The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 20, 1902, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRA ALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 1902 BURLINGAME CL " CLEVER RIDERS IN THE SADDLE FOR PRACTICE Clubmen Preparing Matches With English Poloists. for San Mateo County Hunt Draghounds in the Field Regularly. ROM present indications this will be the greatest season of polo ever seen on this coast. Down at Burlingame there are three fields available for practice and all are in use. Although polo seems a hazardous game from the view point of the spectators, it is seldom a player is injured. In the practice game last Sunday en Francis J. Carolan's private field there were a number of veteran players in the gaddle. Among them were R. M. Tobin, J. S. Tobin and W. P. A. Brewer, who were among the first 1o take up the ex- hilarating game on this coast. W. 8. Mobart, another veteran, playing with his accustomed dash and abandon, was in every scrimmage. He was excep- tionally well mounted, although he played but four of his twenty. ponies. Harry Simpkins wis another player who reappeared on the field after an absence * of some years. He rode with great daring and should prove a factor in the game this season. ¥. J. Carolan's practice has been re- tarded by a severe cold. He bas a splen- @id collection of ponies and is an thusiast at the game. The Englishmen and the Burlingame clubmen have each won a match for the polo championship and the decisive game will be played this season. The visitors will bring some fast ponies and will add to their collection here. The California team will be exceptionally well mounted, as many new ponies are being trained for the game. This afternoon at 3 o'clock the San Mateo County Hunt draghounds will meet at Belmont. On Wednesday, the 2ith inst., at 3:30 p. m., the hounds will be laid car the Burlingame Country Club hot e. Next Saturday J. J. Moore's resi- Wellegley Park will be the at § o'clock in the afternoon. rend at Zvous e OAKLAND NINE FINALLY GETS INTO ACTION Nationals Score Another Vic- tory, but Win by Good Luck. G ETER LLOHMAN and who were touted as champions, have P finally recovered from that long pe- riod of dopey dreams. For the first time in a week a real ball game took place yesterday the but Recreation Park. Of course pride of California got second money, with the natives were going al time. that some dto L The Jot of fering game was fast and contained a g00d baseball. Oakland was suf- from bagd luck this time instead of the rattles, The spectators were treated to a sam- of the pitcher's art that will be re- mbered for; many a day. Donovan of Brooklyn-loomed up six feet two in the box and shot the ball over the piate in a, manner beyond all description. He struck out eleven men and allowed thyee base hits. It was worth twice’ the price of admission to watch the big slab artist slam the ball over the plate in his essy, graceful manner Schmidt pitched for Oakiand and de- gerves credit for ‘twirling 2 game that w.as nearly perfect. The big leaguers se- cured but four hits off his delivery. Two of these were scratchy. But for Ritch- e y drive in the first round and a mix-up of signals in the fifth a different ending might have been seen. In the first round, with Irwin up and a man on first and second, the batter hit 2 fast one to Schmidt, who threw third, retiring the runner. Devereaux re- turned the ball to Streib and a double piay was apparently contemplated, but McDonald calied the runner safe. Then Crawford walked, filling the bases. Ritchie poked out a double to left field, which resulted in three runs when the side should have been retired: Oakland got one on a double steal by Walters and McCreedie in the first and then they were all in. A wild pitch gave the Nationals one more in the fifth, which ended the scoring. The games on week days will s luc hercafter be called at 2:4 in- | stead of 3 o'clock. The score: ! OAKLAND. | AB.R.BH. SB. PO. A. E. | Walters, cf 3 1 0 1 1 0 9 2 9 3 ¢ o 0 o 2 o 0 1 1 0o o o 0 0o 3 3 o o 012 o o 06 o o0 2 o 0 0 3 1 9 9.90'9.3 Totals 36 1 3 2% 13 4 NATIONALS. AB. R. BH. SB. PO. A E. 4 00 0o o 19 o o % 2 0 o 188 0 1 0 [ 1 0 9.2 0 0 10 0 o 2 0 ° SUMMARY. wo-base hits—Ritchie, Beckley. —Ritchie, Dovovan, Mertes 1o Streib. Time of game—1 hour Umpires—McDonald and d _pitch—Schmidt snd 20 minutes. ©'Conell. his foilowers, The final result was | Wild Bill | to | THE _ Parpbocr -+ | | [ | i i | | i Vi | REPRESENTATIVE POLOISTS OF BURLINGAME COUNTRY CLUB WHO ARE IN ACTIVE PRACTICE BASEBALL WAR MAY SOON BE INAUGURATED | Northwestern League Officials Will Fight Magnates | of This State. AR appears to be the proper thing in baseball