The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1901, Page 4

r 1THE SAN FRANC / 1SCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1wul. e SPORTS - RACING, PUGILISM, COURSING, DUCK SHOOTING, PUGILISTIC MART IS IN THIS CITY GOVERN RACE IS OVER. M How the Clubs Strained Every Effort to Get the Feather-Weight. t the world that | as the altar on which | were pre- | But it now Century Ath- securing the f the old and the i T pugilist take place A Century rated later Ned Ho- me Ho- . 8000 purs s for | - ve s unsuccessful attempts | r of all fighters. In ¥ < admits the | question they ) strees, financial that it at fixed | tietk with er for p 1 at this 1 firmament and | m every club in | o fie undoubte ght aga be this month The Twentieth ike the match, but probably get them and Ruhlin and | nmittee cket certain | e made additior the members t and the mem W. N. McCar Bridgema . L. Plat ket James Kit tain s Toll for fo and Henry G me re nominate . in of re-ele ent from 8an Fran chting seasor 5. Storey, met house at Alame; cnsisting o e members of th, y de. knowi- It would permission of uct the propo was reached of the wing were A. C. B commodory re; F. L. . Macaulay, tre the schooner Dawn, Ortley of the launei E. Smith ana J he club is in a flour. from seventy to is exnected that opens there will be about the membership list. A ppointed to try to secure o ascertain the cost of asin in which to moor wili open the season 11, the new commodora 2 Yacht Club, says that he oper day of the club will be April The landing stage in front of the FIT“".. house has been hauied up on the heach re red and 3 back in position, and ths signal bell at the landing steps on the Oakiand side of the cieek has been put in_order i Tuesday the sloop Alert w: at the foot of Clay street. Oag: twenty persons. several of whom were ladles, be:ng on board the vacht as she slid into the water. She is by T. M. Kendall, F. V. Greene Vincent. and_was chrisiened by F. V. Greene. She has an over-all ength of 4 feet, a iength on the water ne of 38 feet, & beam of 14 feet 9 inches and a draft of 9 feet 8 inches when th: centerboard is down —_—— STEELHEAD FISHING. Bteclheads have been caught in great 1bers off Point Reyes. This is the best eeason in four years. F. Dolliver, L. Ron- deau, John Butler, A. E. Lovett, A. Le- gaspie. John Gallagher and Steve Riordan have been trying their luck and with great success. JUMPERS TAKING THE FIRST OBSTACLE AT TANFORAN, AND A FEW SIDE LIGHTS UP A WINNER For. AN EASTERN rricme TENNIS MEN | WILL PLAY | Il\i CLASSi TOURNAMENT | FOR SUNDAY. | A California Club Racket | Wielders Have En-| tered Their Names. | | The class singles tournament of the Cal- | ifornia Tennis Club, after being postponed many times, will be pulied off to-morrow. It gives promise of being the largest and most importan: tournament held on the | club courts in many months. The second | class players in particular are anxious to | see who will rank next to the Whitneyg, | to the winner of that class this dis- tinction will go. With such men as Sum- | ner Hardy, R. N. Whitney, Murdock Nicholson, Weibe, Adams, Collier, D. M Gavin, Crowell, Allen, Rosenberg, Hodg- kingon, Smith and Johnson entered the tennis should be very high class and the | outcome very uncertain. Another event that is interesting the ex- perts very much is the mixed doubles, | which will be played Wednes after- noon. The management of this tourna- | ment is in the hands of Miss Hunter and | R. N. Whitney, and as all the crack play- | ers have expressed their intention of en- tering it-will undoubtedly be an interest- ing aftair. Partners will be drawn by lot, and thus everybody will have equal chancesafor the prizes. Among the lady experts who will play are the Misses Hall, Hunter, Denson, Bowman, McCartney and Haslett. Tennis players of the University of Cal- ifornia and Stanford are practicing can- stantly. The former, including Hunt, D. McGavin and Selby, are seen frequently at the California courts and are all in fine form. The Stanford men—Weihe, Adams, Roth and Misner—do most of their playing on the college courts and are fast round- ing into form. Weihe and Adams are a very strong