The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1903, Page 10

10 THE SAN FBAN,GISCO CALL,’ fFATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1903. OLD ENGLISH GAME OF CRICKE MAKING A RUN OARSMEN PLAN PILGRIMAGE TO SANTA BARBARA jel and South End Clubs L —— ARSMEN on San Francisco Bay are look forward wi interest to the rowing events of.the com- fasm is felt a fval at of the clubs will few weeks. Great en ¥ The Pioneer Rowi steps toward tage ting new quarters, feet will be left n the founda- | uses of the Ariel | has not taken any | | | | y Foundations for New | Boathouses on the E’»ayfi Out the Strongest Players| er the Pio-| e crew pionship This is last | ving t is now of E. J ch, who had re- stgned ace crew, has gone back rows taken in n order mot to in work of the oar: crew of the Olymj allenged the Alameda for the annual ¢ resented by Captain M kie. won by the Alameda 1 rowing regatta of the Club heid at Belvedere on yvear. The race will course of the holders and estuary, where it of one and a accurately last er the of: the cup i % to get miles United State avell-kn: trephies_fo race, both San An- tonio estuary nce from the end of the narrow gauge mole to the Alameda boat Nouse is exactly five mil The Lake Merritt regatta bids fair to be uaily csting and well managed committee in charge of the rowing has the experience of the two pre vious regattas to draw upon and the s for the comfort of the con- testants and the satisfactory conduct of the races will be considerably improved. The regatta will be the sole attraction during the afternoon of the Independence day celebration, and the attention of managers and spectators will not be dis- tracted by foot races, cycling or other ‘events. The annual championship regatta of the Pacific Assoclation is a sufficiently im- portant affair to take up an afternoon ex- Monday, June 29, at the rooms of the Pacific Association, in the Emma Spreck- els building. The regatta committee will meet on that evening to appoint officials, decide the stations of the boats and com plete the detalls of the event. A. W. Pape has written to his old coach, Leander Stevenson, stating that he is rap- idly regaining the eight pounds of flesh he lost when he first encountered the heat of the Eastern summer. He feels much encouraged about the results of his practice. He is training on the Schuyikill River, the house of the Vesper Boat Club being hie headquarters. Pape at first found the hot weather trying, but he is becoming acclimated and experiences no discomfort. The Eastern experts at first were inclined to criticize his style unfa- vorably, but he is now regarded as a dan- gerous opponent. He times himself daily over the course, and can cover it in 8:10, the best time of which he can find a record being nearly twenty seconds slow- €r. The first event in which the Dolphin sculler will compete is the regatta on the Schuylkill River on July 4. The only barge crew of the Dolphin lub in training will enter the Lake Mer- vitt regatta in the senior class. It is made up of H. A. Swedland, bow; T. R. Dixon, . 2; T. Harris, No. 3, and W. Harris, stroke. F. J. Sherry will prob- ably represent the Doiphin Club in the outrigged skiff races, ————— « any | | teur. Since the retirement of Joseph | Daily as courtkeeper at the California Club, Hodgkinson has been filling the position. Many are of the opinion that vely. Entries close on the evening of | | M. Smith and Robert N. Whitney and | was only defeated by TENNIS CRACKS PREPARING FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS| | Forthcoming Tournament at Hotel Rafael Will. Bring HE State champlonship tennis I tournament is the one topic of con- versation among the enthusiasts at With this event but two weeks off, the crack players are putting in every moment available at practice before-the nets. Many are showing improved form as the result of training. b The ladies' event, which is the first | fornia championship ever held for the fair racket-wielders, will be started on the first day of July and will be com- pleted as far as possible. The match in the semi-finals will probably be played on | the afternoon July 3 and the final match at 1:30 p. m. on the Fourth. The California and Golden Gate Tennis | present clubs of is city, as well as some of the | organizations across