The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 14, 1895, Page 8

@ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, .1895. SPORTS OF News of the Cy Athletic THE WEEK. cling and Other Worlds, The wheeimen are certainly fortunate in ving such beautiful weather for bicyc- i at this season of the year. The club runs to-morrow to the Cliff and the racing meet on the cast side of the bay should attract large crowds. Two of the leading football elevens of this coast will meet this afternoon at Cen- tral Park, and as the proceeds will be handed over to the Salvation Army for a large gathering of men will doubtless be esent. ors are fixing up their heavy rods preparatory to the winter's run of steel- heads, which are, bowever, quite plentiful he Russian River. 'mpic Club’s bowling went closed last evening. At Ocean View Coursing Park a meeting ounds will be held to-morrow. ate Club will soon open the old Newark preserve. The latestnews in duckand quail shoot- handball, rowing and general ath- s will be found in the following col- umus. TERSSOE THE WHEELMEN. The Imperial Cycling Club's Handi- cap Road Races Tc-Morrow. CLUB EV S TO-MORROW. California Cycling Club—To beach. *Call” Bicycle Club—To beach and Satro’s. Examiner Bicycle Club—To beach and Sutro Imperial Haywards. Liberty Cycling Ciub—Road races, veling Club—To Haywards. Olympic Club Wheelmen—To Hay- wards. Olympic Cyclers—To Park. ¥ San wards. e« Fran el 1g Club—Blind run. sco Road Club—To Hay- A great deal of interest attaches to the s to be held by the Imperial ng Club to-morrow over the Haywards The club’s racers have been dili- Stanley G. Scovern, Secretary-Treasurer of the Northern California Division, LA W, gently training for several weeks past, and one week’s postponement, owing to rain, gave them more time in this direction. The first race to be run will start at 2 o'clock p. M. at San Leandro, and will bea five-mile hardicap. The entries and time- allowances are as follows: Frank M. Byrne, scratch; P. Metcalf, 15 seconds; C. W. Conger, J. Catanich, H. N. Sessions, 30 seconds; C. A. Wilsun, E. A. Bozio, F. Gilbert, 45 seconds; R. J. Gilbert. P. Mor- rin, J. H. Lynch, 1 minute; F. E. May, J. F. Guinne, M. Cook, J. F. Burns, E. Langer, 1 minute 15 seconds; J. 8. Dawson, I. Chap- man, H. G. Muller, B. Lyons, W. Smith, J. Gang, W. Maack, G. Clabrough, 1 minute 30 seconds; O. Koenitzer, 2 minutes. At 3 p. M. the club will run a five-mile handicap road race, which is the second of its kind ever run in the United States, and a glance at the entry list will convince any one familiar with the riding abilities of the contestants that the pace will be ex- ceedingly fast. The entries and handicaps are: J.S. Egan-G. J. Panario, scratch F. M. Byrne-T. Alborelle, scratch; G. W Roche-H. Roche, 30 secondk; W. Strange-J. Catanich, 30 seconds; J. Guinne-H. N. Sessions, 45 seconds; G. Cla- brough-F. P. Hanson, 1 minute; C. T. Lin- dervald-F. Hornung, 1 minute; J. 8. Dawson-W. D. Yost, 1 minute 15 seconds; C. L. Rice-C, Rice, 1 minute 30 seconds; ‘W. H. Tooker-W. W. Wilson, 1 minute 30 seconds. The principal officials for the races are: Henry F. Wynne, starter; W. H. Tooker, referee; G. H. Stratton, W, B. Fawcett, G. H. Sullivan, J. E. Fagothey, timers; T. F. Egan, H. W. Eisert, W.” H. Millett, scorers; G. E. Tooker, J. P. Jaegling, W. ‘W. Earle, judges. The races will finish at Haywards, and by taking the 12 o'clock broad-gauge boat and riding to Haywards awheel or by electric car there will be ample time to see both events. The annual meeting of the board of offi- cers of the North California Division, League of American Wheelmen, will be | held this evening at the rooms of the Bay City Wheelmen. The newly elected offi- cets will take their seats, and there is | much important business to be transacted. Chiei Consul Kerrigan has mapped out a large amount of work which inIPgreatly benefit the division and its members, and with the able co-operation of 8. G. Scovern, secretary and treasurer, the leagie bids fair to have quite a boom in | this State. The advantages of member- ship are many, and as evidence that they are thoroughly appreciaied it may be stated that very few who have joined ever withdraw. For the dues of §1 per year vou get the weekly bulletin, an excellent road book, free legal-protection, reduced rates at hotels and 1oany other advantages. The Eastern racing contingent has de. parted, but will be back here again early next spring to train for the National cir- cuit races in 1896. It is very evident from the number of handsome yvoung ladies who went over to the Sixteenth-street station, | Oakland, to see them off. that they have not been wasting the last few days of their stay in this City. Many were the good es extended them for a successful sea- %6, and one felt just a trifle envi: ous of Eddie Bald when a charming girl pinned a huge bunch of California violets into his buttonhole, and of Tom Cooper as be walked up and down the depot piat- form, talking so interestedly with a pretty brunette that he aimost missed the train. Trainer Windle stood to one side watching it all, and murmured something about when he was young, etc. The racers left many warm friends behind them, particu- larly among the clubmen and the ladies. Iheir return to this coast will be anxiously uwaited. The great Examiner-CaLy joint club run | to-morrow to the beach and Sutro Heights | is the talk of ail the newspaper men, and