The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1898, Page 8

Vot ’/“’y \ | TREOY) \| ISR { PLEASANT OUT- ! OF-TOWN i { CYCLING TRIP. attention! day run up to e Stockto accompany trip is g A letter received from Antioch says the condition, to Martinez is strong head ch difficulty ads are dry and seen aid to be a study on, and alone well the At t nd no at 11 p. m. the boat for home, Monday morning at § the distance trav- arriving o'clock. eled the t Cc o ST 2 favorite | season. | of the Bay | ce Hotel next | ruary 16, prom- 1 Soctal func- n point of elegance and witations, limited as to sought for, to secure one » evening. atched John | ured a most er B. Fav E. Edwards of t clubs of this city & the Acme st G. land, of Washing- put on a’ ionals. En- rticulars can be had et, 1303 Broadw of inte: War over th use of a long standing r between them, and the event wi i hold. hand- | 1} ents at the fcap billl club hous Pik ugene ‘r W. M aldwell, cDonald, J. | and “‘Bob” Terrill. The | es are: A. J. M H. W | Welch, J. M. ¥ Georg P. Caldw Davidson, A. King-R man_Jr., A Kellom, il and W. I. Caid- well. Many entrants are holding off u til the last moment and will “cut in” to-night. » W. B. Becker, the crack middle distance | racer, has gone to Portland on a v A Beckér wanted $100 appea before he would meet John 4n a 20-mile tch on W t Arthur C. Thorr . ex-captain of the Olympic Club W n, is in the city on a visit from hi: t place of resi- dence, Portland, y over for the Bay City party Wednesday night. | The Cycle Board of Trade held a pro- tracted meeting at its offices in the yott building Wedn 7 night, the sub ject of price sundries and repairs be ing very thoroughly discu . Nothin; Gefinite was decided upon, but the matter the next | will be brought up again at meeting. | Four more games of the Cycle League At the series will be played to-morrow, Velodrome grounds the teams o Californias 3 also on the card probably be played « the latter at the Velodrom The Olympic Cyclers a men_will play off th the Velodrome grounds 10 a m. Chairman Myrick has received a large number of entries for road race of the C. A. over the San L ington’s birthda, next Monday. ing is to be in all contestan v ing_the tape, > required to report to Henry F. , Who w special checker to de tions of the men in cas pute about their finishi H. W - z 00D TROUT FISHING AT POINT REYES. The anglers who left this city last Sat- urday evening on a special train for Rus- slan River met with disappointment, as the heavy rainfall discolored the water, making trolling out of the question. Tho river rose very rapidly and the steelheads aid not tarry on the way, as they were behind time this season in reaching fa- vorite spawning beds. Om the return from Duncans Mills the | parture in racing where heretofore ms essitated a halt of two hours. The 1gine the return of passenger: patched to Tomales from. that place to the P« S made with the anglers who had caught more er than fish on b W which was at Point Reyes wait- wa nigh in t still in the swim. [ an exhibitio: people of t when his efty ymases th rank Dolliver the pl consumers | engine broke down at Tomales and this | ne dis- | rip | % ROWING CLUBS. >ooe| ! BUSY TIMES AMONG reseccesces >ooo As the season draws near the various boating clubs are gathering their racing material together, and each Sunday the yunding their boathouses is h barges, shells and skiffs. That on will be livelier than last is Richard Blennerhassett, the club’s dele- gate to the P. A. A., has resigned, and popular Tom Hopkins has been elected in_his stead. Patch is negotiating for a shell which he hopes to own shortly. The Ariel’s senfor crew will begin train- | ing to-morrow. It will consist of R. Ellis, | stroke; W. Howe, after waist; James | O’Connell, forward waist, and Joe Han- | nan, bow. | The club’s junior crew is cdmposed of | members of the Eintracht Club, all of whom have made names in athletic| work. | They are out every Sunday, and have | made an excellent showing against the more experienced crews. The barge is | manned by W. Haustine, George Stef-| fern, W. Oechsle and Charles Haas. J.