The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1897, Page 8

HOW GIRLS PLAY FOOTBALL. The sporting fraternity of this city will be afforded an opportunity of see- irg ladies play football this afternoon at the Velodrome grounds. The girls have been practicing for several weeks, and it is said that they play a pretty clever game without en- tering into the heavy-smashing style as adopted by the men when they meet in that part of the game known as bucking the line. It is not to be expected that the girls will attempt to maim each other in the scrimmages. On the contrary, they will rely on their cleverness to win the game for thelr respective sides, and, by the way, some of the players are really clever in handling the oval. ‘When asked if she did not fear se- vere injury to her neck by a heavy fall one of the players said yesterday that she could stand pain with as much fortitude as any of the college boys. “Why, our hair is just as long, but perhaps not altogether as woolly as an intercollegiate football player, con- sequently we do not fear much alarm from a heavy fall, provided that we land on the back of our head,” re- marked one of the healthy-looking misses as she smiled at a companion. “Yes, we will show the men folks that girls can play football as well as ride a bicycle, ride a horse or play tennis. Football is not such a ter- rible game when it is played scientifi- cally; there is no necessity for rough work such as is frequently seen when cvollege players meet in a champion- ship contest.” ‘Well, those who fancy football will see how it is played by women to-day and after it is over then it will be time to pass judgment on the game as played by women. The line-up is as follows: Oakland Browns: Forwards—Belle Eaglin, An- nie Rhodes, Jennie Brooks, Lillian Merrill, Lottie Brooks, Clyde Sawyer and Lillian Carr; quarter-back, Lottie | Cornell; halfbacks, Mamye Leonard and Daisy Eaglin; fullback, Maud Eaglin; coach,. Al Bear; captain, Mamye Leonard. Frisco Grays: Forwards — Captain Emily Hart, Norah Smith, Adele Bro- guet, Louise Hart, Viola Williams, Maggie Flemming, Freydis Caswell and Louisa Hart; quarter-back, Doily ‘Wallace; haifbacks, Louise Mitchell and Minnie Rentrof; fullback, Marion Arnthony; coach, R. Nicholson; um- pire, Joe Acton; referee, Andrew ‘Walsh; general manager, C. A. Doyle. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1897 | pond. He had killed stone dead fifteen mallards and there were ten big ‘green | heads’ flopping away unable to rise. “The ducks were attracted during night by the call of the tame which Al had confiscated stole cver their r duck conf prisoners of war, . imming contends that he shot the birds on the wing and so he did. It annot be said that they were on the | ground when killed.” Members of the Petaluma Sports- s Club_are determined to rid the of birds and animals that are | s to sportsmen and incidental- no use to sportsmen’s wiv following letter will explain how he bird, and the ice while the ving them DUCKS WERE FROZEN How a Prominent Sports- |} man Got a Bag of Mallards. the ghts of the Trigger” intend to | accomplish the trick: | PALUMA, C , 1897 ed T mint_hunt” | ima_Sport Club took | Sunday, the seventeen of he field, t} f “evening up credited with 10,318, with 9513 points. evening from all_directions | weary sportsmen, and on the First-Class Shooting Is Now | A “m"' T . unpalatable animals and | otieag o iy be classed under the head | Marshes. with a great scarcity of |"Bears and panthers and such, for which the highest number o points were given, w conspicuous by their absence. The credits ranged from 1000 for large game to 1 point for chip- pies R A “Varmint” Hunt by Members of the | Petaluma Sportsman’s e first prize was won by Al Fisher, | aving gained the greatest number of | S | B e e Seorge Ortman followed | ints, taking second prize. T. | took the third prize with | 2 " Joe_Si r merited fourth | “Why, this is exactly the kind of | points, and R. S. o | Joints took the ffth weather I fancy for duck shooting,” re- | points took the h marked Otto Feudner, the little cham- supper to be given by the pion pigeon stopper, the other day | defeated te take ‘place shortly | shooter, Dave Thomb, on field SPorts | tuok part in this varmint extermination | in gencrai. were: R. 8. Brown, C. F. \'.»rlyzlulp. l-r(:‘d 1 a i Frank Zartman, Ben Phillips, I met a few of my friends yester- | Wegy Frank Zariv, it Frank o | day who were contemplating a great | collins, Al Smith, . Drees, J. Steiger, Collins, / ¢ elge s duck shooting on Saturday and | George Griess ;‘;:-nrrzr‘ Ortman, Louis ;,” continued