The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1895, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1895. SPORTS OF THE WEEK. News of the Cycling and Other Athletic The wheelmen are having quite an en- | ble time at San Jose, where the famous | s ot the country are now located. are making the best of the | The duck and quail height of their s are plentiful in the marshes 1ue to remain until after the | Peterson, the oarsman, as, when he re he had to meet and will arrive at ¥s 2 wiser man than left this City. Coursing, rifie- well patronized. S g THE WHEELMEN. Social Entertainments Are Taking the Place of Club Runs. rally the one question among wheel- 3 as been, ““Are you going to San Jos! for there were races held there yesterday., and will be to-day, in which some of the fastest riders in the became discovered t in the En his home when h shooti men E, C. Johnson. world will participa these men to the nd their compet- ing h the local class B riders will be of great benefit to the latter, for it is known that the Easterners, while perhaps having Californians, are 50 we| and are familiar with ys by which a race may be won against men equaily as fast as themselvy t they are often victorious with men who are their | ontact with the star per- National circuit will open | the ey of the Californians, and should resuit in their all becoming faster and bet- ter riders. A complete account of yesterday’s races be found in another column. Among the events to be decided to-day will be the | five-mile National chamvionship. This | may be competed in by both class A and | B riders. There will be a large party of | wheelmen from this City who will go | down by train this morning to see to-day’s ' events. The Olvmpic Cyclers will ride down awheel, but the captains of most of the other clubs seem to think the roads | are hardly fit after the late rains. Those | who could spare the time went down yes- ! terday morning, and from the number of San Francisco riders at the track there one would think that they—particularly the Bay City’s—had nothing else to do but attend bicycle race meets. But as five of the six prominent class B men (all save Bala) belong to that club, this enthusi- asm 18 more readily understood. Most of them will return to the City to-night after the races. There are few club runs scheduled for orrow, and most of the riders will s frequent the park. The charter mbers of the California Cycling Clnb will ride out there via Ingleside. One s | The coming of sure of a pleasant ride in the park, while the country roads in any direction are of ionable surface, usually rough and tir;ze of the year. | red with dust at thi The record of on the road in competi g 1 T. Paxson of the Parkside Wheel b of Buffalo on September 30 over the Buffalo-Corfu course, is the best time in real road work produced this season, as the course is a straightaway stretch and by no means a park boulevard, where too many of the so-called road records are made. The Olympic Cyclers will ride to San Jose to-day with Captain Butz in com- mand. They will leave by the 8 A.M. broad-gzauge boat and expect to reach there in ample time for lunch and the races in the afternoon. The Liberty Cycling Club and its ladies’ annex held a hop 2t the clubrooms last evening. This is the third dance given by the club, and like its predecessors, proved very enjoyable. The ladies were stylishly gowned, the music was catchy and the members had such a good time they are heartily in favor of having these club hops more frequently. With the commencement of the rainy season wheeling must in a measure give way to social vleasures, and the dance of the Liberty Club last evening was only one of a number of similar affairs the various | clubs will give from time to time during the winter.” Probably the one most looked | forward to at present is the entertainment | and dance of the Bay City Wheelmen at | 0dd Fellows’ Hall next Monday night. The club has been giving semi-annual dances ever since its organizatien in 1884, but in 1893 decided to have a short min- strel entertainment precede the hop, the talent being selected from among its mem- bers. The night came and the house was | packed to the doors. The show was voted | the best ever seen, here in the amateur | | | line, and the dancing aiterward proved an attraciive feature. The same may also be said of the club’s efforts m 1894. This year it has gone somewhat out of the ordi- nary and