double team, and Misner, an Eastern crack, gives promise of becoming | a first-class player before the season is | over. With Sam Hardy out of the game | it looks to be a toss-up as to who will win | the intercollegiate tennis this year. The pleasant weather, of the past week brought out most of the cracks, and as a result many close matches were played. Werner Stauf hus returned to the courts again, and in some fast doubles with the Whitfiey brothers and _Grant Smith showed that he has lost none of his skill in that form of the game. Should G. F. Whitney and the Hardys stay out of the championship tournament in July, as they have announced, the out- come of this event will be very uncertain, as there are a number of men on the coast who, while hardly in a class with the former, are very evenly maftched. This will méan strong, keen competition. ——————eeen The penal code of the Chinese empire is at least 2000 years old, and under its pro- visions about’12,000 persons are annually executed. g AMONG THIS GROUP wWiILL B NOTICED SOMHr! IIUMPHEEY.S THE BOOKNANER ANO “BIiLLYy " BENMHI SN of [AC/RL EXpRESS/OY LANE, "FIPING * Sorsm WarMING b TR /AL S Sore PR SMALL BAGS ON ACCOUNT OF THE RAIN DUCK SHOOTERS HAVE A KICK. What the Nimrods Are Doingon the Marshes and at the 'Ponds. The shooters of ducks have been the ob- jects of revengeful rains during the past few weeks, especlally on Baturdays and Sundays, when the majority of them leave town for their shooting clubs on the marshes. The conditions antedating last Sunday were ominous of good shooting, but the rain began to pour down Saturday evening, with the result that few nimrods cared to venture out on Sunday, which was likewlse a very wet day. At this writing conditions are favorable for very good sport this week. A strong north wind has been tearing over the marshes and reports indicate the pres- ence of large flocks of birds. As the sea~ son is rapidly working its way to a close these few Jast days will be enjoyed by the duck-shooter. ~ Less than a month of the best period of the season remains. This thought alone will drive the nimrods to their shooting grounds whenever the op- portunity is offered. On Wednesday last Al Cummings, J. Homer Fritch and Mr. Olliver, a guest, shot on the Field and Tule Club preserves with a small measure of luck. Twelve canvasbacks were all they got after n day’s shooting. ‘he Field and Tule Club held an annual election during the week. for 1001 are: A, M. Shield: Derby, vice presi secretary; H. B. tary; H. L. Ml ] o | A. H. Hopke, Willlam Bay, M. E. Unger | and J. J. Wirtner. ‘The old preserve com- | mittee, which consists of H. B. Hosmer, | H. L. Miller and L. W. Harpham, will| hold over until the newly elected presi- | dent appoints their suécessors. Johnny Coleman and Frank Ireland | were out on Charles Fair's preserves last | Sunday. They shot In the wet, but did | not meet with much success. | ¥red Bushnell and party tried Burdell's | on Tuesday. Even Fred admitted that | | the shooting was poor and that his bag seemed to be filled with baking powder. Captain_Ed_TFuncke brought 120 birds | from the San Rruno marshes early in the week and 100 of them were canvasbacks. | Tod Sloan and Andrew Jackson shot on | Charles Fair's preserves last Wednesday. | They had but little to say over the re- | sults. - Reports from Rio Vista and Maine Prajrie and Elmira bespeak plenty of ducks. At Alvarado spoonbills and blue- bills are thick. The farmers around Point San Pedro have been startled by a visitation of what they call wild pigeons, They have been | slaughtering these pigeons for & week or | more. ‘While shooting at Richardson's last Sunday J. Fatjo met with a painful accl- dent. His gun went off accidentally and the shot lodged in his left shoulder. BOXERS READY FOR CONTESTS The boxing tournament which will be held on January 30 and 31 and February 1 and 2 for the Pacific States’ champion- ship under the auspices of the Olympic Club promises to be cae of the most suc- | cessful of the kind ever held in this city. The entries, wiich do not close until this evening, now number over seventy and represent the best amateur boxers in the State. The Olympic, the