all who can ride straightastride a bike will attend. The start is from Haight and Stanyan streets at 11 a. M. precisely. Mayor Sutro has extended a written in | tation to the two clubs to visit and wheel through his grounds, a courtesy seldom allowed bicyclists, They will aiso have a lunch on the beach and a good time gen- erally. There is some rivalry between the two captains as to which will bring out the largest number of men, and each is count- ing on at lcast thirty, with fond hopes ot as many more if they can be induced to get up that early, as it is a known fact that newsvaper men work late at night, and they deariy love their sleep on Sunday morning Captain Williams has announced a run of the San Francisco Road Club for to- morrow to Haywards, leaving the club- rooms at 9:3 M. The club will give a ladies’ night New Year's eve. A baseball nine has been organized among the mem- bers, and after tome preliminary team practice they will challenge any bicycle ciub on the coast. The Liberty Cycling Club will have a run_to-morrow to Haywards to witness the Imperial road races. Al F. Morrison, the handsome Rambler salesman, will be married next week to Miss Marie Cameron. This will come as a pleasant surprise to his many friends in cyeling circles. The California Cyeling Club will ride to the beach to-mofrow morning. Befere ting the members will compete in a slow race upon the asphalt pavement in front of the clubrooms on Twenty-second street. This le of racing is a novelty and is always replete with accidents and incidents. | The National circuit, which closed a re- | markable racing season in Southern Cali- | fornia last week, has developed the great- est field of riders the world has ever seen | together on the track. Although tneir work coliectively has been of the highest character, the individual honors without question belong to E. C. Bald, who started | early in April and has persevered almost continuously during the entire season with his trackwork, defeating 3 with an ease that has been surpri only real competitors have been Tom | Cooper, L. D. Cabanne and Arthur Gar- | diner, but his record is much superior to | theirs. At the end of the circuit he had | won sixty-two first prizes, nineteen sec- onds and nine thirds, aggregating in value almost $9000. Atonlvone time during the season did he show the effects of continu- himself from | ous work, and he absented | the circuit during the Canadi turn he speedily re rding on, and up to the end of the racing son has shown unapproachable speed. a regular meeting of the Pacific Cycling Club, held last Monday evenng, the following officers were elected for the | ensuing year: President, Adoiph Herbst; vice-president, Frank Scott; financial sec- retary and treasurer, H. Plagemann; cap- tain, L. W. Pryor; first lieutenant, Louis | Paulsen. The ciub still holds its runs every other Sunday, weather permitting, | and they are always well atténded. Cap- tain Pryor has cailed a blind run for to- mOrrow.. The degree of hardness to which tires should be inflated is largely a matter of | personal k\rofcrcnce. They should never ve left soft enough to flatten out much beyond the edges of the rim when sup- porting the weight of the rider, and most | cyclists prefer them as hard as they can be made. Riding through sand or over wet places experience has proven that a soft | tir- is preferable. | _ The close of the present season, now at hand, marks a noteworthy period in the | epoch of improved pneumatic-tire" con- | struction. The feature of the past year in cycling circles has been an unprecédented { demand for single-tube tires, and in no previous s2ason has this type of tire | proved such a gratifying success to its makers and users. Not only has its prac- ticability and wearing qualities for bicycle equipment been convincingly dem trat- ed, but its success on the horseless car- riage or motocycle 1s unquestionable. The recent Than ng-day race at Chi- cago proved its utility in the field, as the winner was a vehicle shod with this type i of tire, and although the tifty-four miles covered was a journey the majority of the distance through an unbroken road of soft {snow and slush, the tires performed the service required of them without a mishap, and made the victory of the mofo- cycle using them a conclusive one. Dan O’Callaghan, the popular Bay City wheelman, who is touring Europe, was at Lucerne, Switzerland, on November 23, irom which place he wrote to his friend, Judge Kerrigan. He will continue on around the world. Captain Butz announces club run 6 of the Olympic Cyclers through the park to- ! Frank H. Kerrigan, Chief Consul North- | ern California Division, L. A. W. mOrrow. | neat blue present a splendid appearance. Judge Campbell is an cyclist. While riding in the park the other dag he puiled on his handles so strongly he broke one completely off and had to do some fancy riding with only one { handle left in order to get home safely. ‘This bicycling makes a man strong,” he said in explanation. | The police have received instructions to | ligble to arrest now if a bell is not carried lall the time. It must be rung con- | tinuously at street crossings. A lantern | is not required at any time, but the bell | must be attached to every wheel. Of course the Ipulica will only warn violators | of the ordinance for the first offense, but | are instructed to make arrests if a rider | does not comply with its provisions after | | having been spoken to. | The Bay City Wheelmen’s ladies’ night | and not Thursday, as has been announced. | Thus it will not conflict with the Imperial | Club’s affair Thursday evening, and ladies | who have friends in "both clubs can zow | attend both entertainments. | Invitations are mow out for the great | ““Our Bett” smoker next Saturday night, | December 21, and if the reader has not re- | ceived one he must remember that only | one hundrea were issued and they bave | | gone to the personal friends of the four | members of the club and to those who are | | most prominent in coast cycling affai | The club’s members, W. H. Stinson, W. F. | Knapp, L. B. Thomas and J. E. Fagothey, | have gone to great trouble and expense in arranging the affair, and if it equals last i year’s jollification (ana they promise it | will excel it), those who have been favored The bovs will turn out in their | suits and white caps and | enthusiastic | enforce the bell ordinance. and one is | will be held next Friday evening, the 20th, | i | | | | with invitations have a most pleasant evening's entertainment in prospect. 1t has been decided to add to the list of annual road events conducted by the Cali- fornia Associated Cycling Clubs a twenty- mile tearn race, to be held on the second Sunday in July in each year, for the mag- nificent trophy denated to the association by Baker & Hamilwon. The race will be held around ihe San Leandro triangle and will be competed in by five men from each club, starting one minute apart. There will be no handicapping and the team scoring the greatest number of points will have possession of the trophy for a year. The man making the best time scores the highest points, the second, third and so forth lo]]owing. Here is an old formula which I have been asked to give again for the benefit of some new riders: To lind the gear of your wheel, multiply the diameter of therear wheel (usually 28 inches) by the number of teeth in the crank sprocket-wheel, and divide by the number of teeth in the hub slpmckel-wherl. Another way is to divide the number of teeth in the crank sorocket- wheel by the number in the hub sprocket, and multiply the diameter of the rear wheel by this result. The Olympic Club Wheelmen’s run to- morrow is to Haywards, to. witness the road racing. BPALDIN DUCK AND QUAIL. Sea Brant Shooting in Tomales Bay. They Forgot a Game Promise. “If you enjoy the pleasure of pulling down birds from the sky asthey fly directly over you, come with me some blustering day to Tomales Bay, and I will give you the shoot of your life.” The speaker is a well-known local sports- man who spends considerable of his time during the winter months shooting sea brant in Tomales Bay, and last Ssunday he was heard to ask the above question of a quail hunter who.was among the passen- gers bound for Point Reyes station. frame is then brought in, which is a clumsy and rough piece of forged steei. After mill- ing, grindine, cutting and filling, it is ready to be fitted to the barrels. This al- ways requires skilled labor, and is one of the most important parts of the work, as the future tightness and wearing of the guns depends upon it. SR ANGLING. Professor Jordan Says That the Steelhead Is Not a Salmon. Now is the time of year when anglers who fancy deep-water river fishing for steelhead trout will be rewarded with good sport by visiting any of the large coast streams which empty into the ocean or bays. Of many rivers within reasonable dis- tance of this City the Russian affords the best sport just now becauseits lower waters run deep, and as a consequence the steel- head when on its migratory passage from salt to fresh water will invariably rest in the deep pools near the mouth of the river il:e!‘ore making a final run to the spawning eds. The oteeltead when fresh from the salt water is a beautiful fish of decidedly game qualities. An angler using a tolerably Iight rod and strongz tackle can always re.y upon the steelhead to give him a battle royal. Unlike the salmon of some Cana- dian rivers, the Jarge steelheads will not rise to a fly when on their winter's journey to the higher waters of coast streams, con- sequently anglers lose a delightful part of the sport of angling. The spoon and the roe of either the sal- mon -or trout are the lures employed for the capture of those fish. Roeis assuredly the most “killing” of all baits used by Jocal anglers, and to guarantee good suc- cess it must be freshly taken from a fish when placed on what is known as a double hook. In some streams a cooked shrimp placed on a red flyhook has proven very successful, but according to anglers who have recently returned from Duncans The brant hunter in relating some of his experiences replied as follows to a question as to the system he employed for the capture of those highly prized water fowls: The sea brant is an entirely different bird to the common Canadian brant, which are so numerous in the marshes and grainfields at this season of the year. It feeds on the pulp of & certain salt water plant which has a very vprolific growth in two or three of the bays of the coast. The bird is migratory in its habits, arriving here generally in the letter part ‘of November and departing for the northern country in March. - In gize it is something larger than a mallurd duck, but in flavor there is no com- parison, as the brant is far superior. and that aving great things for this grand bird. From now until the brant will commence to turn tail upon the coast, large flocks of those birds may be seen during the early mornings on the Bay of Tomales, between Hamlet sta- tion and “the ocean. Unless the weather is rough outside these birds will not remain in the bay very long after sunrise, but as they fly out to the ocean they frequently present good targets to hunters who go prepared to give them a warm reception. During my brant- shooting experience I have found that the birds vary butlittle in the distance they place between themselves and the water when on their morning's journey to the ocean. From eighty to one hundred yards is about the aver- age distance of the fall of these birds when shot, and some times they are so tat and heavy that'they actually split open when they strike the surface. 