will have a high-class vandeville entertainment instead of minstrelsy. Tal- ented amateur and professional performers will keep the audience inagood humor un- til 10 o’clock, after which dancing will be indulged in until 1. All the local clubs will attend_en masse, as the Ray Citys are noted for the excellence of their entertain- ments. The talent this year includes R. L. ‘Whelan (our Sheriff), in_comic songs; C. H. Hoag, bass singer; Miss Millie Flynn, soprano; Miss Pearl Andrews in special- ties; Jack Cathcart, musical selections up to date; Calane and Gilmore, specialty ar- tists; A. von Bendeleben, pianist and_vo. calist; William H. Hallett, barytone; Dave McLaughlin, character sketches; Hallett and Catheart, the universal favorites: the Four Lassards, acrobatic comedians now | at the Orpheum, and several others. Alto- gether it is a splendid bill and the wheel- men are insured a very jolly evening’s en- tertainment. | the study | rerdily | methods of Tepair are kinc | the cement tube into the puncture hole along. | paper with an | one of the newsiest weeklies published, | devoted e: | Saturday, but was refused. | race all his own way. {on Monday evening at 7 o'clock, so its Only a few nights after the Bay City Worlds. ‘ show, to wit, next Friday evening, the Im- perial Cycling Club will give its initial hop at Union-square Hall. This will be an vening dress affair and dancing will be the sole feature. The request for invita- tions has been so great as to tax the se retary’s patience, but Mr. Panario is good- atured and has sent them out to good ad- Probably it is not too late to ap- to him now if vou have been over- ed, for you reall. n't afford to miss c the Imperials’ first dancing party. Single-tube tires séem to he most popu- lar nowadays and therefore the following pointers as to repairing are valuable: s should exercise r repeiring ma- the result of tire- 1ding is ant to be an unsatisfactory exr nt and a waste of time. Common-sense de- base of the plug patch used large a_circumference as can into the puncture-hole with uit of small pjiers, and should be >s as thick at _the outer edge as at the center, where the piug itself, which fills the puncture, is attached. This gives the plug pateh & most mecessary clement, body, and races it against the inner suriace of tlie tire, when properly cemented, so as to strengthen -enforcing itin & man- to the tire's needs. Cyclists ith this kind of plugs 1y need not fear un- single-tube tire is you do it right. Riders of care in the selection of pro teriuls, for m i b One_feature of single-tube tire repairing now that should be class of tires is thy ch in the to every rider of that oper setting of the plu hol The method itself, and it is surpris- ing that so few riders realize the importance of & properly made repair_enough to give it | it deserves. The siugle-tube tire \mmends itself to the majority of isis because of its simplicity and well- nown riding and wearing qualities, and its dred feafures. In setting the plug-patch care should be exercised to make sure that it is free from dirt and that its cemented surface lies flat against the | ner surface of tire. This can be successfully eccomplished after the insertion of the plug by pushing the stem of side the plug and squeezing an_ample supp of cement against the patch to moisten its | surface thoroughly. The patch must then be | revolved many times by grasping it by the projectine plug, which will spread the cement evenly before inflating the tire. This is an essential point in the repair of single-tube tires, and should never be omitted to obtain a permanent air. The plug patch used should invariably have as large & patch sur- iace as can be pushed through the puncture le, and should be as thick at the edge as at the center. Any other kind has no tenacity, and will not give permanent service. At last we are to have & cycling paper on the Pacific Coast worthy of the name, and the so-called class journals now in xistence will have to take to the back- | und. Cycling West, of Denver, a enormous circulation and | intends to open a branch office in the | Donohoe building in this City and will | add a dozen or more pages, which will be clusively to the Pacific Coast. The two cycling papers now issued here and at San Jose lack news, are never up to | date and have met with but little favor | among the wheelmen. The advent of | such a live journalas Cycling West will | therefore be pleasing