The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1903, Page 10

10 CLASSIC STAKE DRAWS ENTRIES OF HIGH CLASS Sensational Performers Will Meet To-Day in Ninth Re-| newal of John Grace Cup BT e Form Students Expect Much of the Winner of the eil Free Course| £ R The East will be tted against th ble competition of the John richest event This stake t prize of hound: $3300, of eive $500. The and st. They include yvhounds in America California. Gambit rted dog entered. Twen- imported sires, Fetter the list with nine. For- and For Freedom have e are six representa- tives rted dams. Northern Alarm and Advertiser are the best of the Eastern contingent The stake conceded on all sides to be the highest class event ever drawn America. The form students have decided that the winner of the Rector- Bel course this afternoon will be contender for the lion's shdre of the purse. Both greyhounds are at their best and a sensational trial is expected tuna Faver four each is when they meet. Barge and Pocatelli are also expected to show to adsan- tage. The Eastern dogs have never started here and are an unknown quan- tity. Mount Rose was expected to cut a big figure in the stake, but he cannot start unless permission is given by the Ingle- side management. He ran last Satur- day at their park and was withdrawn without cause. He was suspended, and the suspension was sustained by the California Coursing Committee. The coursing at Union Park will com- mence to-day upon the arrival of the 11 o'clock train. There will be trains to- morrow at 10:15, 11, The likely winners look to be: Red Rock, Sacramento Boy, Cloudburst, Texas Hoo Hoo, Brge, Gambit, ‘Troublesome, Honest Mickey Free, Northern Express, J E Full Moon, Rapid Water. Aman- banola, ‘The Referee, Pocatell, v. Rubber Ankles, Fair Tra- . High Born, Frisco Lad, Joe loverdaie, Conroy. A ninety-six-dog open stake will be commenced at Ingleside Park this morning at 11:30 o’clock.. A number of Eastern greyhounds will make their first appearance. The likely winners Donnybrook, Celtic, Presidio Boy, John, look to be: Homer Boy, Little Luey, Sofala, Wedgewood, Somique, Haddington, Lady Menlo, Young Feariess, Littie Plunger, Firm Fellow, Golden Lighbt, Cremo. Brilliancy, Reckiess Acrobat, Prometheus, Rich Argosy, Half Moon, N-rth- ern_Alarm, Orsina, Mark Twain, Belfast, Top- &y Turvy, Idabo Boy, Doc Burns, Lord Gra- nard, Mountain Poet. Doreen, Comstock, Re- misso Anime, Our Minnle, Flora Temple, Sil- ver Cloud, Yukon, Bob R, Blackboon, ~Miss Green, Lord Goff, Hesper, Toronto, Intruder, Gleucus, Haphazard, Fair Glen, Harlean Gisdys, Idlencse, Flaunt, Equator, Meddie- wcme. the 12 and 1 o'clock. | ILADIES TO PLAY A HANDICAP OVER PRESIDIO COURSE i Sl - | Byrne Wins Ninth Contest for Men’s Councii’s Cup With a Remarkable Score | Next Competition for Men | | of City Golf Club Will| { Be Held Christmas Day| o The competition for the Council's cup | DU CKS RETURN TO MAKE GLAD THE SPORTSMEN Cold, Dry Weather Brings Them Back to the Feed- ing Places About the Bay . Afier Weeks of Poor Shoot= ing Preserve Owners Expect Better Resuits| The word has been passed around ALLEN TO MEET MacGAVIN IN - TWO MATCHES EE R These Players Reach the Finals in the Park and in the Club Tournaments —— Will Taylor and Joe Taobin, Ex-Champions, Surprise Spectators With Skill Two uncompleted tennis matches t Union Park | $132 | No event is set down on the schedule now until Christmas day. On that holiday there will be a handicap over ?rlghlefln holes for first and second prizes. The scores will also serve as a | for men of the San Francisco Golf (‘luhi | was brought to an end last Tuesday. | f | qualifying round for a match play con- | . | test, the cight men who hand in the :lowest gross scores to qualify. The handicaps given at the beginning of the { competition will apply throughout, four | days being allowed for each round of | match play. On Tuesday morning next, beginning :al 9:30 o'clock, the ladies of the San Francisco Golf Club will hold 2 handi- |cap over ecighteen holes, medal play. The winner will receive a prize. The recent competition for the Coun- Golf Club was concluded on Tuesda; when J. W. Byrne defeated Lieutenant |J. S. Oyster 7 up 6 to play over eighieen holes. On the first round J. W. Byrne won six holes and halved the | remaining three, being 6 up. His medal | Play scofe was 6, 4, 5, 2, 4, 3, 3, 3, 5— total 35, or four better than “bogey.” which is 29. On the second round Mr. Byrne won the tenth hole, 2nd the elev- | enth was taken by Lieutenant Oyster. }The twelfth hole was won by J. W. Byrne and with it the match and the | right to have his name engraved on the handsome silver trophy. The cup now | bears the names of 8. L. Abbott Jr., H. | | i John Lawson, Lieutenant J. S. Oyster and J. W. Byrne. The names of 8. L. Abbott Jr. and H. C. Gdlcher