The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 7, 1895, Page 8

SPORTS OF THE WEEK. News of the Cycling and Other Athletic Worlds. The football fever ison the wane and ficld and track athletics will consequently occupy the attention of the athletic clubs the remainder of the winter season. lers are prospecting for steelheads, rived in good numbers in streams. rismen who cling to the gun are hooting on the marshes réing is now in full blast. The great reeting will commence Monday | ) the plains near Merced. 7 \e is gaining ground. Judging | he number of boats that are being | 1 rsmen of the various clubs | e sport will be well patronized next sum- Handball, rile shooting, bowling, are by no means neglected. THE WHEELMEN. The Imperial Cyciing Club’s Road Races Postponed One Week. The directors of the Imperial Cycling rsday night to postpone road events that were scheduled for norrow ‘until Sunday, December 15, The recent rains have made tbe San \dro-Haywards course quite muddy would . be impossible. If is fair during the coming it is expected the roads will be in Many of the clubs had aess the Imperials’ tan- ttracted considerable elty in road racing, and | attention as a ne | perceptible, reliable. Forgi: cost far more than stampings, but this increased expense has been found by the manufacturers of the highest-grade goods to e more than offset by the results, At least four-fifths of every forging is consigned to the waste heap in the shape of borings, but the shell that remains is infallible, and when se- curely brazed to the frame by skilled work- men makes a combination that is practi- cally indestructible under average or even extraordinary conditions. As a striking instance of the faith of leading manufacturers in the future of the bicycle industry the fact may be cited that one company has placed an order for 1200 tons of the finest steel, a total of 2,400,000 pounds, to be used exclusively for drop forgings in 1%96. When it is considered that fully 2,000,000 pouaids of this expensive material goes into the waste heap in the form of borings some idea of the cost of material required for high-grade frame connections may be obtained. If steel stampings were used no waste would be but drop forgings bvrove cheaper in the end when bicycles are fully guaranteed. "he champion ‘‘roast” of the year in eveling joarnalism appears in that very clever paper, the Cvcling West of Denver, which is one of the foremost wheeling journals of America. As it will greatly interest all the wheelmen of this State, I quote it ver 1z SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. t of the recent National circuit meet at 1 Jose appeared in several of the Eastern yeling_papers, local wheeling circle been stirred to’ their very depths. The cause of this wes the description of the third-mile open race, in which Wells defeated Bald and Murphy. That descrintion in question was false, false in every part'cular, and the autho: WY HAMILTON OF DENVER. t insured its being excit- ng entered. The post- ce them. an additional ain, and the race will | t Wil g which to t Ca 1 be held t Garden Ci velers in San Jo v attended. The as object is to foster road T o, ;umbers among its members all the te. party te t evening by the Olympic Club celmen at the Columbia was Iarge tended and very enjovable. The wheel- 1 had secured tue four lower boxes of ie theater and and_it did not quaint the b umerous orchestra seats, ke Tlong for them to ac- with the fact that they were . Everything was taken in zood part, however, and the popularlittlecham- pion, the guest of the evening, was given 1 ovation when he camein. Aiterthe formance the wheelmen adjourned to a neighboring 1otisserie and enjoyed a late supper. We are soon to have another cycling pa- per inflicted npon us. It will be styled The Bloomer, hails from S on, and } will be edited by a Mr. Lomax. We have | always welcomed the bloomer and its de- votees, and this wili be no exception to the ruie. The one great object which several of the well-known circuit riders have in vi now is riding thirty miles in the ho Now this is traveling at a wonderful rate of speed, and wheelmen must be keyed up | to the highest possible physical condition to successfully make the trial. A man cutting space at such a gait is going forty- four feet at ever; ond of the time. The Phoenix Cycling Club of this City had a run planngd to Redwood City for to- morrow, but the rain has spoiled it. They will try again next week. The Bay City Wheelmen’s run to the same place has not taken place yet, but Lieutenant