The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 10, 1903, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. THURSDAY, fEPTEMBER 1 190 e TENNIS, GOLF, BOWLING AND TIMELY FIELD SP MINING GONGRESS |LEAF TOBACCO MEETS AT LEAD' WITHOUT DUTY Ex-| Merchants Suspected of Engaging in Illicit Traffic. P S Director of Mint pects Appreciation in Silver Value. Denver Man Proposes Petition | Two Sailors Are Followed in for a New Porifolio in Washington. b New York and Dealer Is Arrested. el NEW YORK, Sept. 8.>The examination | of Joseph Waherman, a dealer jn leaf to- | bacco, to-day before United States Com- NINE-DAY TENNIS TOURNEY AT SAN RAFAEL IS CLOSED 'Alfonso Bell Wins Championship Match in Men’s Singles, Defeating Freeman—Miss May Sutton Defeats Her Sister Florence and Finally Possesses Challenge Cup b HE nine days’ tennis tournament for the coast championships came to a close yesterday on the Ho- tel Rafael courts. It was by far the hot- test day of the year and the players suf- fered greatly. An extremely large crowd was in attendance and applauded the ne ee the TORRENTS OF RAIN FALL IN EANSAS CITY AT NOON A Rise in More Than Two Feet he River Is Ex- pected. of Y for a time idge which car-| ss Turkey Creek City with —_—— IANKS ARE ANXIOUS TO0 RETIRE CIRCULATION | ligh Price of Bonds Makes Selling | Them More Profitable Than | Retaining Notes. | WASHINGTON, & om nati for ¢ * circulation are reaching tment_in the unexpected numbers an For the seven business days Treasu: noy the present month the applications ag. egate R70250. Under the law only o n can be retired in 3y one month, and the applications are anted in the order in which they are ceived. For several months past the tirements of circulation have been oniy sur e refunding pe: d by about $40 = vement is acco ed | department by gh price of bonds, the banks evidently ®ing a greater profit in selling their nds than in ng them in circula- o ————— Special Trains for Bankers. | TOPEKA. Kans., Sept. $.—The Santa Fe s arranged to run a number of special dps to San Francisco on account of the aerican Bankers' ‘Association meeting are October 20 to 23. Special through - service will be inaugurated from Chi- fo to the coast. The first train will ve Chicago October 10. Especially good | lucements as to rates and stop-over| vileges have been made. —_——— Surglar Shoots Kentucky Colonel. SHLAND, Ky., Sept. S.—Sheriff Hene, | is hunting a burglar who ¥ wounded Colonel Mordecai Wil- is country home bafore day- Colonel Wililams, dis- the burglar ransacking his ise attacked him with a saber. The wiar shot him and escaped. | | tween the | ing smuggled tobacco brought tobacco. months the tre investigat ald York v fel t nto New leaf rate of duty. I nd for 80 cent: PUGILIST DIES AFTER PHILADELPHIA BOUT | Joseph Riley’s Oppenent and Severa cf the Seconds Are Placed Under Arrest. CAPTAIN WRINGE DECIDES TO STAY IN AMERICA | Sbamrock’s Skipper Says He Will|; Make Land of Crack Sailors His Home. RK, Sept - ¥ FOUR GUNMEN MISS BUT ONE BLUEROCK EACH Millwood Gun Club Promotes a Pub- lic Shoot on Its Home Grounds. Iwood 14 Championship for Stockton. STOCKTON, Sept. 8.—The third of the series of three games to determine the semi-professional championship of Cali- | fornia was played this afterncon at Oak Park before an immense attendance be- Bulletins, champions of the Central California League, and the Stocktons, leaders of the California State League. The game was won by the Stocktons in a fast thirteen-inning game by a score of 2 to 1. Ingalls and McMur- were the winning battery, while Ru: and Hammond were the visiting ba r. ' The first game of the series was won by the Stocktons and the second by the Bulletins. SAN JOSE, Sept. 9.—Score: San Jose, 9; Reliance, 2 ————— Football at Stanford. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 9.— The first football game to be played by a Stanford team this year is dated for Saturday, when the freshmen will line up against the Santa Clara College eleven. The varsity team will play its first game on the Stanford campus on the 19th inst. against the Rellance Athletic Club. —_——— Golf at San Rafael. Members of the San Rafael Golf Club commenced their tournament council's cup to-day. In the opening round R. J. Davis defeated G. M. Pinck- ard by a score of 2 up. Pinckard had Davis beaten up to the sixteenth hole by a score of 2 up, but at that juncture Davis by expert strokes won out. E. J. Hooper defeated R. G. Brown, 2 up, 1 to pla George Heazleton defeated H. Dib- blee, 3 up, 2 to play, and J. J. Crooks beat C. A. Belde: up, § to play. —_—— Rear Admiral Sumner to Retire. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. —Rear Admiral Sumner, commander in chief of the South Atlantic station, to-day hauled down his fiag and will return to the United States. He will retire in December. Rear Ad- miral Lamberton succeeds him in com- mand of the South Atlantic station. r Ridgeway on a charge of buy- out the n where | fact, i the confesisons of two sailors ar- | T | rested Monday are to be believed, that | 2 Gay | there are a number of tobacco merchants | gates, | In New York engaged in filicit traffic in | sury agents | tobacco expensive cigars a mer- | teresting exchange: for the- | many exciting rallles vociferously. The championship match in men's - | it | | ol | t s 1 singles was extremely ng and al- though Alfonso Bell, the challenger, won ight sets, it was close from start The score was 6-3, 7-5, 10-8. Bell played a magnificent game and at the net invinci The first set was | won quite handily by the new champion. {In the second and third sets the great | struggle came. It was evident at the out- that Freeman was not in the best of ition. He appeared to be afraid to self out. He did not play his usual ¥, careful game, but seemed inclined to win a point or lose it on one stroke. He was not up to his last year's form, but Bell showed great improvement over work a year ago. The fact that Free- n about half the time failed to follow in his service showed that he was a little afraid to exert him In the sec e on point to win the s to do it. | perceptibly in the d Bell annexed them | loser d | plucky n and the heat. enoon Miss Ma; e successfu Florenc the tournament three straight | n better show- |ing against her clever sister than ever | | before. This makes Miss May's thi the challenge cup becomes he ot i d win and | for good. | ers stayed in the back court | quently many lengthy and in-| s occurred. The little | t sm shed with | score was | , 6 | After the Bell-Freeman match a special | match was arranged between Miss May | Sut and Clarence Griffin, a promising has been rife as to | tton could beat| of the second- men. Many of the south- | |erners claim that Miss Sutton can! | beat all but about ten men on the coast. | | The local men do not agree with them. | | The match vesterday gives a line on the | champion’s game as compared with the games put up by the second-class men. | The match was won by Miss May Sut- | ton only after three very close sets, con- | | sequently she can hardly be ranked| |among the first ten players. The score was 6-4, 1-6, 6-4. Prizes were presented at 9 p. m., after which a dance was held at the hotel, | i winding up one of the most successful tournaments ever held on the coast. —_———— St. Patrick’s Parish Celebrates. St. Patrick’s Parish observed Admission day by giving its annual outing at Fair- fax Park Fully 200 people were pres-’ ent. Dancing and games were chief amusements of the day. The committee of arrangements consisted of J. Smith, | chairman: Eugene Lacy, secretary; Rev. | P. J. Cummins, treasurer: Thomas O'Bri- | en, John O'Brien, William T. Flynn, J. Coffee, T. Cleary, Eugene Lacy, H. Lan- derville, F. Sullivan, M. Corridan, J. De- vinney, William O'Dea, M. Friel, { Dougherty, M. Tierney, Martin Lacey, James Barry, John Hughes, P. Prunty, James Lamey, W. Fitzgerald, James | Humes, Willlam Brown, Miss K. Cant- well, Miss M, Kennergan, Miss Kate Mc- Dermott, Miss Lillian Hughes, Miss Gene- vieve Sullivan, Miss Lillian Byrnes, Miss Kate Connell, Miss Nellie O'Brien, Miss Nellie Sheehy, Miss Mary McDermott, Miss Mary Raddin, Miss Annie Finney, Miss Marguerite Donegan, Miss Ella Can- ning and Miss Fannie Hansman. ———— Automobile Races at San Jose. The five-mile automobile race on the | San Jose track yesterday, open to ma- | chines of any type or power, was won by | a White steam-touring car, driven by