The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1901, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1901 ' SPORTS -a> PRIZE FIGHTING, COURSING, COLLEGE ATHLETICS, CHALLENGES |COLLEGE TEAMS FLY FAST ON LOCAL LINKS Golfers at Presidio and|Cand Oakiand Plan Several New Tests of Skill. idates for Varsity HE edule of baseball games between the Fireman's Fund team and tWe University of California and Stanford began last Saturday . with a match between the cardi- e nine and the insurance men. The col- men won the day when they were Ever since the los- been swearing vengeance, and rnoon when they will meet the Gold on the California campus say that victory will be thiers. has some good baseball ma- irse of development and strong nine this season militated against the andidates for the var- in this preliminary of the material on defeate f the losed < Fund team is composed of professionals and high men who, with a little uld surpass anything the col- within their baseball ranks £ to-day’s game at Berkeley number p California . ) Smith Pitc Overall First base Kennedy Second base King Third base Braley Shortstor Hunter Left fleld K i Center field Ham - Collin Right fleld Hamilton ANFORD UNIVERSITY Feb. 8.- etics at Stanford have been quiet dur- t week o far as outdoor work d. But while the muddy track 1 have prevented practice out- gymnasium, the baseball men to learn a few points ich were sched- been postponed The varsity's game with t week ON THE DIAMOND Positions Have Besgun Active Training Under the Coaches. ————— ra College has also been called off s the San Jose diamond is in such shape that it can be played on by that time. The track men will be put to work next week. A serles of handlcap and inter- class field days has been planned by Man- Santa ClI nl ger Gilman in order that every one capable of entering an event ‘in this anch of athletics may get out on the letter has been recelved here from of Nevada, challenging the A the Univers: freshman team to a field meet to be held Reno in M Palo Alto in April. h, with a return match It is likely that in at this challenge, as well one from the Oakland Figh School, will be-accepted. The freshman will be unusually strong with Henley and Holman of Uklah h ults and hurdles, and mb for the sprints. e victory of the varsity over the Fire- man’s Fund team last Saturday has given much encouragement to the baséball men. It is now thought that a satisfactory bat- tery will be forthcoming in the develop- ment of Traeger and Parker, Coach Mur- phy expres himself being much pleased with the game his striplings put up In their inftial trial. He says that in both stick work and knowledge of the es as geme they are ahead of last year's var- sity at the end of .the season. What he wants especially are hitters, and from last Saturday's showing it looks as if he would get them Feb. 8.—Fifty men have 1 practice at the Univer- California this term, and the est that has ever turned neh of sport. The compe- on the team Is keen. Be- Warren Smith, the famous half back, and Zan, a student in Hastings Law College, lles the chalce for catcher. Over- of squad is the out for this br: LWEN AL RF Gacr-MURPHY all, the big freshman football plaver, Nurse ‘03, Hansen '03 and Roland ’6i are candidates for pitcher. Nurse and Over- all stand the best chances of getting the position. Kennedy out for first base and King '02 for second. Braly '01, Duden '02 and Hamilton '04 will try for third. Field positions will be selected from Hamlin, McKeown, Wardwell, W. Adams and Fautz. Baseball Captain Hunter will undoubtedly retain his old position at shortstop. PLAN MANY TOURNEYS SAILING FIXTURES FOR COMING YEAR| Class, Doubles Open EventsArranged weatHer of the past week mas hard- tdeal tennis weather, but still most of cracks were able 1o get in some prac- ice between showers. On Tuesday after- noon the finals of the mixed doubles tour- ment were played won by Miss Rose Sherwood Whitney, who defeated Miss Pearl McCartney and Grant Smith. In | this match much surprise was occasionedl of Miss Sherwood. »f the class singles off last Saturday, in 1 Rosenberg, the second class d Pearl Jones, the fourth class were winners, brought out some very clever tennis. If the weather per- mits this tournament will be completel L0-mOrrow. The winners 1y contest were 1 George hes ament played man, of the classes and their handicaps are as follows: First class R Whitney, scratch; Al Rosenberg, fifteen; Ray Cornell, fifteen: Paul alf thirty, and Richard Erskine, With the above handicaps Al \berg, the winner of the second class 2 the best chance of winning first prize, as he is the steadiest player of the lot On Washington’s