Cald- well says they hope to get down there some time this winter. Meanwhile the park offers good riding, and the distance is not so long or tiresome. The plan of Champion Murphy to ride a mile on a wheel in one minute, p: a locomotive, has received con notice in the Bastern papers. Murphy’s scheme is to build a board track, between the rails of a gocd straight railroad course, at least tihree miles long, thus allowing one mile to get started in, one to make the trial and another to slow up. In this con- nection Cycle Topics advances a startling suggestion, which is: Would there not be a likelihood of the rider being drawn un- der the wheels of the locomotive by the suction that would result from the engine going at such a high rate of speed ? Captain Williams had a run called for the members of the 8an Francisco Road Ciuh for to-morrow to Haywards, but it is now off one week. Members will please take notice. The club has just moved into new quarters at 503 Goiden Gate avenue, near Polk street. A large two-story house has been secured, which is being fitted up in elegant style, and the club can soon boastof a home the equal of any club in the City., New members are coming in rapidly, and the club, unknown in the wheeling world a_year ago, isone of the largest and strongest in the City to-day. This is due to the untiring efforts of a few of the members and the general co-opefa- tion of all. To Messrs. Cross, Peiser, O’Malley, Lewis, Korn, Williams, Crane and others a great deal of credit is due for the club’s prosperity. Mr. Cross tendered the members a champagne banquet last Wednesday evening, when the new club- house was opened. There will be no abandonment of the use of steel-drop forgings the coming sea- son as frame connections among the lead- ing manufacturers of bicycles, as they have been successfully proved {o be the nly material for that important purpose upon which the makers can safely rely. The result of making frame connections with steel stampings is always problem- atical. They may last and they may not; but forgings can always be figured on as false at the time it was written. W and_squarely, and F. Ed Spooner knew it as well as the officials who were on the tape, and every member of the press-siand besides. An this, in the face of the d. most prominent wheelmen ¢ who have judged scores of just su ch close fin- ishes, this prodigy of the literary worid deliberately attempts to cast & siur upon one of the most popular victories ever won_ on Californin treck. This man and lefi—he the party, have panqueted in all quarte Teceived in retu e did not desery Spooner, thou art grateful Wells what was rightiully h S UnANImONS the judges agreeing without the slightest hesi- tation_upon first place, and likewise pince, but it was for third place that they hesi- teted, finally giving it to Kiser. Asa Windle was the only'one of the Eastern party to ¢ an objection and refu: ald to ride again upon the track. t which followed with members of the local press, Windie remarked: “Well, we carry a man along with the party who always sets us right before the Eastern public.” Toall of whicn I can only say, Amen, Spooner is a correspondent for several Eastern cycling weeklies and news dailies, and has followed the racing circuit every- where. What his popularity may be in the East I cannot say. but out here he was generally disliked, for he gave the impres- sion that be thought himselt a little better than any one else. As to his newspaper articles they are way below par, which is best evidenced when the fact is stated that he applied to the three bi n Francisco dailies to write up the rac in Southern California for them, and in each instance his application was decclined. He makes the mistake of his life when he puts up his opinion on that one-third mile race against that of Messrs. Strong, Osen, Ker- rigan, Dunne and Howard, the judges at the San Jose meet, for their honesty and capability is unquestioned and their deci- sion awarding the race to Wells was unanimous. We have had enough of F. Ed Spooner. As to Asa Winale, it was to me he made the statement that they carried “a man along with the party who always sets us right before the Lastern public.” T called the attention of the other reporters to the remark, and we asked Windle to explain himself, but all he would vouchsafe was: ©Oh, that’s all right. Go_abead and roast us if you want. The East will believe whatever I say, and I claim Bald won that race. He shall not ride any more on this track.” Windle changed his mind half an hour later when he saw the