The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 6, 1901, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL. AF T LN OOV FRACTICL OV 7HE CAMPYS, STEWARDS® ACTION IN REIFF MATTER AN EXTREME ONE Went to the Full Extent of Their Powers 1o End Forever His Successful Career as a Rider f Lester Reiff's £ the of th daq ende rictly to his business, e it ia point ems e courses broad r to see defeated Reifr when he thelr reputation as ded. for William C. is more The ast and cannot even gnter a ce course. This is not England’s first display of 1ll neture in the world of sport. In 1834 a number of Bnglish cyclists, including Percy Furnival and George Gatehouse, came to this country and defeated the sest men America could put forth at that t ne best of feeling prevailed and it was thought it would lead to a number of international competitions. Some years Jater A. A. Zimmerman went to England n the majority of the National clists’ Union champlonships, the blue e cycling world. He was followed . C. Sanger, who re- peated the performance. There wers tterings of discontent at the time over ng these classic events. The cup of bitterness overfiowed the fol- lowing year when & German boy rode oft th the champlonship. The bars were en put up and only English riders can now compete. To come down to the present year, the success of American oarsmen at Henley regatta has brought out the suggastion .8t hereafter all foreign entries be re- fused. It is claimed these regattas origin- y meant a week of pleasuring on the er. The competitions were of a friendly character and the men trained in a esultory sort of way for them. When e American crews and singie scullers over all was changed. They settled 2 to strict business such as they had accustomed to from the first time y sat on a sliding seat in a practice boat and, perforce, Englishmen had to llow their strenuous methods. It is‘to do away with this and to return to the ttante attitude which prevailed before the American invasion that Englishmen are making. —_—e—————— Many fish can produce musical sounds. The trigla can produce long drawn notes ging over nearly an octave. Others, notably two specles of ophidium, have eouné-producing apparatus, consisting of small movable bones, which can be made to produce a sharp rattle The curious “drumming” made by the species called umbrinae can be heard from a depth of shirty fathoms, ribbon events of t w s TANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 5. —Progress on the football fleld during the week has been satis- factory, an improvement in the squad being noticeable in both the form and physical condition of the men. Last Eaturda game with the Olympics showed the possibilities of the big eleven. Quarterback Raitt said after the game that the Stanford team did not put up its hardest game. Horan, the big guard from Lafayette, registered for university work Monday and appeared on the gridiron in canvas for the first time Monday night.. He is showing up well and will undoubtedly make somebody hustle for a position on the first eleven. Allen, Parker and Craw- ford of the second eleven backs are show-- ing up well. Allen, who was put in against Olvmpics in the - second half Saturday week, plaved his position weil and may give the other halfbacks a run for the position. SAN JOSE, Oct. 5.—S8anta Clara College will have a strong football team in the 2t Lixh field this season. Besides some of last vear's eleven good materfal has entered this term, and it is predicted the aggre- gation will be the strongest that ever wore the school's colors. A suitable coach will shortly be selected. The officers and make-up of the college eleven are as fol- lcws: Manager, Robert Keefe; captain, William Magee; center, J. Chichizola of Amador; right guard, J. Kinch of Marys- viile; right tackle, F. J. Plank of College Park; right end, Robert Keefe of Folsom; left guard, Bd Cosgriff of San Franelsco; left tackle, Frank Lawler of San Fran- cisco; left end, G. Ivancovich of San Francisco; quarter back, Wiltiam Regan of Boise City, Idaho; fullback, Willlam Magee of San Diego; left half, T. Feeney of Gilroy; right half, I. J. Bounds of North Yakima, Wash.; substitutes, A. Castro and A. Finnegan, Lo Lon With the teams representing Olymplc and Rellance Athletic clubs playing what gives promise of becoming high class ball, when the players round into condition, the outlook for splendid sport Is bright. The players on the club teams have entered more heartily into the game- this year than formerly and closer contests should result throughout the season. ERKELEY, Oct. 5.