The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1899, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1899, SPORTS AFIELD AND AFLOAT. Fifth Race—One and a quarter miles; handl- cap. £34 Sardonic . 106] $13 Mistleton 105 25 Major Hooker... %0 (§26)Survivor . 2 07 Charles Relff.... 80 Selections for To-Day. First Race—Myth, Opponent, Joe Mussle. Second Race—Limewater, Fleur de Morinel. Third Race—Vanity, Huntsman, Our Climate. Fourth Race—Sardine, Ella Boland, Hindoo Princes. Fifth Race—Survivor, Mistleton, Sardonic. Sl Al Fresco Takes a UNSHINE OUT AT INGLESIDE Lis, Handicap. Hand - Book Betting| NEW ORLEANS, March 17.—Results: : First race, one mile—Egbart won, Uhl- on Four Races. ers second, Climacus third. Time, 1:43%. Second race, six furlongs—Little Jack | | Horner won, The Purser second, Maurice W third. Time, 1:15%. Third race, selling, one and an eighth I M raee ’ 3 THEN THE POLICE ARRIVED | i doniicsl ik time L { * Fourth race, the St. Patrick andi- > = | cup, mile and a_sixteenth—Al Fresco won, | Forbush second, Joe Shelby third. Time, BUT TWO CHOICES REACHED fih race, seven furlongs—Cotton Plant THE WIRE FIRST. [ srone l'um S second, Shuttlecock third. Time, | _ Sixth ce, selling, seven furlongs— Brother Fred won, Cherr: Bounce second, Lost Time third. Time, 1:29%. Andrisa Scored Her Third Viectory. Johnny Reiff Piloted Two Win- ners—Tony Licalzi a Sur- prise. CHOYNSKI AND McCOY. The Crack Heavy-Weights Now in Proper Condition to Enter ° the Ring. The admirers of high-class fisticuffs | will have an opportunity on Friday evén- inz next of witnessing one of the most ce hundred dejected-look- acin; vho srvous! € el in Ting o) | Sclentific contests between great ring gen- O I & sanmd hiil, found | erals that has ever been afforded in this treary and uninviting. To, be | ©it Joe Choynski, the favorite athlete of ropes of an eighteen or twenty-four foot ring something away above the ordinary boxing entertainment may be expected. Among the fighters of the present day " McCoy has without question the enviable record. He is now the star of and but two favorites | displayed on the top | gan’s Watercress-La | ioch working very fast closed an eve Ar he e o the pugllistic horizon, and consequently = ‘”',’-fi“{';,‘e ‘\fi}fl“'fl.f&}_‘é’f& must be a great attraction wherever he pus, 4 of 6 to 1, scheduled to spar or fight. from | "On Friday evening McCoy will have i to accomplish hing more brilliant flashlight moves. ter to allow a ap him on the claret pipe - without a return. MecCoy land on the face of unas- Joseph many times during the Backed tc clever boxer to uming mill,” but he must needs be mighty car 13 7ennle. Reed chn-]fultictielirightior leftihogl Rich 0as ted Jennie Recd cap- | cone’many @ good man to g cold spot on She was arlong selling Tun. | the hayd floor. Certainly McCoy cannot and catching e 200, % 40 i | afford to induige in gave le the con- N COUD St Tera e {TeRE UK Ty SEC OO IvEN LSk JOBIO] Tace astride the fa- | from either of Choynskis man-stoppers ace astride the &2~ | may_ bring the battle fo & very, abrupt conclusion. e affair, over one mile and a SR jrded Our Climate anxi\(h:xx}(lmf Some authcrities on boxing contend o Show his DEowess. Starting | that Chosnsil has grown oo DI IS 1 first Soon after the | game to makc a ful stand against anger and Tortoni at | his young and c opponent. Doubt- wire with compar: ark | less they failed to into consideration 1t astride Ho: | that Choynski is several years the junior | and 1 fighter his of Bob g record is better t won his spu itzsimmons 1 7 that of the champion ting two past H books be. doubt have been 1 . ar 2z to win the five : dicap, for the ck Demp- thought of among Piok. | sey and Jim ears 2K he ing up his 8 pounds he ran over Gualala ey F“f‘?""“f‘““(‘“‘u“‘,‘m& o w““;’;"‘; 3 the streteh, winoing hands down, Good | W *eht hox at one stase of the gamo LoD sunMOrithe Rhom iahcr Choynski landed a hard left on his To-. ? jaw. The contest was stopped. by police e L IR {hterterence in the fifth round and at a Sor e and a sixteenth miles; sell- | time when both men were well pumpe b aud upeard: | “Choynski feels and certainly looks in 2o 815 Caspar ... condition tosday to go twenty rounds with Fitzsimmons or_any other heay Wyon ¥ 18! 821 Ed Gartland. a chip on his shoulder, and, O $10 Edgemount . Jy stated, he will give a big s Lod 09 Joe’ Mussle to his prospective opponent if s Quurd Sardonic s offered to land a right g reminder that he is still in the nd Race—One three-year-old: mile; McCoy is evidently aware of the fact that modest Joseph is a decidedly danger- ighting material, and with the object in view of being in prime con- dition to travel a long distance if neces- 94' 816 Glengaber 1 Fleur de Li Una_Colo: 1104] 828 Judge Wofford to-day, and if the visitors are so as'to be on the grounds when punching the bag, they will cer- ce a feat in leather smashing 11 not scon be forgotten. Choyn- ki Is daily visited by numerous friends at the Ingleside House, where h ent hard at work. The ref: cont will _be selected tw 5 | hours before the day of the meeting. McCoy. Huntsman . (523) Vans ndoo Princessios rdine .........110 Iililouette ... THE CALL’S RACING CHART. INGLESIDE RACE TRACK, Friday, March 17, 1899.