The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRAN JISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22,- 1900, 'SPORTS SHOOTING, COURSING, GOL R F, TENNIS, s the self- n his wife ighter to his d initiated th nd mysteries of a The Field = ated near nd Tule n was well der way. So popular has this become | cold supper, of which all partake, and with the lady shooters that the male | then to bed, for the call the next morning members fear they have reared a moun- |is an early one. Some of the ladies are| They take to the marshes early in the | tain where a mole hill was intended. becoming very adept in bringing down the | morning and it is a poor day’s shoot at | These occasiors have been productive | feathered game, but the majority content | the club when they return without a good | ich genuine fun and good sport. The | themselves. with an occasional bird or | string of birds. Miss Hosmer and Mrs. | and Tule Club house is well adapted | two. Among the very best shots devel- | Miller are close friends and they usually | Popularity. for large entertainment. Leaving San | oped this season are Mi: Anita Hosmer. | shoot together. Sometimes their eager- Christmas week, before, during and Francisco on Scturday evening the party | the daughter cf Harry B. Hosmer, and [ness will not await the natural coming of | after, has kept the shooters pretty much arrives-at the clubhouse in time for a | Mrs. Harry Miller. To them the fun of | the day set aside for the ladies. Very |at home, The weather has @lso had some- | the trip is something, but the sport of | often Miss Hosmer and Mrs. Miller, duck shooting is more. | companied by Mr. Hosmer and Mr. of as the time grows so do they increase in ac- [ tiing to do wit filler, | Last Sunday was visit the club grounds on Wednesdays for [ on the pondsc The birds have been hold- a midweek shoot. These ladies’ days will | ing off and just when the weather | be continued throughout the season, and | a rainstorm pops up to drive them off { | | | penas gihe chill in e a poor dav ge ars again. Widgeon, sprig and teal have de- serted the Suisun marshes. Canvasback | are found on canvasback the regular The outlook for “ good. On Wednesday Andy Ja is very ¥ with ¢ teur, mot el n the Pringle ¢ 't th A great number will fore spla will try over and they game 2s ™ reg ISS ANITA HOSMER AND MRS. RAWN FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY C. TEBBS OF THE CALL GRAPHS WERE TAKEN JUST AFTER THE RETURN TO THE FIELD AND TULE GUN CLUB FROM A SHOOT (L\" THE CORDELIA MARSHES. MRS. STRING OF BIRDS. NEWS FROM THE FIELD OF COURSING. Union Park Card Sat- urday eznd Efunday Record-Breaker. but it number was f a dog or be met with t n filed with the C: ng Committee. was passed that no secre- mittee after receiving a the same. Another resclu that a secretary =hall be score card has not beer California Cours! forty-eight hours recei ed by the Committee within the stake has been Sa Sl wa. epresent California Coursing Cammittee and its delegates, W. H. Car- michael and E. N. Whiteside, were elect- “S&. Perry and Charies Pearl were cepted as representatives from the jejo Coursing Club. #. H. Lyon and Chatles Gassagne wer: accepted as representatives from the Los Angeles Coursing Club. The Sacramento on Christpas day. Tom Pilkington il jndge and Rrthur Massey will be the slipper. BT e ¥ CHARITY BASEBALL. | At Recreation Park this afternoon there game of baseball between the Froauce Exch ‘g and an:i:f'}z"( Mer- p . recel (E::n?‘u:g:o Produce hange Kinder. garten. The game will be palled at 2 P m will_be Coursing Assoclation | will insugurate the sport in the capital | | ends to get a price, or if the impetuous | . | Jockey should be given free rein to do as HARRY MILLER, TWO EXPERT DUCK-SHOOTERS —D ART STAFF. THE PHOTO- MILLER BEARS THE REVERSALS SOME EXISTING RING EVILS BECOMING | 5 g AND REMEDIES FOR THEM in and Out Running of Referee Jack Welch Points Out the Reasons for the Horses Difficuit to Ex-| Present Low Ebb in Fistic Affairs. plain—Turf Officials. g r and divi E batic “‘re- B f oo Bt e BY REFEREE JACK WELCH. horses has been termed, have brought dis- y nto the camp of turfgoers. True, | horses are not machinery, neither are the Prize-fighting in San Francisco is on a fights." If the fights are of right quality | and three times a week in this city are best of riders infailible, so far as making low level at the present-time for a num-| the prices are higher \the interest in the | enough to destroy any sport. Under- | ber of reasons, and they are ail potent|Show better and keener and the patron, | g sbonge b S 5 g ; trained men pummel one another and the | mi: es is oncerned, b ooks at | . G ) as a rule, is more orderly. crowd — erent in character from the.ola prégent as i this conterition was<being | °n¢s. Bven the casual attendant can|™(heap ights are worse than none. We | patronseare satisfied. Some day thors | worked to death readily understand why this is so when'| ought to have the best of fighting in this | will be a serlous accident resulting from | By gome the officials at Oakland are | he calls to mind what was given to ring/ city. New York has stopped {t, so has | these so-called amateur contests. Even criticized for being too harsh and over. | Patrons in former daysand what is given | Chicago. and tc-day San Francisco is the | now théy