The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1901, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1901. e place Sun- t'1 o'ck defeated W dcfeated J E J. Rogers defeated J. 1 be: W. ‘Collins. vs. G. Jones. Winih-op ve. G. Kelly, ay H. J. Rogers. dball tourna- ial bas beon its place will be played entries of whick hosen by tournamen: WILD GEESE SHOOTING. One of the most.successful wild geese shoots of the season was held at Norman in the latter part of last week. In the party were Howard Black, Walter Cheno- Mith W, 8. Leake and W. J. Martin T"pon the arrival of this quartet of sports- | men at Norman they were driven out to The shooting fields by Doc Stuart and Abe Krump, at whose 1odge the party put up. By the use of live decovs and the skilled calling of Stuart and Krump the shooters were cnabled to get Within range of sey- eral good flocks. In an afternoon and morning shoot more than 200 Fted. “As soon as the birds dropped they were made use of for decoys by the clever manipulation of the professional hunters who had the party in charge. The fruits ~f the day’s Sport were sent to this city. in eacks and aistributed among the friends of the four sportsmen. & geese were | TENNIS FOR MEN AND WOMEN. Club Toun&Tamenté En- gage Attention of Local Tennis Players try-out held at Berkeley resulted in a victory for doubles Saturday the University of Califor- intercollegiate doubles next 4 Brown and Baker were the other conte nts, and considering the in- experience of both the showing they made was very good. They won the first set ily and looked to be winners. pponents braced up and took ext three sets and match. Brown, » forte is volleying, played a remark- »d game. Te Captain Hunt wounced that players qualifying for will not be allowed to compete in ry-out to be held to-day at This announcement is rather hard to understand, as it nd McGavin and Paul Selby, wo strongest players, out of ahd thereby sens the vilege. ~ With Harry the singles, California’s vietory were very good, but mt's new rule goes-into effect the s of the colleges will be about even. determination to play in the ples only Is attributable to the fact s present physical condition would nit of his playing two hard in one day. lice Hoffman, the golf expert, has ed ber intention of taking up ten- ain and will enter the championship irnament next September. This event kind ever held.on the coast, as best lady players will compete. who will undoubtedly take part are sses Mirlam Hall, coast champion; Vio- Mrs. T} the Mi ce Hoffman. ex-coast champion; May Sutton, Miss Hunter, ! cald and Mrs. Hasslet. | The new dGoubles team, composed of Ray | Cornell dnd Grant Smith, has shown up P11 .&'n”f.xr and with a little more prac- make a strong team veral aken up the game on the d for beginners their show- is surprising. These men are Fred jeef, ank Hooper, Kenneth Hamil- » younger players Dn Val Moore is by ng odds the most promising man. His ck court strokes are very clean cut and | This fault ean be overcome only by con- t practice with better plavers. smner Hardy was out during the week an, old-time skill. With Paul Selby as a part- | ner he disposed of Collier and Crowell in | easy fashion. The ladies’ jled for last Wednesday, will be plaved next Wednesday afternoon, and a large entry list is expected. Those who curely play are the Misses Hall, Hoffman, | Hunter, McCartney. Sherwood and Mrs. | Kincald and Mrs, Haslett. There will be a handicap singles on the California Club courts to-morrow, commencing at 1 o'clock. | AT THE TRAPS, There will be a lively and nolsy time at Alameda Point to-morrow, when the Empire Gun Club and outside shooters gather to break rocks and records for the Yellowstone and Schumacher trophies and to complete the scores left unfinished in the shoot of March 10. Sesides the regu |lar trophy event, there will be a number | of pool shoots. Birds will be trapped to all comers at 1 cent each. At Ingleside the San Francisco Gun Club will hold its first live bird shoot of the season. A big attendance is expected. s LEFT FIELO . and Drummond McGavin, who | s promise of being the most success- | Clyde Beal and Pete Smith. Among | “ffective, but he is very weak at the net. | showed that he has lost none of his | singles tournament, sched- | STEADY PRACTICE FOR BASEBALL MEN Professionals of California League Are Hard at Work Preparing for the Open- ing Day of the Season. N March 31 the California Baseball League will open the season sim- ultaneously in this city and in Los Angeles. At the Recreation Grounds, Eighth and Harrison streets, tan Francisco will meet Sacra- _Son jr o Ao mento, and in Los Angeles that city's nine will try diamond conclusions with Oak- land. These four teams comprise the league for the season of 1901, which, while it is scheduled to be of the same length In point of time as that of last year, will have nearly twice the number of games to play. As an experiment games will be played on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of each week in San Francis- co and Los Angeles. Oakland will get its morning game as in other years. If this new venture should fail financially it should at least be productive of a better order of baseball, as it gives the