The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1900 -~ MIDWINTER SPORTS < SHOOTING, COURSING, TENNIS, GOLF, LEAGUE MEN |HEART OF THE DUCK AND QUAIL SEASON PICKED FOR BEST TEAM All-California Nine Se- lected From the Four Baseball Clubs. baseball Haigh Californta TEAM Catcher Pitcher hase MANY CITIES INTERESTED IN COURSING ¥ open stake will be more N n t in con r stakes as California Club Shoot. Schuetzen Club shoot re Strecker nF g, sco handball court the will take place Sunday: | o Darneal v& W. D. F. Stapff; A. McVicker end T. Leach vs. J. Condon and T. Fole: /. H. Bieberst and D. J. Sheehan vs aterman and J. R. Bockm E. Antron vé. P. Ryan an Hassell and A Coilins vs. L. Kenn H. McNevin; Longabach and W Walsh ve. H. H Lissner and J. J. Kev naugh: T Serres and J. Broyer vs. E. Giynn: G. McDonald ard H P McKinnon and D. Rodg- " Nealon and J. Riordan vs. M. J, Kilgallon and T. Hampton. L. W. Fisher | M. Basc I BRINGS FINE SPORT TO AN ARMY OF NIMRODS |GOLFERS IN { ROUND-ROBIN TOURNAMENT K | R QUAIL HUNTING IN MARIN COUNTY. THIS S ASON HAS BEEN A RECORD-BREAKER FOR QUAIL, FEW, IF ANY, SHOOTERS | RETURNING TO TOWN WITHOUT THE FULL LIMIT OF BIRDS ALLOWED BY LAW. | | |Rawlins Brothers Will lay Over the Fort Baker Links at Sausalito Santa Fe rail- Willle Smitn LADIES WILL PLAY TENNIS FOR PRIZES - & HE duck and quail shooters ar» reaping harvests of feathered slain on marsh and upland. Rare- 1y has t been such a season as this for quail, and even the habitual recalcitrant among the duck shooters forgets Eis choice expletives ag the scarcity of game. Of course e days, evcn a full week, when ere \e shooting on the ponds is poor. This is due tc den ¢! s n the weather, which, when righted. brings with It igh winged balance the m fe more than to counter- of a non-successful Mateo County quall are plentitul, are immuned from the hunter’'s The season closed there on Decem- 1. Tn Marin the season will not close intil January 15. This is the meeca of sportsmen, particularly on the big pre- serves of the Country Club and the Poinut Reyes Shooting Club. The limitation of twenty-five birds, a county law, has been very beneficial to Marin County, and nimrods who find favorable localities for thelr shooting experience little difficulty in bagging the fuil imit of a day's sport. The abundance of quail throughout the State is one of the most noticeable fea- tures of this vear's game conditions. The California Game and Fish Protective As- soclation, realizing this, fs anxious to make asst ice doubly sure and impress upon the next Legislature the necessity of an absolute, restrictive measure. No killing of quail within the next two years is what the association will advocate, This they say will stock California with birds and make it the delight of sportsmen for years to come. The chief labor of the assoclation will be directed toward the. passage of a bill drafted last May at the fish and game convention. This bill, if passed, will limit a single day's shooting to twenty-five of any one kind of game, with the excep- tion of wild geese. While the protectionists are working for fmproved game conditions the sportsmen are out on the flelds and ponds stringing their birde. R. A. Eddy leads the list this week. Last Sunday he made a record of 165 birds, 101 of which were canvasbacks. This is an eye and mouth opener. An amusing incident of the week is the trip of Dr. Charles H. Bell, C. F. Fuller, Roy Fuller, Dr. Robert Mlllar, H. Fee- ney, J. Miller and M. O. Feudner. Last Bunday they went way beyond Chandler, 106 miles from San Francisco, for a duck shoot. They slept in a warehouse. They walked ten miles in a flerce, cold north wird, with hardly enough food to stem the tide of stomachic craving. The entire party killed just seventeen ducks. As the market hunters were not to be found that was the size of the combined string exhibited upon the return to town. Sunday last was a poor day generally. At