1 use a small boat that resembles | a floating mass of some kind when on the water. It iscovered with tule and hay, and within this blind I conceal myself as best I can from the view of the brant,which are very cun- ning. Sometimes Ican scull quietly within range of a flock, but this is the exception and not the rule. The greater partof the brant killed in Tomales Bay are shot when flying overhead either as they are going out or coming from the ocean, and it is seldom you will get & shot closer than eighty yards. I'use a 10-bore gun, tive drachms of Engle duck powder and one aund a half ouncesoi No.2shot. A anded brant can swim like a duck, out as they will not dive v can_be recovered by hard and quick sculling. The morning and evening shooting is, of course, best for this kind of sport. President Abern of the Sportsmen’s Pro- tective Association states that some very able speakers will address the mass-meet- ing of sportsmen, which will be held on Tuesday evening at K. of R. B. Hall, corner of Mason and O’Farrell streets. This meeting is called for the purpose of taking some definite stens looking toward the future pleasure of sportsmen who are yearly being driven off marsh lands which, according to the present law, should be open property to hunt on. Frank Vernon will leave this morning for Point Reyeson a quail-shooting expe- dition. Vernon has squared accounts with the foreman of a ranch who now demands tribute of sportsmen who desire to shoot thereon. Some few weeks ago the foreman asked three well-know local hunters who had secured some nice bags of quail, to leave one dozen birds with a friend of his who resides 1n this City. They prom- ised, but forgot. Vernon, who visited the ranch on the Sunday foilowing, was asked if he would not comply with the request, and answered in the affirmative. The City friend of the granger received one dozen nice birds, and as a consequence Vernon can now shoot whenever he pleases, but there is a very cold frost waiting for the forgetful sportsmen who did not comply with the zame promise they made the man of milk and cow: Duck-shooting on the bay marshes last Sunday -was very poor, and unless the wind is pretty strong to-morrow it is doubtful if many birds will come from either the Sonoma or Alviso marshes. Ed Ladd and a partys of friends wili visit Commodore Bell to-morrow on board his ark Brunston, which is anchored in Espinosa Slough, Suisun marsh. Ladd ex- pects to get some good duck-shooting when sculling the sloughs. Al Cumming leit this City for Byron yesterday afternoon. He says that on this trip he will not be so foolish as to re- main in a plowed field all night watching for a shot at incoming mallards. John Lemmer, Dick Brooks, John But- ler (of salmon-roe fame) and John Sammi will leave to-day for Sherman Island, where those famous duck-shooters expect to bag large quantities of feathers. Clarence Haight and J. Watson bagged twenty-three quail on the Pacheco ranch last Sunday, They found the birds wild nndbscauered, having been shot at consid- erably. §§The Mallard Gun Club will hold a busi- ness meeting to-morrow on board its ark. The good ship is anchored in the slough that was blockaded by the Teal Club last month. It is not generally known that gun-bar- rels—that is, with the exception of rolled steel used on the Winchester gun—are not made in this country. All gun-barrelsare now imported, although an attempt was made a few years ago to produce them in this country, but with only partial suc- cess. a England, Germany and Belgium supply most of the barrels, the latter country doubtless producing the larger quantity, says Sporting Life. All gun barrels, whetber imported direct from the makers in Belgium, or through an importer in this country to the gun manufacturer, are re- ceived in rough tubes, which very much resemble a couple of gas pipes, but being scmewhat larger at one end than at the other. These barrels or ‘‘tubes,” as they are called, are merely tied together in pairs with swall wire, and forty or fifty Dairs are packed in a box. There are many kinds of barrels and each bhave several ! grades, the cheapest being the twist, of which there are a number of classes. Law- inated steel is a better quality of barrel, while the Damascus barrel, which is the most popular, bas the greatest number of grades of all. Many persons suppose that a barrel is a strong one if it is Bnmascuu, when in fact a first-class twist barrel is superior in strength to many of the cheaper grades of Damascus. When the tubes arrive from Belgium they clearly show the figure of the twist, or the peculiar curl of the Damascus, and the different