Feudner, “but, | Steitz and W. J. Palm | | don’t you know, one of them said that S he should certainly postpone the trip if | the cold snap continued. |JACK DALY “Now what do you think of a sports. AND EVERHARDT. man who is afraid of meeting a bl from the north and incidentally having to remove an icicle or two from his | nose between shots?” Yes, the weather has been exceeding- | Iy raw for the past few weeks, but then a true sportsman will not object to shedding a few tears in the field if there is anything like real good shoot- | ing to be had. The mars ered with d The Daly and Everhardt fight will be held at New Orleans on the evening ’Sth inst., and as there is some the | i | of the interest taken in the match by sporting fraternity of this city, Dal record will interest those who wager on prize-fights. Here it is: Defeated Owen Harney in New Or- | leans, 9 rounds; Billy Young, at Wash- ington, 5 rounds; Al O'Brien, same place, 6 rounds; Frank Bollen, Wil- mington, 6 rounds; Joe Flynn, same | place, 3 rounds; Billy Dacey, same place, 1 round; Chris Johnson, Balti- more, 5 rounds; Abe Ulman, a heavy- weight, same place, Mike Leonard, same place ton Abbott, same pla Burnett, at Washington, Howard Wilson, same place, 14 rounds; are now literally co rs kind of wild ducks, and morning and evening shooting should be first class until there is a change in the weather, which is near | at hand. A member of the Black Jack Shoot- ing Club returned from Antioch a few days ago with fifty-nine ducks, which included Black Jack, canvasback and Gadwell. Yesterday six members left for Sherman Island and doubtiess the will return with a wagonloaa of fine ; Joe rounds; 9 birds. | Billy Dooley, same place, 5 rounds; Harry Hosmer and Al Cumming re- | “Bull” McCarthy, at Philadelphia, 6| port having had good shooting on the | rounds; Tom Moriarty, at New York, 8 rounds; Jim Franey, at ton, 9 rounds; Frank Wongo, same | place, 10 rounds; .Tom McCune, at Philadelphia, 6 rounds; Martin Judge, same place, 4 rounds; Jack Bennett, same place, 4 rounds; Billy Vernon, at New York, 6 rounds; Isidore Strauss, at Philadelphia, and Jack Bennett, at “Cock o' the Swamps”: “Al stole a | Philadelphia, 6 rounds each; Jimmy tame mallard duck somewhere the | McHale, who put plaster of paris in night before our shoot and he anchored | his glove when he fought Andy Bowen the ‘green head’ in a pond over which | here in the early '90’s, at Philadelphia, ponds near Byron recently. Hosmer is | unkind enough to let the cat out of the | bag, or, in other words, he credits Cum- | mings with having killed birds in what | he considers to be an unsportsmanlike | way. ‘ Wilming- This is how Harry tells the story on his friend whom he has dubbed the HARRY HOSMER and AL CUMMING Returning From the Duck-Shooting Ponds Near Byron. he intended making a horrible killing in the morning. “Well, all right. Everything went along smoothly until we were’ en- sconced in our blinds long before smil- ing Sol put in an appearance on this | side the Sierras. Mark you, we were | only 200 yards apart and just as soon | as there ‘was sufficient light to see a bird at fifteen paces Cumming’s gun commenced to talk and for ten min- utes it barked incessantly. “Well, I thought to myself, what in the name of Golcher is that royal Highlander up to. “Then a thought flashed through my mind that Al had taken an impromptu bath and needed assistance. I re- paired instanter to where he was lo- cated, and as I drew near I asked, ‘What's up, Al1? Did you fall in?" “‘For heaven's sake drop,’ he re- plied. ‘Can’t you see the pond is liter- ally covered with mallards and not one of them will rise? “I dropped. Again Al'S gun barked and not a bird moved. “He kept up the racket until there was light enough to see all over the 5 rounds; Mattie Matthews, at Syra- cuse, 20 rounds; Billy Ernst, at Brook- lyn, 19 rounds. The men most worthy of note in the foregoing are Mattie Matthews, who is rated as a dangerous man; Billy Ernst, who has met the best light- weights in the country, and Billy Ver- non, who is rated a good man with the gloves. Daly has fought draws as follows: Jim Franey, 11 rounds; Charlic Mc- Keever, 6 rounds; Jack Everhardt, 6 rounds; Eddie Connelly, 20 rounds; Owen Zeigler, 6 rounds; Horace Leeds, 4 rounds; “Kid” McPartland, 6 rounds; Young Griffo, 6 rounds; Joe Gans, 6 rounds, and Stanton Abbott,37 rounds. A first-class picture of Daly ap- peared in the Saturday edition of The Call two weeks ag Divorce Suits Filed. Marcus L. McCord has applied for a divorce from his wife, Anna L. McCord, on the ground of desertion. Adelle M. Phelps