The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1904, Page 10

10 T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TURDAY, MAY 14, 1904 CORINTHIAN IS B VACHTSMEN HOLD MEMBERS' NIGHT AT CLUBHOUSE —————— San Francisco Tars to Play-in | Ladies to Engage in Putting | Billiard Tournament and Other Games at Sausalito D bt OPEN DATE TO-MORROW | D S QOakland Canoe Club to Open Season Quietly This After- noon With Races on Creek SRR e At the house of the San Francisco Yacht Club &t Sausalito there will be &n entertainment to-night for the bene- fit of the members who do mot own yachts por form part of the regular crew of any craft. It consists of a bril- liard tournament, games and other amusements. To-morrow will be an open date on e schedules of the San Francisco, Corinthian, California and South Bay Yacht clubs. The tide floods all morn- Fort | | | | Polnt. This is fa cruise to the upper bay and many wyachts will be found at Paradise Cove off the EI C shore to-morrow. | yening ason will- take 1 at the clubhouse > Club on Sessions Owing to the re- the family of Com- art, the affair wil d to canoe races, eists are looking forward to ugh the s have chting, 1e three club: joint commit- noe races will be ip contest. All the iicaps and the vy be entered an ub in the estuary. will take place over of the e south shore d the third will be over half miles to wind- r and a half miles to lee- er waters of the creek The an the on last Satur- first race of ito proved unin- vachts he schooner rpr Witch. Th They dropped an- the night. Witch i the lejo . 30 on ger crossed the Sausalito at finishing e at ed time of 5 hours s. The sloop Alice line at 4:30 p. m., 7 hou min- Deducting her allow- ours, Alice’s corrected nutes 30 seconds, than that of the won the first and id not finis beir m MODE} SHOW YACHT BUILDERS MARKED ACTIVITY D. W. Irwin Will Launch and Christen a New Flyer To-Morrow at Spreckels Lake. Owing to a lack of wind it was im- possible for the model yacht owners to #ail last Sunday on Spreck- Gate Park. For s i Golden th no races were held. There w good races to-morrow if the is at all favorable. D. Irwin w launch and chris- ten his new mode]l on Sunday. If she gails as well as she looks she should prove fa w. « dy has sold the Zulu and is building a new boat. Many are of the opinion that the Zulu would have proved a winner had she been given 1 by her owner. me unaccountable way Vice re London’s Imp and Adams 1 antee were cracked almost m end to end. The Imp has been lergoing repairs and is expected to be out on Sunday. ollier Bros.’ sloop Fannie is prov- faster than her owners expected @nd will play a prominent part in fu- races. 5. Adams is draughting the lines his speedy Santee. liam Roeckner, one of the club's t members, has again announced he will build no more models. He built seven since the lakt an- nouncement two years ago. He de- es this is final, but the club mem hope not. per » © numerous spectators who crowd the path used by them and their assistants. The races can be seen just as well from the other path and the boats could be handled better with less interference, they have | of the | ise and | The other | a sloop he claims will be faster' given | nclude with | Club fleet | that | y night were | little | | rest following at | P Annie started | | | ht owners have béen ham- | | women’s | the Sandwich course before. MEN'S HANDICAP GOLE CONTEST AT SAN RAFAEL Competition on the Links of Club in Happy Valley | A handicap over eighteen holes will | engage the attention of the men and a putting competition will occupy the ladies on the course of the San Rafael | Golf Club to-day. The course in Happy Valley was in fair condition for the | competition for the men's amateur championship of the Northern Califor- nia Golf “Association last Saturday. Getting off the course was, however, heavily penalized on account of the thick growth of grass. The general im- pression among the players was that Harvey’s second victory in the cham- pionship competition proves him to be the most brilliant golfer in the State. Though not so imperturbably steady as C. E. Maud, he is capable of more bril- liant play than the winner of the men's | amateur championship of the Pacific = Coast Golf Association In March, 1903. | high water being-at 12:21 p. m. &l“ It is a curious coincidence that Walter | vorable for a| Fairbanks, who has held the amateur championships of Southern California