The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1896, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1896. THE FIELD OF SPORT. What ’Sportsmen, Athletes and The wet weather has greatly interfered| with all kinds of outdoor sports. The | wheelmen cannot enjoy aride in the coun- | try and the spertsmen have given upall | hope of meeting with any good duck- shooting experiences during the remain- s of the open season. irsing is in full blast, however. and some good racing should be witnessed at Newark and Ocean w to-morrow. Gaelic football teams will meet to-mor- | row in the recreation grounds of Golden | Gate Park, and an intercollegiate game | will be decided to-day at Central Park. The oarsmen are looking forward to a y lively season of aquatic sport. | The Olympic Club is figuring upon the | holding of a grand amateur boxing tour- | nament in Avril. { Loguee i THE WHEELMEN. Walter C. Sanger Is Consldered the | Champion Racer of To-Day. | | | Ve If there is any possible hope of the roads | being ridable the wheelmen will flock to | the park to-morrow. They will not at-| e out into the country for several weeks, but with one or two days’ sun-drying the park T and particu- larly the bicycle paths, will be in better condition than ever,as a good wetting always improves them. Itisa noticeable thing that the park riders all take to the paths especial ied for them, as it tempt to ver Oarsmen Are inpg. people, and has made many friends among the wheelmen here. The runs of the O, C. W.’s should be popular and well at- tended under his direction. . The committee on the Baker & Hamil- ton trophy, appointed by President White of the associated clubs, ‘will meet to-mor- row afternoon to decide about the contest- ing for and disposal of the cup. The com- mittee's recommendations will then be presented to the association next Saturday night for consideration. Itis understood that the following will be offered: "To be a special twenty-five-mile race, run on the ond Sunday in July, known as the Baker & Hamilton trophy race. Prize to be won three times by the same club be- fore becoming its proverty. scratch team race, held on the San Lean dro triangle; teams to consist of five men from each club, who will start in five groups, one from each club_in each group. The club that finishes five men having lowest net time will be declared the win- ner for the year. The meeting of the California Associated Cycling Clubs, at which this will be de- cided, will be held next Saturday evening, It isto_be a | thing which is now being offered by the Oaklandersas something new. The article Teads: One of the novelties exhibited at the recent Stanley show of cycles in London was a train- ing machine devised by a Swiss inventor. The wheels of the machine rest upon rollers, two for the rear wheel and one for the front. There is an adjustment by which the rollers can be arranged so as to rerre:ent loose or muddy roads or hills, A dial placed before the rider shows the distance traveled ard the speed. This invention of four years ago is much more complote than the one which is creating so much talk just now. The fault with the one the Bay City Wheelmen have is that it makes too ‘much noise when rid- den upon—noise equal to about ten Jarge printing presses running together at one time. It jars the houses on the block where the clubhouse is situated, and sev- eral residents have complained. So the club has stopped the men from training on it until the new one being made by Arthur Davies can be completed, which will be ball-bearing and improved generally. It will have no dial, though, nor any adjust- ment to give the impression of bad roads or hills. The San Jose Road Club will hold a dance in its clubrooms nex! Monday even- ing. Joseph B. Carey, captain of the Garden City Cyclers, had his wheel stolen last Thursday evening in San Jose and is anx- ious to get word of its whereabouts. He says if he does not he will have to lead the est of the club runs on foot. | scribed as being the only model A 1895 | Stearns in Calitornia, is finished in yellow | enamel, with *‘Model A” plainly stamped ¥ makes a far better riding surface than the | main roads. The Commissioners intended | once to require the cyclists to use the | paths set aside for them and not go upon | the main drive at all, but such an ordi- e would be entirely unnecessary now e wheelmen have taken to the bicycle choi and it would take ation to keep them off them les 8. Wells, behind the gr am of Smith, Sw gh, W | and Terrill, covered four miles the other | | | day at San Diego, the following being the | S 2:03— is riding h mile: y wonder rely. n, Paul and Feli ve invented a cor ng awheel in position while cleaning, lubricating or r ing i which is so simple and in v have applied for a ts of two ¢ s on an inflexible rod; one is fastened within | an incision, the other to the top of the rod. | L justed on any chair vecle