men more practice, something which was sad- 1y needed in seasons now past but not for- gotten. The four teams have been at work for a week and are beginning to show signs of form. In the capital city the Senators are out on the fleld daily and are now working with some degree of team har- mony. The same may be said for the local forces. In Los Angeles the home team and the Oaklands are rubbing off the ac- TS . BASEBALL, COURSING, COLLEGE ATHLETICS, cumulation of a winter's rust. Cal Ewing will be on the fleld himself within a few days and will supervise the work. The personnel of the four teams is as follows: San Franeisco. Position, Graham. . +evees Catcher Tburg, Whalen Bacramento. Staal Hildebran Schwartz. Oakland. Lohman (cap). Moskiman, Borchers or Babbitt Drennan.... C i Babbitt or MoskimarRight fleld . The additions to the league are Rad- cliffe, Kane and Holland of the San Fran- cisco team; Stricklett and McCabe of Sac- ramento and Sples, Hale, Hulan and Householder of Los Angeles. The major- ity of these men are from the Middle West, and they have earned reputations for their good stick and field work. The official umpires of the league will be Donohue antl O'Connell. McFarland, who scored the Oakland games last sea- son, will sit in the box at San Francisco in place of Joseph Stapleton, whose busi- ness duties would not allow him to con- tinue in a canacity with which he has been identified for almost numberless vears. Henry Harris, with a tap on his chest, announces that his team will have bright new uniforms of the same design and color. There will be this addition, hcw- ever, gray coats. AMATEUR GAMES. The last game of the Midwinter League will be played to-morrow afternoon at Recreation Park between the Alamedas and Golden Gates. The following will be the line-up: Alamedas. Position. Golden Gates. 1. Hammond teher. D. Sh C. Russell. ftcher W. Hammo _First base F. Johnson Goldsworthy. ‘Sccond base.......Peterson Dunleav Third base. .Denny Krug. Britt. Van Haitren.. Simpson.... The Koenigs will play the Nobles at Freeman's Park, Oakland. On the University of California campus this afternoon the Fireman's Fund and the California teams will play their third game. These games have been very close and well contested. The last match end- ed in a victory for the insurance men, the score reading 4-2. NEWPAPER MEN'S GAME. At Recreation Grounds this morning the second game of the newspaper men's se- ries of diamond combats will be fought out to a genuine finish. The Examiner nine, with a record equally divided by vic- tory and defeat, will meet The Call team, 5 | SOME OF THE BASEBALL PLAYERS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO TEAM | FOR THE SEASON OF i%01, WHI SUNDAY BY THE LOCAL NINE CH WILL BE USHERED IN NEXT AND THE SACRAMENTOS. WILL WATCH "PUPPY AND ~ SAPLING, |Coursing Men Plan | Many Stakes to Ben- | efit Young Hounds | At a meeting of the board of directors | of the Unlon Coursing Park Association | early in the week the major portion of the evening was devoted to the consider- |ation of sapling stakes and problems of breeding with a view to the development and improvement of racing greyhound | stock. Coursing Park Association ,will increase the number of sapling stakes in the fu- ture ver since the last serles of sapling stakes there has been a growing demand for these events by breeders and owners. | To introduce dogs into an all age has | often been their undoing. The sapling events of the future will be in the nature of preparatory training stakes. At the expiration of a minute relief dogs will be set loose and every endeavor made to build up the strength of these youngsters | before allowing them to go against sea- soned coursers. \ In connection with the open stake of | March 20 and 31 the first of these sap- | lings will be run. On April 6 and 7 the | regular open stakes will be the pro- | gramme, but on April 13 there will be a puppy stake, as well as the open event. | One week Jater the programme will be |a reserve and champion évent. It is the {Plan not to permit a youngster to enter | more than one stake each month. Clark & Growtage's hounds have not | showed any great class In their work up | to the present time, but this may be due to_unacclimatization. c. M. Kellogg will leave on Monday with a ‘string of hounds for the Kansas circuit. He will course in these meetings | Kid McCogr, Sweet Emma, Jowa Boy and | Iowa Maid. Sisquoc seems to be the dog of the mo- ment. Jimmy Dean missed a_good thing when he resold this dog to D. J. Healy for the original price, $300. When Healy first owned Sisquoc the dog was promising but uncertain, and Dean thought about the same thing when he had him. Then Healy took the dog back and won a champion and an open stake In succession. Bloanoc surprised them all by beating such dogs as Palo Alto and Ireland. At Unfon Park to-day a 108-do stake. which should prove more Zinarily interesting, will be run, open or- With this idea in mind the Union | RAISING OF " BRIDGE AT TIBURON. Club Yathtsmen Will Tow the Boats Out of Winter Quarters To-morrow, as soon after the arrival at Tiburen of the 11 a. m. ferry-boat from the city, as the tidé and state of the weather permit, the bridge to the lagoon will