The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1900. SPORTS--GOLF, RACING, COURSING, SHOOTING. BASEBALL, CHAMPION GO WILL S LFERS OON BE HERE Clubs Getting Ready and “Will to Receive David Bell ie’”” Smith, 3 and “Willie” champion and players of the Mid b, Chi , are € Califc early in the th are from the famous g town of C: ustie, in Stotland, of the great golfers of the world have been born and bred. “Willie” Smith took second place in the open at Baltimore on September making the hol total 159; e the scor: or “Willie” An- derson 1, total 138. Alec Smith, a broth Willle,” was fifth with a | total of 162. In the sixth annual open { championship of the United States. which | was played on the links of the Chicago Golf Club on October 4 and 5, this vear, “Willie” Smith took fifth place with a score of 328 for 72 holes. In ‘hat contest | Harry Vardon and J. H. Taylor, the two | English golfers, took first and second | prac David Bell was third with a score ‘ of 323, | | The two famous golfers will enter the State from the South, playing first at Coronado, where Alec Smith is the resi- dent professional, and .visiting Pasadena, Redlands, Redondo, Santa Barbara, Riv- de, Santa Monica and Los Angeles. Later they will play at Monterey, Bur- lingame, Oakland and San | fessional tournament, which will bring to- | gether the two visitors, Horace and Harry iI(aanS‘ James Melville, Rokert John- Francisco. | | The Oakland Golf Club will hold a pro- | stone and George Smith, a brother of “Willie” and Alec. The.San Francisce Golf Club will entertain the visiting golf- ers on March 5 and 6, though the nature of the tournament.to be held has not vet been settled. It is likely, however, that a contest open to all golfers, professional or amateur, will be decided | upon, _ The golfers of the Presidio will usher in the new year and the new century with the annual contest for the medal play championship of the San Francisco Golf Club. The prize 1s a gold meda! and the contest is over 18 holes. Little has been done of late on the San Rafaecl course owing to the absence from the city of R. Gilman Brown and the sick- ness of George Heazelton und R. J. Davis, but it is probable that a tournament wii take place among the members on New | Year's day. It is also likely that an in- formal contest will be held amons the | members of the Oakland Golf Club. The | ladies of the Oakland Golf Club gave a | Christmas tree to the caddies employed | on the course, a suitable gift being pre- | sented to each boy | On Christmas day there was a handi- | [ cap tournament over 18 holes, medal play, | on the land links, the prize being a handsome cut glass loving cup. This was won by E. R. Folger, playing from scratch, with the excellent score of $6. R. M. Fitzgerald was second, there being sixteen contestants. R. M. Fitzgerald has | presented two cut glass loving cups to | be competed for by the ladies of the Oak- | land Golf Club in a putting contest, which | putting grounds on the links of th old one ing been destroyed by the comstruction of | 1and course is now in excellent trim, the | buildings for the use of the United States | will probably take place early in January, | ana will attract a good fie The Oak- KE EN COMPETITION ON THE PRESIDIO LINKS Men of San Francisco Golf Club Will Play for Gold Badge. green committee having improving it. devoted . much | pains to the task of keeping it up and In order to raise funds to make the new alito Golf Club, some of th us- hav- froops, Major T. M. W sted the idea of ferry shy tellers and all tk ountry fair. For the benefit of tb @ driving contests w PAVvE Bect “WILLIE” SMITH AND ALSO IN TOURNAMENT AND DAVID BEEL, THE MOST FAMOUS OF THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS IN THIS COUNTRY, WILL BE IN CALIFORNIA WITHIN A FEW DAYS. AGAINST THE BEST GOLFING EXPERTS IN THIS CITY AND ITS SUBURBS. THEY WILL IS THERE NO REST FOR TOD? SOME RACl;‘lG NEWS Tim Murphy, the Geronimo of the Turf, Still on the Warpath. Poor Tod! What an afflicted mortal he is. The little Am n rider offends Eng- nobilit d English customs, is re- t to apply for a renewal of his y the stewards on the other side