, onceé the happy wearers of .the fleur delis now adorning their manly chests with the em- blematic *flying doughnut.” Stilt stranger things bave happened. A most unique circular has been issued to the members of the Bay City Wheelmen announcing the club’s annual entertain- ment on November 11. It is merely signed *‘Committee,”” so that one isata loss as to whom to attribute its remarkable verbi- age, but I fancy I recognize the fine work of its epigrammatic secretary, Mr. How- ard. At the club speculation is rife as to the authorship of the letter, which I give here complete that you may gather the full text of it: To the Members of the Bay City Wheclmen: The crowning effort of the club in the line of shows will be sprung on Monday evening, November 11, 1895, at Oad Fellows’ Hall, in the way of a vaudeville, or variety exhibition, and hop. A fine array of talent has been selected and a splendid entertainment is assured. It is the intention of the committee hand- ling the effair to have the show commence promptly at 8 o’clock, and go through to the end with the snap of a stiff steel spring. Daneing will commence at 10 o’clock. The cause is a good one, 50 let there be no numbness of activity on behalf of the members in making it a grand success. Inclosed vou will please find ten tickets, which kindly dispose of, if possible. Thcre are more on' tap at the club when these are goue. Yours fraternally, ‘COMMITTEE. If that did not emanate from the bright mind of Secretary Howard Iam much mis- | taken, thougzh hé may have had the assist- ance of President Kerrgan or Judge Dunne as collaborators. However, the en- tertainment will be varied and amusing, and the hall will undoubtedly he pam& as it always is when the Bay Citys give an entertainment. A Tre CALL Bicyele Club will have a run to the park tc-morrow afternoon, following a members’ meeting, to be held at Tru- worthy’s cyclery at 2 o'clock. ) Nominations for officers for the ensuing year will be made at the regular meeting of the California_Cycling Club next Mon- day evening. The club is much elated over the election of its secretary, H. F. Wynne, to the office of vice-consnl of the league, and took occasion to celebrate the unexpected event after the election was over last Monday night. To-morrow the members will have a run to the park and Presidio. Bulletin 24 of the racing board, dated Oc- tober 24, 1805, is as follows: Sanctions granted—Redlands Cycling Club, Redlands, December 4, 1895; Pomona Cyciing Club, Pomona, December 6, 1895. Both Na- tional circuit meets. Transferred to class B—Roma E. Dow, San Jose, under clause B. R. M. WELCH, Representative National Racing Board. The Olympic Club wheelmen have de- cided to postpone their first annual ten- mile handicap road race until after the National circuit meet at San Jose, No- vember 8 and 9. so that the men will not stay out of the road race on account of training for the track events. To-morrow #his club will follow Captain A. C. Thornton on a blind run, destina- tion known only to the leader, but an enjoyable time is promised all who attend and special attention will be paid the new members. The run starts promptly at 8:30 A. M. from the clubhouse on Post street. At the regular meeting to be held on Tuesday evening, November 5, the theater party committee will submit their report and several matters of importance will be discussed, princibally the selection of offi- cers to run the club next year. The posi- tion of captain of the wheelmen gives promise of being hotly contested, there be- ing several candidates for the office, each of whom is working quietly to secure his election. The incumbent, A. Thornton, declines renomination. : William M. Meeker of the Bay City ‘Wheelmen, who has been in the East at- tending college since June, 1893, will re- turn to his home here shortly. Dan 0'Cal- laghan of the same club sailed for Europe per steamer Umbria on October 5 on his trip around the world. a3 The Garden City Cyclers will hold their five-mile road race to-morrow, postponed from last Sunday on account of rain. V. Benson, the well-known racer, has joined 'the 'club, having withdrawn from the San Jose Road Club. The racers of the latter club are actively training for the meet at San Jose on November 8 and 9, those who will ride being McFar- Jand, John Wing, Ray Hogg, J. Belloli J n Hammonds, G. Navlett, F. Brunst Jr. and