The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 1, 1901, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL. LOCAL COURSERS READY TO GO EAST. Strike Affects Betting and Attendanceat Un. ion Park on Saturdays The effects of the strike are felt In coursing circles. The game goes merrily on and the best dogs in the running are furnishing the excitement for the steady patrons, but the bettors are not so active in backing their favorites as in the times Saturday nights were halled with when Sunday finds both the same plunger; the th the same willing- bunch or two on their without the price same piker, ness to p chotce e card at Union ge crowd that was p to the running of the s sport was the best that the park for some time, . s were for smalier purses n ba run for since the game s present standard. ns are about completed ty it is no certainty that the be run according to sched- esent labor troubles are not A soon it more than a possibility take for the young cours- be postponed. The money in this annual figure with the park i to see itsel{ clear the as- on a good gate and a Without these there will t i not likely that for the ment the park will e on the stake. mstances force a later date for AsS a r the change will be by the ringsters, for, s to bave the young 1g2rits, still they seeing thelr t having a ticket or added ke of stpor ing men with their compete In the meetings if all engagements dearth of champions ses that somedog own- ce himself as an appli- yur entries on the East- To a certainty the game has mpetus in States where it has fore with indifferent suc- mark an era in coursing i the success that has fol- ere is due in no little orable results which have rts of local leashmen un- re and attention the sport present high standard of = of true sportsmen whose ake coursing a clean sport suspicion, the pastime has he eyes of its strong fol- a result stands well up our attractions. Gaining arity, the game, through ctions of the committee it, has made the raising of munerative business on 4 through which the ad- breeding has attained such t local strains will soon the best in the world. California a n as the home of honest n this country and its hounds by other States for both field sult of the boom that is on the rioo, a stake that calls for r nominations and which will be October next, has a first time since its in- 111 be well represented in the Iready named as a likely st Lonors. Many of our ve been almost promised to f one of them should return rs it would further boom liment that could be ame at home was the selec- John Grace to preside In s big event, Since it was judge would to a cer- fon congratula- the club from the services red ation has traveled a feeling of se- og owners throughout anticipate the running of kindness of the Union tors, Judge Grace will he may go on to "he Madison (S. D.) e a bid for Call- compete in their stake. At s if there would be a this and the St. some strong feeling was The selection of Judge Grace ettied 2 differences, for the Madison Cluk ve w that account because idge’s presence would throughout the country. npleasa fecling the ced its date to Sejp- on the j under the Amer- and its two stakes . The programme will be the running of the Aberdeen cup event and a puppy stake. Entries will close September 24 Arrangements have been made that Cal- ifornia coursers take in this meet, get their dogs acclimated and reach St. Louts in ample time so that a four or five days’ rest will be allowed their dogs. Sl e HUNTERS OF BIG GAME. On the Country Club preserves the deer shooters had a successful day last week. F. W Sicklen got a forked horn weighing pounds, the biggest killed in two years. Mr. Boyd brought in a 117 pounder, W. 8. Kittle one that weighed two pounds less, Shafter Howard a 140 pounder, J. Le Roy Nickel 8 and Ed Preston one that weighed 130 pounds. Fred Nordholz, John Stanke and two brothers, who are at present hunting on King’s ranch, Cazadero, were out hunt- ing last Bunday and Nordholz was the ucky onme, having brought down the Fs:ut buck killed for many years. The “er dressed at 19 pounds. T. F. Bannan, who hes just returned from there, reports the game very plentiful. T \ i SOME OF THE STICKMEN IN THE CALIFORNIA BASEBALL LEAGUE —MEN WHO ARE GIVING THE F4 STRATIONE AND THE COMPARISON OF PERCENTAGE FIGURES. ATICS OCCASION FOR DEMON- 2 LONG CRUISE FOR THE CLUB YACHTS. Increase of Interest is Displayed in the Ad- mission Day Regatta According to schedule, the San Fran- ciscos were to start yesterday for an out- side cruise to Drakes Bay at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on signal from the flagship. But Commodore W. N. McCarthy's schooner Ramona s still in .southern waters, and at the time of writing it is doubtful if the cruise will be made or not. The yawl Royel and the sloops Cygnus and Thetis, with probably H.R. Simpkins’ vawl Tramentana, were expected to make the cruise. If the boats make Drakes Bay there will be a picnic and