The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1901, Page 4

4 ¢ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY B 2, 1901. SPORTS: RACING, COURSIN G, TENNIS, FOUR FLEET-FLOOTED EQUINES AND FAMOUS JOCKEYS IN THE FOUR-CORNERED RACE | Tommy Burne will handle Canmore for Since leaving the maiden class as a two- Walter Jenning®, while on this occasion Nash Turner has been chosen by *Billy” Cahil s the rider of Boer. No one member of this select equins | rtet is a stranger to lecal turfgoers. Lovez feels confident Artlculate will Ve the laurels Jost in his last public appearance at Oakland, when Bill Garrett rolled in and the brown colt finished ia ruck. Walter Je gs thinks Can- re will get the m. Trafner Sam Hildreth has great re ess of Rolling Boer, and usually backs vect for the prow- |} year-old last November Brutal has done all that has been asked of him. This after- noon he will be given the most severe task of his career and many dollars will be bet (hult the son cf Imp. Brutus will the affable and conscien- ester man, has been doing some remarkably good. starting with the sray machine at Tanforan. There is one about Dwyer wherein he differs from most all others of his profession. It ble to meet jum_after business and converse on the topics of the (day without having the subject revert to machine i{s completely cutclassed when a starter goes on to relate how many perfect starts he has made during ten years of experience, and how often the newspap have given him the worst of it. The abuses of the selling race are many [but that portion of tnese affatrs relat | to the claiming clause are farcical, ao- [gurd and unfair. ay it tends to | horses in their is preposterous, Everything depends to_the ownership |of the horse. In Enrland one turfman | will line with a friend, and perhaps an hour later at the conclusion of a selling | race claim the friend's horse. It is con- | sidered perfectly prngur and no breach of | “might makes right” | etiquette, but if such a thing should oc- | ve | horse worth $2000. Again some owner with | keep | his livelihood might enter the animal Ir | in compazison with which the Hatfleld- McCoy vendetta would be but a summer zephyr. As practiced at our local tracks, is possible to enter a broken-down | ‘crab” that would not bring two cents | per pound at the abattoir, and claim a | but one horse as the means of making | a claiming event, and bet his all on the result of the race. The horse is left at | the post and then claimed. This would | be all right if all owners would enter their | horses at somewhere near their real vai- uation. But, as in ali other vocations, and names could be mentioned that are never molested, and AND SAPLING STAKES WILL PRESENT THE CHAMPIONS OF THE FUTURE ERSESNECES tering horses at ome-fifth of thelr -eal | valuation. Racing associations should give more | highclass selling events: then there would be less complaint at horses being entered below their valuation. As it is, the owner of a good plater is afraid to make an en- try in one of the ordinary every-day races Wwith the valuation placed at $800 or $1000. Given the opportunity to enter his horse in highclass affairs, the owner who would then take a chance ‘n one of the cheap races yould have no occasicn for grumb- ling i¥given a boost. From all accounts the Baldwin Cruzados, must be quite a horse. leaving Santa Apgita ranch he is said to | colt, Before 1s faster than Volants or any of the old time cracks ever worked. The great showman, P. T. Barnum, onca sald “the American people like to be hum- bugged.” Barnum dled a millionaire an undoubtedly had the right idea. If tur? goers wish to pay 32 a day for a “good thing" to a £ information bur ng shquld crawl. a betfer cure than kicking to the press would be to lock one's self In a dark cellar for a weck. Hot applica- tions of mustard to the feet and a co'd compress on the ‘‘dome’” must be indulged in during the hours if incarcer: n nine cases out of ten the patient will then emerge from the gloom an enlightened his judgments with a swell-sized wager. | starting almost instantly. An oil-boring | cur on this side, it would cause a feud |itheir possessors go on year after year en- | have stepped a half in 48 seconds, which | man. F. E. MULHOLLAND. B e e o e e S S e S e R R it oofit g 3 P e PUPPIES AND SAPLINGS WHOSE NAMES, SINCE THE DOUBLE STAKE OF'LAST WEDNESDAY, ARE ON THE TONGUES OF ALL COURSING MEN. RACKET WIELDERS ARE BUSY Class Tournament on California Club Courts, The past week