The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1904, Page 10

10 SAN HE OCTOBER 8. 1903, PRACTICE COLLEGE SIDNEY DILLOX S T0 BE SOLD IN THE EAST Lively Bidding Is Expected When Sire of Lou Dillon Is Led Into the Ring - - SALISBURY'S BIG STRING S e Engages Forty Stalls at the Pleasanton Track, Where He Will Winter Horses i California is to lose another of its great stallions vears ago an In- diana man paid 000 for McKinney and took him across the mountains, and now dney Dillon, sire of Lou Dillon the world’s champion trotter, He has been consigned by Pierce to the Old York in November, he star attraction of that Speculs s as to of Henry in New be t inual event price he will b cus now that made Last st the trotting stal- lion h since Stamboul sold for $11 ey Dillon will excite lively t d two or three com- m California bidders will be { | , where th‘,-l has been so ted in recent years, | Alexander Brown, pro- | r Walnut Grove stock one of the few extensive trotting breeding farms remaining in the The =ale of the property will not ny change in the holding of the 1 fa re. Mr. Brown will re- his stallions Nushagak and Prince | together with his fine collection od mares, to his new purchase. t Grove farm was partially un- last winter during the over- »f the Sacramento River, and it secure a place that high and that he purchased the Woodland a id to has sent word to iton track management that d forty stalls during the season this winter, which will larger than | The “king maker” Pleasanton within a week Memphis meeting der his charge, are owned by | York, have won | Grand Circuit | e Salisbury s be the and his is the largest money on he greatest trotters on the cuit in years is the handsome | lding Aristo (2:08%), which won ford stakes at 2. One of his front injured early in the 1l his races it looked | rmal size. He started of which he won two, times and unplaced met Sweet Marie (2:05), iz) and all the best ones wing was remark- he is the grandest Aristo’s winnings to date. He was sired a son of Sable Wilkes, Alexander Brown of Sacramento County, to James Butler of New its n: who =old hin York last May for $10,000. Work on the new trotting track and fair grounds at Santa Cruz began this Grove, The track will be a regulation | and an effort is being made to mile have the State fair held there in 1905. There is no doubt but what popular sentiment is against the use of hopples and a close observer can plainly see that this sentiment is steadily grow- ing. The only thing, seemingly, that stands in the way at the present time i= how to accomplish the change with the least injury to the owner of the present hoppled horse. Several plans have been suggested. Among the latest and, it would seem, best, to the notion of many, 1s one emanating from Secre- tary Knight of the American Trotting Association, for it appears to be prac- tical in every way. His plan is to in- corporate in the rules a mandatory provision that no horse can start in a race in hopples excepting those that have acquired a record while wearing the “Indiana pajamas.” They would have the effect of immediately putting a stop to the training of horses with the pajamas while green and at the same time allow those who now wear | them to still use them. This would | also bring the change and complete the abolishment of their use without harm to any person. As one writer says, re- garding this plan: “There would, of course, arise a question of the handicap that the unsteady, unhoppled ones would have against the old hoppled campaigners, yet this would not be any greater, in fact would be much less, than the other plan of setting some certain date, say, two years hence, when hopples would be barred alto- gether, which would practically end the racing career of many of the horses that now race with their legs tied. Al- together, Knight's plan is worthy of consideration and discussion with a view to having a proper adjustment of the question when the turf congresses meet this fall.” It looks as if the $7000 Pacific Breed- ers’ Futurity for foals of mares bred this year will break all previous rec- ords for this stake, of which this will | be the fifth renewal. It does not close | for nomination of mares ungil next Sat- urday, October 15, but Secretary Kel- ley of the Breeders’ Association has al- ready received more than eighty en-| tries. Last year one week before the | date of closing of stake No. 4 about half | this number had been received, yet the stake received 402 entries. It is ex- pected the number will reach 500 this year. —_—— Glee Club to Go South. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 7. The Sandforé Glee and Mandolin clubs wili make an extended tour of Southern California during the Christ- mas holldays, giving concerts at all the principal cities. ———— s The Sultan of Turkey aims to out- - live all his predecessors. CTOACH LAN ONE OF THE TEAM IN FPUNT AGAN INSTRUCTING NG — TEREST SHOWN [N COMING GAME \ Meeting of the Olympic and | California Elevens To-Day | Should Prove Exciting | e i BERKELEY, Oct. 7.