have forced consideration on the | now. Cheap fights are cheap fights all the world over, and cheap fights draw cheap | crowds. In the days of the California Club a man who would use vulgar, Inde- cent language or make himself unruly and obnoxious by shouting across the ring would have been ejected from the build- ing. Nowadays .0 to a prize-fight and listen to the lahguage that comes from a few of the gallery spectators. This it is | that disgusts the better class, and in a measure keeps it from attending prize best sporting city in the country, com- paratively speaking, The people here have pald $30,000 to see Corbett and Sharkey ght four rounds, $28,000 for Sharkey and Fitzsimmons, and they will readily pay £00d money for good fights. The trouble is the managers want t0o much out of too poor an offering. Second and third raters have been matched and made to read like first-raters. Let a good club start and match none but the best and the game will be back at its old zealous in their methods of dealing with owners and riders. Looking at it the other | way: what would become of the sport if owners were permitted to resort to any part of some members of the Legislature | and they may sdon provoke their own un- doing—and let us hope for this happy end- ing. Fake fights should be will not tolerate fake fights the fighters will be forced 10 fight on the square. A good sound club can make money and give hoyest sport. Have some competent man in ‘the best men In their class and send them out. standard. The public should be protected at all Amateur contests such as are held twice | times, both by the club and the officials. L e B N e T Y he fancied? In no other sport are the in- ducements to stray from the path of hon- esty %o great. Then, why should the rem- edy not be a severe one? It is strange that some riders go along on after scason, and the breath of scandal never attaches to their name: while others are continually in hot water, - P N k. v Pal one day, with O'Connor up, fails to | thicker than fleas at a matinee perform- January, 1901; H. D, Hawks, E. F. Sa- Where there fa so much smoke, there| , . o, atom of spesd. Ths very mext|ance, and astralogers™ guarantse to pick | gar, 3. H. Keots, Charles L. Barrett T C. must be a speck Of, Same. No Jeverer| s.v. ridden by Coburn, the two-year-old | 81l the winners—sometimes. To combat | Brickell, J. W. Pew and Thomas Jen- a7 H. PRees and et that amoabe | leads from start to finish, with not a cent | thiS. the laver of odds is ever on the alert | nings Jr. Though the above named will | for new wrinkles. vs of fifty an. most ardent enemles will, as time rolls by, | of stable money down. On December 13,7 Traniearton.the (aye o % %t or.3 %424 | be clocted a3 a body. the offices S be elghty per cent books are a thing of the | apportionéd as foliows: AWKS, | admit he makes but few mistakes. at Oakland, Anjou,with Mounce up, never | past ” | o o ot i owner of the sloop May, commodore; E. It f the object of every racing assocta- | looked a competitor. On Tuesday last, at | L DAring PEERINWI0 nos SeeD Tp | Y ng Club was given | with the game where Is the public going tion to employ officials in the stand of | to get off ? known competency and honesty, and they should be accorded the respect due them, ‘When Tommy Burns transgressed the rules at Oakland one day last season, it was his insolence that brought about such severe disciplining. For the time Tommy seemed to forget that a public 1dol was ubject to the same rules and regulations Tanforan, he ran circles around his field in a five-furlong sprint, winning hands | down. Thig same rider had the leg up on | Alee in a threesquarter sprint at Oakland, his ride causing considerable adversecom- ment. Three days later the colt was beaten a nose only at seven furlongs by such a crack mudder as Boundlee. Lavator, winner of the December handi- | F. Sagar, owner of the sloop Edna, vice commodore: J. Keefe, port captain; Charles L. Barrett, treasurer; J. C. Bric- kell, secretary; J. W. Pew, owner of the | sloop Truant, and Thomas Jennings Jr., part owner of the sloop Speedwell, di- rectors. The first four named already hold the offices to_which they will be re- elected, while J. W. Pew has served the F. E. MULHOLLAND. YACHTSMEN NAME OFFICIAL BOARD club as commodore, and the remaining as the vr:]n:gt n%v;cesl‘n 1h; sad dle, He | cap kntd nlkland‘,_ wa:‘nnothgr u(ahd‘gfl:ty two al;;benthuslgemc tCmr-‘lnlhhn yachts- flatly sed to ride Sly when drdered t rked improvement, an . i men. e members of the regatt - .s% :;o D the siand, and hi Jock;y.‘;m,g | gh‘:ennhoroe';ndth\e/uKlll;h:;;!(h{:e Sthers Committeemen Nominate a Eletntsee who must be non-owners. il ba window escapade and flight to the, train | that caus net ssip. t . B. ng,» W. P. Harrold and P. J. cost him many hundreds. of dollars. | Ordnung was not bet on to any great ex- Strong List of Ca,nd'dn ©S | Martenstein. It -was a regrettable occurrence, for | tent December 4, when an even money to Fun for Office. LAt the last meeting of the Vallejo Burne is a rider from the ground up, | chance, but three days later was a good Yachting and Boating Club Commodore and the experience may add to his stock | thing at 7 to 1. beating out a big fleld. | The nominating committee of the Co-| W J s was in the chair, S. J of discretion. | Castake and—but the list is growing too rinthian Yacht Club, consisting of ex- Commodore Carl Westerfeld, Robert Ste- A thousand and one excuses can always Knight acting as secretary. 