Otto Ziegler Jr. Last evening the club held its regular monthly hop at the clubrooms. Wilbur F. Knapp, without whose ser- vices as announcer no race meeting is deemed complete, has left the Overman people and will hereafter talk Barnes. This news will be a complete surprise to his many friends who thought him a fix- ture in former position. He is very popular with the riders and the trade, and is probably the most successful salesman on'the coast, 50 his new employers are to be congratulated on their acquisition. The San Francisco Young Men’s Christian Ascociation Cycling Club was reorganized last Tuesday evening with the following officers: E. E. Kelley, president; R. S. Boyus, vice-president; Frank Han- cock, secretary-treasurer; Joseph Sims, captain; P. B. Waterman, first lieuten- ant; F. Bronson, second lieutenant. SPALDING. The following are the handicaps and the for the much talked of Acme ve-mile handicap road race, which beld over the San Leandro and talp will be Haywards course to-morrow, starting at 1 o’clock Nissen and H.Squires, scratch; A ugall and H. H. Hutchinson, 30 E H. Crafts and P. M. Lefevre, 45 se 11, A. H. Agnew, E. 0. Mendel, na, J. ILI’hHlips and F.T. Smith, M. Greaves, 1 min. 15 sec.; G. J. Hansen and T. H. Nevin, 1 min. 30 sec.: F. Simen, J. R. Tallman, T.7J. nm(g. ~ Wetmore and J. E. Scott, 2 min; J. H. Otey, 50 sec. The following letter is self-explanatory: The Alpha Cycling Club, a flourishing ladies’ club, wishes 1o receive slight mention occa- sionally in your columns. We are desirous of becoming betterknown. Captain Wynne calls runs twice a month, which are largely at- tended. Next Sunday we picnic at Mill Valley, taking the 10 o’clock boat, via Sausalito. Mr. Marsh has given us the use of his grounds. An enjoyable time 1s anticipated. DOROTHY PENDERGAST, Secretary. e THE BICYCLE TRADE. A Review of 1895 Business and Prospects for Next Season. There is a fierce rivalry among the many bicycle dealers and they disagree on many points regarding machines, but on one ail are harmonious, and that is that this has been the most phenomenal season the bi- cycle trade has ever known. From tabu- lated approximations made by representa- tives of the large Eastern factories the out- put shows for this season the total number of wheels sold to be at least 500,000. The average retail price is $75, and at this rate the sum produced is over $30,000,000. A great many of the factories are doub- ling their capacity for next vear and the number of the factories will be largely in- creased. The great impetus to the trade was car- ried by women taking up cycling to such an extent. It is safe to say one-fourth of the wheels sold this year have been purchased by women, and this marvelous increase in the sale of ladies’ wheels has surprised everyone in the business. Bicycle schoois have sprung into existence and now claim a rank among grammar and Latin schools. The bulk of the trade for this year is over, for two reasons. First, because pur- chasers wish to see the ’96 models, and then cold and damp weather is coming on, In all probability the ’66 models will be heavier than this” year’s, for the people who built very light machines are going to make them heavier. The manufac- turers have saved weignt by substituting wood for steel rims. The wheels are not only lighter but stronger and tires are also much lighter than formerly. The trade in wheels in the East is much greater than in the West, with the excep- tion of Chicago. There are many more wheels sold in that city than in New York. Ohio is the best Western State for the track. 1t is_spreading all over the West, however, and managers will have to hump themselves to keep from getting more be- hind in '96 than they did in this year. Probably by the first of April every man- ufacturer ‘will be unable to fill orders for men’s and women’s wheels, and there will of course be a flood of cheap wheels, but strictly first-class machines will be as scarce as they were this year. Weight touched bottom this year and will be increased next year, as a rule. The English manufacturers have had far more experience in safety building than those here, and they do not consider it policy to putout aroad wheel weighing less than twenty-six pounds, and yet they built seventeen-pound safetiesas far back as1889, but they never put them out as road wheels. The trouble with our