news. and prominent cyclists speak of its coming as a great thing for the sport on this coast. . C. and E. C. Johnson, whose are presented, have been following the National circuit all the year with the Stearns team, and it was originally in-} tended they should come to the coast, but | after a hard s, m’s work they decided to return home and rest a while. It is quite probable that they will come here in the early spring, however, to commence training for next year's work on the cir- cuit. Both aré known as phenomenally fast class B men, and have together prob- | ably gathered in more handicap races | i iil of the Bay City Wheel- men keeps his clubmates weil posted as to his movements, and his letters are always read by the wheelmen with a great deal of interest. I received one from him the other day from New Orleans, dated No- vember 1, in which he says: Your letter of the 24th ult. reached me here to-day. Iam having'a nice time, and intend t0 50 long as my money holds out. Still, after &ll, there is only one place for me, and that is i o i L. C. Johnson. California. I am contlnunl]{ running down the Eastand South and singing the praises of California, so if you hear of my death you will know it has been for a good equse. In all my travels I have not found a place where you can eatas cheaply s you can in San Francisco. The swellest places are not as good as the meaium-grade restaurants of San_ Francisco, except as to price, which is always first class. 1 leave here to-morrow or the mext day with no particular destination in view. T will eventually wind up in Michigan. I telegraphed to D. W. Robert, chairman of the Racing Board of this division, for a permit_to ride here next He would not give any reason for so doing. 1 guess I will not get a chance to race &t the Atlanta Cotton Exposi- tion. However, I will be there and see the fun, even if I cannot ride. My next address is Salem, Washtenaw County, Michigan. Sin- cerely yours, HARRY F. TERRILL. Terrill had no trouble in defeating all the crack class A men of New Orleans when he raced there recently under special permit, which perhaps explains why he was not granted a permit to race a second time. Asa matter of fact he ought to be in class B, as he is far too speed?' for the average class A man, and usually has a T : Properly trained, it is said, the equal of Terrill in class A does notexist--that he is the speediest of them all. SPALDING. The California Cycling Club will meet members can have time to attend the B. C. W. entertainment. The ten-mile road race has been postponed to Sunday, the 17th inst. The ladies’ annex to the Liberty Cyling Club_will hold a run on Sunday to Jack Hays Canyon—that is, if weather permits. It will leave on the 9 A. . creek boat. Last Thursday an important meeting was held and the following officers were elected: Miss Lucy M. Munson, president; Miss Nita Broder- ick, secretary and treasurer, and Mrs, N. A. Robinsop, captain. st adaloh GUN AND GAME. Canvasback and Other Northern Birds Are Arriving. With the recent storm arrived a large flight of northern game birds, which proved to be in splendid condition, judg- ingswby some that were shot on the Suisun marshes. The canyasback and blackjack, which are migratory birds, have made their anpearance in large numbers on the Suisun marshes during the past week, and good shooting will be in order from now until the next heavy storm, which will be a means of driying the ducks from the marshes adjacent to the bay to the grain- fields of Southern California. Some very good bags have been made recently in'the Sonoma marshes by men who are shooting for the market. Down about Alviso the sport, although fairly good, is not anything in comparison to what it was last year at this time. In the P few, days many feathered stragglers rom the north have put in an appearance, and in all probability the shooting will be excellent on Sunday. A good north wind is certamn to bring abouta good flight of birds on the Alvisoand Alvarado marshes. Quail-shooting should be at its prime now, as the ground is sufficiently moist to dogs an opportunity of show theit qualities in the field.” As soon young grass sprouts the birds will lose their plumpnessand take on a decicedly inferior flavor. This should be the best month of the year for quail-shooting. ;s Jack Sammi came very near losing his thoroughbred Irish water spaniels, 1rish Duke and Handy Andy, a few days ago. Both dogs dashed