birthday there will he a handicap singles tourn: ent, and as it | Wil be open to all comcrs the cracks from | on hand. That the interest in tennis is increas- ing very rgpidly is shown by the fact that boin the San Rafael u.d Belvedere golf clubs have decided to ouild tennis courts in connection with their links. Tennis players who expect to represent Stanfc and the University of California are pr: ticing very hard on the courts at the two universities, and as Sam and Sumner Hardy will not play this year, the matches | for the intercollegiate championghip -l | undoubtedly be very closc and interesting. Drummond McGavin is the most promis ing player of either university and is im- proving very rapidly of late. He will un- 1 the clu nying those that tennis players at a Jdcwntown hotel next | Saturday night. VAMPIRES TO PLAY FOOTBALL The Vampire Assoclation Football Club | of this city will plav a match to-day on the Presidio athletic grounds against a team of Oakland Wanderers captained by Douglas Erskine. The Vampire team will in the season there wiil aradise Cove, M Lakeville, Valléjo, The season will n open close Canoe Ciub will hold » re.- ubhou 1 Sessions Basin. shing-on’s birth- the first season for the Holiday Cuj On March 17 there wiil and during the afternoon of the P race for yachts, and a con- | be chosen from the following: Hum- Mayrisch ba e for the | phreys, Turner, Robertson, McGaw, Dug- oes. On April 7 there wiu be a race | gan, Wild ing, Chambers, Buckley, Casidy, Bishop, Walils, McDermid, Selwood and White. The Oakland Wanderers' team will consist of the following: Berry, Von Helm, Kilty, Warren, Dimick, Shaw, Baker, Williamson, Erskine, Bennett apd another. The kick-off will be at 3 o’clock in_the afternoon. The secretary of the Vampires is in correspondence with the footballers of Shasta County, and it is not uniikely that for sioops. and on April 21 a handicap race | b tween the vachts and the canoes. On ! i and 28 some of the larger yachts e the “eads, and on sother race for the May- Decoration day the at the clubhouse and i cruise ou there will be risch badge will be a recel o ior race for the holiday cup and peanants. During July cruises king con e, The mber 1 and August there will be and in September a cert will be given ct the club- season will not close till of Keswick will visit this city Vst ington’s birthday. t this city on Wash. fter a stubborn | both sides of the bay will undoubtedly lc‘ d | qestionably be a fact)r in future coast | ne them aa | championships. das” (22| A banquet. the arrangements of which | o eihe | are in the hands of Judge Hunt and Edna it | Werner Stauf, will.be given to the local a team of the Mountain Copper Company | 'SHOOTERS DO NOT FEAR LEGISLATURE 1 No Changes Wili The duck-shooting season Is now fast on the wane and the weather is conspir- | ing to keep the nimrods away from the preserves. But the real topic this week among the duck-shooters is not with the -proposed ame laws. Legis ments to the From the best sour the proposed change: An opposition has developed ire will not be carrled. nst them in both houses of the Legis will be upon their hands. In the Senate the tacked to it as a rider a provision which made all sales of game {llegal. There are many Senators who take kindly to small botties and hot birds, and depending upou their fricnds to furnish them with ever ready presents of the latter would place them in a most uncertain position. Ther_again the limitation of fifty to ducks has set the gun clubs into a stew of opposition and_they are all working hand in hand to defeat the entire meas- ure. The prediction that goes out from the gun clubs is that the amendments drafted at the convention last May will be ost. HANDBALL TOURNAMENTS. The next handball tournament at the Olympic Club will be for soft-ball play- ers, There are a number of adepts at the tennis-ball game and they will be given the opportunity to show their skill and n medals. Both singles and doubles will be played. At the S8an Francisco handball courts on Sunday the following matches will be played: H. J. Rogers and E. J. Murphy | vs.'R. Longabach and W. Walsh; W. H. Sieberst and N. J. Prendergast vs, D. J. Sheehan and W. H. Kedian; G. McDon- ald and P. McIntyre vs. P. McKinnon and D. Rodgers; 8. Wirkheim and E. Leverve | vS. B. Meyers and A. Jacoby: E. and J. Foley vs. D. Regan and J. A. McVicker and T. Leach vs. J. | and E. Antron; P. ! W. Fi Mafix C. Nealon and M. J. Kilgallon White and J. Collins, ——————— HUNT MEET AT SAN CARLOS The San Mateo County Hunt will meet this morning at 9:30 at the Southern Pa- cific station at San Carlos. Next Wednes- day the coach will leave San Mateo