—The football players and enthusiasts of the Univer- | sity of California are looking forward | with a great deal of interest to to-mor- | row’s game between the varsity and the | Olympic team. The eleven from lhe} club across the bay felt sure of winning the contest scheduled to take place Sep- tember 24, and would surely have put up a warm fight if the game had not been called off. California will be much | stronger to-morrow than she was two | weeks ago, and if the visitors win they | will earn their victory well. The ground | will be wet on account of the rain, and | a considerable amount of fumbling may | be expected. Last Saturday’s game with the Sher- man Indians has raised the spirits of | every one who hopes that the blue and | gold will carry off the championship this year. The varsity played admira- | bly, and if the squad can continue im- | proving as fast for the next five weeks as it has for the last three Stanford | will have a run for its money. In spite | of the fact that several of the best men | of last year are not playing this season, there are some new boys who are likely | to perform wonders before the last game is over. Sperry stands a chance of becoming | a splendid back. He has the strength, bulk and speed which go to make up a | crackajack. Mead is another man who will help make the scores look big.| Stern and Force are doing finely in the line, and from present indications they will not be so easy for Stanford as some | of the center men were last year. Oliver | is good for one end and Howard for the | other, although Caminetti or Henry | may crowd one of them out. Heitmul- ler is, of course, a tower of strength. Gray is doing well at guard, and White and Lassater have good chances to start in the big game if they keep at| work. Competition for nearly every place is keen, and that is bound to raise the standard of the team. Practice has| been going on regularly all the week. | Every aspirant with any kind of abil-| ity is getting a show, and the line-up | for the supreme struggle will consist | of the eleven best men. The men are getting plenty of falling on the ball, catching punts, stopping line and end plays and breaking inter- | ference. Every day there are large crowds of spectators, and nonme of the men are allowed to forget that they are working for California. During the week the men who are most likely can- didates have been sent to quarters and the training table, where they will get all the care a good athlete needs. The rumors that some men were breaking training have subsided, and with the close watch that is being kept by the coaches little further trouble of that variety may be expected. The in- juries suffered by the men thus far have been slight, which goes to show tbat their condition on the whole is| good. After to-morrow comparisons can be made with the team that supports| the cardinal, and coaches and prognos- ticators will find their way a trifle lighter. —_——— Tacrosse Association. Two or three teams left the Lacrosse League during the present season, but it is belleved that a strong organiza- tion will be formed next year, as the games played during 1904 have done much to increase public interest. The California Lacrosse Association offi- cers are: W. Blackwell, president; J. D. Robertson, treasurer; F. H. Lynch, secretary; Max Rosenfeld, R. R. I'Hommedieu, M. J. Tansey, P. Lyons, F. Burden and J. J. Brennan, mem- bers of the executive committee. ——————— Mwmmmml in Paris. FRESINEN ELEVEN NEEDS COACHING Cardinal FEnthusiasts Are Not Satisfied With Work * of This Year's Baby Team - STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. With the intercolle te freshmar game with the University of California only one week off, all the attention of the cardinal supporters has been cen- tered on the*work of the Stanford baby team. The fast work against Oakland two v d the coacl and st of confiden among tk members 2 The tie c with when th * boys and outgeneraled tne colle showed that any feeling of confidence w dly misplaced, and that the out- look for an intercollegiate victory was far from bright. | The work of the freshmen through- out the season has been disappointing. t Coming out with the larg has ever represented an en great things were juad th ng class, but little expecte has been jnaterialized. The line, sup- posed to be the mgest, has own | itself pitiably weak. The Belmont | halves sifted through it in the last| game at will. The backs were also | furnishing a poor exhibition of f ,r»‘ ball, and, barring one or two brilliont individual plays, their work was a dis- | appointment to the coaches. With one more week's steady p tice, Coach Hauverman may be able to put on the touches that are needed, and on the final day send a strong team on the field. Coach Lan an did the same thing last year and took California by surprise Freshman | games are all a gamble, the team that | gets the first jump generally winning out, even though it be the weaker. The addition of Horton and Tomasini, the two big tackles who e been play- | ing on the varsity squad all season, to the freshman line will add