into the bay after a wounded duck which w hot near South San Francisco. The duck proved & good swimmer and gave its pursuers a race of a mile or more. The dogs were gone over an hour, but their master was delighted when, after giving them up for lost, he saw the Duke returning with the bird in his mouth and Hendy Andy close behind. Complaint has been made of hunters entering upon the salt beds at Mount Eden. Those beds are surrounded by levees and the owners of the lands can cause the arrest of all trespassers who either break the levees or smash the «altin the beds when wading atter game. fhose salt beds are property rights and cut no figure in the salt marsh game law. Sportsmen would be pleased to hear of the railroad companies issuing orders pro- hibiting hunters from carrying guns on the boats and trains that are notincased. Some allezed hunters carry old muskets that are loaded on the trainsand boatsand it is astonishing that some accident has not occurred as yet. Some fine day after the killing of one or two people, or more perhaps, the railroad oflicials will have warning notices posted. The Jatest invention in the way of a craft for duck-shooting purposes is what is known as the pneumatic sporting boat, which is made of rubber, and is said to be an exceedingly good thing in pond shoot- ing. The cut will give an idea of its gen- eral construction. The upper or tloating urface is divided into four compartments separately inflated, any one of which will sustain a 200-pound hunter in the water. It is so constructed that it can be neither capsized nor sunk under any reasonable conditions. The boat is propelled with the legs, as in walking, by means of fold- ing paddles or fins on the boot legs, which close or feather with the forward motion ofi the legs and open with a backward stroke. E.T. Allen is the agent for this novel sporting boat. Game Warden J. L. Donovanof Alameda County was accused recently of shooting ducks on the Willow Lodge Shooting Club’s preserve, and in answer to the charge Mr. Donovan sends the following self-explanatory letter from the directors of the club in question to THE CALL: Referring to ar article that appeared in the Oakland Tribune recently about Game Warden Donovan poaching on our preserves, we wish to stete as membersof the Willow Lodge Shoot- g Club that Mr. Donovan was there by written permission of :he club, and it is an in- justice to him to say that he was trespassing. We regard him as an efficient officer, and re- gret that his visit to our grounds should have been the cause of any reflection on him. W, G. HENSHAW, JID, ETCALF, R Charles Dietz, who is probably better known among his companions as “Bill Nye,” presented Fred Oleomargarine with a beautiful mallard duck last Tuesday which weighed six pounds, and was killed b; Vick Harrier in the Cornbeef pond, isun marsh. Charley Bruce and Ben Markeley paid a visit to sun marsheson the yacht Rover last week. The clipper-ship got stuck in the mud on its return trip and the sailors had to return on the train. Bruce says that if he had failed to catch a train he would have been stuck faster than the | yacht. Smokeless powder is being discarded by a large number of hunters whose principal srorz is duck shooting. The objection to the smokeless powders is that they lose their force in a damp atmosphere, and con- sequently many birds which should be brought to bag escape and fly awayin a maimed condition. Sick Brooks, who is probably as good a duck-shooter as any | man in this country, discarded all of his smokeless-powder cartridges a few days ago, and 1n future will use nothing other than the old reliable black powder. upland shooting the smokeless powders may do well enough. The gentlemen *“‘sportsmen,” who con- tend that the abolition of salt marsh pre- serves would be a means of leaving aqua- tic game birds open to utter destruction and that the “pothunters’” would not stop until they had rid the marshes of every webfooted bird that flies, should rend the American Field—an organ that is strongly in favor of game protection. In a recent edition of this paper the gentle- men sportsmen of the Cordelia and Teal Club preserve receive quite a liberal singe- ing editorially. It appears that some sportsman of this City "sent a clipping from the Chronicle to the Field which mentioned cml[){( haif the number of birds that had been killed on the preserves on the 15th day of October, and this is the style in