bluif did not work, and ordered Bald out for the five- mile championship. Agamn he came to the press-stand and said, addressing all the writers: “You fellows had better scratch out those ‘roasts.” Bald is going to ride. It's all right now. Letit go.”” So the r porters, who probably would have cri cized Windle severely, concluded it was but a fit of ill temper, aid they let him down _lightly. Windle and Bald will al- ways be popular in California, but F. Ed Spooner—never. A San Jose rider told me yesterday that J. B. Carey was to retire from the editor- ship of Cycling and enter the wheel -busi- ness there. The surprise is that the paper has lasted this long. D. G. Shafgr, the trainer who was here in 1893 with Bliss and Dirnberger, has taken Hamilton, Rigby and their quad team to the Santa Monica track to tr; for records. The quad riders are B. Conibear, Peoria; A. B. Stone, Buffalo; E. W. 8wanborough, Chicago, and E. F. Smith, Denver. With a man named Dickson in Smith’s place they have made a mile record in 1:47 3-5, and a half-mile in :51. Dickson could not come to the coast. Hamiiton has long been known as a great road rider, but his best perform- ance was in riding a mile unpaced in 2:00 25, a world’s record, which the mighty Sanger has been trying to lower at Denver, but could not. Itisto be hoped Shafer's ageregation will try the San Jose track when they leave Santa Monica, and Will Knippenberz of Los Angeles bhas promised me he would use his influence to that end. William Ball, J. B. Bocarde and G. A. Wahlgreen have joined the Bay City Wheelmen. The club bhas got the football fever and there is talk about orgaunizing a team. In several practice games already heid the enthusiasts have been Messrs. Hall, Hawks, Menne, Nutter, Reid, Ros- burg, Roach, Brode, Toepke and Rhys. The Terrill brothers and Charley Wells, all three weighing about 200 pounds each, can be counted on when they come back to the City. The club is figuring on putting into the field eleven men who will average that weight per man. There is something strange in the fact that athletes, and particularly cycle-riders, are exceedingly susceptible to typhoid fever. Some of the best trainers fear this dis worse than anything else, and sooner or later, despjte all precautions, the best men fall v ictimg to the dread disease. The latest victim is the popular Eastern racer, Arthur Gardiner, now at Louisville, where his illness has taken a violent form. Dirnberger of Buffalo was traveling as fast as any rider in the country when he was taken down with it, and he has never been as speedy since. After Murphy’s suspension from tire track for life, as told in Tug Cary, he and Trainer Young at once left for the East. Before leaving Los Angeles Young ndited the following letter to the Bay City Wheel- men, of which club he and Murphy are members: My Dear 0ld Chums—Charley and I are goin: home to New York City to-morrow. We \\oulg like to have vou forward any mail for us to our house, 318 Broadway, N. Y. We want to thank you for the hospitality shown us and shall always be proud to tell our Eastern friends we are B.C. W.s. If Charley isrein- stated your colors will go on to vietory again. Yours fraternally, V. X for C. M. MURPHY. Wheeling is popular in Philadelphia. Recently there was held in the Quaker City a lantern parade wherein seventy dif- ferént clubs were in line, forminga grand pageant. A Chicago cycling writer told me recentlv: “You think you are over- worked because you have to cover some- times two or three road races on a Sunday. T'll admit it is hard work, but what would you do in Chicago, where there are always from ten to twenty every Sunday, all at different points within a radius of twenty iles?” 1 told him I would ask for as- \ce from the city editor. He said the Chicago dailies invariably had four or five men detailed to cover bicycle road racing every Sunday in good weather. The latest arrival from the East is popu- lar Dan Canary, who was at one time the foremost trick rider in the world. He is now on the read selling wheels and ath- letic zoods. Canary was in this City 1891 and 1892, and had a riding-school at ‘the Pavilion in conjunction with Wilbur Knapp, the announcer of all our bicycle meets. At the time the skating rink was in the Pavilion, a flight of steps was buaiit at the Polk-street end, from the gallery to the mamn floor. Canary rode down these ps, first on a safety bicycle with hard and later on the big wheel of an cle. He made both attempts and it was 2 truly marvelous perforn At the Bay City Wheel- men's clubrooms one