The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 7, 1901, Page 4

= CISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER , 1901. BASEBALL STA | RS STARS OF THE EASTERN BASEBALL FIELDS WHO WILL PLAY THEIR FAVORITE POSITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AT RECREATION PARK IN A GAME WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO TEAM. & HUNTING MEN ANTICIPATE A GREAT SEASON Interest in the San Ilateo County Hounds Increases. Down in San Mateo County a number of wealthy sportsmen are supporting the | the only pack San Mateo County hunt, of drag hounds in all the West. In the height of the season the fields of horse- men are large and exceptionally mounted. Owing to the nature of the country and its proximity to the city it is impossible hunt either foxes or hare is had to the aniseed laid over fixed territory : scent which the hounds fo one who has never ridden z this sounds not only pro: monplace, but possibly ridiculous 1f such a man, first having learned to ride with ease, could mount a steady, although not | necessarily 2 costly, horse he would find life well worth living; be assured sound sleep, good appetite, good digestion and Would be a most desirable compa either at home or in his place of busi The “drag” hunt is the only hunt wh can be practiced near San Franc any large city, owing to the s property owners wh 3 g their land ridden over. business man who cannot leave his office 1o hunt the customary, two days a_week He can by or easily travel rail electric car with time to spare before the | of the hunt calls out, ‘“Now, man. Most of the men who ride with the San | Mateo hounds have been educated to ride | according to some good method. As far as hands, seat and the control of a horse are concerned, they compare favorably with the best riders in any country. When the drag hunt of necessity takes the place of fox hunting it is highly de- sirable to have the hounds well matched in speed. A few hounds with superior speed heip ruin sport by giving men who “hunt to ride” an opportunity of getting between the Jeaders and the body of the pack. They foil the scent with their steaming horses and unfairly test the pa- tience of the master of the hunt. A little feeding on the morning of the hunt will be found a remedy to take some of the pace out of fast hounds. As for tail houndg, they are of little account in a run after a drag. It is highly desirable that gentlemen who ride with hounds would bear in mind | it is Gue master, huntsman and hounds that they should be free from ail undue | interference by impetuous members of the hunt, who should inform themselves of the* etiquette of hunting. The breed of hounds known as English fox hounds are not as musical as some of Grau's del- icately throated operatic stars, and when ridden over they give up their place in the concert and instead of leading they follow the cavalcade. The effort is to imitate a fox hunt and not a point-to-point steeplechase. ¥or the latter Tanforan racecour would better be utilized. The hunt means a gallop across country of from ten to fifteen miles, with many intervening jumps to be negotiated. The riders should not know in which direction they are to be taken. Herein lies the charm of hunting of which & writer has said: “Hunting is the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt and onl five and twenty per cent of its dange The hounds follow the scent, which ha. previously been lald over a zigzag line, for which ample time should be afforded the drag boy. One of the chief pleasure: of the sport is watching the hounds mak their cast as they follow the scent, which i= apparent to them alone, The 8an Mateo County hunt will meet to-day at Moormeads, J. J. Moore's country place at Fair Oaks. The hounds will be laid on at 10 o'clock. After the hunt the members of the field will be en- tertained at luncheon by Mr. Moore. On Wednesday next the meet will be at Laurel Creek at 2:30 p. m. One week from to-day the meet will be at Uncle Tom's Cabin, 8Ban Bruno. —_———————— It takes more thap paint to make an artie well | - | shot of the day, n readily utilize the Saturéay half-hol- | to Keating, the clever club hunts- | GUNMEN SECURE SIMALL RETURNS OWING TO FOG Ducks Keep to the Bay and Avoid Baited Ponds. The dense tule fog of last Saturday and Sunday was like a pall to the gunmen. It| | spoiled the shooting for an army of| | sportsmen as the news spread about after | | Thanksgiving day that the