has filed suit for a di- vorce from Charles M. Phelps. As a cause of action she alleges infidelity. MONEY FOR FLEET HOUNDS A Classic Coursing Stake To-Morrow at Ingle- side. | The Colorado Performers Again Competing for the Coin. There Will Be No Coursing at the Ingleside Park To- Day. The stake arranged for to-morrow has in it more than the usual elements of interest. It is an open event, limit- ed merely to the number of candidates possible to be run in one day, and the entry embraces some red letter per- formers. Among the most notable is Rusty Gold, brought out from Colorado by Simmons & Donohue for the Merced | stake and left by them in charge of D. J. Healey. Rusty Gold was runner up | between the business menof SanFran- | cisco and the Incognitos of Oakland | at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium of this | city. The game was hotly contested, and both teams put up some very plays. The Incognitos could not line up all their regular men, although i bstitutes were by no means The business men won their sul | | the game by a final score of 29 to 10 points in their favor. Their team was composed of the following play- F. M. Goodrich, Louis Titus, W. son, C. J. Auger and C. Bernhard. On the Oakland side played these men: H. Lausten, C. Brown, C. Lackie, Charles Dunsmuir and G. La Rue. Two practice games were also play- | ed between the Unions of San Fran- | cisco and the Spartans of Oakland, the latter eas ng this game by a score of 8 other game was played ss men and ity won by the former, the final score be- ing 21 to 6 in their favor. - |{COLD WEATHER FOR ANGLING. Notwithstanding that the weather has been bitterly cold in and about Duncans Mills and Point Reyes during | the past week, anglers have been en- | joving good fishing in Russian River. | Several large steelheads have been | shipped recently from Duncans Mills by Deputy Fish Commissioners to nds in this city, and according to letter that was received yesterday | from one of the officers who is detailed and was | OUIET WEEK - IN CYCLING Dull Interest in the Sport. The Baseball League Has Re- newed Enthusiasm Among the Clubs. | New Association Committee Appoint- ments Meet With Universal Approval. Things are as usual very quiet in cycling affairs at this season of the year. Last year we had the Velodrome race meets to keep the interest awake, but there is nothing of that kind now. There was some talk of a meet en New Year’s day at San Jose with a match race at ten miles paced between Hardy Downing of San Jose and W. E. | Becker of Minneapolis, but that has ST. CALATINE, the Fast Daughter of St. Carlo, a Stake Winnzr on Different Tracks. at Merced. W. Sink, of greater fame in horse circles than in coursing, will also make his initial shy at the leashmen’s game, having in the entry a Canadian young- ster of promise. The Santa Clara con- tingent and divers other outside ken- nels have in much of their best stock. A large consignment of strong hares reached the park this week and the sward itself is like velvet. The added money to-morrow is $150, or the same amount that has usually been added to stakes extending through two days. Commencing next Saturday, too (Jan- uary 1), all stakes will be materially increased. By many it is thought that to-mor- row’s stake looks to be an easy trick for Rusty Gold. Possibly, too, it is, but he will not by any means win it “in a walk.” On the plains he is a rattling performer, but his work in the park— or what little of it has been seen—has been excelled by many. A. C. Bradbury has sold Lady Pem- broke to the Montezyma Kennels. Lady Pembroke was lately bred to Serrona of the same string. Curtis & Sons of Santa Clara had their famous pair, Cavalier and Ro- sette, at the park last Sunday. Neither seemed much the worse for their recent attack of distemper—seemed, in fact, capable of doing their old-time win- ning werk within a very few weeks. J. Farley's Snowbird is reported to have been placed in care of the well known trainer “Brindle Pat.” Snow- bird fit is a better dog than the aver- age. She will be in the stake again next week. z ‘William Halpin, the genial slip stew- ard at Ingleside, is spending the holi- days with his brother in San Luis Obis- po County. His place is being filled by P. Rellly, superintendent of the park. In several of the courses last Sunday Mr. Grace gave an exhibition of judg- ing that could hardly be excelled any- where in the world. His decisions were flawless and rendered with a prompt- ness truly remarkable. The likeliest performers in to-mor- row's run down appear to be Rosette, Mohawk, Blackette, Senorita, Myrtle, Rusty