The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 18, 1903, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SATURDAY, APRIL 1 YACHTSMEN AN University of California and Stanford University Men | Will Meet in Their Annual Field Day. TANFORD UNIVERSITY, April track —Stanford's crippled am has ouches the survivors of st has been following letes will put forth an effc that will meke the blue n thelr 1 4 gold track ass. Whichever 1 a determined will be in—by a clos bai e mishaps and e mer Hayward '06, the relay star; Lyons ‘03, who had done better than twenty-two feet in practice in the broad jump; Har- per '03, the two-mile rupner, and Swinner- ton '04, 0 before leaving for the An- rapolis Naval Academy proved himself the fastest half-miler in eollege. “I think,” said Trainer Moulton, “that shall be strongest where Berkeley nks us Weakest—in the pole vault, mlle and hurdles. Our weakest points will be the hundred-yard dash and the two- fle run, although there may be some those two events.” Y, April 17.—The athletes of University California anticipate 2t to-morrow’s field day will be the clesest in the history of intercollegiate 2 cs. When the term opened Star ford University had the greatest collec- 43 i LI R i 27 FLEET HOUNDS ARE ENTERED IN SPECIAL STAKES and Pocatelli Are to Meet in the All- Deciding Course fleet gre ivance in veterin- also witness some the grey- nd Rolla Wells, augural stake the ed the performance arte. by Warburton-Firm beat Haredene. The fast but was out- ounds purchased on ily Wt the St. Louis X wan first in the : v!}pru He also best dog benched, Lanséowne Royal, owned by Fox- Wave of Fortune took sec- third in the limit. the cup for the best puppy beatir | nal Keene Co both Unlon Park and at Ingleside will commence to-morrow at | 20:30. Be e of the demands on it for ng the picnic season the c Company cannot supply sing trains again until Aug- | 1 Mateo electric road will cars to accommodate the | ngent ! { Actor Downing Is Sued. | DPromissory notes were | bert Downing, the actor, he plaintiffs are Anna John- s specia put who asks judgment for $3000 on a note made by Downing in Washington | in 1566 in favor of G. W. White, and Mrs, W. C. Bayard, who sues to recover $4000 | on another note made at the same time by Downing in favor of White. White assigned both claims to the plaintiffs, —_——— Is Arrested for Cruelty. George Selig, a driver for Joost Bros., | was arrested yesterday by Special Officer | Unger of the Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animails for using a crip- pled horse. It is stated that the unlmlll wes affiicted with a large sore on fits back. COMMISSIONERS CONFIRM SITE TO BOAT CLUBS Last Objection Being Overruled, Oarsmen May Begin to Drive Piles to Support New Homes a representativi cia 2 PR E ing Club, ARLY in the week E. J. Lynch, as of the Ariel Row- attended a meeting of Harbor Commissioners, at which the of allotting a site on bay boathouses 1 settlement. F. Dundon, the question came up for discussion the ex-Supervisor, allotment of the location clubs. His chief objecti e right of way granted to the men over the pro nst the beat i he went on to state that the space avail- able for his boom was diminished by the proposed allotment. This objection was wso waived aside by the Commissiones who confirmed their previous action. The South End, Ariel and Ploneer row- ing clubs will shortly make a contract for drivicg the foundation piles of the boat- | wuses, the Pioneers having decided to stay near their old location instead of seeking new quarters at Belvedere, The regatta committee of the Pacific Association of the Amateur Athletic Union has determined to give up the re- gattu which it was proposed to hold in | Tiburon. Cove on Decoration day. The regaita was to have been held from the iarters of the Olympic Boat Club at Beclvedere, but the officers and members of the club have manifested so little in- terest in the affair that it was thought best to drop it. The first open regatta of the season under the management of the Pacific Association will take place on In- dependence day. The Olympic Boat Club is hoping to get | a new racing barge from the Olymplc Club, which its crew will use in the regat- ta to be held on Lake Merritt on July 4. An Olympic intermediate barge crew has Leen geing out for practice lately, made up of Albert Bullion, bow; Robert Var- |ney, No. 2; J. Beals, No. 3, and R. Bo- iand, stroke. F. J. Rogers, formerly a di- rector of the Olympic Boat Club, has jolned the Oakland Canoce Club, being owner of the canoe Pirate. J. Doble, for- merly secretary of the Olymple Boat Club, has taken to ark life. President Charles.Jenkins of the South | End Rowing Club, is coaching a new jun- for barge crew, made up of F. Deremer, bow; F. Collady, No. 2; J. Feehan, No. 3, and J. Baker, stroke. A second bargo | crew will be made up of Charles Jenkins, bow; M. E. Cashman, No. 