—The pra »f California’s football sq growing harder and faster by day. The men are wor into first-class condition, much to the ‘satisfaction of all concerned. Re- cent cool weather has favored heavy playing and has been of great advantage to the athletes on the gridiron. Although the big eleven faiied to score- against Reliance in the game of a week ago the play was satisfactory. The team showed up well for its first contest and the coaches were able to get a line on the ability of the men when opposed by a strong, heavy team. Some good material is being developed back of the line. Freshman Kelsey at full bucks hard and low. Whipple, Sie man, Mini and Bishop at each half play strong games. The first two named, with Kelsey, make a promising trlo. More's punting at full is uncertain. On the Lna Gendottl has held down center with opposition. Overall plays at his rigt Stow and O'Toole are trying out for lof guard. Stow also plays at right tackle with Symmes. Womble and Starr pl right end, the former shifting on oce sions to right tackle. Albertson is p! ing at left tackle and Dibblee and W liams at left end. Hudson and Decoto are trying out for quarter. The training table was commenccd Monday with the following men on the list: Gendotti, Albertson, Stow, Dibble, Overall, Womble, Braley, More, Dudex, ‘Whipple, Mini, Hudson, Sherman, Starr, O'Toole, Hendricks, Bishop and Decoto. & TENNIS PLAYERS FIND PARK COURTS A GREAT BENEFIT Shower Baths Are Being Provided for the Convemience of the Persens Who Use the Grounds HE principal topic of discussion among tennis enth sts is the recent election of directors held at the California Tennis Club. The board is made up of pract! cally the same men as 1 year, the retiring members being George Whitney latter it and R. J. Davi treasurer of the eleven years The b ‘since been started, 0, and pre: success is largely ¢ to his efforts. At first & ce it might appear the membe: are ungrateful in not electing Mr. Davis, but the fact that he has not played tennis for a year and consequently is unknown to the new members justifies them in their course. Many changes will be made by the pres- ent board. The tournament committee will make out a schedule of tournaments for the coming year, so the players will know exactly on what the events will be held. As the membership limit— days i |' | | Dr. Simpson, Head Coach, Putting University of California Team Through Practice--Captain Womble in Position GAME LAWS PUZILE GUNMEN WHO WANT 70 OBSE,ZVE THEM Curious Complications Develop Which the Framers of the Laws Could Not Anticipate HE new game law limiting the individual bag to fifty birds in one day is causing sportsmen who wish to live up to its exact | letter and spirit a great deal of mental worry. First comes Herman Oel- richs, a most honorable sportsman. He asks the members of the Fish and Game Commission the following question: “Can the steward of a gun club have under his charge inethe storvroom at the shooting box, ducks exceeding fifty in number, the property of different members and the result of their individual shooting? Interpreting the law as it stands, the Commission officers have replied that the steward of a club is liable to arrest if the birds are kept in one room. Qualifying this they add if the birds were in the individual lockers of the members the Jaw would not be considered violated. Manager Babcock of Hotel Coronado is also in a quandary. He has a shooting lodge In' the country some distance from his hotel. It has been his custom for vears to extend an invitation to the gportsmen among his friends to spend a few days with him in quest of ducks. As they usually kill more than they can dis-| pose of, they have had them placed in cold storage at the hotel to be distributed | Jater among their friends by the steward. As, under ordinary conditions, the num- per of ducks thus on hand would expeed fifty, Mr. Babcock finds a stop put to the hospitality which it has been his pleasure heretofore to dispense. There seems no recourse in the courts for those who feel they have a grievance. In the Corriea case, where a dealer claimed the right to have in his posses- slon, for sale, more than fifty doves, the property of different men, the Supreme Court denied the writ which was applied for. This means the contentions raised by Corriea were found to be without merit. In effect it declares that part of the game law constitutional and valid. - YACHTSMEN SELECT WINTER MOORINGS FOR_TI-IE{R BOATS Sheltered Coves Will Frotect Them From the Winier Storms Which Sweep Across the Bay EVERAL of the California Yacht Club fleet cruised yesterday from their moorings in Oakland Creek over to Sausalito, where they were received by the members of the Ban Francisco Yacht Club, refresh- ments being served and an Inforthal en- tertainment given in their honor. To-day the California and San Fran- | cisco fleets will take a cruise together in the channel toward the Heads, as the tide runs out until 12:46 p. m. The Cor- inthians have no event scheduled for to- day. Next Saturday they will cruise to Corinthian Cove, and on the following day will hold the annual Corinthian games ashore. The command of the San Francisco fleet has for some time past devolved on Vice Commodore R. 8. Bridgman, as Commodore W. N. McCarthy, owing to the iliness of Mrs. McCarthy and the re- cent death of their infant child, has had no time nor Inclination for yachting. On the 19th Inst. both the Corinthian and California Yacht clubs will hold their closing entertainment, the former at Ti- buron and the latter in the clubhouse on Oakland Creek. The jinks committee of the Corinthian Yacht Club is hard at work preparing for the closing entertain- ment. The