The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1903, Page 10

10 CALL TURD 'Y DECEMBER 19, 1903. RACING SEASON PROMISES RECORD- Dk JANMES NWEAL.ON'S BOTLE © e PRESIIDO GOLF MEN TO MEET ON CHRISTMAS DAY/ Gross Scores in Handicap to Serve Qualifying Rounds for Match Play on Loeal Links as strong ga handi Th- waluable prizes in the tournaments of Great B host a open golf jtain have be monopoly for four gr 10 are possessors of the high- est skill in the game. Besides these four there are several golfers, who, on are equal to the best, but not the marvelcus steadiness of the top four. In order give these “hance of the big prizes, it ested that | handicapping should sional tournaments. not possible to han some system be applied to f the same club, when me from all parts of the United om. Yet it Is certainly desirable | nder the competitions for the im- | ney prizes more open than it | v some years. The Profes- | Assoclation has decided | hm under no circumstances are handi- ap ywances to be made to members f the association. but that on suitable ccasion memberé may owe one or more , the other competitors starting ‘from scratch. It has been found that the numerous golf clubs scattered - throughout the Tnited Kingdom - supply a want in small tcwns and country districts. . In such places the lefzured men of middle age, such . s retired officers cf the army or navy, or business men who have de their pile, found time hang some- what heavily on their hands. Theére was no place where they could meet men of their own kind to discuss na- tional and local affairs, and get health- ful exercise and recreation. Nowadays these men play & round of ‘golf oh every fine morning and probably repeat the Ifers’ ¥ SPORTSMEN ENJOY || RIRE SHOOTING OF CANVASBACKS, 'l'h:m Eight Hundred nf‘ These Royal Birds Fall to| Alameda Gun Club Men| S 2 | More canvasbacks made their | all the preserves last apparentl ing been dri 1d other north- on en cold weather. | all and in | plump they showing had 2 comparatively short dis- As they fly at the rate or more n hour, a few Bours from the northern Stz China Slough, preserve of the Alameda Gun Club e Sonoma marsh, lived up to its | desirable place for can- ¥y mile 1d bring r of th the on ck shooting. Nineteen members of lub we: out and secured more than 800 “cans,” the majority of the| | members getting limit bags. Among | those out were Messrs. Norton, Paul | Louis Bolander, Geissler, | aird and others ere a few “cans” killed on | e Alameda marsh and Con Ramon | so fortunate as to bring down 1e on the Mon ; preserve of the ire Gun Club. ans” were and they & sportsmen nor es they r decoys, which gre strangers in these | | arts Among the Empire Club men who were out were: J. P. Sweeney, J. B Hauer, F. S. Judah, P. Peltler, Con mon, L. H. Allen, Dr. Clyde Payne, Jlair Turpin, F. B. Surryhne, Dr B. F. Alden, Bert Patrick and Dr. A. C. Sylvester. The guests of the members ere J. M. Kilgarif, Captain Cantwell | of the revenue service and J. P. J'nob- son. L. H. Allen was high gun with thir- o birds. Although all the mem- had good shooting. Teal and widgeon were the birds most in evi- dence. The club is baiting heavily and | the members expect some good can- | vasback shooting from now on. The shooting was good on all the rshes last Sunday. Hundreds of °n returned from Alvarado and Al- viso. and all had birds. The San Mateo | marsh also yielded good returns. | The storm of yesterday has damp- | ened the ardor of the sportsmen, who expect the birds to be scattered over | a wide area to-morrow.. The overflow | bétweeh Davis and Sacramento has at- tracted thousands of sprig, widgeon | d teal from the Suisun marshes, | The market hunters and a few sports- men are endeavoring to thin out the flocks, but make little impression on them. Harry Corbett and Dick Dwyer, the | starter, ‘had an excellent shoot on | Wednesday at Middle River, near An- | tioch. . The. joint ‘bag for one morn- | ing’s shoot was eighty birds. Th9§e1 | included fifty-eight mallard, nine snipe | and six widgeon. The sportsmen were | the guests of J. B. Tisdale and ‘Al | Maltas and were most hospitably en- | tertained on their ark. The mallards | were there in great numbers’ and all | were plump birds, —_—— . Game Law Violators Punished. Deputies Kercheval and Ingalls of theé Fish Commission arrested J. and 8. Compagno Thursday for catching crabs under the size allowed by the game laws. Judge Conlan fined the defendants $20 each yesterday. @ il @ process in the afternoon. If the weather proves hopeiessly bad they can play a game of billiards or indulge in whist or bridge in the clubhouse. | bers ma |ard Moffatt -MAKING PERFORMANCES o TERGUSOWS AKC, KTCHE K, | o |1 i | & | [ I I | | i [ | [ [ | | | | | {1 LE® 11 DR.XYLES AHUMADA 1 N E uz2 ! i P % VBT i 1' A TRIO OF HIGE CLASS HORSES WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO PLAY A PROMINENT PART DURING THE ASON OF WINTER RACING ON THIS COAST IN THE RICH EVENTS FOR WHICH THEY ‘ | MAY BE E LIGIBLE. | i £ BOWLERS HEADY FOR MTCH PLAY Fourth 'X‘mlrnngnont of the Scots to Be (bmmenced To- Day in Golden Gate Park —_— The San Francisco Scottish Bowling Club will start its fourth tournament this afternoon on the Golden Gate Park green. The tournament completed two weeks ago developed several cracks who were previously unheard of. All of these players are entered in the new