ow, after a wearisome trip into the Ves w wspapers persist in 3 N rest Such is the 1 gre Not so many years p this very State Tod was pleased to | receive the pretty courtesies and smiles rom the modest country girls of Wood- and at a ball arranged in his honor at the close of the fair. Then Tod rode for Book- maker George Rose. Picture, if you can J. T. Sloan riding peaked looking skates” at & country fair meeting. There remains one desperate resort for Tod to escape the petty gossip traveling rounds anent the revocation of his li- cense. Before becoming & jockey he had seronautic _aspirations. Perhaps if the man from Kokomo would purchase a bal- loon and ascend out of sight surcease from all sorrow and all care might be ob- tained “Wash” Norvell has just one more yarn to tell on Virginia Carroll. Two years ago Carroll was booking at 8t. Louls, and his next door neighbor chalked up 4 and 8 to 5 against a horse he thought looked a sweet 7 This compelled Virginia to 7 to b chance. bet the neighbor a hundred each way. Glancing over at the same slate a minute or two later Carroll was partially para- zed to perceive 5 and 2 now offered about the horse. “Well. you can bet your ase dollar that sucker didn’t sell any more merchandise,” sald Virginia. “for at post time 1 was laying 17 to 1 against that »bster.” it is nearly time to hear-about some fast vearling trials. If the bunch this season is as bad as those of a year ago, with one or two exceptions, nobody eares to learn ything of their maneuvers. Here it i8 zimost 1%1, with no end to maiden two- vear-olds that have kept their ers’ bills. If friendly relations are ever established with the inhabitants of Mars and racing and the starting gate gain a foothold there eight of the ten maldens | now parading at Tanforan and Oakland will be eligible to the same events there. Relentless as an Apache, Plunger Tim Simon, Biily ‘ahill and Sam Hfldreth. A right smart judge of horseflesh as it is | used In the racing game, Tim misses no cpportunity to bid up a selling race win- rer owned by any one of the trio of own- ers mentioned. The trouble all arose over a ride Clem Jenkins put ,up on Count Hubert at Oakland nearly one vear ago. Tim bet on Count Hubert, and Laura Marie, owned h( Simons, won. Murphy expressed himself openly ‘over the resuit, and it i said Billy Cahill put the whole matter before the Oakland officials. This caused & ruling warning Murphy off the course for a time. Later he was rein- stated; and how expensive the affair has been for his enemies! Last summer Tim took Lauranta, owned by Albert Simons. | from a selling race after having wor. $%000 | co over her victory. Starting the mare in his own name she beat a good field, en- riching the Murphy bank roll to the ex- the | il! hot on the trail of Albert | PLAY IN EXHIBITION tent of $15,000 more. William C. Whitney then purchased her for a fancy figure. A | truce, 1t is claimed, has heen asked for, | but the tall plunger ‘oniy smiles | A humane socicty in one of the | cities recently prevented the apry { on the stage of Robert Fitzsimmons’ in- fant scn. The “turn” of young Mr, Fitz- mmons probaily consisted in putting up | his_hands, swinging a six-ounce pair of club: bowing to the audience and then hustled off tq bed. How horror stricken some of these moral fanatics would be could they see a b6 looking all over like a riding in | a ra-e. The of an accident oc- | curring are te children of the sts compared to the and nothing is ever MULHOLLAND. CADDIES PLAY GOLF. The caddies of the San Francisco Golf Club had their innings yvesterday. teen of them competed in a handicap tournament over 18 holes, medal play, for prizes in clubs and money presented by the dire Four played from scrateh, the others receiv dicaps varying a cording to thgir skill and experience. W Bulger won first prize, a set of golf clubs and 33 in cash, with a gross | and net score of 101; second prize, $3 in | cash, was taken by “Little” Dick Leah: to Tom Collin third prize, $250, fell “Buck’ | fourth prize, $2, was carried off by Willie Kell. fifth prize, $150, was cap- tured by “Big” Dick Leahy, and the sixth prize, §1, was divided between