the Field and Tule Club it was “spooney” day, nothing but spoonbfils, and not many at that. The Wednesday shoot was much better, however, and the members say the ducks are coming back to the ponds. H. L. Miller was high man, with thirty-one birds. Mallard, sprig, teal, widgeon, spoonbill and canvasback were in the bags. L. Titus, H. B. Hosmer, H. 8. Miller, J. B. Coleman, J. J. Wirtner and L. Harpham will try their luck to-mor- row. J. B. Coleman and Charles Fair had fair success last Sunday on Mr. Fair’s shoot- ing ponds. Italian fishermen at Point Pinole have been drowning ducks by the hundred. They catch them in fish Dets. The unsus- pecting ducks duck under the floating bobs and are thus caught and entangled. ‘Whole flocks perish in this manner. E. McMullin and J. Sonntag were out planred game sadiness. | Dr. Lane and Johnsoa will play the final for quail last Sunday in Sonoma County. | match on Sunday morning. Johnson wyll They bagged thirty-five birds. give Lane a handicap, to ba determin C. H. Precht had good luck back of To- | later by the handicapper. Georse Whie- caloma on the same day. ) A rtound rodbin tournament has been J. F. Howard trled San Pedro Canyon | talked of between W, B Colller, H. W, last Sunday and returned with a string of | Crowell, Grant Smith. Merle Johnson and quail. | James A. Code. Thers is a fecling in sach Reports show the quail to be very wild | Of the five that he s the best player. All and hard to get at. They cling to the | il subscribe an entry fes to buy a prize trees owing to the dampness of the | e the witins o ground. They are now beginning to take | P sy IR to the grass. o Swimming Races. Dr. J. M. Barrickman, who narrowly es- | n the following races caped with his life, has a genuine bear | 1o baths: will take place at story to tell. While hunting big game in Fifty-yard the Tahoe reglon he came upon two |E. Lynch grizzlies. The male was easily dispatched, | McCarthy, J but the female attacked him, and were it | per, F. Moody, F. Burns, J. Eramsy E. not for his two dogs, Diane and Miss Mc, | Franks, J. Dixon, 8. Finnigs Y Crist, Dr. Barrickman would have been killed. | C- DOD 1s, D. Kerwin, B. Win- Both dogs died fighting, and Dr. Barrick. | L4 s A Syviager aad B. Egan. Under-water swimming contest, tub race and high diving for boys, open to all. man was seriously injured before the sec- | ond bear was put to rest. | E:éR]NTHIANS AT FESTIVE BOARD Tiburon Yachtsmen Prepare for Gay Dinner on First Day of New Century. The yatchsmen are already beginning to | prepare for next season’s sport. At the last meeting of the directors of the Cal- ifornia Yacht Club the following were appointed a nominating committee to prepare the regular list of candidates for officers for 1801: George B. Ed%u. Roscoe L. Eames and C. L. Danly. The | following will receive the nominations for the various offices: H. L. rtin, owner of the yawl Idler and at present vice- commodore, for commodore; 8. 8. M; shall of the sloo modore: a) Thelma, for vice-com. G. L. ‘akeman, incumbent, for J. J. Hanifin, for treasurer; J. ,“incumbent, for port capt J. F. Carrier, owner of the sloop Je;'&r E., and measurer, for the same office. For members of the regatta committe Eugene Flanders, I. H. Clay and A. K. Gibbs will recelve the nominations. Boatbullder 8mith's yard at South Sau- salito is crowded with craft. H. R. Simp- kins’ sloop Mistral, A. Sutherland’s sloop Catherine and the sloop Twilight are laid ug for the winter there; while L. 8. Sherman’'s yawl Royal and Dr. T. L. Hill's sloop Cygnus, both of which were wrecked in the recent storm, are drawn out on the ways for repairs. At a meeting of the directors of the Corinthian Yacht Club held on Thursdnj' evening ex-Commodore Carl Westerfeld, R. Stevenson and Arlo Eastwood were appointed a nominating committee to pre- pare the regular ticket to be voted on at the next annual meeting. A dinner will be given at the