The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1902, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1902, BASEBALL FANS OFFERED TOO MANY GAMES California Players’ League Is Making a Decided Im- pression Across the Bay Magnates Should Give Ama- teurs a Chance to Show Public How They Perform HE farewell performances of the stars of the California League will be given to-morrow with a game in this city between BSan Francisco and Sacramento, and a game in Los Angeles between Los Angeles and Oak- land. The fan may then take off his hat 2nd say good-by to the season of 1902 &nd to many of its players who will prob- 2bly never be seen in California again. Then, with but a few days’ intermission, the high art talent representing the Am- erican and National leagues, will swoop down upon us and endeavor to hold our attention for a few weeks longer. As a consequence, we will be viewing baseball games until the middie of January. After & two months’ rest, the national pastime will be inaugurated for the season of 1908, Baseball is & great popular outdoor sport in but still the public gets t sometimes. It seems this, season would come near being one of tho¥e times. Al- | ready the fans are becoming weary and fail to show at Recreation Park. Unless their attitude changes in a hurry, the Eastern stars will not be on velvet as | they expected However, they are sure to draw well 1 the first two weeks of their en- gagement. The first week will be devoted ies of five games between the All Americans and the Oaklands, and during k, the All Nationals will with our champions. flock to get a glimpse of | itions, but after that, inter-| to be on the wane The California Players’ League, which | is in full blast, is attracting attention among the admirers of the game and b | to prove a success. Two games are a unday on the Oakland st at 12:30 and the second t One admission entitles the fan view both battles, which is certainly for the coln. ateur league has several play list who are made of the right will make good in fast com- ey are given a chance by the tes of the California League. All ads are working hard for an oppor- unity to display their prowess and the most promising of them should not be overiooked by those in authority. the headliners of this class are shortstop for Reliance; Nichols, Reliance; Tyson, pitcher, Reli- n, pitcher, Jesse Moores; Mc- er, Hessemans, Byrnes, catch- and Muller, outfielder, Jesse These are coming men and if right chance~should certainly game—the most his country, much of it it Il surely se exh est is likely . the E Williams of the Ponies, and and Thomas of the Senators ar®, les of California amateurs wwho ve made good in fast company. Each | of these boys created a good impression | the start and outplayed most of the | ars who were imported managers do not seem to e talent at all and prefer lot of men who ere all in and cannot deliver the goods. ter, who developed on this coast, aid work for the Senators all season consequently recelved 3 good offer n the Milwaukee Club of the Ameri- tion. Manager Fisher of Bac- refused to meet the Eastern | terms and- consequently Cutter signed with Milwaukee at a good salary. Fisher will probably sign some old brok- good en down star of the past to take Cut- | ter's y e and give him a big salary, only to be handed one more gilded bar. Two good games will be played by the emateurs to-morrow on the Oakland dia- mond. The Reliance and the Heesemans will meet in the first game and the Bul- Jetins and the Jesse Moores will mix it for the second attraction. The boys are improving with every game played and to-morrow’s battles are sure to prove ex- | The fans| | | ning the trophies. | county meet will be held. citing. They are expected to attract a lorge attendance from this city. | ——— e — | Golf Notes. | The. scores made on the Oakland links | to-day and those turnéd in at the Pre-| sidio course next Saturday will be reck- oned together and will decide the first match. The second thirty-six-hole home- end-home tournament will be played next year under similar conditions. If neces- sary to decide the result a third match, concluded in one day, will be played on