greatly to the young team’s strength, and will give the men a new feeling of ag- gressiveness. The bacl will go through strenuous signal practice all week, and they should round into shape in time for the game. The varsity has been unfortunate this | week in the number of men injured, and many substitutes have been play- ing on the big team. Weller, Chalme and Brennan, the three backs, have all | been laid up at different times. West and Hyde have water on the knee, | and the other players are sore from the hard training. The Olympic game was a bad one, and the men have not all recovered from the effects of it. Be- | cause of this Coach Lanagan has spent | the week at signal practice and in de- | veloping fast team play. He has only | permitted one scrimmage game. | | The absence of Hyde at center has necessitated a change in the line-up of the first eleven. Shields, last yvear's. tackle and one of the shiftiest men on | the team, has been moved from the | right tackle’s position, and wiil pass the ball from center. Tomasim, the | freshman player, is filling Shields’ place. This change should benefit the team, as it adds a strong player to the center, the place which has been the weakest. “Savage” Dole will return to the game. The followers of college footbalil | received the news from Coach Lanagan | yesterday. Dole is one of the best | | half-backs the Stanford squad has | ever had. He is not a spectacular | player, but he is wonderfully conslst—l ent, equally good on blocking up a play or running with the ball. He is a first-class punter, and his presence in the line-up will add strength to ! the team. i —_—— BARS WAY TO HOME.—A spite fence \! the cause of an injunction suit flied yesterday by L. Valentini against Michael and Margarct ly. Fle says that they are building a bar- rier across of hae 124 Alta_street, which he has owned for thirt years. n': m that they thum:h:er-or'uyl violerice interfering with the fence, and the court is asked for relies g | obstructing a fielder. BHAMSBACH CAPTAN LA A, {N 08 THE FIELD Yeteran Cricketers to Wield Willows in a Mateh Remi- niscent of Schoolboy Days | Though the cricket championship of 1904 was won last Sunday by the San Francisco County Club, one or two matches will be played before the n i rought to a close. To- the ground at We > will be T Henry Ward of fesin Ev S Club will from whom the sides will be J. Addison, A. E. . Britten, C. Boulton, y Dixon, Jvans, J. James Lowe, Lean, Captain , C. W. Irish, R. Jones, Captain W Ward and ( man. The mem of both teams playing for the championship last Sunday must have been nervous, for the first nine men of the Alameda eleven scored only 27 runs in all, and, though Harold Ward added 28 runs off his own bat, he should have been given out by the umpire for When the score had reached 45 runs the Alameda cap- tain bumped into B. J. atton, who was in the act of catching the ball. Of the San ¥rancisco tes scored only a dozen runs, the whole score being made by Captain Richard- son (65) and E. J. Stratton (29). Henry Roberts bowled well for San Francisco, capturing seven Alameda wickets for 35 runs. Roberts has bowied consistently well throughaut the season, and, though Davies has a rather better average, Roberts has captured far more wickets. The standing of the clubs for the championship of 1904 is shown in the table: Championship of California Cricket Associa- tion, 1904: Matches. CLUB. 98 guadiag San Franeisco County. Alameda Pacific Saiid = .“‘OOQ m mine | HE R Prompto, i [HOUNDS OF CLASS - ARE COMING 0UT i —_— Young Coursers Shown This | Season in the Big Stakes | Have a Lot of Quality Lon gl One of the best signs of the solid foundation upon which the strain of California greyhounds is founded is ¢ number of good young hounds re is no phenomenal performer like For Freedom, Palo Alto or Pocatelli g them the average class is high. Crawférd, the millionaire St. Louis, has a promis- in Tom Hooker and Agile . both of which have won here recently. The coursing parks are experiencing considerable difficulty in securing res. Owing to the early season there an abundance of green feed in the | San Joaquin and the hares have taken to the foothills. With a severe winter | these conditions will prevail for some time. | The latest advices from the East are to the effect that the American | Waterloo will be run at the meeting | which opens at Friend, Neb., on the 1§th instant. This will continue four weeks., The Mississippi Valley Futur- ity will be the big event of the meet- |ing. The Burke Cup stake and the American Derby, for puppies, will also be run. Only $300 will be added to | the Waterloo Cup, so it will be more |for the honor than for the value that | owners will send their hounds. It is expected Ed Neeves, who spent some time on this coast, will act as { judge. James Sweeney will attend the meet- g. He will have in his string Rocker Arm, Rocked Asleep, Richard Anton and McVey. P. M. Clarkson, who died “on | Wednesday, was prominently identified v !the California Coursing Committee |2nd owned some good greyhounds at different times. An attractive class stake with twen- ty-four entries and a reserve event with forty-eight contenders will pro- vide the card to-morrow at Union Coursing Park. The likely winners lcok to be: Class stake—Tillle R, The Referee, Tralee Lass, Frisky Barbara, Friendless Boy, Little Plunger, Tralee Maid, Fris Pomo: Gambit, Duhallow, '&e"e F"-.;oe e . 