qualities can_thus be distin- guished from the construction of the mater- ial shown, even n their rough state. These tubesare paired, trued up or straightened out if crooked and soldered together; the lugs on the bottom and the extension on top being brazed in, but the top rib and Milis, the steelheads of the Russian River will not pay the least attention to this fancy lure. The roe of the salmon or steel- head trout is the only certain bait that anglers can rely upon for the capture of the fishes in question. Ve A fish native to the river and which is of no earthly value either for its game quali- ties or as a food fish is the so-called hard- mouth. Some twenty vears ago a company of Chinamen thought that by shipping tons | ot those tish to China they would reap good financial results, but the speculation proved a dismal failure. The erterprising Mon- golians purchased nets with which they scined many of the large pools near the mouth of the Russian River. They caught several tons of hardmouths, which were dried and prepared in the usual way for | shipment to China. One experience proved sufficient. The Chinese ‘‘at home’’ had no use for such a variety of fish; they were altogether too boney and could not be soid even in China, where almost everything fishy is appreciated. as the hardmouth is a prospector of the old | school and will sample any kind of lure used for angling purposes. Captain Cumming writes that 100 vards of line is necessary to gamble on the land- ing of a Russian River steelnead. The fish average fifteen pounds in weight, and as the pools are long and deep, runs of sixty and seventy yards are of common occurrence. A train will leave Sausalito this after- noon for Duncans Mills, returning on the following Monday. Reports from Point Reyes are not of a satisfactory nature. The winter's run of steelheads” has not yet set in, but in all probability there will be good fishing at the mnouth of the Paper Mill stream after the next rainstorm. It is said that some nice grilse have been caught recently in the tidewaters of Pesca: dero Creek. C. C. Moorehouse, a local angler who resides at 2911 California street, lost a valuable book containing fishing-tackle at Point Reyes last Sunday, and that ac- counts for his poor success among the steclheads. In last Saturday’s CarL an article ap- peared stating that the steeiheads, which are taken by means of nook and line in the' tidewaters of the coast streams, are trout and not salmon, as alleged by some people who are desirous of their capture with nets. In reply to the article in gues- tion the distinguished scientist and Amer- ican authority on salt and fresh water fishes, Professor David Starr Jordan,writes: | December+12, 1895. Sporting Editor of The Call, San Fra Cal.—DEAR SIR: he clipping from THE CaLL which you send Is perfectly corre head 15 not a. The steel- ts large size 't a.salmon, and only | _GreenC's. Position. Klinkers. and its habit ofspending part of its life in the | & Center. elga | en ever suggested to a: one that it should be Right guard.. .Callahan | alled such. Very tru ours, £t guard DavID'S. JoRDAN, President. Right tackle. Baariel i THE OARSMEN. Scullers Who Are Now In Training for the February Regatta. Oarsmen are Jooking forward with much pleasure ana interest to the rowing re- gatta which will be held on the Alameda estuary on February 22, under the auspices of the Alameda Boating and Swimming | Club. Although the affair is somewhat distant, the various boat clubs have crews of single scullers and outrigger skiff oars- men in training for the event. The Pioneer Rowing Club will be repre- sented in the senior barge race by its old | crew, who rowed the muchly disputed race at Sacramento on Seplember 9 with the South End’s crack crew. The crew hes improved much of late, and says that it only wants just one more chance at the South End crew before dis- banding. Clifford, although scarcely out of his teens, holds the championship of Balti- more harbor in double-scull and white- halls—an honor won by him and another | San Francisco lad in 1893 duaring their trip to Entfllmd on the ship John D. Walker. Fred Orr has just reached mun’s estate, is six feet tall and weighs 170 pounds. He comes from a family of oarsmen, his two brothers having rowed in the Pioneers’ celebrated four-oared shell crew of a few years ago. Following is the make-up of the Pioneer senior crew: Fred Orr, bow and captain; Coney Ochs, forward-waist; Gus Collopy, afterwaist; John Clifford, stroke, an George Fitzsimmons, coxswain. Four new members will shortly be en- rolled in the Pioneer Club, that will make a formidable ‘junioz crew. They are Wil- liam Cook, William G. Foley, Frank Par- now and J. J. Hanley. A four-oared shell crew with the follow- ing personnel, Bob MacArthur stroke, | Gus Carson_after-waist, Al Fritz forward- | waist and Frank Duplissea bow, went out from the South End house last Sunday, and it is said that this_club intends to or- ganize a shell crew with the intention of challenging the winner of the Olympie- University race. The principal event on the bridge last Sunday was a four-oared barge race be- tween the following Pioneer crews: No. 1— John Clifford stroke, George Collopy after- waist, Fred Orr forward-waist and J. E. Brennan bow; No. 2—W. Espy stroke, William Hoffman after-waist, Bob Espy forward-waist, Dick Collopy bow and Dan Fitzsimmons coxswain. &The race was won by the former crew by