committee is made up of E. F. Sagar (chairman), W. Howe, J. V. O'Brien, L. Harris, E. Angelo and Frank W. Thompson. The closing entertain- ment of the San Francisco Yacht Club will take place on Saturday, the ‘26th inst., and the final cruise of the season on the following day. The yawl Phyllls, with Captain and Mrs. Chittenden on board, returned to Sausalito last Sunday, having been on a Three days is. Ben'cia two weeks' trip up the ba were spent off Marin fsla and Vallejo were also visited. The yawl Tramontana is lying off Sau- sallto, but will soon take the moorings of the steam yacht El Primero, to the north of the ferry slip, for the winter. The steam yacht will go to Anticch. The big sloop Annle, flagship of the Oakland Cance Club, was out for a cruise last Sundey in the upper bay. After a stay of a fortnight or so at Alviso she will take up moorings at Sausalito and will probably remain in commission during the winter. E. Billlngs' sloop Nixie has been copper-painted and at the close of the season will be taken to her usual winter quarters on Swanson’s ways, Tib- uron. Dr. A. W. McKenzie's sloop Sapho was out cruising last Sunday with her owner on board. She will probably be kept in commission during the winter as the doctor has missed a good deal of sail- Ing through his absence in the Eastern States. J. R. Savoy of the sloop Juanita, who was recently the victim of a brutal at- tack in the street at night, has recovered and was able to go out on a cruise last week. / The sale of tickets for the regatta com- mittee's steamer Resolute on the annual Admission day races realized about $65, thus considerably reducing the assess- ments of the clubs, which amount to about $3 for each boat entered. During the past week the regatta committee of the Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association met and made its final report to the directors, who accepted it and awarded th> cups, flags and certificates accord- ingly. The only question arose in the vawl class, the California yawl Gypsie, which finished first, being protested for forcing the sloops Merope and Discovery avout at the starting line. At the close of the season Dr. T. L. Hill will lay the sloop Cygnus up in the Corte Madera Creek for the winter. He will do a good deal of work on her be- fore the next season opens. The committee appointed by the Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Assoclation to revise th> signal code for use in San Francisco Bay will not proceed with the work at present, as the maritime nations of the world are on the point of adopting a new international code, which will come into operation on January 1, 1902. Until that date either the old or.the new code may be used. OAKLAND GOLFERS WILL COMPETE FOR THE_GO_OQALL cUP Va/uatle Chalenge Trecphy Is Expected to Stimulate Comps- titon Ameng Club Members T is expected the tournament committee of the San Francisco Golf Club will soon prepare a schedule ot events for the win- ter. The first of these will be a competition for the Council's cup for men. There is no truth in the rumor that B. D. Adamson will join the ranxs of the Oakland or any otner golf club, as his intention is'to remain a member of the Presidio Golf Club and to represent it on the links. Even if he should re- move to one of the suburbs of San Fran- cisco it is quite as likely to be Belyedere or Sausalito as Oakland. He would still continue to play on the Presidio course. So that any hopes which the Adams Point golfers may have entertained of curing thelr adversaries’' thunder are doomed to disappointment. The Oakland Golf Club is displaying considerable activity, having engazed George Smith as an instructor, and hav- ing already begun to hold competitions and break records. Collector of the Port F. S. Stratton recently established a new amateur record for eighteen holes, cover- ing the short course of nine holes in 2§ and the long course in 42, total 78. Competitibn among the men will be stimulated by the handsome challenge cup presented by Captain Edwin Goodall, which will be contended for at least twice, and not oftener than four times a year, the competitions being over thirty-six holes, stroke play, with handicaps not higher than eighteen. The trophy must be won twice by the same player before be- coming his permanent property. Nothing was said by the donor about the sex of the competitors, so it would seem the ladies are eligible to play. This point has not yet been decided by the board of directors, and is really not of much im- portance, as no lady would be likely to win a contest over thirty-six holes with so small a handicap as eighteen. * YOUNG GREYHOUNDS WILL BE FACTORS IN THE BIG STAKE Leashmen of - Judgment Figure That ths Chances of the Older Coursers Are i Jeopardy ALIFORNIA'S biggest coursing meeting, the John Grace Chal- lenge Cup stake, will be run soon, and preparations for it are on in earnest. This event, rich in prizes, has been the hope and the am- bition of all leashmen, as in addition to the honor attached to winning first place in the stake the successful greyhound earns a small gized fortune. New condi- tions have