be raised and the yachts of the Cor- inthjan flect that have been laid up there during the winter will pass out into the cove to take up their moorings for the summer. Two or three launches will be on hand to tow the yachts out from the lagoon, and it is expected that the task will be simpler than usual this year, as the owmners of the San Francisco Yacht Club craft that are in the lagoon will take them out at 12 p. m. m»mfim. Port Cap- tain James Kitterman will be on hand with his_fine launch America and will tew the San Francisco craft over to Sau- salito. Some of the arks will probably avail themselves of the opening of the hridge to come out of the lagoon at the same time. If the arks and San Fran- cisco yachts are out of the way the Cor- inibian eratt can quickly be towed out the principal delay having been caused on previous occasions by the arks, which are unwieldy and liable to jam in the opening to the lagoon. The jinks _committes, under the chair- manship of Vice Commodore E. F. Sagar, is hard at work rehearsing for the jinks to be given in the Corinthlan Club house on the evening of Saturday, April 20, the opening day. \ HUNT CLUB AT TANFORAN. The San Mateo County Hunt will meet this afternoon at 3 o'clock at Tanforan Park, San Bruno. Many partles will drive to the park to see the race for gentlemen %ocka s for a silver trophy, offered by the an Francisco Jockey Club. Tt is prob- able that Joseph 8. Tobin, R. M. Tobin, J. Downey Harvey, George Parsons, T. A. Driscoll, Walter McCreery, John Lawson, Charles’ Dole, Charles Dunphy, Harry Scott and Hatry Simpkins will take part. The race is three miles over the steeple- O Wedneaday, the 71th, th n ay, the 27th, the meet be at Laurel C; "gfl Millbrae, at 3 in the afternoon, Ak | undefeated. This game will be for the UNIVERSI o 7R ATHLETICS Field and Track Events to Be Decided To-Day on 'College Grounds. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March 22 To-morrow will be a busy day for Stan- ford’s athletes. In the morning the fresh- men open the day with a meet with the crack athletes from the Oakfand High School. The youngsters who will repre- sent the cardinal in this meet form what | is probably the best freshman track team | that Stanford has ever had. This is also | a good year for Oakland, so a closely con- | tested meet can be expected. The boys from across the bay can depend upon such | men as Westdahl, La Valliere, Lundy and | Wilcox to give a good aecount of them- selves, while the freshmen have point | winners in Sprague, Lamb, Henley, Hyde and Hamilton. The Stanford entries will be as follows: 50-yard dash—Bubb, Lamb. 100-vard dash—Hamiiton, Bubb. 220-yard dash—Hamilton, Lamb, Prentice. 440-yard dash—Holman, Kennedy, Prentice | and Dunn. 880-yard run—Swinnerton. Ritchie. Mile run—Thomas, Merritt, Van Orden. Two mile ran—Sprague, Lewis. 120-yard hurdles—Barkan, North. 220-yard hurdles—Dunn, Beebe. Shot put—McFadden. Hyde, Clark. Hammer throw—McFadden, Sefton and Nich- ols. High jump—Preston, Henley. Broad jump—Preston, Mainwaring, Pole vault—Henley, Mainwaring. | At the time the fleld meet is being held | on the varsity oval the tryout for a sec- | ond representative in the doubles will be | held on the tennis courts. | In the afternoon the varsity team will | crgss bats with the alumni ball tossers in | a second game. The Stanford team has | undergone a shaking up since its first| game with the alumni a week ago, and it looks, from the showing made against Santa Clara last Tuesday, that the under- | graduates will be able to hold the visitors down by a score better than that of last week. Traeger has been taken back into the fold and placed on the initial bag. His hitting ability is of such a high order that the change seemed advisable. Cowden, whom he replaced at first, has been sent out to center fleld, where he is equally sure in flelding. Murphy in turn has taken the third bag, recently vacated by Connor. This gives Stanford a batting order full of hitters, an essential that Dr. Murphy has spared no palns to obtain. Parker's work In the box has also im- | proved, his playing at Santa Clara on | Tuesday being of a high order. Bell I!l Henley. ‘1 | o+ champlonship of the three corners, the Examiner having vanquished the Chroni- cle in a fore-shortened game some few weeks ago. More than honor and glory is at stake in this match. The losers will pay for-a package presented to the win- ners. Jake Holtman. the starter of the Call- fornia Jockey Club, and Dan Mills, sport- ing editor of the Philadelphia Times, have offered their services as umpires. The committee in charge has investigated the capacities of both men and reported fa- vorably, so both will be at the umpiral post this morning at 10 o'clock, at which hour the champlopship game is scheduled to begin. | Moskiman | W. Hamm: HNARTZ. /o7 e io s - PROSPECTS FOR FISHING GOOD The fishing season will open on April 1, a week from Monday. Whenever a game or fish season opens on a Monday the profane angler or hunter gives veht to choice and well selected words, unless he be one of those fortunates whose business affairs do not demand his presénce in the city on that dfi The unrelenting sever- ity of the calendar will have the tendency