Trix Kelly and “Shorty’ Charlie Walsh. In addition to those already named, Arthur Hallet, Hanna and E. Hanna played round the course twice, and “Little” Joe Leahy, | H. Peshon, F. Pierce and Newton Kelly played one round, but did not go in with the contest. The following officlated as | scorers: Miss Alice Hager, Miss Sarah | Drum, Miss Florence Ives, Miss Maud Mullins, R. H. Gaylord, J. W. Byrne and ‘W. Lester. Robert Johnstone was handi- | capper and starter. The first match in the Round Robin tournament was played yesterday after- noon, R. H. Gaylord defeating Captain D, J. Rumbaugh 2 up and setting 1 point to his credit. One or more matches in the Round Robin tournament may be played this afternoon, and the golfers of class B may hold a handicap tournament. On the figst day of the new vear there will be a handicap over 18 holes, medal play, for which two prizes are offered. Competi- tors may play at any time during the morning or the afternoon. —————— ' BARKS FROM THE KENNEL. The American Kennel Club at its quar- terly meeting held on the 18th inst. ap- pointed a committee of five to investigate | the advisability of granting the request of the Pacific Coast special committee for | epecial legislation. The committee, which | will be assisted in its labors by the sec- | retary, A. P. Vredenburgh, will re| | to the annual meeting of the club in Feb- ruary next. The committee consists of | Captain C. B. Knocker, Messrs. Rodman, | Bloodgood, Carnochan and_ Mortimer. The secretary of the San Francisco | Kennel Club has issued a circular letter to the different specialty clubs of the coast inviting an ex?resswn of opinion from the latter on their respective prefer- ences for judge of the spring show. The replies are expected by the Sth inst., on which date the Kennel Club will hold its annual meeting. Arthur J. Allen has been elected to the Pactfic Coast special committee in place of Dr. E. N. Lowry, resigned on account MA“I healtlrl'. Y ® mong the recent sales of high class dogs is to be noted t! e puppy. Bobby % | Chromo out of Otteburn Belle, sold by F. { A. Rowsell of San Leandro to Benjamtn | Bryon of owners | broke all summer paying feed and train- | Four- | it of the fine young,| by Dn'g!kl‘:fil 'PONDS BLACK/AMATEURSON|PURIFY THE| WITH MANY DUCKS. | | delia Astonishes His Many Friends. Frozen lakes in the northern part of the | State and Southern Oregon, a brisk, snap- py north wind and the absenge of rain | are sending the ducks into the shooting | pond districts by the thousands. Flocks | upon flocks, so dense as to appear like moving clouds, have been scurrying =outhward during the past week and the shooters, to put it mildly, are ecstatically jubilant. | The great, the glorious “‘can” is the bird Even on those ponds which the canvasback seemed to shun early in the season with a prejudiced eye, this duck of all ducks has made a temporary home. Word comes from the Petaluma | marshes, the Alameda marshes, the | Marin shote, from Alvarado and the San | Joaquin country that ducks are plenti- ful and canvasback predominate in all | the kills. It was a Christmas offering, but that day found few of the habitual shoot- ers on the preserves. But the Saturday. and Sunday preceding Christmas were | great days in the season’'s list of big shoots. Those who were out brought back | heavy strings that showed more canvas- | backs than any other specles. Spoonbills and teal have been flying over the Alvarado marshes, canvasback and widgeon at Suisun, canvasback at Petaluma, and several varieties have been found on the Marin shores. Perhaps the red-letter shoot of the year | was that of R. A. Eddy at Cordelia last Saturday. Think of this, 165 birds in a | single day, and 150 of them canvasbacks. | This is a record that will go down in his- | tory. For three days Eddy was kept busy distributing ‘“‘cans” among his many friends. Al Cummings left the city last Saturday evening for the Field and Tule preserves near Cordelia. He shot on Sunday, Mon- | these day A few spoonbills and teal were found in the duck freight he shipped to San Fran- cisco. Ed Whitby and George G. Gould shot on the Pringle Club preserves last Sund and returned with seventy canvasback: A %l‘elt numbe:r of nimrods will leave the city this evening. As this is the very heart of the season and the conditions are more favorable now than ever before the ponds .will be crowded with shooters. The Field and Tule Club, the Pringle, the Canvasback and the other Suisun clubs will be scenes of great gun poppin; | to-morrow. 