The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 22, 1904, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1904. COLLEGE ELEVENS SHO COACHES ARE ACTIVE Marked Improvement Shown in Practice m§@@m STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 21. The week has been fruitful of great improvement in the playing of Stan- ford's varsity squad. With the fresh- men out the y, the two big teams have had unhampered posses- sion of the field and undivided atten- tion from the coaches, a state of af- of w fairs that has shown marked results already. Another circumstance fa- vorable to rapld improvement is the fact that most of the men who were off duty on account of injuries have resumed their moleskins and are again working back into form. C. E a strong candidate for var: n in the field, after a vacation of two weeks with water on the knee. West, an aspirant ., and who was suffering the able to practice again. Jim Weller, the Cardinal star ullback, was sent to bed last night threatened with a watery kneecap, but He is playing special knee harness imported from the East to protect him against a renewal of the imjury. escaped a severe case. with Shields, who injured his hand in the | machine-shop several days ago, is the only veteran player now off the squad. If he returns before any further casualties occur it will be the first e since the season’s beginning that nford has mustered her full var- force The advent of two more old players this week has changed Stanford's out- ity Jlook materially. W. K. Sprott, who ppearance Wednesday, is strongest tackles ever pro- e cardinal. The problem a rush line has been sim- lified by his addition, but has brought problem for the coaches. is probable that Shields will be put 1t back into the center position, where he was trie for a while recently, and Fresh Horton substituted in his old position of left tackle Preston is the other veteran who ap- peared this week. He will make a strong try for right end against Smith, last year's varsity player. Preston n 1902, but was out with last season. Roosevelt and Dole, the two varsity men who were released from the hos- pital last week, are able to go into the e hardest scrimmage work and their | strength is being felt plainly. Dole's punting is growing more effective da Twenty m t scrimmage work be- tween the first and second elevens has become regular part of the daily routine. In this practice Head Coach L gan d work of the var- istant Coach man guides the second team. squads seer ects the Hauver- The two and the varsity has to put forth every effort to secure one touchdown in the time allowed. Increase of speed and better team work mark the practice each day almost equally strong now | ALL AT SEA ARE CRITICS OF GRIDIRON None Dares Hazard an Opinion a5 fo Outcome of Gams ‘ Next Month. ———e The championship football game be- tween the University of California and | the Stanford University teams is only three weeks distant and none of the critics dares hazard an opinion ~= to | which squad is the better. A com- lpur)son of scores furnishes food for ar- | gument but gives no light on the situ- | ation. The average eleven from the | Blue and Gold varsity squad of six- | teen men is at least a touchdown | stronger than Lanagan’s average team | of from twenty-five to thirty men. That does not prove by any menas that the number of men who may play for | California can defeat the same num- ber of cardinal supporters. Lana- | ®an’s wonderful achievement last year | in bringing his men to the pink of | condition on the day of the big game | leads the critics to conclude he will do =0 again next month. There is such a thing as bringing men into shape too guickly and then having them go stale. This is Cali- fornia’s greatest danger at. present. “Pete” Smith, “‘All-American” Cava- naugh and a number of other grid- iron experts believe Coach Hopper is playing too few men and using them too ard. Lanagan plays his pre- liminary games exclusively for prac- tice and gives every possible candidate for the varsity a chance to show what he can do. California plays every game to win. The Blue and Gold has probably the best of the argument in running | backs. Kern is the best half in the | Western game to-day, according to | the men who know football and have | seen both teams play. Lasater is cer- tain to gain more ground in the big contest than “Jim” ‘Weller unless the Card 1 man learns to get his head down. Bansbach and Stott are both superior to Kitrelle at quarter be- | cause of the latter's slowness. Cali- fornia has other candidates for the position, however, and should be much stronger in any event for the | big game than she is to-day. Stroud is in a class by himself at { center, and Stern, Force and Heitmul- |ler are well worthy to help him in | the line. California’s ends at pres- | ent are inferior to Stanford’s in | breaking up plays and getting down on punts. Up to date the Blue and { Gold line is much better than Stan- | ford’s, but with Sprott and Thompson bac n the game the Cardinal will | make an improved showing. Stanford needs a strong line to stop Mead, White, Graves, Kern and Lasater. Neither team has shown that it possesses any particularly strong play if exception is made of the Cardinal outside-of-tackle plunge which Cali- | fornia will surely learn how to stop | before November 12. Stanford needs some one who is a sure punter to go | into the championship contest. i If the Blue and Gold detachment | does not . go stale and if Lanagan makes the possible and expected im. ! provements in his team, the betting should be even for the big game. X TARS AT BASEBALL Tiburon Amateurs Cruise To-Night to Corinthian Cove The San Francisco Yacht Club will bold its closing dinner and jinks at the clubhouse at Sausalito to-night, dinner beginning at 7 o'clock and the jinks at 8:30. Ferry-boats leave San Francisco for Sausalito