and of the Pacific Coast Golf Associa- tion, comes from the same public school in England—Clifton College. It is also a striking illustration of the fact that | golf is a game for all ages, for at Clif- ton, Walter Fairbanks was the form- master and A. G. Harvey the pupil Both players demonstrate the fact that | men who have been distinguished other sports take kindly to golf and e: cel in it. Fairbanks was a fine crick- eter, being a member of the Cambridge University eleven in his undergraduate in ing held the py M Golf ic school record for the rd hurdle race. s Mabel Higgins of the Midlothian Club, Chicago, holder of the championships of Southern California and Florida, was; beaten 3 up 2 to play in the 0penin§ round of the women’s championship at Troon, Scotland. She was unlucky in being drawn against Miss Rhona Adair, the English woman champion, and so being put out of further participation in the contest. Walter J. Travis, the national ama- teur champion; John Moller Jr., Simeon Ford and M. Byers are in Europe. Travis, Moller. and Byers will take part in the contest for the amateur cham- pionship of Great Britain, which begins | on the 30th inst. on the Sandwich link in the scuth of England. ' Simeon Ford is known t as a witty speaker, but he is also an enthusiastic player on the links of the Apawamis Golf Club at Rye. J. Moller Jr., Mrs. Moller, W J. Travis and Simeon Ford go first to Scotland, where they will play on the St. Andrew’s links and other well- known courses. Toward the end of the month they will reach Sandwich and practice there a little before the cham- pionship event. Travis has played on He ex- pects®to return to New York at the end of June and to defend his title as amateur champion of the United States in September. At the approaching championship meeting at Sandwich the teeing grounds are to be set back to their farthest limits and golfers will watch with in- terest how average drivers come out with limit tees and rubber balls. In previoug years there has been com- plaint on the part of amateurs and professionals that the strain of such long and high driving as is required in the Sandwich course is too hard on some competitors, The solicitors or attorneys (who con- stitute the ‘lower branch of the legal profession in England, barristers being the higher branch) of London have formed a gclfing society, of which T. Rawle, vice president of the Law So- ciety, is president. The members of the bar in London already have a suc- cessful golfing society and it is to be expected that the medical men—physi- cians, surgeons and general practi- tioners—will follow with a society. It is probable that scme of the lead- ing amateurs of Great Britain will come over to this country to take part in the Olympian golf championship contests 10 be held at the St. Louis Exposition in September: and Harvey was a sprinter, hav- | EING TUNED UP FOR PERPETUAL CUP RACE OAKLAND SLOWLY OVERTAKENG THE HEADLINE TIGERS First Three Clubs in Race Closely Bunched and the Leaders May Be Overtaken | So far the pennant race in the Pa- | cific Coast Baseball League has been the most interesting since the old days. A LEASHMEN SOUND WARNING NOTE 0 SPORT'S FITURE Like the Horsemen They See Danger in the Use of Stimulating Embrocations e Sportsmen, with a keen desire to see coursing maintain its place among the high class sports of the field, are sound- 2 4 PERPE SLOO] Qo ge CHALLENGER CORINTHIAN, WHICH N IS BE- TUAL CUP RACES WITH THE SAN P CHALLENGER. THE PHOTOGRAPH Three clubs, Tacoma, Oakland and Los Angeles, are separated by but a few games, and the leadership is liable to change at any time. Already the head- line position has switched on four oc- casions. Tacoma has held the lead | longer than her two rivals, Oakland and Los Angeles, and since jumping to the front the last time the Tigers are playing the game of their lives. Oakland is fast cutting down the lead held by the northerners, and if nothing goes wrong with Peter in the next month or so he will surely be perched at the top of the ladder. Hard luck has interfered with the forward advance of the Oakland veteran in the last few weeks, otherwise Mike Fisher would not be so securely entrenched in the lead. 1 Seattle has not lived up to expecta- tions. The team made a great impres- sion when seen here, and inany fans conceded the pennant to Wilson ere the season had well begun. But, like all slugging aggregations, the