then fastened to | mall that it can be tool-bag on long trips, when lubricating become a neces- | ed. na nd s0 invert the | Wele of Boa: th erican_Mechan 22, Southern Pacific Com earns Bicycle 1se T, class A | ; by vote of | der claus tion 7, article oyd A. McFarland and Hardy ECORDS APPROVED. hird mile ling start unpaced, W lton, Coronedo, December 25, 18 Han w. One-third mile standing start paced, W Hemilton, Coronado, December , tandem, Canby aylor, Coronado, December | g start paced, tandem, A. Taylor, Coronado, De- “fiving start paced, W. W 10, December 28, 189 g start paced, C 1895, 1:1 m, Canby January . WELCH, ing Board. race for $100 prizes herwise provided by the racing boards in special events, and under the system proposed will realize far more than when they were competing for $150 diamonds, worth in reality about 30 per cent of that amount. The system of zold medals. redeemable at 90 per cent of their value, is well thought of by the racing men. Fred J. Titus, who was a team mate of Cabanne and Sanger last year, has signed with the Syracuse people.” This will be a surprise to those who knew of his close re- lations with his old concern, but it is authoritatively stated that the Spaldings will not puta’team on the path in 1896. Titus is now under suspension, but the consensus of opinion of the Eastern cycling ress is to the effect that he, Cabanne and Murphy, will be reinstated by the National Assembly. not to B? Shall class B be con- tinued for another year? The question was widely agitated at the Chicago show, and the general sentiment had a tendency to lean toward the good of amateurism, which can only be properly preserved by a united effort to sway the National Assem- bly in favor of class B. George D. Gideon, chairman of the National Racing Board, realizes that a B class must exist. So does Robert M. Welch, the representative of the board in California. This gentleman has given a great deal of study to the m intricate points which encompass th question, and after a careful investigation is ready to declare himself for a class to be known as the ‘‘class B riders,”” which in many respects will resemble tne class of makers’ amateurs which has been nurtured by the L. A. W, for the past two years. Of several changes to be made in class B, one will meev with general approval. 1t is appreciated that race-meet promoters did much to discourage the B riders last year by supplying prizes far below their recognized value. It has been suggested that the L. W. furnish prizes in the form of gold medals with attached certifi- cates controlled and recorded by the rac- ing board. These are redeemable, and when a rider wins a $100 prize he will know that he can ret it, less 10 per cent, which the league will deduct to guarantee the organization for its trouble. Class B must live, if its purer brother would suryive, and class A is absolutely necessary. John 8. Johnson, Patrick 0’Connor and A. E. Weinig, three well-known profes- sionals, under the management oi Tom Eck, will race in Europe this year. Eck has already made a contract for the riders, and they will begin training in America early in February. The men will return to America later in the year to compete in the professional events here. In face of the fact that many of the ‘‘pro” riders are looking forward to conquest in France it would be suicidal for L. A. W. interests to drop the B class. One of the fastest rid- ers on the path said recently: “I want to ride in class B, if there is to be such a class, for 1t has some semblance to ama- teurism.” This but echoes the sentiments of all the class B riders of to-day. They do not want to become professionals. Walter B. Fawcett is the young gentle- man who has been recently honored by election o the captaincy of the Olympic Club Wheelmen. The position is an im- portant one in such a large club, and I bhave every confidence in Mr. Fawcett's ability to discharge his duties with credit. | whether the roads will be sufli WALTER C. SANGER, THE UNPACED MILE KING. February 1, at the rooms of the Imperial Cycling Club, 614 Van Ness avenue. The San Jose Road Club hasa ten-mile road race scheduled for to-morrow, but ently dry, if indeed it does not rain, is a question. | The clun is going to keep its men in con- | stant training from_now on, and they will | show up in splendid form for the twenty- ive-mile road race and the relay. The Imperial Cycling Ctub has one of its popular dances on the cards for next Fri- day night, which is sure to be well at- tended. The Imperials are particularly successful at this form of entertainment, and they are all as good dancers as they are riders. The party is to be held at Union-square Hall. The Olympic Club Wheelmen will go through the coming season under the direction of the following committees: Cycling—W. B. Fawcett, J. F. McGlynn, Walter B. Fawcett, the New Captain of the Olympic Club Wheelmen. C. N. Ravlin, James