—Fifty-eighth day of the Winter Meeting of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club. Weather fine. Track heavy. EDWIN F. SMITH, Presiding Judge. JAMES F. CALDWELL, Starter. 889, FIRST BACE Six furlongs; scliing; three-year-olds and upward; purse, $100. " Betting. Index. Horse. Age. Welght.|St. ¥m. ¥%m. Str. Fin l Jockeys. [Op. CF | Campus, 3 109] 7 2% |Jones . 5 Festoso, 3 . 13 103 1. Powell 4 Pallucus, 3 10/10 61z |McNichots .| 1 Mainbar, 4 17 9 4n (Gray qu B Sokombeo, 4 . 171 91 |Glover A Ty Sevoy, 4 1712 T |Hahn BB Monda, 3 .. -109) 2 10 W. Narvaez..| 4 8 Yaruba, 3 . 09| 8 11 Hénnessy et Merry Boy, b 1200 1 §1 l 15 Antioch, 8. 1108 54 1 The Wooer, 3 108 5 21 5 Cymoma, 3 207 4 3% 5 Zorazzo, B .. 123 § 13 30 Time—%, :25%; %, :30; %, 1:17%. Winner, H. J. Jones' b. c. by Kingston- o etart. Won first three Ariving, e o Pallucus {s improving. Sokombeo with a better start would have Don't lose Antioch. He is better than a good Festoso was best. been dangerous. Monda pulied up lame. one, Seratched—Flora Hawk 115, Bobbins 120, Henry C 120, Nithau 115. 833 SECOND RACE—Four furlongs; two-year-olds; purse, $00. . Index. Horse. Welght.,st. %m. % Str. Fin. f Jockeys. é‘,fi_‘““c'fl: (S15) Andrisa . 15 2 s 4% 2h 1n |Spencer 5 35 ... Bassida .. »103‘ 1 . 31 11 24 £ 4 : 5 §15 Nea Denn! Ll 6 e Y T 10 3 33 Prestome 101 & T it e h o 35y 3 S e R ey 19 3 9 s 64 20 30 T & 6% 8% 71 8 15 8 S 85 |Loulller 0 The or? e . 82 9 9 IMea 10 30 Time—%, 24%; %, :30%. Winner, W. B. Jennings' b. f. by imp. St. Andrew-F: Louiss. Good start. Won first three driving. s sl Spencer, was jollying Martin the last part. Dennis has plenty of speed. 834. Index. Horse. Age. Weight.(St. .53 4 The winner is a dainty racing morsel. Ned three-year-olds and upward; purse, $400. | Betting. %m. %m. %m. Str. !-‘(n.l Jockeys. [Op. Cl. 819 Jennie Reid, 8. (818) Truxillo, 5. (819) Sardonic, 4 814 Frank Jaubert, $14 Lady Hurst i 15 miles, 1 three driving. Time— , 3520 % b. f. by El Rio Rey-Fonsett: Going not muddy enough for Trux was s0 eighth miles; four- year-olds and upward; FOURTH RACE—One and an . 885, "Rurdres; purse, 100, ik 3 5 [ Betting. Index. Horse. Age. Welgh %m. Str. Fin Jockeys. |op. CL. 23 Our Climate, 1 {Doane ........] 85 3.2 ($30) Granger, & 3 [Matiter . H rtoni, a. [ IGlover H ©) 30 C, a o |3, Dal 15 29 Joe Cotton, 4 15 [Ambrose . 12 (788) Tyro, .. IMcAuliffe 1 §30° Imp. Alien, e oo {McKenna 0 Winner, D. A. Honlg's b. g by St. Carlo-imp. Royal Bess. Good start. Time—2:00%. Won handily. Second and third driving. Our Climate too fast on the flat for Granger. Others outclassed. Scratched—Major S 132, Lord Chesterfield 143, Three Forks 132, 836. IFTH RACE—Five and a hal furlongs; handicap; three-year-olds and upwar purse, $400. L ) B Index. Horse, Age. Welght(St. %m. Y%m. %m. Str. Fin. | Jockeys. Eo,f,""r‘;“l_' Tony Licalzl, 4 T BB SRR YRt A o 5 Gualala, 3. 11 11 22 21 |McNichoi Good Hop#, 1 4 32 38 [Hal Brown. Midlight, 5 SRR e i |Powen i Time_3.16, :18%; 6-16, :30; 7-16, :42; 6% futlongs, 1:09. Winner, S. N. Holman & Co.'s b. €. by Hornpipe-Mary Foster. Good sfart, Won casily. Second and third driving. ‘Gualala stopped last furlong. Was probably short. Midlight had early Tony rolled in. #peed, but sulked. was relief from police surveil- t ce, after which the | the Golden West, will meet the remark- in whispers. But |ably clever “Kid” McCoy in Mechanice’ | : 1s not popular with | Pavilion in a contest booked for twenty & possessing limited capital, | Tounds. It goes without saying that when |oid were very cinchy. The | two men of their fame step between the Morinel 28 Judse Vioftord- 19| cary he has trained faithfully at the Sombre { orite spor‘sman’s resort, the Casino, Golden Gate Park. . A Jarze mnnber of sport lovers will visit | NOW FOR STEELHEADS. Large Run of Fishes Up Paper Mill Creek Causing Excitement in Angling Circles. The recent rain has been welcomed by anglers as well as by the farmers of the State. The outlook for April fishing is now decidedly promising provided that a long spell of dry weather will not follow the bounteous downpour of a week that is drawing to a close. 3 There are among the fishermen who have made a study of the so-called mid- winter angling quite a number who con- tend that owing to the late arrival of the storm comparatively few fishes will as- cend the coast streams in March and | April, and that late storms are not con= ducive to good sport in the early months | of the trout fishing season. | This may be so in past winters, when | rainstorms were of frequent occurrence, but evidence is now at hand to prove that the steelheads have remained in the ocean's depths during the months of sun- shine, there awaiting the arrival of a flow ‘?tlfresh water from the hilis and moun- ains. Now that the creeks are full to over- flowing the game silver-sides of the P citic have made “a flying trip” to their longed for, loving beds, whicn are gen- | erally near the headwaters ot coast streams visited by the game fishes during | the winter montbs. | pYesterday word was recelved from Point Reves that Champion John Gallagher | made an excellent catch on Thursday afternoon and that several large fish were | seen “rolling” in the deep pools near the | Point. This news will be welcomed by | local anglers, many of whom will journey | to the old fishing grounds while sport can | be enjoyed. Good reports have also been | received from Pescadero and