The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1896, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO ‘CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1896. THE SPORTSMAN'S NICHE Latest “Intelligence From the Hunters, Anglers, Athletes and Oarsmen. Weather permitting, thelovers of wheel- ing will be well represented to-morrow on the roads leading into Oakland and Ala- meda. Several runs are announced and doubtless the cyclists will take advantage of the present spell of fine weather to take a constitutional. L Football is booming. Notwithstanding that the beautiful players of Butte gave the Olympic lads a good drubbing yester- day, the home team is sanguine of turn- ing the tables on the invaders New Year's day. Anglers are wondering when they will have an opvortunity to catch some of the steelheads, which are a little behind time this year on their run to spawning- grounds. Good duck-shooting is reported from the Alviso marshes, where birds are very plentiful now. In case the weather re- mains fine sportsmen who fancy quail- shooting should meet with success to- morrow. Lovers of rifle-shooting, hand- ball, coursing and kindred pastimes are having first-class sport. R THE WHEELMEN. Meeting This Evening to Discuss Sunday Racing Leglislation. The race meet at the Velodrome yester- day was the principal important happen- ing in cycling circles this week, besides the appointment of the Associated Cycling Clubs’ committees. There is a meeting to-night, however, which is more impor- tant to the racing branch of the sportthan anything that hasoccurred in a long time. It will be the assemblage of all the League of American Wheelmen officials, racers and all interested in the sport to discuss the proposition of sending delegates to the National Assembly at at Albany, N. Y.,in February, to fight for the passaze of a Sunday racin: law. It is plain that cycle racing in this State can only be made a success when the meets are held on Bundays. Saturday afternoon meets scarcely pay, and there are too few holi- days, and indoor night racing gets monot~ onous. But with outdoor Sunday racing it is expected the sport will draw crowds s milar to those which used to attend the ball games in its paimy days. It is mani. festly to the interest of every racing man, and particularly the professionals, to ai- tend this meeting to-night, and disprove the arucle on the “Ingratitude of Profes- sional Racing Men’’ which recently ap- peared in a local cycling sheet, by showing by their presence that they are at least alive to toheir own needs and are wiiling to'help the local league officials in secar- ing them. The meeting has been called bv Frank H. Kerrigan, chief consul, and Robert M. Welch, memberof the National racing board of the league, and will be beld at the rooms of the Bay City Wheel- men, 441 Golden Gate avenue, at 8 o’clock. J. A. Ostendori, manager of the local Cleveland house, is away ou a_ business trip through the Northwest. Will Knip- penberg of Los Angeles will return home in a tew days. Wilbur F. Knapp is back from his southern trip and reports busi- ness good. The following are the nominations for the officers of the Olympic Cluo Wheel- men, made at the last meeting: President, Charles Albert Adams; vice-president, Douglass White; secretary, H. V. Scott, treasurer, George H. Stratton; captain; H. D. Hadenieidt; executive committee, hn F. McGiynn, Frank W. Fuller, - Thomas Spillane. It did not take Vincent and Kraft, the coast champion amateur tandem team, long to consider and accept the callenge of Smith ana Wing of San Jose, as the fol- lowing reply will show: 8ax FraNcISCO, Dec. 23, 1896. To the Cycling Editor San Francisco Call—DEAR SIE: Replying to the challenge issued by Messre. Smith and Wing of San Jose, who wish to race us as a tandem team, we desire to say that we are willing to race them under the same conditions which governed the Thanks- giving day contest between Messrs. Smith and Hardenbrook and ourselves. As to the date of the proposed contest, we leave it to be decided by Messrs. Smith and Wing. If good weather prevails next week, New Year’s day will suit us, but if the weaiher will not permit of training, the contest can be postponed until such time as the weather con- itions are iavorable. Réspectiuily yours, Svd B. Vincent, Charles Kraft,Bay City Wheelmen. The Reliance Clab Wheelmen of Oak- land heid their annual election last ‘Wednesday evening, with the following result: President, E. B. Jerome; secre- tary-treasurer, O. B. Marston; captain, C. 8. Myrick; first lientenant, B. Neylan; second lieutenant, H. H. Price; racing board, E. Griffith, R. Bain, G. Gross, Tom Cooper, the crack professional, thus estimates bis earnings for the past season: ‘Winnings $1780, salary $3000, tire salary $1200, chain retainer $200, appearance money $500, a grand total of $6680. Cooper’s business previous to going into cvcle racing was clerking in a country general merchandise store, it may be seen that racing with him was a paying invest- ment. There is a new candidate in the field tor president of American Wheelmen. Al- though no overtures have come from the gentleman personaliy, his friends are pushing his canvass, and in case of a dead- lock in the convention between Sterling Elliott and Isaac B. Potter, Charles F. Cossum will doubtiess be made to ascend to the presidency of the big order. Mor- rison is counting on Potter’'s support, and Potter will control fifty-six delegates, which will cut no mean figure when the ballots are cast, It looks now as though Potter and Elliott were cut of the race. The former is bound by a promise to Elli- ott not to oppose him, and Elliott cannot possibly be elected without Potter’s