sta- tion at 11:40 and the Burlingame Country Club house at noon, to convey passen- gers to Uncle Tom's Cabin, S8an Bruno, where a table d’hote luncheon will be served at 12:30 p, m., the pack.being laid on at 2:30 p. m. Next Saturday, Feb- ruary 16, the meet will be at the Cro: | ways, Burlingame, at 2;30 p. m. Seats on | the coach may be booked with the man- ager df the Burlingame Country Club, the fbnre bel{m $1 50, one dollar extra for the ox seat. Vs, J. | of interest | the marghes contain or the flights of | but just what will be done by the | amend- | it is learned that | AMATEUR ATHLETES 1 REWARDED | | and Nimrods Are Satisfied Reécords Are Allowed in| Be, by the California Club! Made in Game Laws | and Winners Honored Championship Events At the regular monthly meeting of the Pacific Association of the Amateur Ath- letic Union, held last night at the Olympic Club, the San Francisco Athletic Club was admitted to membership, and E. C. Har- | rington, its delegate, was elected on the | board of managers. Mr. Campbell, dele- Stanford University, was als elected a_member of the board. The following records, made at the Tan- | foran Park meeting on September 20, 1900, ature and if | the game protectors wish to carry their | amendments the hardest kind of a fight| were acepted: R. R. Service. half-mile, 1 m'hnno seconds: J. D. Hoffman and W. J. Cutter, pole vault, height 11 feet | 3% inches; W.P. Drum, 220 vards straight- away, in 22 3-5 seconds. It was decided | that ‘special record medals suitably in- original bill had | seribed should be awarded to each of the abo Hauser, Campbell and Rothkopf wére appointed a committee on medals, and will recommend a design for adoption by the board at its next meeting. The design employed for the assoclation med- als presented in 1598, with the addition of a bar, will probably be approved. e NEW SITE FOR BOATHOUSES. At the meeting of the Ariel Rowing Club held last Monday the prospects of the coming rowing season were discussed. The directors were authoxized to purchase two' whitehalls, and to have the club | boats put into good condition. A com- mittee has been appointed to confer with the South End and Pioneer Rowing clubs with regard to securing jointly a new site for their boathouses, the old site of which may at almost any time have to be aban- doned. A commiitee was also appointed to revise the bylaws. The fund for build- ing a new boathouse is increasing, and several members have expressed a willing- ness to take up bonds of the club. The club ts discussing the advisability of hir- ing a boat-keeper, who will keep the boat- house in repair and the boats in g0od con- dition. When the club has secured a sat- isfactory site it will bulld a handsome boathouse with gymnastic appliances, il raie its dues and employ a resident ng Alameda Boating Club has t- poned the regatta which It proposed hold- ing on Oakland Creek on Washington's birthday, as several members have other engagements for that day. The senior class of the University of California_has’ elected H. E. Magee as captain of the crew; F. M. Foster is the junior captain; B. H. Cerf is captain of the sophomgres, and B. B. Moore of the freshmen. The class crews will soon com- mence practice for the opening regatta of the season. — e % BOHEMIANS WIN TOURNAMENT The second series of games of the tour. nament on between the Bohemian and Echo bowling clubs, played Thursd: night at the Coronado bowling alley, wi won by the former. Two stralght games were taken by scores of 738-092 and ’n-m. To the remarkable playing of Marshal Jones {s due the credit of the double vie- tory, his playing, considering the short time he has beeh in the game, proving a | sidered revelation to his team mates and op- ponents. L3 BIG SPECIAL STAKES FOR CLEVER DOGS| Coursing Men Preparing for California Plate and Belle Brandon. This Is the month of special stakes for the coursers. The biggest of all will be the California Plate and the Belle Bran- don, which will have a three days’ run- ning at Union Coursing- Park on Friday, February 22; Saturday, February 23, and Sunday, February 24. Champlon events | are also on the month's programme. ! Sapling stakes heretofore have been | looked upon by coursing men as some- | thing of the freak order. The eccentrici- tles of the youngsters, the many faults of a green and untrained youth and inex- perlence on the fleld make saplings more or less amusing and grotesque when run- ning in stake events. But this year a lot | of saplings have been seen in preliminary trials that is likely to upset all the | derogatory opinfons of the cultured leash- men who do not care to stomach a sapling stoke. Ten days ago the