Shellville. | | Unless a second heavy freshet arrives b | fore April 1, which will certainly carry | | numbers of nice fish with it to the ocean, | the prospects for first-class sport in April { and May are certainly of the best. | "The following letter explains itself: | Sporting Editor Call—Dear "Sir: Captain | rles Kimball of Oakland, Charles Orr and Dave Dondero of Fort Bragg fished the Ten- | | die§ empioyed in cleaning tlhbi after hav- ing been ro¥ind the courSe with miembers. Members are regues!efl to take the num- ber of any caddy who does not behave himself properly in ordef that the matter may be investigated and the lmgmprie‘y of “the caddy's demeanor éffectually checked. e IN BARGE AND SKIFF. Several Regattas Are Being Planned by Leading Rowing Men. The circylar to the various rowing clubs around tke bay and at Victoria, B. C., Tacoma, Seattle, Portland, Astoria, Stockton and San Diego, requesting that three delegates be cent from each club to a convention of oarsmen, is about ready to be sent out. The suggestion is made that the rowing clubs either form a new organization, to be called the Pacific Row- ing Assoclation, or join the National As- sociaticn of American Oarsmen. It is contended that the Pacific Athletic Asso- clation, a branch of the Amateur Athletic Union, has no right to assume powers not exercised by the union, and that it might just as well assume control of yachting as of rawing. If each club has three rep- resentatives in the proposed association it will be difficult for a small clique to gain control, and it is unlikely that a club will be without a representative at auy meeting of the board. The Alameda Boat Club held an enthu- siastic _meeting recently at which the plans for the enlargement of the boat- house were discussed. . Pembroke, the representative of the club on the board of managers of the P. A, A., was instructed to vote against the proposed amendment to the constitution that row- ing be included in the sports over which the P. A. A. assumes jurisdiction. The fol- lowing new members have been recently added: J. H. Timmens, Fred Klarman, Henry P. | Martine and George N. Atkins. At the South End Rowing Club's regular meeting, held last Tuesday, the amend- ment raising the entrance fee to $10 after April 1, and limiting the number of mem- bers to 100, was passed. mile River one day last week. Orr and Don- dero met with great success, landing between | | them 110 steelheads, ranging from half a poun | to three pounds. Orr hooked and lost a ve large fish on account of his reel becoming loo: and falling from the rod just as the fish start down stream. The captain, however (whose | reputation as a fisherman has always been | ( high), failed to get @ fish. | Every man, woman and small boy in Men- | | docino” County are wondering where the cap- | tain got his reputation. | The captain says tha could use salmon roe erman, that he never | (a la Butler), but that he is willing and ready | when the season opens to try conclusions with | any fisherman in the State of California with - The writer has seen the captain’s fishing | tackle, and the rod he uses for salmon fishing | is of such prodigious proportions that had he succeeded in hooking a_steelhead anywhere from five to forty pounds he could have landed | him 1n Dolliver” style. The captain is open for a challenge. Yours truly, TREE SPOON. FLOYD MFARLAND WILL NOT RACE ELKES DOES NOT LIKE MIDDLE-DIS- | TANCE GAME. A Chellenge From the East That Will | Pass Unnoticed—Bay City Road ° Race Next Sunday. | The friends of Floyd McFarland do not | think it very sportsmanlike for Harry Elkes to wait until he got back to Bo: ton and then wire a challenge to “Mac” | to ride him any style, middle distance, for | a big purse, in view of the fact that Mc- | Farland has repeatedly stated openly that | he did not intend to enter the middle- | aistance game, but would confine himself entirely to sprint racing. | “The only reason in tue world why Mc- | Farland raced Elkes a middle-distance | imu.u:h at the indoor tournament,” said Jack McGlynn at the Olympic Club yes-| terday, “‘was on account of an article| | that appeared in The Call. You remem- ber one night Billy Brady and ‘Pop’ Elkes and several others were conversing in the center of the arena about the respective | ‘ abilities of McFarland and Harry Eikes. I was there and so was a Call man, the | only newspaper man present. ‘Pop’ Elkes | Was very enthusiastic about his boy’s | ability and got quite demonstrative, | think the lad had just ridden an exhib] | tion mile in 1:50 or something, which preity good going for an indoor, track. Brady was trying to work old man Elkes | up to a match race. ‘Now, come right | down to cases, Mr. Eikes' hé said. ‘Wil | your boy racé McFarland? Elkes sa | yes, if it was for twenty to thirty mile If fiot, he would give in a bit and ride fifteen-mile matcn. ‘We will ride | Farland, said ‘a fifteen-mile paci match, and allow him a handicap of two laps! P Brady was tickled to death at the pro pect of a match. The cnatlenge appeare in The Call the next morning. McFarland saw it he was much surpri as he had no intention of doing any mid- dle-distance racing, but he would not be bluffed. He declined the handicap, went into the race and won it hands down, breaking all records. Mac has The Call to thank for getting