sup- port. Thus the situation stands. New York, Philadelphia and Buffaloare each making a play for the next National meet of the L. A. W. It seems that New York is best aaapted for the meet. Wheei- men can be well entertained at Manhattan Beach, and the “one and only’”’ New York * is but a short distance away. Wheelmen travel far to attend these annual tourneys and feel they should have something out of the ordinary. ‘Were this tourney to hold the boards in New York it would be one of the biggest wheeling demonstrations ever held, Only 1000 visitors were at Louisville during tne memorable week in August last, but it is safe to presume that there would be fully fifiy times that number should New York bandle the annual meet and hold it at Manhattan Beach. Phiiadelvhia will make a good try for it, and Buffalo is sure to be a strong candidate. The Buffalo wheelmen know how toentertain, as many riders have occasion to recall. Toledo, Obio, 15 also in the field. The two principal events to be run at the Velodrome meet on New Year's day swill be a five-mile scratch professional race, run in mile heats, singie paced, the final to be tandem paced, and a one-mile post amateur race. Both shonld be star events, particularly the former. Many will remember the five-mile champion- ship run at 8an Jose Saturday, November 9, 1895, which was won by Charley Mur- phy, with Bald second and Tom Cooper third. It was pronounced the greatest cycling event scen on the coast, and has never been equaled. 1f the race to be run next Friday is well ;;’med it should be egually as interesting, as some of the fast- est professionals in the world are now riding at the Velodrome. Walter Foster will race at Pasadena New Year's day, and expects to retire after that date, as business demands -his attention, McFarland, Welis and one or two other . professionals would like a match race with Foster pefore he retires, and they may be accommodated at the blue-ribbon meet to be heid at the Velo- drome, Saturday, January 9. The Dealers’ Ciub held its annual ban- quet Wednesday evening last. Thomas H. B. Varney was toastmaster, and the others present were: 8. G. Chapman, H. C. Johnson, P. H. Bernays, Edward Christ, W. J. Bryan, John 8. Leavitt and W. J. Bill, representing the principal cycle houses of the City. The trade and the sport in general were discussed at the table, and a very instructive and enjoy- able evening was passed. The Garden City Cyclers’ minstrel en- tertainment will be held Friday evening, January 29. The date heretofore men- tioned was an error. It is reported that Eddie Bald will sign to ride for the same people next year as he did in 1896. He will com.e to California the latter part of Kebruary. Bald has found this a profitable winter season. He laid by $375 daring a week’s racing at New York, evenings, and will probably do as well at Washington. He is said to have cleared $12,500 during the year. Jay Eaton made $450 during the week at Madi- son Square Garden, bringing hisjwinnings for the year up to $5000. This was made for the most part in 1indoor racing. The receipts at the Garden for the week were $37,000 and the expenses hardly one-third of that amount. It was a happy thought which prompted President A. P. Swain of the Calitornia Associated Cycling Clubs to appoint as chairman of the road racing and records committee of the association Charies Al- bert Adams, president of the Olympic Club Wheelmen and the Camera Ciub Cyclists. Mr. Adams has long been prom- inently identified with the sport here, and is looked upon as one of its leaders. The office to which he has been appointed is one that requires considerable executive ability and good judgment, and the gen- eral opinion among the club wheelmen is that President Swain could have made no better selection than he did. Among his club mates in the Olympic and Camera clubs Mr. Adams is very popular, and at at the annual Olympic Wheeimen’s elec- tion next month he is sure of re-election unanimousiy to the presidency. SpALDING, S LS BASEBALL. Santa Claras to Meet the San Fran= cisco Athletic Team. The Santa Clara team will be out in force to do what is expected of them to- morrow at Central Park. Their team is made up exclusively of college boys who have put in much time practicing and who will be 1n first-class condition to give a warm reception to the boys who represent the San Francisco Athletic Club. A few of them played some professional bail last summer, but it was only as a favor to heip out San Jose for a few games. The San Francisco club 1s a little anx- ious aoout it and hope to get one or more thrown out, but when it comes to a “showdown’’ 1t will be found they are nou quitters if they do get the worst of the deal. It has been the hope of those in charge that no professionals would be broughtinto the tournament and that each team would realize that there are lots of good players in their class anxious to and that they wouid take advantage of it. If the San Franciscos put up the game they did last Sunday against the Alerts it is safe to say they will not have the short end of the runs marked uv on the blackboard. Below 1s the line-up: % vhletics. Position. Santa Claras. .Cutche: Pitcher... Laniels. Sheehan Keisso... ‘Right field. At the Presidio Athletic grounds to- morrow noon the Kohlberg, Strauss & Frohman will play the J. J. O’ Briens, and at 2 p. M. the Reports will meet the George H. Tays. - GUN AND GAME. Sea-Brant Shooting In Tomales Bay. Ducks in the Marshes. If the sport on the marshes can be judged from the number of wild ducks that have been seen during the past wcek along the bay shores, hunters must be en- joying first-class shooting. According to statements of sportsmen who