night he,rode around the edge of a billiard table on one wheel of an ordina He always hud a host of good stories to relate, or could mys with innumerable clever card tri has traveled extensively, is well educated, and is one of the most popular salesmen on the road. SPALDING. s AT DOG AND GUN. Suisun Marsh Troubles Are Settled. More Field-Trial Dogs Entered. Sportsmen who bave been anxiously waiting the result of the injunction suit in the ¢ of the Teal Club against certain sport who had entered the preserves near . will see by glancing over THE cast dispatches the opinion of Buckles, before whom the case was o has given his decision in favor of the defendants, but it is thought rich sportsmen of the Teal and clubs will not rest satisfied until the matter is thoroughly aired in the Su- preme Court of the State. In the mean- time the lovers of duck-shooting. who do not favor duck-shooting preserves, will continue to enjoy an occasional day’s shooting and outing on the uncuitivated and unimproved swamp and overflowed lands west of the city of Suisun. Among a coterie of sportsmen, who met. yesterday at a prominent rendezvous, frequented by the lovers of field sports, was a gentleman who was at one time a John Samme, Sceretary of the San Fran- ciseco Rod and Gun Club. stanch supporter of duck-shooting pre- serves. When intelligence arrived giving Judge Buckles’ decision, this convert to open fields for all true sportsmen said : 1 was a believer in what you eall duck-shoot- ves some years ago, but time and ex- altcred my ideas considerably. s¥ed by a particular friend one day how the preserve club of which 1 was & member mansged to keep the birds within its bound- ary lines, and I must confess the only answer 1 conld intelligently give was by shooting them. I bad to acknowledge that duck-shooting pre. serves were beneficial only to the members who reaped the results of such presesvation, whicy was by no means general. i _ I believe that every true sportsman who yigq Joys the pleustire of a good duck shoot sho o not be denied the privilege of entering up op uncultivated lands, where no damage oth than that of an involuntary bath to himsell occasionaily can result. Wild ducks are com- mon property and eannot be preserved. Itis absurd 10 suppose that by the inauguration of preserve eclubs, such as have sprung up of late s, an increase in the aquatic -game supply tate will resuit. I will admit that ooting preserves afford good spoft for the mexmers, because of a1l the multitudinous feeding of ponds with grain, potatoes, etc. But is this system of preservation of any bene: fit to the sportsmen at large who cannot afford to expend a couple of thousands a year tor the pleasure of duck shooting? 1f o1l the rich men were sportsmen of selfish mind the only hope for the miadiemean and the poor man to enjoy a few hours’ duck-hunting wouid be in shooting from a balloon, where trespass would be out of the question. 1 am inclined to think that the day is fast approach- ing when duck shooting from balloons will be a somewhat popular pastime with the poor sportsman. When speaking of preserves I mnst confess that I am strongly in favor of quail protection, and no true sportsman should enter a farmer’s land without first having received permission to shoot thereon. You must remember that a quail is & home bird, The late rain should scatter the wild ducks throughout the country, thus giv- ing an opportunity to all sportsmen to bag some bird. Last Sunday the sport was very poor. Few birds came from the Sonoma and Alviso marshes, ahd it is thought that the shooting to-morrow will be up to its usual mark unless a gcod windstorm is brewing. On wet days when there is scarcely any wind blowing, ducks become very lazy and will remain in onc HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, lace for several hours, unless disturbed 'y some unexpected hunter. The sculling of sloughs will in the future repay any sportsman whe is fond of that | kind of "bunting, Dropping mallard as | they “jump” on the sudden approach of | a hnnting skiff js considered the most pleasurable experience in duck-shooting. J. Bell of Espinosa station, Suisun | Marsh, sent word to E. Ladd a few days ago that sculling was first class and good bags were the rule and not the exception. Sporismen are reminded that a mas mecting will be held at the Knights of t Red Branch Hall Tuesday evenil the | 17th inst., for the purpose of devising measures for the protection of duck- shooters who shoot on salt marsh lands. | The president of the Sportsmen’s Protect- | ive