the bay, will have representatives in the ladies’ event. Among those who will be seen on the courts from the California Club are Misses Maud and Eva Varney, Miss Smith and probably one or two others. The repre- sentatives from the Golden Gate Club | will be Mrs. S. A. Wattson, Miss Lulu A. | Wege and Miss Anita Beyfuss. From Berkeley will come Miss Miriam Ed- Miss Hazel Hotchkiss and the < Ratcliffe. nd clubs will probably send a num- ber of experts to compete. Miss Miriam Edwards and Miss Eva | arney are the favorites for the cham- hip honors. When these two players met in the last class tournament at the California Club one ef the most stubbornly contested matches ever seen in a tennis tournament | resulted. Miss Edwards finally won out after the match had developed more into a test of endurance than one of skill. The gentlemen's events will be started on July 2 n Rafael and will continue throughout the 3d. The final match will be played at 2:30 o’clock on the afternoon | of the Fourth. All matches for gentle- | men will be best three out of five sets. A new champion will be developed this vear, as George F. Whitney, the present holder of the title, will not be in the com- petition. Among the most likely candi- are Grant M. Smith, Robert hitney and William B. Colller. The la ter has been practicing on the Hotel Ra- fael courts, and as these are to be the scene of the contests, he will conse- quently have some advantage over his op- ponents. One of the most important things to be | decided before these championship tour- naments are held is whether Norman Hodgkinson is a professional or an ama- | The Alameda and East | | | this makes him a professional. Hodgkin- son, should he play, must be considered a likely candidate for championship honors. In the last tournament at the California Club he defeated’ such players as Grant Drummond Mac- Gavin, the present champion of San Fran- cigco, after a hard match. Should the tournament committee decide against Hodgkinson it will detract considerably from the Interest in the event, as he is one of the few high-class men in the lists. —_———— Two Ner Players. J. Cal Ewing, the owner of ‘the Oakland baseball team, announces. he will have two new players in service next week. The men are Second Baseman Walters and Shortstop Kiing, both of Terre Haute, Ind. They will arrive to-morrow and will take part in the series against Portland next week. Walters played 124 games at second base last year with-a hitting record of .276 and a flelding record of .9%4. Kling played 101 games at short- stop, with a hitting record of .238 and a fielding record of .903. S ———— Union Gun Club Shoot. The Union Gun Club will hold its regu- lar shoot at biuerocks on the Ingleside trapshooting grounds to-morrow.~A mer- chandise event will follow the eiub shoot. The benefit for C. W. Debenham will be Oue in four Albanians dies by violence. | held on July 19 | Bells an OAKLAND TARS WILL SAIL TO REDWOOD CITY California and South Bay Yacht Club Fleets Plan Rendezvous in Lower Bay ARLY this evening the fleet of the San Francisco Yacht Club will leave moorings at Sausalito and will cruise on the floodtide to the upper bay, dropping anchor in Paradise Cove. Some informal aquatic and land sports will be held to-morrow. There will be rowing races in the club barges and in skiffs, swimming contests, a tug-of-war and possibly a foot race or its two. After the sports there will be a race from the cove back to moorings at Sausalito £ The Corinthians cruise to Point San is evening, returning to Tiburon morrow. As it is low water at p. m. to-morrow at San Francisc entrance, the chts will have to ma an early start from the upper bay or run the risk of bucking a floodtide before reaching their moorings. Last Sunday several members of the Family Club were out for a cruise on Commodore E. F. Sagar's sloop Edna, Vice Commodore Thomas Jennings' sloop Speedwell, H. D. Hawks' sloop Amigo, J. C. Brickwell and E. J. Bowes' sloop Genes Andrew Thorne's yawl Seven the Short brothers’ sloop Emma. The start was made from Tiburon soon after the arrival of the 9 a. m. boat from San Francisco. The cruise in the upper bay was much enjoved. The most ambitious cruise to be taken by vy of the clubs is the voyage to Redwood City set down for to-day on the schedule of the California Yacht