neutral links. The opening match play round of the competition for the council’s cup for men of the San Franciseo Golf Club, tae qual- ifying rounds _for which were played on Thanksgiving~ day, is nearly finished. George Starr beat Captain D. J. Rum- bough; H. C. Golcher beat §. L. Abbot Jr., 2 up, and G. B. Cooksey won from Dr. T. G. McConkey, § up, 3 to play. In the semi-final round G. E. Starr is paired against the winner of the match between Warren Gregory and Lieutenant J. S. Pyster and H. C. Golcher will play sgainst G. B. Cooksey. As H. C. Gol, cher is the only one of the five players who h: won a previous contest for the council's cup it is possible a-new name | will appear on that trophy at the close | ©of the present competition. The ladies of the San Francisco Golf Club opened the geason on Tuesday with an eighteen-hole handicap, which was won by Miss Edith Chésebrough by one stroke from Miss Alice Hoffman. The | winner played from scratch, the other la- dies receiving handicaps. On Tuesday morning next, beginning at 9:30, there will be driving, approaching and putting com- petitions, similar to those recently held among the men under the supervision of Robert Johnstene, the club's professional. TENNIS MATCH FOR WOMEN ON PARK COURTS Players Will Be Divided Into Two Classes Accord- ing to Their\ Ability ANY tennis tournaments will be played soon on the different courts on both sides of the bay. The players who frequent the park courts are particularly active and in future will play at least one tourna- ment a week. Unusual interest is being manifested by the members of the La- dies’ Annex to the Park Tennis Club. The ladies will play the second of a series of doubles tournaments to-day for the chal- lenge cups. It will be a class affair, in which the players wifl be divided into two classes. In the last tournament the first class was won by the Varney sis- ters, the Misses Eva and Maud. They are easily the best players in the club and are almost certain of eventually win- The second class was won by Miss Rose Josephson and Miss Elizabeth Shaw. On the 13th inst. the first mixed doubles tournament will be played on the public courts. On the 18th and 20th the bay It will con- sist of both singles and doubles for la- dies. Players from the Park, California, Sacramento, San Mateo and Mill Valley clubs and from Stanford Universityandthe University of California will enter. It will be the largest and most important event for ladies ever held on the ‘coast. In doubles the Park Club will be répresented by Miss Eva Varney and Miss Miriam Hall. The latter is ex-champion of" the coast and the former is the strongest lady player in the city. She is improving | rapidly and in future will be a strong candidate for championship honors. Play in the second class of the class singles tournament commenced on the park courts Thanksglving day was com- pleted Wednesday and resulted in a vic- tory for Miss Elizabeth Shaw. The win- ner, although but a beginner, has shown remarkable improvement of late and won her class without the loss of a set. The following matches were played: Miss Elizabeth Shaw (scratch) beat Miss Mar- garet Griffith (15), 6-4, 6-2; Miss Corrine Rueck beat Miss Kate Griffith, 6-3, 6-4; Miss Gretta Lindstrom beat Miss Alice Naylor, 7-5, 6-2; Miss Shaw (seratch) beat Miss Rueck (15), 6-4, 6-3; Miss Shaw (scratch) beat Miss Lindstrom (15), 6-2, 6-3. The winner will hereafter play in the first class. The drawing for the class doubles tour- nament to be commenced to-day on the park courts resulted as follows: First class, preliminary round—Miss Emma Clarke and Miss Lulu Wegener vs, the Misses Varney. 