The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1901, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL. B ROUGH WATER FOR THE OARSMEN WHO ARE IN LINE FOR ASTORIA GARNIVAL CREWS AND DESCRIPTION. INDIVIDUAL SCULLERS WHO WILL GO NORTH TO COMPETE IN THE ASTORIA WHICH WILL DRAW THE CRACK OARSMEN OF THE COAST TOGETHER FOR AQUATIC RACES 3 | | Five Crews Desirous of Going North but Gommittee in Charge Will Make Arrangements for Four and No More. N A E secretary the exe: Ala- ain come of ggle Ariel up of ey, W. T. of whom men, two of o1 E L. Howe and have some them be- intermedi- mpic crew comprises no barge n as as ever ot iff race and lergast was last They from the d boathouse. whereas the Ari- e practiced little for the past few South d four are Jenkins, C and Foley, all of whom or less known as barge-rowers lers. The South End crew 1 going out near evening. certainly seems as though the out to determine which The hall be the 1y to go by eaving for Poi 26, but if tha steamer should it will probably prevent any going from San Franeisco as the Astoria committee is prepared to furnish transportation by rafl, and the rowing clubs would not care to run the risk of sending their rz ing barge skiffs and shells on so long a irney by train. If the oarsmen, scull- swimmers, track and field men from n Francisco all succeed in reaching Astoria 1t is likely that the carnival there will eclipse the similar events of previous vears. The track and fleld team of the Oiympic Club will consist of s'x men and a trainer and re will be boxing, wrest- ling and other sports. John Hammer- smith, leader of the Olympic Club, has crews jon is city this be tied rowing men up or vicinit been invited to prepare a ladies’ such as are given here so succe: from time to time It secms probable that the Pacific sociatiop will not hold any annual ro ing champlionship meeting this year, as nothing can be done until the return of the oarsmen from Astoria. No adequate amount of money is in hand and no suit- able course is ready. An attempt might be made to hold a regatta on Oakland Creek, so as to demonstrate the value of that water as a rowing course. But to bring this about some ald must be re- celved from the railroad company, as sheds at least would have to be erected on the Alameda mdle for the accommoda- tion of the contestants. Next menth the Alameda Boat Club will hold its annual club championship regatta either on Oakland Creek, near its boathouse, or on Lake Merritt. In order to excite more interest one of the San Francisco clubs may be invited to send over a barge crew for a match race. At the last regular meeting of the Dol- phin Boating Club a set of engrossed res- olutions was presented to Alexander W. Pape, thanking him for his services to the club and complimenting him on his many victories on the water. OTABLE DOGS WITH REGORDS ursers Who Have Won the Hearts -of Many JLeashmen. letter to a friend in this city, “Vin- noted coursing authority of Eng- Jares it & shame that so good a Rosseter, owner of the lowed his ete again sman as Mr. “to jeopardize for For performer ed country that would open defi to the world's best years to come and that per- squaled.” Quite a proposition even for Vindex to cige the action of a leashman to whom ng game in this part of the ch indebted, for Mr. Ros- s certainly made the sport what -day; but when one looks back and mpares For Freedom's marvelous work, unblemished record, a clean t to mar its sum- n feel the hard- Jegitimate list of victories shouid allowed to stand. from England this great and stake after with forty-seven courses to redit, he was retired to the stud with- nce having a flag raised against him. his list of winnings For Freedom has 2 piains meet and the much coveted ace Challenge Cup stake to his which means that he has met and ted fastest of coursers. Even with his recent expected defeats m the old champion’s record of ns is till unbeaten. ough he is the oldest dog in the run- this season many well-posted en- sts believe. that with a special one who will devote his attention ustv to the “bringing around” of veteran, For Freedom is still capable outpointing many of the high-class out the t b here is a diversity of opinion regard- the result of the seasonal work of lo Alto. Quite a few predict even a etter year for the record breaker, but the other hand there are many who ieve that he has shot his bolt. Geary’s edy champlon is nearing the close of third year, which, despite the occa- ional reports of great doings in older dogs, is the critical age of a courser. Palo Alto has been a money maker. His first win was when at 14 months he annexed a puppy stake at Ingleside and finished the season with five stakes to his credit. Last year he broke the record with nine stakes. T. J. Cronin’s Vandal is a performer who has earned the title of champion. Whelped in January, 189, in December of that year he divided a thirty-two-dog sapling stake at Union Park with Daisy Dale and during the next month divided another sapling event with Vixen. Before this, and when but 10 mogths old, he won three