which the sportsman’s organ han- dled, and without gloves, the great pre- serve sport of the season on the Suisun marshes: Taking the Chronicle's report, supposing it to be mainly true, the number of ‘ducks killed by members of the three or four clubs shooting there was in _excess of all reason, and we are indeed surprised to know that men who claim to be sportsmen of the highest type, men, many of them, able to hunt &s many days during the open season 8s their inclination dictates, men who shoot for sport and not for profit, men who cannot otherwise than know that game is growing scarcer and scarcer every Yyear, should permit their passion for shooting to run away with their better judgment and kill ducks in such excessively large numbers, and for no other earthly reason, so far_as we can see, than to satisfy & desire to shoot, or so as to be able to say that on such and such a day they killed more birds than certain other mémbers of the club. Such slaughter cannot be jmstified, and if rsisted in witl in a few years make wild- lowl shooting & thing to be talked about, but seldom enjoyed; and if continued the men who are doing it now will live to see the folly of it and regret that they were so blind as to actually shoot the sport cut of existence. 1t is not necessary to call the attention of these men to the anmihilation of the buffalo or the extinction of the wild phizcon, for they know the story by heart; and they know also, as well as anybody else, that this unwarrante killing of wild fowl means ultimate exters mination of this species of geme. Were they ignorantof this there would be some excuse for them and we eould forgive them for this one act; but they are men of good sense, mon of enlture, men who are well informed on the rapid decrease of all kinds of game in this and they ought to beashamed of such work. The Chronicle mentions a few of the bags made, as follows: Two men, shooting from the same blind, killed 234; another, during the forenoon, bagged 71: another, during the day, scored 105 and still another 88, thg reporter—evidently not a sportsman, and sup- posing that the man who can make the largest g in'a day's shooting is the greatest sports- man—remarking that the man who killed 88 would have done much better if he had not been disturbed by other shooters. These men may try to excuse themselves by saying they were shooting on the club’s pre- serve, and therefore had & right to kill just as Jeny birds oy they liked. ‘This is legally true but moraily they were as guilty of wanton and In | | G. Ward to unjustifiable slaughter as the much abused market-shooter who shoots as & business and not for sport. Circumstances might possibly Justify such work in & poor, half-starved mar- et-stiooter, but not in_the clubman who has not the semblance of a reasonable excuse to offer for such shameful butchery. Until clubmen learn to be moderate in their demands upon the game that belongs to all alike, we cannot hoj to convince the average sportman that to Kill in excess is morally criminal. The case of the Cordelia Shooting Club against the Mallard Club was postponed agzain last Thursday, and will positively take place next Thursday, unless some of the attarneys shall suffer from a bad cold or cold feet. v HARES AND HOUNDS. Dogs That Winl Stretch Themselves In the Coursing Parks. After the good wetting the coursing fields received a few days ago the ground | should be in exceltent condition for Sun- | day’s races. Thisis the season of the year | when the hares should be in their prime, | and able to give their pursuers a rattling race from start to finish. As will be seen by the following list an excellent lot of dozs will be represented at Kerrigan's and Cronin‘s coursing demesne _to-morrow. The races should be good and well worth seeing. The runners that remained in {from last Sunday and will course to-mor- Tow are: Westside kennel's Rockette vs. Westside kennel's Elwood, Alameda kennel's Daisy vs. F. Gleason’s Mischief, Mission kennel's Ut - | lnm\\'r} V8. Westside kennel's Ruby, D. D. Roche's Dan C vs. J. Kerrigan’s Dashaway. The regular weekly drawing resulted as fellows: Mission kennel's Snow Bird vs. J. H. Perigo's | Snnl,a Bella, J. King’s Dublin Dan vs. L. Bren- | nan’s vRo!le B, J. R. Dixon's Waratah vs. P.J. Rielly’s Peasant Lass, J. Kerrigan's White Cloud vs. T. Bullivan’s Kilkenny Girl, R. Shea’s Un- known vs. J. ng‘s Sweet Alice, T. Brennan’s Astronomy vs. D. Dillon’s