2; M. Herron, No. 3, and E. Pallas, stroke. The senior Large crew consists of George Bates, bow: Robert McArthur, No. 2; T. Lynch, No. 3, and E. Scully, stroke and captain. Alexander McKerron has taken up rowing egain. The instructor of the Stockton Athletic Assoclation has organized a.barge crew to take part in the regatta to be held late in the year under the management of the Pacific Assoclation. The crew consists cf 8. Breeze, bow; J. Toms, No. Higuera, No, 3, and Williams, stroke, who | for creosoting piles near the | was on hand and protested | to erty leased by | This complaint being disposed of, | , . [ e+« THE START OF 4~ DISTAITCE RAQCE «..4 11 tion of speed and strength ever repre- sented among its students. For a time there was a race to determine which team would lose the greater number of its crack performers. Stanford was appar- ently the more unlucky, some of its best men being put out of the running. The Berkeley men are trained to the hour and will put forth their best efforts to add to their long string of victorles for this season. STANFORD . HURDLER. D COLLEGE ATHLETES READY FOR ACTION * California Yacht Club Will Usher in the Season o 1903 To-Day With Fitting Ceremonies. T 2 o'clock this afternoon the yachting season of 1903 will be formally opened by the firing of the gun for “colors” at the California Yacht Club house on Oakland Estuary. The craft lying at moorings will be decorated from stem to stern with signal flags and prize pennants and the clubhouse o WELLER., STATIFORD £ HUKDLER, £ will be_ adorned with bunting. During the afternoon the catering com- mittee will be busy making preparations for the entertainment of the yachtsmen at night. In the evening the sunset gun will be the signal for taking In all the Members will be welcomed to the ouse by A. M. Clay, August R. F. ‘Brandes, A. G. Byxbee, Ernest Boquet and G. A. Leroux. The transportation committee, consist- ing of Port Captain Jullan Altendorf, F. Pratt, Belden McPike, Logan Rogers and R. C. Davis, will provide boats to ply between the wharf at the foot of Franklin street, Oakland, and the clubhouse for the purpose of conveying members across the creek. The boats will make many trips between 7:30 and 9:30 p. m. No one, 5 Y V.RTOWNSEND U.C unless vouched for as a member of the club or having a card, will be admitted on board the boats or at the clubhouse. The entertainment committee, consist- ing of Wiliam McBain, E. W. Schern- stein, G. L. Wakeman, W. M. Ramsay and 8. S. Marshall, has prepared an ex- cellent programme for the jinks to take place in the clubhouse at night, bemin- nning at 8 o'clock. Music will be f nished by the Californta Yacht Club Or- chestra, the Nereid Mandolin Quartet a the Chase brothers and songs by Mr. Giannini, T. Loftus, the Edna Quartet , and the Elks' Quartet. Professor Kin- ney will render a solo on the plano. T. H. Kilgo will talk, Dave McLaughlin will tell stories and Ed Barrows, Pete Sloan, Charles Heeseman and Lloyd Spencer will perform in various ways. After the programme has been finished the ama- teur tars will go to supper in the boat- room and supper will be followed by a low jinks. Nearly the whole of the California Club fleet is ready for the season, bright, splok and span with varnish and white paint. The sloop Thelma has been thoroughly overhauled in the shipyard at South San Francisco and is at her moorings in the creck. It is said she will take up moor- ings for the summer in Tiburon Cove to get away from the oil-polluted waters of the estuary. L. Rosenfeld's sioop Jessie E has been on Boole’s ways, where she has been thoroughly cleaned and painted. Her cabin has been freshly upholstered and an electric storage battery installed. Charles E. Clark’'s yawl Gypsy is stiil black and the schooner Frar has also adopted that dirt-hiding color. Frank Stone is building a new forty footer on the beach near the Risdon I Works for J. Hogg. who chartered sloop. Mist last summer. She has fine lines and is expected to turn out a speedy craft. The sloop Discovery is biocke up on the beach at Tiburon and has a new bowsprit. Her mast will be stepped a foot further forward. Lester Hammer- smith will cruise over to thr opening of the California Yacht Club to-day -+ S =] = SN, | N 1 H I | | | ) i | | | S { o 5 3 S ) . | | ATHLETES WHO WILL FLY THE BLUE AND GOLD OF BERKELEY AND THE CARDINAL OF STANFORD TO- DAY IN THE ANNUAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FIELD DAY AT BERKELEY OVAL, THE OUTCOME OF WHICH | IS AWAITED WITH INTEREST BY THE COLLEGIANS, | - . % HE annual intercollegiate ten- nis tournament between the University of California and Stanford University will be played this morning on .the California Club courts, Scott and Bush streets. - Play will be called promptly at 9:30 o'clock. As the matches will consist of two sets out of three they ‘will be completed by noon. California. has