Muller, J. Hahn and L. C. Hunter; auditing—F. W. Faller, H. V. Scott, C. J. Leighton; recruiting—H. D. Hadenfeldt, H. G. Edwards, H. Cos- griff; house—George Kroetz; entertain- ment—F. W. Fawcett, J. Crump, J. Cun- ningham, A. C. Thornton, W. H. Haley. It looks rather odd to read in the racing board’s bulletin, published to-day, that the Southern Pacific Company has been ranted a sanction to run a race meet at anta Monica on February 22, The racers say the company conducts its meets better than any club could and the prizes are always up to value. I suppose the various railroad officials serve at the race meets. Imagine some general freight agent as a timer and a traffic manager as a judge. The company is making considerable money off the Santa Monica track propo- sition, and the hope has always been en- tertained that it could be induced to build one somewhere in this vicinity. g There has been a great deal of discussion lately about a new home-trainer, said to have been invented by two Oakland young men. One of the machines is set up’in the Acme Club’s rooms and the Bay City ‘Wheelmen have another. The latter club was not satisfied with the running of theirs, however, and so one of the mem- bers is building another, which will be ball-bearing and only two rollers. The idea, however, is by no means new. John S. Prince, the long-distance champion, had something like it, with a dial attach- ment, and exhibited it at the Orpheum _in this City arfd at the Auditorium in San Jose. Itisnowin the latter city, stowed away, I am told, 1n the rooms of the San Jose Road Club. Going over an old cycling scrap-book He is well known .in the cycle trade on this coast, being manager for the March the other evening, however, 1 found a clip- ping from Tue CaLL of Sunday, February on the head. It has adjustable handle- bars, New York tires, rat-trap pedals with toe clips. rial number not known. Walter C. Sanger 1sone of the greatest riders the world has ever produced, and has thousands of admirers who say that { to-day he is the peer of any man, not even | excepting Zimmerman or Johnson. He is of herculean build, being over six feet tall, and weighing 210 pounds. mes from Milwaukee, where his father is a man of wealth and position. In 1893 he captured 21, 1892, covering !identically the same time is below a certain limit, say 2:20, a Prize of $25 be given to the first man fin- ishing. 1f the time be below 2:15 let the prize be valued at$50; 2:10 would draw out 8 $75 prize and 2:05 entitle the winner to one of $100. By this system Mr. Gleezen claims the time made in competition will be as fast as is now done with pacemakers, as the men will do pacing for each other. The increase in the value of the prize in & corresponding ratio with the increase in speed will act as an inducement to the men to fight for the race from start to fin- ish, while the prizes for intermediate dis- tances will actas a further incentive for them to ride their best. Of course, fast tracks will be a help to this system, and slow ones will work against it, but as a whole it seems to be a clever and original thought. SPALDING. —_— Wheels In Petaluma. The following communication from M. W. Edwards of Petaluma has been re- ceived: In October, 1895, there were 130 members belonging to’ the Petaluma Wheelmen, whose crest is the three wings around a circle in- closing the initial “P.” There are now 250 riders, fifty of whom sport the bloomers, and sixty of the number belong to_the L. A, W. Malcolm Byce, the little son of Mr. Byce, agent for the “Erie” wheel, is between five and siX years of age and is our youngest rider, his father having had s wheel made especially for m, Just now the bycicle is “not in it,” so far as the rain and mud are concerned, but we ex- pect grea exploits from the '96 wheel. Newton Ackerman, our champion cyelist, whose reported intention to race under the colors of the San Francisco Road Club occa- sloned great regret here, has returned heie With the explanation that he isonly a nons resident honorary member to the Road Club, as he desires to enter in the great 100-mile relay race. Mr. Byce, the agent of the ““Erie,” now keeps “‘air on’ tap,’so that inflation of the rubber tires is a very easy matter. The already fine bicycle track is being further improved by being raised three feet on the banks and we hope to have many good races in the coming season. TWO WHEELS. She sings by her wheel at the low cottage door, \\'mc;; the long evening shadows are stretching e With a music as sweet as the music which seems Breathed softly and faintly in the ear of our dreams. —JOuN G. WHITTER. If the good Quaker poet could only come back, And cast his nild eye over progress’ hot track, From the maidedsithat were to the maidens that be, Hb, weeping Jerusalem, what would he see? The maiden who sat by her wheel at the door, Isn’t running that kind of a wheel any more; She spinneth not flax by the