into the race, but ln-‘ Sists now that he is out of middle-di tance racing for good, and for this reason | I think Elkes' challenge Is a good deal in the nature ofa bluff.”” "The Reliance Wheelmen seems to be the = v club having anythlnfi.rvn the_tapis to-morrow—a_run_to Laundry Farm. The Bay City Wheelmen will hold thie first road race of the season on Sunday, the 26th—a five-mile event from San Le- andro to Haywards. i The Bay City Club has two social events carded for the edrly part of next month— a dance at the Palace Hotel maple room on April 5, and a vaudeville show at Na- tive Sons’ Hall on Apuil 13. The Olympic Wheelmen are talking of a big meet on their new track in about | a month, and it will be welcomed by all interested in the racing game. | —_— e | AMONG THE GOLFERS. Driving, Approaching and Putting Competitions on the Links To-Day. This afternoon (Saturday, March 18) there will be men's competitions In driv- ing and approaching on the links of the San Francisco Golf Club. On the links of the Oakland Golf Club there will be putting and approaching contests for la- dies and gentlemen for a silver medal. Two competitions on the Adams Point links are still unfinished. In the men's foursomes, cighteen holes, match play, ¢ith handicap, begun on March 4, R. M. itzgerald and Arthur Goodall have to play the final foursome against R. Cooke and W. A. Magee; and in the match play, | handicap, eighteen holes, begun last Sat- urday, March i1, only the preliminary and sécond rounds_have been concluded. In the third round R. Cooke (scratch) has defeated W. A. Magee (1); A. Goodall (5) has beaten T. Rickard (): and W. P. Johnson (3) has proved victorious over J. C. McKée (scratch). D. F. Belden (scratch) has still to play G. D. Green- wood (scratch). In the fourth or semi- final round the winner of the Belden- Greenwood match will be paired against R. Cooke, and A. Goodall will play W. P. Johnson. The stormy weather prevented play on the Presidio links until Friday, on which afternoon several players wernt round the course for practice. On Tuesday, March | 21, there will be (that is, if the programme is'adhered to) ladies’ foursomes, eighteen holes, with handicap, on the links of the San Francisco Golf Club: and on Satur- day, March 25, there will be a ladies’ com- petition, match play, with handicgp, on the Oakland links. The strained relations between the di- rectors of the San Rafael Golf Club and certain insubordinate and rapacious cad- aies have been the subject of considerable newspaper comment and now it appears the Oakland golfers also have troubles of their own. The following rules with regard to the employment and payment of caddies have been adopted by the Oakland club and | the members are requested to adhere to them: Rule 1. All caddies are to be paid at the rate of 15 cents for each game played. Rule 2. Caddies are not to be engaged | before the moment at which their ser- | vices are required by the player. | Rule 3. Caddles are to be taken from | the stand in the numerical order of their adges, which hereafter will be given out by the steward each morning in the order that the boys apply for them. A separate spot will be assigned to cad- F t he is not a bait fish- | | nasium of the | game was won by J. R. Bockman, president of the board of managers of the P. A. A., and Dr. L | A. Pless of the Ariel Rowing Club, visited the Alameda club’s boathouse last Sun- with the view of seeing what oppor- tunities there are of giving a regatta on ihe Oakland Creek. If funds are obtain- able it a short programme barges and two for outrigged skifts) may be given. Bockman will go up to Vallejo and look over the chances of getting up a regatta there. It 50 probable that a regatta will be given at Guerneville under the patronage of some Santa Rosa people, who are will- ing to leave the control of the event in the hands of the board of managers of the P. A A " The néw senior barge crew of the Ariels is made up of Willlam Howe, Robert Ellis, James O’ Conr 1k Loth. In the junior barge cre tcDonough, Haughton and E. e left, and a fourth man will be found among the new members. The Wilson crew has chal- lenged the Pembroke crew, which sists of S. J. Pembroke and his four sons. The race between the family crews would be an interesting event for the Ariel Club regatta. On Sunday, March 19, noon, the race between J. T. J. Sullivan’s barge crews w place from the Dolphin boathouse. the middle of April the first of a seri before s’ an take shortly S. Earl ] A. F. Estabrook, B. E. Remmel, | | DAWSON’S SPRING CLEAN-UP WILL BE ENORMOUS DAWSON, Feb. 14.