arisen this season that add much to the interest of the game. Here- tofore predictions have been made far in advance, the work of performers from the season’s inauguration giving the en- thusiasts a chance to figure the compar- ative worth of tried and experienced hounds. The running of the last Futurity at Un- ion Coursing Park, however, brought out a new factor, as the work of the young- sters In that event and in subsequent stakes has placed them, in the estima- tion of competent judges, on an equal footing with the more matured champions and stake winners now in the running. The puppies whelped in 1900 which have had public trials have shown all the in- herent qualities that go to make up tlie successful courser, and the youngsters will not be without goad backing when they are slipped even with the more ex- perienced hounds. Immediately after the- Futurity ‘the announcement was made for many of the puppies that their next big trial would be in the stake with the season’s champions. Cold Shivers, Royal Archer, Tame Tralee, ‘Traiee Boy, Aeolus and Hickory Dick were considered strong enough then to hold their own with the older dogs and were declared by their 200—has almost beén reached there is talk of ing the initiation fee, but it is doubtful if this will Le done, as the ma- jority of the members are not in favor of it. ra Several of the local cracks are trying to learn the peculiar service used by Bell, the Southern California champion. This service. Is made at the top of the reach and with the racket parallel to the ground. The racket is drawn from left to right. This gives the ball a peculfar cut and causes it to bound exceedingly: high and toward instead of away from the re- celver. This service was brought to the coast two years ago by the Eastern cham- pions. Smith and Collier are using it with the most success at present. The three new oil-packed courts in Golden Gate Park have been completed and have already proved much better than the ones laid out previously. What they lack most is rolling. When they are as hard as the main drive, which is packed with oil, they will be as true as asphalt ccurts, and better in some re- spects. Those in charge of the park courts have acted favorably upon the suggestion of putting shower baths and lockers in the old band stand, and in a short time the players will have every convenience at their disposal. It would. be a good plan to build one asphalt court in the park and have It as an exhibition court. If this were done the best players in the city would bl willing to play exhibition matches in the park. This would add to the interest of both players and spectators. The building of these courts was mere~ ly an experiment, the unexpected success of which makes it safe to say that in a year from now there will be at least twenty-five public tennis courts In the park. There will probably be a handicap doubles tournament for the Davis eups at the California Club courts to-day, These cups have been won twice by the Whit- ney brothers, Collier and Crowell and Smith and Cornell. They must be won five times to become the permanent prop- erty of any team, Many other teams have their names on the cups once, The Woman Would Speculate. Among the stories told of the recent flurry in Wall street is this: An army of- ficer stationed in the : hilippines has been sending home his salary for his wife to save. She sought to add to it by taking a fiyer in Wall street. She had Invested every dollar of her husband’s savings, and in the panic of Thursday all was swept away. She appealed to Henry Clews, with whose firm she had dealt: “If I show you the way to get your money back will you promise me that yoy will not speculate again?’ asked the broker. “Indeed I will,” tearfully assented the woman. “Well, here's your money; now keep out of the market.” Clews sald afterward that he had not invested the money. A broker who listened to the story laughed. *““Well, there's one on Clews. That -woman brought the money right over to my office and asked me to buy Delaware and Hudson for it. I did so and she made $5400."—Utica Press. @ e e @ owners for the event. While at first it seemed that in promising . their pupples for this champion stake the owners did so merely as a compliment to the Futurity youngsters, later feeling is that in the scramble for the much coveted honors the older dogs are the ones whose chances are in jeopardy. The recent wonderful show- ing of the youngest of the lot, Hugh Lynch’'s A. J. Martin, has increased that feeling. Palo Alto, Sisquoc, Dewdrop, Sacramento Boy, Luxor, Flying Fox and other fast ones, veterans to the game as they are, will find it diffieult to outpoint these comers. It is freely predicted even now that the course for the final flag in the great event will be between the youngsters which first saw the light of day in 1900, e There are wise cats as well as wise people In Vermont. A man living at Fom- fret, in that State, possessed one of them, which called him out of ted the other evening by its piteous wailings, and led him to a portion of a wood lot whers a feline companion had been caught in a trap set for a skunk.