returned from Mount Eden and Alviso last Sunday several very good bagsof birds were made, notwithstanding that a very light wind was blowing. January should be the best month of the season for duck-shooting in the marshes that margin the bay. The spoonbills have arrived in good numbers, and they gen- erally take possession of every pond they find in the marshes. Thev are good table birds when they first arrive, but afier a month or so of feeding in the mud, where they shovel up small crabs and shell- fishes, they become coarse and unpalat- able. According to the weather prophet rain is near at hand, and in tbat event the duck- shooters should all score markea success 10-MOrrow. Ed Ladd, the gun merchant, has sunk four or tive casks in Richardsons Bay in the vicinity of the old Sausalito briage. He expects to enjoy exceilent canvasoack shooting from now until the end of the season. The birds fly over the “sink boxes'’ on their journey to and from the feeding grounds. Messrs. Lemamer, Brooks, Johnson, Ven- ker and McRae had 2 most pleasant out- ing near Antioch last Saturday and Sun- day. Brooks shot a salmon *on the jump,” which he presented to John Ber- gez, who in turn will back him to shoot tin cans against Rewmfree, the champion *‘tcan” shooter of Antioch. Al Troman and his brace of pointers, Down Charge and Find Him, visited Tocaioma last Sunday. Truman bageged four quail. He says that he would have bhad a great string of birds oniy for the gun, which was new to him. “It would not shoot as I wanted it to,” said Al when relating his experience to some friends. “You see my gun, which a friend bad in his possession by mistake, is an ejector, and once you become attached to those ejector guns you cannot shont any other kind. I shoot very rapialy, frequently stopping birds five feet irom the ground, and to accomplish this trick long experier.ce, backed up by great nerve power and a gquick and accurate eve, is necessary. I thinkif I had had my ejector 1 would have lowered ‘Papa’ Casey’s’ record of 125 straight.’’ John Kerrigan and W. Lawrence had a fairly good_shool on quail Sunday after- noon near Point’ Reyes. The ground was too wet for the birds, and as a result shoot- ing over points was limited. Billy Kittle bagged twenty-seven Eng- lish snipe and four robins on the Coun- try Ciub's bog. Al Newman, F. Dolliver and D. McRae bagzed about two dozen ducks on the Point Reyes marsh. The birds flew high and wild. 5 Al Wilson and Colonel Cracknell of New York returned from Hamlet, Tomales Bay, last Monday with twenty-nine sea-brant— # most delicious table bird, ' William 8. Simpson, the president of the Jackson Hole Gun Club, who wrote that fully 20,000 elk had come down from the high ranges of the Shoshone Mount- ains to the winter feeding grounds, add. in a later letter that the antelope are so pleniiful in places and so tame, owing to their protection from pothunters, that they act more like sheep than wiid ani- mals. The early snows in the higher 7 ek GAPT L W SYMMES. Two Prominent Members of the J.B.XELLER. Never-Defeated Y. M. C. A, Coast Championship Lightweight Team. and the citizens of that region, under the chaperonage of the Jackson Hole Gun Club, are preparing to scatter them in or- der that all may have plenty of feed. The vandalism that has been detected in the Big Horn Range has suddenly ceased through citizens postine notices that cul- prits caught would be hanged. ‘Twenty thousand elk are down on the winter range, from 5000 to 7000 more than 1n 1894 and 1895, showing under vresent statutes for game protection an un- usuaily large increase. - Efforts will prob- ably be made to move a part of the larze band toward the lower end of the valley, this move having been made necessary by so large a number coming down from thirty to fiity days earlier than usual. The early and deep snows caused all game to leave the mountains. The past season hasshown that officers have been able to cope with the law-breakers with few ex- ceptions. Table Showing Receipt of Game Birds in San Franeisco and Los Angeles Mar- kets, by Months, and Giving Value of Each Varicty, for Season of 1895-96. 2 = g| & 3 g gl 2 ] = bl - A : R ] ; i - - 2 s | g2 E E||Ela] rem | 23 2 | 71515 uae.| BE 2 i o| 5| 58%2a H i |21 8135888 [ g - ¥ li=la £ g Z g2 = P Ll @ g E o £| 80282 * |28 2 gl &kl ZeEss 22 » s lle @ = selistali il = |3 $5 (/8|5 wosEn| o| oume| B 2| Eigea 12| 2| aSabe| | g 2 zlElaa%e| 7 l=| 8| SEEES % » » = © 2| ® g ° Ele €| 8| onl5a) 2 =) |18 21 22238] F a| & =| &l 255k 202 &l 51 RE32% | 2 - | N 3 | = a gie &l B sekoom & “le 2| J=ves 2 «| B | 8| 3BZBS| ¢ &2 21 EIS3258] ¢ 2! o - il sl R £8 =l 5% F2 a3 5 gl g - I zil] b o 12| ses s izl =y 2] 28| 828, | & llg|3l L 215 22280 3 | = - - : = ] |88 Elwj = 22 IS Sle| misme G w| 2 3| 5| 4588 glal 3l S| 38ER2 | | | = -4 lel - = g2 e gs Sl ®le 3 o sle Slelas b l = - L 5 g gz LY 28 2 2|2 BS Sl - o s el € et 7 éls 8 = » 3 g |l» £% Sl B liz 8 g% 1 £8 kS 3|l H gltl 5113 1 P ®» o2 2 ;e ] | E |E|e B3 £ Sl 2 g |l 5z Sl e Sallatiols s 2 2|8 zgzee| ° |lg]2]i e ® HEIEH g5l 3%ea -1 ) Y -] - 3 =l o = 2 i g |53 e520e] s i 8 ||3|%] Sxnnn| B s POB ||2| | 83aEe g i &l & 23385 5 - i3 Salle g H E2 18| mmm | 2 g ge (13| 2] uthe] § = =115 8| BaEss g 218/ 8z85 g THE ANGLER. Rivers That Are Rapidly Getting Into Condition for Fishing. Angling for steelheads is now in order. The sport should be good up to the time of the opening of the trout-fishing season, which is April 1. Last Sunday there were many fishermen at Point Reyes, but the fishes that they longed for never came. The water was very cloudy and as a con- sequence the salmon roeists retired disap- pointed and disgusted. January and Febrnary are always the star months of the year