marshes were | of birds. The trains going to Alva- | | rado and other points along the southern | bay shore were crowded with men who expected a good day’'s shoot. The birds kept on the bay and were hidden by the fog. The fog upset all calculations and instead of ducks the shooters gathered mushrooms, the majority returning to the | city y laden with this delicacy. The reports from Suisun are the same, none of the preserves yielding any birds. The majority of the clubs in this district, including the Ibis and the Teal, are said to have had their best shooting for this season, owing to the large quantity of water about the marsh. Mr. Morse of the Spooney Gun Club was | the most successful of the members who | shot over the club preserves near Mount Eden last Sunday. He proved the best getting nearly the limit. | The other members in attendance affirm that he was lost to their sight in the fog for a time and hint at his possibly hav: i market hunter. Mr. Morse s merely a little professional backs last Sunday near Collinsville. n at Mount Eden Frank Schultz six ducks in the dense fog. Al killed Thiebaut killed 6, Max Rosenthal 19, Al Newman 12 and Billy Farren 8. John W. Gates, the steel trust magnate, and his friends created the greatest stir of the week among the sportsmen who find pastime in handling a double-barreled shotgun. Last Sunday “Billy” Kittle and other members of the Country Club gave themn a pleasant day on the Marin County preserves after quail, snipe and ducks. On Tuesday, despite the rain, they went to Ingleside and spent the afternoon at the traps. One member of the party is American amateur champion and another as for several vears shot at all the big European meetings, so they had no favors to ask from the local experts. Otto Feud- ner won the freeze out, but he and Haight lost the match race, although the former shot to form and upheld his corner of the | contest. | The visitors all possess the finest guns to be obtained. The majority of them cost more than $500 each and are by the i most celebrated makers. The | shooting experts of the party | hammer guns, preferring them hammerless variety. less chance of a missfire, which would be fatal in a tournament where men are closely matched. At the annual meeting of the Empire | Gun Club, held on Tuesday, the following | officers were elected for the ensuing year: James P. Sweeney. president: W. O. Cul- ien. vice president: J. B. Hauer, secretary and treasurer; J. Peltier, manager; J. H. Durst, captain: A. J. Webb, lieutenant captain, and C. A. Bennett, sergeant at arms. The club is in a most prosperous condition. The members expect shooting for the remainder of the season on their preserves. The recent rains filled the ponds, which are heavily baited. Birds in large numbers are seen about the pre- serves dafly. Early next vear the trap- shooting programme will be arranged. It is intended to offer valuable prizes in both open and club events. —_——— | ‘Will Play “Sport Vasco.” Eder Jai, the royal Spanish handbail | sport, has been transplanted to Central | Park, Market street, near Bigi#th, where mes will be played this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The participants are all experts, | who have come here from the City of | Mexico. They are marvelz in dexterity | and agility. There {s as much danger con- | nected with the sport as there is with bull | fighring and it is of absorbing interest. —————— LIMA, Peru, Dec. 6.—The Chamber of Depu- ties vesierday sanctioned the gold standard Jaw, which has already passed the Senate. 2 There is said to be | g0ood | EASTERN T1EN WILL MEET THE ‘ HOME TALENT {Whalen Selected as the Pitcher to Face the Visitors. The All-Americas and San Franciscos will open the winter series at Recreation Park to-day. Great interest has been aroused in these games, as, notwithstand- ing the fame of the visiting ball tossers, there are many stanch admirers of the Californian champions, who expect to see them astonish the high salaried stars. The All-American team is composed of the flower of the American Assoclation, and is one of the heaviest hitting aggre- gations that could be assembled. There is scarcely a man in it who has not.a batting average of over .300, and there are also among them some famous fielders. Lajole is perhaps the most distinguished of the visitors, but he does not rank far ahead of such men as Irwin, Barrett and Davis. As the fans have had their cu- riosity aroused by reports