Reliance. the Ala and ail the prominent athletic clubg are well represented. Owing to the great number of entries four nights will be consumed In working down the tournament. The aspirants have trained falthfully and are now prepared to enter the lisis ready for a mlr of three-round fights. The winners of the tournament will have an opportunity to meet the Eastern champlons of all classes, The Easterners will be out at the end of February. AL KOEMGSBERG, £2/cr< HAYEY ANE ANO THER WELin ANOWN TURFITE WA Terir/m CGALLOP,PS | Visitors Bring Weak| PRELIrGIrVA. %5 + HILE FROWNED UPON BY MANY RACE-GOERS, HURDLE EVENTS AND STEEPLECHAS- ING ARE VERY POPULAR IN | AUCTRALIA AND ENGLAND. IN FACT, IN THE COLONIES ON DAYS WHEN A STEEPLECHASE NUMBER IS DOWN FOR DECISION THE ATTENDANCE IS ALWAYS THE LARGEST. OWING TO THE NUMBER OF RACES GIVEN AT TANFORAN PARK THERE HAS BEEN A GENUINE BOOM IN THIS BRANCH OF THE SPORT, AND EVERY MORNING AT THE SAN MATEO COUNTY TRACK, AND ALSO AT INGLESIDE TRACK, NUMBERS OF HORSES CAN BE OBSERVED RE- CEIVING THEIR FIRST LESSONS OVER THE STICKS. IN THE ACCOMPANYING IL- LUSTRATION IS A VIEW OF THE LEAD- * " GOLF.CRACKS | CONTEND ON | CITY LINKS HOME AND HOME| TOURNAMENT. | Teams to Battle With | Experts of Presidio. The second half of the first match of the season between teams bf six men rep- | resenting the Oakland and San Francisco Golf clubs will take place this afternoon on the Presidio links. 'The visiting team will be made up of W. P, Johnson, F. S. Stratton, C. P, Hubbard, T. R. Hutchin- | son, J. Ames and one other. The ab-! sence of E. R. Folger and R. M. Fitager a1d will weaken the Oakland team consid- erably. The San Francisco Golf Club will be represented by B. D. Adamson, 8. L. Abbot Jr., H. B. Gocdwin, J. W. Byrne, L. O. Kellogg and H. D. Plilsbury. It was thought that John Lawson would head the San Francisco team, but the attrac- tion of following tha houn@s over ths fields and fences of San Mateo County is too strong for him. toSaturday the Oakland team, play- ing on their own liniks, beat the San Francisco men 4 up, but it is likely that the Presidlo men, 5n tkcir own course, | will wipe off that score and place a sub: stantial _number of heles to their own credit. The Presidio course is difficult to ifers who are not familiar with it and fhe Oakland men have always failed 1o do_themselves justice on it. Yesterday play began on the links of tha Puuden:m E?rggt‘?ug.m the interclub eam m: g e managem B tiifornia GOl Ao i The team from each “assoclate” or | DISCERNED “DOPING" UP A Wi | over “eighteen holes. <+ - ERS IN WEDNESDAY'S HURDLE EVENT AT TANFORAN, STACLE. EVEN THE BEST AND SUREST OF “PONY" PLAYERS ADMIT THAT THEY ARE UP AGAINST OBSTACLES IN JUDGING THE JUMPERS, BUT IN THE ACCOMPANTY- ING ILLUSTRATION THERE ARE A NUM- BER CAUGHT IN THE ACT WHO WILL NOT ADMIT EVEN THAT MUCH. ERS, SPRINTERS OR LONG-DISTANCE | FLIERS ARE THE SAME TO-THEM. THERE ARE FEW KEENER JUDGES OF PRICE | IN THIS COUNTRY THAN TIM MURPHY. | BROTHER OF JOB WELL KNOWN NT AND PLU: AND “JIM." TIM IS S A TURF CORRESPOND- GER, AND CAN OFTEN BE NNER OR TWO BEFORE THE RACES, BENNISON I8 KNOWN BY HORSEMEN FROM SARATOGA TO SEATTLE, AND IS A CLOSE OBSERVER OF ALL THAT HAP- PENS IN A RACE. BLESS MARKABLE EYESIGHT, HE NEVER USES FIELDGLASSES, AND HIS JUDGMENT 18 MUCH SOUGHT AFTER. BILL® AND JOHNNY HUMPHREY OFTEN COMPARE OTES AFTER A RACE. “DICK” HAVEY, THE STARTER, TIMER AND DRIVER OF | HARNESS HORSES AS WELL, IS SELDOM WITHOUT A CIGAR BETWEEN HIS TEETH. “DICK” WOULD RATHER BET A FEW THAN DRIVE A TWO-MINUTE PACER. SO WOULD AL KOENIGSBERG, AND THE PAIR COMPARE NOTES QUITE OFTEN. $ team plays over eighteen holes, match play, against every other team. If a play- er beats his opponent one or two holes his team counts one point: if he wins three his team adds two points to its score; if he wins five or more up his téam cqnm three points. The team winni the greatest number of points will c off the Pasadena cup, presented by John B. Miller, president cf the Pasadena Country Club and of the Southern Califor- nia Golf Association. The match will be concluded to-day. There are seven ‘‘as- sociate” members and five “allicd” mem- bers of the Southern