been a very lvely Dr. Phillips, on this coast, gain and the e to put forth their second class men best efforts to beat b ers—Franklin K., G. W. and Dr. F. put in considerable time on the courts improving steadily e members t of the California which is = mem fifteen to a month, and very few tions are being sent in. Among the new members who Jjoined this week 1 Kenneth Hamilton, a football player of able prominence on local grid- her crack foot- expressed his intention of he game. s of the the class ngles tournament, st Sunday, wiil The two men s of the second I Rosenberg and Norman who are very evenly Both players represented the School in the Academic > by far the best players Their styles of game a very dissimilar. Hodgi swift, aggressive game and chances, while Rosenberg play reful, steady, definite game The match be- tween these two young players will be | very close and should produce some very high class tennis. The players who will fight it out for fourth class honmors are Paul Jones and Orville Pratt. The latter has had sev- eral years more experience than his op- ponent. but is somewhat out of practice. Jones is rather new at the game, but is playing in good form. The other players who _are still in the tournament are R. N. Whitney, Ray Cornell and_ Richard Erekine, winners of the first, third and fitth classes, respectively. Play will commence at 2 p. m. to-day and the interclase finals will be p to-morrow at 12 o'clock. The handicaps have been arranged as follows: First class, scratch; second class, one-half fif- teen; third class, fifteen; fourth cla: one-half thirt nd fifth class, thirty. FIRST POLO GAME. The opening polo game of the season was played last Sunday on the Burlin- game fieid, which had been put into excel- lent condition. The tegms were made up follows: Reds—IL. ence McCreery, Jter 8. ilobart and E. W. Howard th Charles Dunphy as alternate; blues- Walter McCreery, John Lawsom and F. he three Lane | 1 soon be reached, | are coming in at the rate of | second and fourth | q | nia C HE first puppy and sapling stakes of the year were run at Union Park last Wednesday, and cours- | ]I ing men have not yet ceased talk- { | ing of them. Judge John Grace, | %ho bhas decided more courses than any | other man in the world, declares unre- | 1 servedly that there never was such puppy | d sapling stakes before. For pupples to run like well-trained dogs is something | out of the ordinary, but when saplings be- | have like veterans then something of the sensational is produced. Coursing men have been speculating for a long time where the great dogs of the future would | | nas come, i come from. They think now that they have found a number of prospective world beaters. One of the most significant features of both Wednesday stakes was the great work of the For Freedom puppies and saplings. For two years For Freedom has produced no get which gave any signs of the fine coursing blood running in the veins of that king of hounds. The change and For Freedom will classed not only as a grea: courser, but as a great sire as well. Foremost among Man. For Freedom out of Amarosa. whelped February 3, 190. Ice Man and his full sister, For Liberty, belong to the the saplings is Tee be | | Sterl & Knowles kennels, and both hounds | came together in the final round. so_the | deciding course was not run. Ice Man | showed great speed and proved himself a | great worker. For Liberty, while not so strong in these particulars, is cleverer |4han her brother. There are two more hounds in this same litter that much is expected of. of Sterl & Knowles, Wapsee, Curtis & Son's sapling, Sylva- nus out of tematic, earned the dis- tinction of reaching the fourth round and was ‘then withdrawn; wisely too, for this | Y, dog went through several hard courses early in the dav. Wapsee is fast and clev- ! For Liberty and Wapsee, followed the They, are also the property | er, is a_good worker and shows great speed. He was whelped as late as March | | 8. 