H. | D. Ryus, in 7:33. The race for gasoline | machines only was won by a Rambler. | Winton touring car. | dred ,JEA.II BOWLERS PLAYONTHE the Men From San Francisco. ing at pla OQakland Scottish vling Club. new bow ond avenue a in splendid cor ground being e game opened noon and was wit g green, at Twenty-sec- t Fourteenth street, is for a new one, cR_helps the player: at 1:30 In the afte: essed by several hun- spectators, who were attracted by the novelty of the game, though it has been played for hundreds of years in Scot- land. The Scottish bowling has no resem- blance to the common bowling game played on the alleys; it resembles more the game of shuffie board or the Scottish game of curling. The game is played with four teams to a side, four players compostng a team. At one end of the rink, which is 128 feet long by 20 feet wide, a small white ball called a jack is placed, and each player rolls ball, which shaped like an orange, as near a ible to the jack. ‘When each player has bowled all his balls those nearest the jack are counted so that if one team has three balls nearer the jack than the other side the first team makes three points, whereas if the other team is D three of&he first balls the first three bails are counted out and the other side gains one point. Twenty-one points make a game. The opening game was won by the San Francisco club, the visiting team scoring 8 points against 58 points scored by the Oakland club. Electric lights will be placed on the new green, and in the future the game can be bowled in the evening as well as the afternoon. The players in yesterday aft- ernoon’s game were as follows: Oakland—Rink 1, Robert Dalziel, Dr. A. K. Crawford, John Laing and skip Jas. Hutchisen; rink 2, W. H. Thomson, James Motr, John Orchison and skip Andrew Proctor; rink 3, George McMath, William | Chalmers, James P. Taylor and skip Jo- seph Patullo; rink 4, James Orchison, James Rankin, Peter Spaulding and skip Hugh Forgie. San Francisco—Rink 1, John Duncan, Thomas Lattimer, Hugh Barr and skip John McLachlan; rink 2, Andrew Me- Near, A. A. McVicar, John McLaren and ekip Y. C. Lawson; rink 3, John Grey, Thomas McNaught, Alexander Craig and skip J. E. Moffatt; rink 4, Dr. Hamilton, Joseph Grey, W. R. Eaton and skip D. G. Atken. The return match will be played on the -~ Francisco green on Thanksgiving ay. The officers in the San Francisco club are Y, C. Lawson, president; John Mec- Laren, vice president; James Roiph Jr., treasurer; Thomas G. Aitken, secretary, and James Hutchison, champion. The officers in the Oakland club are: J. P, Taylor, president; A. Anderson, sec- retary, G. re, treasurer. —— Professor’s Sanity Questioned. SAN JOSE, Sept. 9.—Professor Ramsey, a member of the faculty of Stanford Uni. versity, is in the charge of the Sheriff of the county awaiting examination as to his sanity, which will be held before Judge Hyland to-morrow morning. Over- application to study is believed to be the cause of his affliction. —_————— NEW GREEN |Opening Game Is Won by 3E opening game of Scottish bowl- | he new Ozkland bowling | ed yesterday by the | Scottish Bowling the | - + TENNIS CHAMPIONS WHO PROVED STARS CF SAN RA- | FAEL TOURNAMENT. |- * PRESIDIO MEN PLAY HANDICAP |Adamson Captures Prize for Lowest Gross Presidio links yesterday. Dr, J. Returns. M R. Clark won from H. M. Hoyt, El up, in the final round of the match | play, the qualifying rounds of which were ‘pluyfid on Saturday. Twenty-one players |took part in a clud handicap over relghleen holes, medal score. = Admiral ;Tr!)le.\x with a handicap of 16 strokes, returned the lowest net score, £2; B. D. | Adamson, J. W. Byrne and L. F. Mont- ‘eagle tying with net scores of 83 for sec- |ond prize. The tie will be played off at | some time, not yet determined. The prize | for the best-gross score was won by B. i ANY golfers were out on the has one ball nearer than either of the|D. Adamson, with 83. The full details are |!i\'en in the table: | SAN FRANCISCO GOLF CLUB— N DAY HANDICAP. Ty m|= £l 3 grs al: H o 45 |53 | 98 16 | 82 41|42 Syser| 43 42 | 2|83 48 | 51 15| s 42 48 6 84 M\“ 18 | 84 50 | 43 S 85 99“52 16 | 85 49 | 48 12|85 41 | 49 488 46 | 45 4 8T 42| 45 scr.