Seattle- ites have their off days frequently, and when they go up against a ball team that plays the game steadily they gen- erally find themselves outplayed and outclassed. San Francisco has proved itself a good sticking aggregation, but it takes a whole lot of hits to score a reason- | able amount of runs for the Harris bunch. They lack that team rk and that ginger which characterize the play of the Oakland and Tacoma teams. | Then they are slow on the bases, hence {many eolid base hits are wasted in every game. The work of Umpire Jim McDonald | { has been faultless since he began to wield the indicator in this city. Al- though ill and infirm and fit for the hospital, Jim has appeared time and again on the field and umpired ball of which no one has reason to complain. In fact, there have been less kicks reg- istered in the past few wecks than at lnny other time during the season. | The payrolt of the navy is $20,000,000 ) & year. CORINTHIAN SAILS WELL I¥ TRIALS chht of Novel Design Shows \ Speed in Light Winds and Shonld Prove Weatherly Gl e 2 The sloop Corinthian, built by the Corinthian Yacht Club to challenge for the San Francisco perpetual challenge cup, held by W. G. Morrow’s Chal- lenger. is of almost exactly opposite design to her speedy rival. She is ex- tremely shailow, of light draft, great beam and extreme overhangings at| bow and stern. She carries a center- | board, whereas the (™ -7 -, has a fin keel. The Corinthian has been out on three | or four trial spins, but the breezes she | has encountered have been light and | the water smooth. Under these con- ditions she foots fast, the lightest air | serving to send her along. It is ex- pected that she will ~rove herself an able and weatherly craft in a strong wind. The struggle between her and the Challenzer promises to be an ex- ceedingly interesting vue and is being looked forwarGc to by all lovers of yachting on the bay. —_———————— Involuntary Bankrupt. Cahn, Nickelsburger & Co., George H. Young, Baughman Shoe Company and Buckingham & Hecht, creditors, filed a petition yesterday in the United States District Court asking that Pas- quale Magnelli be declared an involun- | tary bankrupt. The petition racites that on May 9, 1904, Magnelli allowed Frank Filomeo to obtain a judgment against his property for $501 and that an execution was levied upon Mag- | nelli’s property at 245 Tehama street. He is alleged to be indebted to the petitioners-in the sum of §S00. : under fire and never wavers, no mat- ! from the beginning of the season, STREAMS ARE HIGH FOR THE ANGLERS Wielders of Rods Awaiting With Proper Patience for| Jetter Fishing Conditions — The army of trout fishermen are still displaying the same quality of patience which is so desirable on the stream. The trout are not taking the fly yet, fo it will, apparently, be the glorious days of June before the sport will com- mence in earnest. The large fish have gone from the coast streams, but great numbers of four and fiversinch fish are being taken. The Truckee is still high, but from appearances it will be good two weeks | hence. The Klamath is high, but some large fish have been taken there on the spoon. The fishing is steadily im- proving in the vicinity of Sims, on the Upper Sacramento. L. Bleakmore and a friend left for Point Arena yesterday to fish the Garcia. Favorable reports have been received from the river during the week. . L, Weil fished the Purissimo recently and secured some good-sized trout. Some four-pounders have been taken recently below the dam at the Country Club Verdi. Herman Griff and A. J. Muller caught eighty-five striped bass at San Pablo last Saturday. The fish averaged four pounds in weight, A. Mehlert and a friend took twenty- eight, the largest weighing thirteen | pounds. W. Baines and J. B. Kenniff will try | their luck on the bass to-morrow at| San Pablo. ———————— Gossin of Ball Players. { Buchanan looks like one of the best | pitchers in this league. There is noth-| ing which goes to fool a batsman that| the big Texan does not possess, and, | besides. he is as steady as a rock when | ter how strained the situation may be. Although pitching magnificent ball he | has not won half of his games, hard | { luck robbing him of many a victory. | Former Californians are not doing so | well in the big leagues this year. Joe | Corbett still - lacks a victory, while | Pfeister and Thompson, former Pacific ! National League pitchers, have