this year to set the season back six days 3 for the great army of sportsmen who will not be at liberty to try flies and rod urtil April 7. Y % At the Fish Commissioner's office the best reports are issued. The coast streams are clear and running as if height and current were speclally set for t{e early angler. From Santa Cruz, Marin*and Monterey countles all the reports point to bright fishing prospects. Unless a heavy néts for succcestul Sheling & Sond achs angling a go sea- son should be ushered in. 8 improving into an able back stop, so the development of a good battery seems as- sured. BERKELEY. March —The California beseball men still show in their playing a lack of team work. There Is not the con- centration of effort In their ranks neces- sary to success. At times the base run- ning has been phenomenally good and again very much the reverse. The ten- dency toward erratic playing has not been overcome. ‘Warren Smith of football fame holds his position behind the bat in professional style. He throws to bases with accuraey, is a clean hitter and generally keeps mov- ing when once away from the home plate. Overall and Nourse are making a close race for pitcher. The former throws a faster ball, but not as well controlled as the latter. Both are showing a steady Im- provement fin their styles. Captain Hunter at short stop and Braley on third base rank high among men of the dla- mond. Hunter is speedy and always has a glove out ready for anything that comes fn his direction. Braley has a habit of stopping the ball when it comes In his quarter and at the bat is generally sura of a hit. King at second plays a stea game. Gardiner is picking up in his work on first and his batting is becoming mors certain Kennedy’'s batting could be eas- fly tmproved, but he plays the left fleld position in fine s Hamlin at center plays clever ball. McKeown in the right field is a good man, but lacks energy. His playing cannot be depended upon on all occasions. To-morrow afternoon the Berkeley men will again meet the Fireman's Fund n The game will be piayed on the col campus and will be the last of the se between the two teams. Fireman's Fund. ey Dun Goldsworthy Butler. » Van Haitren Center fleld J. Hammond Right fleld Practice on the track continues as usual A picked team from the junior members of the squad will go to Ukiah to-morrow to compete in a fleld day with the high school boys there. The result is not cer- tain, as Ukiah's strength is unknown. £y CRICKETERS ARE ACTIVE The adjourned ann meeting of the Callfornia Cricket Assoclation, Beld last Mcnday, was the most important that has been held for some years by that body. It was attended not only by delegates from two of the three local cricket clubs, but also by Vice President J. F. Coope, H. V. Anderson and A. G. Sheath, the two former having journeyed to San Fran- cisco to represent the Santa Cruz Country Club, and also by L. W. Robitaille and G. V. Green, as delegates of the Sacramento Cricket Club. A somewhat determined attempt was made on the part of one of the delegates of the Alameda Cricket Club to invalidate the proceedings of the meet- ing held on March 4, but it was thwarted by the good sense of the president. For the first time in the history of local cricket, there will be four. and probably five, clubs contending for the pennant dur- ing the coming season, and of this n ber two will be country clubs. Hitherto the city clubs have been too much disposed to regard the cup or pen- nant, and any prizes presented by porters of the game, as their own ex clusive rights, and have been unwilling to admit the country members of the Cali- fornia Cricket Association, who pay pre- cisely the same dues, to an equal share in the good things. But there are signs that an era of more liberal feeling is set- ting in, though the old, narrow, liliberal spirit sometimes shows itself. The first indication of a desire to recognize the rights of the country ecricketers came in 1889, when each of the country clubs in the association received a pair of leg guards, to be presented to one of their players as they might see fit. The schedule of 191 will provide for a regular series of matches between the city clubs and thosa at Sacramento and Santa Cruz, each club to play not fewer than two matches against the other three or four clubs, ona on its own ground, and the other on its opponent’s pitch. The teams represent- ing the Sacramento and Santa Cruz clubs will play their matches on the ground at Webster street, Alameda, that being equally accessibie to both. The Burns Valley Cricket Club has In- formally announced its intention of stay- ing In the association during 1901, and there is no doubt that the Lakeport Cricket Club will also remain a member. as it is the Intention of the Lake County cricketers to visit San Francisco this year. A schedule committee consisting of the captains of last vear's cricket teams was appointed by President Brown to prepars the programme of matches for 1301. - is little likelthood of the Mountam Cop- per Company Cricket Club of Keswick making up an eleven this year, as several of the best players have left the service of the company, and the club lost all its material a year or so ago by fire. ~ JECdn o Lqrda