circles all over the country just at-present.” A war is raging between . the two big | leagues. In the Middle States two rival | leagues are fighting each other; the | Southern League is in a tumult’and now the Pacific Coast comes to the front with | a few difficulties which will certainly end in war. The rela turmoil has not begun as vet, | but it is due at any time. When it once starts there is sure to be trouble which may take a long time to settle unl compromise is arranged. It all grows out of the fact that the magnates of the Cali- fornia League see a chance to break into the prosperous field of the Pacific North- western organization. Some,of the men from the north say. they will fight the California people to the last ditch. Both leagues made big money last sea- son and both had plans in view by which | to make more during the coming year. The plan of the Calitornia magnates was | to quietly secure the best two cities of the | Northwest and then let that league hus- s a |PLAINS MEET tle as well as it could with the remain- ing cities on its-circuit. This plan would doubtless work well enough if the north- | ern officials would submit to it, but it ap- | | pears they will fight it out to the bitter end. Already the officials of the Northwes- tern League are making advances to Cali- fornia players and have offered them | more money than they have received | from the California J.eague. If this bid- | ding is inaugurated there will be a regu- | Jar battle of salaries just as there Is in the National and American Leagues, and | the balltossers of the Pacific slope will be | earning big money and living easy i It is hard to say who will play in the | California League next year. Players are reported to have signed contracts and’| then they come back and deny the story. | The managers of the teams do not seem to be worrying in the least about talent. When the season is about to open they | will probably sign an army of supposed | tossers just as they did this year, and in | all probability a lot of gold bricks will be included in the job lot. | Manager Harris declares his team is nearly complete at this early date and| that he will experienge no difficulty in| securing all the men he wants. Leahy, Whalen, Burns, Krug 4nd Meany are all signed up for the com!ng season, so the story goes. In the meantime they are lia- ble to quietly accept advance money and | steal away to some other place and Har- | ris will have to commence his work al over again. IS ENJOYED BY | THE LEASHMEN Kerry Pippin, the Winner, Is Pronounced a Grand 1 Greyhound. HE judgment of the coursing men that a young grevhound is the best | for the open.plains meeting was verified. by the victory of T. J. McIner- ney’s Kerry Pippin at Fresno on Thurs- day This seventeen-months-old- puppy was turned out in grand condition and ‘ran | as if his life depended on his success. He is essentially a dog for the open coun- | performance being far ‘betfer than any he has shown on the enclosed field. Although he was fortunate in get- ting two bye courses he showed his class | every time he started. Aeolus proved one of the gamest grey- bounds that ever looked through a'pair of slips. He ran Annie Hall, a'Merced greyhound, famous for her staying qual- | ities, to_an -absolute standstill in a six- minute course. The ground over which the coursing was held proved ideal. The spectators could e the dogs for miles and enjoyed all the running. Hares were plentiful and had eed of .the limited express. - Only out of forty-elght were: killed. | Those that escaped led the dogs a merry chase for a time and then put on more steam and disappeared leaving their pur- svers in doubt as to whether it was a live hare or a will o’ the wisp they had heen straining every muscle to overtake. The field was the best and the hares. the fastest ever known in the history of the plains meeting, which covers a period of forty years. The visiting leashmen were hospitably entertained by the Fresnoites. They were ecially-well cared for by Tommy Col- lins, an old-time ‘coursing enthuslast, who | hzd attended many meets at Merced, He id Fresno wants the meeting next year. | It will probably be held a month earlier to avold the cold weather, the only. draw- back to the comfort of the spectators at this meeting. The coursing at Union Park this after- nocn will be provided by the first round of an open stake. The remainder of the stake with a twenty-four-dog special will form the card for tdmorrow. The likely winners look to be: Special stake—White Hat, Ruby Sankey, Mary Apn, Charta, Pevper Hill, Roy Hughle, Master Rocket, Haphazard, Cloverdale, Honest John, Santonin, Gambit. Open stak Prompto, Cosette, Lilac, Rienzi, Tyrone