The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1897, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1897. THE WORLD OF SPORT, What the Wheelmen, Athletes, Oarsmen, Coursers and Sportsmen Are Doing. The event of greatest import in sporting at present is the charity football game which will be played at Central Park to- day, between the Army and Navy and ) Club teams. | eball is taking rapid strides toward | prosperity. The amateur clubs are play- ing good ball and the lovers of I!le Na. tional sport are showing a strong disposi- tion to support the game. B jed temporarily. Except- the Olympic Club, it is douttful if v of the professionel clubs will manage a mi!l’” for some months to come. The sportsmen and anglers are enjoying tolerably good shooting and fishing. Lovers of the dog are interested in hench sho nd field trials. The cours- ers, rifl oters and oarsmen are having good sport in their respective lines. THE WHEELMEN. Likelihood That the Sunday Racing | Amendment Will Be Accepted. | The benefit race meet of the North Cali- | nia Division, League of American Wheel- men, to be held at the Velodrome next | Saturda fternoon, is the prine now being discussed by the cyclers. | mme is admitted to be the best ever | here new features a | cing is bu in | lued and as valiantly con- | tested for as any more intrinsically valu- | able one could be. T demand for box seats, which contain five | chairs and are sola for $5. Frank W. | ler of the Olympic Club Wheelmen | secured first choice and selected one near the tape, and many others have heen sold in other favorable positions. The Bay City Wheelmen are out with a bid for fifty seats in one biock, d the Olymnpic | and Acme Club wheelmen have arranged for-fiity more apiece, so it will be seen the neat 1s not lacking for patronage from the | orgarized cyclgrs. From far away San | Jose the Garaen City Cyclers have sent word to save them some room, and in | this connection an effort is being made to bave Otto Ziegler, who is now at hix home there, ride in competition or an exhibi- ion at the meet. rposes to wl the money raised erican W heelmen at devoted are to defray | s from the N to the Na this meet the expeases of California Divisi of the leasu N. Y., February 1 10 secure the pass be presented to nia providing for t portation companies bagga e. Thus it will objects are worthy he ¢ be seen that the he support of every wheelman, and each owes it to himself and to the league to attend the benefit meet next Saturday, and thereby lend his assistance o the ne Admission will be , reserved seats 50 cents, the latter to be had at Sher- man & Clay’s next Wednesday and there- after. officials who have heen honored by | intment to serve at this meet are as George H. i . d, David Marshall; Ja e Garden City Cycler hoid a meet on th oceed. to go toward | of their delegates, J. 1g the e3 xander and Tompkins, to the ational Assembly ler w appear at this meet, besides fessionals now in drome. It looks a3 though the next president of the L. A. W. would be Isaac B. Potter, now chief consul of the New York Divi- sion; and, would you believe it, thers said to be a movement to oust Secretary- | 11 the vro- | raining at the Velo- Treasurer Abbott Bassett of Boston, who has held that position -since when the mind of man remexnbers not, and elect W. S. Bull, now secretary-treasurer of New York. The latter division, with its fifty- two votes, evidently hopes to secure the entire pudding, and Is being aided and | abetted by Pennsylvania, in return for New York's support of Philadelphia for the annual league meet in 1897, The California delegation will have much to ruminate over when it gets back East. Besides the presidential aspirations of Potter, Eiliott, Cossum, Morris and others—the leacue-meet question, admit- ting of professionals to membership, ad- mitting of colored people to membership and changes in the racing rules—there will be their own special charge, the sanctioning of Sunday racing by divi- sional optio n. They will also have to take in the New York cycle show. They will be too busy to ha¥e time to feel the icy A progressive euchre party will be held at the clubrooms of the Bay City Wheel- men tais evening. 'Dr. J. F. Twist is to preside over the refreshments, the bever- age de resistance of which is to be choco- late a la Espangol. 