Club. Most of the yachts will leave Oakland Creek on the last part of the ebb tide at noon in order to enter the slough at Red- wood City on high water. This is the first time the California yachtsmen have had a cruise to the southern waters of the bay on their programme. San Fran- cisco vachtsmen are unwilling to cruise in the lower t of the bay on account of the shoal water.and the nasty, short sea often encountered there. The ‘hard guets that come sweeping.down: from the hills make rough sailing. A letter has been received from Com- modore H. A. Spencer of the South Bay Yacht Club, stating he will meet the Cali- fornia fleet at Redwood with the fleet of his club. The Corinthians have once or twice put a cruise to some part of the South Bay on their schedule, but it has been difficult to get many boats to_taKe part in it. 1t is, howeter, a good ifMng to establish communication between the yachtsmen of the northern and southern partsof the bay and it is much tobe hopéd that the California cruise may. prove highly successful. In the class flag regatta of the Califor- nia Yacht Club, held last Sunday, R. C. Davis' eloop Espy made the best cor- rected time over the course in class C and was announced as the winner of the flag. The race was protested by C. E. Clark of the yawl Gypsie, who.said that when the Gypsie was sailing on the star- board tack to the west of Goat Island, the Espy on the port tack, forced him to fall off and lose the windward berth. As the Espy, on the port tack, forced him to fifty-one seconds, C. E. Clark asserts the Gypsie would have won had she not been compelled to fall to the leeward and re- main in the leeward position throughout the race. The protest was heard by the regatta committee on Wednesday even- ing at the clubhouse and it was decided that the race should be resailed on Sun- day, the 28th inst., over the samd course, starting at 1' p. m. The conditions on that day are likely to be similar to those prevailing on the 14th, as the tide floods until 2:54 p. m. on that day at the harbor entrance. The handsome and fast sloop Nixie, one of the best all-round cruising and racing yachts in the bay, built by ex-Commo- dore George E. Billings and presented by him to his son-in-law, Roy C. Ward, has been sold to Fulton G. Berry of Fresno. F. G. Berry formerly owned the Elia and has always been fond of boat- ing. It is likely he will spend a good deal of time between now and the end of the season on board the fine sloop, which is a comfortable cruising craft. ‘Work is progressing on the hull of the new boat of the Corinthian Yacht Club. 3t is expected the steel truss for the chal- lenger will arrive soon from the East. To-morrow the sloops Harpoon and Emma will race over the regular course of the Corinthian Yacht Club, the Har- poon giving the Emma a time allowance of seven minutes. The match is an out- come of the discussions that arose at the Corinthian Yacht clubhouse after the an- 5 /G EOT.SWHITE BETWEEN WICKETS DR.O.NTAYLOR CRICKET MATCH TO BE PLAYED AT SANTA CRUZ San Francisco County Eleven Is to Make a Pilgrimage to the City by the Sea ISR L HE San Francisco County cricket team will leave the city this after- noon for Santa Cruz, where the members will be the guests of the Santa Cruz Cricket Club. The team will be made up of Harold B. Richardson, B. Kortlang, E. G. Sloman, E. R. Wilkes, E. J. Stratton, T. J. A. Tiedemann, P. R. Johns, H. Roberts, W. R. Stewart, J. B. Smith and- M. G. Ross. To-morrow morning at 10:30 the pennant match against the Santa Cruz Cricket Club will begin, stumps being drawn at 4:30 p m. in order to give time to catch the evening train for San Francisco. E. J. Stratton has rejoined the San Fran- cisco County team, but only for this match. E. R. Wilkes, a cricketer from Streat- ham, England, will play his first match in California to-morrow. He is expected to render an excellent account of himself. He is regarded as the most valuable ac- quigition to the ranks of cricketers since B, Kortlang, the Australian, arrived here. City cricketers have received, through T. W. Beakbane, secretary of the Burns Valley Cricket Club, a cordial invitation to visit Lake County during the Independ- ence day vacation. As the Lakeport Cricket Club will not be able to make up 4 team to meet the visitors, the match will be played