| 87 |42 | a5 2| 87 48 | 47 8| % aia s | % | % 8 | 92 55 | 54 | 16 | 83 55| 55 uo,ls{u 57 158 1115 16 ! 90 C. P. Eells and R. V. Watt made no returns. —_———— Cook Kills Himself. Stephen Carolis, a Singhalese cook, was found yesterday afternoon in a room in the Sunset House, %01 Sacramento street, with & gaping bullet wound over the right temple, no doubt self-inflicted, from which he died at the Central Emergency Hospi- tal several hours later. W. H. Palmer of 127 Second street opened tne door and found Carolis lying on the lounge uncoa- scious, with blood flowmg from the wound in the head. A revoiver with one cartridge discharged was found on the lounge between the knees of the unfor- tunate man. Dr. Eidenmuller of 1004 Clay street was summoned and, finding that Carolis was in a dying condition, ordered his removal to the hospital, where he died at 5:30 p. m. Some facts made the case appear to be a murder, and it was ru- mored that Carolis had money, but De- tective Charles Taylor ascertained that Carolis had been a ship’s cook. Robert Lindsay told a deputy Coroner he thought Carolis had diamonds and might have At Troy a linen shirt is made in six and ‘ heen murdered for them, but the inference uta The race for gasoline machines only, of | 2 half minutes, the working of the but- | was probably false, for letters in his room twenty horsepower or less, was won by a | tonholes occupying one-quarter of a min- | showed that his mother was poor and an uncle had appealed for aid to support her. e DIVORCE ROM GRIFFITH Wounded Wife of Los Angeles Capitalist Brings Suit. Sl S Complaint Chargss Cruelty Extending Over a Periocd of Four Years. - — LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8.—Mrs. Chris- tina Grifith has instituted sult for di- vorce against her husband, Colonel Grif- fith J. Griffith, who is charged with hav- ing attempted her life at Santa Monica last week. The papers were filed at a late hour last night, but the fact was not made public untll to-day. Colonel Grifith is out on bail and to-day being a legal holiday no action could be taken, save to serve a restraining order upon the defendant to prevent his making any disposition of his property, pending a set- tlement of the suit. The complaint charges extreme cruel extending over a period of abou ’ASKE | the Coroner’s ORTS JUEL MYSTERY 5 CLEARED 1P Theory of a Third Party in the Tragedy Is Exploded. Coroner and Jurors Visit the Scene of the Fatal Shooting. —_— TUOLUMNE, Sept 9.—The Coroners inquest in the case of Walter J. Browx, who was killed In a pistol duel during the Labor day celebration, will be re- sumed to-morrow. Some of the alleged | mystery surrounding the shooting was cleared up and the theory ofdal lhh:rd y e tragedy was exploded when party in th (:‘rczm J zhpe e hpae found that Brow have received the fatal shot fr dat. shots Godat admits three at Brown. The jury that Brown he first sh rown and was corroborated by District Attorney Ded- h was given to him n which fifteen-year-old son | that Colonel Griffith be required to pay | her alimony in reasonable amount and a | sufficient sum for the support of her son. | As co-defendants in the suit the S Bank and Trust Company, the Pas c | Art Tile Company and the Briswalter | Land and Water Company are named in | the complaint. The reason given by attorneys of Mrs. Grifith for this act is that the defendant is supposed to have | large deposits with the bank and is a trolling stockholder in the tw named. By making the corp defendants disposition of Colonel Griffith’s property is estopped From present indications Mrs. Griffit the victim of the shooting affair, will r: cover. ————————— New Jersey Is Second, Massachusetts Third and District of Co- | lumbia Fourth. | SEA GIRT. N. J., Sept. 9.