at Point Reyes and Duncan’s Mills and if the weather is not “too moist” anglers can safely count upon having some good sport steeihead- ing. The only gentleman who held the lucky wand last Sunday was Colonel Cooper of 1he postottice. He caught two nice fish that scaled respectively two pounds and half a pound. The Sunday fishermen who landed more water than fishes were George Walker, Frank and George McGreggor, Steve Rior- dan, Louis Rondeau, Chaplain Terry, P. Dugan, Judge Evans, frank Jones, Billy Edwards, John Nolan and F, Cohen. Oito Bransdorff and his dog Dickey were the observed of all observers. Brans- dorif shoots small dirds with a parlor rifle, and an angier who was fishing stated that a bullet from Bransdorff’s little gun hit bis rod close to the butt. The marksman wili be asked to keep a respectable dis- tance from the river in the future, which request he will doubtiess grant the lovers of angling, as he is a most obliging fellow. At Larkspur Senator Sid Hall caught a three-pound _steelhead. Louis iller, “Rod’”’ McMillan, Billy Shad, Sergeant Shields and Corporal Parrott fished on the east side of the “Bath House,” but failed to connect with a fish of larger propor- tions than *‘a cat’”’ They will try their luck again, however. Bill Cooney was prospecting for steel- heads in the Novato slough, uear Ferris’ resizence, and meeting with nc encour- agement, he sought a mushroom field and rexur‘nad home with a beautiful basket of fungi. Charley Green, Diver . John Butler, Jones and Morehouse are getting resdy for a trip to Duncan’s Mills. John Galla- gher, the champion angler of Oakland, will leave for Russian River to-day, and if there are any fish loafing in the deep pools Galiagher will cause them to ‘‘get a move on,” as he thoroughly understands the ‘kin;ck of catching the gamest of game ishes. Professor Jordan of the Stanford Uni- ranges forced the elk to come to winter ! versity, who is the acknowledged au- ranges full six weeks earlier than usual, l thority of tais country on questions that pertain to fishes, has been frequently asked whether a steelhead is a salmon or a trout. The learned gentleman re- plied to one of the questions as follows: “What are steelheads?’ In the lower Co- lumbis, in the spring. there is found along with the salmon a large salmon-like fish which is, or nsed to be, and ought io be rejected by the canners, and to which the Astoria fisher- men give the name of “"steelhead.” This fish, £8 seen at Astoria, usually weighs from ten to fifteen pounds. Iis flesn is pale and its bones are hard. Its general appearance is that of & lean spent fish, and it is commonly regarded as worthless. Although a genuine trout it is Usually mistaken for a salmon, because it is larger than most of the kinds of salmon, ex- cept the king salmon or quinnat. Itissupposed that these steelheads in the Columbia do not ascend the river far nor do they go far out into the ses,and it is not un- likely that when the salmon go up in the spring to make ready for spawning in the fall they meet the stcellieads on the return from their own winter spawning. For a long time no young steelheads were received by the Uuited Stutes Fish Commis- sion, and 1t was doubted whether there cver were any. In other words it was a question whether the sieeihead was really a distinct kind of fisk, or whether it is simply a brook trout or rainbow trout, wkich had descended to the sea, and taken on an increased growth and correspondingly aifferent habit. Young steelheads have of late years been taken in the streams near the sea. They are sufficiently like their parents, and differ in color and form from the genuine rainoow trout (S8almo irideus). It is nevertheless true that while other kinds of trout and the five different kinds of Pacific Ocean salmon are distinguished one from another by positive anatomical characters no such difference has yet been found to separate tne rainbow trout irom the steelhead. Their finrays, bones, scales and teeth are absolutely alike, and nothing except form, size and coloration re- main to separate them. Jf any one expresses his belief that the steelhead is & sea-run rain- bow or brook trout I know no way 10 convince him of his erior. cqual that he is correct. The matter is one which Dr. Gilbert and I hope some time to clear up. As the typical reinbow trout we may take the black-spotted trout found in Me- Cloud River and streams about Mount Shasta. As the typical steeihead 1 take that found in the lower Columbia. The little trout in the Cosst Range have been regarded as rainbow u-mhz, but they may prove io be young steel- head. As to the scientific name of the steelherds your correspondent objects to the name Salmo gairdneri and asks wio is Gairdner and who Richardson, who gave the trout the name of gairdneri? In 1836 John Richardson of London finished his explorations oi Arctic America and pub- lished his splendid ‘Fauna Bareali Ameri- cana,” in which is given descriptions and fig- ures of all thesnimals he found. Dr. Gairdner, & physician, then living in_Astoris, grohflhly in the employ of the fur compeny, first dis covered the steelhead and sent it witn & lot of other salmon and trout to Richardson. Even if California and Oregon have forgotte: Gairduer he is well entitled to whatever honor the name of the steelhead gives him. Why are the steelhead troutand not salmon? There five species of trout in the Pacific Ocean. They are migratory fishes, like the Atiantic salmon, but they differ from the lat- ter and from all the trout in having a greater number of rays in the anal fin, fitteen to eighteen insiéad of 1en or eleven, a greater number of interb@mal bones (boues at the base of the rays of the anal), a