1t is understooa that there will be few important changes in the general mechan- ism o7 the '97 models. Perhaps one of the most radical changes will be the D-shaped tobing, to be seen in several makes. That “D” tubing wili give additional rigidity and comeliness to the structural conform- ation of the bicycle, is admitted by all ex- perts who have given the matter thought. One of the largest bicycle firms in the East is considering u plan to furnish new pacing arrangements for the racing men during the season of 1897. While the in- tention of the firm at present is not to hire any racing men, it will put pacing teams in the field. They will use triplets almost exclusively for pacing, believing that more satisfactory work can be done with them than with™ either tandems or quads. The Reliance Club Wheelmen of Oak- land held their annual banqaet last Tues- dav evening, at which the newly elected officers were installed, About seventy- fiye sat down at the festal board'and dis- cussed an excellent Jsupper andjincident- ally all things concerning the club and cycling in general. The East Oakland Wheelmen will hold 4n entertainment and dance Friday even- ing, January 22, at Washington Hall. One of the events of the evening will be a [ORLANDO L. STEVENS cf Ottumwa, Iowa, the Crack Profcssipnzl Now at the Velodrome. blasts of Eastern winter weather. From all reports it seems likely thut the Sund s racing amendment will pass if energeti ally presented to the delegates by u few cheerful workers like Judge Kerrigan, Mr. | Welch and their confreres. There are over 70,000,000 peovle in the United States. About 3,000,000 ride wheels—one in twenty-four, a tremendous percentage. One in ten wiil be about the limit. In France it is one in 250. ELSTON, CALIFORNIA’S NEW BASEBALL CAPTAIN. Captain Charles A. Elston of the Berkeley nine hails from Woodland, Yolo County, where he played on the town team as well as w ith the Hesperian College nine. He is now in his senior year and has played throughout his college course, having been catcher during his sreshman and sophomore years, and second baseman in his junior year, which position he will hold during the coming season. In last year's series of games he was easily reck- oned as one of the best piayers on the team. Elston is something of field athlete as well as a baseball crack. In his first two years at coliege he participated in several field days and won five medals for his successful work.” When pole-vaulting for distance was a regu- lar field day event Eiston entered regularly an that event was recognized he took second Elston also did creditable work in the d in the last field day at Berkeley in which place against the invineible “Brick” Morse. ad and the high jumps. He is & prominent mem- ber of the local chapter of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, as well as a member of the univer- sity glee and mandolin clubs which are on & concert tour in the southern part of the State at the present time. At the last meeting of the board of directors of the daily Berkeleyan he was elected editor-in-chief of that paper for the coming term. The prospects for & good baseball texm at Berkeley this season though not brilliant are good. Many of the ola players will be on hand to try for their former positions on the team. It is understood thatan eficient coach will be employed to instruct the layers. This will be an innovation in baseball sport at the University of California. But Stanford has already, following the custom it established last season, secured a star professional Eastern baseball pleyer in the person of “Bill” Lange, who coached the team for & few weeks only during the season of '96. Berkeley’s prospective coach, it is hinted, i s none other than Joe Corbett, brother of the s pugilist. Corbett has been known about the bay for several years as a promising bail player and recently has come prominently to the front as an amateur pitcher. The necessity for a coach seems obvious to the California men particuiarly now that & hendsome tropby is up for the victorious university team. 1t is further emphasized by the recent assertion of the Stanford basebail mans; pects are the brightest 1n her history, ger that Stanford’s present baseball pros- | and Memphis ra-e of home-trainers between J. R. Kenna of the Bay City Wheelmen, champion amateur rider of ihe coast, and George W. Tantau of the Olympic Club Wheelmen, who is again in training and riding almost as fast as he did last spring. Michael has brought the world’s five- mile record down to 9:00 4-5. Think of that! That's traveling at the rate of less than 1:50 for each mile. Michael has been matched to race Tom Linton, aiso of Wales, the events to take place.shortly m Florias. What world’s records Michael does not bold Linton does, so it is horse and horse. Michael is now in Minneap- olis and has been trying his luck at ice skatings but has not proven very speady. His proposed Pacific Coast trip has been =bandoned for the present. Carl McStay, the well-known Los An- eles wheelman, is quoted in the Pacific Field as follows: “While in San Fran- cisco last month I visited the Velodrome, and it is the most perfect thing of the kind Ieversaw. While 1 was there on Decem- ber 5 Orlando Steveas rode an exhibition haif mile in :56, and all the machines held the turns excellently. The management