courses in an old dog stake and was then withdrawn. Later at the age of 13 months he took third money in an all-age stake. This kind of going broke the voungster's heart, though it showed that he was not lacking as a courser. Rosette, too, was a youngster of “win- ning ways” and after being beaten by Benicia Boy won everything in which she was entered. She died when two and a half years of age, at a time when she had won more and lost fewer courses than any hound in the running. Lottie M started at eight mqdnths and at fourteen months had an open stake to her credit. Cavalier commenced at nine months and was an earner from the start. Recording Angel won a sapling stake at elght months and when lacking ten days of being eleven months old took fourth money in the Produce stake, a wonderful performance. She led her opponents many lengths in every course and beat in succession Controller, Lady Davenport, Whitehead and Cash. Her work was the feature of the stake. As this extraordi- pary sapling advanced in age she showed the effects of her hard work and failed to better her record. Luxor is the best of the “old” stake winners, agd at four years and three months holds the record for good, steady work. His brother, Young America, could always lead him, but Luxor would beat him to a decision. Young America won stake after stake until three years of age, at which time he was taken from’the game. Beacon is technically barred from par- ticipating In any of the Union Park stakes. It seems a shame that because of some trivial excuse a dog of Beacon's caliber is lost to the coursing world. There are many steady patrons who figure the blue dog the best greyhound in the State, and it is a mooted question of superiority between him and Palo Alto. In the last John Grace cup event Beacon was runner- up to Sacramento Boy in a final that cre- ated the greatest enthusiasm and one that wiil go down in history. Now that the event is again at hand something should be done to straighten matters, that the great courser may again be seen on the field. Some arbiter should be selected to settle the dispute. < GHAMPIONSHIP TENNIS GAMES Ladies and Men Arz Train- ing for Contests of the Year. The coast.championship tennis tourna- menis for women will commence to-mor- row at San Rafael. Everything® has been done to make these the most successful events of their kind ever held here. Here- tofore the women have had but one cham- plonship tournament each year—the sin- gles. This year two new events will be added—the mixed doubles and doubles. The doubles will begin on Monday and will be foilowed by the mixed doubles. The singles, being the most important, will be played last, at the end of the week. The finals of the singles will be playel Friday afternoon and the championship match on Baturday afternoon. The doubles and mixed doubles will probably not occupy more than two days. In the mixed doubles it was the original intention of the committee to limit the entry to six teams, but as it is to be a championship affair it must necessarily be open to all. . Heretofore none but local players have figured in the coast cham- plonship tournaments, but this year the presence of several cracks from Southern California will add to the interest in ths different events. It will be a struggle for supremacy between the north and the south, with the odds slightly in favor of the former. Those who will surely come up from the south are Champion Alfonso Bell, Harold Braley, Sinsabaugh and Hendricks. The two former are the cham- pilons of Southern Calirorma -in doubles. The ladles who have come up are the Misses May and Violet Sutton, Mrs. Sey- mour and Miss Ruby Garland. Miss May Sutton is the lady champion of the south and is expected to carry oft the cham- plonship. Local people will pin their faith to Miss Hall, the present champion, who is the only one having much of a chance against the Suttons. The men’s doubles has a very open look and will in all probability go to one of the following teams: Bell and Braley, Hunt and Murdock, Colller and Crowell, MacGavin and Smith or Sinsabaugh and Hendricks. In the women’s doubles the strongest teams will be the Suttons and Miss Hall and Miss Hoffman. The latter is a very aggressive player and shows to better ad vantage in doubles than in singles. 3 | | RAGING NEWS FROM SARATOGA ©ozsip About Turfmen and Horses Known on the Coast. SARATOGA, N. Y., Aug. 22.