Mischief, Westside T | der his control for the purpose of stripping them of their spawn. Theyv were then turned back into the brook alive. He con- tended that Hoxie trout, which Ie was propagating, had become so tame as to be- | come his absolute property wherever they | might be found in an open stream. This | the court held was not tenable, as‘‘such | fish were not of the class of animals which, | without confining them in private waters. | can become the absolute property of any- | body.”” The trout in open streams are pro= | tected by law. L THE OARSMEN. Why Peterson Did Not Make Any Showing in the Austin Regatta. Now that the international regatta at Austin, Tex., is over,aad the British lion has been triumphant, the English crew will return to England with the champion- ship of the world in the double-scull and four-oared, a world’s record in the doubles, and all the Jaureis of the Austin regatta. The oarsmen were victorious in every | event they entered, excepting the single- scull, and it is thought that had not Bu- bear wanted to save himself for the four- oared event he could have given Gaudaur a very interesting finish; as it is, he has an- nounced his willingness in the Police Gazette to make a special match with Guaudaur. The Englishmeu traveled here in style. They were given special quarters on the | London and Southampton Railroad to Southampton, and their compartments on the New E’urk were of the finest. Before leaving England they were given a rousing reception at the Palace Varieties Theater, which was packed to the doors. The outcome of this regatta will be watched with interest, as 1t is thought that several special matches will be made, which, if arranged, will awaken the inter- est already taken in the sport. Considerable sympathy is expressed by BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CRESCENT ATHLETIC CLUB, g BEREELEY. , D. Dil ynmbo. W, Boy, T. kennel’s Westside vs. lon’s Evening Star vs. I Creamer’s Regent vs. . v 5 Sulliven’s Little Tom vs. G, Burke’s Sea Weed, J. Deane's Fullerton vs. J. Kerrigan’s Dash- away, J. McGovern's White Rose vs. Mission kennel’s Ben. The prizes are §20, $10 and $5. The following puppies will run to-mor- row in the stakes left over from last Sun- day’s meeting at Casserly’s park : Marguerite vs. Mary K, Belle ys. Lady Byro Ironclad vs. Richmond’ Star, Rapid vs. Semi nole, Lourine vs. Mickey Free, Trilby vs. Gold | Hill, Susie vs. Bowery Boy. | The result of the drawing for to-mor- | row’s vld dog stake was as follows: D. Tweedie's Dublin Stout vs. F. McCabe's | Mission Boy: J. Allen’s Molly B. vs. J. Han- | non’s Lampiighter; M. Tiernan’s Gentle Mary | vs. D. Dillon’s Little Willie; M. Traynor's May | Tea Boy vs. Haywood Kerr's Foxhall; W. Dal. | ton’s Lightweight vs. D. Tweedie’s White Rus- tic; D. Tweedie’s Fairy D vs. C. Anderson’s | Nigger; T. Brennan’s White Chief J. Tracy’s | Soudon; W. Dalton’s Famous J. McBride Flashlight. Judge, John Grace; slipper, W liam Trade. On Thanksgiving day and the Sunday following at Kerrigan's new park, opposite | Cypress Lawn Cemetery, an old dog stake | will be run, to which the management will | add $100 and a silver cup to the winner of | the first prize. Representative hounds from all over the State will beinanda new consignment of hares for the meet has just been received. Pt D HANDBALL. Champlon Jones Will Play His Last Game To-Morrow. John Jones, the champion handball- player of Australia, will leaye on the next outgoing steamer for his native land. Phil Ryan of the San Francisco ball court has prepared a splendid programme of games for to-morrow as follows: P. Ryan and J. Rodgers to play M. Mc- Neil and G. McDonald; C. Johnson and lay D. Connolly and W. Darius; D. O'Brien and D. Finnigan to E{Iuv E. McDonald and Jean Vogelsang; . Moffett and F. Sullivan to play R. Shea and J. Fitzgerald. . The day’s sport will conclude with a grand testimonial benefit terdered to J. Jones, the Australian champion, by his many friends before bis deparature for Australia. J. Jones will play the follow- ing three well-known players: J. Harlow, the coast champion; W. Williams, the Bostonian, and J. Lawless, the well-known amateur. The game is to be the best three out of five, twenty-one aces. : The games at the Union court will be between' the following players: Terry McManus to play O. Hendry and_C. John- son; Professor Lynch and Ed Parkinson to play Mat Coughlin and W. Dolan;J. McGuinn and