California Gelf As- soclation. Next Friday and Saturday, February 1 and 2, on_the links of the Los Angeles Country Club, contests for the -vomen's champfonship ~of . Southern <California will be played. Mrs. Jean W. Bowers of Garvanza at present holds the champion- ship, but judging from recent play on the Los Angeies Country <1 inks Mrs. E. D. Silent and M Fred Griffith may pres: her hard. On New Year's day Mrs. E. D. Silent tied Mrs. J. W. Bowers with a gross score of 102 for eighteen holes and Mrs. Frea Griffith madc a score of 103, Though Willie Smiith and David Bell fafled to make 8o low a record over the Los Angeles Country Club’s course as was hoped for, they played splendid golf. Their drives, brassie. iron and approach shots were almost perfect, but the v: ing surface of the oied sand put: grounds puzszled them and made them lo confidence. Smith savs that the game of the Los Angeles golfers Is far beyond what he had expected to find In Califor- nia and that many of flic players compar» favorably with Eastorn gotfets and could hold their own in any amateur company in the United States with the exception of Travis, Douglas, Harriman and wat- son. David Bell commented on the ten- dency of some of the southern golfers to run up with fron clubs. which s not good golf, and not to pick the ball up cleanly. He thinks that the running-up approach should be punished. Despite the rain last Sunday several matches were played on the Presidio links, J. W. Byrne beating H. C. Golcher 7 up Worthington Ames defeating Leonard Cheney 1 up over nine holes, C. P. Eells winning 3 up from An- drew Carrigan, Dr. John Spencer beat- ing S. G. Buckbee 2 up. Robert Johnstons defeating E. J. McCutchen 3 up and Cap- tain over G. P. Gow. The postponed driving and putting con- tests of the Sausalito Golf Club will take place on the Fort Baker links to-morrow at 2 n. m., no matter what the weather may be. or four u _—————————— The Vampire Association Football Club of this citv will play a mateh this after- noon on the Presidio athletic ground against a team of apprentices from the British ships lyving in the harbor. The saflors’' eleven will be selected and cap- tained by the Rev. A. B. Karney. one 6 the chaplains of the Seamen's Institute. The following will represent the Vampire: W. P. Humphreys, A F. Chambers, H. V. Turner. G. T. 8. White. J. B. Duggan, A, W. Wilding. 1. E. Waliis, R. I. Buch. lev. W. Bishop, J. Hughes and W. Peth- lied” club consists of four men and each erick. | | THE HOUNDS TAKING THE FIRST OB- | JuMP- | “BILLY" | DOLLARS, THOUGH, ON A GOOD THING | D. J. Rumbaugh proving victorious | BRITISH TARS AT PLAY.| 'FIGURES AND FACTS ABOUT SOME DOG «DOPE” COMPILED. Stake Events at Union Coursing Park Dur- ing Coming Weeks. ing, master of the long odds > g Park, is perhaps technical student of coursing in this country. Not only has he fo! the weekly programmes with a y t he has originated a cou h in its way is as sys form sheet “dope” book r the vear 1900 he ha h covers in tabulated form the worl | at Union P coursing c ent time this is | | practical ntrit | v the mest valuable to coursing fiice of the Union 1 and can be ex~ prepared. It is Coursing P: amined at Cushing’s b k Assoctati the Park. and they are 45 midweek, 42 ope | plon, 2 class, 4 pu | 1 ladles’ day don, 1 Fut John Grace lati | %19 entries made an - {entered. The total purse m < | $74.179. The winning sires { | Emin Pasha $11612, Ky ’ Lawrence 38157, St. Clair $3167, W $2807. Royal Cr shc wel | whose get have captu Big prizes imported dogs won $461 Auckland ($462) leading. Here s a list of the winners of $500 and more. Sacramento Boy, who took $1500 at a single clip in the John Grace cup, leads This. is the order; Sacramento B Palo Alto $1555, Harlean Gladys $1505 con $1440, Luxor $1325, Whitehea Narcissus $1082, Royal ¥lush S}l; rutus Mose ($75) a Fox $1003, Master Clair $07 Warship $8%, Royal Anne $810, Bad $772,- Lavina $772, Little Sister $757, Co nemara $745, Royal Union $685, For G 82, Floodgate 3630, Ireland $61s all $97 McKinley' $579. Sir Pa Bohe $660. Random Aim $552, Cronin’ Tralee 324, May Hempstead %17, Melody $305, Sara $505. The_winners of three or more