won all three poipts in the last two years and from present ap- pearances another blue and gold vietory impends. The chances of Stanford seem even poorer this year than they were last. She will be represented by the same two men on whom she pinned her hopes last year. They are Harry Weihe and Cleve- land Baker. Neither player has done any serfous practicing and both are in rather poor form. Weihe in particular is out of practice and would not have taken part but for the enforced withdrawal of George Hodge, who is suffering from typhold fever. The latter is a player of consid- erable abilty and much was expected of him. California will have two of its last year's representatives. The third man will be Robert Variel, a crack from South- ern California, who will play in the dou- bles. Drummond MacGavin beat George Baker in the final of the tryout ‘played E. | during the week and is the college cham- COLLEGE TENNIS pion. It togk the full five sets to settle the question of supremacy between them. MacGavin finally winning by a score of 6-2, 2-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-3. By virtue of this vietory MacGavin will meet Weihé in the first singles match and in the second the two Bakers will come together. At the conclusion of the sin- gles Weihe and Baker will play Mac- Gavin and Variel in doubles. MacGavin 1s one of the strongest play- ers on the coast and it 1s expected he will take Weihe into camp guite handily. The former is an erratic player and should he have an off day it would not be surprising if Welhe, who is a great player when in form, beat him. George Baker omewhat outclasses Cleve Baker and will probably win with- out much difficulty. In the doubles Stan- ford is considered to have its best chance. MacGavin and Wefhe are both experts in doubles and there is little to choose between their pgrtners. Last year the Berkeley players did not lose « set and on form should win easily this year. Tennis, however, is an uncer- tain game, and the Stanford men may do much better than is expected. Three tourname:mts are scheluled for next week. On Friday the members of the Ladles’ Annex to the Golden Gate Tennis Club will hold a handicap singles event. Four experts from Berkeley have been invited to participate. They are the Misses Hotchkies and Edwards and the Rateliff sisters, EXPERTS TO MEET IN THEIR ANNUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS University of California Players, Having the Advantage of Superior Courts on Which to Practice, Are Expected to Prove the Victors. The Academic Athletic League doubles tournament will be played on the Cali- fornia_Club courts aext Saturday morn- ing. The same schools that figured in the singles last week will be represented in_the doubles. On the following day there will be a handicap doubles tournament on the park courts for the challenge cups. The Hotch- kiss brothers, who won the trophies the last two times consecutively and who need but one more victory to own them, will be placed at scratch. Harry Routh and Charles Dunlap have won the cups once. R. N. Whitney and Will Allen will play from “15” back of scratch, while the other two teams will play from scratch. —_—— Ready for the Cruise. Vice Commodore Charles P. Doe's schooner Challenge will be ready for the opening crulse on Sunday. Jullus Back's sloop Catherine was sailed over from North Beach last Sunday and has taken up her regular moorings. She has had her sall area reduced and is considerably improved. The yawl Nereld and the sloop Dixle cruised in the upper bay last Sun- day, as did also the sloop Queen of the San Francisco Yacht Club and the sloop Sans Souci of the Corinthian Yacht Club, The wind was light in the early part of the day, though later in the afternoon it freshened somewhat. A | of the flytiers’ art. ANGLERS AWAIT | DEVELOPMENTS | WITH PATIENCE ? Streams Are Gradually Subsid-l ing and Fly Fishermen Will Soon Be in Their Elementl LS SRR NGLERS are still possessing their | couls in patience awaiting the due time when the trout streams will have cleared up and their denizens will | be ready to dart at the latest production From Klamath Hot Springs comes the information that trout are quite plentiful | both in Shovel Creek and Klamath River. Prospects for good fishing this summer were never better. A number of fine strings of rainbows have already been caught, mostly with spcon and bait. On Shovel Creek they are taking the fly. The brown hackle and the caddis seem to pe the best killers. On account of the dam having been washed away last win- ter at Klamathon and the unobstructed | condition of the river, a countless num- | ber of trout wil ascend the Klamath this | summer. E. A. Reed, Fish and Game Warden | for Santa Cruz County, says of the sport | C EXPERTS BEGIN WORK ON THE CRICKET PITCH More Than Score of Lovers of British Sport Turn Out for a Practice Game at Alameda —— gt RICKETERS