greater number of gill-rakers, of branchiostegal rays and of pvioric glands on the stomach. In short, the Pacific salmon are built on a much more lib- | eral pian, with wmore of all organs in which j the number can be increased. The salmon iive in the sea, spawn in the fall, ascend streams from March up to the spawnilig time; the males grow greatly distorted as spawning time approaches, and the great majority die after spawning. The trout life more easily, and spend most of their lives, or all of it, in 1resh water. The Atlantic salmon is not found in the Pa- cific. it has the anatomy of a trout and the } habits of the Pacific salmon. It, however, | differs from the trout in shedding the teeih on the roof of the mouth, which all the trout nat- urally keep. What is a salmon trout? In Eng- land there is a large trout (Salmo trutta) which 1ives in the river mouths as the steelhead does here. Itisatroutwith some saimon charac- teristics. Itismnotfound in America, but the steelhead resembles it. The name (saimon trout) is used 1n America for big trout and lit- tle salmon so indiscriminateily that whena man speaks of “salmon trout” we never know what he means. Are any of these fish hybrias? I have seen hybrid trout made by artificial fecundation. 1 have not seen yet a hybrid fish of any kind in Pacific waters. It is saie to say thatno kind of fish which is common anywhere is ever a hybrid. What kinds of salmon are there? The five kinds of Pacific Coast salmon are easily recog- nized, although each one goes vhrough many stages of growth in the course of its life, and in all the males are nook-jawed in the fall, while the {onng fish aud the females remain symmetrical. These kinds are: First the king salmon or quinnat, the largest and most valuable and the only one usually seen in Cal- ifornia. Second—The blue-back saimon or redfish, smailer and prettier and more com- mon in Alaska. These two run chiefly in the spring, the other three in the fall. Third—The silver salmon, the smallest kind. Fourth— The dog salmon. Fifth—The hump-backed selmon. Fishermen use these names care- lessly, often calling oid males “dog salmon” and all young saimon “silyer salmou.” What kinds of trout exist in California? In England the name trout is given only to the large-scaled, black-spotted, fresh-water, or artly migratory species. Trout thus defined o not exist in America east of the Rocky Mountains, the smail-scaled red-spotted or white-spotted species found in our Eastern streams being called in Europe ‘charr” or “salbling.” Of true trout California has: Firsi—The rainbow trout, or Californla brook trout (Salmo frideus), found from Oregon as far as San Luls Rey, Second—The steelhead (Salmo gairdner), in coastwise sireams, ana rerlnpn amodified ralnbow trout overgrown rom its salt-water diet. Third—Red-throator “cut-throat’’ trout (Saimo mykiss). This hasa larger mouth, much smailer scales and a deeper dash ot scarlet under the throat. This is found from the north side of Shasta as far &8 Kamtschatka. It is not common in Cali- fornia. The Tahoe trout Is a land-locked form of the same fish. It is black-spotied on the beily as well ason the back. It is found in Feather River and oiher tributaries of the Sacramento, a8 well as in Lake Tahoe. Ido notknow what other lakes and streams contain it, but I pre- sume that it will prove to be the prevaiiing trout of Lassen and Modoc counties. It is named for its discoverer, Salmo mykiss hen- shawl. It is not regurded as a distinct species, because it varies by degrees into the mykiss, ‘which 1s the common brook troutof Oregon. Iv.l:s not a hybrid, simpiy & race or tribe of the other. Has California clarrs also? One species, the finest of all the trout tribe in the State, is found in tributaries of the Sacramento and on north into Siberia. This is the “Dolly Var- den trout” (Salvelivus malma), smali-scaled and red-spotted, a fish very similar to the brook trout of New England, or the *saibling” or “‘Ombre chevalier” of Europe. Is there any easy wey to tell one kind of trout from another? No. The study of the kinds of trout is one of the hardest in all nat- ural history. “ Is there any easy way of teiling a trout from a salmon? Yes. Any one who can count can do it if he will take the pains to find out how. —_—— Y. M. C. A. and Cogswell to Meet. This afternoon at 3 o’clock the never- defeated Y. M. C. A. coast champion lightweight team will face the Cogsweil College football team on the Central Park gridiron to decide which can play the better football, their previous meeting several weeks ago having resulted in a tie. That ame was played in a heavy rain and on a muddy field. Defeat means a good deal to the little lightweight team, for it has a clean rec- ord for the whole three !nnr- it has been in exisience. It will go into the game to- The chances are at least day considerably weakened by the recent loss of several of its stand-by. }luuycn. Specht, the star right end, is laid up with an injured shoulder. Keller, the left end, bas a sprained ankle, but will pluckily play anyway. Davidson, the left half, is absent from the City. Hewison, the team’s crack bucking fullback, has been forbidden by his parents to play football again. The Christian Association is na- turally very much handicapped by the loss of these men and furthermore is hand- icapped by the superior weightof the Cogswell team. 8till it trusts to its su- perior team work, quickness and skill to win the game, and if it must lose it will do s0 in a hard struggle. Followingin the iine-up of the two teams: C. Thompson. Lamont, Chase Ea THE RING. Olympic Club Wil Tournament Decisions. The Olympic Club directors will meet Inquire Into on Tuesday afternoon. Apart from