sports to- day, the return being made to-morrow. The Corinthlans started yesterday for Lakeville, where they will spend to-day, returning to Tiburon to-morrow. The Californias have on thelr schedule a cruise to McNears Landing for last night, continuing on up to Lakeville to-day and returning to Oakland Creek to-morrow. Next Saturdey, September 7, is an open day on the schedule of the Corinthians, while the San Franciscos have a cruise to McNears Landing, but this will be dropped. On Monday, September 9, the sixth annual regatta of the Pacific Inter- Club Yacht Assoclation will take place, the yachts being divided into the usual £ix classes, with prizes in five classes pro- vided from the Macdonough trophy fund. The prize for the twenty-footers will be the Law cup, presented by Herbert E. Law, at one time commodore of the Pa- cific Yacht Club of happy memory. A large entry list is expected, and a second trial of speed between the cup challenger Helen and the defender Presto 35 looked forward to with great interest. Commodore A. E. Chapman and the Vallejo yachtsmen believe that the sloop Helen is fast encugh to beat Frank Stone’s boat, while the Corinthians belleve that when some changes have been made in Presto, she will beat Helen ‘much more decisively than on August 10. The San Franciscos will drop the clam- bake at McNears Landing set for Sep- tember 8, and the dance at the club- house scheduled for September 14, and will merge the two events in one grand clam-bake on September 14 and 15. The m-bake a few weeks ago at Paradise Cove was got up by a few enthusiastic members and was o much enjoyed that it was decided that a similar entertain- ment should be glven by the club In lieu of = dance which would be attended chiefly by non-members and would do no particular good to the yachtsmen. e AMONG THE CRICKETERS, September will be a quiet month among the local cricketers. The match between the Pacific eleven and the team of the Santa Cruz Country Club, set for to-day, has already been played, the open date in last month having been selected for tha purpose. The match between Santa Cruz and Sacramento, set for September 15, was plaved on Saturday, July 27, and Sep- tember 22 is an open date. On September 29 the old antagonists, the Pacific and Alameda teams, will meet at Alameda for the last time this season. During the Admission day holidays a team of city cricketers will g0 up to Lake County, starting on Friday afternoon, September 6. and playing a two days’ match against the Burns Valley Cricket Club at Lower Lake on September 7 and 8. For Admis- sion day a one day’s match will probabiy be arranged with the Lakeport Cricket Club at Lakeport. The city team will be made up by a committee consisting of H. C. Casidy of the Pacific, R. B. Hogue of the Alamedas and A. G. Sheath of the Santa Cruz Country Club, who will select residents of San Francisco and neighbor- SUTTON SISTERS ARE GREAT - ATHLETES. Remarkable Tennis Is Played by the South- ern California Quartet The women's tournaments of the past week have been successful beyond the hopes of even the most sanguine. The success of the events is undoubtedly at- tributable to the presence of the six clever players from Southern California. To say that the play of the Suttons was a surprise would be to put it but weakiy. Sucn tennis as these clever sisters have played in the past week has never been equaled by any woman on this coast be- fore. The most remarkable thing is that four sisters should be so evenly matched as these are. Heretofore the women's champlonship has attracted little or no ettention, but this year the women's events are as interesting as the men’s. Probably the most interesting event from the spectators’ standpoint was the mixed doubles tournament. Usually these affairs are very uninteresting and tire- some and resolve themselves into a match between the two men, but with such play- ers as the Suttons, Seymours, Miss Hall and Miss Hoftman in the line-up they are more interesting than either the doubles or singles. o The present visit of the Southern Cali- fornia experts will do more toward the advancement of tennis on this coast than anytking that has happened in years. The success of the women's events makes the success of the men’s tournaments next week a certainty. Bell, Braley, Hen- dricks and Sinsabaugh, the Southern Cali- fornia cracks, have all arrived and have entered both ‘the singles and doubles. The Whitneys will probably carry off the honors in both singles and doubles, but will be closely pressed by some of the second class men. It will be interesting to know just how the local second class men will come out with the experts from the south. 