—The sun stands daily for four hours above the south- eastern horizon now and ‘the spring clean-up is entering into every man's conversation. I have made three trips of inspection to different divisions of this mining district, covering all the main creeks, and find in all of them a great deal more work under way than was atternpted last year. Th2 output therefore will doubtless be nearly as great in excess of that of last year as was that of last year over that of the year before. For six miles on Dominion Creek, in the Indian River division, covering the region between the upper and lower discoverjes, and a short dis- tance above and below, almost every claim is being worked and big dumps succeed each other continuously. For fifteen miles below dumps appedr at frequent intervals. On Sulphur Creek, another division of the Indian River, conditions are similar, the improvement H. | over last year being in like propoition. On Hunker Creek the increased devel- pment is almost as marked and a great roportion of the gross output will be credited to it in the general footings con- | About | of races in outrigged skiffs for a medal | will be held. The medal must be won three times before it becomes the property of the winner. The competitors will be W. Bush, George Baker, J. Farrell, Dr. | Axton and C one which w so long a tim lost. Recentl T. Roach. The medal is the s retained by L. Hausler for that it was regarded as A. P. Rothkopf recovered for the smelting pot and restored it to the club. B INDOOR SPORT. Olympics, Reliance and the Young Men’s Christian Now Rounding Up the Winter’s Season. The Reliance and Olympic Athletic clubs and the Young Men's Christian As- socidtion are making the best of the few last weeks of indoor sport. On Tuesday evening the Reliance Club will entertain its friends with an interclub baseball | it among a quantity of old gold intended | the surface. | match between the Olympic and Rehance | nines. Both team$ have met before, with the honors resting on the banners of the Oaklanders. This will be the third game and the Olympics are determined to come aext summer. An immense amount of prospecting work is being don= all over this vast region and good strikes are re- ported from many widely separated points. Work is being done on creeks that last year only figured as so many crooked lines upon the map and were heard of only as places to which stam:- pedes, for no good reason that anybody could then discover, had taken place. This is particularly the case with Eu- reka Creek and Quartz Creek, in the Indian River division, and on Gold Run in the Klondike division. A new strike is reported on Flat Creek, one of the main- branches of the Klondike, one hundred miles from Daw- son. The feature of the mining situation hi ar is the bench or hillside claim, which widens the possibilities of the product by half and turhs the whole year into an ‘‘open season.” A few years ago what littlé mining was done in this country was done in the sum- Then the winter method of " or thawing the ground came into vogue, by which bedrock could be reached while the frost binds the water that at other times inundates the works. In the summer, for this reason, the gold that is taken out must come from near In the old period of bar diggings and surface skimming the summer was the “open season,” When the riches of the deeper bedrock were discovered through the new method of reaching them no man was satisfied with the products of the sandbar and staked for himself a creek claim and employed most of the summer in get- ting out wood and making other pre- parations for the winter’s digging. The winter then became the ‘“‘open season.” With the wider and constant prospec ing that followed the big rush of gold- seekers it was found that the creek bot- toms did not contain all the wealth ‘of the country. This discovery was made on the famous Skookum Hill or Skook- um Guich, which faces Bonanza, a lit- & | tle below the mouth of Eldorado Creek. out of the battle with at least a single | success. The last of the intercliub matches was played during the week, and the Olympic team—James and did_things to the Encinals, by Goggin and Masters. feated the latter by a score of 51—21. There will be a_warm time in the gym- Oakland branch of tne Young Men's Christian _Association on Tuesday evening, when the Rushers, rep- nting _this side of the bay, line up inst the Athens, who will wear the of the Oakland branch. It w the first match of baskef ball these two teams this season, rivalry is great. e STANFORD CONTESTS. represented res agal colo: and the Baseball and Track Men Will Engage | in Athletic Games With Local Teams. Palo Alte will be alive with athletics this afternoon—the track and fleld men in competition with the young racers ana jumpers of the Lowell High School and the baseball team in a match game with the Fireman’s Fund nine. Stanford athletics have been steadily progressing since the beginning of spring and at this date both the baseball nine and the track team are in pretty good shape. The weeks now remaining before the intercolleginte games in May will be used to the t advantage by candidates for the varsity representative teams. The Cardinal baseball nine has played four games with the Firemen, three of which the latter -have won. . The last Stanford after a very The game The line- and exciting contest. close : 1 attended. to-day will be wel up is as follows: Positions. Firemen. Loughead. Shortstop - Wright... Third base Krug Murt Left fiel Crancel Center flel mmond Right fleld —e——————— BOYS WHO CAN SWIM.® Aquatic Events That Will Be Held at Sutro Baths on Sunday. Judging from the very good programme of aquatic sports arranged to be held at Sutro’s on Sunday exciting contésts should result. The entries for the differ. ent events are: Fifty-yard desh, novice—D. Harris, W. rison, G. Cullen,” W. Connolly, G. 