| D. Bartaux is their coach. | +<+++| Welghtmen—Hooper, Delashmutt, Wool- L 4 . ATHLETIC SPORTS | | AT THE § UNIVERSITIES. i D The long stretch of fair weather this winter has been a material factor in has- tening the opening of the spring athletic season. At both seats of university learn- ing, Palo Alto and Berkeley, the students are engaged in the preparatory work for track and field. The advance made has LADIES HOLD THE RIBBONS. Eastern Cities. Fair Drivers at Horse Races the Latest Innovation—Fully Appreciated by the Sports of 00600 & Some of the Pretty “Whips’’ May Be Induced to Come to This Coast. It is a noted fact that the ladies have {nvaded the domains of trade over which t man imagined that he held undis- puted sway, and we have lady barbers, 1y lawyers, lady doctors, ana even lady but it has been left to the ate & new de- policemen, State of Maine to inaugu has been monarch of all he surveyed, and what is more, the venture has been found eminently successful and profitable. Ben True, who has just returned from that section said that it was Colonel Mor- rill of Pittsfield who first conceived the jdea of having “lady jockeys and he with “Will” Hill, a wealthy railroad di- rector and extensive horse owner of Ex- eter, Maine, have had four lady jockeys, ormore correctly, drivers, and the innova- tion has created something of a sensation in that State. ' The young ladies are all farmers’ daugh- tees and have been brought up to handle stock, and they can drive as well as the most experienced horsemen. In the State of Maine it is ‘the custom to have county fairs at which *horse trots,” as races are there called, are held, and these lady drivers go round the circuit, taking in the tracks at Righy (the only mile track in Maine), Dover, Hartland, Pittsfleld and Exeter, the last four-being half-mile tracks. The races are hotly contested and the ladies strain every nerve to win, and when they came down the stretch at Ex- eter on September 28 the sight was in- deed thrilling. 1t a pacing race, and they drove in bike sulkies with pneumatic tires and the entries and riders were: Paul T, Miss Woodcock; Merrill, Miss Maeder; Maud Elling »d, Miss Merrill, and Ervin M, Miss Esther Prescott. Ervin M is a pac- ing stallion owned by Will Hill and has a record of 2:19, and in this race, with Miss Prescott driving, won in 2:21%, and she drove the horse just a half hour after first seeing him, no uncommon feat, for he s a vigorous animal and Miss Pres- cott is a slight maiden of 18. Her achieve- ment was all the more noticeable from the fact that the best that Guy Ed- wards, the crack rider in Maine, could do with the horse was 2:235. It was a very pretty sight to see the four horses with their attractive drivers coming neck and neck, but Miss Prescott won with Ervin M by a nose. Colonel Morrill expressed his intention to bring these lady drivers to this coast, but they say that they do not fancy the notoriety attached to such a course, they not minding it as much when they are near home among friends, for the friends of these ladies are legion in Maing. A letter from Point Reyes, which was recelved yesterday, states that there are large numbers of small fishes in the creek and that good sport will be enjoyed to-day. John Gallagher and John But- | ler are located at the Point now, and that means that visiting angiers who may run short of salmon roe bait need not feel alarmed, as the two Johns invariably go well provided with “roll.” | | Captain Kennedy of the Dolphins | thinks that in his junfor crew he has an | aggregation of rowers which will make things lively in the coming races. J. Bartman, T. J. Kennedy, A. H. Pape and Tom Hopkins are riv for the Treadwell medal. The winner in the | event will be entered in the junior skif? race in the first regatta. | Daniel O'Connor and Frank Loth are organizing another Junior to compete with the Germans. Frank Wilson made his first appearance in the water last Sunday, and intends to zive his whole attention’ to the skiff events. The South Ends have opened the sea- son with many promising features which point toward a successful year. A FAMILY OF CHAMPIONS. MANNED BY A FATHER AND FOUR SONS. The Alameda Rewing Club can boast a barge crew consisting of father and four sons, which unique fact the annals of aquatic athletics will find hard to duplicate. 