The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1904, Page 10

THE 'SAN FRANCISCO CALL SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1904 CREEK SAILORS ARE EAGER FOR OPENING JINK . Amateunrs of California Club | Will Enjoy Gay Times at House on Oakland Estuary g San Francisco Yachts Sail » Vallejo To-Night and to Sausalito Sunda) mally open the season rder M rge Shaw rects hoist clock then to | pesed e roll t until George pening cruis: nment, strict- held s are sested to be P e € n admit orning the ubhouse a ns rrow ther m Valiej the ist announce ss the line. Th w be taken | the i the sloop Chal- and Chispa allowances schooners schooner 0 min- sloop Royal and e and Juanita, 3 Witch an 4 minutes; sloop S p Zada, 3 hours nd Marianne, 3 hours 30 | Tt committee in " nt consists of ex-Com- S Bridgman, Roy C. Ward a s M. Gun | 1 he Corinthian Yacht Club | ma Creek %his ening, dropping anchor ge. To-morrow the | urn t its moorings in Club’s first take place to- a. m. Dum- 1dezvous. r Ahern at d at East Oakland racht » ek. She is 37 feet 2 in £ h a beam of . s 1 a depth of hull ships of 4 feet 10 inches. She has and is rigged as a yawl | Sessions Basin and is able ¢ er. d to prove an —_——————— | McCLOUD RIVER POWER : COMPANY 18 BANKRUPT | | | Allegation That President and Secre- { tary Have Absconded, Leaving Corporation Unrepresented. 2 William E of San Francisco and A. Hochheimer and M. Brock of Wil- Jows petitioned the United States Dis- frict Court yesterday to declare the McCloud River Electrical Power Com- asta County an involuntary They allege that the com- wes them more than $6060 and t Ggorge H. Proctor, the president, d H. B. Twombly, secretary, have conded from the northern district and that the company business manager, cashier or representative upon whom pro- be served. principal creditor abs of California has other William is lery, on a promissory note for $5000, payable July 1, 1901, with interest at | 8 per cent per annum. Hochheimer | has a claim of $855 for goods delivered end the claim has been assigned to Brock | form after they have passed the 40- | year mark. \ \KILSON N SIGOURNE |**Chick” Wright and| Sigourney Are | Champions. 3 | | One | may go through the entire cal- nd ar of sports pastimes only to find that Californians stand at the top | of the list whenever they enter the competition. Billiards is no exception to ru an ur number of Califor ns showing great skill in this gentlem recreation for mind ;1|',r1‘ body. Three players, Wilson Sigourney, “Chick” Wright and Al Mitchell, are | in class A and rank with any amateurs in the world. Mr. Mitchell is never | seen in tournament play. To qualify | for this class a player must have made grand average of six in a tourna- Dr. B. Burns, the Olympic | outside this ment game during the week and may attain the highest honors in billiards at any time. i ourney was a competitor in a ment. 0. Club champion, was jus average in a tourr the ational championship meeting at York two years ago. Ne He tied for first place and was then beaten in the | | play-off. He played under marked | disadvantages during the trip, as he| was ill. He lost e teen pounds in | | weight, but was still able to play in| championship form. James F. Morley, who is interested | in the game both as a promoter and | a player, is endeavoring to bring Ferd genberg, the American | champio is city for a series of | games. Failing in getting him to come | West he will try to secure Wilson P. Foss, the Mayor of Haverstraw, N. Y., | an ex-ck on and one of the world’s greatest players. He is also endeavor- ing to match Spinks, the Californian professional, with Fred Ames of Den- ve The charm of billiards ing one, evidenced b; hold it has on its devotees. jority of the players attain s not a fleet- the lasting | The ma their best The veteran among the | players of this coast is Willam Ter- rill, known to his intimates as “Uncle | Billy. He blushingly acknowledges his 71 years and has wielded a cue for me for sixty yvears. He played in | < tournament in 1860. | The fourteen-inch balk line tourna- | ment now in progress at Morley’s has brought out some clever playing. In this tournament Messrs. Wright and Sigourney are opposed to Dr. Burns, James F. Morley, Frank du Bois and Frank Coffin. The two class A men play 300 to their opponents’ 150. ———————— | Wants Deeds Set Aside. ! Francis