is fine, there being no delay between heats. Why, before the men in one heat are off the track the stdrters for the next are on it.” This state of things is helping out cycleriding in the north like every- thing.” The annual election of the Olympic Club Wheelmen will be held at their reguiar meeting Tuesday evening. There is only one ticket in the field, showing that the members are working tog ‘ther as a unit, and the re-election of most of the officers who served last year is a mark of appre- ciation of their efforts. R. E. Plough, traveling salesman for an Eastern cycle house, is'in the City. He speaks well of tne condition of trade as he has found it, and predicts a lively season of business, The benefit tendered to Mrs. P. J. Hyde, widow of the late secretary of the Golden Gate Cycling Olub, to be heid at California Hall, 620 Bush street, next Tuesday even- ing, is interesting to the cycling clubs generally, and they will all lend a hand to make it 'a big success. There will be an entertainment and dancing. The ghost of that great five-mile race at the Velodrome on New Year's day is still stalking abont, and Manaver Fawcett has decided that a change of officials in some positions and an entire new set of scorers is decidedly in order. Not only was Becker cheated of a world’s record by having to ride one lap too many, but there has always been a dispute about who was really entitled to second prize money, and Harry Terrill has entered what might be called a re-protest, pendin: the decision of which the money has been withheld. It will be remembered Terrill was given second place by the judges. Bovee pro- tested to Referee Wynne, bie protest was allowed and he was eiven second and Ter- rill third. Terrill claims not only to be able to prove by the score cards (as if you could prove anything by the way those | scores were kept that day) that he was second, but also claims the referee had no rizht to decide as he did—that no referee has any right to reverse the decision of the judges. This ground seems quite tenable to me. The Oregon Division of the L. A. W., with a membership of only about 300, pro- poses to issue a road-book this spring. They will find it a great inducement to new members and of much value gener- ally. H. K. Arnold of Portland is in charge of the work. I have received a most interesting letter from H. Austin God.ard, the well-known racing man of the Bay City Wheelmen, who 18 now in the East, and it is worth re- producing here as showing a Californian’s views of cycling in that section: I have just returned from a trip which in- cluded Phtladelphis, Norfolk (Va.), Nashvilie enn.) and other places. Bicy- The Columbia Pistol and ltg i 0 Rifle Club and Its Mascot. cling in the East and South is about two years behind the times. They mostly possess no track at all, or where there is one it is built with a total aisregard of banking or any other absolute necessity for obtaining the most im- portant thing on any bicycle track—time. Tnere area few bicycle clubs in the larger cities, but an overwhelming social element in every case so overshadows the objects of the club as a cycle club that the hair-raising, nerve-tingling enthusiasm which so endears the Bay City Wheelmen to its members is totally lacking, and the percentage of legiti- mate Tacing men in these institutions is nil. 1 must confess I am disappointed in the East from a_bicycle siandpoint. Here in De- troit, for insiance (Tom Cooper's home), we have the Detroit Wheelmen, whose clubhouse isa revelation and whose coffers burst with , but one has tc with a comb to find an enthu man. Dances, whist parties, a circus with professional talcnt, bowling, billiard tourns- ments—in fact, everything except bicycling— was my experience when talking with those | members with whom it was my pleasure to meet. but their hospitality to one irom the far West like myself, coming from a club that had_ entertained their pride, Tom Cooper, as we aid, was so cordial that it is impossible to tell you by writing. The B. C. W.’s aré well and favorably known everywhere I nave been,and the iact of my being one of them has been an open sesame wherever I have found a b.cycle club of any pretensions. You ought to see the wheels in_use in some of the larger cities. I saw in Philadelphia solid-tired wheels of the vintage of '89, cush- ton-tired ones which were in vogue a little later, and wheels made in ’91 and '92 seem to be'the rule rather than the exception. In the East it seems to me & man buys a wheel and it has to last him until cycle senility causes its collapse. How different from our up-to-date boys in San Francisco, who “trade in” a8 regularly as new models are brought out. With kindest regards to the King, yourself | and other inquiring friends, I am, vours sia- | cerely, H. AUSTIN GODDAED. Judging from the affidavits which