first sapling stake of | the year was run at Union Park. This was a surprige event and showed beyond peradventure of doubt that thére are some saplings quite capable of mature be- havior. Last vear the Belle Brandon was won by Freda C. There were twenty- elght entries, which at that time was con- a fairly long list. This year there will be forty-eight entries, at least that number is expected, and among them will be some brilliant youngsters, particu- larly for the For Freedom stock. The second sapling stake of the year will be run next Wednesday, February 13, This will be the second stake lesson and will be open only to Belle Brandon entries. There is a greater rivalry at present among the owners of saplings than ever before. The California Plate, ninety-six entries, will be an event second only to the John Grace cup. Sixty-five nominations have been received and they include a number of the very best dogs. Luxor, Palo Alto, Beacon and a host of other crack hounds will be in the slips for this big stake event. There was some talk about en- tering For Freedom, but Joe Halten, who manages the Pasha Kennels, says that For Freedom will not be entered and that hereafter that great dog will be used only as a sire. Emin Pasha is slowly recovering from /‘ the wounds inflicted by the teeth of For- tuna Favente. The hound death roll was lengthenefl this week by the names of Beer Brewer and Palm Flower. F. A. Clarke arrjved from the East yves- terday with the four crack Kastern hounds which he intends to use on this coast, Mr. Clarke I8 the guest of Gen. finll sllmnor and will remain here some ttle time. Frank Cushing has prepare ing Form chart. which I complste® 2oy e draw for open stake on Bunday is as follows: = ot vallefo N ¢ vs. Cotton : lander Vot Hippies Wandering Tom e v Hil: Rocklin’ Beile Sappho vs. Linton; Beauty; Silver Maid Kanaka; Ro; Mary u) va. f of the Game vs. Game £ lara; Lavona vé. Pearl Mac: V' Gold Lace; Crawford Lass (lmp):ul’oripth Boi Vl‘ %un'l‘q: V8. Isaac Mu y: Annie Corch vs. Montana . Gold Ore va. Gratton: Old Glory ve. Bisacks | traiia, the home of Tim Hegarty. greatest | of colonial feather-weights. | East; or, as his frlends say | Govern with | ing, the figh ing to the telegraphic statement, Jim Kernedy, official matchmaker for the | Twentieth Century Club, had consum- | McGover | has been promised a return match by Me- T TRALGER CaTCHER CapT LoOWARD TR To Fresr CARDINAL ATHLETES IN TRAINING FOR POSITIONS ON THE VARSITY NINE. McGOVERN FIGHT IN A NEW PHASE Frank Erne’s Arrival Means Much More Than Is Exhibited on the Surface. again the local ring storm about the head of slashing | McGovern, the ambitious | ringsters who bristle and burn to | lower his colors, the prizefight promoters and the prizefight managers. The first change in the pugilistic barom- | eter came storm tiding from A This was fol- lowed later in the week by the arrival | of Frank Erne, who is here in San Fran- | cisco, as he himself declares, to escape the pneumonia generating blasts of the for no other with Me- purpose than to be matched Govern. For a month or two the Natfonal Sport- ing Club, the Twentieth Century Athletic Club and the San Francisco Athletic Club have striven most earnestly to sign Me- some other feather-weight whose past formances would insure | the favor of the patroni ring public. The field was canvassed. and out of a dozen names ment 1 for fistic opposi- tion to the renowned Terry two stood out from the rest—Tim Hegarty of Australia and Frank Erne of Buffalo. Hegarty presented by George Hart- ter himself not being sched- uled to arrive in San Francisco until the middle’ of March. An ‘Eastern dispatch announced early in the week that McGov- ern had signed to figh®® Hegarty before the Twentieth Century Club on April 30. The purse offered was $7000 and, accord- mated all the nec ssary preliminary plans for this fight. But ennedy evidently ran in advance of facts. Harting, who is the holder of the Hegarty reins, says he has not signed with Sam Harris, McGovern's manager. and further, that he will not before ail the local clubs are given the privilege of bidding on a purse. This is the casus belll. and it looks very much as If the match of April would have to be Erne-McGovern, and not Hegarty- McGovern. A purse of $7000 was offered Harris by Jim Kennedy in_behalf of the Twentieth Century Club and was prompt- ly accepted, Tim Hegarty's challenge to McGovern being the foundation on whi¢h the offer was placed. Right on its heels came an $8000 offer from the National Sporting Club. Here was one better, and Harting at once made for the wires to apprise Harris of the bigger purse. Hart- irg telegraphed Harris