1900. These three youngsters, Ice Man, | tul. hare like old stagers at the game. The way they stuck out their courses and their pickups were no less than wonder- Two other For Freedom saplings, May Blossom out of Golden Russet and Bonus out of Bena, give promise of future greatness. It ook Wapsee to down May Blossom and the score s Bonus was in_poor condition and was put out in the first round by For Liberty, Of the puEFIP-, J. H. Rosseter's Rival's Answer carried off the first honors. For Freedom was the sire of this game hound. The runner-up of the stake was Black Flush, who has all the qualities of his sire, Royal Flush. Other pupples that showed up well were J. Kerrigan's Melpo- mene, St. Tsawrence-Lightfoot. July, Fonténoy, For Freedom-Mayfiower, Sep- tember, '8, withdrewn after four win- 3 nings; D. Dillon's Buck-Granuelle: R. Son's The Levite, imp. Shylock iis, July, '#:; E. M. Kellogg's Crawford Belle, imp. Crawford Lad-lTowa Girl, De- cember, ’ Beck & Hoffman’'s Momus, St. Lawrence. ite Kennels' Freedom's Banner. im | Freedom-Beauty Spot, August, '$. and | Jim Dean’s Greyfleld, Moondyne-Brillian- tine, December, '9. All these youngsters will make thelr marks on the coursing fleld If early prom- | Ise is realized in maturity. Their names | will bé améng the champions, and the rich, fat purses their ancestors won will be compared in_tabular lists with their wn winnings. This should be the great sapling year—one of those landmarks in courslgg “dope’ history. Granuvilla, E. de B. G. Menzies. The reds ran up twelve goals against four of the blues. To-morrow there will be a match with four on each | side—J. 8. Tobin, R. M. Tobin and Thom- as Driscoil being inciuded in the teams. ————— 5 |KENNEL BARKINGS. | The beneli show committee of the San Francisco Kennel Club is hard at work on the preliminaries of the May bench show, {and many important details have already | been settled. H. D. Laidlaw will officiate | as manager and J. C. Langenderfer as su- perintendent. Mr. Weyman has been slated for ring steward, but the appoint- | ment has not yvet been definitely made. The members of the St. Bernard Club of California are very anxious to have | Miss Whitney of New York to judge the “saintly” breed, and to that end the in- | aividual members have subscribed a guar- antee fund, that is almost large enough | already to justify the San Francisco Ken- | nel Club in assuming the balance of the expense. Among the judges under con- | sideration by the bench show committee besides Miss Whitney are James Cole of | Kansas City, James J. Lynn of Port Hu- | ron, an expért on terriers of all breeds. and Henry Jarrett of Philadeiphia, weli known as a breeder of collies and terriers, The choice of the club will undoubtedly fall on one or two of these candidates, s7ho represent all that is best.in American | kenneidom. The yhound men have sent !in a request to the club to allow a sepa- rate judge for the greyhounds, and have suggested the name of John Bradshaw as | The Sest Atted for the position, | W Meek's mastifft champion Califor- be has sired no less than thirty pupples within the .past month, of which eleven were out of James L. Fiood’s Myra | #nd ten out of J. P. Norman’s Hebe Mon- tez. The first member of the Pacific Kennel League -to hold a show under the new classification will probably be the Seattle Kennel Club. There can be no doubt that the assimilation of the league's rules to those of the American Kennel Club is a | wise move and may do much to strength- en the league, as exhibitors will find it | easiér to make their entries and will be | better able to understand their winnings, The change was made on the petition of the Seattle Kennel Club and was carried mainly &t the instance of the secretary of the league, Norman J. Stewart. = | MEDALS FOR GOLF CONTESTS City Caddies Are Eager to Meet Rival Carriers. The new green committee .of the San Francisco Golf Club will soon issue a schedule of events for men. No event is set down for to-day on the Presidio links, but advantage will be taken of the fine condition of the course to play Ssome prac- tice games and probably some matches in the round robin tournament. On Monday morning on the links of the Son Francisco Golf Club there will be women's foursomes, over 18 holes, medal play, for which the following en- tries have been made: Miss Morgan and Miss Drum, Miss Crockett and Miss Ha- ger, Miss O'Connor and Miss Josselyn, Mrs. R. G. Brown and Mrs. Scott. Last month there seemed to be some likeli- hood of a home-and-home match between teams of ladies representing the San Francisco and Oakland Golf clubs, to be conducted on the same conditions as the home-and-home tournaments among the men, but no definite arrangements have yet been made, Last Sunday*L. O. Kelloge and Robert Johnstone, the professional, at the Pre- sidio links, played a foursome inst H. D. Pilisbury and J. W. Byrne, the latter couple receiving two bisques. There was not time to finish an 18-hole match, and the game terminated at the twelfth hole without advantage to