are manifesting much enthusiasm with regard to the coming season, the first regular match of which will be played on Sun- day, the 26th inst. Last Sunday many of the batsmen and bowlers visited the Webster-street (Alameda) groumds for practice. Among them were the follow- ing: B. Kortlang, E. G. Sloman, E. J. Stratton, T. J. A. Tledeman, Henry Rob- erts, P. Johns, J. Lewis, E. Peterson, P. G. Cox, V. S. Showell and R. A. Hooker of the San Francisco County Club; H Ward, F. Stahl and F. Croll of the meda Club; H. C. Casidy, W. Petherick A. W. Wilding, W. Jamieson, Dr. Taylor, G. L. Hurst and T. W. Tetley of the Pa- cific Club. After some preliminary practice at the nets E. G. Sloman and A. Wa Wilding picked sides and a mateh was played, batsmen retiring after making thirty there: “The streams are still high, but ; Tuns. B. Kortlang and E. J. Stratton some good catches are being made. | scored the limit, E. G. Sloman's side Anglers on Waddells, Scotts, San Vi- | making a total of 145 runs. A. W. Wid- cente, Soquel and Big creeks have taken | a large number. of fish, weighing from } half a pound to five pounds. I saw | eleven that were taken from the San Lorenzo River, welghing from five to | eight pounds each. A party of three caught fifteen striped bass in Waddell | Lagoon, weighing from three to seven pounds each. There are more fish in the | streams than for fifteen years past. The | streams are alive with trout about five | inches in length. These will be of good | size in three or four months. This means good fishing during the summer.” At Sisson the weather has been ex- ceedingly cold and the water in the near- by streams too high for good fishing. Box Canyon, a favorite place on the Upper Sacramento, is a raging torrent. Castle Creek, near Castella, should be | in orime condition for fishing shortly. At Lamoine some good catches have been made with bait. Slate Creek, which en- ters the Sacramento at this point, will be in prime condition for fly-fishing, accord- ing to report, in a few days. A l4-year- | old boy caught thirty-two trout some days since near this point, the fish aver- aging ten inches in length. | Angling is good with bait and spoon at Verdl. A recent fire destroyed all hotel accommodations. The Country Club Ho- tel has not as yet opened for the sea- son. J. R. Chace and J. D. Arnold fished on the San Antone Creek, a branch of the Coyote, in Santa Clara County last Sat- urday and caught 308 trout. Of these Chace secured 170 and Arnold 133. An Eastern writer replylng recently to the query of a man who, being of middle age, desired to learn the art of a flyrod, said: The man of the truly lurcsome fly therzunto and is not a 1f you have the heaven-gi fly. it matters not whethes ercise your talent early or Iote in .ife. There are some who can never get beyind the stage of snapping off cxpensive products of the tackle maker's art at 50 cents - per snap. is born re of evolution. gift of casting 4 you begia to ex- ing's side had scored % runs at the call of tme, the captain having contributed 27 runs. The following members have been elect- ed to the Pacific Cricket Club; R. I. Baum, G. L. Hurst and J. R. Roberts. C.C. % liamson, whose name was handed In as a member of the Alameda Club two weeks ago, has decided to re- tain his membership in the Pacific Club. He will be of considerable service as a | bowler, as also will Dr. O. N. Taylor. The membership list of the Santa Cruz Cricket and Athletic Club includes the names of W. E. Thomas, E. F. Hiiton, J Jenkins, P. D. Gellatly, J. B. McNamara, I. 1. Petty, E. H. Day, George Swain, Stephen Stagg, R. H. Worthington, J. Whitaker and S. O. Hilton. | e S Hiram Scoggin Buys Dr. Rice. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 17.—Hiram Scoggin has purchased from Fred Foster the cclebrated stallion, Dr. Rice. Dr. Rice won the Brooklyn handicap several years ago and other notable events. The price paid is not divulged. @ il il @ Others, again, will, at their first venture, drop the gray, the bluewing. the stone dun in:a given pool or rifffe with d accuracy. Between the tw: are many earnest but often erring anglers. you we would suggest that you seek out some trustworthy friend versed in affairs of the 1 1 extremes To s Let 'um show you how to begin your cast slowly and end” swittly. In- sist on his initiating you into the mysteries of the inner and outer throws. Likewise get next to the knack of casting ‘mto the testh of the wind, and of the why and whersfore of a bidexterousness. Worry him into ylelding up the theories of fly tying. Hypnotite bl Into putting you on to the rings of wind. water and weather on the several brands of takint flies. If you haven't such a friend try to find a guide who will do all these and a few other things for you. In this event it will cost you so much a day, but if you get the right man it will prove a paying investmeat, upper arm niay.