clubhouse to-night by Port Captain John H. Keefe to_the foi- lowing: D. 3. McLaughiin, J. Short, F. E. Behober, L. H, W. Westerfeld, J. L. Hawks, G. W. Crowell, W. H. Fisher, H. A, ?enhud. H. H. Gorter, J. C. Brickell T. J. Kavanagh, Louis B. Chapman an Commodore Harry D. Hawks. The above- named gentlemen wlll be asked to lend their ald in making the annual club din- ner on New Year's Day a success, ARIELS CHOOSE NEW OFFICERS Alamedan Oarsmen May In- corporate and Become an Aihletic Club. At a meeting of the Ariel Rowing Club held on the 34 inst. the following named officera were elected for the coming year: President, E. J. Lynch; vice president, A. W. Taylor; treasurer, Johnson Hardy; financial secretary, Bugene Flanders; re- cording secretary, Aaron Brown: captain, James Wilson; leutenant captain; Henry Wilson; members of the board of direct- ors—Willlam T. Howe, Albert Carroll, E. C. Stenberg, Edward Smith and Charles ‘Wilson; delegates to the Pacific_Associa- tion_of the Amateur Athletic Union—J. A. des, Walter Young and F. J. M. Kelly. The installation of the new of- ficers and a high jinks will take place at ' the meeting rooms, at 335 McAllister Street, on Monday evening, Jenuary 7 1901. The recent annual ball of the Arfel Rowing Club was quite successful and xd;‘d a considerable sum to the building . At the next regular meeting of the Ala- meda_Boating Club, to be held on Tues- day, December 11, a proposal will be made to incorporate the club, leave the present inconvenient quartersat the foot of Chest- nut_street and acquire a site at the foot of Park street. The proposed location s easily accessible, and it is expected that the number of members would be largely increased. The club would then greatly enlarge its activities and would afford fa- cllities for all-round athletic sport. Cross Country Run. George James, captain of the Olympic Club, has .arranged a cross-countr. tramp for the members for to-morrow. large number of members will leave this ¢ity on the boat that leaves the Tiburon ferry at 9:30 o'clock, and on arriving in Marin County they ‘will tramp over the country. Lunch will be prepared for the trampers at the Olymplc boathouse at Belvedere. One hundred-yard race, amateurs—B, Berry, O. Schultz, O. Beyfuss, W. Daw- Freeth. R. Riding. D. h, H. Dougherty. J. Bev- LARGER FIELDS | Harris, H. Seebac ins, A. Hay, H. Lelcken, C. Waiiace, J, FOLLOW HOUNDS |Seme. & & Kogt, S, 2 icks and L. Boudin Trick and fancy springboard diving—D. San Mateo Hunt Club Wil McCann, M. Carmody, W. Btockton, T. McKillop, 8. Grueman, A, Sunberg, B, Meet at Uncle Tom’s Cabin | wicana b Kerwin. 8. Finnigar & Ihis Afternoon. o e AR W ¥ Hanlon. T. Thom, Son" C. Harnes, P. Levin and H. Seebach, e et Gun Club Meeting. A large attendance of 1b members as- sembled at the monthly meeting of the Empire Gun Club Thursday evening in the Crocker building. Besides the regular rou- tine business officers for the ensuing year were elected. The successful candidates were: James P. Sweeney, president: G. Guyett, vice president; J. secretary and treasurer;: H. D. Swalegy manager; J. H. Durst, captain; V. J. Motte, lleutenant captain: W. H. La bert, sergeant-at-arms: J. B. Hauer, §. H Durst and V. J. La Motte to represent the club on the board of governors before the { California Inanimate Target Association. Quite & small number of riders were seen at the meet of the San Mateo Hunt Club \fl;! Saturday at Reld's School, Bel- mont, but, now that the opera season is | over, it 18 expected that the nnefln.mnnpg at the meets will be rauch lar, er. The pack will be lald on at 2 o'clock this af. | ternoon at Uncle Tom's Cabin, on the San | Bruno road. On Wednesday, December 12, the members of the hunt wil] meet at Laurel Creek, Beresford, at the same hour. Next Baturday the hounds will throw off at Homestead C ow ‘ommon, San —_—— | But few people have enough (‘(xnndfncs) ln themselves to belleve all they say.