manufacturers is that the popularity of hght wheels led many who were new-in the business to build extremely light machines regardless of the lasting qualities of the wheel. The limit was reached this season and the ten- dency will be upward. With the present knowledge of the science of wheel-building. a satisfactory bicycle in every particular cannot be built to weigh less than twenty pounds, even for a light rider. The spread of the bicycle fever has had a marked effect on the rubber trade in this country within the past year or two, and especially within a few months. The rub- ber required for the tires of bicycles amountsin the aggregate to hundreds of tons annually, and the demand for it in- creases in geometrical progression. It is said by a well-known rubber man that the bicycle business has made a dif- ference within eighteen months of proba- bly §5,000,000 to lfie crude rubber trade. Figures of the amount used by the bi- cycle trade are difficult to get at, but it is s, G McDo J. Sex. 1 min.; Culhane, estimated that they used 1,000,000 or 1,500,- 000 pounds more during the past year than the year previous. The price of Tub- ber has advanced 7 or 8 cents a pound since June. The world’s consumption of rubber is about 30,000 tons annually, and of this amount the United States uses, it is said, 14,000 tons. FOOTBALL. Two Varsity Men Agaln Candldates for the Stanford Eleven. The spectator’s interest ina contest is increased when he knows something about the individual participants and can iden- tify them. Particularly is this so with the great intercollegiate football match on Thanksgiving day. | Eaton. ‘While nobody can predict positively the | on Saturaay afternoon, point of difference which arose between | Jack Reynolds, Stanford’s Speedy Halfback. line-up of either college team until near the night after their practice, and with the ex- | ception of a few skinned noses and other slight bruises, they are in_1airly good cor dition. The line-up will be as_follows: Center, Selfridge; guards, Plunkett and Walthall; tackles, Douglas and Simpson; ends, Sherman and Hutchinson; quarter, Kennedy; halves, Hupp and Rubottom; full, Ransome. The full quota of men are now in the training quarters, comprising eighteen in Kennedy, Dozier, Wilsen, Douglas, Simp: son, Selfridge, Deahl, Walthall, Ru: bottom, Ludlaw, Bender, Piunkett, Hall, Schmidt, Greisberg, Wittenmeyer, Baker and Hutchinson. {for last night by Managers Lang and 1t will take place at Central Ps the two managers regarding the placing of men on the teams from the Afiiliated Col- leges was satisfactorily settled. Under the terms of the agreement any regular fresh- man on the roll of either institution will be eligible for a position on the team, which is according to last year’s precedent. GUN AND DOG. Postponement of the Trials Against Trespassers. The warm reception wild ducks received during the first few days of the open sea- son from local sportsmen has been a means of driving many of the birds south- ward. Latest reports from Delano and its vicinity state that large numbers of ducks may be seen in the several ponds which are fed by the artesian wellsnow so numer- ous on the once barren and uncuitivated plains. There are, however, thousands of birds along the east shores of the bay, but they are cute enough to remain well out of range of shot. During the night and under cover of darkness the birds flock to the Suisun marshes, where they feast upon the grain scattered along the margin of the ponds purposely to_attract the game, and return again at early morning to the bay shores. A storm is necessary to bring about a good flight, and when that arrvies the sportsmen who are looking forward to a first-class shoot will assuredly gain their point—that is, of course, provided they are stationed in a good locality. It can be safely said that for thorough enjoyment there will be very few daysdur- ing the season that will equal the opening day. It was ideal in every respect, and end of the training season there are al- ways possibilities 1n favor of those men who had been on the team the year before. | Jackson E. Reynolds, the speediest of | all Palo Alto’s football men, is an Oakland | boy and was a High School athlete; he played right halfback on Stanford’s vic- | torious team last Thanksgiving. Reynolds | is a senior in the law department, is 5 feet 9 inches in beight and weighs in the neigh- | borhood of 175 pounds. Deep chested and | those who had been attacked by the early shooting fever enjoyed the grandest shoot- ing imaginable. Down about Alviso and Alvarado some very good bags have been made this season | so far by sportsmen who shoot over fresh- water ponds. Some very amusing articles on shooting and angling appear occasionally in one of the evening papers. No man of any knowledge of either sport would be guilty all. They are: Sherman, Ransome, Hupp, | The much-talked-of game between the | | Stanford and U. C. freshmen was arranged The | the line of game, as quail and duck cannot be purchased. 