fol- low, Walter Foster was very unfairly treated by Floyd McFarland in the pro- | fessional events at Pasadena on January 1. Itis understoon that the matter will be brought before the racing board, and if McFarland cannot disprove the charges, | he should certainly be suspended from track-racing for a long tme to come. Here are the affidavits: PASADENA, Cal., Jan. 4, 1897. We, the nundersigned, race officials and pro- | fessionals that cfliciated and competed in the Pasadena race meet, January 1, 1897, declare: That Floyd McFarland, in the mile open pro- | fessional race, deliberately and purposely fouled Walier F. Fostcr on the upper turn, en- tering iuto the homestretch, by eibowing him | off the track. We state positively that Foster was run off the track into soft ground, and thereby all his chances for first prize in this race were lost. 1f we signed anything contrary to the above 1t was a misrepresentation to us, and was not | not foul Foster. It is clear to us that McFarland won this race by foul tactics. T AL Black, roferee; George M. Frost, starter; Ed R. Braley, clerk of course; Alvert E. Edwnrds, assistant clerk ; Horace F. Sander- son, assistant clerk: Edward S. Crump, time Hill, professional (in this race); Fran A. Coty, professional (one of the pacemakers on tripiet). Attes! secreta PASADENA, Cal., Jan. 4, 1897, We, the referce and starter of the race meot held in Pasadens January 1, 1897, positively declare that Mr. Foster had good and substar- tial grounds to’ claim a foul in the mile-open race against Floyd McFarland, as McFariand ran Foster off the track, and thereby ruined all chances for Foster to win the race We also declare and state that we waited un- til every oue had departed from the track and then approached Mr. Foster and asked him to enter a protest against McFarland's foul rid- ing, which Mr. Foster gave us the liberty of doing if we so wished: We thereby considered that a protest was entered by ~Foster against McFarland for elbowing and running him off the track, but as the first protest of haviug McFacland dis- quaiified for his starter stepping over the tape held there wes mo need of pressing the lauter foul of elbowing and runnii.g Foster off the track. H. M. BLACK, Referee. GEorGE H. Frost, Starter, The board of officers of the North Cali- fornia Division, League of American Wheelmen, are very anxious to secure new members, and are directing earnest efforts in that direction. Thev wish if possible to bring the roll up to 2060 within the next month, an increase of about 350, and from the way the applications are coming in it seems quite likely hat they will succeed in their endeavers. V. H. Hancock of the membersui}) committee is making a special canvass of all the local clubs and is securing many new names. The Imperial Cycling Club has com- pleted ali preparations for its party, to be held at Native Sons’ Hall Tuesday even- ing, January 19, and a very enjovable time is anticipated, SraLDING. e R L GUN AND DOG. Olymplc Gun Club’s New Grounds. Crittenden Robinson’s Shoot. Sportsmen who take enjoyment in tramping the hills and watching well- irained dogs ranging over ground where quail frequent should meet with success to-morrow, as the weather of the past week has been of the kind that old hunt- ers fancy. Birds are generally found in the trees when the ground is soaked after a heavy rain, but the past week of cold, sharp weather will materially improve the sport. The hunter -who will tramp the suuny sides of the canyons to-day and to- morrow snould meet with good success, as the birds will be pretty bigh up, and when scattered good shooting will be the order. Duck-hunters who shoot in the marshes between Mount Eden and Alviso have bad good success of late. Several large bags of spriz and spoonbills were returned from that section of the country during the past two weeks. Pete McRae killed seventy-five sprig, tesd and spoonbills last Sunday, near Alvarado. A sportsman named Muther was shot at by & man who lives near Mount Eden last Sunday and two bullets from a Winches- ter lodged in the levee within two feet of where the hunter was standing. Muther says that he intends to visit the same ground to-Gay and return the compliment, provided *‘his friend”’ will be at home. Dick Brooks and Billy McRae are stop- ping the flight of mallard duck, which are :_-idhto be quite plentiful now near An- ioch. The Olympic Gun Club will soon have splendid “trap-shootiug grounds at Ingle- side. The president isauthority for the statement that on February 21 and 22 the inaugural shoot of the club for this vear will pe held on the new grounds, and both inanimate and live birds will be used. The new Magan trap will be tested on this occasion. It will do the work of five traps. The club will turn out in sirong numbers for the opening shoof, and it | quail, duck