Gold, Benicia Boy, Move On, Granuale, Occidental, Lass o' Gowrie, At Last, Systematic, Eclipse, Beau Brummel, Emerald and Swinnerton. —_—————————— BASKET-BALL IS BOOMING. The most interesting game of basket ball of the week took place on ‘Wednesday evening and was played to look after the net fishermen on the river, the outlook for a continuance of the good fishing is very flattering. The bar at the mouth of the river has closed again, and as a consequence the -back water has enlarged the pools, thus affording the fishes below an opportuni- ty to cross the shallows and ascend to that point of the river near Austin Creek, where they will remain until the Austin ris Last Sunday a small regiment of an- glers was at Point Reyes. A few large fish were taken, but the cold snap froze the lines to the loops of the rods, caus- ing the fishermen no end of annoy- ance. * Net fishermen are seining steelheads at the mouth of the creek and ship- ping their catches from Marshall Sta- tion to this city. It is no wonder that the sport of the angler is below par. The second anglers’ tournament of the National Sportsman’s Association will be held in Madison Square Gardens commencing January 13 and ending January 22. Copies of the rules that will govern the contests in fly casting can be had at the sporting goods house of E. T. Allen & Co. John Gallagher, the champion angler of Oakland, and some of his friends will leave this city for Russian River on Monday. DETWEILER A DEFENDANT. Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks Complained Against by Golden Gate Lodge. By way of diversion Meade D. Det- weiler, grand exaited ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, who is at present in this city on an official visit in connection with the lodge of which he is the head, will en- joy a few days in court as the defend- ant in an action brought against him by Golden Gate Lodge, No. 6, which up to a year or so ago was a branch in good standing of the Order of Elks. At the present time, however, Lodge No. 6 is not recognized by the national or- ganization, and it is stated that the suit which was filed yesterday is large- 1y due to that fact. Golden Gate Lodge, No. 6, in its pleadings in the action against the grand exalted ruler, charges that he is the creditor of that organization in the sum of about $1000, which money it al- leges he collected and appropriated to his own use. The plaintiff in the action claims that it has applied to the de- fendant for the return of the money, but as their application was never heeded they bring suit to recover the amount alleged to be due. been put off, possibly for good. The Cycle Baseball League has cre- ated a new enthusiasm among the clubs. Eleven of the prominent clubs of this city, Oakland and San Jose have entered teams, and a schedule of games lasting from January 2 to late in May has been arranged, as given in The Call yesterday. All of the San Francisco games will be played at the Velodrome grounds, Fell and Baker streets, though it is the desire to have the different club cap- tains get together and schedule as many for out-of-town points as pos- sible, thus arranging joint club runs for the two contesting clubs, and re- viving that enjoyable feature of cy- cling. President Adams of the Associated Clubs is being complimented all around for the excellent judgment shown in his committee appointments. He has selected his men not so much for their club affiliation as for their abilities to discharge the duties of their various positions, and yet has managed to give all the clubs about equal representa- tion. The reappointment of Robert M. ‘Welch as chairman of the track racing committee, the placing of Percy V. Long at the head of the rights and privileges committee and Myrick, Shedd and Dodge on the road-racing board are spoken of in club circles as being particularly thoughtful and well chosen. The association has another prosperous year before it. A number of enthusiasts are doing hard road work in training for a severe :lest of their endurance on New Year's ay. A committee of the League of Ameri- can Wheelmen will meet a committee of the Canadian Wheelmen’s Associa- tion at Buffalo next week to discuss matters of interest to the two organi- zations. The question of the recogni- tion of the California Associated Cy- cling Clubs by the L. A. W. will be urged by the C. W. A, and the L, A, ‘W. committee will report back to'zhé national assembly of the league, which will convene at St. Louis in February. Club runs of bicycle clubs, somewhat like lodge meetings, tend to call out new members principally. One of the