8o certain the gunne; long strings of birds that they are prom- ising feathered gifts for New Year's din- ners in anticipation of great kills. BASS FISHING NOTES. Striped bass have been running in San Antonio Creek. W. F. Shattuck and son had a catch during the week. They hool six in all g from three and a half to six. and W. R. McFarlane, C. Parrison.and J. Tried Benuitz Siough on' Banday last rie U] on Su | luck was not for them. l(z-'hgh;:‘ | ed one fish, the others none at all. iand- day and Wednesday, getting a bag of 140 | birds, most of which were canvasbacks. | her it | In fts covers. BASEBALL FIELD. |““CANS”” PLENTIFUL MIDWINTER GAMES SOME for New Year’s Day at Presidio Grounds. A | | | [Eddy Record Shoot at Cor-|Charity Match Is Scheduled | East Turns Westward to Ar-'1 i | The amateur baseball league is well under way and occasionally the clubs that have organized this midwinter series of games play astonishing baseball. Last Sunday the Koenigs and the Alamedas met for the third time. The first two games were very close, the third a tie. Not very often does a tle game happen in baseball, and when that tie game is a thirteen inning affair it means baseball. The first five and the-last five innings were spectacular jn the extreme, and pretty much without errors. est is becoming keener In this league since last Sunday and there will be a race | before the season s over. The last game of the year and century will be played to-morrow at Recreation grounds between the Koenigs and the Nobles. They will line up as follows: Koenls Positions. Nobles. Perrine. J. Shea Egar. D. Shea Kecg: Barry Colling Swartz J. Bodie. Kelley D. Bodl _Carroll MeGee. Beaton Brockhoft... agger Phil Kneli. . ‘Walters At the Presidio athletic grounds on New Year's day the Newman Levison team will cross bats with the California Ath- letic Club. The receipts will be tendered to the sufferers of the glass house accl- dent last Thanksgiving day. the sad ac- companiment_of the intercollegiate foot- ball game. The teams will line up: N. & L. Positions. Pitcher. Catcher First bas Second_ba % The baseball teams of Company T and Company N of the League of the Cross Cadets’' Baseball League will play at the Sixteenth and Folsom street Sunday afternoon at 2 o'cloc up is as follows: Positions. Tounds next The line- Company . Crawford . Amiot Toomey . Kennedy FINE SPORT NUMBER. The Christmas number of Pastime, the standard magazine of amateur sport on the Pacific Coast, gives an interesting illustrated review of the Olympic Club, in addition to & mass of matter of interest » no matter in whick s cutau m‘lzn :lun. The yachts- man, oarsman, er, racing man, boxer, wrestler. ?a‘nmwr amat pho- -mfi: Thach of intercat with: by photographs of men n’ml" mut“l? (eg 1 nen! manner oy;nmmu g : to direction 5 The Inter- | FIGHTING | GAME. i NEW PLANS| the Coming Year. | 1 range for Matches of | | Strange to sav, It rests with the Super- visors of the city and county of San Fran- cisco whether or not this city will have ring sport in 191 worthy of the name. | Such a motley array of fights as were | presented to the public in 1900 is hardly | worthy of the name of sport. Not one | first-class affair relieved the monotony of an unbroken, sandy stretch of medioerity. And the reason for this lay in the clubs that operated and conducted the prize- fight game | On all sides the call for good fights is | heard—fights between evenly matched, | clever, scientific exponents of pugilism. Let men of reputation and known probity come together and organize a club in which the people who patronize prize- fights can have some confidence, and the game will be resurrected. There are two clubs in the fleld at present, the National 8 '.