—Better rac- ing has marked the second week of the meeting than was had before the horses got settled to new track conditions and the public got a definite line on form. Saratoga has had a fortnight of sport far above the level of that seen here since the old days, when the champions of the East and the West assembled every year to do battle. The Saratoga meeting has served to bring to the front an aggregation of voung horses that make this year's crop of two-year-olds superlor to any since His Highness, St. Florfan, Nomad, Merry Monarch and the extraordinary lot of voungsters out in 1891 were fighting for supremacy. Perhaps there is not a colt here or anywhere else that can be fairly ranked with Domino or Robbins. None has shown enough to be classed with Commando, but there are more good juv: niles in training than has been the cas in several years, any one of which is liable to demonstrate his claim to rank as the champlon of the year before many more races Something of a sensation was created when it became known that Blue Girl, the undisputed queen of the fillies, and reckoned by a majority of the smart peo- ple the best of her age in training, is a bleeder. The daughter of Sir Dixon and Bonnie Blue Is one of the raciest thor- oughbred specimens that ever wore a plate. She is in miniature a living like- ness of the peerless Yo Tambien in every thing but color. In her preparation for the Saratoga Special Blue Girl bled freely. It was with the utmost reluctance that Jehn Madden confirmed the rumor to that effect, which spread like wild fire before the filly had been gotten back to her stall. It Is questionable whether Bilue Girl's usefulness wiil be impaired by the malady. She was started in the big race on Madden’s assurance that she would do herself full justice, and she did. Nobody can detract from the magnificent per- formance of Goldsmith, winner of the race. He s in every line and inch a race horse of superb finish and courage. A compact mass of bone and muscle, the son of Meddler is a treat to the discrimi- nating eye when in action. He has thew and sinews like a three-year-old, sugge: tive in every sense of Ben Brush at his age, and the colt or filly that beats him in the Futurity will have a-plenty of work cut out before getting to the judges’ stand. It s not exaggeration to say there are at least four two-year-olds this vear, taken collectively, that will compare fa- vorably with the four best out last season. Commando was undoubtedly in a class by himself. He was not in the Futurity. Blue Girl is the equal and doubtless a bet- ter filly than Cap and Bells was last year. Goldsmith is as good a racing tool as Tommy Atkins was. Oti§ is superior to Olymplan and there are others left in the 101 list that outclass the next best of last year. Nasturtium, Mr. Whitne) $50,000 beauty, is considered by the stable a better colt than Ballyhoo Bey was last season, and John E. Madden has in the Hanover-Correction colt, Yankee, a voungster infinitely cleverer than Garry Herrmann was in the West or any of the other Eastern colts were after throwing out the very top-notchers. ‘Western horses have gotten more than their share of the money so far. John ‘W. Schorr has won a liberal share of the purses and as he and his boon companion, Senator O'Brien of St. Paul, usually spread the bets on pretty thick when they have a chance, it has been a successful trip for the Memphis brewer. He has won three races with Sarner, in two of which he had his checks down across the board at lucrative odds. O'Brien sprung a kill- ing with Hans Wagner the day he put It over at 10 to 1. Thursday Flora Pomona won a nice race and ran for a good are run. ' chunk of stable money. This filly was never fit during the Washington Park meetineg. She is now nearer her Call- fornia form and is sure to improve with a couple of more races. On the coast she carried the colors of W. F. Schulte, the Louisville poolroom man, and was hard game for even the best colts there. She won stakes at Temforan and.-Oakland and was pounds better than the two next best of her sex, Sister Jeanie and Zirl. Charlie Ellison has been shooting his money into the bookmakers’ boxes since he came here at thousands a clp. It has stayed there. Ellison’s horses have no business bucking the game he has asked them to go against. Montanic, a rank hound with*a streak of yellow in him as big as a rainbow, has cost Ellison a great deal of money at the meeting. The horse has a splendid turn of speed. but he will stop with his mouth wide open the min- ute anything challenges him. Specific is of little account at present, but that fact did not keep his owner from falling hard the other day when the St. Florian horse was pitted against a_crowd that could hove lost him the best day he ever saw in his life. Bard of Avon got into a spot Wednesday where he seemed to have the best of it. Ellison unbelted for $5000 and the Bard got second money. Thursday Montanic went against a crack company of sprinters. Ellison got on for $4000 and the big counterfeit quit after sailing out for half a mile as if he meant to put divers records out of business. Astor, at best a fair selling plater, isn't worth $4 at this stage of the game, and it begins to look as if the whole outfit would fare better in some other climate than they are doing here chasing good horses and burning up money. Bad luck seems to follow Arthur Featherstone’s horses. The Chicago bi- cycle magnate has had an unusually poor season. His stable is filled with high- priced race horses, but they get very little of the meney, and none of them is up to a real hard race. Mr. Featherstone is very popular in the East. He is a thorough sportsman, bets to a finish on his entries and his horses always go the nearest way to get