The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 1, 1896, Page 10

The managers of clubs that have been * organized for the “purpose of giviag box- irig contests are now happy because the Heilth and Police Committee ot the Board of Buperyisors granted permits yesterday to'tbe National Club to give an entertain- mentin August and.the Occidental and Colima clubs to hold contests in Septem- ber. Sportsmen and anglers are -pleasant outings in the country. ' The wheelmen will be outin the coun- try to-morrow in strong force, as club runs are-numerous. Rifle shooters 'will assemble at the Shell Mound and San Rafael ranges to-morrow in goo¢’ numbers, and the oarsmen who are training for the “Stockton regatta are reported to be getting into splendid trim. e THE WHEELMEN. having Rellance and Acme Road Races To- Morrow—New League Hand- Book Is Out. CLUB EVENTS TO-MORROW. Acme -Club Wheelmen —Road race, Haywards. Alameda Cyclers—Run to Sutro’s. California Cycling Club—Run’to Park. Camera Club Cyclists—Eun to San Jose. Olympie Club Wheelmen—Run to Park and Presidio. Outing Road Club—Run to Haywards, Reliance Club Wheelmen—Road race, Haywards, There will be two interesting road races across the bay to-morrow, those of the Acme -and Reliance Club Wheelmen of Oakland. The entries for the Acme event will not be known until to-day. The race is the last of a series for a handsome cup, decided by points, and P. M. Lefevre leads the others. So far 1t seems unlikely that any one cam wrest it from him. The entries for the Rehanee event and their handicaps sre: Gray, Hayselden broth- ers, Harris, Robson, Thompson, Peck- ham, Watson, 2 minutes; Marston, 1:45; Starbuck, Bain, Dieckmann, Lehuer, 1:30; Smith, Neylan, Jones, Myrick, . Price, Griffiths; 1:15; Atkins, Curtis. Brereton, 1:00; Rosenheim, :45; Gooch, :30; Eiford, Bates and Dyer, scratch. The Olympic Club Wheelmen will have a run to the Park and Presidio to-mor- oW, leaving the club at 10 A. M. After the run the members will gzo to the Olympic grounds and°have a game of baseball and some informal races. The-.club’s road race has been postponed to August 16. There will be a moonlight ride to Stockton by poat August 22 and 23 and a theater party later in the month. The California Cyelin, run to the Park and Cliff House to-mor- row, leaving at 9:30 A. M. There will be a smoker for members only this evening, The management of the Hotel Rafael, in conjunction with the S8an Rafael Cycling Club and that charming writer on cycle topics, ‘“‘Madge,’”’ are arranging some bi- cycle races to be held at San’ Rafael shortly. There will be a two-mile and a a five-mile handivap, amateur. The idea is to make.the affair a Efl of picnic, with Club will have a the races and a splefidid lunch as the drawing cards. All thé'prominent clubs of this City will be invited. The handi- capping will be done by R. A. Smyth, of- ficial handicapper of the L. A. It promises to be a big event, and 1s already being talked about considerably around the clubs. The new handbook of the North Cali- fornia Division, ague of American Wheelmen, is just out, and is a credit to the division. It is free to members, and will be mailed to them in a few days. It contains a hist 0f all league officers, local consuls, committeemen, league hotels and their rates, league repairers, ordinances in various localities = regulating bicycle riding;# The Law of Cycling, by Frank H, Dunne;' Road Improvement, by C. Mich- ener; Good Roads, by H. F. Wynne; History of the California Division of the L. A.VVV; Touring Through Marin, So- noma, and Lake Counties Awheel; L. A. W. Constitution and By-laws; General Racing Rules; Rules and Regulations of the North California Division; Touring, by J. J. B. Argenfl, and some fifteen different tours, some long, others short, also com- piled by Mr. Argenti. The book 1s neatly gotten up, and is invaluable to all cyclists. It cannot be purchased, and is obtainable only by league members, to whom it is iree. William Yeoman of the Reliance Club ‘Wheelmen, Oakland, is considerably an- noyed over the account of the recent twenty-mile roadrace, claiming that the alleged foul was as much the fanit of the Bay City rider, Menne, as it was his. Nothirg similar to this has ever been at- tributed to Yeoman before and he has always borne the reputation of being a square, honest rider. Menne still sticks to his story that he was fouled, but is now inclined to qualify it with the additional remark that perhaps it was done accident- ally or without malice intent by Yeoman who, he thinks, would not wilfully foul any one. As both men are well known on the cycle path as honest sporismen and the veracity of neither can for a moment be questioned, the collision and subse- quent wrangle over it were unfortunate, and it seems to me the best thing to be done is to drop the subject. Captain Argenti has called a run of the Camera Club Cyclists to San Jose for to- morrow on the Oakland side of the bay. The riders will carry lunch, to be eaten on Penetentia Creek, near Alum Rock. The distance_of the run is about forty-two miles. The return will bs made by train. President