The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1898, Page 12

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1898. FLASHING AMATELR CONTESTS Hard Punching and Ear-Chewing Last Evening. McGrath Whipped Sul- livan, but the Referee Was Lenient. The Excelsior Athletic Mem- Witnessed a Good Entertainment. bers ARONSEN, EAR-CHEWER. | The Pugilistic Italian Attempted to Mutilate His Opponent’s Or- gan of Hearing. The Excelsior Athletic Club of Eighth and Folsom streets gave a very excit- ing contest t evening at their club rooms between Joe livan of the Im- perial Athletic Club and James Mc- Grath, a pupil of Young Mitchell. The men entered the ring weighing 130 pounds, and Jim Kennedy, the presi- dent of the club, who was selected to referee the contest, announced that he would declare the » scored the greater number of points at the end of six rounds to be the winner. McGrath was seconded by Spider Kelly, Tim McGrath and Solly Smith, while Sullivan was looked after by two or three of his friends frc the Impe- rial Athletic Club. Several dollars were wagered at even money by the mem- bers of the club on the result before the men entered the ring. In the first round McGrath rushed at Sull: n, and, after missing a left-hand swing at the head, he smashed the Im- perial man a heavy right in the stom- ach. Sullivan fell back against the , then ducked away, and as Mc- 1 n, Sulliv swing the jaw dazed the recipient. Sul- ivantage closed ed him a left followed by in- caught which part livan then s in on McGrath in the n Th figh rough e n sultes 4 sent to his knees from the force a right ¥ on the s he his pin the bell sounded the end of the first round | Second Round—Sullivan came to the scratch with blinking and Mc- Grath lost no time in forcing the argu- ment. Sullivan was punched all round the ring. but returned to the eves, -directed left-hand s right eye of Me- Grath, & ng all the best of the fight until near the fin n Mec- Grath was sent under the ropes in a bleeding and distressed state. Just then the gong sounded and saved Mec- Grath's bacon Third Round—McGrath, notwith- standing the punishment he had re- ceived, fought like a demon, and pun- ished right-t Sullivan i ders the stomach with Sullivan returned blow for blow and had MeGrath's face red with blood when the round osed | Fourth Round—McGrath toed the scratch anxious for fight. He charged winging right and left, 1 man being wary, duck- verly from punishment. Near the 1 rath landed three B n's mouth, and iver turned tail and ran around the ring. Suilivan showing the white feather when the round ended. The fifth and sixth rounds were all in MecGrath's Notwithstanding the hment that he had received in the previous rounds, he proved to bg t gamer man by a long shot, and drov Sullivan from corner to corner of the ring in a manner that disgusted the friends of the Imperial Club gladiator. ed cle hard McGrath was having all the best of the fight at the end of the sixth round when time was called. He was thor- oughly entitled to the decisionon point according to rule, but the referee d cided the contest a draw, so as to give , general satisfaction. The San Francisco Athletic Club had an entertainment also last evening. After several small bouts between members of the club, Nick Aronsen, the champion hungry man from no partic- ular place on earth, was defeated by Young Sharkey in two rounds. Shar- key did not knock Aronsen out, but when the latter found that he was get- ting the worst of the argument he made a desperate attempt to chew off a plece of the left ear of his oppcnent. Ref- eree Jerry Flynn thought that Mr. Aronsen should have left his cannibal appetite at home, and immediately awarded the fight to Young Sharkey. Over 200 members of the Union Ath- letic Club met in their hall, on Mason street, last evening, and enjoyed an ex- cellent programme of boxing and tumb- ling. A sparring match between acts seemed to arouse the enthusiasm of the members. The go of the evening be- tween William Pal of the Union Club and James Ryan of the Home Club was declared a draw by Referee John Cagey, a new shining light, who for- mally challenged the world after watching the friend] SOUGHT POLICE PROTECTION. Mrs. Thumler Annoyed by the At- tentions of a Man. A middle-aged woman, giving her name es Mrs. Thumler, visited police headquar- ters last night and asked Chief Lees to protect her against the attentions of a man named Lasker. 108 Minna str She claims that Las. ker {s in the habit of hanging around her house, a ring her with his attentions and writing letters to her. She was ad- vised to swear out a warrant for his ar- rest. —————— In Behalf of Victory. A large number of members and friends | of the Young Men's Christian Association met in the gymnasium last night to cele- brate the recent victory of team. A programme o was enjoved. Miss Caroline Shindler, Robert chs and Rev. rendered solos. Dr. H. L. Dietz, Dr. George Daniels and _ J. Grant-Henderson gave addre Mr. Loufs Titus presented the banner in a happy speech and Presi- dent W. W. Chase responded, admonjsh- ing the winning team to maintain their new honors. Tenth Arniversary. The tenth anniversary of the San Fran- cisco Letter Carriers’ Mutual Ald Asso- clation was held in Odd Fellows' Hall last evening. Iollowing an programme a soclal dance concluded the evening’s entertainment. ————— Ten cents for a bottle of Low’'s Hore- hound Cough Syrup. 