1. i s H v.s be furnished to explain away the in and baum, George Wenl,er. V. Corcoran and T. J. long. 1, T. Year after vear, the turf-follower be- | 'Hara were elect- out running of & horse by the animal's | comes wiser. Only seven or eight vears | Venson and Orlo Eastwood, has completed | of members. A smoking concert in aid owner. One's mind is dazzied though | ago, the “dope” student was a mark for | its labors. The following make up the | of the bullding will pe elves ix tho noit when sudden {mprovement, as shown by | the joker, but nowadays everybody car- | regular ticket, which will be posted at the | future. The contract for ariving the piias Opponent on ‘Lhursday, is noted. - | ries a form book. Seven out of ten can clubhouse to-day, and will presented | for the foundation of the clubhouse has chee is another difficult one to guess, hut | figure the percentage chalked up on a | for election at the annual meeting of | been let and work will soon be begun by be always runs well when bet on. King's ' bookmaker's slate, handicappers are' members to be held toward the close of | the _contractor. dealt with sum- | marily, and wnen it is seen that a club | Sast make matches between the | TO STRIVE FOR GOLD GOLF MEDAL. Country Club Links at the Capital to Be Ready New Year’s Day Though ro event is set down on the schedule of the San Francisco Golf Club for this afternoon, advantage will prob- ably be taken of the good condition of the Presidio links to play some matches in the Round Robin tournament. It is also not unlikely that the class B men will hold one of their regular handicap sweep- stakes. The sweepstakes, with two balls entrance, over eighteen holes, in which the ladies proposed to take part last Mon- day, was not played on account of the wet weather. On Tuesday afternoon half a dozen ladies played a putting contest, five balls each, on the home green, against a team of six men, the latter proving v torious by a score of 74 to 76. 8. L. Ab- bott Jr. made one of the holes in one stroke, and Miss Edith McBean made all five in ten strokes On Christmas day there wjll be men's foursomes over eighteen holes, with handicap, medal play. Couples may make the two rounds at any time during the day. On New Year's day the annual con. test for the club championship, over eighteen holes, medal play, will be held, the prize being a gold medal. The agreement for the series of home- end-home matches between teams repre- senting the San Francisco and Oakland Golf Clubs has been gned by P. E. Bowles, vice captain, » behalf of the Oakland club, and by H. B. Goodwin, cap- tain, on behaif of the San Francisco elup, The teams this genr will consist of six men each, instead of eight as in previous years. e first mateh of the first series will be played on the Oakland links on January 19, and the second match on Jan. o uar; on the Presidio links. The A hal{ of the second match Jfll be pla;:(: on the Presidio course on April §, and the sécond half on the Point on April 13. The scores played in January will ether, and the club who: est score will hold the Iy the scores of the tw in April will be dmen S should match, the resulting tie will be on Bgay t‘;} |g'e‘d. _x;_;utml o Bege can be obtal L e tro I v cup, to the purchase of which sash 1on contributes an equal sum. match the captains will deliver 5o sach other lists of the teams, men will be numbered 1 to 8" L oN the dams course of the two games e team has the ourse, if one be reckoned to- | trophy. Similar. | oft | —5 'HANDICAP TEN- NIS CHRIST- . MAS DAY. Novices Given a Chance to Win Prizes at the California Club, The next event of importa circles is the tournamemw hristmas day in temnis to be held on on the courts of the Ca rnia Club. It is to be a singles ha ap affatr, which ftself will large number of players to er 1y the novices and you ers will be classifi divisions, with a diff between each division players thus every one knows what handicap he will have t through the tournament he might be drawn agai will ve given by the C it Is expected that the tor a great success in the numt and in the quality of the ma In the ladies’ tourna: tuough Miss Rut § not to those w as Miss Garland gave M Miss Violet Sutton a hard - southern tournaments nce of four of the best lady pia ailowae the southern crack to car e of the day There has been cons scussion among_th yers States Tennis Assoc ing committee for th t deciding the relative standing different players. It is always the East but no player ever re a ranking who has not cgmpet ast three tournaments, ships. The comm follow the same ranking the play HANDBALL GAMES. risco handball eourts s will be played to- some hampiou- ald be wise to this coast in At the San Fra the following cor morrow: M. Levy and W. Fisher vs. M. Joyce and M. Basch: R. Loudabach and W Walsh H. H. Lissner and J. J. Kavanaugh | A. Mcvicker and L. Kenny J. Casdon and T. Leach; W. Willlams and J. Law less vs. P. Ryan and D. Connelly; H. J | Rogers and D. Cook vs. E. Hammer and t | E. Thomas; H. Reld and F. Defty vs. T | Carney and M. Defty: J. Giynn and E. White vs. A, Whiteman and 5. Gry J Harlow and J. Riordan vs. W l.ndr fi:, Curley; M. J. Kiigallon Nealon vs. J. White and J. Colline,