Harlow H. White of the Cali- fornia Associated Cycling Clubs leaves on this evening’s train for 'Sisson, from which point he will journey to the Mc- Cloud River in company with a Mr. Mc- Guire in search of fish and game. He will be away a fortnight. In his absence Jo- seph A.Desimone of San Jose, vice-presi- dent of the association, will preside at its meeting at the Reliance Club, Oakland, to-night, when considerable important business will be brought up for action. The Liberty Cycling Club will hold a smoker this evening,at its clubrooms, at Twentieth and Folsom streets. The Outing Road Club will go to Hay- wards to-morrow to witness the road races. The club will also go to Stockton on the 9th to attend the watermelon run of the Terminal City Wheelmen. R. M. Welch”of the National racing board, resident in this City, retnrned Thursday from & southern trip, to find his desk Jitterea with a dozen different mat- ters pertaining to hisoffice. His next bul- letin will be awaited with considerable in- | terest. Canby Hewitt, a speedy southern rider, who was on the Syracuse team last winter at Coronado, is in the City.~ He raced last week at Sacramento, and will go now to | Riverside to get & month’s easy training | for the big meet there on September 9, Fred L. Day and Thomas Hall of the | Bag City Wheelmen returned yesterday | from La_ Honda, where they have been | camping for over a month. They hada splendid time. s A meeting of representatives from the Acme, Reliance, Crescent-and Alameda clubs, all of Alameda County, was held | Wednesday evening last at the Acme Club to arrange a fifteen-mile road-race, to | be held on the San Leandro triangle! shortly, to be a sort of county champion- ship, open to all county riders and held 0 ate jump. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1896. In the mile Tom beat him, but it was Eddie’s fault that Tom won. Eddie i started the sprint at the three-quarter and gradually increased the pace, with Tom tacked on. It was a sleigh ride for Tom and an essy { matter for him to jump Eddie at the tape. At Kalamazoo, in the half-mile, Tom was not placed. The mile open the second day Wwas the prettiest race run so far this season, Bald, Cooper and Sanger finishing almost abreast. Sanger made the great ride, though, coming | up “irom the rear of the bunch on thelast | eighth; the big feliow, dressed in a suit of | black with broad, white stripes, seemed to be riding two lengths to the others’ one. Loughead, the Canadian, is riding very well end has taken Otto's place on the per- centage table. He has left the National cir- suit, however, to follow the Iilinois State cir- cult. Gardiner has been laid off for a rest. He has not been himself since the southern trip. Ho will meet the push hereand follow with us again. g(lharlia Wells, who has been at Hot Springs for the past six weeks, i8 again with us and looking splendid, though he is & little down in weight. It is like old times to have Charlie atfong. The Palmer tire people have canceled their contract with him and-the'Syracuse peo-" ple will do nothing for him. Iam making & pullto get him on the Morgan & Wright team ana feel quite sure he.will be one of us at Louisville. - T have not told you of the Detroit meet. It seems that there is a greardeal of rivalry and prejudice existing between the race-meet pro moters at this place, and when one club had applied for & sanction of the National circuit the other club_or party immediately bought an option on all tracks in Detroit on® the date given for the National circuit meet, S0 the promoters had to go to Windsor, Canads, to hold the races. There Was a very good at- tendance, however, and the races came off in good order. Cooper did not ride the first day, S0 Bald of course had the big race. In this Otto rode like a sausage and was unplaced. In the mile handicap he made a desperate ride and although he was unplaced the ride was a very creditable one. He rode from scratch in which is world’s handitap-record. The me'is not offteial, asonly one watch caught him. o 2 Cooper beat Bald in the mile on_the second day and itwaes indéed a popular win. The annually. Another meeting will be held at the Acme Club next Monday evening to complete arrangements. The race would be of considerable interest, on ac- count of the number of fast road nders across the bay and because of its novelty, there being no similar event held by the associated clubs or any of the individual clubs. Sanford Plummer, official referee of the League of American Wheelmen for this district and ex-captain of the Bay City ‘Wheelmen, limped around to the Bay City clubhouse Thursday night and appeared so changed that his fellow-members hardly knew him. *“Sandy’’ has recently gone through a severe spell of sickness, and has dropped in weight from 166 to 131 pounds. His complaint was acute gastritis. He is now past the danger point and mending rapidly, and by the time the next race meet is held—on September 9—we may again have the pleasure of bearing his merry voice sing out, “Get off the track.” The Alameda Cyclers bad a large turn- out at Mill Valley last