3 Probably the strongest teams in dorbles will be Bell and Braley, McGavin and Smith and Collier and Crowell, and one of these teams will in all probability play the ‘Whitneys for the champlonship. The singles tournament will probably go to either R. N. Whitney, Bell, Smith or Wethe. None of these is expected to win the champlonship from George Whitney. The first tournament to be played is the doubles and will commence on Tued- day. It will be completed Wednesday and the rest of the week will be occupied by the singles. The champlonship match of the doubles will be played on Saturday afternoon and the champlonship singles match on Monday afternoon. e LANDED A BIG BASS. One of the largest black sea bass ever taken from any waters was that landed one day last week off Catalina Island by Jeft Packard and his wife. The fish welghed exactly 328 pounds and was cap- tured after a terrific struggle lasting four hours, during which the Packards were nearly submerged with their small boat. ge;f, Packard is City Marshal of Bakers- eld. Mrs. Packard claims all the credit of the capture, as it was she who first hooked the bass and then landed him. Her husband agrees that she did all the work and he is proud of her. @ siiieirivivirieieeieieief il @ hood. H. C. Casldy will be taking his vearly vacation at Highland Springs and will join the team from that place. As Young America won one of the two matches played this season against .Old England, and Old England won the other, 2 third and deciding mach may be played .on one of the open Sundays of this month, + ESPITE the occasional umpiral troubles that keep the California Baseball League In more or less periodic ferment, baseball in this city is rapidly reaching its old halcyon “prosperity. The crowd that packs the Recreation gréunds on Sundays is composed of fanatics, some mild and harmless, others rabid and al- most violent. As in the days of old, when scores were memorized and the merest detall of the dlamond noted, the habitual attendant of the games to-day spouts his knowledge whenever chance of- fers. The fanatic has come once again. The fanatic is a peculiar order of being. At times he rouses himself into a state of enthusiasm to fall in line with others of the same sort. Then he bubbles over. cackles and is ready to shake chalrs at the harmless air because his team has done something the other fellows have not. He is just as fanatical in his grief. Being decidedly partisan, when his team loger. he mopes and storms and calls for a balf of this man and that. If there happens to be a series of black and white changes in the game his emotions oscil- late with just as much regularity of com- FANATICS FOUND ON CAR AND STREET. Baseball Fiend Has Come, and Talks . of Balls and Strikes. This is the wild-eved fanatic who makes the noise and wants to murder the um- pire every other minute. But there is ancther kind, the mild man with the scien- tiflc cast. He usually goes to the games Unattended. Except for a few facial demonstrations he is cucumberish and polar. After the game he can recite each funing right off the reel. He is the criti- cal fanatic who keeps his condemnation ard his swearing to himself. R Sy cisco. In fact the disease has spread se that the women have taken it up. At Recreation grounds there are more women attending the games than ever at Haight- street when the crowd flocked down on the fleld Sunday after Sunday. The nofsest fanatic of them all is lacking at Recreation grounds. In the old days he was set aside in a special stand. He is the small boy who pays 10 cents and gets hoarse for it. No longer segregated, the small boy is scattered in the crowd and his gum-chewing enthusiasm is often nipped in an early bud by the repressing influence of the older and more sedate bleacher occupant, whose years are a gauge on demonstration. There is one novel, distinctly original in- stitution at Recreation grounds—the beer cage. This is flat on the fleld back of the first base line. Twenty-five cents extra admission entitles the holder of a ticket to this section to five glasses of beer. After that he doesn’t care how many and then the argument waxes warmer and warmer. At the end of the game the ‘‘cageman’ leaves the grounds, exhausted in voice and jubllant in spirit. It is baseball over the muvtation. The “fans” are growing in San Fran- foam. L T o e e e B B i ] GOSSIPY ECHOES FROM THE DEL MONTE LINKS There is a lull among golfers after the many contests at Del Monte. The week produced several surprises, the first of which was the defeat of Ernest Folger by E. D. Silent of Los Angeles, who has not generally been regarded as onme of the strong golfers of the south. But in the open championship Ernest Folger beat all the amateurs except C. E. Maud and H. M. Sears. John Lawson was away off his game, taking iwenty-eight strokes more than the winner, Robert Johnstone, to cover the thirty-six holes. F. J. Reilly of the Burlingame Country Club, who had heen expected to win one of the prizes, finished just outside of third money, which was divided by George Smith and James Melyille. The hero of golf week was C. E. Maud, who won the Del Monte cup, was second in the open champion- ship, being beaten by only two strokes, and whose score of 6 up against