the regular business of the session affidavits from Phil Wand and Alexander Ros- borough, who were judges of the laie tournament, will be read. As stated in yesterday's CALL, it 1s quite probable that the directors will decide upon giving Egan, the boxer who was defeated,accord- ing to George Green’s decision, by Hayes, a handsome prize. Phil Wand and Alex- ander Rosborough were the judges se- lected. Wand decided in favor of Egan and Rosborough decided upon an extra round, which, under the amateur rules, is not allowed. Green, the referee, instead of calling the match a draw, as he should properiy have done, deliberately decided in favor of Hayes, the contestant, who scored a lead only 1n the last round, Egan having bad the best of the first, second and third rounds. It has been suggested that in future boxing contests the club select a referee from some of the outside clubs, who will not show any partiality. g The sports of this City were not in the least surprisea when the news that Peter Maher had put Steve O’Donnell to sleep in short order arrived. O’Donnell has never been recognized as a successful pugilist, but as a boxer he ranks among the clever men of the land. Maher’s “hoodoo” must have left him, as recently he has been successful in his engage- ments. A match between Peter and Sharkey shonld prove interesting for a short pe- riod. The contest would not last long, as Maher would certainly put it onto Tromas the first opening that would be offered to him for a knockout. Sharkey will never consent to a meeting with Maher. Y It will be interesting to know what Fitz- simmons will say to Dan Stuart when they meet in the KEast relative to tbat much-talked-of finish fight. Corbett has signed articles and there is hardly a doubt that Fitz wiil refuse to attach his signa- ture to the document. There are, however, hundreds of people who will wager money now that the fight will never take place uniess it is decided under the auspices of some popular ath- letic club. The result of the Fitzsimmons and Sharkey mill has paralyzed professional boxing in this City, and it is doubtiul if any contest worthy of note will be **pulted off’” by any of the professional clubs for some time. It seems as if the club man- agers are never satisfied to let well enough alone. : Tom Sharkey, the sailor pucilist, is a fortuuate feliow so far as money-making is concerned. Thomas says that he never met a man, excepting Fitzsimmons, who gave him a hard rub, but according to the following excerpt from the Phiiadelphia Item Sharkey met hismatch in Honolulu. This is how the story is told: Tt was in Honolulu during the early partof | 1894. Sharkey was then on the Phlindelphia aud was the pet of the crew, Willlams, a tall, lanky, but superbly built specimen of the Englishman, was & member of thecrew of the Nymph, then in Honolulu harbor. The fight came offsoon atter the trouble in the Hawaiian Islands, caused by the dethrone- ment of Queen Liliuokalani, when the feeling beiween Americans and the English was quite bitter. Consequently, when the fight was arranged, each side was determined to win, and both men went into training in earnest. When the night of the ficht came the hail in which it was held was crowded with sailors, no outsiders bemg admitted, except the local newspaper men aud a few residents of sport- ing proclivities. When the men en tered the ringit looked as though the Kuglishman had all the best of it. Sharkey had a magnificent physique, but so had his opponent, and the advan(age of the iatter in height and rench was as apparent as that of Fitzsimmons over the sailor. Shar- key, however, was broader &cross tue shoul- ders, and looked as though he could stand more punisnment than could the Englishman. As soon as the fight began it was evident that the men were closely matched. Sharkey dia not have any reputation then outside of the navy, but in that he was noted for his bull- dog conrage and his ability to stand punish- ment. The spectators e violent partisans, and whenever Sharkey landed on the English- | man the Americans would howl with deligit, | while the Englishmen preserved a dogge: lence. The next moment this would be re- versed. Williams would reach Sharkey, and the Englishmen go wild with enthusiasm. Severul times a free fignt between the Lwo fac- 1jons was imminent, but was arrested by the desire to see the finish. Round after round was fought, and neither mun had any advantage. By the time the fif- teenth round was reached both principals were groggy, and it began to look like a sure draw. Both men were dead game, and neitner would give up. At theend of the sixteenth round the referee suggested that the fight be declared a draw, and both men turned on him with a snarl announced their intention of staying until one or the other wasout. For four more rounds they fought and at the end oi the twentieth neither man could strike a blow that would injure a 10-year-old boy. Their fatigue was so great that they were hardly able to rise from their chairs without assistance. In the twenty-first Sharkey cuught the Englishman a feeble biow on the jaw and knocked him down, but the effort was 5o great. that he himself fell. They sat on the floorand glared at each other, but neither was able to rise, and the fight was declared & draw. Both men were cruelly punished, their faces and bodies streaming with blood. Arrangements were made at once for a re- turn match, but the English ship left two weeks later, and the men never met again. — e HANDBALL. Games Played Yesterday In the San Francisco Court. Quite a large gathering of the admirers of handball witnessed several games played yesterday afternoon at the San Francisco bail court. The result is as