3 The injunction suit entitled the Cordelia Shooting Club vs. the Mallard Club was | heard before Judge Buckles of the Superior Court of TFairfield last Thursday, but no resalt followed, as the case was postponed until next Thursday at the request of the attorneys of the Mallard Club, some of whose members had business of urgent im- portance to atiend to yesterday. The trial of Jones, the hunter, who was arrested for trespass a few days ago on Mr. Emeric’s marsh property near San Pablo, and which was to have taken place vester- adiay, was aiso postponed until next Satur- . Live sparrows are now used in the East in the place of pigeons in trap-shooting, | and according to some of the Eastern | papers the little foreigners afford more | sport than pigeons. As sparrows are nnr?crous here they should be given a trial. Annie Oakley, famous for the wonderful shooting she has done with gun and rifle, was pitched from the cars to the ground recently while en route from Wilmington, Del., to Baltimore. Miss Oakley fortu- nately escaped serious injur; She, how- ever, wrenched her back severely. ful for any one to kill or transport quail for the purpose of marketing the same, and making it unlawful for any wholesale or retail dealer to buy or seil quail, and making it unlawful for any transportation company to transport any quail delivered to it for the purpose of marketing the same, says Field Sports. The ordinance goes into effect ai once. Any violation of it is declared a misde- meanor and made punishable by a fine not to exceed $100 or by imprisonment in the County Jail of not less than ten days, or by both fine and imprisonment. This is the only way o protect our home game. Every connty in the State shouid pass a similar ordinance. Severalconnties have already done so; let the others follow their example. Game Warden Mogan arrested Campo- donico & Maicolm, commission merchants, 317and 319 Washington street, last Mon- day for selling wild ducks. The case came up before Judge Low in Police Court 1 last Tuesday, and was postponed until next Tuesday. The defendants asked for a jury trial. Mogan has strong evidence to pro- duce, having purchased two of the ducks for sale. FRSe e S THE ANGLER. The Season for Catching Trout Will Close on Thursday. Anglers must not forget that the angling season will terminate with this month, and that trout of any kind must not be taken after next Thursday. | fishing will continue, however, until next | January. John Butler and John Gallagher and several kegs of fish returned a few days I 4 5/5//// ‘ f/////'/ 3 ns \ B ML ‘\_\\\\\ \ \\\W/ THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA FOOTBALL ELEVEN WEICH WILL LINE UP AGAINST THE RELIANCE THIS AFTERNCON IN THEIR FIRST MATCH GAME OF THE SEASON. powerfully built he plays with a dash and vim that make his runs telling when hLe once gets clear of the mass of his oppo- | nents, but he lacks that dogged reckless- | ,ness that characterizes the pile-driver tac- | %icskof Frankenheimer, his companion half- | ack. Steuart W. Cotton, 98, “Milt” Grosh, , and “Tommy’’ Code, '96, are the only San Francisco boys that have ever won the privilege of wearing a black sweater with a cardinal 8, in evidence of a position once held in the Stanford football eleven. Cotton was the only freshman to secure a place in the team last year. His large gl)ysique and his quickness, together with is preliminary experience at the Belmont Steuart Cotton, Stanford’s Big End Rush. School, made him a_promising candidate when he entered college, although he was then not yet 17 years old. He is 6 feet 1 inch tall,’and this year will play at close t0 195 pounds, or nearly twenty pounds heavier than he was last season. He is captain of the sophomore class