—The name the first winner to be engraved on the al- ready famous national t provided by the Congress of the United States will be that of New York. Ina ted com- petitition, in progress two Empire State team of t men captured the trop ing with a lead of eigh its nearest competito: six points over 's total was 2988, out of a pos: e In a tion to the national trophy. valued $1000, whi z will be held by the team only one year, the New Yor won a cash prize of ¢ New Jersey, which scored team the second highest aggregate total of 28 receives the Hiiton tropby, to be held one year, and $300. Massachusetts was third wi a total of 2883 and will carry home the “Soldier of Marathon” trophy, to be held one year, and $20. The District of Columbia, | fourth, with a total of 2873, received $150: | Ohio, fifth, with a total of 278, rece! ! $100, and the United States Marine Corps, | sixth, with a total of 2772, received $0. A medal will also be presented to each | of the twelve members of each of the six | winning teams ' e CLEVER AMATEURS WILL BOX PROFESSIONALLY Cordell and Angelli in Training for Forthcoming Match at the Reliance Club. OAKLAND, Sept. 9.—On Tuesday even- ing, September 22, Jack Cordell and Angelli will meet in a fifteen-round o test before the Reliance Athletic Club 50 per cent of the gross receipts. to aivided as they may asree upon bet themselves. The articles of agreeme specify that the men shall weigh in at 1L pounds at § o'clock on the evening of the | fight. | Both Angelli and Cordell have appeared | in amateur bouts in San Francusco a num- ber of times and as amateurs they made an enviable reputation. Angelll is doing his work at Croll's Gar- den in Alameda under the supervision of Harry Foley and Eddie Hanlon. He is ir excellent shape and weighs about pounds. Cordell is working at Palo Alto. 137 He is being trained for his ‘contest by Jack| Johnson, the colored heavy weight | There will be two preliminaries Onme. | a four-round curtain raiser and the other | an eight-round contest between MeCon-| nell and Brown. e e—— TWO TELEPHONE LINEMEN ASSAULTED BY STRIKERS g Shot Is Fired in Self-Defense and | Crowd of Assailants Takes | Flight. ‘While repairing a telephone line that had been maliclously cut at Mission and Eighteenth streets, presumably by strik- ing telephone linemen, Edward E. Re- gensburger and Special Police Officer George Comstock where set upon yes- | terday afternoon by a crowd of men and | narrowly escaped maltreatment. Regensburger was dragged from a bug- | gy and his assallants were beating him when Officer Comstock drew his revolver | and fired a shot into the crowd. The men scattered In all directions and disappeared ‘ before the arrival of a number of police officers. Comstock is of the opinion that the bullet he fired struck one of the men, as he saw a man limping, as if wounded. ‘The affair was reported by Comstock to Captain M. C. Andérson of the Mission police district, and Detectives Fitzgerald and Graham were detailed on the case. No trace of the man supposed to have been wounded could be found. The po- lice belfeve that the men who attempted to assault Regensburger and Comstock were striking linemen engaged in cutting telephone wires. —_———— WOMAN FATALLY BURNED ‘WHILE PREPARING MEAL Mrs. Rosa Lerner’s Clothes Catch Fire From Exploding Coal 0il Stove. Mre. Rosa Lerner, a widow and the mother of six children, was fatally burned yesterday afternoon at her home, 132% Langdon street. Mrs. Lerner was about to prepare a meal on a coal oil stove and it exploded, the flames igniting her dress defore she had a chance to even call for help. The unfortunate woman ran screa: out into the street and soon fell exh:lx::.: ed. She was picked up by a neighbor and sent to the Emergency Hospital. From there she was sent to the Mount Zion e T S T T th is —— expected at any | years and culminating in the shootin affalr Thursdey, September 3, h | nearly cost Mrs. Griffith her life. Tr.el r plaintiff apolies for the custody of her Vandell and prays |i NEW YORK TEAM WINS | Br THE NATIONAL TROPHY | at he (Brown) would kill Goda latter ever set foot Brown's body was shipped al. r will flected a Te- KILLS HIS DIVORCED WIFE AND HER MOTHER Wisconsin Man Confesses a Doubls Murder After Attempt at Suicide Fails. SPRING GR ‘is.; Sept 9.—George | Brandt to-day co that he last night shot and killed his divorced wife, aged 32, and her mother, aged 60, at their home of the TUSCAN MINERAL SPRINGS, heast of Red Biuf Pactfic - e Company’s system of rai! ection sut s Uni Springs Corp.. Tusca 1L IDEAL WEATHER IS THE EXPRESSION OF EVERY ONE ALONG THE | California Northwestern R’y The Picturesque Route of California. 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