cottage door neat; She straddies the wheel and goes forth on the street, The girl with the wheel in the good Quaker's day, Calm, quiet and modest, was spinning away Where the cool waters flowed and the light zephyrs fair Blew the truant locks loose that had strayed from her hair, And her manner was tranquil, her skin 1ily white, And her gown it was clean and ber speech was polite. In short, this fair maiden, the wheel who Dpossessed, Was & pattern of modesty, coolness and rest. The girl with the wheel at the present goes out Without any weak hesitation or doubt, And in dirt ‘and in dust, perspiration and he She pushes Ler way 'mong the teams on the reet. She has large baggy trousers, no bothersome skirt A manly cravat, and a coat and & shirt, And her face becomes red as she onward doth plows And the hot jerspiration stands forth on her brow. hades of our grandmothers, look o’er the tide ur spinning, the cottage beside, Then 100Kk at these bloomers. this shirt and cravat, Shades of our ancestors, ~Whnere are we at?” THE GUN. The Wind-Up of a Good Season. English Snipe Near Concord. The sportsmen who read THE CaLL last Saturday and remained at home did not regret having missed one Sunday during the hunting season from their favorite duckshooting grounds. The heavy rains drove all the birds that had been ‘“‘camped’ on the bay for several weeks during the dry weather tothe south, where they will remain during the few weeks that areleft for hunters to enjoy a favorite pastime. The canvasback and bluebill will afford some sport 1o those who will try their luck to-morrow near Sausalito and Hunters Point. Possibly the best location for a good shoot now .is off the old bridge lead- mg into South San Francisco. Last Wednesday evening the boys who were stationed on the bridge about dusk had the English championship, after having won everything in sight over here. He won the mile English championship hand- ily at Chicago during the fair, and in the | international events there was mentioned by the English as their champion. The Sunday night before that wonderful week of racing this was mentioned to him. “No,”” he said, decidedly, I will not ride for England. I am an American, first, last and always, and shall never ride under any colors except those of the stars and stripes.” The next day he fell, thrown by the carelessness of a novice, and when they picked him up, nearly done to death, his chances for the week and probably the year gone in_an instant, he whispered to his trainer: “I had rather lose my chance | as an American than win for the English.’ Upon his return from England, says the Nickell Magazine, he was met at the rail- road station in Milwaukee by an immense crowd that blocked traffic until the train came in. The Mayor of the city received him, and made a speech in which he said that Milwaukee was proud of herson. A procession wus then formed and he was driven through the city, the streets of which were lined with people. Seldom has it been granted to an athlete to have | his home-coming celebrated in a manner that would approach so nearly the splen- dors of 8 Roman triumph. The season of '95 saw Sanger doing very little work. Until September at Spring- field he had done virtually nothing. There Le started in three events, competing against Johnson, Tyler and every pro- fessional of note in'the country, and won them all, finishing in two of them 100 feet ahead of the bunch. Ever since then the knowing ones have said there was no one living could beat Sanger. He holds the world’s record for an unpaced mile at 2:001-5, considered remarkable, as riding for unpuced records is the bardest work imaginable and seldom can a man make good time under such conditions. Sanger lived in California early in his life, and I may suggest that perhaps that has had a great deal to do with his re- markable speed. The filling of his young lungs with California ozone gave him stamina and wind vpower that will never fail, even when put to the severest test. He lived with his parents in the vicinity of San Leandro, and has a brother who is now living at Napa. But he was born and reared mnglwnukee, and we can only claim to have had a small share in aiding him_to success. Recently he married a very beautiful and wealthy young lady of his native city, but will not give up riding just at present, as he real- izes he has only just reached his best. The visiting committee of the League of American Wheelmen called upon the Cali- fornia and Alpha cycling clubsand the Olvmpic Cyclers during the past week. The future dates of the committee are: Olympic Club Wheelmen, Tuesday, Janu- ary 23; Liberty Cycling Club, Tuesday, February 4; Alameda Cydlers, Friday, February 7; Tmperial Cycling Club, Mon. day, February 17. The committee is meet- ing with great success, and is very niuch flattered at the interest created and the attention it has received at the various places already called