on the Burns Valley grounds at Lower Lake. Usually two or three Lakeport men are included in the Burns Valley eleven, but this year no assistance will be received from the dwellers at the upper end of the lake. The Burns Valley team will not be a strong one, but what it lacks in cricket ability it will make up in hospitality. The idea is %o distribute the visitors among the houses-of the various mem- bers of the team and to have a dinner, either on the Saturday or the Sunday evening for the {wo teams in company. The Burns Valley cricketers express the hope that the city team. may include J. J. Theobald and H. C. Casidy of the Pa- cific Club, Harold B. Richardson and E. G. Sloman of the San Francisco County Club and Henry Ward of the Alameda Club, all these being well known in Lake County. { .'H"f‘H‘H_‘I-l-H*I-H—H—H—l—I—H?‘. nual regatta on Decoration day as to what the result would have been had not the skippéer of the Harpoon chosen a bad course for the-Tast beat out to the Pre- sidio Shoal buoy. The crew of the losing yacht will give a dinner to the crew of the winning boat. e Exhibition Lacrosse Game. Two teams of the California Lacrosse Association will play an exhibition game on the Presidio Athletle Grounds to-mor- row afternoon at 2:30 o’'clock. No adnfis- sion fee will be exacted. - - - = 2 SOME WELL KNOWN CRICKETERS CAUGHT IN ACTION DURING A PENNANT MATCH ON THE GROUNDS AT WEBSTER STREET, ALAMEDA, WHERE MANY MATCHES HAVE BEEN PLAYED. = o YOUNG HOUNDS TO BE COURSED AT INGLESIDE The Management Announces a Stake for Puppies to Be Decided There Next Week T grey try HE management of Ingleside Coursing Park has complied with the request of owners of young unds who wish an opportunity to them out. Announcement has been made that a puppy stake will be run next | week. The running of these stakes at regular intervals has a beneficial effect on the breeding of greyhounds, as it assists in weeding out the Inferior youngsters. There are many futurity candidates being exercised at present and stakes for hounds of their age will soon bring them from under cover. A. R. Curtis has four promising grey- hounds at Colma. They are by Beacon- The Fram. Mr. Curtis tried an experi- ment with this litter letting them grow to be two and a half vears old before they were handled. They average nearly seventy pounds in weight. They never had collars on them until last week. One is a blue dog, built on the lines of his sire and with the same racy look. Jack Dennis, one of the cleverest of the handlers of grevhounds, has purchased Imp. Rural Artist, Renegade Apache and Master Rocket. He may take his string to Butte and try his fortune there, Harry “Deacon” Edell, a familiar figure at coursing gatherings, is enjoying the sights at the Yosemite. He is an ardent fisherman and is having great sport with lthe trout in the small streams of the val- ey. Knight and Kent's Grafton beat Confi- dence in a forty-eight-dog stake at Butte last Sunday. Quicksand beat his half- brother, Northern Express, in the decid- ing course of a twenty-four-dog consola- ticn stake. Complaint has been made again to the police that greyhounds are trained on the outskirts of the city without being prop- erly muzzled. Cats and pet dogs have been injured by the hounds. The coursing officials have warned the trainers to keep their dogs under better control. ‘The coursing at Ingleside to-day will commence at 12 o’clock. To-morrow the running will commence at 10:30 o'clock. The prizes remain unchanged, first money being $100. On public form the likely win- ners look to be: Reno, Red Pepper, Glancing Pasha, Eas! lake, Sofala, Bonnie Hughie, Eagle, Ott: Little Mercy, Haphazard, Sempronius, M. Ready Address, Vand en, Harlean Gladys, Toronto, Jack Short, May Hempstead, Silver Cloud, Mount Rosd, Bob R, Homer Boy, Una, Dorothy M, Topsy Turvy, Special, Rural Artist, Wild Nora, Siren, Linda Vista, Pure Pearl, Frisky Boy, May Flush, Vagrant, Cloverdale, McHenry, Royal Friend, Fenii, Laughing Water, Mickey Dooney, Mick- ey Free Siiver Heels, Renegade Apache, Flora Beile, Black Fiush, Lord Granard, Bre- us. —_———— Bvery year Germany's population in- creases at the rate of £00,000 DELIVERING THE BALL T THRIVES IN CALIFORNIA ' Betting in |[SEATTLE RACE MEET ATTRACTS | g LARGE CROWDS the Big Ring | Is Brisk and the Sport Is Healthy and Good,| —_— — EATTLE, June 19.