fol- lows: P. Barrett and J. O’Leary defeated Hugh Moffitt and J. Brannock; score: 21—14, 18— 21, 21—20. D. Rodgers and P. Ryan defeated M. McNeil ana G. McDonald; score: 21—16, 18—21, 21—19. E. Foy and M. Edwards de- ieated M. McClure and W. Hamiiton. R. Murphy and J. White defeated J. Collins and W. Stansbury; score: 21—12, 15—21, 21—18. J. 0. Nealon and P. Donnelly defeated J. La nd J. Harlow; score: 21—14, 15—21, 9. J. Riordan, coast champion, and J. C. Nealon defeated P. Donnelly aud R. Linehan; score; 21—15, 17—21, 21—20. The programme arranged by Phil' Ryan for to-day is as follows: P. Hutchinson and W. Kelly vs. P, Kelly and D. Connelly ; J. White and J. Collins vs. R. Mur- &hy and E. Toy; M. Edwards and E. Curley vs. P Hamilton and M. McClure: M. McNeil a; R; vs. D. gers and anion; C. Pious and J. Kearney vs. G. McDonald and L. Corraine; J. C. Nealon and T. F. Bonnet vs. P, Donnelly and M. J. Kilgallon. Beveral games were played at the Union Handball Court yesterday, but no scores were kept. For SBunday a nice programme has been arranged, several well-known players being among the list of contest- ants. The court has been thoroughly E-mnd and renovated and everything now in -shipshape condition. The new management is determined to make the court as populiar as ever e BOATING. South Ends Elect Officers—Negoti- ating for a New Barge. The South End Rowing Club mat last Tuesday evening and elected the follow- ing -named as officers: President, Ed- ward Scully; vice-president, John G. Ma- honey; financial secretary, Matt Breen; treasurer, Joseph O’Dea; captain, Wil- liam Thomas; vice-captain, Frgnk Duplissea; board of trustees—A. Meility, Herbert Hawkins, George Fox, Joseph Foley and Frank Tobin; delegate to the P. A. A., Ed Shortall. President Scully is now negotiating with Al Rodgers for the construction of a new barge. Mr., Rodgers has prevared three models which he will soon snbmit to the club for approval, and which he claims will outclass the new Stockton barge. The club is also fitting up one _ol the best gymnasiums on the bay, having al- ready purchased a rowing-machine, unching-bag, wrist-machine and wres ing mat. The senior and junior crews have com- menced training for the carnival regatta. The club now has about ten junior skiff men, who are willing to row in the next regatta, and irom now on the club will have try-out races, in order to determine who wiil represent the club in the Golden Gate Carnival regatia. Among the eli- 10 are the following: Ed Shortall, att Breen, George Bates, F. J. Fitz- patrick, James Pallas and Al Fritz. THEIR PLACE OF DEBATE, Agreement Between Stanford and the U. C. Will Expire Next Month. Stanford Wants to Speak in San J se Part of the Time, but the Berkeleyans Obj:ct. Between the orators of the University of California and the Stanford University there is & radical difference of opinion upon a topic of considerable interest to them. The old agreement between the two universities concerning the inter- collegiate debates, as they are called, will expire by limitadon next month. The belief is quite common ihat when a new agreement is in process of formation Stanford will insist on some new condi- tions. Students at Berkeley have been In- formed that Stanford isof the opinion that hereafter some of the debates should be held at San Jose, alternating with San Francisco. The ground for the opinion is that the intluence of the University of California 1s very strong in San Francisco and, while this does notimply that judzes selected in San Francisco would decids otherwise than according to the merits of the debate, the advantage of having an entirely friendly audience is worth con- sidering. The warmth of such an an- dience wards off any frostiness which might be felt by the orators. The Berkeley students prefer to have the debates take place in S8an Francisco as heretofore. They say that there is a strong Stanford contingent in San Fran- cisco, buc that there is hardly any foliow- ing, comparatively speaking, of the Uni- versity of California at San Jose. Pro- pinquity causes local enthusiasm, and Stanford is very near to San Jose. The Stanford paper, the Palo Alto, has uttered some criticisms concerning cer- tain judges of oratory who have served in the intercollegiate debates in this City ae- eciding concerning the relative oratorical merits of the two institutions of learning and has galled Berkleyans a little by in- vimating that “the parting of the hair” has influenced some who have sat to award the victory. ’ During this controversarv, which is liable to be under full headway next month, the public will have a chance to judge of the power of the disputants in a matter which congerns themseives. Very ligely some budding attorneys will first recommend their abilities to their friends in this way and latent talents will be stimulated in & verbal war. One feature of the controversy is the claim of the Berkelevans that they have, by consenting to hold the debates on the evenings of the annual intercollegiate field days in this City, eiven the Stanford students a chance to be fully represented, for all Stanford is in town that nigut. More than this, it is urged at Berkeley that really the selection of these dates has been a disadvantage to the Berkeley orators, whose attention is much engaged about the time of the intercollegiate field days in the work attendant upon exam- inations, in which Stanford has a gain. The orators will argue this matter out and much eloquence will be exhibited. —————— Gift of a Battle-Ship. The gift of the State of Massachusetts to the battle-ship which bears her name is not the familiar silver service, but a bronze statue of Victory, six feet high and holding a sword in both hands. The statue has been affixed to the forward turret, where it will be conspicuous. Some naval officers are of the opinion thata silver service is a handier remembrance to bave aboard a warship than a bronze image. The position of the statue is ques- tioned also, and it is not unanimously conceded that the turret forms a sunitable pedestal for it. Naval Constrnctor Bowles approves both the statue and’its setting, and makes the very apposite point that the statue, placed as it is, will always be in view of the crew, whereas a silver service would not. No life-preserver or defensive armor has been prepared for the Victory. It is intended that she shail take the chances of battle and marine mishap and go with the ship.