upon. The race-meeting at the Mechanics’ Pa- vilion in Marcn, as mentioned in THE CALL Thursday, is sure to take place, and the riders should commence training at once. The prizes are nemg urchased, and will soon be upon exhibition. Entry blanks are being printed and will be forwarded to the various clubs next week. The rac- ing board, California, Bay City and Olym- vic clubs, having looked into the manage- ment of the affair, and being satistied with their investigations, have agreed to sup- port the yenture and help make it a suc- cess. H. B. Gleezen, the well-known trainer, has devised a plan whereby the speed of races may be increased and the use of pac- ing machines done away with. He sug- gests thata prize be given to the man fin- ishing first in every lap except the last, which shall decide the race. Then, if the crand sport bagging bluebills and butter- tnllg that were flying in from the bay to the marsh. One of the hunters bagged nineteen bluebills in less than thirty minutes. Occasionally birds are dropped on the bridge, but in most instances they fall on either side of the structure and are picked up by the hunters’ assistants, who are in boats under the shelter of the bridge. If a strong wind should be blowing to- morrow some good shooting may be had from the old Alameda bridge. It’isdoubt- ful if the sport on the marshes will be worth going after, as latest advices from the Sonoma and Alameda marshes is not by any means encouraging. English snipe are said to be very plentiful in the vicinity of Concord, Centra Costa County. After one of the big rain storms of last year two prominent sportsmen of this City bagged 119 snipe in one day’s shooting in the low land between Martinez and Concord. Judge Carroll, W. S, Valencia, George Racine and Dr. Heldreth enjoyed a few days of excellent duck shooting near De- lano last week. Their combined string numbered 349 birds, which inclnded mal- lard, teal, sprig and spoonbill. The Judge states that the sportsmen of Delano treated them most hospitably, and he guarantees any lover of the gun, who is desirous of a good duck shoot before the season expires, a first-class outing by visiting Delano, which he contends is at present a paradise for sportsmen. The Alameda Sportsman’s Olub has re- newed its lease of several acres of marsh lands, situated in Sonoma County in the vicinity of McGills. The club has about given up the idea of meeting with anv good success during the remaining days of the season. Al Cumming states that during the late storm he bagged 110 mallard ducks in the tules near Byron. He caught the birds on their return from the graintields, and states that during his hunting trips to Byron he has never had such grand shoot- ing. Richard Brooks and a friend killed 125 gray ducks on Sunday, the i2th inst., near Antioch. There is a peculiar grass grow- ing on the margin of the ponds about An- tioch which is much sought after- by this variety of duck. The sportsmen who visited Hamlet sta- tion, Tomales Bay, last Sunday, met with good success in sea-brant shooting. They {f-‘;‘"‘“d to this City with twenty-five irds. ‘The Pall Mall Gazette of recent date has the following to say regarding the game birds of England, Wales and Scotland: Throughout England and Wales generally the sport on the moors was altogether quite enjoyable this year, but bags, owing to scarcity ot birds, due fo the severity of the preceding winter and the un{avorabia weather subse- quently, were not up to the usual standard. The sport in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands—the home par excellence of the red grouse and the blucr game—has been but mesger on the whole this year. The rainfalls in the far north were much heavierthan in England at the opening of the season, which marred the sport, and the birds themselves were scarcer than they have been for years, This was due, of course, to the unprecedented storms of last January and February, when so many birds perished in the snow blizzards and inteuse frosts. Consequently, not a few sports- men spured their moors—a praiseworthy pro- ceeding under the circumstances. Noue of the S¢otch moors show such big fig- ures as those given above for England, the bulk of the shooting in the north country be- ing done in the old-fashioned way, over dogs, but few of the larger Scottish moors are adapted for ‘‘driving.” Taking Scotland as a whole, the average dajly bag during the sea- son, even reckoning the results from driving along with those over the dogs, would not have amounted to much more than thirty brace or so, whereas, reckoning the over-dog shooting alone, the average would barely reach fifteen brace or so. Black game have been nowhere in Scotland this vear, while very few ptarmigan or capercailzie have been killed. The black frme sre deoreasing yearly from their haunts in the heathlands, pérhaps owing to modern encroachments on these grounds, as they are more