Prix J. N. Bowhay, Miss Wiisor, ce, Flower of GOld, Black Bart, Belfast, Maid of the Glen, Tom Hurlick, Melrose, -Sempronius, Eager, Highlands, Wild Tralee, Shadow, Puré Pearl, Eastlake, Wedgewood, Gonroy, Little Lucy, Mose. ———————— _There is-a story In the Christmas San Fran- cisco News Letter by Elliott Flower. who gain- ~d fama throuch bix Policeman Flvan starios | wane GUNMEN:FIND SPORT OF A HIGH CLASS Marshes Continue to Yield Large Returns of Ducks. ITH a continuance of cool, dry weather the duck shooting up and down the shores of the bay should be of the highest class to-morrow. Everybody had birds last Sunday and the week of dry weather should bring them back in Jarge numbers. Although the season is already on the comparatively few canvasbacks have been killed. These fine game birds are wary and have spent the days well out of range of men stationed on shore. It is to take advantage of the late shoot- ing these afford that some . sportsmen recommend that the season open a month later and close a month later. It is ex- pected this will be discussed at the next meeting of the Legislature. As an _indication of the bombarding to which the ducks are subjected, it may be stated that one man employed in a local gun store loaded 35,010 shells by hand dur- ing November. The same firm sells prob- ably 50,000 machine-loaded shells during the month. This is the output of but one establishment, which gives an idea of the number of shots fired at the ducks. 1f all found the mark there would be but few birds left-to-return to the northern breeding grounds at the close of the sea- son. Dr. E. N. Short, Harvey McMurchy, Robert McElroy and some friends had an cnjoyable . trip recently to the foot of Mount Diablo in quest of quail. They made the pilgrimage in a four-in-hand, returning by moonlight.” They did not se- cure many bfrds, but they were hospita- Fly entertained by a brother sportsman and had an enjoyable. outing. Frank Lacoste secured a limit bag of quail on the Tamalpais Club preserve on Wednesday. William-Price, William Carroll and Mr. Gamble had a good shoot at Sears Point last Sunday, the joint bag being a largg one. One of the best strings. of ducks dis- played on the train from Alvarado last Sunday was that carried by W. Smith. It was made up of sprig and the gunman had evidently picked his birds. Harvey McMurchy and son secured a jo'nt bag of seventy-three ducks near Mount Eden on Wednesday. C. D. Kaufman shot at Mount Eden last Sunday and brought home fifty ducks as evidence of his skill with the gun. Dan Ostrander killed twenty-five at the same place. Otto Feudner experienced no difficulty in getting his usual limit bag last Sunday on the preserve of the Zindo Club at Al- viso. C.- C. Juster killed forty-three at the same place, Robert Johnson killed fifteen snipe and five “cans” last Sunday at Schellville on the Sonoma mareh PARK TENNIS STANDARD IS BEING RAISED Tournamen's Attract Many | of the Best Coast i le Players. HE park tennis players are engaged in several tournaments at present. | Indications point to at least one | tournament a week in the future. The r experts from the various coun- ties about the bay are holding a cham- plonship meet in both singles and double: This is the largest undertaking the mem- | bers of the Ladies’ Annex have attempted and its success has exceeded the hopes of | even the most sanguine. Twenty-one | players_entered the singles and eighteen entered the doubles. Barring the famous | Sutton sisters, these players are the best | on the coast. Miss Miriam ‘Hall, champion of the coast, is easily the best ext player in this part of the State. The Var- ney sisters—Eva and Maud—and the Misses , Ratcliffe and Hotchkiss of the University of California are ‘also strong players and are improving rapidly. Miss fiva. Varney is looked upon a&s the most likely candidate for champlonship honors in the next couple of years. Mrs. Moore, who held the championship of Northern California for several years, is an experienced playér and would stand an excellent chance of winning-the tour- nament but for an accident to her ankle, sustained recently. | The officers of the Park Tennis Club | have decided not to hold an open tourna- ment on the public courts Christmas day. The California Club men gere dnxlous to cross rackets with the park players on their own courts. A tournament of this kind on the park courts would .be the largest and most interesting: ever held in the city. The regular monthly class| singles tournament will be commenced on | Sunday. As there is an exceedingly large entry list the committee has decided to let it run over into Christmas, when the finals of the different classes