stakes are: Palo Alto six events. Whitehead six, Royal Anne four, Little Sister four, Nar- ¢issus three and one divided, Royal Flush three, leacon three, Bad Boy three and Wedgewood three. The card for to-day and to-morrow at Unien Park is exceptionally strong. The first round of the 112-dog open stake will be run to-day. The champion stake, six- | teen entries, will be run in its entirety to- morrow. On Wednesday next the first puppy and sapling stakes will be run. These events will take the place of the regular midweek reserve and are preliminary to the Be | Brandon, which is scheduled for Was: ington’s birthday Judge Grace. the premier judge of Ame fea, judged 10000 courses at Ps last year. This is a record urs and miles ahead of any other coursing judge in the world | Clark & Growiage of New York | send out Ideale. Lady Flavia and Memor | three crack Eastern dogs, T fear is felt by local owners. Mac's Union |UMPIRES HAVE | MANY TROUBLES The winter baseball league has felt the chill of the north wind and the dampness of the rain several times this season it hangs on with tenact off postponed gam: happened. The will play to-morro 1 grounds. 1D Koenizs. Bagar - Perrine... Keogan Colins. . J e D. Bodte. ... Brockhoft. | MeGee. Knell 00 168 is not harmony in the southern All league, as the following will indicate: AN'DIEGO, Jan Two resignatio have to some exte ity of baseball cir San Diego. Mon- day’'s game was characterized by entirely too much kicking to please the audience | and the management. The kicking was directed principally at the umpire and came from both teams, Donlln of San Diego being the leader among the San Diegos and Kelley among the San Berna dinos. It was entirely too pire Sylvester, and on the the game he informed Man; r ( the San Diegos that his money was not good enough to make him stand tHe abuss he received at the hands, or rather at the mouths, of the play Donlin has beén the captain of the San Diego team, but as he was severely criti cized for his kicking, both by the peopla who patronize the game and by papers, he told the management t one else should be allowed to capt team, since the people did not seem t his style Both resignations have been Bill Devereaux. the captain of 1 Sacramento team ager Carey as car Horn, who played w the téam was profe umpire. : As most of_the kicking has been on b: rited the placi dai es in »nalized, and strikes, Manager Carev has asked league m for the priv having an v at the e t on balls and kes. Ex-Assemblyman Lewis Wor s one of the big ball | eranks of crank center, has volune teered to officiate as the extra umpire | without exp to the managem —_—————— HANDBALL CONTESTS. At the San Franciseo handball courts the following matches will be nlayed Hon. John O* day afternoon. Vell, ex- Sheriff of Kansas City, will play wi some_of the local exper: 3. B. Hayward and W._Fisher vs. P. Ryan Levy: W. Walsh and F. Longabach vs and . Kavanaugh: D. E. Barry and T M. McNeil vs. C. dari; J. Condon a N Leach and T. Foley: D. Connelly and W. Williams vs. J. Lawless and M. Jovee F. Stapff and W. Darneal vs. W. D Lissner d M. lsle and F. W. Stapff: P. Basch and Berwin vs Wurkheim and F. Levene: | J. Riordan and J. Harlow vs. W. Maguire and E. Curley: J. C. Nealon and A. Hamp- ton vs. J. Collins and J. White. rsneszn b o Bl |, SAN MATEO FOX HUNT. 9:30 the San Mateo meet at Havarl | This morning at | County hunt will t | Woods. San Mateo. On Wednesday, Jan- | uary 30, the rendezvous will be af the Southern Pacifle station. Belmont.. This | concludes the fixtures for the month of January. A schedule of events for. the month of February will be issued by tha secretary to the members in a few davs, The country is just now in excellent condition. the ground being moist enough o hold the scent well and make good zo- ing, without being =0y and. heavy, Tha return of thé master of the hunt, Francis 3. Carolan. to California and the addition Yo the pack of several couples of Frish and Eastern bred hounds have given an im- petus to the sport. so (hat the meets from now untfl the close of the season will be well attended. Attar of roses sells at $100 an ounce, which is five times the value of gold.