about one length, and the course over which the race was rowed wasfrom the Pioneer boathouse to Clay-street wharf. The contest was not without a few inci- dents. Fitzsimmons in the exuberance of his joy in keeping the lead undertook to steer his boat through the swells of an out- going ferry steamer, and miraculously es- caped being swamped. By this time the other crew came up on the leaders and both crews entered Clay-street uhg together, and a merry race ensued to the landing. Fitzsimmons again *'lost his head” when half way down the slip and collided with the other crew. The race will be rowed again to-morrow under rib are hard soldered. The barrels are then very rough and are placed on machines, which cut down the lugs to nearly the required shape and size. The over the same course, the prize to bea French dinner. Some practical joker of the South End Club has invented a talking horn, some- thing similar to the one used on the tug Had there been a | demand for hardmouths in China anglers | who visit Russian River on fishing expedi- | tions would be relieved of much annoyance, | Fearless, and no little amount of merri- ment isjevoked with it on Sunday morn- ings, What is said through the horn can pe heard and distinguished for a considerable distance, and last Sunday the South End boys were hurling all sorts of ejaculations at the members of the Ariel and Pioneer rowing clubs, about six blocks away, and at the scow captains, whose vessels are lying on the Mission flats. The horn will be a valuable adjunct in a race, as some of the rattle-headed cox- swains can easily be given instructions over the entire course, through the medium of the horn. pettls Sy FOOTBALL. Reliance and Olympic to Have Their Last Fight Before Opposing Butte. The Olympic and Reliance teams will meet at Central Park at 8 o’clock this afternoon in a contest for charity. The line-up of the two elevens is prac- tically the same asii was when they met several weeks ago 1o decide the athletic club championship and incidentally to give vent to a good deal of hard feeling that had been engendered by interclub rivalry and schemes early in the season to lay hands on all the best men available outside the big university teams. Olympic has met the rugged Butte aggre- gation since that desperate losing game in this City, and in consequence has learned a few things and got two men on the shelf with broken bones. Reliance has also been weakened by the loss of its sturdy captain, who was won over to Butte a short time ago. Fred Frick, that one-lunged lightweight phenomenon of the gridiron, has been elected to McMillan’s position, and the Reliance eleven, under its new captain, 1s | prepared for another quiet little game. It is hinted that it has a few trump cards up its sleeve to be used against the unrecon- ciled rival this afternoon. Garton, the 215-pound center-rush from Stanford University, is one of the sur- prises that may be sprung on the wearers of the flying doughnut, for Reliance does not intend that to-day’s contest shall detract from the hard-earned victory of a | month ago. Both teams have been practicing regu- | larly this week at Central Park, the Ouk- land men having engaged the old Olympic | quarters on Minna street, near the grounds. | ~After the match is decided the rivals | will bury the hatchet for the season and all next week wili see them engaged in daily practice games for mutual prepara- tion for coming battles with Butte. Reli- ance will play Butte next Saturday after- {noon and Olympic will try to defend Catifornia against Idaho on Christmas. | Both games will be played at Central Park and will attract attention for several reasens. It will be the second visit of an outside football team to this State, last winter’s tour of the University of Chicago Varsity having been the first. It will be an interstate fight, and it will be marked | by the appearance of much Montana money tc bick the stars collected at Butte by a millionaire enthusiast, who is in’ the habit of creating lucrative positions and inviting every hit of excellent gridiron | the team. Reliance purposes to make some telling match. Downing, the ex-Stanford captain and a heavy ali-round veteran player, will be put in at tackle. Harrelson, St g skillful quarterback of last season, wil probably join Reliance for that game. And Bunker and Garton, with pernaps | some others, will be added from the col- | legiate squad at Palo Alto. i The line-up of the teams arranged as the | men will oppose each other this afternoon |is given below: Reliance. Fosition. Olympic. Buoker, 140, L.end R. ..Bowen, 1 McHugh, 18 tackle R...... . Harrison, 17 | Oliver, 180 guard R.....M Edgren, 1 Burnett, 191 Racine. 