home. It is:likely he will send a small string to campaign on the Coast this winter in charge of his capable train- er. Jululus Bauer. Matt Byrnes, famous as the trainer of that immortal pair, Salvator and Firenzi, will ship to Chicago in the fall and then go to California for the winter. Byrnes has a small but useful string. He has bought and sol1 horscs more than he has raced them since he gave up training for the late Marcus Daly. He bought Bally- hoo Bey as a vearling and sold him the same day at a handsome profit. His dis- criminating eye has chosen some of the best young horses of recent years, but he follows Madden's system, and dis- poses of them when the price becomes tempting. Byrnes is now a very rich man. He began as a boy to ride for the late August Belmont, and had as con- temporaries the since successful turfmen, James Rowe and William Lakeland. He has tralned the strongest racing stables of America, including those of Pierre Lorillard, J. B. Haggin and Marcus Daly. He is a wizard with a thoroughbred and will doubtless come along soon with an- other Tammany or Senator Grady. Quite a number of prominent turfmen from Chicago and - Californfa are now here. Secretary James Howard of the ‘Washington Park Club is resting after his hard work at the recent meeting in Ckicago. George Brewster, one of Mr. Howard's capable assistants, is here with John Bullmam, the jockey, for whom he makes engagements. Brewster has won handsomely and will go with Bullman to California for the winter. He was instru- mental in getting Bullman to sign a con- tract with August Belmont for the bal- ance of the Eastern racing year. Judge Jim Rees is at the Grand Union Hotel with his associate in the Hawthorne stand, Colonel Apperson. The resump- tion of racing at Hawthorne next week will cut their stay short. Thomas H. Willlams, the controlling genius of turf affairs on the Pacific Coast, has just returned from Europe with his bride. Mr. Willlams is assured that the game in California next season will eclipse any of its predecessors. Liberal inducements are held out to- the horse- men, and many Eastern stables that have heretofore wintered on this side of the continent will journey over the Sierras MEDA SENiog, ALBAP_GE CREM /ar for the lengthy meeting at San Francisco. It has been a disastrous meeting for the bookmakers to date. An unusual ‘per- centage of favorites have won the money, and the summer crowds are always par- tial to what seems the best horse. Eddie Burke, one of the biggest layers in the business, is more than $100,000 loser on the season, half of which has gone out of the wrong end of the box since cut- ting in here. George Rose, who makes a colossal book and handles a fortune every day, has come nearer to standing them off, although he has a considerable balance coming from the losing side. Frank Eckert, a fast gambler and clever bookmaker, has had a severe drubbing since the meeting began. His losses ag- gregate $35,000. Joe Rose is also many thousands to the bad, and has probably lost all the money he made earlier in the season. George Wheelock, once the king- pin of the bookmaking fraternity, is more conservative now, but he is behind on his season’s work. J. J. O'Neill, formerly of Chicago, is also short many of the big bills he began the season with. Abe Lev: is In the same fix, and probably the onl winner substantially to the good is Leo Mayer of Chicago, who always appears to prosper, and who bets heavily at times on the outside. Charlie Mayberry, who has been so suc- cessful in the past with Ellison’s horses, is out after a severe attack of typhoid fever. Perhaps Mayberry's sickness is in a measure responsible for the bad show- ing made by the horses in his charge. He has been a wonderfully successful trainer and is one of the most promising young men in the profession. EDWARD G. WHITE. ——e Golfers Disappoint. The qualifying round of the contest for the first woman’s golf championship of the Pacific Coast was played at Del Monte on Wednesday morning, the only south- ernars being Miss Hoy of Santa Monica and Mrs. E. D. Silent of Los Angeles. Of the twelve entries six were from San Fraac , three from Oakland, one from San Rafael and two from Southern Cali- fornia. The committee of the Pacific Coast Golf Association feels hurt at the behavior of the Los Angeles golfers. The contest for the Poniatowski cup at Burlingame was postponed from July 4 tc August 15 in or- der to give the ladies of Southern Call- fornia an opportunity to compete at Bur- lingame and Del Monte without making two journeys: yet no women from South- ern California turned up at Burlingame and only two at Del Monte, and not a word of thanks or acknowledgment was received. It was a great disappointment that Mrs. Jean W. Bowers, woman cham- pion of Southern California, did not come up to Del Monte to measure her strength against Mrs. R. Gilman Brown. The San Rafael Golf Club is having the mast successful season that it- has ever had. The course, which has been reduced to nine holes, is well kept up, the tourna- ments have attracted a large