accessible to civilization than the more distant and wilder moorlands of the red grouse. Sportsmen will certainly regret the decadence of the handsome black cock, for a really handsomer bird and no nobler game exists within these Islands. More discreet and intelligent shooting on the part of many men with guns (who, unfortun- ately, do not know & black cock or a grey hen from the more common grouse) and an exten- sion of the close time till two or three weeks later might do something to preserve birds from & t00 hasty extinction. THE ANGLER. A Comparison Between the Midwin- ter and Midsummer Anglers. The class of anglers who are seldom seenon the streams after the opening day of the trout-fishing season 1 April are now anticipating some grand sport angling for steelheads in the tide waters of coast streams, The so-called midwinter fishermen take very little interest in whipping a moun- tain stream for small trout when the creeks are clear and low. They contend that the sport of angling is in hooking and playing large fish, such as the steelhead when it is on a journey to spawning grounds. After April 1 the parent fishes of the small trout that afford so much pleasure to anglers who use a fly only, have departed for the sea and'are not seen again until the fol- lowing winter. The winter angler finds no pleasure in catching small fish, and as a matter of course he looks upon the summer angler as a strange kind of being who does not know what real sport is when he sees it. The man who wades the streams in the aneling season proper takes much pleas- ure in the exercise he derives from an out- ingin the country at a time of the year When the trees are in bloom and the fragrance of divers kinds of wild flowers permeate the atmosphere. He is a lover of nature and is perfectly contented if he succeeds in catching a nice mess of trout. _The winter angler has only one object in Yiew and that is the capture of a large fish, Nature has no charms for him. He will sit on a damp clay bank for hours at a time waiting and watching heron-like for that signal which means great joy and pleasure for him. Perhaps, after hours of waiting, he hooks and has ten minutes’ sport with a steelhead, which, as a table fish, is not much fancied by epicures. Occasionally the winter anglers meet with good suécess, but in the nearby coast Streams the exception is generally the Tule. 1f the weather remains fine steel- head fishing at Point Reyes, Embarcadero, San Gregorio and Purissima should be tolerably fair from now until March. The German carp is creating no end of annoyance in the streams of the north. T. G. Tarrell of Portland, Or., writes that the carp are not only a nuisance to anglers but that they have destroyed the favorite food of the duck. A gentieman recently informed him that he knew of a State that was at one time badly infested with carp. and that by the introduction of wall-eye pike and pickerel the German food fish disappeared in the space of four years after the introduction of the pike family. It would be hard to estimate the number of pike that would be required to rid the waters of this State of Mr. Carp. They are more numerous in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers than mosquitos are in the tules in the summer season. The Country Club expects to have some grand sport next summer catching land- Jocked salmon, which are thriving in the laxes of the club. e THE OARSMEN. Winners of the Arlel Boat Club Re~ gatta--News From Stockton. The rowing regatta held by the Ariel Boat Club over the Long Bridge course, last Sunday, practically ushered in the rowing season, The course was one-fourth of a mile with a turn, and the first race on the programme was a single-scull race be- tween J. O. Wilson and H. Pless, in which the former was the victor. Time, 5 min- utes. J. Hardy defeated J. McAuliff, after an exciting race in the singles, in the fast time of 43 minutes. Bob_Ellis, in an outrigger skiff, defeated G. O. McGinniss and N.J. Prendergastin & pair-oared shell. Time, 5)¢ minutes. The star event of the day was the four- oared barge race between two selected crews as follows Crew No.1—H. A. Pless, bow and cap- tain; J. R. Bockman, forwardwaist; J. McAuliff, afterwaist; N. J. Prendergast stroke, and P. Enright, coxswain. Crew No. 2 Wilson, bow and cap- tain; Robert Ellis, fcrwardwaist; J. No- lan, afterwaist; J. Larkey, stroke, and A. Carroll, coxswain. The race was won by the former crew alter an exciting finish. Time, 31 minutes, It is the intention of the Ariel Club to hoid monthly regattas and to organize a ladies’ annex. ‘William Humphreys, president of the P. A. A.of the A. A. U. of America, is the recipient of a letter from John E. Budd, president of the Stockton Athletic Association, in which he states that the Stockton club intends to construct for the coming year the same kind of a racing- boat as is used by the University and Olynpic clubs. He