been | released by Pittsburg. “Keg” Byers hagl caught on all right at St. Louis, anu‘. Jesse Stovall is vitching some good ball for Detroit. ‘Lumley cannot strike his batting gait with Brooklyn. Van Buren has improved sihce joining the Phillies. ing a warning note against the use of powerful stimulants externally, on the muscles, or internally on the heart, to accelerate the speed of greyhounds. Turfmen are taking severe measures in the same direction, as they know such practices strike at the very foun- dation of any sport. In the case of greyhounds it injures the running dogs and must impair the breed of grey- hounds for years to come. In addition to this it will take from coursing the | support which it has thrived in the past. Bettors will not risk their money if the practice becomes general while honest coursing men will refuse to enter their dogs where they will meet competitors that are running on something which training and pure food will not develop. It is a short-sighted policy to bring off a small betting coup in which a few paltry dollars are involved and which may mean the end of an ancient sport. The California coursing men are as- certaining quietly the feelings of their Eastern friends in regard to running the American Waterloo here. If the Eastern owners will send their grey- hounds to this edge of the continent a strong effort will be made to secure the classic event. It has never been run here. This week’s meeting at Ingleside Coursing Park will extend over two days, a 112-dog stake making up the card. The running will commence to- day at 11:30 o'clock. The sport will be resumed to-morrcw at 11 o'clock. The entries include Doc Burns, Red Pepper, Conroy, Pasha Pleasant, Black Coon, Ragged Actor, Homer Boy, Reckless Acrobat, Jerry Wright and others. The likely winners look to be: Feni, Gold Lily, Manru, Conroy, Sofala, Red Pepper. Bob R, Our Myra, Texas Black Lips, Real Pasha, Mark Twain Doc Burns, Nellle M, Bolendine, Vinu, Her K old, Real Duchess, vyes. 'Pasha nt, Northern Alarm, Frank Dunne, Pép- per Jack, Articulate, Belfast. Imperious, Gold- en Garier, Medley, Colored Lady. Black Coon, Terra Cotta, Thetis, Humbug, Ragged Actor, Bright_Columbla. Miss Brummel, Jessie Dear, on Lily York, Luxury, Commercial Traveler, | Homer Boy, Little Luey, Silver Cloud, Aurelta, Pure Peari, Don Pedro. Reckless Acrobat, Orsina, Royal Friend, Apple Blossom, Roy | Hughie, Jerry Wright, Royal Spirit, Wattles, Tralee Lass. The Grand National Champion Stakes | at Union Ccursing Park has reached the last trials in the semi-final round. Barge and Rubber Ankles, pronounced the best looking brace of greyhounds in America, will meet to-morrow. The winner will be eligible for the final against Pocatelli. Barge has great speed and cleverness, but he is con- sidered somewhat fainthearted by coursing autherities. The dainty Rub- ber Ankles shows great stamina, im- proving as she runs down into a stake. It will probably take the full five courses to decide the winner. The coursing - will commence to-morrow upon the arrival of the 10:15 train. The likely winners: Honest John, McVey, Duhallow, Rural Az~ | |in the opinion PACIFIC ELEVE IN FIRST MATCH OF THIS SEASON Champions of 1902 Will Try Conelusions Sunday With Pennant Winners of 1903 PSR ASeS STRONG TEAMS IN FIELD White Canvas Is to Be Stretched at Alameda to | Aid the Batsmen at Wicket . The Pacific cricket eleven will play its first regular match of the season on the grounds at Webster street, Ala- meda, to-morrow, and the San Fran- | { cisco County team will be in the fleld | for the second time this year. The Pacific representatives will be: J. W. Myers, H. C. Casidy, A. W. Wilding, E. H. Lannowe, Dr. O. N. Taylor, H. D. Bowly, W. Petherick, F. Lewin, Norman Legan, T. W. Bewley and H N. Storrs or E. H. Wilkes. The San Francisco County Club eleven will be selected from the following: H. B. | Richardson (captain), E. G. Sloman, B. Kortlang, T. J. A. Tiedemann, H. Rc erts, E. M. Petersen, P. R. John, C Irish, W. R. Stewart, A. E. J. Chivers, H. Dixon, J. McCullough, R. Shand, J. | Greer and A. Weaver. ! In ericket matches of any importance in Great Britain it is the usual practice to have sheets of white canvas stretched at each end of the field In a line with the wickets. These have | never been used by cricketers here,” though they are a great help to the batsmen, preventing people moving about in a line with the wickets and