'Alds 1der, McKeénzle, E. enzie, A. Beyfuss. T. Guerin, Bentley... Har- H. M High diving for boys—C. Donovan, A. Beyfuss, H. Seebach, V. Freechtle, O. Bey- Obstacle racc throurh small tanks — G. ©'Brien, W. Hurley, C. Strohlin, R. Dahl, T. Guerin, ' F. Clough, Q. Clough, H. McKenzle. Trapeze diving—Open to all. Trick and fancy springboard diving—W. Har- rison, A. Beyfuss, McCann, O. Schuitz, J. Cartoll, H. Seebach. Under-water swimming contest—Open to all. —————————— Handball Entries. Entries for Sunday’'s handball game at Phil Ryan’s court at 858 Howard street are as follows: E. Barry and J. Kirby vs. M. Kirby and D. n. Regan, D. Rodgers and M. McNefl vs. L. Carraine ard G. McDonald. P. Ryan and J. Lawless vs. J. Dowling and M. Mc,hml:hlln. % J. White and M. Maguire vs. E. Curley and T Leath and G, Smith ve. A. MoV T. Leach ane . Smith vs. A. e Vi 3. Condon. e e J. Riordan and E. Maloney vs. M. J. Kil- gallon and M. Dillon. J. C. Nealon and A, Hampton vs. T. F. Bon- net and R. Linehun. it s S Petition in Insolvency. Clara Mersebach of Mill Valley, Marin County, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court. Her liabilities are $1794 and her assets $200. R T e e The story of James R. Keene’s lucky coup of $6,000,000 in six weeks will be in next Sunday’s Call. The former de- | handball | arrison— | The benches or hillsides of all the creeks where gold had been found in quantity have since been searched and many of them have developed as large returns and some of them larger than do the adjoining creek claims. The benches on Eldorado and Bonanza have developed great pay. Several of those | on Dominion form the choicest prop- | and Gold | Skookums be | between | of that creek. Victoria, French hills, facing Eldorado, are now as famous producers as the two and are punctured with prospect holes and shafts all over their surface and to their very summits. Ex- perts easily trace the ‘“‘old river chan- nels” all over this country now, wher- ever these finds are made. The record- ed bench and hillside claims greatly outnumber the creek claims and yet, as I have said, they were not known last year except on Skookum Hill. Many a man went out of this country last summer carrying with him and spreading the discouraging and dlscon- solate cry that “‘everything is staked"” who tramped over ground on his way to the boat that has sipce * made some more persistent prospector rich. On the first day of March last I stood on ground on. Dominion Creek that at that time no one thought of staking. Last summer, a few months later, one man With a rocker washed out $240 a day from it. 1 have one acquaintance who came into the country only last June and staked a bench away down near the mouth of Bonanza, where the creek bottom spreads a half mile wide and nobody had previously thought it worth while to hunt and trace its banks. As he and his companions knew no better they went to prospecting and in their first hole and just under the moss they found gravel containing ‘“all kinds of money.” They immediately began to quarrel among themselves and the claim was sold readily for $15,000. That the near future holds many radical changes in the methods of min- ing this frozen earth there is now*no question. Improved methods will shorten the life of the placer mine and two years will doubtless see Bonanza ert | and Eldorado creeks eliminated from Output of Gold Certain to Be Far in Excess of That of a Year Ago. BY SAM W. WALL. bedrock flume proposition—which is al- ready before Parliament. Steam thaw- ing is so vastly superior to the present method of “burning” that it will soon be generally employed—unless some- thing better is developed by the busy brains now working upon the problems here presented. Steam thawing ma- chines to the nugber of a score hdve been employed this winter on Bldorado, Bonanza, Hunker and Dominion creeks and Victoria and Gold hills. The ma- chines are very simple, introducing steam into the shaft by pipes. A fire will thaw during a night from twelve to eighteen inches of gravel. The shaft or drift is left full of smoke and unless there be a connecting shaft giving a draft, which is cvery often not the case, the men are unable to descend for ! hours, and many have become blinded from the effects of working in the smoke. With three hours application of steam similar gravel is thawed to a | depth of from five to ten feet, accord- ing to the volume of steam applied. i Dawson is crowded with disappoint- ed men who are simply waiting for the | opening of the river and the coming | of the boats to leave the country. The | number of these saloon “settlers,” as they are called, runs Into the thou- sands. Very many of them are without’ the necessary “outfit” and are objects of charity. General McCook, the Amer- ican Consul, is besieged dally for as- sistance and the committee appointed early*in the year to obtain subscriptions for relief of the indigent is still actively engaged. Provision is_already being made for the sending of a large num- ber of this helpless class down the river and out of the country as soon as the river is open. They will be provided with flat or open boats and enough food to last them while they row or fioat to | the mouth of the river, from where some arrangement will be made for their getting to the Sound or San Fran- | cisco by the ocean vessels. The spectacle of three hundred people | partaking of the free Christmas dinner | given by the Salvation Army has been | followed by a regularly filled Shelter | every night of the winter. The Army supplies wood sawyers and workmen at almost any trade at wages averaging $2 per day. Many of these idle people | that crowd the town have had no work and have made no money in any way since they came into the country. A party of eight men have just ar-| rived on the ice from the outside. They tell the town that ten thousand people are coming in here in the spring. Very well. Every man has a right to do he wills so long as he can pay his way. I repeat that opportunity is wide open here as it is at any legiti- mate lottery or faro bank, but the con- ditions under which it presents itself are the severest to be found any where on earth. Many of those coming in no | doubt are merchants bringing in stocks of goodd. 