—Racing opened the plcturesque course, “The | s, on the 6th inst. and | | though summer racing is an innovation | [in this part of the country, the attend- | | ance was more than 4000. California fur- nished the major portion of the horses | | and most of the officials, Horace Egbert | | presiding in the stand, F. E. Mulholland | filling the position of starter, Sam Mc- | Gibben, clerk of the scales; Jack Dinue. | paddock judge, and Charles Ledgett, pa- | | trol judge. As nearly every outgoing | steamer departing for the Arctic for tie | past fortnight has carried away great | loads of gold seekers, the Klondiker and his gold, the mainstay of this region was greatly missed from the ring. Still the betting opened up unusually brisk, with | no real line to follow the horses. Tl\e; Northwestern sport is a_phlegmatic sort of fellow, with usually plenty to sell, but | not much as a buyer. A first-rate winner, he can let out a belch that sounds not unlike the deep, dull roar of one of the | newly mounted coast defense guns on Presidio Heights when a loser. At first it was imagined the Native Sons were going to “hand them something.” How- ever, this feeling is dying away, confi- | dence is taking the place of distrust, and the sport is healthy and good. Seven books in the ring at $250 per day, a fleld and one combination book cut in the first day. While business was.a bit || slack the first two days following the opening day, it has been picking up ever since. Ralph Curtis, well known in San Francisco, is chalking up prices for the field book. Jimmy Geogan, a well-known athlete in California a few years back, is booking with a healthy Seattle syndicate behind him. Ed Kripp of Sacramento and Sam Green of Spokane, the owner of Sad Sam, have linked fortunes and are mak- ing a big book. Caesar Youns and Hugh- ey Jones were a trifle behind on the first week's play, but are indulging in no | kicking. The ring apparently depends on Young for market quotations and he is certainly giving them a run for their money. Prices have been liberal and pur- chasers of pasteboards are corresponding- ly happy. The opening handicap at a mile went o Forest King, a 108-pounder, ridden by Du- gan, and 10 to 1. Horatius would have won but for interference. There were nine starters and Hale, a green boy who pi- loted Fossil, ably filled the position of center rush, Interfering on different oc- caslons with almost every starter in the race, Lady Kent being slightly cut down. For his rough work Hale was given a vacation. E. M.. Brattain, the fast gray sprinter, was beaten the opening day by Berendos at six furlongs, with Sad Sam a close third. The latter was away poorly or he would have won. Burk, who rode E. M. Brattain, was criticized for his weak ef- fort on the gray, probably without rea- son. At any rate, on the Wednesday fol- lowing Sad Sam and E. M. Brattain locked horns again in the King County sdling stake at six furlongs. While Sad Sam won at leisure, Caesar Young, who owns the gray sprinter and bet $1100 on his chances, sending him to the post a 1 to 2 favorite, had the satisfaction of making the local plungers padlock their pocketbooks and look on in astonishment and chagrin. Because of Young's plunge, the price about Sad Sam went from 4 to 5to3to2 Pete Collis started in by riding three winners the first day. Howson is also doing good, consistent work in the sad- dle with three wins to his credit. The star so far Is young Hilderbrand, now in the employ of Vic Gilbert. His mounts have been well selected and to date he has ridden ten winners. R. Sullivan has not sported silk on many occasions, al though he has usually been returned first. Right at the commencement of things an incipient strike among the owners | threatened to disrupt the meeting, but | it died away, owing to the liberality of the management. A majority of the own- ers refused to race their horses for $200 purses and the “strikers’ " committee, comprising Billy Magrane, W. D. Ran- dall, Willie Sink and C. W. Chappell, stated their grievances to Manager A. T. Van de Vanter and James F. McElroy, one of the stewards. With little discus- sion the association agreed to give away each day $1500 divided as follows: One urse of $300, four of $250 and one of $200. o much for lpe-ce!ul