4 Reserve stake—Golden Garter, Little Mercy. i Jig: Medley, Royal Spirit, Luxury, amarco, M of Gold, Pasha, Angus ¢h have come out this year. While | th coursing. He was a member of | TOURNAMENT PLAY 10 BE RESUMED Exciting Matches Bay Counties Tennis Cham- pionship for To-Morrow _— in the Play in the first annual.tennis tour- | nament for the championship of the bay counties will be resumed to-mor- row on the park courts. Owing to the numerous defaults and. the fact that the committee had about six courts at its disposal the first and nearly all of ! the second round was completed. When play is over for the day to-morrow it is expected there will be but eight of the sixty-four players left in the com- petition. From now on the best players will come together and the matches will be better than they were last Sunday. In the third round Percy Murdock and R. N. Whitney will meet, as will George Baker and Clarence Griffin. In this round Drummond MacGavin will play George Janes. Despite the fact that the latter beat Will Collier last Sunday he is not conceded a chance against | the coast champion. Grant Smith and | Herbert Long, the clever young player from the California Club, will probably | meet in the third round. Long has two | sets love on Hotchkiss and is expected i | to win his match. Long always makes | | a good showing against Smith in praec- tice. ‘ The best match of the day will be that between Whitney and Murdock. Whitney is playing in his old-time form and Murdock will find him harder to | beat than when they met at San Ra- | fael. The Baker-Griffin match will be an- other interesting one. Griffin disposed of Baker’s younger brother last Sun- day quite handily. Baker was also in fine fettle, as his match with Allen proved. If Baker can play as well as | he did last Sunday Griffin can hardly beat him. In the lower section of the lower half the best man seems to be Noble. He is | not a first-class player, but is expected | to win from Hotchkiss. | In the upper section of the top half | Baker is expected to win out. Mac- Gavin is conceded the other place in this half. In the upper part of the bot- tom half there are three men who have about an equal chance. They are Whit- ney, Murdock and Smith. The latter eets the winner of the Whitney-Mur- ack match and the winner goes into the semi-finals. A new tournament committee has been appointed at the California Club, and in future there will be more tour- naments. The committee is composed of Drummond MacGavin, C. J. Smith and Dr. Lovegrove. They will meet early next week and will arrange a schedule for the winter months. Aside from the handicap doubles tourna- ments for the Directors’ cups, there will be class, handicap and scratch events. Many of the old-time players of the club have again become members and will figure in the tournaments. —_—————————— FINAL LACROSSE MATCH | WILL BE PLAYED SUNDAY an Mateo and Olympic Teams Ready to Line Up for a Fare- well Contest. On C. W. Clark’s polo fleld at San Mateo, at 2:30 p. m. to-morrow, the ball will be faced in the last lacrosse match of the season. The opposing teams will be the San Mateo and the Olympic Club. At the last meeting be- tween these teams, about three weeks ago, the Olympic representatives won | six goals to three. The Olympic Club | team in to-morrow’s match will con- | sist of Jones, goal; Dunn, point; De | Villiers, coverpoint; McQuade, first de- | fense; Petersen, second defense; Crilly, third defense; Chambers, center; Tay- | lor, third home; Judge, second home; Darragh, first home: Scanlon, outside; Strang, inside; Mountz and Delcescaux, spares; C. H. Minto, captain; R. R. I'Hommedieu, referee; Blackwell, timekeeper. For some time the San Francisco Lacrosse Club has been endeavoring to arrange a match between the play- ers of this city and of Los Angeles, | but it is not likely the inatch will come | off. The Los Angeles plafers demand- | ed a guarantee of their traveling and hotel expenses and a share of the gate receipts. The San Francisco club is unable to accede to these terms. The lacrosse championship of the State is thus left in doubt. The San Francisco | team won a clear victory over the San Mateo twelve, and the San Mateo team | own city. A series of matches between |the San Francisco and Los Angeles teams would have been interesting, be arranged. L —_— week will be limited to one day. Two stakes will be run in their entirety to- morrow. The likely winners: gty g City, Mabel S, Helen Hayes, e, e, T i ers, A Du Polka Dot, Frank '{:u““hfikl:.' it Tt W Class l | and it is to be regretted it could not |. [ TIBURON TARS SAIL ROUND TO PARADISE COVE Clam Chowder and Delicacies Will Be Served to Hungry Tars Upon Beach To-Night SMALL YACHT REGATTA