160. Lanyon, 1.5 WyCkoff, 145. Hanlon, 1550 Cap-. Frick, 143 Huff, 160 . AN Jos Dec. 13, 1895. Sporting Editor San Francisco Call—DEAR STR: | The Klinkers of San Jose and Green C's of San | Francisco will meet in a_game of football in this city Sunday. The Kiinkers are a newly | organized team, but all of its members have | had some expericnce’ heretofore on the grid- iron. The Green C's, since their defeat by the | Farraguts of Vallejo last Sunday, have made some changes in their team,which have ma- | terially strengthened it. The teams are very | evenly matched and a close and hard-fought | gameis expected. The teams will line up as follows: ..Left tackle. Right end .. Left end Quarterb: Light hal COURSING. | Greyhounds That Wiil Run To-Mor- row—A New Club and Park. and no doubt a large and enthusiastic gathering of leashmen will be at Ocean View park to-morrow to witness the meet- | ing, the drawing for which is as follows: Ingleside Kennel's Stamboul Queen vs. | Villa Kennel’s Maud G, J. P. McDonnell's Mayo Boy vs. J. Clark’s Dashaway, G. | Corbett, C. Anderson’s Nigger vs.J. H. Perigo’s Santa Bella, G. Burke's Seaweed vs. F. C. Randolph’s Lamplighter, Villa | Kennel’s Tempest vs. Potrero Kennel's i Lily; J. Murphy’s Redlight vs. M. Tray: nor’s Valley Maid, W. Kelter’s Freestone | vs. Potrero Kennel’s Lorene, J. Brad- | shaw's Earthquake vs.J. Ramsel’s Nelly | C, P. Ryan’s Magpie vs. ¥ | Yreka, M. Traynor's Kerry Gow vs. J. | Donnelly’s Defender, M. Traynor's Slide | vs. Potrero Kennel's Georgie Dixon. The prizes are $20, $15 and $10. Ed Can- avan and John Grace Jre will actin their respective positions as judge and slipper. The old Interstate Coursing Club has been reorganized, and in future monthly i meetings will be held at Newark. The once popular coursing park will be fixed up immediately for coursing, and a large | consignment of hares from Merced and | vicinity will be received just as soon | as accommodations for the short-tail “fliers” will be completed. Among the | members of the club are many rich and influential men who will prove a valuable adjunct to the coursing interests of the State. P ey Handball. The manager of the San Franciseo hand- | ball court will offer very handsome prizes | to be competed for on next Sundgy week, by the champion players of the coast. It will be a Christmas tournament, ana the entries will close on Saturday, the 21st inst. A very exceilent programme has been arranged for to-morrow, and among the players who are slated for the day is a nephew of Fitzgerald, the Irish champion, who is said to be a very quick and accurate player. At the Union court some good contests are certain to result to-raorrow, as many of the old-time handball smashers are among the entries. Between the games there will be a target-shooting match be- tween Professor Kelly. E, Fay, Dr. F. Hughes, M. Murphy and Dr. Egan. James Hingshaw Convicted. James Hinshaw, one of the Barbary Coast group of old men charged with rape, came up for trial before Judge Campbell yesterday, The prosecution reduced the cliarge to an indecent ect. Hinshaw pleaded guilty to the same. He was sentenced to six months in the County Jail and also required to pay a fine of $1000. ——— Ladies who kiss their pet dogs are warned by no less an zuthority than r. Megain of the Paris Academy of Science that such animals are one of the great agencies 1‘(\ spreading disease,gespecially consump- ion. material to fiil the places and strengthen | additions to its make-up before the Butte | This is magnificent weather for coursing | O'Brien’s Little Bob vs. J. H. Perigo’s Jim | %, C. Randolph’s | (CIAR OF THE DRUMMERS Arrival of George Briggs, Suc- cessor of the Redoubtable Randolphe. THE PAY OF AN EMBASSADOR. Other Notable Men Here Who Receive Ffrom $10,000 to $15000 a Year. The Shoe Trade. George Briggs, known as the “Czar of the Drummers’”’ throughout the United States, 1s at the Baldwin. He succeeded the famous Pete Ran- dolphe, who died at Salt Lake in 1889 of pneumonia, brought on by carrying food to snowbound women and children. Ran- dolphe traveled like a prince, and his suc- cessor movesabout in much the samestyle. Briggs receives more salary than a Cab- inet Minister. He represents a New York tirm which is alleged to be the largest clothing-house in the world. He has been for over fifteen years with this house, baving begun as a boy, and for several years traveled with the invincible Ran- dolph as goods packer and assistant sales- man. Randolph was a second Marshal Ney when he went forth with his wares, it be- ing a case everywhere of veni, vidi, vici. When the old knight of the road passed away there were many applications for his Elnce. from the star commercial travelers, | ut little Briggs, as he is called, got 1t. | He is not so little as might be supposed, | however, being of medium height. He1s a quiet spoken, clear-eved man, with a very dark mustache and hair. The | money he has made for several years has averaged each year up in five figures, each | one representing a doliar. Lately his stipend has materially increased. He has | been making a tour of the coast in the in- | terest of business. He seems scarely out | of the thirties. Talking of his predecessor, and of no- m}ge big salaries of traveling men, he said : “Randolphe was a man who sold $200,000 | or $300,000 worth of goods every year, and | worked Jargely on commission.” In this | way he easily made from $15,000 to $20,000 a year, and not infrequently more. He was one of the greatest men, if nat the greatest, ever seen in the business. | “‘When he died at Salt Lake finally of pneumonia he died in my arms. Shortly afterward I was appointed to succeed him The commission is 5 per cent in the East and 6 for the Pacific Coast. goods above this. se there are at least thirty or e ow here representing the big shoehouses of the FEast. Leather has gone up so much during the past six months that there isan increase in price on shoes of from 15 to 30 cents a pair. It is easily tha 5 1 “] can hardly explain why Calitornia and other Western hides should continue to go ‘East for. tanning and manufacture and the manufactured goods come back and be resold, the