either side, There is also talk of getting up a match be- tween teams of caddies representing the San Francisco and Oakland Golf elubs. ‘The contest wouid be a home-and-home tournament, over 18 holes, and each team would probably consist of six caddies. Some of the caddies play quite a strong game and the match would arouse con- siderable interest among the caddies and the members. At the recent annual meeting of the Qakland Golf Club the following were elecied members of the councll Oresies Plerce, P. E. Bowles, H. M. A. Miller, G. W. McNear Jr., W, P. Johnson, C. O. G. Miller and A. ‘Schilling. Orestes Pierce Wwas chesen captain, P. E. Bowles vice captain and H, M. A." Miller secretary and treasurer. The green committee con- sists of W. P. Johnson, E. R. Folger and F. 8. Stratton. E. R. Folger recently left for a visit to the Eastern States, where he will play on several of the well-known golf courses. The competition for the women's cham- plonship of Southern California began vesterday on the links of the Los Angeles Country Club. The winner will be the champion lady golfer of Southern Cali- fornia for 1901. On the opening day of the interclub team match on the links of the Pasadena Country Club four clubs of the Southérn California Golf Association were repre- sented—the Pasadena and Los Angeles Country clubs, the Santa Catalina Island Golf Club and the Pachappa Golf Club of Riverside. No_three-ball or_four-ball matches are permitted on the Presidio links on Satur- days or Sundays, as they tend to cumber the course and to keep the couples be- hind them walting. —_———— HUNT CLUB DATES. The card containing the February fix- tures of the San Mateo County Hunt Club is out and has been issued to the mem- bers. To-day the meet will be at Spring Valley cottage, upper Crystal Spring Lake, at 9:30 in the morning. On Wednes- day, February 6, the rendezvous is the dairy, Millbrae, at the same hour. Next Saturday the pack will be lald on near the Southern Pacific Railway station’at San Carlos at 9:30 in the forenoon. In order to accommodate visitors and friends who wish to see the throw-off a coach will on certain days be driven to the meet, starting from San Mateo sta- tion or the Burlingame clublLouse. On the 13th the coach will leave San Mateo station at 11:40 a. m., and the Burlingame Country Club twenty minutes later. On the 19th the coach will start from San Ma- -teo station at 1;15 p. m., and from the Burlingame Club at 1:30 p. m. On Wash- ington's birthday the coach will leave Burlingame clubhouse at noon to conyey ests inyvited to luncheon at Fair Oaks y J. J. Moore, returning to Burlingame gner luncheon. Seats on the coach may e booked beforehand at the office of the manager of the Burlingame Club, the fare being $1 50, or $2 50 for thebox seat. LAST OF THE DUCK SHQOTING Birds Scattering on Marshes North and South. Another month and the duck season will have passed. -The best of the shooting is now over, yet there will be many nimrods on the marshes during the month of Feb- ruary. Weather conditions at the present time are ripe for good shooting, but the birds are not plentiful in localities where they abounded early in the season. On the Sulsun marshes the Field and Tule Club seems to have got the best of the shooting. Fair flights of canvas- backs have been seen over these preserves and the shooters who were out last Sun- day returned home with something to recompense their sportful labors. Harry Miller, Lee Harpham and L. Titus were among the number. J. J. Wirtner and ‘A. M. Cummings had a good shoot on Wednesday. Their bags showed many canvasbacks. On_Sunday last Charles Fisher shot on the San Pablo marshes, sixteen canvas- backs falling to R J. Culligan tri ichardsons Bay and twenty-six canvi were his portion. H. Justiu and D. McClellan wefe on the Belmont marshes last Sunday and they returned home with a string of ht cans. fn = California are congratuiating ducks in California_are coi themselves. Eddy shoots early and late and kills such bags that the Legislature pul es once every two years. The ducks have scattered on the Alviso marshes and they are just beginning to do so on the Cordelia ponds. Shooting from now on will be a matter of guess- work and luck—as far as success Is con- cerned. —— YACHTING NEWS. The yachtsmen of San Francisco Bay are somewhat perturbed by the introduc- tion into the Legislature at Sacramento | of a bill providing that, the owners of craft which are not registered under the Federal statutes be compelied to register