W. Kehoe filed a suit yes- terday against his brothers, Charles and Robert Kehoe, to set aside deeds made by Margaret Kehoe, their moth- er, conveying to the defendants prop- | erty south of Market streat and in the | Potrero. The plaintiff claims that shortly before Mrs. Kehoe's death, at a time when she was mentally in- competent, the defendants, by malign- ing him, prevailed upon her to trans- Zer to them all her realty. > <+ | PENNANT RACE GROWS WARMER 0N THE (0ST The First and Fifth Teams Are Separated by but Six Games at This Time A TG Services of the Portlander Are Claimed by St. Louis on a Prior Contract S A wild throw or a long hit to-day LEASHMEN DRAW ON ENGLAND FOR NEW PERFORMERS Eastern Kennels Are Being Rapidly Replenished by Fleet Foreign Stock Sport Is Started There With Strong Backing and the| Promoters Are Sanguine | 1 Coursing is being promoted in many | WERIGHT + £ PLAYIN EREST TWO BILLIARDISTS, WHO RANK WITH THE MOST EXPERT WIELDERS OF THE CUE IN NG FOUR CLASS B MEN AT THE PRESENT TIME IN A FOURTEEM -INCH BALK , CRICKET LOVERS 1N FIRST MATCH Alameda Eleven to Try Their Strength Against Winners of Championship of 1903 ———— On the ground at Webster street, Alameda, the opening match of the cricket season of 1904 will be played to- morrow between the ‘Alameda and San Francisco County elevens.. The first match is set down on the schedule for the 1st inst., but that contest, which is between the Alameda and Pacific teams, was postponed till. the 22d. The Alameda eleven will be selected from the following players: G. Harold Ward (captain), F. J. Croll, F. A. Stahl, W. H. McNaughton, F. Bennion, G. 1. Baugh, John U. Buchanan, S. M. Foster, W. J. Richter, W. G. Fortmann, C. C. Y. Willlamson, J. Brown, Edgar Ward, R. B. Hamiiton, C. Banner and W. E. R. Rooker. The San Francisco County team will be chosen from the following players: H. B. Richardson (captain), T. J. A. Tiedemann, Henry Roberts, B. Kort- lang, E. G. Cloman, E. W. Peterson, P. R. John, C. W. Irish, W. R. Stewart, E. J. Chivers, H. Dixon, J. McCul- lough, R. Shand, J. Greer and A. Weaver. A strong team can be made | up from the foregoing fifteen players. ————ie Executor Makes Serious Charges. Thomas Morton, executor of the will of E. B. Koons, yesterday applied to the Superior Court for a citation di- recting Joseph Moy, W. W. Chase, J. L. Egan and W. L. Egan to appear and show cause why they have not turned over to him certain properties he claims belong to the estate of Koons. Morton says the respondents have ‘‘embezzled, smuggled and con- veyed away the properties in ques-| tion.” may change the entire complexion of the pennant race, ‘which is the closest in the history of baseball on this coast. The teams that started with a rush through advantage of good weather at the training grounds are grubbing to stall off the remaining clubs, that have reached their true form. San Francisco is in fifth place, but is less than six games in the rear of Tacoma, which perches on the top the ladder. Bunched in between are Oakland, Los Angeles and Seattle, In the ord named, but none is secure in its posi- tion, because even the despised Port- |land Browns have awakened to the fact that they can play the game. Seven weeks of good baseball has failed to show the ultimate winner. A little good fortune, such as has not been encountered to date, will put the | home team up where it belongs, and a | break for Tacoma will thrust Fisher's "rlgwrs back into the rear ranks. Stanley Yerkes has given his hoodoo the icy stare and is winning his games with regularity. Yerkes says Manager Harris never .upbraided him for his lack of success, and that he would willingly pitch his arm off for such an employer. Talk is not the long suit of the local magnate, but he knows a ball player when he sees one, and he has always intimated that Yerkes would be all right when things began to come his way “Dopey” Gorton has outlived his nickname and is as live a catcher as any in the league. Clever as Tommy Leahy is known to be, he is not missed to any great extent when Gorton dons the big mitt. At present Gorton is hit- ting much better than Leahy, who lands on the ball hard but fails to get it safe. Harris has not heard directly from Secretary Farrell on the subject of the suspension placed against Joe Mar- shall and John Gochnauer, who took French leave, but the matter