4 First round—Miss Anita Beyfuss and Miss Karin Lindstrom, a bye; Miss Bertha Gardner and Miss Etta Langrer vs. the Misses Webster. il Second class, first round—Miss Elizabeth Shaw and Miss Rose Josephson vs. Miss Gertrude Sampson and Miss Alice Dun- can; Miss Corrine Rueck and Miss Gret- ta Lindstrom vs. Miss Matilde Conway and Miss Josephine Brown; Miss Bessie Durkee and Miss Vera Beyfuss vs. Miss Weed and Miss Alice Naylor; Miss Mar- garet Griffith and Miss May Owens vs; W. J.LEONARD R eUT LA 125182 ! i | e Yo & ‘ ARTISTIC AND VALUABLE TROPHIES WHICH WILL BE COMPETED. FOR BY THE CLEVEREST AMATEURS ON THE LOAST IN THE OLYMPIC ATHLETIC CLUB RING DURING THE COAST CHAMPIONSHIP TOUR- 1 NAMENT AND SOME OF TH\F CLUB'S PROSPECTIVE REPRESENTATIVES, ‘3 HUNTING MEN ARE PLANNING BUSY SEASON San Mateo County Hunt Is Expected to Afford Sport to Many Clever Horsemen EMBERS of San Mateo County Hunt are looking forward to a live- ly and interesting season under-the mastership of Francis J. Carolan. Lawrence, Walter and Richard Mec- Creery, the three hard-riding brothers, will be here during the winter, as will the English polo-players, Drybrough and Menzies, with Maurice Duval and Charles Raoul Duval. The opening drag hunt of the season took place on Thanksgiving day, when the riders enjoy a fast run, the hounds being unusually fresh and keen. On Wednesday the meet was at San Mateo at 3:30 in the afternoon. To-day the hounds will throw off at 3 p. m. at Millbrae. Next Wednesday the meet will be at Laurel Creek at 3:30 in the afternoon. On Saturday, the 13th, the rendezvous will be at Fair Oaks at 3 p. m. On Wednesday, the 17th, Burlin- game statlon will be the scene and p. m. the time of the meet. On Satur- Gay, the 20th, at 3 p. m.,, the hounds will be laid on at Belmont. On Wednesday, the 24th, the rendezvous will be at the Burlingame Country Club house at 3: in the afternoon. The last meet during the present month and year will take place at Wellesley Park at 3 p. m. on the 2ith inst. SPRECKELS' CUPS WILL ATTRACT MANY ENTRIES Olympic Athletic Club Tour- nament Is Expected to Develop New Boxers MATEUR boxers are . looking for- ward to the annual tournament of the Olympic Athletic . Club with pleasurable anticipation. The first prize in each class will be an artistic silver cup, the most valuable ever com- peted for on this coast. The cups were offered for competition by John D. Spreckels. g The cups are of greatetr value than the laws of the Amateur Athletic Union per- mit, but a special dispensation has been granted the club. The second prizes will be gold medals. With the large fleld. of boxers from which to draw material and the special preparation they will receive it is expected some new star may be discovered equal in cleverness to J. J. Corbett or Jimmie Britt. De Witt Van Court, the Olympic Ciub’s clever instructor, has a number of candidates for champlonship honors under his tutelage. It was intended originally to hold the tournament this month, but a postpone- ment was deemed advisable owing to the approach of ithe holidays. The tourna- ment will be the first big amateur ‘affair next season and is expected to give ath- letics a decided boom, Miss Ella Wegener and Mrs. R. N. Whit- ney. The lady players of the University d‘ California- and Stanford University - will hold intercollegiate matches next spring. The players of the latter coHege are hol{- ing a try-out, the winners of which will represent the college. Lowell High School and Belmont will meet on the California Club courts this morning, The following matches will be played: Green (Belmont) vs. Beyfuss (Lowell), Cassell (Lowell) vs. Green (Bel- mont); doubles—Douglass Grant and Rich- ter (Belmont) vs, Beyfuss and Cassell (Lowell). Belmont fs a strong favorite for championship honoms jn the Academic League. The school has already beaten Tamalpais twice and the -latter has in turn beaten Lowell twice. ¥ " The California Club players have nof set any tournament for the future, but the next event will probadly be held on Christmas. < A { HOME-AND-HOME GOLF MATCH ON OAKLAND LINKS Annual Tournament Between Experts of Adams Point and City Begins To-Day N the links of the Oakland Golf Club at Adams Point to-day the first half of the first home-and-home match of the- series of 1902-03 will be played between teams representing the San Francisco and the Oakland Golf clubs. In previous home-and-home tourna- ments between these clubs the teams have consisted of eight men each, though there has been talk at times of increas- Ing the teams to ten or twelve, or reduc- ing them to six. On this occasion- the teams will consit of twelve men each. good Surrey, FRESH IMPULSE FOR NATIONAL - BRITISH GAME For HE recent visit of Lord Hawke's team of English cricketers, the famous Yorkshire captain was not with them, served to bring repre- clubs Some New Clubs Likely to Be Formed in This City Cricket sentatives of all the It California Cricket and to increase the interest felt im the British national game. tain that one or two new clubs will be formed next year and that the number of cricketers playing the game will be considerably increased. made to have the grounds at Webster inclosed and put into the street, Alameda, condition. Though connected with the match played on ‘Wednesday, November 26, between Lord Hawke's team and the California eight- een, have not been settled yet, it is clear that there will be a surplus to go into the treaSury of the association. It has been decided to send an American team of cricketers, to be called the Gen- tiemen of Philadelphia, to Great Britain next year. matches with the leading county teams of England, such as Yorkshire, Lancashire, Middlesex, a Somerset, with the elevens of the Uni- versities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Marylebone Cricket Club and some of the principal teams of Scotland and Ireland. Twenty-five players have been selected arnd have been asked by letter whether they will be able to make the trip if called upon. A team of tweive or four- teen will be picked from those who re- turn affirmative answers. Of the centuries that have been scored in the United States from 1344 to June 14, 152, a fair proportion has been made in California. A list containing about half of the centuries scored in this State has already been given in The Call. The fol- lowing names complete the list: is intended Kent, Next It is almost cer- An effort will be I o Year though in the Association together | accounts to arrange Sussex and MARSHES YIELD SPORT TO MEN OF THE GUN Limit Bags Are the Rule Among the Members of Clubs Owning Preserves Ducks Were Never So Plen- tiful Within the Memory of Veteran ' Sportsmen HE duck shooters continue to enjoy sport of the highest class. The bays and marshes contain countless thou- sands of ducks of all varieties. When these are set in motion lmit bags are easily obtained. Many new men have taken up ths sport this year. This is readily seen in the gun stores, where double the number of men are employed solely in loading shells by hand. These are for the well-to-do sportsmen who shy at the factory loaded ammunition. The sportsmen have found a new men- ace to game which has not been apparent until this season. Many of the ducks killed are so saturated with oil as to ren- der them unfit for use. The oil comes from the refineries about the bay and floats a long distance. Otto Feudner killed a duck near Alviso last Sunday that had been spoiled by ofl. Some time since he killed one as far morth as Den- verton. This shows what a wide area is affected. Bay Farm Island, near Alameda, is a favorite resort of gunmen. The majority of them securs boats and are sculled about where the birds are to be found. The boats are so disguised that they re- semble a part of a mudbank. One man does the sculling while the other is con- cealed in the bow ready to open fire when- ever a duck comes within range. There are great numbers of “cans” in the bay, but they remain there and are difficult of approach. It is expected a good storm would set them in motion, thus giving everybody a chance at them. The Yolo marsh southeast of Davisville is fairly carpeted with ducks. There is an immense area here which is covered with the overflow from the Sacramento River. This great lake affords excellent feed for the ducks, and also a safe ref- uge. Unless there is a strong wind blow- ing the ducks remain vut on the broad body of water and a gunner cannot ap- proach within range. A party made up of A. L. Foster, R. E. L. Stephens, J. H. McCune, Moscow Gar- nett and B. F. Newby shot over this dis- trict on Wednesday, securing a joint bag of 9 ducks, 5 geese and 2 swans. The ducks included mallard, sprig and teal, but no “cans.” Seven poachers were arrested on Thurs- day for shooting over tHe preserves of the Peerless and Dixon Gun clubs. They had seven shotguns