1t may be interesting to them to know that from a business stand- point Dawson City is now the “deadest” | town on the continent and has been for | months, ahd nobody expects much [ change for the better for still other months. The big prices of last fall have dropped away. There is now a ‘‘dime restaurant” in Dawson—not a full meal for a dime, to be sure, but where any one of a great variety of dishes of good quality and | quantity, from soup to coffee and the | cigars, may be had at that uniform price. The four-bit meal has been ad- vertised at half 2 dozen places for al long time. Whisky is two bits, and not many drunkards at that. Whisky ls‘ the thing. that many speculators thought to get rich on this year, but they all wear the same expression as | the luckless layman. Not one of the| many hopeful corners in provisions | planned in the fali has proved success- ful, the tendency in prices of every- thing being down, down, down, until those who held butter, eream, sugar and other things they had bought at high prices to make a corner that re- fused to corner have been compelled to let go with great loss. It is true that much money was made in the spring and summer by those who reached here early with desirable goods. But the conditions were pe- | culiar last spring, and will be repeated this coming spring only in slight meas- ure. Last winter the whole country | here was literally starved out. Bacon] and beans and flapjacks repeated them- selves three times a day on nearly every table in the .whole district through the entire winter, and indeed | he was accounted lucky who had plenty | of those three. For a long time there was not a restaurant open. Afterward it became possible to secure a very un- satisfactory meal for $3 50 and $2 50. All this time gold was being taken out of the creeks by the handful. When the ice floated out of the river and im- mediately behind it came the early merchant with fresh meat, eggs, milk, vegetables, fruit, nuts and candy, he found a market, a very eager and hun- gry market, standing on the river bank to meet him and that had no thought of haggling about prices whatever the prices might be. So these early mer- chants, with their little but selected stocks, grew suddenly rich. But that $3 50 meal of last winter may be dupli- cated to-day for from four to six bits. There are provisions enough in the warehouses of the big companies, new and old, to feed the whole country for at the very least another year. i the situation, except, perhaps, for a big GETS MONEY ON A BOGUS DR San Franciscan Wanted at Sacramento. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, March 17.—An inci- dent of the Irish Fair recently held in San Francisco has developed in police circles here. A complaint was sworn to before the City Attorney to-day charging Louis W. Buckley with hav- ing obtained money by false pretenses. The ¢omplaint was sworn to by George B. Henry, a local collection agent. A few weeks ago Buckley came to Sacramento and presented Henry with a bill for $25 against Supreme Court Clerk Root, the charge being for the publication of Root’s picture in half- tone in a circular issued at the Irish Fair. The bill was made out on a let- terhead of the fair, on which appeared the names of a number of well-known citizens of San Francisco as promo- ters; with that of L. W. Buckley as: manager. Henry supposed that avery- thing was straight and be proceeded in | the matter cf making a collection, but | tailed. He informed Buckley that he | would have to bring suit against Root | and that Buckley would be required to | advance $5 to guarantee the costs of | court. { Here is where the interesting feature of the story enters. Buckley produced a check book on_the Crocker-Wool- worth Bank of San Francisco and wrote an order in favor of Henry for $15. He requested Henry to let him have $io and to retain the $5 to meet the court costs in the suit he was about to bring. Henry complied and Buckley departed | and has not since been seen by the col- 1e§tor.h n the course of Henry’s busines: e check reached the Crecker-thlv:'!o;':hJ Bank, and a few days ago was returned with the indorsement, “No account.” | Subsequently Henry wrote to the bank officials and received word that B ley never had an account there at“:x‘x(y time. Henry has accordingly sworn cut a warrant for Buckley’s arrest and | he says he is goi: % Btite Rt 8ol F! to find and prose- S o Buys the Abbott Orch: ott Orchard. VMAX;JYEVILLE. March 17.