Sunday, capturing the quiet town and its fair ones together. Next Sunday week they will go to Stock- ton on the watermelon run, the trip for to- morrow being to Sutro’s. Another very interesting letter has been received by the writer from R. P. Ayl- ward, the well-known trainer of Otto Ziegler Jr., the California champion, now following the National yacing circuit. Mr. Aylward’s letters are always breezy and full of news, anecdotes and the like, and I aiways enjoy reading them and giving them to the readers of THE CALL, Ayl- ward is a splendid trainer, and there is probably no one in the business who can show him a trick. The marked 1mprove- ment in Ziegler’s form over his showing of last year is ample proof of this. The Californian has never been anywhere but near the top of the latter since he joined the circuit, sharing the honors with Coover, Bald and Sanger, and it would be very little of a surprise to me if with Ayl- ward’s helg he passed them all in the per- centage table before long. Aylward's letter is given in full as follows: 3 Lrxa, Ohio, July 24, 1896. H. W. Spalding, Cycling Editor San Francisco Cali: Here we are in this littie burg patiently waiting for the weather to clear up, and while waiting I will tell you what has happened since my last letter to you. Otto was not feeling well when we left Chicago so I decided to skip the meet at Battle Creek and get a rest at ¥alamazoo. We were just comfortably located at the above place when we received a_telegram from the referce of the Battle Creek meet stating we must make our appearance on the track at Battle Creek or suffer suspension. So I took Otto u and showed his condition and he was excuse On the circuit down south almost all of the ‘boys had contracted malaria and the effects of it were jut now showing up on their eystems, and iu Otto’s case it broke out onegil lips simiiar toa cold sore. Although it did not STEWART UPSON, necessitate his going to bed at the same time it made him feel very uncomfortable and he could not do justice to himself while in this condition. At Peoria he first felt the effects of &a southern trip and is just now getting over At Kalamazoo he did some very good riding. In the haif-mile open ho ran Bald 5o elose thet it was a sflxemon ‘who had crossed the tape first. When it was announced that Bald had won first place the grand-stand hissed=and shouted, “Ziegler! Ziegler' Who won the race? Ziegler! Ziegler!” Although I was not in & position to say exactly who had won, it looke thm me 1?’60[“;: 8 win. In the mile open the second day he was pocki d cop:!u not get out to s[’wrlnt atall S . o Bald is riding like a fiend, and so is C 3 1 think Bald is still the best man. 8 ftoomer | At Battle Creek Bald defeated Tom by at least four wheel lengths by making his desper- frnnd stand shouted themselves hoarse for heir boy Tom. . Eddie was 1ocketed, however, by Jay Eaton and could not get out in time fo give Tom a run. Loughead second and Bald third. In all probability the races here will be post- poned, as it is still raining very hard. Now, I want to teil Eou & little re[lrfllns the Louisvilie meet. What a pleasure it woule be to see some of our California friends at this meet. Charlie Wells, Otto Ziegler and I were tal g it over last night, and if we could only enthuse some of the boys I feel sure the: would not miss this great event. The ’'Of Meet Club are making elaborate preparations ior the entertainment of visiting wheelmen, and I assure you that those who come will be well Elld in pleasure and exciting races dur- ing their stay at Louisvilie. Both Charlie and Otto will be in exceilent form for this meet uncli will try their Denver tactics of ’94 over again, By the way, I met Percy Long at the races at Chieago on the 10th inst. Remember me kindly to inquiring friends. Yours sincerely, R. P. AYLWARD. A. Gilmore, G. Feder and E. Lewis of |- the S8an Francisco Road Club will start on. a trip to Santa Cruz to-morrow and will be gone about a week. William H. Pray and L. E. Pels of the same club leave Monday awheel for Portland. The San Franciscos are desirous that all their voting members should register at once, that the club may have as much political strength this fall as possible for the support of the wheel- men’s candidates for divers offices. Hervbert D. Clark, cycling editor of the Alameda Argus and a popular member of the Alameda Cyclers, broke his collarbone recently during a wrestling bout at the club and has been obliged to give up cycling for the time being. The racing board has issued its bulletin No. 20, dated July 31, 1896, as follows: Sanctions Ennmd—Jm 81, W. N. Winans, Sacramento Cal.; September 9, Stockton Ath- letic Association, Stockton, Cal. Transferred to the professional class—J. C. Morgan, Portland, Or., own request; Emil Ul- bricht, Los Angeles, Cal., own request. Suspended until September 1, l118911, for com- yetlng in track races at Salem, Or., on Sunday, une 14— — Guiss, Woodburn, Or.; — F. W. Roberts, L. Wilhelm, C. arles Zigler, George D. Sol- 0. Brandenburg, all of Port- R. M. WELCH, Member National Racing Board. The indoor tournamentat Sacramento last week was not a success financially, Manager Winans’ losses bein, v:flou!