P. Joyce to play P. Johnson and T. Lee; Al Pennoyer and R. Lenihan to play J. 3 Feeney and M. Dillon. Lo THE ANGLER. Catching Steelheads in the Peta- luma Creek Near Novato. Some steelheads were caught recently ty anglers who were fishing in the Petaluma Creek near Novato. Frank Staples lost four large fish last Sunday. One of them cleaned him completely out of tackle by taking away nearly all of hisline. Itis said that trout are also running up the Novato Creek, and that the residents near Novato have been catching some nice fresh-run fish. T. J. Curley returned from a trip to Caz- adero a few days ago with a basketful of angling experience and a string of hard- mouths which Charley Green gave him for his friends. Green is one of the oldest anglers of this City, and he took great_pleasure in watch- ing the tyro fishing for bass. Curley failed to catch anything but tur- tles and bullirogs, and not caring for either of those living things he made fast friends with Green, who gave him a good supply of hardmouths, which Curley thought were striped bass. Curley’s many friends, who had messed on bony fish, are anxious to see the man who played them such a darned mean trick. Billy Jones and C. Moorhouse state that as a packer of hardheads they will match Curley against any man in the State. In the Massachusetts Supreme Court on October 21 a decision was rendered in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Richard E. Follet thatis of unusual interest. The statutes prohibit an ownerof land ona stream not navigable from uking trout with a net from the stream on his own land. The defendant’s exceptions were overruled. Mr. Follet is the ownerof a trout hatehery in Sheffield. He claimed to own the trout he caught in the net, and they were taken in a part of the brook un. the people of Austin and this City for the poor luck which attended Henry Peterson, the San Francisco sculler. Up to within a week of the races he was 1 fairly good condition, and the remark- able bursts of speed and feats of endurance shown during his practice spins stamped him a sure winner in the single scull. He will be considerably out of pocket on is racing ventare, and it is doubtful if he will ever again row in any of the future Austin regattas, e g i Visalla Athletic Club. VISALIA, Can., Nov. 7.—Visalia has one athletic club organized and a seeond one is well under way. The first one was worked up chiefly by Charles Ardell. Every member was present last night at the first election of officers. Charles Ar- | dell was chosen president of the club and John Maben was elected secretary. The board of directors consists of A.” Riese, Harry Hust and Albert M. Cummings, prominent business men. Next Wednes- day nignt the directors will meet to adopt y-laws and arrange dates for boxing con- tests, etc. Only members of the club will be admitted to the contests. Visalia’s High School football team has sent challenges to the Tulare and Hanford High Schools for a contest. WITH THE IROQUOIS. The Club Indorses the Application of C. A. Hughes for a Clerkship in the Customs. At the meeting of the Iroquois Club last evening Chairman James J. Flynn stated that no representative of the club attended a meeting recently held in the Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of raising funds for the National Republican Convention, but $200 hae been donated. Frederick Rabe was not satisfied with the manner in which that contribution was made on the score that the club was not regcognized and no notice made of it in the papers. The subject of the club’s indorsement of C. A. Hughes for a clerkship in the Cus- tom-house came up. Huehes is an intelli- ent colored man, a messenger in the ippmiser’s building and the president of the Ticonderoga Club. In making his application for the influence of the Iro- quois Club he stated that a vacancy had occurred among the clerks, and in the order of advancement all would go up one grade until there was an empty place in the lowest clerkship, and he wanted that position. Mr. Popper objected to the club taking any stand in the matter, on the ground that all such appointments were governed by strict civil-service rules, and the applicant must find promotion only through those channels. C. A. Hughes stated that while he was subject to these rules and had been ap- pointed to his present position after ex- amination, the place he aspired to was not to be filled after a competitive examina- tion