tourney and men like Messrs. Lawson will have no easy time winning. Mr. Moffatt is the present champlon. ;He showed great skill in the third tournament, which he won cleverly. Mr. Lawson won the second event, but did not play, In the third. Besides | these two cracks tl.e most likely can- | didates for | McNaught, championship honors are McLaren, Joseph and James Gray and McLachlan. As there are ninety-two entries it will take sev- jeral months to complete the tourna- | ment. On Christmas day the bowlers will meet the cracks of the Oakland Club for the third time. The San Francis- caps have two victories to their credit, | but the'bowlers from across the bay | are improving all the time and will stay with it until they down their opponents. | They made an excellent showing. last month on the park rinks and expoect to do even better next week. It will be a four-rink match and will be played on the Oakland green unless it is in poor condition. In this case the match will be played at the park. The entrylist for the doublas tourna- ment will close during the first week of next month. Many names are being posted at the clubhouse and the bowl- ers lock forward to an Interesting event. Th. doubles and singles tourna- ments will be run similtaneously and the rinks on Saturday afternoon will present a lively appearance.in future. While one or two track or so-called | coast records have gone a-glimmering, nothing bordering on the sensational has been accomplished by any of the crack Eastern performers. But the meeting is yet in its infancy, and with horses like Shot Gun, Oars- man, Ahumada, Burnie Bunton, San Nicholas, Claude, Incubator, Carat, I Know, Prover, Yellow Tail, Nervator, | Jane Holly, Beau Ormonde, Iridius, Mansard, Epicure, Don Domo, Bear- catcher, Cascine and Rockaway as a portion of the stock to select from one or two records at least ought to be shaved down before May day arrives. It was unfortunate that the riding material had to be lessened by the rul- ing off of three such promising riders as D. Hall, M. Adkins and young Fer- rell. In Eurove a jockey must be care- ful about his personal habits, else he quickly finds himself in disfavor, not only with the officials, but employers as well. Too many midnight carousals usually accomplish the downfall of American riders. Those after-dark banquets are all expensive, and if win- ning mounts will not settle the bill there is always the geherous hearted bookmaker in every clime willing to lend.the financially distressed jockey a helping hand. One good turn deserves | another, and sooner or later the jockey finds himself in trouble. The Chicago press seem to think the California Jockey Club hit the nail on the head when Hall, Adkins and Fer- rell were ruled off. The Sunday Rec- ord-Herzld of December 13 says Adkins narrowly escaped the judicial ax last summer. His employers, the article in- sinuates, took time by the forelock and gave Adkins an enforced vacation. Hall, the same article states, was ruled off the Charleston outlaw track . for using a battery. Possibly this should not be held against the Texas rider if he had decided to turn over a new leaf. Many riders who achieved great prom- inence on the turf made mistakes while serving their -apprenticeship -which might not look well if played up in print. S ———— G re—————— Of the strikes in Great Britain last year 36,917 were sucessful, §5,515insuc- cessful and 41,645 accepted com ise. ‘his brother will oin forces with Wil | HOLIDAY TENNIS ATTRACTS PLAYERS Handicap Doubles Will Be Held | Christmas Day on Both th Club and the Public Courts il Two . tennis tournaments will be | played on Christmas day and both will be handicap doubles events. In each event the prizes will be the three-time cups. The California Club trophies | have been competed for but twice. The first winners were Will Allen and Dr. | Hill. The present holders are Chester and Grant Smith, The Golden Gate Club ecups are in the possession of the Baker brothers—George and Neil—who won the last tournament easily. | In the California Club tourney there | will be several changes in the teams. | As Grant Smith will be unable to play, | Collier. The latter first entered with | Frank Mitchell, but they did not play well together. Mitchell in future will play with J. D. MacGavin. It is expected that Joe Tobin and Will Taylor.will enter the tournament. The presence of these two players would increase the interest greatly. In recent practice games they have shown . remarkable strength .as a doubles team. In a handicap event | they would be hard to beat, as they | play a careful, steady game. They | would probably play scratch with Mitchell and MacGavin. Collier and Smith should play even with teams like Allen and Hill and Salisbury .and Stringham. Despite the fact that the cups at the park have been competed for almost two years no team at present playing has two victories to its credit. The Hotchkiss brothers—Marius and Homer—won the trophies twice, but no longer play together. The following teams * - ve won once: Church and Mec- Kay, Hotchkiss brothers, Smith and | LEASHMENS' | @ meeting on Janu | will be | Brandon cup, | aged to run their tournaments without SPORT WILL THRIVE I COMING SEASON With Reopening of Union Park on New Year's Day Grey- hounds Will Be Kept Busy R AN - | | | ] terday open Announcement was made that Union Coursing Park