Annual Race of the Mosquito Fleet to Be Held Over Upper Bay Course Sunday As the power boat regatta set down for to-morrow on the programme of the San Francisco Yacht Club will not take place, to-day and Sunday are open dates for the members. On Sat- urday, the 15th inst., the fleet of the California Yacht Club will cruise over to Sausalito and drop anchor there for the night. On Sunday, the 16th Inst., the combined fleets of the San Fran- cisco and California clubs will cruise outside the heads. The Corinthian fleet will cruise to Paradise Cove to-nignt, where the chowder will be served on shore. To- morrow a regatta for small sailboats will be held over a course off Paradise Cove. Closing days are approaching rapid- ly. The San Francisco Club will take its closing cruise on Sunday, the 23d irst, while the Corinthian and Cali- fornia clubs have their last cruises of the season set for Sunday, the 30th. Last Saturday night several yachts of the Corinthian fleet cruised over to Sausalito and dropped anchor there, among them being Commodore T. Jen- nings’ gloop Speedwell, the sioops Nix- fe, Genesta, Aeolus. Edna, Emma and Phoenicia. The yawl Emerald anchored off Angel Island. During the evening the yachtsmen went up to the big hall of the clubhouse, where Commodore Jennings and Clarence Ward sang so- los, Vice Commodore J. C. Brickell, F. E. Schober, J. Briggs and “Bunty"™ Short performing various stunts. On Sunday the fleet, augmented by the schooner Lady Ada, the yawl Frolic and the sloops Neptune and Mischief, cruised in the channel. The following San Francisco yachts were under way last Sunday: The flagship Challenger, the sloops Minnetonka, Sappho, Artel, Curlew, Annie, Surprise and Thetis, the schooners Chispa and Challenge, and the yawls Royal and Wave. The wind was light off Sausalito, the yachts not being able to get under way until 2:30 o'clock p. m. Off the San Francisco water front there was a moderate breeze. ————————— LICK TO PLAY POLYTECHNIC. These High School Elevens Meet. The football atmosphere of the Academic Athletic League has been cleared and from now on there will be less squabbling and more playing. Lick’s protest against Polytechnic was not sustained and these two teams will have to play off their tie game. Lick will appeal, but in the meantime the game will be played and the ques- tion of supremacy between them set- tled. The same thing happened last year. Polytechnic protested Lick and in the meantime played and lost to the latter school. Subsequently the protest was sustained and Polytechnic, although beaten decisively by Lick, was declared champien of the sub- league. Polytechnic played Berkeley High in the finals and was beaten. The score was close and many figured that Lick would have beaten Berkeley. One thing was proved last year, and that was that the best team did not win. The rivalry between the city teams is even more keen than that between the teams from different sides of the bay. Lick and Polytechnic are undoubt- edly the best high school teams in the city and that they are evenly matched was demonstrated when they met two weeks ago. Neither side scored and neither had a perceptible advantage. The game must be played off not lat- er than the 15th inst. It is needless to say that coaches and players will do their utmost next week to put the strongest team possible in the fleld. When these two teams come together probably the best academic game ever played in the city will result. Neither team has lost a game. Polytechnic was scored against by Mission, but won easily. Lowell has lost twice and Mission and Wilmerding have withdrawn, so that the game between Lick and Poly- technic will decide the local suprem- acy. Mission, although beaten only once and then not badly beaten, either, got enough and would not play Lick during the week. The default- ing team should have been fined for not sending word beforehand of the intention not to play. The fine of $25 imposed upon Poly- technic will undoubtedly have a ten- dency to make the teams live up to the rules and be less independent. Stringent measures are needed and that they will be resorted to was proved at the committee meeting. —_—— Marian Green Loses Contest, The Sypreme Court has reversed the Superior Court judgment which awarded damages to Marian G. Green in compensation for injuries suffered by her in being thrown from a buggy at the corner of Eddy and Franklin | streets four years ago. The horse ran into some building material left in tha | beat the Los Angeles players in their | street by contractors. She alleged that A. C. Soule was responsible, but the Supreme Court finds he may not have been the guilty person. —_—— ‘Want Physician’s Evidence. Upon application of the attorneys for the executors of the will of Bertha M. Dolbeer, Judge Coffey yesterday or- dered commissions to issue for the taking of the depositions in New York of Dr. Homer Gibney, Dr. George A. Taylor ind C. H. Wilson. The com- mission was issued to Robert P. Lee, who on October 13 will also take the witnesses —:o:h soion by contestant Adolph Schander,