{y estimated at from §800 to smofi He held & blue-ribbon meet last night to try to get some of this back. The racing men from this City are all well pleased with the treatment accorded them while in Sacra- mento. The Capitol City Wheelmen en- tertained them and Manager Winans did all he said he would, the prizes being well up to value and promptly awardea. Stew- art Upson and Horace Crocker did all they could to make the stay of the racers pleas- ant and they came back well satisfied with their trip. SPALDING. E. W. Decker will try for the world’s five-mile record to-morrow, at 2:30 p. M., from San Leandro to Haywards,and the vis, Salem, O H. Richards Jr., lers and George 1and, Or. SAMUEL J. PE‘BROKE OF THE ALAMEDA ROWING CLUB, Acme Club Wh eelmen’s five-mile race will be held at 2 o’ clock of the same day. Sl GUN AND RIFLE. Chasing Deer on San Andreas Lake In Boats—The Game Warden. COommencing at 10 o’clock to-morrow the Lincoln Gun Qlub will hold a series of contests at its shooting groundsin Ala- meda. The first event on the programme is a 15-bird race, $1 entrance, high guns to win; the second is a 15-bird race, class shooting; the third is a 20-bird race, ties decided at 5 birds; the fourth and last event will be a novelty match, 15 birds, entrance 75 cents, four moneys, fzizh guns to win., . “The follthlng communication from the secretary of the Reliance Gun Club ex- plains itself: RELTANCE CLUB, July 29, 1896. Dear Sir: The last shoot for classification of the free-for-all match of the Reliance Gun Club takes place Sunday, August 2, shooting to begln promptly at 10 A. M. Back scores must be shot up on that date. The final shoot of this match will take place Sunday, September 6, and on this date we will also have an important merchandise match. Yours, etc., R. C. ELDER. The Fish and Game Commissioners, or rather the Fish Commissioners, have been notified that deer-hunters are shipping in butter boxes fromn Novato and vicinity the carcases of does and fawns to dealersin San Rafael and thi» Qity. There is sup- posed to be a game warden in this City whose.duty is to look out for the trans. gressors of the game law. Nothing has been heard of the game warden for several months., i % Mr. Osborne pt the Tamalpais Club bagged a spiked buck last Sunday that dressed ninety-five pounds. ° On Sunday Jast Otto Bransdorff saved the’life of a doe that was.pursued by dogs, and to escape with its life it swam across San Andreas Lake. Two anglers who saw the deer swimming gave it chase in their boats, intending to dispatch it with a pistol sliot when the deer feached the east side of the lake. E Bransdorff rowed rapidly in his angling skiff, and arrived just in time to prevent his brother anglers from commitung an act which might have landed them in prison. iy 5 ) Bransdorff, pointing at the deer’s head, stated most emphatically, tliat he would cause thé arrest-of the men if they at- tempted toshoot. They were ignorant’of the law, but when they realized that a shot at a doe might cost them more than. the gamre .was worth they quickly-put their pistols away and watched the deer ;glit left the water and scampered over the ills. y o James Kerr is pf’ob-bly one of .tHe best rifle shots in San Matéo County, but. when James draws a dead line on a buck stand- ing broaliside and within fifty yards of his rifle and scores a ¢lean miss,” then lbi.;hly colored .adjectives invariably fol- ow. S = One* morning, recently, while Mr. garr was looking ap some stray chickens, he espied two fine ‘deer feeding in his goat patch. 4 “That's meat for me,”’ chuckled Jng:s to himself, and he hurried back to the ranchhouse for his trusty gun. Taking a snap-shot inspection of the ‘Winchester he judged that eyerything was all fight and quickly started back to interview his game. The deer were feea- ing, as before stated, and paid no atten- tion to the champion turkey-shooter of S8an Matéo County until -he got -withia fifty yards of them. . Kerr fired and missed. The deer made a few bounds and again stopped, giving the marksman another beautiiul shot.. The second and t:ird shots proved to be fail- ures, after which the wearers of the forked horns “‘tumbled” to the racket and™”soon disappeared in the deep canyon. . On an examination of the rifle, which quickly tollowed the aisappearance of the game, Mr. Kerr discovered. that the front sight had been raised ‘from the 100-yard to the 400-yard notch, and the alterations lost him tsyo beautiful deer. The disap- pointed sportsman discovered afterward, on inquiry, that Al Smith, “the hermit of the lake,”’ was shooting swallows on the wing at long range the Sunday previous with the .riga and he neglected to rear- range tire sights. Sportsmen, as a general thing, hear of strange happenings to hunters, many of wiich seem incredible. - The following letter, which recently appeared “in a Colo- rado paver, is the kingpin deer story of the season. It says: The last time I was deer hunting I made two shots that were =0 remarkabie I think they are worth relating: On rounding a small