suggests that in the arrangingof a regatta by the association this season that one day be set aside for Stockton, and preferably the Fourth of July. Mr. Budd favors the idea of the associa- tion arranging a programme of regattas to take in the holidays during the year, including Admission Day, in order that all the clubs may conform thereto. He further states that the Stockton Ath- letic Association is heartily in accord with everything that the P. A. A. has done in regard to purifying the various clubs of professionalism. Last year, it will be remembered, was the first time since the advent of boat- rowing on this coast that the Fourth of July celebration committee refused to include a regatta. The Stocktonians have some clever oars- > club’s colors in the single scull and out- rigger skiff. s The Dolphin Boating and Swimming Club will give a picnic 1n May. Its new house is now entirely completed and was open for inspection last Sunday. [tisun- doubtedly the best equipped boatbouse on the coast. Ferris Hartman and Thomas Leary, the comedians, are becoming enthusiastic oarsmen and go out often from the Dolphin Club. The Pioneers haye organized two crews, a senior and junior. The senioris composed of Fred Orr, bow and captain; Coney Ochs, forwardwaist; George Collopy, afterwaist; John Clifford, stroke; and George Fitzsimmons, cox- swain. Junior crew—1J. St. John, bow and cap- tain; D. Collopy, forwardwaist; W. Esp{, afterwaist; Dan Fitzsimmons, stroke; and George Fitzsimmons, cox- swain. Several ladies have applied for member- ship in the ladies’ annex, and soon an- other ladies’ crew will be seen on the bay. The Olympic Club will soon give orders for the building of its boats. It is the intention of the club to have boats of the latest Eastern models. James Lawless and W. Scanlon are anxious to meet any juvenile oarsmen in double-scult Whitehalls for a trophy. George Bates, a crack boxer of the San Francisco Athletic Club, has been en- rolled in the South End Club. _The San Francisco Athletic Club has as- pirations to have a boating annex. The boys will be given every assistance by the South Ends. The San Franciscos have excellent material to pick from, its mem- bers being largely composed of men who have rowed in many of the regattas. Daniel G. Coleman, the secretary of the club, is an _excellent oarsman, and a race between him and James Powers of the Pioneers would prove interesting. There is talk of a race between the fol- lowing crews of the South Ends: Crew 1— George Bates, stroke; Dave Cambell, after- waist; Ea Smith, forwardwaist; Tom Barry, bow. Crew 2--Jim Fickett, stroke; Ed Pallas, afterwaist; Charles Cutter, forwardwaist; Dan Connoly, bow. e R FOOTBALL. Two Local Teams to Meet at Cen- tral Park This Afternoon. At Central Park this afternoon at 2 o’clock the Crocker and the Comos elevens will play a match game of football. It promises to be a sharp contest, as the two local teams are considered a stand off. Following are the players as they will face each other: Croeker. Position, Comos. Sheehan, . end R ..Choynski Koster tackle Thompson Londgroft. L. guard R Wilson Tillman Hompson . Lamont _Varney ( s llings The Emmet and San Francisco Gaelic football teams will meet to-morrow_after- noon on the recreation grounds, Golden Gate Park. Both of these teams have had considerable practice for the past few weeks and to-morrow’s game should prove quite interesting. The game will be called at 3 o’clock sharp and the following is the make-up of the teams: San Franciscos. “Right wing. ‘Left wing Ay S ATHLETIC. What the Pacific Assoclation Is Doing—Handball and Boxing. The committee on investigation ap- pointed by the Pacific Amateur Athletic Association will meet again on Monday evening to hear what the athletes who have been accused of transgressing the laws of the Amateur Athletic Union will say in reply to several questions which will be put to them. As previously stated in Tue CArn the amateurs of the clubs composing the Pa- cfic Athletic Association have paid very little attention to amateur rules recently, and the association thought that it was about time to start in weeding out the bad from the good. g One of the commitee on investigation said yesterday that the athletes who have been notiiied to appear before the board will certainly be expelled from the ama- teur ranks if they fail to be present at the next meeting. The hum‘fi)flll players were delighted when they read in yesterday’s CALL that a new handball court may be one of the pro- posed additions to the new building. The directors have concluded to give the hand- ball enthusiasts their valuable considera- tion, as the growth of the sport has been NEW TO-DAY. men enrolled in their club, notable among whom are Frank Butler and R. Giovanni, who will try to wrest the championship from F. Duplissea and William McCaus- land this year. 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