—Harper's Weekly. CHRISTMAS DINNER How the Volunteers of America Provide for Ex-Prisoners. A Cheery Place Painted White That They May Call Their Own Home. Helping Hand Extended to a Goodly Number Already Since the Opening. The headquarters officers of the Volun- teers of America took their Christmas dinner yesterday in Hope Hall. Withthe officers were five of the tenants or bene- ficiaries of Hope Hall. Two of these latter were regulsr tenants — new men from prison who have not yet been provided with occupations in the world whereby they may begin life again. The other three were visitors—men who had come to the hall from prison, remained long enough to feel the full strength of its beneficent influence and had left it to take a place in the work of the world again. “These men who have been to Hope Hall seem to look upon it afterward as their home ; they love it, and come even from distances to visit it and us,’’ said Captain F. M. Brundage, in charge of the help and reformation department of the Volunteers. *‘Hope Hall,”” he continued, *has become an institution, althov-h it has only been in existence since the i.tter part of October. Ii has been the tem- porary home of and given the first help- ing nand to eighteen State prisoners as they came from San Quentin or Folsom. “Qf those eighteen out one has raturned to the bad entirely. Two others are not behaving as well as we might wish, but the other fifieen out of eighteen have to far given every sign of reformation, and some of them I would not hesilate so recommend for places of trust, for they have been tried and proven the good stuif that is in them. “Hope Hall 1s an idea of Ballington Booth’s. and has long been an institution of great good in New York. It was in- auguraied here upon the occasion of Mrs. Booth’s visit last fall.” The hall covers the top floor of the Volunteers’ headquarters building on Sutter street. It is clean and bright and provides accommodations ‘or ten men. There is a bedroom, a diring-room, a reading or sitting-rocm and a kiwchen. All of them are painted white, from end to end and all over, giving the appearance of great cheertulness. The men are ex- pected to keep the place clean and per- { torm the other neces-ary work incident | tnereto. Men are there at liberty 10 come and go as tbey piease. They are not re- quired to attend the religious meetings neld nightly in the hall below, unless they desire. They are required to be within doors at 6 o’clock and tights go out at 10. “The place 1s not open to the inspection of the curious,” said Captain Brundage. ““Were it so, there would be a constant rua of the merely simpering senti- mentalists offering sympathy and doing barm generally. The men are allowed to remain here iree of charge so long as they obey the simpie rules, until they secure work, or we.secure it-for them. They zre not required to take any kind of work ofs fered, either. There are some people in this world who are cavable of taking ad- vantage of a place like tnis to get very ugly and hard work done for little or noth- ing. Some such have been here and some of the men have gone out and done the work steadily und uncomplainingly in their effort to get a start again. We stand between them and such imposition, how- ever. “There is ample encouragement for prosecuting this work,” continued the captain, “In the first place, a man would not come here who did not wish to be helped. The others have their $5 when released ana make a line for Barbary Coast or Chinatown. Those who come here are different and we wish to help them.” A benefit concert will be given for the benefit of Hope Hall on Tuesday evening next, at the Volunteers’ Hall on Sutter street, by the Herman Brandt Amateur Orchestra, New Medium of Exchange. An American traveler in the island of Papua says: “The basis of exchange is arrack (Java rum), one-half gallon of which is reckoned equal to one day’s work at fishing or ratian-cutting. No money is used. When this nectar of the Papuan enters a home every occupation is dropved, and the family devotes all its at- tention with enthusiastic energy to its consumption. “Their efforts never flag while the rum lasts or strength remains. The resulting stupefaciion lasts for days, but on recov- ery the family cheerfully proceeds by per- severing industry to acquire the means of procuring more. Arrack is without a rival the most villainous intoxicant known, and 1ts only competitor in the affections of the Papuan is roast wild vig. Together they are simply irresis ible.”” —_———— A new instrument, called the phonendo- scope, enables the skillful medical man to hear the sounds emitted by all the organs in the human body; the beart, the lungs, the hver, etc., and discover if they are in a healthy condition, or otherwise. Fillers \ TO-DAY- Makes a Cripple Walk. Dr. Sanden’s Electric Belt Adds Another Case to Its List of Wonderful Cures—It Cures Paralysis in Four Weeks. 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