C. P. Hubbard in ‘the team match won the Byrne trophy for the south. But it was the ladies’ champlonship that furnished most food for discussion. The event lost some interest from the fact that none of the four strongest southern ladies—Mrs. Jean W. Bowers, Mrs. J. D. Foster, Mrs. F. H. Seymour and Mrs. Clement Hull—came up to contend for the first woman's’amateur championship of the Pacific Coast. The match, however, developed enough interest as it went on, and a genuine surprise in the defeat of Mrs. R. Giiman Brown, who was regarded as a sure winner. While Miss Crockett deserved her victory, it must be ascribed largely to the cilrcumstances of the con- test. The sympathy of the majority of the lookers-on at the match was strongly in favor of Miss Crockett, and at one stage of the game its manifestation was so marked that it might fairly be described as ‘“‘offensive partisanship.” The spectators made audible comments on the players, manifesting great delight when Miss Crockett played well or Mrs. R. G. Brown had hard luck. Things reached a point at which the secretary of the Pacific . " Coast Golt Assoctation remonstrated with ATHLETIC OUTLOOK AT BERKELEY NOT BRIGHT BERKELEY,Aug. 28.—The athletic sea- son is opening at the University of Call- fornia under conditions which keep the students wondering on which side of vic- tory the college will stand when the year's events are done. The uncertainty of the new materfal and the loss of men tried on track, diamond and gridiron make victories seem scarce. On the other hand, there are strong men left to form the nu- cleus ‘for the athletic .squads. Good coaches and good trainers are not want- ing, and these, with the ald of experi- enced men. are looked upon to create from the raw material a lot of men capa- ble of good athletic work. On these coaches and tralners, who inspire and force men to work, is placed the hope of the student body. As yet work has been carried on only in an unsystematic manner. A few of the old athletes were out on the track to keep limbered up and for exercise, but none are training. The past week has been given over to interclass baseball games, partly for recreation and partly to sample the material on hand. As a gen- eral thing the playing has been of poor quality, even among the more experienced players. e This scattering work has ended and during the brief tralning season of the next two months all energies will be given over to football. The time to get men into good condition is short, and the ath- letes will be forced to shserve strict train- ing rules and to do hard work @ iiniinieiel el @ the spectators for their conduct, which was unfavorable to good play an the part of anybody. 'The crowd then ceased to follow the players, and Mrs. Brown won six straight holes, making her dormie 2. At the last holes the crowd was encount- ered again, and Mrs. Brown, instead of playing to halve the holes and waiting her chance, tried hard to win, and lost both, making the qmatch all square. The nineteenth went to Miee Crackatt and the match went with It, STANFORD LOOKS TO A SUCCESSFUL SEASON STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Aug. 29.— ‘With but five days Intervening before the opening of collegé Interest in Stanford's football prospects is growing keen. Stu- dents are arriving on every train and among them many of the football stars. Traeger, the star tackle; Cooper, right end, and Lee, center, of last year’s var- sity are already on the campus, and Raitt, Bansbach, Hill, Smith and R. J. McFad- den, center, are expected dally. Treasurer John T. Nourse of the Asso- clated Students has a force of men at work on the gridiron, getting it in shape for use as soon as college opens. Owing to the fact that the fleld is adobe and was used as a baseball diamond it is extreme- ly hard and will require a great deal of harrowing and rolling before the men be- gin practice. Treasurer Nourse contem- plates putting on a covering of tanbark ‘with the idea of securing a field both fast and springy. Trainer “Dad” Moulton is expected to arrive from the East next Monday and he will at once call out both football and track men, he being an advocate of fall training on the track. Of last” year's football team Captain Burnett, right tackle; T. L. McFadden, left end; De Forest and Seeley, guards, and Erb, right half, will not be back. It is also probable that Frank Slaker, the noted fullback, will not return, but will don an Olympic Club suit and be seen in the preliminary games. Perhaps the man hardest to replace is Burrett at right tac- kle, Hamilton, the brilllant tackle on the Relfance and Lick School teams of last year, will not enter Stanford, as was an- “ticlpated. Glessner of Lafayette Is the only new man that has appeared who can play the position. As to guards, Barn- heisel and Thompson, the strong second- eleven combination of last year; Gllman, who played the position on the '89 varsity, and Horan, Lafayette's big guard, are possibflities. At