8. J. Pembroke, who has for the past few years acted as coach for the Alamedas, is the originator of the crew. His* sons have imbibed his love or rowing and have developed into excellent oarsmen. cleverness and began chaffing his father with being behind the times and not good enough to row in fast company. Mr. James W., the eldest, early showed Pembroke, although nearing the fifty vear mark, thought he would test the point. He entered the regatta held at Long Bridge in 1895, and had as his opponents his son James, William McCausland of the Ariels and Coughlan of the Dolphins. Although nearly thrown out of the boat at the start, he managed to come in a good third, defeating his son. Arthur S. then tried to take the laurels from the “old man,” but, like his brother, went down to defeat. pened in the championship regatta held in Sacramento in September of the same year. This hap- Mr. Pembroke won the race In the remarkably fast time of 10:48, which has stcod as the record for outrigger skiffs to this day. After that there was no fur- ther boasting. In a special race on the estuary he defeated Dr. Cecil Dennis. the present champion. The excellent time made by the crew in practice spins has led Mr. Pembroke to issue a sweeping challenge to any other crew similarly constituted. The barge is manned as follows: 8. J. Pembroke, stroke; James, W., age'?], afterwaist; Arthur 8., age 25, forward- waist; Herbert E., age 20, bow. and Percy S.. age 8. cockswain. . been such that in another week, weather conditions permitting, the active work will be begun and contests both on the diamond and on the cinder path will then be in order. ‘With the chilling blanket of a 28—0 foot- ball score over their shoulders the Cali- fornia men are exerting every fibrous tis- sue in their bodies to redeem themselves on another field. On the track they con- template the extermination of the germ which worked such sad havoc last Thanksgiving day. With a list of men pledged to work faithfully throughout the season and which in numbers and in qual- ity rivals that of former years, California will strive to organize a winning team, which may tour the Eastern States. As far as traek material is concerned the blue and gold has a plethora of talent. Alreddy the men have been classified and development along particular lines will henceforth be the order of work. The victorious team of last year has, to a man, returned, and some notable addi- tions have been made. Drum, whose ex- ceptional performances last April earned for him the reputation of the crack sprinter of the coast, will uphold the honor of the blue and gold in at least two of the sprints, which they will be has not as yet been determined. Along with Drum will be Woolsey, a young man with much natural athletic ability. Great acquisitions have been made to the aggregation of distance men. Carroll will lead the lists for the mile and half- mile. The hurdle jumpers are rather a weak element in the team, but this weak- ness will be removed if concentrated ef- fort on the part of the trainers prove effi- caclous. There are a number of strong, big men in the weight class. Besides the three men with records of over 39 feet in theshot-put, thereis Woolsey, who tosses the leaden weight over 40 feet. The high and distance jumpers are already on the fleld limbering and educating their mus- cles to their special kind of work. The classifled list of the track and fleld athletes laboring under the blue and gold standards is as follows: Sprinters—Car- enter, Broughton, Pierce, Dickie, Mc- Nab, Haskin, Bigelow, Tracy, Woolsey, Drum, Bayer, Bugbee, Hinz and Simonds. Distance men—Smith, Miller, Tashelra, Wise, Rasmussen, Turner, Burke, Dorety Grieve, Tolman, Allen, Hodgkin, Moser, Scott, Carpenter, Peart, Bartlett, Carroli and Brown. Hurdlers—B. Bakewell, Miller, Crocker, Bretherick, Peck, Dawson, H. B. Bake- well. Jumpers — Garrison, Pratt, H: Christensen, Parker and Goldlmlth.mey' kWalkem—Wenerteld. ‘Walsh and - Ait- en. 3 !m | | | | | | nation nine. Pole vault—Mumma, Hoffmann. Cyclers—Squires and Childs. is an array the incompetents of progresses. California. Preliminary work in the gymnasium and a marshaling of the ma- | terial is the state in which track athletics are now in at Palo Alto. McLeod, the trainer for the cardinal, hopes to have the men ready for actual work on the track within a