—Waiter G. hasn Matre, a San Franeisco capitalist, | : urchased the famous Abbot Chard. twelve miles south of Marysville Tr}‘ € Feather River road, paying 000. | he tract consists of 430 acres gearmg ‘the tc:o? cest California fruits and 200 acres of tom land. Van Matre proposes to make s, including a new extensive improvemen country mansion, expecting to make it his permanent residence later. | inches, with good prospects for more to NO LONGER FEAR A CROP FAILURE Farmers Are Assured of Heavy Yields. JOY IN MONTEREY COUNTY DROUGHT DISTRICTS GIVEN A THOROUGH SOAKING. Large Acreage Withdrawn From Beet Culture Because of Dry Weather Will Now Be Seeded. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. . SALINAS, March 17.—The rain storm continued last night with increased vio- lence down the valley and the precipita- tion in the southern end of the county was far greater than around Salinas. In the districts where only ~recently the farmers were in a state of destltutfon al ot bordering on starvation the rainfall has been copious and good Crops are as- sured. The “dry year scare” has sub- Sided ana business in this city is already jmproving. In the extreme southern end of the county, on the plains as well as in the foothills, farmers are rejoicing at the prospect of a good year after so many bad ones. In some places in Monterey County there have been mo crops in seven years, but this year will prove a record-breaker as far as hay is concerned, while much grain will be raised. The rain has been so heavy in the foothills that The San the creeks are rising rapidly. Lorenzo, which has been dry for a long time, is now a swift mountain current. The Arroyo Seco, it is claimed, will supply enough water for irrigating purposes un- til June. The Salinas River is rising rap- idly. Many farmers between this city and King City and around Blanco, who have been relieved by the Spreckels company from their obligations _to raise sugar- beets will, on account of the recent down- pour, put in large beet crops. The Spreckels Sugar Company put on an extra force of forty men to-day at King City in_order to irrigate 8000 more acres of land on which to plant beets. The irrigation forces are at work night and day and an immense acreage is be- ing irrigated bothjhere and at King City. 51‘[98! Valley received the greatest rain- fall in this county for the last storm, getting 4.42 inches. Snow is reported lower on the Santa Lucia range than it has been for sixteen years. At Bradley, a small town in the extreme south, the rainfall was so great that a portion of the Southern Pacific track wa vashed away. The train from the south was de- layed fifty minutes on account of it. The precipitation at the different farming places in this valley is as follo Sali- nas 1.36, Gonzales 142, Bradley {ing City 154, Soledad 1.60, San Lucas 1.50, San Ardo 1.65. CAYUCOS, March 17.—The rainfall for the storm was 2:09 inches and for the season 8.87, against 5.90 to the same date last season. It insures good crops of hay and grain. The indications are fa- vorable for more rain soon. The moun- tains are covered by snow. LOS ANGELES, March 17.—The County Supervisors are receiving reports from | the county in regard to the effect of the rain on the crops. The grain crops in the lowlands, according to the reports, have been barely saved and in the highlands are beyond saving. Deciduous fruits have little chance of gain from the rain, but the citrus fruit crops with cultivation and ample irrigation will show a good yield. I he coast regions where fegs have pre- vailed all crops will yleld well. The storm which has hovered over Southern California for two days has passed to the eastward, and only small local showers may now be looked for, according to the Weather Bureau. Rain fell at San Diego this morning, but nowhere else in the southern part of the State. Up to 12 o'clock the present storm yielded 1.08 inches of rain, making the total fall for the season 3.99. ORANGE, March 17.—The rain which has fallen here has assured a good hay crop. In the grain section the rain has been a godsend. The outlook for decid- uous fruits is very good and citrus fruits have never been in better condition. SANTA BARBARA, March 17.—The rainfall during last night's storm was .69. This makes 1.91 for the storm and 10.08 for the season. It is still threatenin REDLANDS, March 17.—The drought is broken with a rainfall of .65 of an inch. Grain is in excellent condition and a large area is sown. About fifteen inches of snow fell at Bear Valley, PASADENA, March 17.—To-day’s pre- cipitation was .52 of an inch. making a total for to-day and yesterday of 1.57 night. This insures a good crop of h: with a_fair vleld of grafn on the lower lands, even If no more rain should fall. VENTURA, March 17.—Nearly a halt ineh of rain fell early this morning, mak- ing nearly an inch and a quarter for the jast twenty-four hours. There are good indications for another rain to-night. The outiook for abundant crops is excelient. SANTA MARGARITA, March 17.—The rainfall in_this vicinity up to 8 a. m. to- day was 3.94 inches and for the season 10.78, against 610 up to same date last ear. -All danser of another dry year is gone. Grain is up from four to eight inches and looking fine. With April show- ers a very large crop will be harvested this season. ADVERTISEMENTS. S The old reliable and longest-established special- ists on the Pacific Coast. 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