and deer signed to convey the idea that McFarland did | Frank E. Burnham, C. C.C. Club, | woes without saying that a most enjoyable outing will result. As a large percentage of the members are benedicts, the directors decided at a recent meeting to eive a *‘ladies’ night”” on the evening of February 2. The wives, daughters and sisters of members are very anxious to see the new clubrooms, ana if report can be relied upon they will receive a most pleasant surprise, as the apartments are magnificently fitted up. In fact the Olympic Gun Club can well afford to congratulatgitself on having as neat and comtortable a rendezyous as any sportsman could desire, and acubtless the ladies will appreciate the very excellent work that has been accomplished by the house committee looking toward the com- fort of the members. Within a year the club will have a first-class demesne, where will abound. A grand bench show under its auspices will be held in this City in May or June. The Tamalpais Gun Club’s new officers are: O:ito Muser, president; John Bergez, vice-president; Major Cobb, secretary treasurer; directors—John Siebe, A. Wie- land, William Berg, J. Osborne, A. Roose, ¥. Curtan and A. Diitol. The club has stocked its lagoon with the fry of rainbow, cutthroat and steel- head trout, and in the course cf a year the members who are fond of aneling ex- pect to enjoy some royal sport. Deer and quail are plentiful in the preserve and some first-class shooting is had during the months when it is lawful to shoot at fur or feather. Mr. Difto! is the acknowledged champion angler, ana so far as quail and deer shooting 1s concerned the members are unable to say who is the champion shot. Both Curtan and Roose are good on deer. V. Caglieri and his guest, Carl Bund- schu, had a most enjoyable shoot on the Tamalpais Gun Club demesne, near Wil- low Camp, last Sunday. They barged forty-six quail, thanks to the unerring a m of Bundschu, who killed all his birds on the wing. It is said that the new Elkwood shoot- g grounds, at Long Island, are the most complete in the world, and of the new trap system an exchange says: After much invesiigation the Mott style of iron trap, invented by that veteran sport, Jordan L. Mott, was adopted. It is said ‘to be far und away abead of any trap yet used. There are three sets of traps, each located forty feet from the clubhouse. Thebound- ary line is localed at fifty yards and the dead line at thirty-three yards. Thereare five traps on each range, set the usual distance apart, and all of them are fastened over an under round crescent-shaped tun- | nel that is six feet high and six wide. The trapper, walking in the tunnel, has a | basket of birds close to each of the traps. As soon as any trap is sprung he opens its | sliding bottom and putsa bird in. Neither | the trapper, the man who springs the trap nor the shooter can tell which trap is to | be sprung. | The traps are sprung by another in- | genius device. Inline with the shooters, m a little house half buried in the ground, stands the man who pulls the lever that springs the traps. Locked in a desk, breast high as he stands, is the mechanism. It is a short steel cyl- | inder, set horizontally in the desk. It has steel pegs in it that look like those of a musical-box. When the lever is puiled | one of the pegs engages the end of a steel | bar having the underground wire attached | to it that springs the trap. The machine | has 1000 combinations and it can be altered |in a moment by changing a2 peg to an- other combination. There recenily appeared in an English paver the following report of how game is slaught:red in ‘‘the old country”: Em- | peror William of Germapy is credited with killine 2 aurochs, 7 etk, 738 red stags, 58 hinds, 957 fallow bucks, 41 faliow does, 3 reindeer, 1705 Iarge and small wila boar, 469 roebucks, 121 chamois, 11,466 hares, 638 rabbits, 1 whale, 37 capercaizie (cocks), 56 wild ducks, 3 bears, 17 foxes, 698 herons and cormorants and 559 various. The total number is 17,576 and is the Emperor’s bag for one calendar year. In England one party of six killed 7000 rabbits and pheasants'in four days. An- other party of eight killed 5000 head of game in four days; still another shot 4000; one of five men 1n two days killed 2500 ana another composed of six persons killed 1500 rabbits and pheasants in a single day. With all the con:plaints one hears in re- gard to pothunting in America, when all is considered one cannot but believe we regard game and game laws and the un- written but strict rules of the sportsman in a better light than do our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic. W enalso it is taken into consideration that all of these game birds and animals are pro- tected in preseryes or raised in captivity the iree woods and fields of this country seem better than ever. The sportsmen of