appear on it twice, and each of the other names once. J. W. Byrne was in the final and against H. C. Goicher in 1801. The match between R. H. Gaylord and J. | W. Byrne was a most remarkable one. At the end of the first round R. H. Gaylord was 7 up, but at the sevens teenth hole the match was all square. | Gaylord took the last hole and won the match. The first Council's cup for ladies was | won outright by Mrs. R. G. Brown. Mrs. J. R. Clark needs only one more victory to make the second trephy her own. In Great Britain there are golf courses almost innumerable. So far from being, as is the case in the United States, a recreation for the rich only, golf is piayed by anybody and everybody. Many of the courses are laid out on rious incidents oceur. links and pay no attention at all to the must resign himself to waiting until the maids and the children in her charge have passed out of the way. In the good old summer time playful girls find the eager golfer who attempts to dis- lodge them may find them more than|Cruz County and excellent shooting {s | eofi will be served the members and | C- Goleher, R. H. Gaylord, H. Goodwin, | ghooting. round against R. H. Gaylord in 1900 | | | | | cil's cup for men of the San Francisco | { weather conditions have changed and | i | ¢ | | { | { common land, and on such links cu-!The members hope to have it equal in Nursemaids | time ' China Slough of the wheel baby carriages right across the! Club on the Sonoma marsh. oft-repeated cries of “Fore!” The golfer | preserve to-morrow are C. A. Bennett, BLAKE & SMITH'S NORTHERN EX- PRESS, ONE OF THE-< FAST- EST GREYHOUNDS IN AMERICA OWNED OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA. | | > o among the sportsmen of the gun clubs that the duc are coming back and elaborate preparations are being made to receive them. The gun stores are overwhelmed with orders for shells and there is a general air of activity among the otees of the gun. have bezn trying weeks of in- activity, during which the ducks have been conspicucus by their absence, and owners of costly preserveshavereturned from the marsh day after day empty handed. With the recent dry, cold ! good sport is apparently in prospect. The full plymaged northern birds are in evidence,\ while ‘those which went inland are returning to the feeding | grounds about the bay. If the rain holds off and the cold weather ccntinues excellent shooting is expected on all the bay preserves. The sportsmen will be out in numbers in order to make the most of their oppor- | tunity. The owners of preserves on the Ala- meda marsh complain of the night | Last Saturday ‘advantage | was taken of the moonlight and the heavy bombarding was kept up throughout the night. The law is strict on this poins and a lesson should be ' made of the offenders. L. W. Harpham, E. E. Drake and other members of the Field and Tule Club will be on the preserve to-morrow. Clarence Nauman secured a limit bag of auail last Sunday at Point Reyes. George Jackson, Frank Vernon and other regulars also had good shooting. Billy Kittle returned from the Coun- try Ciub preserve on Wednesday with the limit on quail. Otto Feudner killed 23 ducks on the Stewart pond, near Suisun, last’ Sun- day. Ed Schultz and Jim Maynard had a joint bag of 19. Feudner also picked up a dozen English snipe. J. B. Hauer and Floyd Judah secured a joint bag of 50 teal and widgeon on the Empire Club preserve last Sunday. They shot over Parsons Slough, which the club is baiting for. canvasbacks. Alameda- | Among the members who will shoot over the | Dr. George G. Gere, Con Roman, F. S. Judah, H. P. Jacobson and E. R. Ellis whl be played to-morrow on the courts. In each the contestants will be Will Allen and Drummond Mac- Gavin: They will meet on the Cali- fornia Club courts in the finals of the handicap singles tournament com- menced on Thanksgiving day. They will also come together on the park courts in the finals of the first class. All the other classes were finished last ! Sunday. | In the matoh to be played on the club courts MacGavin has a good lead. He has two sets to his oppo- nent’s one and in the fourth set the games are even, the score standing | 5-5. MacGavin needs two games to win the match, while Allen needs two to even up the score. On the public courts Allen has a slight advantage. In this case he has two sets to his opponent’s one, but MacGavin has a good lead in -the | fourth set, the score being 4-2 in his | favor. MacGavin should-win the set | with this lead and thus even up mat- ters.. While tennis is more popular than | it has ever been and there are a great l many more players than in former years there is less class than ever be- | fore. The so-called first class is prob- ably as large as usual, but the tennis being put up is anything but first class. The only man in this class who really