of the wonder- ful performances of these men and as they hope to see them pressed to their best endeavor by the home team, there will' undoubtedly be_overflow houses at the ball grounds. Whalen will do the twirling for the Wasps to-day. Iburg. whose reputation as a pitcher has trav- eled to the Atlantic coast, will do the box work to-morrow. The line-up for to-day’s game is as fol- lows: San Franciscos. Wilson.. Whalen Pabst..... Krug.. Reill Third base. Shortstop Shay Hildebrand. Left field. Nordvke. Schwartz. e Handball Champion Will Play. James Fitzgerald, the handball cham- pion, will double up with M. J. Kilgallon to-morrow at San Francisco handball court. They will play J. C. Nealon and Al Hampton. The other matches will bz between: M. Joyce and_D. Connelly vs. W. Williams and C. Lakin: E. Regan and P. T: al anaugh vs. H. H. Dillon and G. Hutchinson ve. W. Pennoyer; W. H. S and M. McLaughlin vs. P. Ryan and J. J. Canavan: Ed White an'd E. A. Whiteman vs. J. Glynn and R. Regl Harlow and E. Curley vs. J. Riordon an Maloney; J. hite and W. Maguire vs. J. lins and R. Murphy. The handball games scheduled to he played at the Occidental Athletic Ciub to- morrow are as follows: o F. Robertson a H. Kennealy vs. C. John- con and V. Hayes: W. Gainey and V. Holland vs. W. Reiily and George Kelly; F. Holland and B. Clark ve. T. R R. Donovan; Woelfel and Dr. » Dr. N. Wach- | Orr; T. J. Lydon and W. Fisher | ve. Dr. R. Longerbach and E. J. Murphy;. B. Hayward and_J. Condon vs. J. D. Maho Antron; W, Collins and Charles Barry _"Walsh and T. Clemen: T Max Wiley Seeks a Match. Max Wiley, the clever little wrestler, who made so favorable an impression in a number of bouts at the Olympic Club, will be in this city about the 15th inst. He is anxious to arrange a match with any 135-pound man on the coast. He can be addressed at 417 Mason street. | A | horst and C. | | To-Day’s News Letter. Peter F. Dunne, the famous author of the Dooley letters, is in town, and the News Letter has some very interesting gossip about him in its Looker On de- partment, which also contains a lot of other interesting gossip. Ben C. Tru- man has a second installment of his entertaining “Romance of Benedictine,” and there is a historical account of the first theatrical performances here. In the “Limericks,” the News Letter's new department, some exceedingly amusing verses appear. The Town Crier shows that he has not forgotten how to casti- gate wrongdoers, and Betsy Bird, in her “Mere Gossip,” tells a lot of things tnat | no one suspected. The editorial depart- ment is unusually forceful and timely. * e ! Morgan City Insurance Case. | The most interesting witness vesterday in the United States Circuit Court in the case of the Ladue Gold Mining and De- | velopment Company against the Frank- fort Marfne Insuranee Company was Captain William B. Seabury. The cap- tain testified that he had recently seen the wreck of the Morgan City and thal | it would probably continue to be seen in the same place for some years to come. | This testimony was drawn out incidental- | 1y as tending to show that there was a probable salvage for the underwriters. The remainlng witnesses were R. J. Tyson and Nathan Frank. The trial will be resumed this morning. . —————— Charles Sutro Left Large Estate. The estate of Charles Sutro has been appraised at $141,266. The report of the appraisers, which was filed yesterday, shows that the brother of Adolph Sutro left an estate consisting of stocks, bonds, mortgages and real estate valued at that amount. Most of the real estate is lo- cated in this city. —————— 0ld subscribers to The Call are en- titled to the privilege of securing a copy of Cram’s Superior Atlas of the World upon payment of $1 50, the premium rate. { all bona e BIG WINNINGS OF PALO ALTO IN COURSING Eugene Geary’s Phenome-= nal Greyhound Heads the List, George McE. Malcolm, secretary of the California Coursing Committee, has com- piled some interesting coursing statistics for volume 7 of the American greyhound studbook. The book is in the hands of the printer and will be ready for distri- bution within a week. A prominent feature of this year’s vol- ume and one that will be of interest to leashmen, is a carefully prepared list of winning sires. The data comprise not only the records of local sires, but those of noted dogs from every coursing park in America whose get reached first or second place in authorized meetings. The late Emin Pasha, J. H. Rosseter's