has evi- dently. been attended to. A telegram from Boise City asking for a price on Marshall’s release shows Farrell has notified the management of that club to cease playing ‘“‘Home Run’ Joe. The deal may be made, but Harris has not of -+ ry at present, and is a corresponding demand for greyhounds with sufficient class to win a fair average of stakes. The leashmen of the East have awak. ened to the fact that it pays to breed thoroughbred coursers; and they are gradually eliminating the short-bred or *‘cold-blooded” ones. Many of the best young English dogs are being import- ed. They will be coursed for a time and then retired to the stud. D. K. Cartter of Cottonwood Falls, Kans., has purchased from J. M. Baum of England the three-year-old grey- hound Patched Uy, by Sir Geoffrey- Causeway Girl. He was considered one cf the fastest greyhounds in England last season and was a keen contender for the Waterloo cup. Knight & Kent of Butte have import- ed Mischief, by Cornishman-Baadwin Maid, which was bred by T. Webster. She will be tried in the Butte stake; J. W. Black of Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., imported the dog Spring. John Charlton & Sons of Minneapolis; Jesse - > 4 yet made up his mind to sell. Mar- shall's reason for not reporting here was alleged illness. Notwithstanding the peace compact, that has been observed to the letter by the coast league, St. Louis is making claim for Jake Thielman of Portland on the ground of a prior contract. Pres- sections of the cou; there ident Bert is determined not to accede to the demand for Thielman, and St. Louis 'is barking up the wrong tree. Under the same plea Harris could re- tain Danny Shay, who has made a great impression with fans of the World's Fair city, but all such deals were closed when the coast gave up Dillon, Castro and Damman. As a mat- ter of principle, Thielman should not be given up and Bert's contention is just. Massey came here with the reputa- tion of being a producer of long hits, and the fans know now that the name was earned in the harness. During the week “Big Bill'” has been leading the outfielders a merry chase, and his bat- ting has won the locals a couple of games, 2 CALIFORNIAN BILLIARDISTS RANK WITH WORLD'S CLEVEREST PLAYERS - ITENNIS EXPERTS PREPARE FOR A MONTH OF GAMES Four Tournaments Sched- uled Embracing Various Qualities of Players High School Boys Will Com- pete for Honors in Both| the Singles and Doubles i This month will be a record breaker in the number of tennis tournaments to be played on the courts of this city. Four events are scheduled, three of which will be played on the California and one on the park courts. The fact that the park tourney is divided into classes and a Sunday is given to the first and second and one to the third and fourth classes will crowd the pub- lic courts for several weeks to come. On the California Club courts the more important events will be held. Two are annual championships. The first will be the Academic Athletic League singles and doubles. One will be played on the 14th and the other on the 2l1st inst. Ten schools will be represented and the competition will be the most in- teresting ever held by the ‘“prep” schools. In the singles three players, two from San Francisco schools and one from a Berkeley school, are by far the best and one of them is sure to win the championship. They are Herbert Schmidt of Boone’s, Herbert | Long of Lowell and Marius Hotchkiss of Lick. The last named player won the singles championship last vear, but can hardly hope to beat eith Long or Schmidt. Long is playing the best game at present and unless he suffers his usual attack of “rat- tles” should win. Schmidt at his best can probably beat Long, but he is so seldom chances of winning are not better than fair. In the doubles the Long brothers of Lowell and Schmidt and Cunha of Boone's probably stand the best chance to win. The schools will be represented as follows: Woodland, Clarence L. Potter and Everhardt; Lowell, Herbert Long and ville Long: Alameda, Raymond old Mederaft; Berkeley, Raym: Powell; Boone's, Clarence Cunha and Herbe Schmidt; Lick, Marius Hotchkiss and Nay Hitchcock's, Tallant and Barrett; Oaklanc High, Lloyd Roberts and Curtiss Hayden; Jose High, S. McGraw and F. A. Partor merding, Harold Gabriel and Ed Lagarde. The other championship tourna- ment is the first big event of