team which recently came very near humbling the senior champions with their agyegation of five Varsity veterans. he university too:bnll—glaye_rs ut up a Snappy game at chasing the pigskin yes- terday afternoon, which appeared in the nature of a grand finale before their meet with the Reliance Club eleven this after- noon at Central Park. Prior tothe line-up Coach Butterworth gave them a few pointers in interference. signaling and individual playing. The two short_halves which followed were played with & vim and energy seldom seen exceptingin an +will be sadly missed by the fraternity at of saying that the “Luntsmen of the Cor- delia Club have entered suit against the huntsmen of an opposition club,” and that | ‘““preserves should be maintained because the buffalo and the elk are fast being slaughtered by pot hunters.” Yes, preserves are of much value to the | sportsmen of this State, but such as marsh | preserves are good only as 4 means of af- | fording exclusive sport to those who lease | them. - Wild ducks are in the greater part | migratory in their habits, and will not re- | main on any particular preserve longer | than it suits their own sweet will; hence | the absurdity and downright foolishness | of thinking by the introduction of marsh | };reser\'es the lives of those migratory wild | owls will be preserved. Quail, pheasants, etc., are most assuredly entitled to preservation, and every true | sportsman is in favor of protecting them | against the pot-hunter, who never knows when to curtail the slaughter. Duck-shooting preserves are simply of no value to_any person other than those who have a right to shoot upon them, and, as a general rule, the alleged duck-pre- server is a greater destroyer of game than the market-shooter. If the State desires to protect its aquatic game and afford an opportunity to all true !gonsmen to enjoy the pleasures of the chase, duck-shooting preserves, so called, and market-shooting should be abolished. It was with feelings of regret that the sportsmen of this Eity, and particularly the members of the Pacific Kennel Clup, learned yesterday of the death of Frank Vernon Jr. Oaly a few days ago the young man was seen chatting merrily with his friends et the Oakland Trotting Park during | the big inanimate target tournament. Since then he contracted a bad cold which developed into a severe attack of pneu- monia. This dreaded visitor won its victory over a young and popular sportsman who large. Billy Robertson, the champion cricketer of the coast, received a bird which some- what resembled a young canvasback from Charles Dietz a few days ago. Billy was more than pleased, because if there is a bird that flies that catches Billy’s fancy that bird is the royal canvasback.” Robert- son had the alleged young and tender ‘‘can” cooked on the day following, and he pronounced it delicious, because it had that sweet and vleasant flavor which is so thoroughly prouounced in the royal feath- ered invader. Billy prides himself on being an epicure, by the way, and Mr. Dietz is now wondering if the bird he had given Robertson could have been reaily a young. canvasback and not a despised ‘‘wire tail,” whose _fmrincipal food is smalt fishes and clams. The cricketer contends that he has had the best of the joke, and is very anxious for some more of those so- C&}leg “\vi(l)'e tai]ls.” a udge Carroll and J. W. Bourdette bagged 225 ducks, including mallard, sprtig and teal, at Delano Saturday and Sunday last. The sportsmen state that thousands. of birds can be seen in the ponds that bave been formed by breaks in the water ditches. The members of the San Francisco Rod and Gun Club have been requested by the secretary to accomplish some high-class duck and qua.l shooting Sunday and Mon- actual confest. The players seemed fresh and active last day next, as the banquet of the club will be held Tuesday evening. Every member anglers remained on the river for several weeks, and had magniticent sport. Several large steelheads were captured during their sojourn at the famousangling waters. J. V. Coleman, Dan O’Connell and Crit- tenden Robinson, who returned from the Eel River recently, reported having had a very enjoyable outing. *“The” O’Connell, being the expert angler of the party, found little difficulty in keeping the camp well sup&lied with fish. “Well, I met some very entertaining gentlemen auring my outing at