profits all coming ont'oi the West. It must be that you bave'nt the art of tanning and manufacturing down as fine as the East. The biggest and best tanneries of the whole country are at Milwanke: and Chicsgo. It is largely through these that tne big Eastern fac- tories receive the California and other Western hides.” : Several of the big-paid travelers will re- main over the hollidays. Mr. Briggs’ stay will be of short durauon. COMMERCIL IWASIOR Two New Ones Now Being Planned by the Traffic Association. An Effort to Be Made to Secure Lower Rates Into Arizona and New Mexico. “I sup forty men n Traffic Manager W. B. Curtis of the Traffic Association isdetermined to extend the field of operations for the merchants of | S8an Francisco if it can possibly be done by existing means, and if the lacking means can be provided to advantage he is deter- mined to have them. He has already it band a well-developed fight for Utah b|'ul- ness, and he 1s now directing his attention to the territories north and scuth of San Francisco as fields for the commercial ex- ploitation of San Francisco manufacturers and producers. f Tables of comparative rates to points in the upper Willamette Valley have been prepared and are now being distributed to the members of the association to show them to which points they can successfully compete with Portland. These tables show the all-rail rates from San Francisco over the Southern Pacific line to certain Oregon points; the rates via Yaquina, a combined water and rail route, and the rate from Portland to the same points; and a perusal “of them shows that San Francisco has the advantage over Portland 1n rates to all points between Portland and Albany. For the past two days Traffic Manager Cartis has been in Los Angeles n confer- ence with the Santa Fe people, with a view | to extending trade with Arizona and New | Mexico. One of the obstacles to trade with these and I have been traveling in that way ever since. “‘Many of the highest-priced men do not | | save their money, notwithstanding the | large sums they make. They spend it al asthey go. It was so with Randolphe. He left almost nothing.” Mr. Briggs, it is understood about the same figure as Randolphe. | There are anumber of cther stars among | commercial travelers now here. Among them are a number representing the great shoehouses of the East, who kave come to sell the winter's stock. Several of these make as much as $10,000 or §15,000 a year. Among them are the { following: Ciaire A. Benedict of Cincin- nati, Milton Urner, Judson Baxter, Fred Luckenbach and Joseph Hill of New York’ { F. A. Montgomery of Washington, E. H. | Drew of Boston and Del Frank of Haver- i hill, Mass. | “They are all good, high-class men,” said Mr. Benedict, “‘and make from $10,000 10 §15,000 a year, I suppose. Most of them received first a guaranteed salary and ex- penses, and then a commission for all | i | | , makes | {5 make such arrangements with the Santa Territories is the high rates of freight, | which are now virtually controlled by the Southern Pacific Company, a3 the Santa Fe has to use the Southern Pacific rails be- ween San Francisco and Mojave o get into those Territories from San Francisco. Manager Curtis is in hopes of being able Fe officials as will enable the San Francisco merchant to ship by steamer to a port near Los Angeles, and then over the Santa Fe o New Mexico and Arizona. In thisway, t is expected, rates will be much lower | than those now ruling. - ‘ Passing on Passes. There was a conference for many hours yes- | terday in the office occupied by C. P. Huntine- | ton when he s fu town, relative to the matter of tree passes over the lines of the Southern Pactfic Company. The entire listof last year wus cauvassed Hun- tington and C. F. Crocker, Manager Kruttschnitt and Traffic Manager Stubos, and the beneficiaries of the company’s bounty in the matter of free transportation” for the year 1896 were decided upon. It is understood | that the list has been considerably curtgiled. | NEW TO-DAY. - A “Christmas balance. No interest wili be charged. $5 MO | { i i If you consider the following facts A good lot can be had for $330. on the property; splendid views; good the property and another is within sho: securing a home lot. Call at once and and Castro streets. DURING THE BIG CROWDS! In Our Office Yesterday And To-day - - - - - - WE HAVE JUST STARTED On unusual terms. Up to December 25th—positively mpt longer. A cash pay- | ment of $5 will secure a lot, and monthly installments of $5 will pey off the ‘NO INTEREST for the large number of sales already made. Streets are all grad amized; water piped to every lot, all ready for bui! backward and everything points to a rapid eanaseement of values. No better proposition can be found in which to put § 4 wenta (16 cents a day) or of Twenty lots sold in the past four days. Rumaembder the time is short and best lots go first. Don’t delay. Go to-dny < electric cars (Mission or Valencia transies CEMBER 16th, A FREE CONVEYANCE il kave our office daily at 10 o'clock A. M. and 2 o’clock P. M. fs i (e Sireet Addition. BALDWIN & HAMMOND, - 10 Montgom -2 Sale” of Lots | | NTHLY you will readily waderstand the reason i, sewered and macad- img purposes; electric lights Owe line of electrio cars passes ce. Prices can never go climate. Tt walking dintan SRCRES Y ChOIe . wuaday. Take Guerrero-street & Tousieenth) and get off at Chenery Wk 2RGINNING MONDAY, DE- ery Street.