but simply. by the Collector, who would promote one of the messengers to it. After a long discussion the club decided to recommend Hughes to Collector Wise for promotion to the vacant clerkship by a vote of 19 to 2. It was stated that Judge Maguire would address the club on single-tax next Friday evening. ————— . Baseball To-Day. A game of baseball will be played at Central Park to-day at 3:30 r. M., aiter the football game. The positions will be as follows: % San Francisco Oaklands. ... Wilson an Haltren 7R P R. EDISOA'S L ECTRIC BELT AND VITAL- IZER restores weak organs. If your powers seems to be diminishing, if you have any unnac- ural discharges. if you bave Rheumatism, Kidney, Bladder or Urinary trouble. if you are becoming unfitted for marriage or business, remember we Euarantes i¢ (0 cure loss of vitality in young, mid- le-aged and old men or money refunded. Dr. Edison’s Electric Vitalizer given free. Send for circular. For sale by GEO. DAHLBENDER & €0,y druggists, 214 K earoy st., San Francisco. THE KNIGHTS OF CHESS, Winners of the Minor Tourna- ment—Fairweather Wins First Prize. Great Interest in the Contest Between Samuels and Thompson—Score of a Game. The senior chess tournament now being played at the Mechanics’ Institute may be decided within the next few days, as only a very small number of games remain to be played in order to decide who shall be prize-winners. In the minor tonrnament the result has been already declared, the first prize baving been captured by P. W, Fairweather, and the second and third by Nevill and Cutting respectively. The contest between Oscar Samuels and G. R. Thompson for first prize in the senior class has proved a very interesting feature of the tournament. Samuels, ac- cording to nis score, has now ‘the best chance of securing the coveted trophy, which goes to the contestant who can first score two games against his opponent, They have already played two games, of which Samuels won one and drew the second. The second prize will be won by either Quiroga, Palmer or one of the two com- etitors for first prize. Two games have P played between Quiroga and Palmer, resulting in each scoring a game. Mr. Jenner, a prominent lawyerand a representative chess-player of Seattle, ar- rived in San Francisco yesterday,and dur- ing the evening visited the chessroom of the Mechanics’ Institute, where he con- tested two games against one of the best local players. Mr. Jenner played the Evans gambit attack, of which he has made a special study, but, nevertheless, lost both games after some highly inter- esting play. Joseph Ney Babson, the great problem composer and brilliant chess-player, who was a constant visitor to the Mechanics’ chessroom, is now in Scattle, and will no doubt compensate the chess-players of that city for Mr. Jenner's absence. | The following was the second game in the contest between Samuels and Thomp- son: THE QUE 3. R. Thompson. Black—Osca: P-Qi PQ4 N'S GAMBIT DECLINED. Samuels. ¥ R-KBS RB7 ch BxP ch RxB R-Q8 P-QKtd (e) R-QKtS ch . K-Q7 P-4 ch K P-RB4 P-KK8 ) K-B3 3 #and the game was given up as a drawn battle, NOTES, (a) This move loses a pawn and gives White the advantage. (bg An excellent reply as it forces White to exchapge Queens and leaves him with & badly developed game. (¢) The best reply as the Black Knight was well posted (o make en onslaught on the King 2UK t0. (@) Much better was RxR ch, foliowed by -K3. Black should have replied to the text move by playing RxR. () This is a bad move and gives White much the best game. Perhaps the best move is K-B sq. (f) Not neceseary; White should not have given up the pawn. (9) A blunder by which Black forces & draw. e e The Duc d’Aumale has just been elected director of the French Academy for the next three months, and Paul" Bourget chancellor. NEW TO-DAY. Tremendous Reductions. (rockery and Chinaware, Cups and Naueers Blue, Brown and Rich Gold Spray Decorations, ' Set of 12 pieces— 45c, 50c, 60c, 75c per set. 60 DINNER SETS. Fieces complete for 6 Persons. Pure White, Blue, Brown and Rich Goid Spray Decoration. Prices per Set— $3.50, $4.00, $4.25, $5.25, $6.15. 100 DINNER SETS. Pleces complete for 12 Persons. Pure White, Blue, Brown and Rich Gold Spray Decoration. Prices per Set— $5.50, $6.50, $7.25, $8.75, $9.50. 40cts 5 cts 10c each TS (8 pieces glass) STS (5 pleces glass; UET HOLDERS (little beauties) Great American Tmparting Tea Co. 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