will be played. Owing to the large number in the third class, many of whom have not the rlightest chance of ever winning the cup, the class has been split in two. The poorer players will be put in the newly formed fourth class. A cup has been of- fered for this class also. Nothing has been done as yet as re- gards a tournament Christmas day on the California Club courts, but as all-the players are desirous of having one, there will surely be an impromptu affair played on that day. A tournament on the club courts would interfere seriously with the park tournament, as three of .the best players in the first class are members of the club and naturally could not play in both tournaments. Should they decide to play in the club event the park tourna- ment, as far the the first class is con- cerned, would not be much of,a success. These three plavers, who are the best in i (v fOW l CRICKETERS’ AVERAGES ARE MADE PUBLIC B. Kortlang of the Pac Club Leads All the Batsmen. ic HE cricket averages in batting and howling made by those players who qualified during the past season for the prizes offered by the Cricket Assoefation have been. prepared by the secretary the prize for the best batting average in pennart matches during 1902 it was nec- essary - that member of a city club should have played in at least six jnnings | and a member of a country club in at least four innings. As the Sacramento Cricket Club withdrew from its engage- ments early in the season mone of its players qualified for either of the prizes. The summaries of their batting perform- ances in matches for the pennant of 1902 are shown in the table: Batting averages, season of 1902. BATSME . Kortlang J. Croll... I W. Wilding. . J. Theobald 8 | G.H. Ward .......[ 10 | E. H. M. Lannowe.| 7 | J. Richter Jamieson H. McNaugh! P. Coles A. Stahl . G. Fortmann. . Jenkins . .-F. Anderson D. Gellatly. G. Sloman. . Ward S |asmanaman-. ot out. In order to qualify for the bowling prize offerad by T. W. Beakbane, one of the vice presidents of the California Cricket Association, it was necessary that a mem- ber of either of the city clubs should have taken part In at least six Innings and taken at least twenty-four wickets and that a ‘'member of a country club should have played in four innings and captured not less than fifteen wickets. Only four men fulfilled these. requirements, though D. Jamieson of the Pacific. Club fell short by only one of the required number of wickets, having captured twenty-three wickets for 157 runs, or an average cost of 6.87. The averages of the players elig- ible to compete for the bowling prize are shown in the table: Bowling averages, season of 1902. | 8| B > |8 2|EBl2% e l-ghelal & BOWLER. | = | ® |8 15| 3 | e S -1n | | 25| @ B. Kortlang H. B. Richar H. C. Casldy G. H. Ward. On the Marshes. Al Cumming, the all-around sportsmau, secured thirty-three ducks on Wednesday on the Suisun marsh. Ed Bowen secured a dozen ‘‘cans’ last Sunday near San Pablo. Billy Williams went to Sears Point and had a good shoot. Paul Kingston, Dr. Washington Dodge snd other members of the' Alameda Gun | Club returned from their Sonoma County preserve last Sunday with heavily laden game sacks. : Billy Merzfelder and' Mr. Bro: Sunday at the Buckyarde, beyac:mspse:l: Rafael, and had a good shoot. @ il el @ the club’s second class, afe Willi Willlam Allen and Chester Sml;:;:n Tk Two young players of the California Club, who play almost every day, are showing ' remarkable improvement and will be heard from in the next tourna- ment. They are Herbert Schmidt of the sec- ond class and John Cassell of the third. Schmidt, although but a youngster, is an o}d hand at the game. His chief fault has been a lack of ambition, but he is show ing more interest in the game and will shortly make a first-class man. Cassell is a beginner, but already has fine strokes. He plays a strong back court game, but is weak at the net. WALTER > California | In order to quallfy for | UB POLO PLAYERS PREPARED FOR BIG SEASON HOBART |GOLFERS PLAN | HOLIDAY GAMES ON THE LINKS ;Presidio Men Will Hold an Informal Handicap on | 3 | Christmas. | | HE golf handicap over eighteen | holes against “bogey,” which was | postponed from | account of the playing ot/ the ' second balf of the match between teams representing the San Francisco and Oak- | Tana golt clubs, will take place this aft- erncon on the links of the San Francisco Golf Club at the Presidio. First and s ond prizes are offered by the club. last Saturday on On + Christmas day there will be ap informal handicap among the members. | “The interclub match between the San Francisco and Oakland golf clubs played on the Adams Point course on Saturday, the 6tk inst., and