hill I observed three deer watching me. I selected a large buck, which was standing broadside, and gredf He made two piunges and fell, but 1mmediately regnined his feet, and with one more jump was over the hill, I followed his trail some fifty yards when 1 observed him lying down, and 1 firec. agein and this time broke his neck. On looking to see where the first shot struck him I was surprised to find that I had cut six holes in the hide with one bullet. The buck, as stated above, was stand- ing broadside, and the ball made two holes in the foreleg, and being just high enough to pass through the lower pari of the brisket cut two holes in it, and passing out through the other foreleg, cut two more holes. To one familiar with the anatomy of the deer, this will seem at firsi an impossible shot, but on closer observation it will be seen that §u possible, providing the bali does not enter e leg too far forward. In this instance the all entered the leg just far enough forward to cut the cords of both legs and not break a bone. The sccond shot was at a fawn lu.udms in front of a large rock. The bullet passe through ths deer, hit against the rock and glanced off, hitiing another rock, which so turned it that it fell at my feet. [ have the puilet now, and on it one can see the blood from the deer, the sandstone from the first 1ock and particies of stone from the second Tock. Rattlesnakes are singularly plentiful in the hills and canyons near Pieta this year, and hunters are consequently giving the place a wide berih. g THE OARSMEN. Crews That Will Particlpate In the Stockton Regatta. Local boat clubs are making extensive preparations for the championship re- gatta at Stockton on September 9. Every club has a full contingent of oarsmen now in active training and the present outlook for a large entry list is very bright. The South End and Pioneer clubs, who have been handicapped in past regattas by not having outrigger skiffe, have each given orders for this style of boat and soon .every club on the bay will be equipped with them, and as each club intends to make an entry for every event on the Ezogrlmme of the Stockton regatta it- will quite_interssting to note which club carries off the lion’s share of the victories. The South End Club has John Foley in the junior single scull, and Gus Carson, the ‘afterwaist man of the club’s cham- pion senior crew, will row in the junior outrigger race. Frank Duplissea, the co-:g champion single-sculler, will wear Sou! End colors in the senior singie-scull event. The "club will be very strongly repre- in weight and were of excellent flavor. sented in the L Wflo races and in the junior barge the fol owh_llg crew will row: T. Fitzpatrick, stroke; Thomas Casserly, afterwaist; Georze Fox, foward- waist; James Foley, bow; George McGrill, coxswain, This crew has just been organ- ized and is made up of crack bicycle riders, who have given up wheeling and taken t‘rdwin 3 The term:linunu will see the fol- lowing plucky crew of the South Ends on the line: Ed Scully, siroke; James Pallas, rwaist; Matt Breen. forwardwaist; d Tobin, bow, and George McGrill cox- swain. This crew defeated Stockton’s crack junior crew at Stockton oun last Fourth of July, ana were defeated by the giant crew of Stockton by only four feet in amile und a half race at El Campo on May 30. * In the senior four-oared barge event, the South Ends will enter their crack senior crew, who have brought a victory to the club in every regatta held during the past' two years, Following is its personnel: Frankj Du- Eli!su, stroke; Gus Carson, afterwaist; ob McArthur, forwardwaist; Henry Bode, bow, and George McGrill, coxswain. Frank Duplissea, who has been rus cating in the country, has returned, and is now training hard for his match with Mec- Causland. He has filled out considerably, and if he wins at Stockton he wilk tackle some of the northern scullers. > The Oldym ic Club has borrowed the South End’s barge Blister, and will enter the following crew on the 9th ‘of Septem- ber: Bob Collins, bow; Paul Sturdivant, forwardwaist; Percy Morse, afterwaist; Jim McElroy; stroke, and Tommy Guil- feather, coxswain. - o . THE ANGLER. Good Bass Fishing In Russian-River. How Streams Are Stocked With Trout. ° : According to the lettérs which have been received at this office from stations’ near the Russian River, black bass fishing affords good. spoit to anglers. % For some strange reason trout and bass fishing at Sart Andreas Lake is very poor. The bass in the lakes of the Spring Valley | .Water® Company ‘are not fit to eat this year,'as they taste strongly of the de: cayed.vegetation, which also gives a very unpleasant flavor to the water. It is said that the company is serious!y thinking of removing the tons of dead weeds and watergrass which line the bottom of San Andreas and Crystal Spring lakes. Bass fishing-is firet clase at Tenner Lake, whic h is located about four miles from , Cisco. ‘Mr. -Finch ¢aught twenty.