Association is in hopes that every man | who has an interest in” shooting and fish- ine will be present. . Ralph K. Wolf and Aaron Crocker en- | {oycd a good duck-shoot on Tamales Bay | ast Saturday. The entries for the Pacific Coast field trial meeting appeared in yesterday’s paper, but since then two dogs have been added, namely: A. B. Truman’s Irish set- ter dog Nemo II, and pointer dog Clay T, aiso the proverty of Mr. Truman. The dogs are reported to be in splendid form and will certainly give good accounts of themselves. EES COURSING. The Interstate Meeting Will Com- mence on Mondav. On Monday next will be commenced the 1895. will be in the saddlle, and thatalone makes the sport of the leash in California su- perior to any that is ever seen on any of our coursing flelds, as all the sportsmen are then satistied that the best dog is sure to come outon top, as they have unlimited faith in both his integrity and ability. The train which takes the ‘‘boys’ and their dogs to the city of the plains leaves the ferries to-morrow (Sunday) morning at 9 o’clock, and will return on Wednesday or Thursday, as the sportsmen may desire. Five dollars is the cost of the round <rip. Since the consolidation of the two coursing parks, Casserly and Kerrigan have been busy making the necessary im- provements on the old Ocean "View grounds, and on the opening day a large paddock parallel with the Mission road will be constructed, and a choice lot of hares will be on hand for the big opening meeting. The managers have retained die Canavan and John Grace Jr., who will act in their respective capacities as judge and slipper. There will not be any coursing Sunday in the park, as Casserly and Kerrigan are desirous that the interstate meeting at Merced should not be interfered with. s eSS THE OARSMEN. A Shell Race Between the Olympic and University Is Talked Of. The outlook for a four-oared shell race between the Berkeley University Boat Club and the Olympic Club’s crew is de- cidedly good. The oarsmen of both clubs . ww\\mflw‘«. - & AN N\ T. J. CRON N'S br. d, SKYBALL. great annual coursing event of the State at | Merced. This will be the sixth meeting since the | inauguration of the interstate meetings | and it is certain that this one will be equal to, if it does not surpass, any of its predecessors. Some considerable new | blood, not only of dogs but of humans, has of late taken much interest in the sport of the leash, and as a result consid- erable capital has been spent during the past year in procuring dogs of the very best quality and breeding, and as all these will goto slip on Monday on. the far- famed plains it goes without saying that | the interest'in this, the great event of the year among the lovers of the leash, is| arein training and in all probability shell- | racing will be a popular sport next spring. The university oarsmen are constantly adding to the equipment of their boat- house. Wednesday they received from an Oakland boat-building establishment a 16- foot, double-scull working boat. Their present equipment is a four-oared out- rigger barge a pair-oared barge, whitehall and a double-scull working boat. As the majority of the boat clubs are about to build new racing boats, the ques- tion now arises whicn is the better crafi to build—a four-oared outrigger barge, simi- lar to those possessed by the University and Columbia clubs, or the regulation four-oared barge. The entertainment and dance given by W. C. PEYTON'S f. d., FLYING BUCK. e causing just now interest in the sport stronger probatly than has yet been seen among the coursing men of the State. ‘This was shown at the meeting called by i the secretary on Tuesday evening. When he announced that he wanted $200 to} charter a car to take the members and | their dogs to Merced, the money was on the table before he had finished his sentence, and one of the gentlemen said he | would pay the lot if necessary. | The “crack’’ dogs that will certainly take | part in the meeting are: Royal Buck (last | year's winner), Flying Buck, Daisy Crest, | Neliie Conroy, G.” Hyback, Master Glen kirk, Charming May, Emin Pasha, Sants Bella, Wayfarer, Flashlight, Dollie Dim- gle, Royal Fellow, Annie Laurie, West | Side, Ruby, Lissak, Guileand Wee Lassie, all of which have been great performers during the past vear, and to see which '’ the Ariel Boat Club at Union-square Hall recently netted the club a tidy sum. The proceeds of the entertainment will be used in repairing boats and in the building of a new racing barge. The Ariel Club intend to give a boating Earty on the bay and will invite the mem- ers of the ifferent zlubs and their lady friends to attend, each wearing the colors of their respective clubs, The following officers were installed by the Arel Club last evening: President, George F. McGinness; vice-president, N. J. Enright; secretary, Eugene Flanders; treasurer, J. F. Coughlin; captain, Robert Cllis; lieutenant captain, H. G. Pless. Directors—A. N. Racouillat, George Har- ters, J. R. Boekman, D. J. Sheean and Albert Carroll; delegates to N. A. A.