‘un'fh(‘lub and the Twentieth Century Club. e public has been duped so much and so often that some day it will turn in wrath and everlastingly destroy all possibility of the future existence of rrl“.nshflng in this city unless the game s kept clean and untinctured with dis- haneut{. The repetition of such a flasco and piece of intricate jobbery as the Ryan-Moffatt-Neill entanglement should result in the revocation of a club's li- cense. The Supervisors, who grant these licenses and permits, have a supervisory power, and they should exert it. There are several members of the board who show an active interest in boxing, to know ‘whether or not the devious, crooked path has been taken or that the fight is a pal- pable fake. If this is discovered the club conducting such a fight should come un- der Supervisorial eognizance. According to telegraphic dispatches Charley White and Jim Kennedy are bound westward to aid the promoters in securing talent for prospective shows. These men have long gassociated with prize-fighters, know their habits and their methods. To make a prhe-flgm strictly | honest the utmost diligence and care must | be observed on the part of promoter and matchmaker. The public confidence is something that is easy to abuse, once, twice and sometimes more than that, but the San Francisco public has been hit so often that no further juggling will save lrg organization of fight promoters. nce again the talk is in the air'of Dan Stuart and his Carson carnival. It seems that this 5rest fight promoter still nur- tures the idea of a colossal fistic show in Nevada. Stuar: always was a man of few words. When he arrives here he may or he may not tell us of his plans. The next local match will in all proba- bility be between ‘“Dutch” Thurston, Alex Greggains’ protege. and Otto Cribb, the successful Australian. Alex Greg; s does not entertain many complimentary ideas about Cribb as a fighter, and is willing to bet hats or any old thi man. Cribb is anxious to get at One l"’{"\l evil in the sport that should receive the attention of the Su i | 2 rviso) 1s the so-called amateur clubs. When u;! g:ll:::t‘! men, h‘;fie‘! lnsl u.. uevldnnm of and c : superindu by the 'reln beer girt-.n::e allowed to fight until they drop it is high time that some corrective measures &hould be enfor Of all these amateur 'S clubs there is but one that looks out the condition of the men that ring, and this club was the f field. for | nter st in t —————————— TO REGULATE FOOTBALL. SPRINGFIE State Teacher: sion in this cf 11 A Dec. Association now leading representa 2% —At the of the high school section placed the seal of their ~approval upon the football with proper supervision by school authorities and under such regula- game of gh tions as shall insure the eli drutality. After a thorough d the merits of high school athletics following resolution was unanimou adopted: Resolved, That It is the sense of this m x that the evils that have in our high schools are not o quirements for its supervision Resolved, That the game shc ued; that its merits receive more ul anied foc inherent game itself, but are the result of understanding and execution of t intelligent direction from s generally; that a committee o to draft a plan for the bette 1 control of all inter-high schoo tests The committee will formulate regula tions to be submitted to the high schools for signing and only gated to conform to these rules The allowed to enter contests. those schools obli- will be central feature of the organization will be faculty control. e | NEW TENNIS CHAMPIONS. | The handicap singles on Christmas at the California Club demonstrated the fact | that the club has four promising candi- dates for champlonship honors. Grant | Smith, the winner of the tournament, has | come to the front very rapidly. mond McGavin has the best style and strokes of any of the aspirants, but he | lacks ambition to be a champion. Drum- | | Al Ros- | enberg is a remarkably good defensive | layer, but is not aggressive emough to | a winner. A little more experience in tournament play would change this fault. | Hodgkinson is also deficient in a lack of | knowledge of tournament play. On New Year's day the club will give a doubles tournament for the Davis cup. Being