their boats, to which a number will be assigned. sald number to be painted con- | spicuously on the bows of the boat. The yacht owners and launch owners, who eep their craft purely for purposes of | healthful recreation, feel that it is un- fair to,require them to carry disfiguring numbers, as if they were employed in en- terprises of shrimp fishing or erab cateh- ing. The members and friends of the Corinthian Yacht Club will use their in- fluence with the Legislature to expunge | such parts of the bill as refer to pleasure | craft. | Several of the members of the San | Francisco Yacht Club arg in favor of the | plan of raising by subseription a suffl cient sum to defray the cost of building | a yacht to chnllen{e for the San Fran- cisco perpetual challenge cup, now held by the Corinthlans. The idea is to get a design from one of the crack bullders in the Eastern States, bulld the boat here | and man her with a crew of amateurs. Frank Bartlett, formerly owner of the | 8100p Queen, and now of the yawl Spray, as at Old Sausalito last Sunday looking for a chance to have the yawl taken up on Smith's ways. . E. B. Leaming, who was chosen a mem- ber of the regaita committee at the an- nual meeting of the Corinthian Yacht Club, was formerly a resident on Puget Sound, and owns a yacht which acquitted herself well in races. It is reported that he will have her brought down to these ‘waters, The annual meeting’ and election of gffi- cers of the San Francisco Yaeht Club will be held at the Merchants’ Exchan Wedneldlr evening, February 13. There are two tickets in_ the nem—:r regular and a members’ ticket, but the fatter con- tains the same candidates for commodore, vice commodore and finacial secretary as the formier. It is understood that Harold Burnett, who is the nominee ox the regu- lar ticket for the office of measurer, has retired. This leaves Henry 6. Toll, who has been sailing with Dr. 7. L. Hill for the past two or three years, the only nom- inee for that office. "As if is undeérstood that R. B. Hogue, treasurer, Kitterman; port captain, desire Lo i:‘”r;' Heved from the cares ces, which they have filled to the com) satisfaction of g:o mumfiebr:. the only "g?eobfor Wwhich ere wi an; st - o Edgell 15 the tog retary, for which the reg- ular nominee and ? € Bartlett, 3 bent, the nominee o¥ the opposition ticket, e — STANFORD MEN BEGIN TRAINING Opening Game of Baseball on Col- lege Campus. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb. 1— The baseball season will open at Stan- ford to-morrow with a game between the vargity and Firemen's Fund team. The college squad of thirty men has been at active practice for the past. twa weeks under the direction of Coach Mur- phy, but as yet no test of ability has been made. To-morrow's match therefore will be something of an indication of what may be expected from the material In hand Of last year's team only four are candl- dates for positions on the nine. . Thess are Cowden. second base; Brown, third base; Symonds, center fleid, and Edwards, shortstop and captain. Murphy id in col- lege, but will not play on account of a press of university work. The chiet obstacle which Coach Murphy has to sur- mount is in the problem of pitching. He has at his disposal four or five candidates of rather mediocre ability and little sx- perfence in the box. _They are Tritch. Bennett, Yerrington, Studley, Parker and Palmer. Several have plenty of speed, but they lack the w.mml’ and experfincs necessary for a successful twirler. The backstop position is likely to go to either Traeger or Horn, as Cowden i3 be- ing tried at first. Misner, a new man from Colorado, is holding down the second bag in veteran style. while Brown is at his old position at third, with a dangerous rival in Comner of Santa Clara College. Edwards will play his old position at shortstop. Symonds is the only varsity man left in the outfield, but Ball, Lowen- thal, Lamb and Luce are all experienced men. The class games will be played off next week and it is expected that some latent varsity material will be discovered. BASEBALL GAMES, At Recreation Park to-morrow after- noon the Koenigs and Golden Gates will cross bats. line-up: The following will be the Positions. Golden Gates. Pitcher McMenomy Center fleid. Right fleld.. -Burns The Alamedas and Nobles will play at man's %, Oakland, at 3 p m. Batteries: Alamedas—Russell and Ham- mond. Nobles—J. Shea and D. Shea. ————— Over $1,000,000 worth- of diamonds ar> stolen every year from th, diamond mines. IS Afpteen