—J. Nolan, J. G. Hardy and N. J. Prendergast. B)Alired Branch, an old-time member of T. McDONALD’S w. d., LISSAK. alone would be worth going twice the distance to see them measure strides after a Merced flier, to say nothing.of all the young dogs that are fondly supposed by their owners to surpass in speed and en- durance any of the dogs above mentioned, and whose names are famous all over the country, The following dogs were drawn: T. Hall's Annic Laurie vs. T. Cronin’s Re- liance, W. Peyton’s Flying Buck ve. C.P. Ad- ail’s Bert, P. Reilly's Harkaway vs. T. Cox’s Sam, T, Cronin’s Rosa B vs. H. G. Layng’s Roil- along. W, Dalton’s Eline vs. Westside kennel's Westside, J. F. Grace's Electric vs. Jomes Grace’s Nelly Conroy, P. Kelly’s Jacob vs. D. J. Mclnerny's Roj'll ellow, L Perry's Wee Lassie vs. J. J. Napier's Esmeralda, T. Brannan’s White Chief vs.” Ala- meda kennel's Wayfarer, Alumeda kennel's Kitty Scott vs. C. Gallier's Lemplighter, M. Hanrahan's Brother vs. T, J. Cronin’s Skyball, J. McMahon's Girlie vs. J. McBride's Flashlight, T, Hall’s Corporal vs. P, Reilly’s Jimmy Rex, W.J. O'Neil’s Robert J vs. Westside kennel’s Ruby, T. MceDonald’s Lissak ve. W. C. Peyton’s (tfny-l Daisy, D. ‘E{hnnnon’s T{‘%c )lllge v‘n(, i JoX's erary, W. Peyton's Royal Buck vs. Alameds kennel’s Vem’ure, W. Peyton’s Daisy Crest vs. W, Wogds’ Fleetwood, Alameda keu- nel’s Emin Pasha vs. W. C. Peyton's Master Glenkirk, W. C. Pesion’s Charming May vs. T. J. Cronin’s Dotty Dimple, H. Devine’s Sham- rock vs. D. Healey's Sly Boy. I R. Dixon’s mg:n Bower vs. T, J, h!}:lnerny'l Little Ban- The judge of the country, John Grace, the club’s champion four-oared shell crew of the coast, has just returned from the East after an absence of four years, The challenge recently 1ssuned by two Alameda oarsmen for a race in whitehalls is to be accepted by some of the South End oarsmen when they learn the conditions of the race. A crew has just been organized in the South End Club that will prove worthy emulators for the junior championship. Its persognel is as fgflows: Ed Slattery, bow; T. Barry, forward waist; George Bates, after waist, and Ed Scully stroke and captain. The oarsmen took their initial spin last Sunday. Another crew has been organized in the South End Club to row in the senior events. The members are: Dan Connolly, bow and captain; Jim Fickett, forward waist; James Pallas, after waist; Fred Fish stroke, and Fred Fickett cockswain. The Dolphins were busy last Sunday with holystone and sand, putting a mir- ror-like polish on their boats before they are moved into their new house, which will be completed in about two weeks. The Alameda Boat Club has purchased the racing shell formerly owned by Harry F. Terrill. It will be placed at the dis- posal of members entering in the different single-scull events. ~ The club has a promisiug single-sculler in the person of Al Bullion. He is 18 years old, weighs 160 pounds, and has al- ready won the junior championship of the estuary in outrigger skiffs. Len Hausler is another man the club e: pects much of. He is considered a crack- erjack in the singles, and with him and J. VJ. Pembroke in their new four-oared barge crew the Alamedas ought to be well up to the leaders in any event they enter. o Sl THE STEELHEAD TROUT. A Game and Food Fish Which Should Be Protected at This Season. If the merchants who deal in fish are permitted to have their own way regarding the naming and classification of fishes there certainly will be no need of a fish law, as the fish-dealers will regulate mat- ters piscatorial and otherwise in sucha way as to kill the goose that lays the golden egg, so to speak. The fish merchants have combined to destroy, if possible, a law which was made solely to protect steelheads when they were on their winter’s run to the fresh- water streams, where they spawned, and returned again in the spring of the year to salt water. The young of this fish afford anglers wko whip the coast streams much enjoyment in the summer season, and as a conse- quence the fishers are interested in the outcome of the present