the year. It is the San Francisco championship and is held annually on May 30 at the California Club courts. Drum- mond MacGavin is the present cham- pion, and, outside of Percy Murdo who is in poor form, is the only ¢ pion player in the vicinity of Francisco. There will be a handicap doubles tournament for the directors’ cup on the California Club courts to-morrow. The Wright & Ditson Official Guide for 1904 is at hand and considerable space is devoted to Pacific Coast ten- nis. Some player has had the temerity to rank the ten leading players on the coast. This is almest an impossibil and a task that such experts as the Hardys and Whitneys never could be induced to undertake. The players are too widely scattered and too few tournaments are held to permit of a ranking. The first five players are fairly well ranked, but some of those in the second five surely do not belong there. Such men as Whitney, Collier, Overton, Britton, Sinsabaugh, Wiehe, Variel, Hart, Mitchell and other prominent players are not given a ranking. The players are ranked as follows: 1—A. E. Bell; 2—L. R. Free- man; 3—Grant Smith; 4—Drummond MacGavin; —Percy Murdock; 6— Will Allen; 7—Archie Way; 8—George Baker; $—Charles Dunlap; 10—Clar- ence Griffin. 2 . Mpyers of Marysville, Kans.; H. C. Lowe ot Lawrence, Kans., and J. J. Lavin of St. Louis have all added English dogs to their kennels recently. Coursing has been commenced by the Chicago Coursing Club at Mount Green- wood, outside that city. The park em- braces forty acres and is equipped to Harold Mel- promote coursing in up-to-date style. | The club officials intend to bid for the | Waterloo and for other big American stakes. James O’Leary, the bookmaker, was represented in the first stake by Trou- blesome, a son of St. Clair and by Yan- kee Dime. Among the other owners represented were J. M. Crennan, John Russell, Thomas McCarthy, C. E. Root, J. D. Cunningham, Allen & Wilson, P. Loftus and J. J. Galvin. Ed Neaves, who was here with Rus- sell, Allen & Wilson's dogs some years since, was the judge. William Dunne handled the slips. The coursing at Union Park to-mor- row will commence upon the arrival of the 10:15 o'clock train. The stake has an unusually classy look. Pocatelli and Fair Tralee will meet in the semi-final round of the Grand National Cham- pion stakes. While Pocatelli will be the natural favorite, the Cronin represe- sentative has many friends. The likely winners in the big stake look to be: Frisky Barbara, FPalo Alto. Duhallow, Wedgewood, Dear Gaston, Richard Anton, Cubancla, Tobasco Bob, Sacramento Tralee Boy, Rural 4 Rector, Sea ! Homer Boy. Article, R % Rich Argosy, Free Born, Terah. Haphazard, Rir Winton, Friendless Boy, Joe Pasha, Rocker Arm, Amandan, Real Paska. The star course of the first round in the stake at Ingleside Park to-morrow is expected to result from the meeting of Young Fearless and Prompto. Among the other entries are Quita and Black Coon. The likely winners look to be: Viking, Pepper Hill, Yellowtall, Northern Alarm, Sofala, Young Fearless, Wattles, Prometheus, Mark Twain, Tralee Lass, Pasha Pleasant, Liberator, Young Johnny Rex, Black Coon, Luxury, Apple Blossom, Helen Hayes, Colored Lady, Quita, Commercial Traveler, Ragged Actor, Fiddler, Firm Fellow, Toronto, Jefry Wright, Fenii, Concora Boy, Glancing Pasha, Vina, Maid o' thg Glen, Orsina, ford Belle. —————— ‘WOULD ADOPT LITTLE GIRL.—George H. Brewer and his wife, Roberta, yesterday asked leave of the Superior Court to adopt Lova Es- telle Willlams, a little girl whom they took from the Maria Kip Orphanage. The little one’s motker is dead and ber father has abandoned in the best of form that his | GOLFERS READY FOR THE ANNUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS | Tournament of the Northern California Golf Associa- tion to.Be Played To-Day — { Dr. Bruce Goff Back in Lon- don, After Visiting Many ! Courses in South America W i Promptly at 9 o'clock this morning play will begin on the links of the San Rafael Golf Club in the annual tour- nament for the men’s amateur cham- pionship of the Northern California Golf Assoclation. The contest will be over 36 holes, medal play. The com- petitor who returns the lowest score will earn the title of champlon of the Northern California Golf Association for 1904 and the gold medal of the as- sociation, while the runmer-up will re- ceive the silver medal