this City will be pleased to learn of the success Crittenden Robinson achieved in Monte Carlo re- cently. A special cable to the New York Herald dated Monte Carlo,January 5, says A return match of 100 pigeon-« at thirty yards for 2100 francs a side between the California shot, Robinson, and the well- known English marksman, Orchardson, took place <his afternoon at Mont Boren and ended in favor of the Pacific Coast champion by the score of 92 to 94. » There is a movement on foot at Balti- more, Md., to hold a mammoth carnival in that city in 1898, at which time all sorts of athletic and aquatic games can be held, trap-shooting being one of the principal features so far announced. Itis proposed to buiid an enormous amphitheater at one of several places mentioned, in which could be seated thousands of spectators. The plans have been indorsed by promi- nent Baltimoreans, and more of the prop- osition may be known in the near future. THE KENNEL. The Olymplc Gun Club Will Doubt- less Give a Bench Show. The Sacramento poultry and kennel show promises to be a success. Among the birds admired are Plymouth Rocks—white, buff and silver; Wyan- dottes—golden silver, white and buff; black Javas, American dominiques, cochins, etc. A wild turkey with its progeny is an object of much attention. To-morrow the homing pigeon race will be held. Several hundred fast flyers will be liberated, and doubtless the race to this City and Oakland will be exciting. The dog show will_open to-day at noon. J. Otis Fellows of Hornellsvilie, N. Y. will judge all classes. Among the entri are several first-class dogs which are owned by sportsmen of this City and Ouk- land. It can now be safely said that the Pa- cific Kennel Club wiil disband and that a show wiil be held in this City some time in May under the auspices of the Oiympic Gun Club. A committee from the Pacific Kennel Club visited the officers of the Gun Club last Wednesday evening and an understanding pleasing to all concerned was quickly arrived at. The money in the treasury of the Pacific Keunnel Club— something like $300—wil! be transferred to the Olympic Gun Club, to be used only for dog-show purposes. k This is a move in the right direction, as the Olympic Gun Club has a membership of 170 of the most prominent sportsmen of this City, all of whom are deeply inter- ested in dogs and dog shows. A snecial meeting of the Kennel Club will be held Wednesday evening, when final action will be taken. W. H. Schmidt of Oakland states that the medals he won at the late bench- show held in_this City were com posed of lead, with a film of gold. Schmidtexhi- hited a pair of dachshunds. One of the most enthusiastic dog- lovers in all England is her Royal High- \ness, the Princess of Wales. The same amount of money that her imperial mother-in-law spends on fat cattle, and her husband devotes to horses and his stables, the Princess lays out on kennels, that are the finest owned by any woman in the United Kingdom, and at present shelter a dozen varieties of canine beauty. Not a dog fancier or breeder in Europe but knows of her interest in these pets, her knowledge of an animal’s good points and her splendidly appointed kennels, and at intervals she receives from some famous stud a particularly handsome PUPPY- = RIFLE AND PISTOL. The Inter - Republic Match and Shooting Ciubs at Shell Mound To-Morrow. There will be plenty of rifle-shooting st the Shell Mound range to-morrow. The marksmen of the First Regiment who are to contest for the tropby and honors with the Hawaiian National Guard will shoot their ten-sbot scores in the match. These scores will be forwarded as soon as possi- ble to Honolulu and the scores of the island riflemen, also to be shot to-morrow at Honolulu, will be sent to the First Regiment here. Each team is to consist of 100 men. Besides shooting for the trophy the First Regiment has offered three cash prizes of $20, $10 and $5 to the three marksmen making the highest scores. A lively contest for the trophy and the special prizes may be expected. In addition to the inter-republic match companies, C, G, F and K of the First In- fantry Regiment will hold their montnly class shooting. ery target on Captain Siebs's range will be engaged ,al' day, for besides the foregoing the following shooting societics and clubs will hold their regular shoot Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club, class medals and special prizes; San Francisso Schuetzen Verein, class medals; mania Schuetzen Verein, class medal Red Men's Shooting Section, class medal Norddeutscher Schuetzen Club, bullseye shoot; Independent Rifes, class medals. osi MiS THE OARSMEN. The Possibllities of a Ragatta on Washington’s Birthday. The oarsmen are discussing the advis- ability of holding a regatta on Washing- ton’s birthday. The idea has been sug- gested by a number of prominent