and two rifles. They had already killed a wagon load of ducks when they were apprehended. They will be tried in Davisville, and the gun club officers promise a vigorous prosecution. Clarence Lewls and Dr. C. J. Tarr shot at the Suisun Club preserve on Wednes- | day as the guests of Jack Wilson. Each | secured a limit bag of fifty. A number of men have tried sculling the sloughs about Suisun. They find this unprofitable, except on the days when the owners of preserves are shooting. This | sets the birds in mdtion and gives the man on the sloughs a chance. When there is no shooting on the preserves the | birds remain undisturbed on the ponds feeding. The plains near Davisville are literally covered with geese. @ i @ land, playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Haverford College on July 12, 190. T. L. Taylor, also of Lerd Hawke's team, while still a boy at Up- pingham School, England, on July 15, 1868, scored 106 runs against the Haverford Col- lege téam at Uppingham. Two centuries in one innings have been made on five occasions in California. On July 29, 184, playing for the Bohemian Club against the California Club, W. Robertson scored 206, not out, and A. G. Sheath compiled 118, not out. On Septem- ber 13, 18%, playing at Golden Gate for the Pacific eleven vs. the California Club, Har- old B. Richardson scored 105, not out, and John Myers compiled 100, not out. On September 27, 136, playing at Golden Gate for the Bohemian Club against the California team, W. Robertson put to- gether 155 runs and Dr. T. Bowhill scored 110, not out. On July 10, 1398, playing at Golden Gate for Alameda vs. Pacifie, R. B. Hogue made 107 runs and G. J. Baugh scored 146. On August 4, 1901, on the Ala- CENTURIES SCORED IN CALIFORNIA CRICKET. The men's foursomes, scratch match play, set down on the schedule of the PLAYERS. Score. Date. ( Match. Oakland Club for to-day, will be played * on some later date. The San Franecisco R TR fctae vo. Cumabean team will-be captained by S. L. Abbot Jr. 13, 1896 |Pacific vs. California, and will consist of the following players: Bip!. 8, 1901 [San Francisco vx: ?dum Valley. - 1, H. C. Golcher; 2, S, L. Abbot Jr.; 3, J. lay 3. 1801 |California vs. Alameda, W. Byrne; 4, H. M. Hoyt; 5, Warren Gregory; Aug. 23, 1891 [California vs. Burnaby, 6, Lieutenant J. 8. Oyster; 7, G. B. Cooksey: Aug. 7. 1892 |California vs Pacific. B, Charles Page: 9, P. G. Gow; 10, Dr. T. G. Auk,. 13, 1893 |San Francisco vs. Cailfornis McConkey; 11, Captain D. J. Rumbough; 15,1V, R Sep. 11-12,1893'San Francisco vs. Alameda, E. J. McCutchen. 42 , Calitornia: The Oakland team will be captained by ug. 4 1895 [Boh " California, R. M. Fitzgerald and will be made up of July 12, 1896 |Bohemia vs, Pacific, 2, the following players: Aug. 9, 1896 |Bohemia vs, Pacific, 1, W. P. Johnson; 2, E. R, Folger; 3, J. A. Sept, 27, 1896 Bohem:l v, gn“;om:n. Folger; ¢, F. §. Stratton; 5, R. M. Fitzgerald: B B I ot v esuds Conaty BRI SR L TER E Nov. 8, 1896 er County vs. Nevada County. nter; 0, & N Hicfine: 10, & E di May 25, 1897 [Placer County va. Picked Eleven. 1 of the San Franciseo team will blay Juty 13 1891 \California va. Oukiand, t No. 1 of the Oakland team; No. 2 e o |l P g against No. 2, and so on. - > 2 1 Aug. 8, 1893 |Alameda vs. San Jose. The second half of the first thirty-six- July 19, 1898 [Alameda vs. San Jose. bole match will be played on Saturday, Ay 28 S Bnhmhcxmy&a‘.‘cb e = the 13th inst., on the Presidio links, the °°'j = 1ss1 - “”‘,‘,’;‘E"‘“;'ifi," = u‘m‘" w" 1 San Francisco vs. orn! oican: somgo SiiNes ) hijen ssion N ore 't 1800 |Ben Francisc ve. Alamaedn bogey, which is set down for the day on the schedule, being postponed. The blind handicap, open to all members of the Oak- land Golf Clul, will also be deferred. *Not out. It is of interest to notice that P. F. meda grounds, Bert Bird, playing for There will a handicap over efghteen | Warner, captain of the English team that | Young America against Qld Englang, holes on the links of the San Rafael Golf | recently plaved in San Francisco, scored | made 120 and his brother, Harry Birg, Club this afternoon. - 137 runs at Lords’ grounds, London, Eng- ' scored 100.