a holiday, it is expected that this will be the banner tournament, with at | least_twelve teams in the race. O'Brien | and Jones. Collier and Crowell, Lane and | Lane, Reed and Dr. Philips, Grant and Allen, McGavin and Code, R. Whit- ney and Staub, and Smith and Cornell | will be among the entries. —_——— HOUNDS SET FAST PACE. | The San Mateo Hunt Club will meet | this afternoon at Spring Valley cottage | on Crystal Springs Lake and will finish near the Country Club house at 1in; e. New Year's day the hounds will be laid on at the club grounds, Burlingams, the morning. Next Sunday, Jan- | uary 5, the meet will be at Sixteen-mile Jose road at 2:30 in The run last Wednesday, starting from | the kennels at Burlingame in m:‘morg: ng, was one of the fastest and that the followers of the hounds | present season. A card containing nine fixtures of the San Mateo County Hunt for the month has issued to the mem- rs. On the 1st, 23d, 26th and 3th the at 90 in the morn- | 'S the hour set is f;ao in the after- at 9:30 in House on the San the afternoon. ! luring the of January be: meets will take piace ing; on the other six for laying on the pack noon. of lifting from Berlln shortly to cal observations. It will be grnvlslolll for several weeks balloon ever constructed and’| over six tons will ascend e meteorolo, suj Bur- | rettiest | ve en- | e with | with two | FINE STAKES FOR NEXT YEAR. COURSING EVENTS | Holiday Card and Introduc- tion Stake Will Be Made Noteworthy. sid year and the I be replete with standard. T ew wi coursir high regular of 128 tries in whic all the strong ordinary dogs are ente will be tne pre day morrow. On high-class 1 uar an will be an open s as uction stake b ry 1, will be a spe ery sense of the term and a big at that. Sixty-four dogs, all In the class, just a mite below the champi der, will course for prizes big enc warrant the competition. The dr for this stake will be held at Uni on Sunday afternoon. The train on this day will be at 10:15 and 1 and 1 p. m., return trains leavi park at 4:4 p. m. and immediatel the conclusion of the day's racing The introduction stake to be run on Sunday, January 8§, 'will be a great event. Only sixteen entries will be allowed with an entrance fee of $10. Difficulty is be- setting the officials in limiting the entries to sixteen. Here are some of the dogs that will race: ‘Beacon, Luxor, Palo Alto, Sacramento Boy, Little Sister and Wedge- wood, all noted performers and many times stake-winners. The first interstate coursing event will be the Washington birthday programme the Belle Brandon for saplings and the | special stake, as yet unnamed, which will become an annual stake. It will be a substitute this year for the John Grace cup, the date of which has been changed from February to October. The Ingleside Coursing Association met on Thursday evening to discuss its flnan- cial status. A committee was appointed o effect a composition with creditors on the $2000 debt now mantling the organiza- tion. If the creditors will agree upon a settlement the stock will be assessed. The English dogs lately imported, Rep- resentative and Whim, 4id net ive a %00d account of themselves In their firsc performances. ey were much over- weignt and In no kind of condition. Since the initial trial they have been put In the hands of a competent trainer and good work is expected of them. In a letter answering a number of ques- tions interesting to coursing men, Dr. Van Hummell, an eminent coursing au- thority, gives this list for the six tost reyhounds in America: For Freedom. alo Alto, Emin Pasha, Susie, Comne- mara and Diana. He considers St. Clair, Emin Pasha, Fortuna Favente, Fabulous Fortune, Sk{mket and Van Nye the ::]:ost successful stud dogs of the present me. Against Licensing of Gambling. The Woman's Christlan Temperance Union filed a protest with the Board of Supervisors yesterday t ro- posed plan of the Chief of Police ,‘21,;‘““ gambling in_Chinatown and other evil in- stitutions. The protest is -y the by Alice E. Bradley. county prea Gnion, and Frances D. Claske: conrsor The Challenge Is Out. Wednesday, January the 2d. the greas challenge will take place in this cigy. * i