end Luck and Btanford, last year's substitutes, and Lunt, who played hard, fast ball en the victorious freshman team, bld falr to develop varsity form. Treasurer Nourse has secured the ser- DISGRUNTLED ARE THE ROWING CLUBS. Claim That Distribution of Favors for Astoria Carnival Was Partial The one topic of discussion ameong the oarsmen during the past week has been the Astoria regatta. It is generally felt that there was an unfair distribution of the tickets to the north, the Olymple Club securing about one-half of the whole number, while all the rowing clubs shared the remaining half. It has al- ways been understood that the Alameda and Ariel barge crews would go north, but a day or two before the time for start- ing the Alameda representative was told that only two men from this club would receive transportation. He stood firm, however, and insisted that at least four oarsmen’ should be included, the only con- cession he was willing to make being in regard to the cockswain. Then he was informed that the Alameda boats must be at the depot that afternoon, and, short as the time was, this was done, only to find ‘that the car was locked and the yardmaster had been strictly instructed not to open it. However, choking a cat ‘with cream is not the only way of killing it, and when the car was opened at As- torfa an Alameda barge and skiff were found in it. < Then the Ariels had been all along as- sured that their barge crew would be among those selected, but no notice was given to any of them or to J. A. Geddes, their representative, and chairman of the regatta committee, at what time tickets for the railroad had been received or ‘would be distributed. Some of them had their trunks packed ready for the sum- mons which never came. Yet the Arfels had the only four who could fairly be sald to be entitled to go north on the ground of their previous performances as oarsmen, Robert Filis and W. T. Hows being seniors, and Harry Foley and L. 8mith being the two strongest men of the crew that won the junior barge cham- plonship at the Lake Merritt regatta. The Alameda crew has in it only one senior oarsman, F. W. Ayers, while the Olympie crew’s best man was second in the jumior skiff race at Lake Merritt. The Untver- sity of California shell crew does not con- tain a single man fit to row in a craft of that class. When the question of what crews should be chosen was in the early stages of discussion it was stated that the Astorians wished to have men who could take part in other aquatic or land sports. Now this is a condition which the Arfels fulfilled especially well, Harry Foley being a runner and a champion middleweight boxer, Howe being a swim- mer, Smith a fine water polo player, and Hanlon being the champion bantam- weight boxer of the Coast. The Olymple Club did not even enter a barge crew at the Lake Merritt regatta, and at one of last year’s regattas a four comprising some of the oarsmen who went to Astoria rowed absolutely last of five crews. The South End barge crew included a wrest- ler and two moderate single scullers. The Alamedas feel that a deliberate attempt ‘was made to shut them out, but are much pleased that promptitude on their part and a knowledge of rallroad affairs made the attempt fruitless. But the Arfels have not even the con- solation of having succeeded, and were kept completely in the dark until their protests were unavalling. They feel the more injured because they attribute the juggling whereby their crew was ex- cluded to a man who for many years rep- resented their club on the board of man- agers of the Pacific Association, but who has now transferred his allegiance to the Post street club. A general feeling is growing among the oarsmen that the management of the affairs of the assocla- tion has fallen almost entirely into the hands of men who no longer take any part in active sports. @ ieeininininiininieinel el @ vices of W. McFadden, brother of T. L. and R. J. McFadden of last year's varsity, as assistant rubber to the teams. Al Lean will have charge of the rubbing down. Harry Bell, the crack athlete of the Healdsburg High School, is the leading acquisition in the line of track men. His events are the high jump, broad jump and pole vault. Two years ago, in the Aca- demic League meet, he took a place in each event, two of them being firsts, and last year took first place in the pole vault, but could not come up to his best form in the jumps owing to an Injured heel. Bell has been here for several weeks and will register with the class of '05 next Thursday.: Tom McCaughern of Notre Dame Col« lege {8 another track man who will enter Stanford this year, He is a brother of J. C. McCaughern, '03, track captain this year, and It is said ean lead the captain in his own race, the hundred-yard dash, —_——— The Ferth bridge is constantly being res painted, So vast ig the structure that it takes fifty tons of paint {e give it ene eoat, and the area dealt with is sempthica Jike 120 acres, b