that he would ac- cept McGovern's challenge for his man, but insisted that the fight be before the club offering the more generous bait of gold. Harting is waiting for an answer to his last message. He does not, how- ever, expect anyvthing favorable for him- FRANK ERNE, WHO IS TERRY McGOVERN'S “LOGICAL CAN- DIDATE.” °* self, as he sees in Erne's arrival the an- swer of Kenneay and Harris. E2 o Erne’s sudden appearance on the fleld N has/set the wise ones to a thoughtful the fact remains that Erne's arrival twisting of locks. They seem to think ahead of a match matchmaker of that the fight will for a certainty be be- the Twentieth Ceniury Club's scheduled tween Frank Erne and Terry McGaovern. s theatrical dates make the latter days of April particularly accepta- ble to him, and Frank Erne has an- nounced that he will be in this city until May. Erne further states that he will not fight under 1332 pounds, and that he appearance coming two days later and all the McGovern talk in the air means some- v the general opinion and McGovern, MeGov- ern and no other fighter. | Dal Hawkins has begun training at the Fourteen-mile House for his fight with George McFadden, which will take place before the Twentieth Century Club omn February 25. McFadden® will arrive In a few days and go into training at omce. As a preliminary this club is looking for two men, ten-round bouts, for Kid Me- Fadden. Tom O'Rourke has written to a friend in this city that he will leave New York City within a few weeks, intending to bring a string of fighters to Sam Fran- cisco. Govern's manager. Erne at 133 pound. billed to fight McGovern, will pack an house in this city to windows and doors, and this seems to have been contemplated by shrewd Mr. Kennedy and astute Mr. Harris. There need be no fear as to the guarantee, for a percentage proportion would far overtop any purse offered. Kennedy s scheduled to arrive in San Francisco this evening and he will no doubt have much to sav on prizefights in general and McGovern in particular, but NOTES FROM THE KENNELS The San Francisco Kennel Club held a speclal meeting on Wednesday night to consider some proposed amendments to the constitution, which were adopted. One of them is undoubtedly a move in the right direction and s bound to have a ten- dency to popularize the club in the eyes of those Who are not fanclers, but merely lovers of dogs. The amendment In ques- tion reads: “It shall be a part of the | functions of this club to take such meas- ures as will lead to the detection and pun- ishment of persons stealing. pofsoning or otherwise injuring dogs the property of a member of the San Francisco Kennel Club. A special committee shall be ap- pointed to take such action as may be necessary_under this rule. W. 8. Kittle has presented to N. H. Hickman a foxhound puppy with which the latter expects to win out at the May show. Mr. Kittle has reserved another one for himself, and the two puppies will be exhibited under the respective names of Billy K and N H H. It is understood that the two gentlemen in question have made quite a sporting wager as to which of_the pups will carry off the blue ribbon. Henry Carlton Jr. of Napa will also ex- hibit a foxhound puppy of Mr. Kittle's br:'f%".“)dnnrahpad of Chico has bought from Willlam Hclley a fox terrier bitch uppy, by Warren Clerk out of Veracitat. g. E. de Ruyter, the vice president of the. San Francisco Kennel Club, will have at/ the May show, for exhibition only, his tw great imported colies. Old Hall Admira and Heather Mint. It is probable that the collie entry will exceed all rrefln\u recs ords, as the California Collie Club hl’ promised to show every avallable dog. { . I Hawk; Tammany vs. Kittleman; Daylight vs. 3. L. R.: Fair Miramonte vs. Baby King Bannockburn vs. Masterplece; Jim Jeffries va. Sauralito Girl, At Union l;ark to-day the first round of the ninety-six entry open stage will be run. The first train on both days will leave at 10:15 a. m. ————— MIDWINTER LEAGUE GAME. The game scheduled for last Sunday between the Koenlgs and the Golden Gates will be played on Sunday, the 10th inst., weather permitting. The line-up will be as follows: Positions. Golden Gates. *... Peralta McMenomy -Johnson At ague BT Al&llmv%n :'::t Nn_blt;‘ ‘61‘1; Dla'yfi as] on's birthday the Koeni and Alamedas will play off the fourcron: {nming tie game, played in December. at the Eighth and Harrison Streets grounds. ——— A novel club is being talked of in North t. Joseph, Mo. It is to be called the President’'s Message Club, and its mem- bers are to read and discuss the message by Blec:-l;nn ;’tb wbeeefkly Tfi““‘l‘" There is a winter's ore the cl pluck enough to organize. e m bt o