- two bass'in less than one hour’s fishin on this lake one day last week, and he en- joyed the sport greatly because the fish were caught by means of fly castings. Those which he shipped to his friends jn this City ran from one-half to one pound In a recent report of the Fisa Com:. missiomers relative to the stocking of streams with the fry of cutthroat and rainbow trout, it is stated that Sonoma and Paper-mill -creeks were stocked with sev- eral thousand young cutthroats, If the many other streams which have also been stocked by the Commission *‘pan ous”’ as well as the Sonoma and Paper- mill creeks anglérs need not expect to have much sport in the future, as the scale of a cutthroat has not been taken from either of the streams mentioned this season. 5 Anglers say that it is very doubtful if a cutthroat—that is, under the system of stocking as now employed by the commis- sion—will ever be taken from the creeks within easy reach of this City. It has been learned-that a year or so ago a deputy of the Fish Commission journeyed to a point near the confluence of the Lagunitas rand Paper-mill creeks and dumped a few cans of little fishes into the water where they could be readily devoured by the large trout, native to the stream. This is what the commission cslls ‘“‘stocking” streams, but of course there never was nor will there ever be any favorable results accruing from this crude and wasteful systen of planting young fishes.: The Fish Commissioners of New York State have learned by long experience and careful study that the pianting of trodt fry under a year is a waste of time and expense, but it is presumed that the Cali- fornia Commissioners can give their con- freres of the East a lesson in trout propa- gation, etc. John McDonald of Boca shipped a mag- nificent 624-pound rainbow trout to Henry Skinner of E. T. Allen Company last ‘Wednesday, to which é‘nstice was done by the members of the San Francisco Rod and Gun Club at their quarterly banguet. The fish was pmnonnceg excellent and of splendid flavor. o George Walker, Joseph Kelly and Wil- liam Cooper will shortly leave for a few weeks’ trout-fishing on the Truckee River. The stream is yet too high for good fly- fishing, but is getting into shape rapidly. Charles Green and three companions are now angling for bass at Russian River station. It is said that the bass-fishing near Guerneville is first-class at present. The spoon and minnow are the successful lures. v AR BAY FISHING. ? Where Angiers Can Enloy Good Sport. + Bay fishing has been steadily improving on the north shore of the bay, and good catches of rockcod, tomeod, kingfish and other varieties of the finny trive are daily reported from the principal fishing- groynds. On Tuesday last James Benson, a well- known angler, and two companions canght about seventy pounds of large red rockcod at the Lime Point fog whistle, the largest weighing 41 pounds and five of them over 2 pounds each. On the same day Al Whitney and a friend caught 57 pounds of red and blue rockcod at Point Cavallo, the largest a blue rockcod weighing 3}4 pounds. Several gooa catches bave also been re- orted from California City and Battery oint, on Ancel Island. At the Jatter point Thomas Brown caught last week sev- eral'rockcod weighing over,8 pounds each. Tomcod, kingfish and flounder are daily canght on the fishing-banks extending from the Bausalito ferry-landing to the tidegauge near Yellow Bluffs. On Monday last Fred Brennan and a friend caught over 100 tomcod and king- tish in two hours. ST RS CRICKET CHIRPS. 3 SSS0 s American Players Abroad and Lo~ cal Dolngs. The Haverford boys are having quite a successful tour in England. Of course they have not yet met the first-class pub- lic school teams, with the exception of Eton. This event came off two weeks ago to-day, and, fortunately for Haverford, was 8 one-day match. The American boys scored 152 runs, to which total their star batsmen, Adams and Lester, contributed 61 and 51 re- spectively. Eton got 118 for two wickets, when time was called, making the result adraw. Playing against Clifton, the lat- ter made 400 in the first inning—Stein- thai 216 and Pilkington 113—both not out. The result has not yet reached us. They defeated Charterhouse by a score of 174 to ‘82, Lester making 58 ln({idan-uas. It is only fairto add thatina second inning . w“Good grashus, Rastus, what kind of a reel’s dat?” ° “Why, Geawge, you’se behind de times—dat's a Varginia reel.”— American Field. the defeated team compiled 163 for,one wicket. The M. A. A. C. (Portland) played °the Associated Backs last Saturday and won 22 runs. Charley .Lawrence took "7 wickets for 30 runs. - Through the courtesy of R. H. Dela- fieid, vice-president of the California Cricket Association, I am enabled to pub- lish the following amended by-laws, which were made nedessary by recent.disputes: Amended rules—1. Clubs affilidied with this association cannot play against non-affili- ated clubs without the sanction of the associa- ion. 2, On or before the 13th day of April of each year the secretary of each affiliated ciub shall furnish the secretary of this association with & complete list of the members of his club, and shall further notify the secretary of the 8sso- ciation of the enrollment of each newly elected membérs thereafter. o ks 3. Members of an affiliated club may be members: of all affiliated clubs, but can only play with and for one club during the same year, except as hereinaiter provided. 