under entirely new man y 1, 2 and 3 venture are and they | high will 'u.nh The ement men back of the of prom new standing influence to an put se coursing on a » sport will be promoted under’ the uspices of the Interstate Coursing | Club. All its annual events will be run as in the past. The first of these | the California plate and Belle { which will be decided o , The R Pedro, Contord Boy Laughing Wa: Viking, Gambit, Bub R, Reck- s t, Mountain Poet, Belfast, Meddle- some, Full Moon, @ el Allen, Touth and Dunlap, Whitney and Brady and the Baker brothers. The Baker brothers are the strongest sombination at present at the park. In | e last tournament they played from cratch with Routh and Dunlap and won the event without losing a set. They were undoubtedly underestimated by the handicapper and in the coming event will be placed below scratch. The Bakers are the only team playing to- gether that has won the cups. Griffin and Dunlap will probably join forces | and should make a much stronger com- bination than Routh and Dunlap. George Janes and H. Russcll.will play on the same side of the net in future and will make an aggressive team. Heretofcre the two clubs have man- interfering with each other, but com- plications are commencing to arise. Each club started a tournament on Thanksgiving day and neither event | has been completed up to date. Allen and MacGavin are r mbers of both or:anizmluné. but joined the California Club first . nd are looked upon as Cali- | fornia Club players. They happened to come together in the finals of both events and hence the difficulties. The entry lists are becoming so large that it takes several days to run off a tourna- ment. It will probably become neces- sary in future for the players who are members of both clubs to choose be- tween them. Few of the park players have Becorie members of the California Club, while quite a number of good players from the latter club have joined the Golden Gate Club. In future when their is a conflict men like MacGavin and Allen will play in the California Club tournaments. It wculd be an ex- | cellent plan for the two clubs to send delegates to a meeting to be called for the purpose of surmounting these diffi- I culties. The clubs are on the best of terms and are anxious not to interfere with each other. Taylor and Tobin will meet Mitchell and Ccllier in a special match to-mor- TOW. | INDEPENDENTS PLAY FOOTBALL WITH THISTLES PR AT Occidentals Will Measure Their Strength Against Topnotch- ers at Alameda To-Morrow PRSP o )ITOW morning Grounds in s will meet the In- ch for the cham- Association h will be at Webster s will play Hugh W = and the ball t ground will be kicked off at 2:30 p. m. At Idora Park, Oakland, the Hornets will m ure “\-\ r strength against the Albion Rover e kick-off will be at February 20, 21 and 22. The announce- | 2:39 p, Heury Roberts, secvetary ment sent out is to the effect that the | of the ( nia Ass on Football park will continue to run as long as| League, will be the referee. The Pick- the owners of greyhounds show an in- | wicks have no match, having drawn clination to support it by making lib- | the bye eral entries. 2 The Thistle Club will be represent- ng will commence at Ingleside | eq by: Park day at 11:30, -when the first brace cf dogs in the open 'stake will be sent to the slips. A number of East- | ern greyhounds, including the speedy | N oX s, will be in the run- Northern Express il ” 5 Ty ning. The likely winners look to ba: B ner Boy, Harlean Gladys, D gade Apache, Roy Hughie, Kin ear], tle Plunger. Our Mi 1 Fearless, Pacing : ala, Menlo Prince, Doc Burr Barbara, Glaucus, Black , Oulde. Real Duch- | Turner, center forward righ | Lees, outside right. ub: C goalkeeper McCarty, right back; Higgin svden, center half back; Rol ack; Hayes, outside } Lydon, center for Holland, outside righi "The Onkland Hotnets: ¢ G g wi illian goalkeeper; Mildred left back: Connolly, righ back; Bird. left half back; Chambers (capta center hal? back: McKay, right half Cowell, de left center : Churehill, goalkee, . right back: Mathi Albion left back; left half back right half queene, E Gillchrest, inside right; lett; Du- Orton, center forward; Goulet, outside right To-morrow morning, beginning at 1% o’clock, the second eleven of the Vam- pires will play asainst the second team of the Oakland Hornets on the cricket gmun\l at Webster street, S. K. McCali of the Vampires. The most keer: ly fought match Alameda. m, last year's captain will be the referee. ¥ contested and clos o-merrow will be that between the Thictles and the Independ- ents. The Thisi:s have won all their matches during (he present season, and the Independent* have lost only a sin- gle game. The ampires stand at the head of the leagte table with 11 poin but they have rfayed one more mate h than the Thistl®s, who stand second, The standing of the clubs is shown in the table: uuAy 8o 3 3 3 2| CLUBS. Vampires 5/0)1 1 Thistles 5/0/0 10 Independents 411 1 9 Hornets 11311 : Albions . i 1 3 Occidentals o 3 3 Plekwicks 0, 1 1 Appraise Jones’ Estate. The estate of the late Winfleld S Jones was appraised yesterday at $9 ‘ 658 06. It conmsists principally of $15, 105 cash, stocks and bonds worth $59,- 745, realty valued at $14,200 and notes for $§6609 53. e e Playing cards, game counters, poker chips, dominoes, chess and checkers, in elefllnl cases, for Christmas. born, Co. -