number of players and there has been much en- thusiasm. Owing to the concentration of the interest of local golfers in the Del Monte tournament there was no scheduled event on the San Rafael links yesterday, but next Saturday there will be a handi- cap tournament, for which it is expected there will be a large number of en- tries. Secretary R. Gllman Brown will have returned to the city before next Saturday and Mrs. R. G. Brown will be fresh from her triumphs at Burlingame and Del Monte. —_—————— Handball Games. At the San Francisco Handball Courts to-day the following games will be played: J. Lawless and W. Willlams vs. P. Ryan and D. Connelly; P. McKinnon and M. McNeil vs. G. McDonald and L. Car- raine; W. H. Sieberst and W. Fisher, vs. M. McLaughlin and M. McDonald; I. J. Kavanaugh and W. Walsh vs. H. H. Liss- nor and R. Longabaugh; G. Hutchinson and W. Kelly vs. P. Kelly and A. Pen- noyer; J. Condon and T. Lydon vs. T. Leach and T. Foley; M. Dillon and E. Maloney vs. J. Feeney and D. Griffin; J. White and W. Maguire vg. J. Colline and R. Murphy; J. C. Nealon and J. Riordon vs. M. J. Kifgallon'and R. Linehan. REGATTA FULL OF AGGIDENTS Reasons for the Non-Sue- ce’s of the fan Fran- cisco Races. The annual regatta of the San Fran- cisco Yacht Club, held last Sunday over the new course, a very poorly man- aged affair, a result largely due to the fact that the regatta committee consists entirely of yacht owners, all of whom were engaged in sailing their own boats instead of performing the functions of a committee. Two of the committee took part in the race, while thé third salled his yacht out to serve as a stakeboat. Tha leeward stakeboat was considerably out of position. and as soon as Surprise, the last of the entries in class 2, had rounded the stakeboat the owner made sail, weighed anchor and cruised away, so that the twenty-footers Anita and Dewey had no leeward mark to round. The whole event Was practically handed over to one man, who was dumped on Powell-street wharf with a brass cannen, half a dozen shells and the time allow- ances. With these and any casual help that might offer itself he was expected to run the whole show. Fortunately for him a present and a past member of the regatta committee of another local yacht club turned up on the wharf and freely lent their services. Even the shells pro- vided for the starter were defective, the start of the boats in class 2 belng de- layed two minutes from the failure of one of them to explode and the difficulty of extracting it from the gun. Nor was this all, for the stakeboat marking the outer extremity of the start- ing line off Powell-street wharf a small vacht's tender was employed, though the committee had been warned that it would not serve the purpose. In the strong tide- way the little tender was half pulled down by the weight of its own anchor line, and when the twenty-footer Anita fouled it quickly filled and swamped. be- coming entirely useless as a mark. When Dr. T. L. Hill, at the close of the race, tried to get hold of the tender he had very great difficulty in doing so, as the tide had turned and the water was lumpy. In the course of his efforts the small boat got under the yacht's centerboard and generally misbehaved herself, while, to add to the trouble, the yacht had several ladies aboard and very few men and B9 other yacht would lend any assistance. The sloop Mischief lost some time in looking for the leeward stakeboat, but covered the course, and will recelve a flag in class 1. The sloop Aeolus made the fastest time around the course, but it is not certain that she had on board a mem- ber of the San Francisco Yacht Club, as the rules require. She certainly commit- ted a breach of good taste in flylng a Corinthian burgee throughout the day. It she is found to be indigible, the flag class 2 will go to Paul de Martini’s Sirem. The annual cruise of the Corinthian Yacht Club began last Saturday, Commo- dore H. D. Hawks flying his flag from J. M. Mattorn's Amigo. The fleet comprised the sloop Speedwell, the yawl Arcturus and E. F. Sagar's sloop Edna. Frank Bartlett started with Mrs. Bartlett last Monday on a two weeks' cruise, and H. H. Gorter's Sans Souci left Tiburon on Avgust 12, the owner’s intention being to take a two weeks' trip. Last night the vachts returning from the up-river cruise were met at Vallejo by several yachts from Tiburon and to-day the fleet will cruise down from Mare Island to the cove. Next Saturday, August 31, the event set down on the programme of the San Fran- cisco Yacht Club is to start at 3 p. m. on a cruise to Drakes Bay, with sports, fish- ing and a picnic on September 1, return-" ing to Sausalito on the 2d. As the flag- ship Ramona is at present on an ocean cruise there is little likelihood that the cruise to Drakes Bay will take.place. Yacht owners do not care much for out- side cruising, and at this season fogs are very prevalent. ‘It is much more proba- blc that the cruise in squadron will be .abandoned and that the Sausalito yacht owrers will follow their time-honored practice of sailing at their own sweet will.