arbitration. At the conclusion of the meeting at ti place Ed Kripp says he will J‘onu‘muyh:: Chicago and will take along with him Jockey B. Sullivan. Kripp’s horse, Beau Ormonde, is one of the stars of the rac- ing about the Windy City. Ed received ANGLERS FEAR FOR FUTURE OF PAPER MILL Famous Trout Stream May Be Injured by Improve- ments of Water Company D Company Lake Lagunitas which will ISQUIETING rumorshave reached the ears of the angling fraternity that the Marin County Water contemplates improvements at affect Paper | Mill Creek. It is reported the lake is to be enlarged and that Lagunitas Creek will cease to be a feeder to the Paper Mill. This will | spoil the stream for angling above Point Reyes. This stream has afforded sport to generations of anglers, especially upon the opening of each season Sam Wells has returned from Big Mead- ows. He says he never saw such sport as is afforded by the trout there. A. B. Finch goes to the Meadows next week. Alex T. Vogelsang is still there. George Klink is home from his fishing trip to Castella, on the #acramento. The most exciting incident of his outing was the hooking of a two-pounder and a three-quarter-pound tro at the same time. He succeeded in landing both. ‘W. M. Morgan re d yesterday from a fishing trip to Foutz Springs, Colusa County. From this point the Big Stony and its four forks are readily accessible. The trout average abo ght inches in length, the largest being about twelve inches. Mr. Morgan caught sixty in a few hours on the stream. Judge Aubury took eighty in one outing on the stream. A. Lackman is at La Moine. “Doc’ Watt has returned from there, and W. Cooper will return home early next week. The fishing about La Moine is reported at its best. William Hanson left last night for Boca. o~ The Truckee is still high and mu Thes season, which usually opens early in June, will be at least six weeks late. When the sport commences it should be the finest ever afforded on the riv so | few trout have been taken up to the pres- ent time. John and Willlam Halstead are enjoying the angling at Boulder Creek. A great exodus of afiglers is expected over the Independence day holidays. e i Whitney Wins at Billiards. Frank Whitney defeated John Roggen in the best played game of the present tournament at Morley's last night. He won by a score of 200 to 185 in sixty-three innings. The lead was held by both men at different times during the game, and many difficult shots were executed. In the afternoon game A. G. Simkins easily outplayed George N. Tyler and won by a score of 200 to 153 in seventy-one innings. —_—e—————— New Quarter-Mile Bicycle Record. SALT LAKE, June 19.—At the Salt Pal- ace races to-night N. C. Hopper of Chi- cago and F. J. Hofman of Los Angeles each broke the world's record for a quar- ter-mile, flying start. Their time was 243, seconds. The previous record, 24 4-5, was made by Gus Lawson in Atlanta last 2 by ‘ LI @ iimiininiiiee i @ a Xheck from Trainer Alec Forbes for $2160 recently, representing the winnings of the son of Ormonde at Worth. The veteran trainer, George Howson, father of Jockey Howson, is here merely as a spectator. Of late his health has not been good and he is indulging In a well earned lay-off. ‘With two exceptions the horses shipped to this point from California arrived in excellent condition. Fred Edwards was unfortunate enough to lose the erratic but fast Juana from an attack of fever. Ultruda was also severely injured and ‘will probably not be able to race for some weeks. Solon, formerly owned by Tom Ryan but now racing in the colors of George ‘Webb, took the first race on the second day, practically unbacked at odds of 13 to 1. In the same event Ben Magen, the 8 to 5 favorite, was badly cut down. Step Around, with Hildebrand and a ‘catch” of 79 pounds on her back, equaled the track record, 1:41%, for a mile last Monday. It seldom happens that the smart ones fail to pick the winner of a hurdle event with only four facing the barrier. How- ever, such was the case on Thursday. A certain Mr. Somebody from Somewhers was carded to bet $200 on Poorlands, but the short price caused his train to be de- layed. Notwithstanding the old “lepper’s™ price fell from evens to 3 to 5, Mr. Rose, piloted by McMahon, beat him in a com- mon canter. No doubt it will not occur again. ¥. E. MULHOLLAND.