Grizzly Bluff who were very clever in handling a fishing rod,” said” John Butler, *‘but I must confess that Mrs. John M. Vance, the handsome and cultured wife of the presi- ent of the Eureka and Pacific Lumber Company’s Railroad, is the most expert angler I have encountered_during my out- ings on river and lake. Mrs. Vance uses an eight-ounce rod, and 1 can assure you that it would be an agreeable surprise for any lover of the sport of fly fishing to see the lady cast a fly over the rip ling waters of the Eel. She is unquestinna{;ly a master mechanic, and 1 am pleased to say that she has many admirers of her sex who have taken to angling as a means of enjoy- ment. Inafew years hence you will hear of many of the fair Jadies of Eureka and vicinity emulating Mrs. Vance's style of angling, and, indeed, a more polished teacher would be hard to find 1in this country than Mrs. John M. Vance of Eureka. dale, Humboldt County, presented John Gallagher of Oakland with a gaff which is a curiosity in itself. It looks like a policeman’s club, with a rough and treacherous-looking hook driven into tne smaller end. The hook or gaff was turned out by the champion blacksmith of Fern- lntroduced strictly on its merits VIN for past 30 years THE IDEAL TONIC Recommended by ail who have | GIVEN IT A TRIAL Mailed Free. Descriptive Book with Testimony and i Portraits OF NOTED CELEBRITIES. { Benoficial and Agrecablo. Every Test Proves Reputation, Avold Sabstitutions. Ask for ¢ Vin Mariani, At Druggists and Fanoy Grocers. MARIANI & CO., should certainly contribute something in Fanmns 4R Havsmans, 623 W. 16tk 8., Mew Tosk, Black bass | ago from the Eel River. Those two noted | ', Mr. Dungan, the past master of Fern- | dale. Butlersaysitis a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Eli Bagley of Gr system of catching dinary rod as empl by anglers he uses a tin ¢an to which is'fastened a line. Bag- ley_trolls in the deep pools from a boat and when a fish takes his spoon over goes the can Into the river. The fish dashes up and down the pool untii exhausted, and then the tin-can angler hauls in his line and fish. A very unsportsmanlike system. ;zly Bluff hasa novel Instead of the or- ish. THE OARSMEN. Famous Scullers Who Will Row In the Austin (Tex.) Regatta. The oarsmen who are to take part in the now in active veloped for the even 4,5,62and 7. The three star events of the great sf will be the single-scull event, pr to the winner; double scull, four-oared, pri In the single s are entere Peterson of San Francisco, ¢ the Pacifi of America; pion of the world; champion of America The double scull entries a daur brothers, Teemer and Peterson and Hanlon. The crowning event of the regatta will be the fou ed race between crews rep- resenting England, Canada and the United States. This race alone should be well worth going many miles to see. The I crew crossed the waters for the purpose of winning this event, crew is made up of the best rc terial in all England. Canada will enter an strong crew, and the crew which is to represent “Old Glory”’ will, no doubt, make their opponents hustle to keep out of their wake. The personnel of the crews is as follows: England — Way Harding, champlon of s l;nn x-champion of Eng- uggle e $1000, $1000, and on, ex-c Téemer, D. Roger: and ogers, exceptionally anjon, J. Charles Gaudaur E. Durnan United States—John Teer son, E. D. Rogers and J. H To strengthen t in the regatts duced a novel and attracti entertaining programm It will be a contest for the American championship for lady scullers, in Miss Rose .\eosenthe'm of St. Louis will row against Miss Tillie Ashley of Hart- ford, Conn. It was confidently expected that Sulli- Henry Peter- ett. interest already taken ent has intro- ve feature of the van, the champion sculler of England, would come over and take part in the re- gatta. Peterson and Gaudanr were each anxious to measure strokes with him, as he issued a challenge at one time to row any man in e world. Stansbury, who defeated Sullivan in Australia on the Paramatta course for the championship of the world, and who was in turn defeated by both Gaudaur and Peterson at the previous Austin reg told Peterson before he left for Aust that he thought Peterson could defe; livan hands down. At a meeting of the Sonth End Boat 0. K. TABLETS | Worth Their Weight in Gold. 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