ideas in promoting the coming baseball league among cycling clubs was to create interest in the runs and bring out old members. It has been quite successful in this regard in the prelim- ln?ry Fxlmwuce games. n TFlorence, Italy, ladies are com- pelled to carry two bells on the Wheels, says Cycling West. In Russi ladies are not allowed to ride whee/ 7 Lack of Racing Tends to| except by royal permissive warrant; in Austria they are prohibited from rid- ing hands off; in France they have to have th husband’s written consent to join a touring club, and in Germany they have to undergo an examination for proficiericy and carry their certifi- cates constantly. In America—well, they do about as they please. In a letter to the writer E. C. Bald, the: American champion of 1897, says that he will likely come to California about the first of February to spend a couple of months. Fred J. Loughead, the Caradian champion, will accom= pany him. Their trip will be prinei- pally for pleasure, though they may do a little preparatory work for the next season’s racing. Chairman Welch of the track-racing committee of the C. A. C. C. has an- nounced that he will reappoint Robert A% ial handicapper for the association. action will meet with universal approval, as Mr. Smyth has the confidence of the riders, years of experience at the work and no club affiliations that might render him open to a charge of impartiality. The next meeting of the association at Alameda on Saturday evening January 8, promises to be exciting. determined effort is going to be made by some of the delegates to have the action of the board at the last meeting regarding Charles Kraft reconsider: and to declare him a professional. Th will, of course, be opposed by those in favor of Kraft’s reinstatement and others who want to see Birdsall, Theisen and Mott reinstated. HANDBALL IN THE COURTS. Colonel Phil Ryan of the San Fran- cisco handball court has promised his patrons a fund of pleasure to-morrow. He has scheduled a series of games, the contestants being the leading players of the State. The programme is as follows: J. Harlow and J. McEvely vs. W. Kelly and D. Connelly. L. Waterman and E. McDonough vs, J. R. Boekman and D. J. Sheehan. D. Rodgers and P. Ryan vs. M. Mec- Neil and G. McDonald. E. Foy and J. Collins vs. R. Murphy and J. White. J. Dowling and R. Housman vs. E. Curley and M. Maguire. J. Riordan and R. Linehan vs. J. C. Nealon and T. F. Bonnet. At the Occidental court the m that .will be played to-day are follows: ‘W. Collins and Collins and J. McCs V. B. Clements and J. O'Brien vs. T. Lydon and A. McInerney. G. Ebner and G. Cunningham A. McVicker and J. Shaw. J. O’'Connell and T. Nagle vs. Kennelly and O. Anderson. J. O'Leary and Professor Barrett M. Mullany and ““‘Cyclone” Hayden P. Kelly and T. Cashin vs. J. Pen- dergast and P. Hutchinson. M. Dillon and J. Slattery vs. J. Con- don and J. O'Donnell. | _W. Kelly and A. Pennoyer Hutchinson and M. J. Kilgallon. Hassell vs. A. vs. B - s, vs. G. The Outcome of a Feud. A story was recently made public to the effect that Mrs. A. G. Hughes of Santa Barbara, while stopping at the lodging-house 203A Powell street, was found consorting with a man named ‘Wynne, and that the two were smoking opium, while the child was stupid from the fumes. A brother of the lady, Mr. Scott of this city, denies the story most emphatically, and has retained a lawyer on the case. The story as told by Mr. Scott is as follows: “My sister arrived in this city early in December and stopped at the house 203A Powell street, not knowing the char- acter of the place. One afternoon went out to do some shopping, the child in care of another lady ping in the same house. She was & longer than she expected, and W she returned she found that friend had left the child in the care Wynne, who is an old friend of Mrs. Hughes. “‘She at once went to Wyrne's room her ot to get the little one, and while there Officer McMurray of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Police Officer Brophy arrive placed both under arrest. They wer taken to the City Prisoy, and Mrs. Hughes was released on promising to re- turn at once to Santa Iarbara, which she did. The men in the room,Wynne and a com= panion, may have been smoking opium, and they may not, my sister does not know positively, but sle was not con- scious of any fumes of the dru; room. She and her lusband ar known and highly repected cit Santa Barbara, and no one there lieves the story. it sopositively, it has become a @®cognized fact that one In every 4 persons has & weak or dseased heart. 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