417 Sansome st. * The woman lives at | the athletic | song and speech | George Gibson | enjoyable | Present promotion has all A DESPERATE BURGLAR RECAPTURED. Charles Johnson, one of the desperate burglars who escaped from the Salinas City Jail several weeks ago, was recap- tured on Grant avenue ear vesterday morning by Detectives Gibson and Wren. Johnson, according to the police, is one of the most desperate burglars in the country. A short time ago he released from San Quentin after serving was a sentence of four years for burglary committed in Sacramento. He subse- quently went to S: where he and an accomplic 1t in the act of burglarizing a private residence. They were confined in the City Jail, and a strict watch was kept on them, as it was believed that Johnson would make a determined effort to break jail. On the night that they escaped John- son called the unde eriff and asked him to get him a sheet of writing pa- per, as he was anxious to send a letter to his aged mother. In some way men had provided ther key to the cell in which they wi fined, and as the under sheriff went to get the paper they opened the door and quietly entered the corridor. The writing material of the jail was in a small desk in a room at the end SOLID NINE AT WORK AGAIN re con- Director Hammond Pro- vides for His Favor- ite Niece. No Significance to Be Attached to the Late Transfer of Principals. But Directors Head and Barrington Hold Widely Divergent Views on the Subject. Miss Lida Carroll, who has secured the position of vice-principal in the new Mission High School, has nothing to regret in being the favorite niece of Director Hammond. She was among the first of his appointments one year ago, or shortly after he warmed his seat in the board. Comsequently her promation from the substitute class to that of a teacher and finally to the re- sponsible position of vice-principal of the new Mission High School all with- in the short period of one year is doing well, to say the least of it. there are other teachers in the School Department who have been more than | one year teaching in the lower grade. Unfortunately for them, they have no | uncle in the board as a Director who pulled kindly in the “boss” harness and saw to it that the wishes of Dr. Ragan | and his seven compatriots were r- ried out to the letter, without asking any impertinent questions as whether the changes in the department were for the good of the pupils and advantageous to the interest of the tax- payers. Probably the other nieces of this thoughtful Director will be remem- bered later on, provided there be schools enough to accommodate them with vice-principalships in High Schools. Qualifications, of course, do not count in the eternal fitness of things in rewarding Directors’ nieces with good paying positions, so long as there are positions to found. | The breach that has existed in the School Board ever since its members were first inducted into office is threat- ening to become wider and wider. all because of the late transfer of several principals and vice-principals. The transfers were in the nature of promo- tions, for salaries have been increased in every case. However, the lucky ones will not assume their positions until the | completion of the new Mission High elected principal. ing to Director Head, will not be ready for the reception of pupils until the end of the year, and he contends that the board, to say the least, was a little premature in making an ap- | | urtil that time. He claims that | board, or rather the Solid Nine of it, is now paying up some old political debts and this settlement of claims | have been endeavoing to bring about | for almost a year past. | As an instance of this political ma- | nipulation he points to the assignment | of Madison Babcock to the vice-princi- | palship of the Girls’ High School, | which would appear to be the latter's | reward for having, while Superintend- ent of Schools, nominated Ragan to succeed Director Halstead, whe died | before he assumed the duties of his of- | fice about a year ago, and Babcock’s the ear- marks of being a stepping stone to the more elevated place of principal of the same school. This could be easily ac- complished by the transfer of Profess- or Brooks to another school. James Of course, | to| Sghool, of which Joseph O’Connor was | That school, accord- | pointment which will not gc into effect | the | they | of the corridor, and as the under sher- iff entercd the desperate men slipped up to the door and turned the key, which had been carelessly left in the lock, making the official a prisoner. They then secured the key to the outer door and made their escape. The un- der sheriff was compelled to remain in the room until the following morning, when one of the deputies, noticing )ns‘ predicament, released him. By this time the escaped prisoners had boarded a freight train and sub- sequently came to this city. Detectives Gibson and Wren located Johnson's ac- complice in the tenderloin district and placed him under arrest. The follow- ing day he was returned to Salinas City, where he is now awaiting trial. Shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday morning the same officers discovered son in a rooming house on Grant Determined not to take any of being shot by him the de- suddenly b t open the door of his room. As th entered Johnson sached for a loaded revolver which he d under his pillow, but be- d use it they seized him. was then handcuffed and escorted to the City Prison. To-day he will be back to Salinas Cit rssed O'Connor e for the Mission School principalship, but th rery close- =u High latter won out handily and the former was con- soled by succeeding O'Connor in the Horace Mann. It might be interesting to state in thi connection that Simmons was Rain candidate for Superintendentof Sche on the Democratic ticket against Web- ster ek at the last election, but ted, Webster being the fortu e one of the trio. It would thus appear that these three had some secret understanding to nd by each other, although they were political opponent On the other hand, Director Barring- ton maintains that the appointments have no especial political significance ever, but were all made in the best of educational affairs. s to charge of undue haste In the mat- ter of O’Connor’s appointment, he tak pposite stand, for he says that the on High School wlil be finished in time for the opening of the school year in August, and if this board is to be accused of being premature, what must ne, which attempt- ed to elect Charl H. Murphy prinei- pal of that school as far back as De- cember, 1896, before the foundation was laid. He failed of election, however, as he never received more than six votes, anditrequired seven to elect. As to the wholesale transfer of teachers, Bar- rington says that it was done In the main at their own request, and in some cases at the desire of the principals for the improvement of the various schools under their charge. SENSATION OF TIIE - SUICIDE SYMPHONY | Tschaikowsky’s No. 68 Played | by Fritz Scheel at the Tivoli. i The Russian’s Work Dwarfed and | Darkened the Rest of a Mod- ern Programme. The much written about “Pathetic,” or “Suicide,” or Sixth—as you Ilike ft— Symphony of Tschaikowsky lured the largest audlence of the season to the concert at the Tivoli yesterday after- noon. Advertising " has its value, even for the masterpieces of music. The his- tory of this symphony is sensational— it has been made sensational by the mu- sic critics of two continents; and many persons who would not have been moved | by an ordinary concert announcement | were made curious by the innuendo and | esoteric significance that have been as- sociated with the work. Their curiosity was not disappointed. The Tschaikow- sky was a shock; it dwarfed and cheap- | ened everything else on the programme. The “Im Herb: overture of Grieg's was played without notable fineness, but | it received some attention because it came before the symphony. The Schu- mann Abendlied and four numbers of Rubinstein’s “Bal Costume” came after it, and these were barely tolerated. Scheel grabbed at a few mechanical | hand-pats which greeted the “Toreador and Andalusian’” picture in the Rubin- | stein suite, and considered them as an | encore. But he did not deceive the most of us, who. S0 soon as the symphony was over, settled deep in our top coats—the | house was as cold as a_morgue—and de- | fied him to bring us back To say the Pathetic Symphony is sen- sational does not imply that it is vellow, nor that it is given over to the lascivious | pleasings of neuroticism. To me, as well as I can understand it after one hear- ing, it seems to be the music of the age— roblem music. It asks.something of the | eart; it paints pictures of worldly hap- | iness: it pleads, and in a way it com- | orts, but in its entirety it celebrates the futility of human hope, the sovereignty of despair. It is too kindly, too radiant with melodic beauty to be called cynical. There is in it none of the massive godli- ness of Beethoven, none of the sweet dyspepsla of Chopin, none of the colossal exaggeration of Wagner. It is virile, hu- man and plausible, and it is terribly modern in its psychology. 1 had not seen the score and knew ‘practically nothing of the manner of the work before it was played yesterday, and yet I was not sur- | prose-poet and prised by the grim, relenticss ending—an ending that, from its suddenness and ab- solute decision (as compared with other ‘works), you would expect to be surprise- ful. I can account for this only by the | thoroughness with which the sympathy | | and portent are shadowed from the very first of the first movement. The Pathetic { Symphony is a tragedy, with precious | moments of light and love and ambition, but with all its forces working toward | the inevitable tragic end. | have no intention of rivaling James | Hamilton Howe, who is now the official | programme-illuminator | of the Symphony Society, but I defy any one of normal imagination to hear this | symphony as Scheel played it yesterday and not get from It some meaning and | motive beyond the mere sensations of amiable sound. ASHTON STEVENS. —_— BIG COURSING STAKE. ‘ i The Dissension of the Interstate Club Adds to the Entry. The usual weekly stake to be rnn off | | at Ingleside to-morrow and Sunday was | drawn at Delta Hall last evening. 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