few wee But with baseball it is another matter. Stanford is not losing a single moment in the work on the diamond. Re-enforced | by graduate players who are coaching the nine, much improvement has been made in the individual playing, as well as_the combined efforts fn team pl The paucity of good material has mili- tated against the formation of a strong team at this early date. Loughead, who has succeeded Jeffs in the captaincy of the team, will play short. Lannigan and Beckett will do the twirling and_Strohn the catching. The bases will be filled by oung first, Harris second and Laine third. In the field at present are Klau- ber, Wight and Murphy. The first game of the new league be- tween the college teams and the alumni team, composed of graduated players from both Stanford and California, will be played this afternoon at Central Park. Stanford will line up against the combi- The alumni team is made | McLaine, pitche Allen, fi McKee up as follow catcher; “Toby han, second base; Lewls, short stop: Harrelson, left Calhoun, right field; Haliday, center field. Next Friday Garret Cochran, the fa- mous captain of Princeton’s most famous team, will arrive in Berkeley, and for the entire year the athletic destinies of California will be in his hands. His la- bors will at first be directed toward the coaching of the baseball team. As soon as he has the disciples of the stick well under hand attention will be given to the football men, drilling them in the pre- paratory work of the field and fitting them for the actual season next fall. AN OFF WEEK IN BASKET BALL. This was somewhat an ‘“off week” in basket ball tournaments, as the two events were disappointments. On Thursday night the Spartans came across the bay and were defeated by the Mission team in a close but unsatisfactory game, which was slow and full of fum- bles and errors. The contestants did not play their positions and even some of the official rulings seemed to be doubtful. The large audience would have appreciatéd a better exhibition. The score at the end of the first half was 4 to 3, in favor of the Spartans, but the Missions succeeded in making 2 points more in the last twenty minutes, and they won the game with a final score of 5 to 4. The teams lined up as follows: Spartans. Positions. A. Cardweil. Forward W. Hambleton.....Forward Otto Kurtz.. ‘Forward Missions. Charles Zeihn. enter. D. J. Grant W. F. Martin......Guard. V. Smith E. T. Menzies......Guard -W. Lamont Last night's game was given to the Incognitos of Oakland by default. Their opponents were to have been the Unions of San Francisco, but this team has been suspended by the section committee for entering an unregistered player. Until they comply with all the requirements of the committee they cannot play any more in the present tournament. The official record of last night’s game reads there- fore like this, Incognitos, 2—0. Each side has now won four games, as will be seen in the following table giv- ing the standing of the different teams ‘t]hat had entered the tournament up to ate: Per Teams— Won. Lost. Cent. Athens (Oakland 0 1,000 Incogs (Oakland). iE 2 333 Spartans (Oakland). . R 2 333 Business Men (San Francisco). 2 0 1.000 Rushers (San Francisco)....... 1 0 1,000 Missions (San Francisco)...... 1 1 Lawyers (San Francisco)...... 0 1 Unions (San Francisco). 5.0 2 POOL TOURNAMENT. TODD SLOAN HANDICAP. This evening the famous Jockey Todd_ Sloan and his brother, “Cash,” will show champion pool players how to pocket the ivory and incidentally capture the pot on 0od handicap. The following players will meet in the billlard parlor at 8 Eddy street at 8 o’clock and will contest in a one-hundred game of 15-ball continuous viz: Todd Sloan, handicap, 7; 76; J. Swalin, 90; Billy George, 100; E. E. Johnson, 100; Jim Burrows, 100. Burrows, the , present champion, and George will start the ball a rolling. Todd Sloan says that Le learned a trick or two from the Prince of Wales in pool playing which he intends to spring on Burrows— that is, in case the champion will attempt to pocket him. HANDBALL TOSSERS MEET TO-MORROW. Phil Ryan of the San Francisco Hand- ball Court has announced the following games which will be played to-morrow: L. Waterman and E. McDonough vs. N. .J. Prendergast_and D. J. Sheehan; E. Barry