belongs there is Drummond MacGavin and at times his game -is far from being first class. In the southern part of the State matters are different. There are at least six men | in the south who would have no dif- ficulty in beating all of the first class men here with the exception of Mac- Gavin. The only hope of wresting the champlonship from Bell lies in Mac- Gavin and Percy Murdock, the Ala- meda crack. MacGavin looked to be steadying down some, but last Sun- day plaved his old time wild, care- less game. If Murdock improves this year as he did last he will surely be the strongest player from the north. One of these two players will un- doubtedly win the State champion- ship tournament. The winner will be called upon to play Grant Smith, the present champion. The latter will probably be able to play this rhatch, but will participate in no other tour- naments during the year. Will Taylor and Joe Tobin, two ex- champions, have again taken up the game and play almost as well as ever. In a doubles on Sunday they showed surprising form, beating Frank Mitch- ell and Sidney SaMsbury wish ease. Tobin and Taylor make a strong com- bination in doubles, as both play a safe game and aim to get everything back. Taylor is as steady as a clock and makes few errors. He would be much more dangerous if he played a more aggressive game. The game he plays now is the one'that made him the undefeated chamnfon for so many yvears. The game, however, has gone ahead a great deal since Taylor was champion and he will have to culli- vate more speed to win. Tobin combines speed and accu- racy, but his volleying and overhead work ‘are rather weak. When he | brings his net game up to his back court game the cracks wil hard man to beat. 7 Both the California and Golden CGate Tennis clubs will hold tourna- ments on Christmas day. The former will hold a handicap doubles tourney for the challenge cups. ‘ The Smith brothers are the holders, but will not enter the next event. Chester Smith will join forces with Will Collier. The latter has tried almost every good man in the club, but does not work well in double harness. All of the teams that participated in the last event and sev- eral more will play in the holiday 11 find him a i | | | GREYHOUNDS OF THE EAST AND WEST TO MEET ON COURSING il | 11 | | I | | | o+ POLO EXPERTS FROM ABROAD de S TR The colony of polo experts at the will be in the game shortly. His knee is in a plaster cast, which will not be rentoved for some weeks. and the whites will be played to-mor- row, each side being strengthened by the addition of the visitors. Polo has been added to the list of sports that will be seen at the Olym- pian games to be held in connection with the World's Fair at St. Louis next year. This was decided at a recent con- ference between A.'L. Shapleigh, the chairman of the St. Louls committee, and James: L. Sullivan, chief of the physical culture department.. The fol- lowing committee has been appointed to handle- this sport: C. H. Walker, chalrman; Dwight F. Davis, Irwin Z. Smith and H. M. Kirkman. To this committee will be added two or three i representatives of clubs in the vicinity of New York. There, is no'doubt that the polo tournament wjll be one of the most interesting at the big fair. Sev- eral of the most prominent clubs have consented to compete, and it is prob- able the national polo championship will be played in St. Louis. Cirves of a' Golf Ball. At first sight there does not seem to be any good reason why a siiced ball should curve to the right. Slicing is caused by drawing in the arms at the moment the head of the club meets the ball, and imparts a spin or rotary mo- tion from left to fight to the ball. ‘When the ball rotates in this manner and a guest. With a fine tide, no moon | tournament. Will Allen and Dr. Hill | the Jeft side is advancing to meet the and cold weather the prospects are ex- | cool retreats in the sand bunkers, and | celient for good shooting. Quail are reported abundant in Santa’ | his match in the use of mother tongue. being had. * are the only others to have their names on the cups. They must be won three times. An informal lunch- their friends, - | lcast resistance—that is, to the right. | Magdalena Bay. air, while the right side is retreating |from it, and as it meets with more pressure on the left side than on the right the ball goes:in the direction of AT BURLINGAME Burlingame Country Club has been augmented by the arrival of the Du-! vals, the famous French players. They | Walter McCreery, was more severely | furt last Sunday than was supposed. f | in which the former did not enter, will lin the preliminary round. The strong- The usual match between .the reds| A Y BOWLERS PLAN \ MANY EVENTS ON THE RINKS The Scottish bowlers on bcth sides of the bay are planning several impor- tant eve:ts for the future. The dity | bowlers will start a new singles event | on the Golden Gate Park green to-day. Ninety-two names were drawn, the largest number on record. There will be twenty-eight matches est players entered are J. C. Moffatt, James ‘ard Joseph Gray, John Mac- Laren. Joseph McNaught and Y. C. Lawscn. Mr. Lawson, who was cham- pion before Moffatt won the last event be favorite for first honors. The players will commence their first doubles event on January 9. The en- | try list will close January 4. This is the first attempt on the part of the club to run two tourraments simulta- nécusly. It will be a difficult thing to do, owing to the large number of play- ers entered and the limited number of ‘rinks. ; The third interclub match between | the Oakland and the San Francisco Scottish bowling clubs will be held on | Christmas day. It will be a four-rink | match and will be played on the Oak- | land green. Tkere is an agreement be- tween the clubs to play the match on | this side of tke bay if the Oakiand | green is not in good condition. The two previous matches were won by the local bowlers. The first was one sided, | but the secomd was cloge. The members of the local organiza- tion have decided to adopt the blas called for by the rules of the Scottish National Bowling Association. An ex- amination cf the bowls showed that six pair were not of the regulation bias and cannot be used in future tourna- ments. —_———————— Training Ship Mohican Returns. SAN DIEGO,) Dec. 11.-—The United States training ship Mohican has re- turned here from a practice cruise to |ARIEL OARSMEN ELECT OFFICERS FOR NEXT TERM Work Has Begun on the Boathouse, Which Will Be Ready Early Next Year st At the annual meeting of the mem- bers of the Ariel Rowing Club there was a large attendance. Great intere: was shown in the election of officer to serve during the coming twelve months, there being a spirited contest for the offices of president and captain. The following officers were elected: President, N. A. Denoir; vice president, J. J. von Staden; recording dbcretary, Eugene Flanders; financial secretar: Thomas L. Doran; treasurer, Joh Hardy; captain, Willlam McKee; leu- tenant captain, Edward Murphy; mem- bers of the board of directors—W. T. | Howe, Ed Smith, Joseph Lewis, Charles Wilson and Henry Meyers; delegate to the Paciflc Association of the Amateur ‘Athletic Union, E. J. Lynch; alternate delegates to the Pacific Association, P H. Wilson and Henry Lester. Denoir was elected president on the second bal- lot. On the first ballot for the election of cantain there was a tie. William McKee was re-elected om the second ballot. The Ariel Rowing Club is growing. Five rew members were initiated a® the annual meeting and five more were elected. About ten applications foz membership age on file. Work began on the new boathouse last Tuesday and it is expected the structure will be ready for occupation on January 1, 1904 The Stanford University Boat Club is beginning to show signs of aetivity. | Two she!'s have been ordered for use | on the lake at Palo Alto and will prob- ably be delivered about February 1. The oarsmen intend to begin practice for the class races as soon as the wa- ter in the lake becomes deep enough. The Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club will hold a masked ball to-night at ‘Eintracht Hall, on Twelfth street, near Folsom. The South End Rowing Club is now a corporation and. expects to begin work upon its new hoathouse early next year. The site adjoins that of the Ariel Rowing Club’s new quarters. A design has been prepared by Van Trees, the architect, and specifications are be- ing drawn uD. e e COURSING COMMITTEE DECIDES SEVERAL CASES Fresno Park Management Submits Severe Rules Governing Care of Racing Greyhounds. The largest meeting of the year of the California Coursing Committee was held on Thursday night in this city. Dr. W. A. Weldon of San Pe- dro was elected a delegate to the committee to represent the Los An- gelds Coursing Club. The greyhound Butte City, already under suspension, will be ruled off for life. He was entered under the name of Waterbury at Fresno last Sunday, but his identity was discov- ered. The management of the Fresno Park submitted some drastic rules governing the care of greyhounds af- ter they appear at a park. The rules were approved with some slight mod- ifications. They are intended to pre- vent doping. The suspension of Trainer MeCar- thy was raised and he was restored to standing. J. F. Rogers was given permission to register Erebus in his name. The ownership of the hound was digputed. —_—————— Hares Faster Than Hounds. The greyhounds Otto and Special dled from the effects of the hard running last Sunday. The hares, living on dry eed and having to make long journeys in the San Joaquin Valley for water, are in condition to outfoot say grey- bound.