celebrated: grevhound, heads the list of winning sire; During last season the get of the celerbated courser figured twenty-five times as stake winners and gave to their sire a record far in ad- vance of any other dog in America. These winners - were out of twelve successful dams. St. Lawrenc seventeen is second on the list with winners out of eight dams; Skyrocket third, with eight winners out of five dams: For Freedom fourth, with eight winners out of five dams, and Bor- der Ruffian fifth, with seven winners out of five dams. Caliph, the sire of Mon- soon, the winner of this year's Ameri- can Waterloo at St. Lo figures wel up_on the list. _For Freedom holds first place on the list of sires of winning puppies, with five of his get out of two dams to his Wild Tralee and Glen Ayr, a St. stud dog. come next, with three puppies out of one dam credited to each. St. Lawrenmce is fourth on the list, with two puppies out of two dams as winners. In the matter of individual perform- ances Eugene Geary's phenomenal greyhound Palo Alto again lays claim to championship honors and makes good with eight stakes won and second place in_four events. The fact that the champion has per- formed in high class events and has competed for laurels with the best cours- ers in the running in_his past two sea. sons of supremacy adds a luster to his record and classes him as the wonder of the coursing worid. . In giving credit for second place on the list of individual performances the rec. ords are left to speak for themselves. In the number of winning stakes D. Walsh's Sacramento Boy figures a point, below Palo Alto, but this record was not' made in stakes of the class in which Geary's courser was forced to compete in his struggle for the season's honors. One of Sacramento’s victorles was his defeat of Beacon in the final of the John Grace Challenge Cup stake in a hotly contested course that has gone on record as one of the best ever witnessed on a coursing field.. Another was in a class event, but the remaining five were in up~ country stakes, principally at Sacra- mento, and admittedly not of the stand- ard of the events at the local park. Jimmie Anthony has six stakes to his credit, but his winnings, too, were from performers that are not stars of great magnitude, and were on outside slelds. Sylvanus closed the season under similar conditions, with five winning _brackets. Wedgewood has figured as final flag-get- ter in five events, all in fast company. Little Sister has four victories to her name, Mayflower four, Flying Fox three, Sisquoc three and a like number of sec- ond place winnings. Curtis’ Flying Fox and Nareissus showed through the season as winners Wwhenever they reached a final, and Sterl & Knowles' Oleta has earned a similar record. Beacon has figured but .once as a stake winner and once as runner-up. That fact will give his admirers who have classed him above Palo Alto some food for thought. In the number of stakes won by get of sires Emin Pasha again leads with glk}e;\(:rl‘:st; sl‘l L%Wr;nce fRQllOWs with 32, yrocke , Border Chartist . e i Roval Flush, the one-time record hold- er. figured twice in finals during last season. e e OPPOSED TO FAKE FIGHTS. Licenses Will Hereafter Be Issued Only to Bona Fide Clubs. The members of the Judiclary and Po- lice committees of the Board of Super- visors placed themselves on record yes- terday as being opposed to fake fights. A resolution was adopted increasing the license tax of $1200 a vear to $2500 upon fide athletic clubs to hold boxing exHibitions riext year. Chairman Reed said the attention of the Chief of Police should be officially called to the fact that all so-called ath- letic clubs which are promoting prize- fights and not athletics should not be per- mitted to hold fistic exhibitions, even :gough they have paid the annual license x. Supervisor Comte favored an annual license of $10,000, but this was deemed ex- cessive and_might prevent competition. Supervisor Stafford thought $2500 a rea- sonable sum, and in his opinion would prevent the “Eastern men” from invad- Ing the field as in the past. The resolution adopted proyides that hereafter no license will be anted to any but bona fide athletic clubs having gymnasiums and other paraphernalia o=- longing thereto. together with a bona fide membership lis —_—————— VIENNA, Dec. 6.