finished on the Presidio Iinks last Saturday, caused two events on the schedule of the Oakland Golf Club to be posponed. These were the men’s fou somes, atch, mateh play, and a blind handicap over eighteen holes, match play, | open to all members. One of these events ill probably take place to-day and the second next Saturds | In the second half of the match played last Saturday on the Presidio links it was generally supposed the San Francisco men would have a considerable adva tage on their own course, which on p vious occaslons has seemed to discon the Adams Point golfers. But the firs elght men of the San Francisco team were ually 5 down against the flrst eight of the Oakland team. The match was saved for the San Francisco Goilf Club by the last f: men, who scored 1S up agalnst their opponents, making the San Francisco team 13 up on the aft ‘Hl'nn' play. Comparing the play of the | two afternoons: | H. c._Golcher ot San Francisco was 3 up | against W, P. Johnson of Oakland on both oc | castons: J. W. Byrne beat J. A. Folger 4 up | at Oakiand and down to B. R. Folger | at the Pr Abbot Jr. was 1 up | against E. at Oakland and 7 up | against J. A Folger at the Presidio; H. M. | Hoyt_was 3 down at Oakland and 5 down at | the Presidio to F. S. Stratton: Warren Greg ory was 6 down fo R, M. Fitigerald at Oak and and 5 up on D, F. Beiden e Presi- dio; Lieutenant J. 8. J, H. Ames at Oakl Fitzgerald at San | was'1 down to Dr. W and 3 down to J. H | P. G. Gow was 6 up on ¢ Oakland and 6 down to Oyster was 4 up against and 1 down to R, M 2 5, G. B. Cooksey M_ Carpenter at Oakland Ames_at_the iio; orge E. de Golia a% Dr. W, M. Carpenter at the Presidio; Charles Page was 1 down to A. R. Higgins at Oakland and 1 up on the same player at the Presidio; Dr, T. G. M Conkey tied with J. O. Cadman at Oakland but beat him 8 up at the Presidio; Captain D J. Rumbaugh was 3 down to D. F. Belden at Oak but beat G. de Golia 4 up at the Presidio; E. J. McCutchen was 1 up again the Rev. B. I Baker at Oakland, but neither played iast Saturday, G. E. Starr taking a | place in the San Franci A. Kales in the Oakland | Kales 4 up 3 | ~As the teams in all previous encounters ’l)elweon the San Francisco and Oakland golf clubs have consisted of eight men | each, it is interesting to observe that the | Presidio. golfers ewe their victory, to the iatlditlonal four men included In the teams. Taking the score of the first | eight men in each team, San Franecisco | was 1 up on the 6th inst. and 5 down on the 13th, s0 the first eight Oakland men were 4 up on the whole match. On Tuesday morning eight ladies of the San Francisco Golf Club engaged in driv- | ing and approach, putting contests, five | trials each within a course forty yards | wide and over a bunker 100 yards distant. | Miss Alice Hager won, four of her drives scoring,, 118, 104, 123 and 134 yards, total 479 yards.- Miss Edith Chesebrough was | second, with three drives.of 125. 129 and 129 yards, total 383 yards. The other scores were as follow: Miss Florence Ives, 102, 113 and 104 yards, total 319 yards; Miss Alice Hoffman, 145 yards Miss Sarah Drum, 110 yards; Miss Car- roll, 104 yards; Mrs. Nichols and Mrs. Gir- | vin 'made no scores. In the approach-putting contest each contestant played three balls at 3 yards | and three at 75 yards over a hazard,. hol- ing out on the home green. Miss Chese | brough holed the six balls out in twenty strokes; Mrs. Girvin and Miss Carroll 24; Miss Hoffman, Mrs. Nichols and M Ives in 25, and Miss HAger and Miss Drum in 2. ‘There will be a tournament on New Year's day on the links of ‘the Sacra- mento Country Club, a cup” having been presented by Messrs. Klune and Floberg. The Weinstock-Lubin trophy will go tc the player making the ' best handicap score, team and Frank team. Starr beat —_————————— Notes of the Diamond. | * The latest report regarding the Oakland | team is to the effect that Peter Lohman has ‘signed for next season and will posi- tively remain in Califorhia. Devereaux and Francks have accepted offers from Colorado Springs and will desert Cal. Ewing’s bunch. It is not known jus | what Streib or Walters will do, but they “ will probably sign with some club in the East. The rest of the team Is gone for good and In all probability the Oakland team will be composed entirely of stran- gers next season. Mike Fisher announces that his team wil be nearly the same next year as it was this season, but still many stories are flgating along the Wne to the effect that most of the players will go elsewhere. In Los Angeles the same condition ex- ists. No one can possibly get a line on the make up of the league clubs-until a month or so before the season of 13 opens.