2 4..0n or _before September 6 any member of an affilia club may, upon fourteen days’ personal notice’ to this association, and: by showing good cause, be rmitted to resign from the club with which he has been playing and join and play with another elub. 5. Any member of an affiliated club who may be in drrears or delinguent in his dyes or assessments to the club of which he has been « member or with which® he has higen playing. cannot play fof anotherclub untilsuch arrears ‘or delinquencies are paid up. Section 6 of the constitution ismade to read: There shall be an executive committee consist- ing of three directors of t&l sociation, who shall hold office for one yer irom the annual meeting or uutil their successors are elected. They shali be elected by a vote of notless than three-fourths of the clubs represented at the meeting. o, z A communication from Captain Robert- son of the Bohemian Olub has: reached me. I regret that lack of-available space prohibits its publication in extenso. It refers to the-comments of the correspond- ent for a° contemporary daily upon last Sunday”s match, whick was alleged to be ‘‘fainted with professionalism” and such like objectionable‘traits. Captain Robert- son in an eight-page epistle indignantly “denies the all tions and defies the alle- gator,” whom by the way he holds up to public scorn and contumely. Alk this kind of thing is sadly amusing, but is it good for cricket ? The matches for to-morrow are Ala- medas vs. Pacifics, at Alameda, and the | Bohemians vs. Californias at Golden Gate. 2 . 0 UMPIRE. HANDBALL. A Serles of Games That Will Be Played- To-Morrow. The following are the games arrgnged by the managers of the professional ball courts for tomorrow. 2 2 At the San Krancisco court: R. Mm;- pby and M. Edwards will play J. Coliins and J. White; P. Hutchinson and P. Kelly,vs. D. Connelly and -J. Lawless; D. Rodgers and P. Ryan vs. M. Mc¢Neil and G. McDonald; J. Feeny ahd G. Hutchinson vs. R. Lenihan and., J. McEvely; J. Riordan, .coast champion, and J. C. Nealon vs. P. Donelly, amateur cha pion, and T. F. Bonnet. 5 At the Union handball court M. Nalty and R. Murphy will play "T. Driscoll and P. Prunty; T. Sullivan and T. Crane will lay P. J. O’Brien and J. Burns; Terry cManus and James O'Donnell will play J. Nelsorr and C. Bradley. The event of the day will be the play of J. X. Feeney and R. Lenihan vs. J. Harlow and M. J, Kil- gallon. —_— Sacramento Sporting News. SACRAMENTO, CAL., July 31.—The success attained at the indoor bicycle tournament in the breaking of world’s records has encour- aged local teleut to make another try, and in consequence & blue-ribbon night will be held | to-night. There is & movement on footto at- tempt to procure a purse during the coming State’ Fair for a race between W.A. Terrill (whose fair riding during the tournament made him & host of friends in this city) and the fastest horse entered. Should the scheme be successful, it is believed that it will be the drawin, rd of the State meet. The Capitol City Wheelmen are practicing a series of drill exercises, and are making great progress. One of the most successful is a movement in'a hollow square. Within a short time the club members will hold & road race for club prizes,and an excursion to Stockton "on the 9th of Augustis on the tapis. Stewart Upson of this city will leave to- row for a bicycie trip over the Sierras to determine the best route to be followed by the riders of the trans-continentsl relay race. He will follow the track of the Central Pacific to Truckee and will them meke a fishing trip through the mountains of the Sierras, return- ingkhy way of Lake Tahoe and Placerville, making a personal observatign of both routes. Local riders are all in favor route, claiming that better tilpe can be made. Upson is a typical sportsman,’ and holds the Pacific Coast records for one-half and one mile bicycle comgemiun, and in 1895 held the world’s record for the quarter, since bested one- fifth of a second. In 1893 he entered in eight- een events and took place in sixteen of them, winning more honors for Sacramento than all other riders put together. He is a cracker- jack at the trap and in the fleld, an enthusi- ast with the rod and high up in.tennis circles. Dr. Huntington, Joe Terry and Wiliiam Ger- ber leave shortly for Wells, Nev., where they will spend two weeks among the prairie chickens. H. Eckhardt and party leave to- morrow for & six, weeks’ camping trip in the Klamath River district. William Willis, sport- ing editor of the Record-Union, leaves on the 1st for Truckee, where he will spend two weeks among the trout. A partly of Sacramentans ‘who went n{a last week report that the fishing in the vicinity of Truckee is not of the best, but their i]1 success is attributed in’part to the heavy rains which they encountered. G. H, Lammers, who has been spending several weeks in Spokane, Wash , staies that the sur- rounding country is a‘veritable sportsman’s peradise. In a day's fishing he took fifty pounds of trout. Prairie chickeus are numer- ous. Lammers saw twenty-four elk in one the Placerville bl&g]. - ve shooting ‘is improving rapidly, birds being more plentiful. 