of the assocla~ tion. The holder of the championship is A. G. Harvey of the San Rafael Goif Club, who won it from nineteen com- petiters on the Happy Valley links last year. W. P. Johnson of the Oakland The San Golf Club was the runner-up. { Rafael course is in excellent condition, | being covered with good turf which is still perfectly green and springy. It was intended to hold this year's con- test on the Presidio course, but the frequent drills of cavalry have cut up | the links so badly that it would be fmpracticable to hold a championship tournament. | Dr. Bruce Goff, who is well knewn te i many of the members of the San Fran- cisco Golf Club, having played over the | Presidio course several times, is back |in London, England, having arrived | there from South America about April He found some good golf co es | in and around Buenos Ayres. He holds the golf championship of Sussex, Eng- |1and, but was greatly handicapped in this year's competition, W h took place in the last week of April, by the lack of his faverite clubs, which he left at the Presidio clubhouse. He 1 tends to write an article d pti | Californian golf courses for the Illus- | trated Sport News. The art ted photegraph | Inkersley and « sented to D San Fra Golf C golfers having championst been d States and case of first- | the caddie does not matter. Britain players the identit Indeed, a | crack player would probab concerted and put off his game by ad- vice, however sound and we In the case, however, of pt skill and knowledge, the friendly co sel of a crack player who knows the game cannot fail to valuable. A com- petitor helped in this way in an im- | portant contest would certainly have | an advantage over others who had to depend on the ordinary caddie. Though it seems inadvisable to interfere w the freedom of selection of golfers, it appears better that in competitions where prizes or honors are at stake, lddies should not be permitted to avail themselves of the services of m rela- tives who are expert players, but should be obliged to select from the caddies employed on the links where the tour nament ig played A i e CALIFORNI REDWOOD IS FINELY REPRESENTED Entire Exhibit Is Now in St. Louis, Where It Attracts Attention of Multitudes Daily. For the first time millions who arey visitors to St. Louls will have an op< portunity of seeing California redwood displayed in all its beauty. The last shipments were made a few days ago. Some of the specimens are worth $100 a thousand feet. Beauty is the least recommenda- tion. Redwood is practically inde= structible. Of all lumber it is best adaptad for the outside finish of buildings. It is largely used for that | purpose in the various forms known as | siding, rustic shingles, etc., for the reason that when se: ned it is not affected by any change of condition | | lHable to be brought about by weather i influences. | When dry will neither shrink, swell nor lose its evenness of texture. Buildings where it is used are not easily susceptible to danger from fire. It contains no pitch nor resin and when ignited is at once extinguished by the use of water and it does not re- ignite. This makes it safer for out- side construction of buildings, or for other purposes where wood or similar inflammable material must be used. All this should appeal strongly to | owners of buildings. | —_—— Fish Commission Is Active. R. Saling, H. S ng, W. Chalfant and E. Sorg have been arrested by deputies of the Fish Commission in Merced County for killing plover dur- ing the close season. J. E. Begarma and J. W. Galpin have been arrested in Butte County for using set nets. Justice of the Peace Masterson of San Pablo has fined A. Cluna, P. Kosich, J. Claire and S. Bassi $20 each for catching undersized striped bass. C. | Baldocchi and A. Craviotto, pro- | prietors of a McAllister-street mar- }ket, have been arrested by depu- ties of the Fish Commission for of- fering undersized b: for sale. —_——— “Lucky” Baldwin Must Settle. The Supreme urt decided yester< day that “Lucky” Baldwin must pay Albert Roche, as assignee of Henry Highton, the sum of $6727 10 in re- turn for legal services rendered by the last named in the damage suit brought against the capitalist by Lillian As ley. Baldwin claimed that he and Unruh, his secretary, had made a pri- vate agreement with the attorney in regard to remuneration for services rendered,