contest between the Iish Commissioners and the fish mer- chants. The fish law was made to protect fish from total extinction, If the denizensof the streams had no protection the net fishermen who live by the sale of their ! catch, and the poachers who cannot under- stand the good of protection at any time and at any season, would destroy in a few years the anadromous fishes of every stream that empties into salt water. Of course if there had been no fish law in existence there would be no_need now for a controversy between the Fish Commis- sioners and the fish-dealers as to whether a steelhead is a trout or a salmon simply because there would be such a small num- ber of those fish remaining that the fish- dealers would give the matter litile or no attention. Professors Jordan and Gilbert of the Stanford University have time and again explained in the clearest manner possible the difference in the habits and structural character of a salmon and a steelhead trout. The fishes are very much unlike in every particular and it would be consid- ered an insult to such learned gentlemen as Professors Jordan and Gilbert fora coun- try lawyer, who probably had never seen a steelliead in his life excepting when the fish was produced in court, to contend that the acknowledged authorities on fishes in America had made a most serious mistake in classifying the most valuable of our game and food fishes. According to a recent decision given by a Judge in Eureka, Humbolat County, the steelhead is a salmon and may be slaugh- tered by net fishermen when it is on its journey to spawning beds. It woula certainly be a matter of much interest and curiosity to the anglers and scientists of this country if the learned legal and piscatorial authority of Hum- boldt County would contribute to one of Tureka’s newspapers a letter giving his ideas of the steelhead and why fie consid- ers it a member of the salmon family, and if it is just and right that it should be taken and killed by net fishermen when on a mission for the purpose of reproducing its species. It will e remembered that a few years ago the Fish Commissioners, with the as- sistance of A. V. La Motte of the San Francisco and North Pacitic Coast Rail- road, put a stop’ to net-fishing at the mouth of the Russian River. The result is that the headwaters of this grand river are now well stocked with young steel- heads, and anglers from this City and elsewhere who visit the streams that empty into this river during the angling season leave many a dollar in the towns that are within easy access of the best trout streams. Four years ago, before the stec¢lheaas could ascend the river, it was a rare thing to hear of trout being taken from streams that are now known to be splendid angling waters. e Football. The following letter from Vallejo will be found to contain facts of interest to foot- ballers. VALLEJO, December 6. Sporting Editor San Francisco Call: The Far- raguts of Vallejo and Green C.s of San Franciseo will meéet on the gridiron at Vallejo Sunday, December 8, and it promises to be a lively game, as the Green C.'sare supposed to be astrong team and have been Flfl\'lng foot- Dball for the past three years, while the Farra- guts haye been organized but & year and have not had the experience of other teams from San Francisco; but they have been having some hard practiee of late and have strength- ened their team, and they propose to win the game Sunday, as they have haa more practice since their defeat by the Peerless eleven several weeks ago. A large crowd is expected to wit- ness the game, as the people of Vallejo have the football fever and want to see their team win. Tle Farragut's colors are blue and crim- 'he G C.’s will have & large crowd of s the Fusileers of Battery C, N. G. to give a dance in Vallejo Saturday g and they will stay over Sunday and witness the football zame. The militia boys have chartered the Monti- cello, which will leave San Francisco at 4 and 9 o'clock Saturday afternopn and evening, leaving Vallejo at 5 P.M.on Sunday for San Francisco, so the visitors will have plenty of time to see the game. The makeup of the teams is as follows: Position. Farraguts. Green C's. Hatheway J Hoyt Dempsey or Corcoran.. . Coombs or} -Right half. “Lett half e ——— MCAFEE BRos.' auction sale of Brittan Ranch, San Mateo Co., sure to-day. See advertisement. e NEW TO-DAY. Simply Ridiculous Are the prices high-grade Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry and Silverware are being sold for at the big auction. 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