—A dispatch to the Neu Frej Presse from Constantinople says the Aus- tro-Hungarian Vice Copsul at Smyrna, Herr Haller, was fired at and wounded November 20 by a customs guard attached to the tobacco xcise administration, 3 et —e e e > PLAY TO-DAY AT RECREATION PARK"® ogo— RIVAL BOXERS | ARE READY FOR A HARD FIGHT)| Heagerty and Lavigne Ex= pected to Show a Bustling Bout. Kid Lavigne and Tim Heagerty are ready for their fifteen-round bout which takes place before the Acme Club, Oak- land, next Thursday night. Both light weights are reported in excellent condi- tion for the battle and a lively bout is expected. Lavigne will be the favorite in the betting. The several good battles | the great little man or fists from Saginaw has put up in tms city make nim popu- lar lere. Lavigne's long rest irom tne nghting game and his Lemperate habits | have maae a new man of hum, and tnose Wwho have seen him work at nis. tramning | quarters down at Blanken's say he will snow his old-time form. | ‘IT'he resuit of this contest means much | to Lavigne. If he succeeds in polishing | off tne sturdy Lightweignt cnampion o | Australia and shows again the hghtning | speed he possessed berore he took his hrst step down tne ladaer of pugilisia Lavinge will go after krne. Lavigne was the greatest ughtweight fighting wachine the world ever saw. Constant training impaired his speed and he had to lay oft. Lavigne's trainers say he is in better shape now than when he fought Erne and Mckadden in the BEast. Tne Kid is confident he can defeat the fighter from the Antipodes. He says he was never in better condition, except the time he trained out here tor his famous fight with Walcott. | “I feel strong and expect to win easily,” | says Lavigne. "I am not underrating Heagerty, however. 1 have studied his record. He has beaten some good men. | A number of people in the East think I | can never regain my old form, but I vill prove I can. I have taken excellent care of myself for a year past and will go into | the ring fit to do myself justice.” Heagerty is in excellent condition to make his debut as a fighter in this coun- try. His trainers realize that Lavigne is perhaps the most formidable man in the lightweight division, and they are leav- | ing no stone unturned to get their man in_shape for the fight. Considerable interest is being evinced in the possible outcome of the clash be- tween the lightweights both here and in the East. . Lavigne was disappointed at the defeat of Terry McGovern. Had Terry won he promised Lavigne the next chance at 128 pounds. Lavigne is much lighter than when he was on the coast b:ato‘re and says he can make that weight nicely. The fight will be held in the Exposition building, Oakland. large number of boxing enthusiasts from this city will be at the ringside. The majority will leave on the 7:30 p. m. narrow gauge boat. Jack Kitchen, the official referee of the Acme Club, will be the third man in the ring. Alex Greggains has secured two inter- esting bouts as preliminaries to the meet- ing of Gardner and Carter in Mechanics’ Pavilion on the 20th inst. Toby Irwin and Arthur Granfield will box ten rounds and Billy Snailham and Tommy Gilfeath- er will go the same distance. The latter bout is for the feather-weight champion- ship of the coast. Carter is said to be in rugged form. The_ ‘“‘dope hook™ men will find difficulty in figuring a winner. Gardner defeated Carter decisively, although the latter claimed he was below weight. Gardner was defeated by Walcott and Carter in turn made Waicott strike his colors. Jim McDonald will referee the fight. . Dave Burns, the clever Olympic Club feather-weight boxer, who was severely injured while training recently, is rap- jdly recovering. Burns was confined to his hed as a result of the injury for over two weeks. B S Alameda to Play Signal Corps. The game of football between elevens representing the Signal Corps and Alame- da, postponed from Thanksgiving day, will be played this afternoon at Sixteenth and Folsom streets, at 2:30 o’clock. The teams have been carefully coached by such experts as ‘‘Jack™ Rithet, George Cadwalader and Douglas Erskine and a good contest is expected. George Dins- more and Robert Sherman will be the offi- clals. The’teams will line up: Signal Corps. Positions. Alameda. Grant. L E R NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Judge Newburger de- nied to-day the motion to dismiss the indict- ment against Roland B. Molineux Adame. for the mur- der of Miss Katherie J. gy St GOODALL CUP | THE OBJECT OF | GOLFERS' ENVY| First Match for the Valu-i able Trophy To-Day | at