oars- men, and it is being discussed in the clubs with growing interest. The purpose of Golden Gate carnival of holding a regatta in April does not appeal to the oarsmen just’at present, as it is so far in the future and is indefinite. Some capable oarsmen should take tha matter up and see what the possibilities are for holding a regatta on Washington's birthday. Washington’s birthday is a fitting aay for a regatta. Last year the regatta held on that day was a great success, over 10, 000 people being present at Lake Merritu to see the event: With over a month in which to train the oarsmen could get themselves in fine condition, As to entries, the Stockton Rowine Club can be relied npon to send a crew down, and botli the Alameda and University Boating Ciub bave signified their intention of entering, and there is no doubt that every c:ub on this side of the bay would enter crews. All that is needed is a capable and experienced oars- man to iake hold of the affair, and, with the encouragement of the clubs, a regatta could be arranged. The Southends are keeping themselves in condition for the next regatta. Every afternoon and evening Matt Breen, Al Fritz, Ed Shortall and Frank Duplissea can be s en out in their skiffs, The South Ends are keeping themselves in condition for the next regatta. Matt Breen, Al Fritz, Ed Shortall and Frank Duplissea are out every evening in their skiffs. The South Ends intend to wrest the laurels from the victorious syndicate team of the Dolphins, and within a short time a challenge will be sent them for a game nis. His father, a municipal affairs. ; players. game, but be is one of that class of steady, during the season just past. ford team. Last spring “Billy” McLaine, plicher, was captain. And for five successive years Stanford’s baseball teams w have been victorious over their rivals across the ba: a particular virtue or charm in having a Californi many different parts of the Union, or if this season’s team, California boy will meet with defeat and lose the new s; fered by the University Clubto the university thatshall first THOMPSON, STANFORD'S BASEBALL CAPTAIN. Charlle Thompson, who will captain the Stanfora Varsity baseball team during the season about to begin, is a Santa Barbara boy, dium height. He is a descendant of two of the old aristoeratic Spanish families associated with the early history of that picturesque mission town by the sea, in the days when, as a part of Mexico, Santa Barbara was considered a large and important city of Alta Califor- lawyer and Democratic politician, has long taken a prominent part in 22 years of are and a little above the me- When Thompson entered Stanford, nearly four years ago—for he is now in his senior year—he was considered one of the best baseball-plevers Santa Barbara had at the time, He had been pitches for the high school nine and had identified himself with the game for 8 number of years. But so keen was the competitiou for places on the Stanford tenm and S0 numerous were the old candidates, and with three fine pitchers among them, that Thompson as a freshman was not even a substitute. The next season he developed better form and gained a substitute place. Last year he became the regular right-fielder on the Varsity. His work in handlinglong flies that were often desperate chances and his relia. ble batting during the series of games made nim the logical candidale for captain at the close of the successful season of 1896, and he was elected as the choice of his fellow. Thompson is not a brilliant player, nor is his work uniform in all departments of the conscientious hard workers typified in big Fickert of the Tehachap! Mountains, who captained the viclorions Stanford football team Unlike her 00tball captains Stanford's baseball captains have all been California boys. First there was “Charlie” Adams of Stockton, the great ail-round athlete who, was in college but one year, captained the baseball team from third base, the football team, won all of the seven evenis he competed in with the track team and {n addition was president of the big freshman class. Then there was Harry Walton, tained the team in the spring of 1893 from the catcher's back on the football eleven and subsequently became team, which he captained during the season just ended. Dan of San Francisco held the captain’s position while filling his old place in center The next season Hugh Dyer of Aivarado, the second bsseman, though he played guard on who cap- position and was also a speedy half- & member of the Reliance football In the spring 0f 1894 “Jack” Shee- tield, WaS captain of the Stan 4 another Sen Francisco boy anda the old Varsity ith their California captains y. It now remains to be seen if there be an to lead the players assembled from captained by the sixth succes- ilver trophy only Tecently of- win two seasons in succession. Y