and T. Foley vs. M. Joyce and J. Kirby; M. Maguire and E. Curley vs. D. Connelly and A. Pennoyer; L. Stelnhardt and E. Lynch vs. N. Berger and J. R. Bockman; J. White and_E. Toy vs. R. Mugphy and J. Collins; P. Ryan and D. Rodgers vs. G. McDonald and M. M- Neil; J. C. Neaion and R. Linehan vs. T.s F. Bonnet and A. Hampton. ADVERTISEMENTS. For one reason the nervous system or another of women becomes impaired, and on account of what 1s termed ‘‘female com- plaints,” life becomes a burden. Many think tnat these pains and aches that wear women’s life down with nervousness and so rapidly age them must be endured. But tnis is mot true. Headaches, sleeplessness, lack of energy, nervous prostration, despond- ency, weariness, neurslgis, are all dis. Z o pelled, and mervous, Dr. M|Ies atling women are re. stored to health by Book free, Restorati H i Restorative Nervine DR, MILES MEDICAL (O.. Elkbart, 1pd, T | which will be weeded out as the season | D ! POISONED GRAIN FOR THE 3 v he t 'k men | his not AAvARSeq fo ARy such stage as at | i GEESE AND DUCKS } ! ] The long-expected heavy rain which ar- rived in Suisun to save the crops has put an end to duck-shooting on the marshes, but as it has done an immense amount of good to the country sportsmen have been as delighted with its arrival as the men who depend solely upon a good wheat crop to tide them through the season. Latest advices from Stockton are to the effect that the farmers who reside near the river have been soaking their wheat in poison, and as a consequence thou=- sands of wild geese die on the fields. The following letter to the sporting edi« tor from Stockton is self-explanatory “Wild geese are here in thousands, and are remaining along the sloughs and riv- ha ers so long this year that the > be- come a dangerous pest. Thi the young wheat to a great extent, the farmers are becoming so alarmed th they are soaking wheat in strychnine and throwing it over the flelds. Dead geeso are lying around in profusion, but fc every one killed ten more seem to come The Sacramento Record-Union recently published a very Instructive article on the danger of casting out poisoned wheat, and there is no doubt that Game Warden Helms will try his utmost to stop the practice if possible. The article in ques- tion reads: It is high time that something was done to put a stop to the indiscriminate scattering of poisoned grain for the purpose of killing birds. 1If the poison was to be confined to birds that remained in particular flelds it would not be so bad, for land owners might prohibit persons from invading their prop- erty and shooting game that had eaten pois- oned grain, or if anyone should trespass it would be at his peril. But_the trouble is that birds are here to- day and somewhere else to-morrow. They may eat polsoned grain in one end of the county and be shot miles away, thus endangeriug the lives of those who eat them. Game Warden Helms went out to a locality about six miles south of Folsom to investigate a report that the ground was covered with dead doves that had been poisoned. He found about 2300 of these birds scattered about, all dead, as reported. Helms found that the poison had been put out by a farmer named Daniel Faukenheim The latter, when called on, admitted that he had put out wheat soaked in strychnine to kill the birds that ate his growing n. The facts were reported by Warden Helms to District Attorney Ryan, and the latter could find no law governing the case. Thers is a clause In the law which prohibits the Killing or destruction of c of birds, including doves, betw In the case of doves, this protection begins on the 1ith of February, so that after that date any one can be prosecuted and punished for poisoning or otherwise killing doves Warden Helms subsequently conferred with Bupervisor Morrison on the subject, and Mr. Morrison declared his intention of introducing an ordinance at the first meeting of the board making it a punishable offense for any one to put out poison where wild game is llable to get it. | Hunters in the vicinity of Stockton, and especially market hunters, should be care- ful not to pick up any dead birds they may find in the grain fields, otherwise there may follow no end of trouble. 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