Oakland. | On the Presidio links the competition | for the Council's cup is dragging its| weary way along, the second or semi- final round having been reached. It seems likely the final round will be be- tween John Lawson and H. C. Golcher. | The latter has_been playing a strong game and for some weeks past has lost scarcely a match. No arrangements have been made yet with regard to the home and home matches between teams of the San Fran cisco and Oakland Golf clubs, and it is | not likely the first of the meetings will | take place before the end of the month. | No agreement has been reached as to the number of men to be included in the teams, but it is the desire of both cap- tains to make the teams as large as can satisfactorily be dome. It is not unlikely that they may consist of a dozen men each. The Oakland team will be chosen from_the following: Ernest R. Folgex, W. P. Johnson, F. 8. Stratton, R. M. | Fitzgerald. C. P. Hubbard. J. O. Cadman, D. T. Belden, A. H igg Arthur Goodall, J. H. Am¢ . S.” Wh x} R. Hutchinson, J. Folger and M. | Gayley. The play in the first competition for the Goodall cup to-day will give Captain Orestes Pierce a good idea of the number of men who may safely be counted on as representatives of the Oakland Golf Club. The contest will be over thirty-six holes, medal play. In order to get it finished | this afternoon the first couple will be sent | out at noon, the others following as | quickly as possible. Owing to his excel- | lent performance in_the contest for the Mud Lark cup on Thanksgiving day R. M. Fitzgerald will find himself without a | handicap to-day, though on the holiday | he received ten strokes from E. R. Fol- ger, F. S. Stratton and W. P. Johnson. | Heavy ground suits his style of play, and he should make a good score this after- W. P. Johnson did not hand in so | core on Thanksgiving day as | might have been expected, as he was put off his game by having to wait in the | rain while a player preceding him took sixteen strokes to make the eighth hole. ‘Though none of the ladies handed in their scores on Thanksgiving day, some went around the course. Some will appear in the contest this afternoon. With no hand- jcap exceeding eighteen, however, it is hardly possible for a lady to come out high ‘in the competition. The struggle will be among the scratch men, one of whom is almost certain to prove the win- ner. To become his permanent property the handsome trophy must be won twice by the same golfer. It is to be hoped that some contests may take place between class B men of the San Francisco and Oakland Golf ciubs, as such trials of strength tend to interest several players who would not se- cure a place on the first team and yet are enthusiastic golfers. Plenty of ma- terial to make up gecond teams can be found in both clubs. The contest for the Foster cup, now held by F. B. Findley, was to have been held on the Fort Baker links, Sausalito, on Thanksgiving day, but was postponed on account of the rain and !ge heavy condition of the roads leading to the course. It will be held on the first day on which the course is in fair condition and the players can meet. The military establishment at Fort Baker is expected to help the Sausalito Golf Club materially, as several officers will be quartered there. Most of them will be likely to take up golf as a means of recreation. The too luxuriant grass on the Sausalito course is now being kept down by a flock of sheep, the continual passing of which tends to level inequalities. It has been found however, that the thin sward of Califor- nia is not so well adapted to sheep as the deep turf of moister regions, as the feet of the animals tend to make holes, the turf not possessing enough resistancy. “Willie” Smith, with his brother, Alex- ander Smith. and David Bell, are on their way to California, where the three will spend the winter, “Willie” at the Hote] reen, Pasadena; “Alec” at Coronado TENNIS COURTS ARE IN DEIMAND AT ALL TIMES Inclement Weather Does Not Dampen Ardor of Players. The inclement weather, instead of caus- ing a falling off in the attendance onm the local tennis courts, seems to have in- creased the desire of the experts to play. As a result when the courts are dry the players are out in force. The lower class enthusjasts, who are mestly boys just learning the game, are enthusiastic and are at practice every day the weather permits. Most promising of these piayers are: J. G. Gibson Jr., Harry Gorham, Herbert