distracting their eyes. It is propused to set up these screens on the Alameda ground and it is likely they will be ready for use to-morrow. The official list of members of the Santa Cruz Cricket and Athletic Club has been sent in to the secretary of the California Cricket Association. It con- W, tains the names of twenty-two mem- bers, as follow F. Hilton, Stephen Stagg, A. Macnamara, A. Jenkins, George Swaine, Montrose Sharpe, F. Gass, W. Howard, W. Sims, A. Neville Bruce Sharpe, E. H. Day, H. H. Davie: | W. E. Thomas, J. Richardson, E. | | Heatheote, Dr. Petrie Ho | Dent, W. Davenhill, S. Catling, E. | Collins and C. P. Jones. | In last Sunday's match between the | San Francisco County and Alameda | teams the umpire was blamed for in- | consistency in his decisions. In ome | case the bowler delivered a ball which | struck the batsman’s body, but the umpire’s decision was that the bats- man was not out, as the ball, if un- hindered in its course, would have missed the wickets by a foot or two. In the other case the same bowler de- livered a ball which was stopped by | the batsman’s body and the umpire gave the batsman out. But in that | case the umpire believed the ball was dropping and would have taken th wicket had it not been impeded. It should be remembered that though the technical term for obstructing a ball is | “leg before wicket,” the law reads, | “The striker is out, if with any part | of his person he stop the ball, which, of the umpire at the bowler's wicket, shall have been pitched in a straight line from it to the striker’s wicket and would have hit it—leg be- fore wicket.” | Spalding’s official cricket guide, with | which the American Cricket Annual for 1904 is incorporated, is out. It is com- piled and edited by Jerome Flannery and is published by the American Sports Publishing Company of New York. The publication was delayed by a fire which completely destroyed the building of the A. S. P. C., with ma club reports, photographs and plates. | It contains an account of the English tour of the Philadelphian team in 1903, when the visitors wen seven matches out of sixteen, beating Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire, Kent, Lancashi Glamorganshire, Leicestershire and Surrey and drawing with Oxford Uni- versity, Hampshire and the Gentlemen of Scotland. The batting and bowling averages of the Pacific and Alameda ericket clubs are given in full and also the scores made in the match played November 26, 1902, between Lord Hawke's New Zealand twelve and the California eighteen. ———— BUTCHERS ARE PREPARING FOR ANNUAL CELEBRATION | | | | | | Shell Mound Park and Oakland Race Track Will Be the Scenes of Sports and Festivities\ The Butchers' Board of Trade of this city Is making elaborate prepara- tions for its annual picnic and racing carnival, which will be held at Shell Mound Park and Oakland race track on Wednesday next. The following committees have been appointed to make final arrangements for the big event: Committee of arrangements—Frank J. Weiss (crairman), Henry Miller, Sam _Hammond, James Allen, 8. Clayburgh, Fred Cairns, S. E. Nutting, Henry Moffat, H. Levy, K. Wertheimer, M. Schweitzer, . W. Phillips, U. M. ., 8. P. Hicks, H. Oswald, Fred Becker, Coombs, P. F. Rathjens, I Poly. Willlam Long. F Kuhnie. Raretrack committee—R. Consani_ (chair- man), W. H. Ngy. John Nowlan, S. P. Clay~ brough, B. L. Fisher. Ccmmittee _on printing—Thomas McKeon (chairman), William Krumecke, F. Frienstahl. Committee on games—Bob Stolle (chairman), Charles Kuhimann, A. Bixble, H. Moleman. Committee on music—F. C. Winters and M. ©O'Connell. Committee on finance—L. Nonneman (chair- man), Charles Flageollet, F. Runde, Charles Redd Committee on gates at racetrack—O. G. Ira Stanford, William | Newhall (chairman), Pitts. Committee on gates at Shell Mound—Robert N. Weiss (chairman), P. J. Stolle, C. H. Rich. st i S e e tist. Pagliaccl, Hudson, Concord Boy, Lost Chord, Tobacco Bob. Quita, Palo Alto, Red Brick, Highborn, Renegade’ Apache. Tralee Boy, Master Rocket, Mickey Free Old Iron- sides, Belle Free, Young Johnny Rex, Racing Auto, Fair Tralée, Lord Brazen, Hapbazard, Qur Motto, Ruby Sankey, Vandal, Ploughman, Ragtime, Rocklin Boy, Sacramento Lass, The Referee. e s Indictments Ignored. The United States Grand Jury yes- terday ignored the charges against Frank Suarez of smuggling cigars and John Dwyer for unlawfully permitting a Chinese laborer to land at Oakland.