'We‘n’un{ 1'1:1'5 Shaw bagged ninety yesterday; Ely and Knauer sixty. Kimball goes pot-hunting on Sunday. D. R. Camper and G. P. Morse of Chico passed through the city yesterday, re- turning from a six weeks’ bicyele tour thm’ngh the State, They went to Sania Cruz and Mon- terey, returning throvgh Yosemite Valley. ‘They report the roads good in the main, elpe: d:!: lmtri" llh.i; Sl}m Cruz Mountains. . etic club circies report re ‘with several local lpnxrlpong mn&::%:: ‘}n"m':.“' RUTHERFORD, ST S Stockton Sporting News. STOCKTON, CAL., July 29.—That there will be a bench show here during fair week now seems to be an assured fact. This orning H. . Sinclair of San Francisco arrived for the purpose of consulting with the directors of the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Association as to its intentions with reference to holding a show. He was telegraphed for by President Cobb, but the latter wes called nway by this worning’s train and Secretary Doa arrange matters with the do?mln.n Il::.gol':- pany with John E. Doak they visited the on this morning to see what space could ide to bench the high bred canines that are expected to be h President &ew' idea wuutg:f‘fihll el part of the pavilion for th ke ‘he inspection to-day Mvnl;pfll '!::"ubx:s this will haraly give enough room to bench the number of dogs that it is expected will be here and give the visitors to the show enough Toom in the aisles. For tnis reason the entire northern wing of the big building will prob- ably be asked for, and this can be better spared than any other portion of the building. “"Just now the dog-fanciers and kennel-owners of San Francisco and Oakland are looking for- ward to coming here and then going to San Jose, where a bench and poultry show will be held in October. The Stogkton show will be abead of that at San Jose, for it will be held during the week commencing September 20, and will last four days, while the Garden City bench show will not be open until some time in October. The expense of holding the proposed ex hibit of fancy-bred dogs was discussed tbis morning. If it can be arranged to have J. Otis Fefiows act as judge for both Stockton and San Jose he can probably be secured for $150 for each show. Thne total expense of the show cannot be much less than $ ccord- ing to the estimates made this morning. John Heffernan and John E. Doak, both local dog- fangiers, figure the cost at something like 5. As the Agricultural Society is looking at the show from a purely business standpoint it will not be liable to undertake the venture unless it sees its way clear to make something front it. 8 A At the Jowest calculation Sinclair and Doak fl%m‘e that 225 dogs will be in the show. 't is not-proposed to offer any cash prizes for the winners, but to give silver medals 10 wine ners of first prizes and diplomas to winners of seconds. The Spaniel. Fox Terrier and Si. Bernard clubs will without doubt offer special prizes outside of the association, which will be an additional incentive for the owners of vaiuable dogs in these classes to send them to Stockton, - According to Doak there will be seventy:five entries from this city alone. Sinclair says that the members of the vari- ous kennel clubs in San Francisco have been talking for some time of the: prospect of the Kennel Cluly here holding a bench show and have agreed if they can get the aseistance of the local club that they will charter a boat and come up here in & body next September. There wfll&n’oblbly be two special prizes for handlers ot dogs, one of $20 and one of $10, to induce good dog handlers to come here. What the kennel-owners want very much is to establish a circuit, so that there will be a regular route for the dogs to travel each year, The circuit will be San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Stockton snd San Jose in Califor- nia and Portland and Seattle. The Agricultursl Association, 1f it unders takes to_hold the proposede show and others each subsequent vear, will apply atonce for membership in the American Kennel Club, > The Divorce Courts. . John C. Davideon was vesterday granted a divorce from Nellie Davidson because of ‘the latter’s willtul desertion. The parties were married in Ogden, Utah, in July, 1893, and 6ne month later, while on their wedding tour, the bride deserted- her husband in Portland, Or. She remarked as she leit, “The world is broad enough for both of us.”” The saying proved true, for Davidson has mot seen her since. Judge Hebbard granted the decree. Teresa M. McCann obtained a divorce from Alfred E. McCapn on the ground of willfal peglect_on :ne'}nn of the husband. Judge Hicbbard awarded the plaintiff the custody of & 10 per month alimony and $50 Frances Toledo was granted a divorce from M. Toledo. The parties were married tweive Years ago, and the defendant deserted his bride a week after the ceremony. 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