Schmidt and Ben Wood. Gorham and Gibson play a remarkably strong game and have an excellent style. They will undoubtedly be heard from shortly. Schmidt, who has not played for several years, recently took up the game. He is one of the most graceful players in the club and has pretty strokes, but lacks am- bition and seems to have no desire to win any of his matches. When he overcomes this indifference he will surely forge to the front rapidly. As was expected, Harry Wiehe, the Stanford crack, and Grant Smith won the scratch doubles tournament held last Sunday. Collier and Crowell were the only other team that had a chance and they gave a good account of themselves in the finals. Smith and Wiehe had never played together before and their joining forces was in the nature of an experiment. They -are probably the best two in the first class. It was thought they would make a stronger combination than Smity and MacGavin, winners of the all-comers} but those who witnessed their play are satisfied the latter make a much stronger team than Wiehe and Smith. Wiehe plays a better volley game than Mac- Gavin, but the latter is much stronger at lobbing. The success of Smith and Maec- Gavin is due greatly to their ability to | lob, at which style of game thev are ex- pert The Wood brothers caused a genuins surprise on Sunday by beating Kuehn and Gibson, two of the best men in the third class. The Woods are fourth class men, but are rapidly coming to the front as a team and will bear watching in fu- ture handicap events. The tennis players of the University of California are already practicing con- stantly and look to be sure winners in the next intercollegiate games. The Stanford men are at a disadvantage, as the courts at that place are not fit to play on. Stan- ford is badly in need of some good courts and until they are built she will not cut much of a figure in tennis. The Stanford men can get no practice, as local players will not play on their courts. Berkeley has but one court, but it is a first-class one. while Stanford’s four are In fact not courts at all. There will be a handicap doubles tourna- ment for the Davis cups to-morrow. The present holders are Chet Smith and James Code. Other teams that will compete are: Collier and Crowell, Hunt and Cornell, Kuehn and Gibson, Gorham and Erskine, P. Collier and Powers, Parker and Gard- ner and the Wood brothers. The biggest tournament of the year is being planned for Christmas day. It will be a class singles. 'he tournament will be started on the Sunday before Christ- mas and as much of it finished as pos~ sible. The finals will be played on Christ- mas. CHIEF WITTMAN MAY BE CITED FOR CONTEMPT Refuses to Homor Order of Polics Judge to Deliver Slot Machines. The owners of the nickel-in-the-slot ma- chines seized by order of Chief Wittman because they were used for gambling pur- poses and which the Chief intends to de- stroy by virtue of the power conferged by the charter seem determined to fight the matter in the courts. The grocers and saloon-keepers who have pleaded guilty and have been fined by Judge Cabanise have received orders from the Judge for Beach, and Bell at Santa Catali - Baxter, a clubmaker at Lhengfidll,;. thian Country Club, will assist -“Willje" Smith, and Martin, another Midlothian clubmaker, will join Arthur Rigby at Los Angeles. Willie Anderson. open champion of the United States, will shortly come out to California to take up a position at the Hotel Raymond, Pasadena. The Smith brothers. Bell and Anderson are all well known in this State, Willie Smith beving won the open championship of California on his visit here last winter Bell was unlucky enough to break his arkle toward the end of his stay in Cali- fornia and was unable to play golf during a great part of last season. the return of the machines, but as previ- ously intimated the Chief refuses to de- Hver them. Chief is anxious that the Judge should cite him for contempt of court for having declined to honor the orders, so that the question could be defi- nitely decided by the Supreme Court The five grocers and saloon-keepers who were arrested Thur-day for having illega) nickel-in-the-slot machines on their prem ises appeared before Judge Cabaniss ye: terday morning. Their rames are Patrick Dounnelly, John J. Galvin, John A. Brodie. Bartley Caffery and J. D. Friedman. Gal- vin pleaded not guilty and his case was continued till December 10. The others pleaded guilty and were fined $ each.