at. 5:15, 6:30 and 7:15 p. m., while the returning fer- ry-boat leaves Sausalito at 10:40 p. m. Launches I ving the clubhouse at midnight w bring guests back to the city. This Corint its thoorings thian Cove, afternoon the fleet of the n Yacht Club will cruise from in Belvedere to Corin- where anchor will be dropped for the night. To-morrow morning Port Captain John H. Keefe will convey the provisions and a few guests in a Jaunch to the cove. The annual baseball game will be played on shore The California Yacht Club has no event set down on its programme for to-day or to-morrow, but next Satur- day, the 29th inst., will hold its clos- ing jinks at the clubhouse on Oakland Creek. The closing cruise in squadron will be made on Sunday, the 30th. The South Bay yachtsmen will take | an afternoon sail to-morrow, starting from Alviso at 12 noon. On Sunday, the 30th inst., there will be a barbecue and high jinks at the clubhouse at noon. The yachting season on San Fran- cisco Bay will be closed on the 30th inst. It has been a successful and a pleasant one, the race for the perpet- ual challenge cup having contributed to sustain the interest. The cruises and scheduled events of the San Fran- cisco Yacht Club have not been so well attended as they should have been. The Corinthian events have passed off with the usual spirit and eclat, the | most notable being the entertainment of the members of the Family Club at Paradise Cove. The Corinthians won by far the largest share of the Mac- donough cups at the annual interclub | regatta. It had been hoped that an- other contest would have been seen on September 9 between the Challenger and the Corinthian, but the Corinthian was laid up and dismantled in Stone's yard almost immediately after the race for the perpetual cup. The California Yacht Club Building Association has laid the foundation for its new clubhouse just off the Key route pier and already has steps and a landing. The work of raising funds for the clubhouse, however, has pro- gressed slowly, and some time seems likely to elapse before the yachtsinen | of Oakland Creek are installed in their new quarters. . a— ASKS FOR GIN AND IS SERVED WITH ACID Claus Semberg Files Suit Against Sa- loon-Kecper for Injuries He Says He 'Sustained. Suit was fiied yesterday in the Jus- tices’ Court by Claus Semberg to re- cover $299 from L. Loss. The plain- tiff alleges that he went into the de- fendant’s saloon at 8 Clay street and ordered a glass of gin, adding that instead of gin Loss gave him an acid | which burned the plaintiff and caused him severe injury and suffering. Suit was also flled by H. Schultz against K., O'Grady for $225 on a complaint that O’Grady sold him a mare named “Enchantress,” which he represented as gentle, but which broke Schultz's buggy and proved un- fii for driving purposes. Peter Tojnera sued the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for $299 damages for injuries sustained in falling from & gangplank on the steamship Peru while employed by the company. ©O. C. Grindell sued the Joshua Hen- 4y Machine Works for $299 for ser- MYSTERIOUS DROWNING OF MARINE FIREMAN Four Strangers in His Company Early in the Morning Just Before He ‘Went Overboard. Sylvester Gall was drowned off Howard pier No. 2 about half past 1 o'clock yesterday morning. The night watchman on the transport dock saw Gall and four other men pass him at | that hour. All appeared to be under | the influence of liquor. A short time afterward the four men returned and informed the watchman that Gall had jumped overboard and drowned. The body was grappled for and recovered several hours later by Joe Conley and ‘W. O'Nelll. The Coroner was unable to ascertain the identity of the four men. Gall was a marine fireman, 24 years old. He arrived here last April by the steamship Mongolia. —— vices performed and material fur- nished at the request of the defend- ant corporation, i Berkeley Men Practice New Plays on the bridiron ARSNTIA LA, BERKELEY, Oct. 21.—The foot- ball squad has shown marked h,'n— provement during the last week and the prospects of turning out a cham- pionship team are growing brighter day by day. The splendid showing e W NEARLY EQUAL STRENGTH DUCKS TAKE TO THE BA AND AVOID SPORTSMEN Cold Weather Is Required To Improve the Shooting ‘While the majority of the sportsmen who were out on opening day re- turned with good strings of ducks, the shooting was not up to the standard of other years. The unexpected storm scattered birds over the face of the country wherever there were smal bodies of fresh water. The owners of preserves are hoping for a spell of cold, dry weather which | counted on them and had outmixed | decoys. | Hermann Oelrichs and a guest had | & good shoot on the former’s preserve | on Wednesday. | Many sportsmen were out and report | that the birds are coming back, al- | though they do not work right for | shooting. The evening shoot proved the best. A number of members of ! the Field and Tule Club were on their CAPT STROVD o | | b | | ‘ | | | | | | | | f— FORCE OF CALIFORNIA TRYING FOR A GOAL FROM PLACEMENT, WHILE CAPTAIN STROUD IS PRACTICING PA SING BALL. made by the varsity against the Muit- nomah last Tuesday has been a source of great encouragement to players, coaches and the general student body in view of the fact that Stanford could not score on the northern team. The blue and gold eleven is working more coherently than heretofore and several new plays are being practiced. Coach Hopper is laboring assiduously to make his men play more rapidly. There is an opportunity for great im- provement in this respect. The players are all in excellent con- dition and few calls have to be made upon the doctors. Heitmuller is do- ing well with the punting and the ends are getting down faster to nail the man who catches the ball. The interference is growing much better. The men on the rush line are doing as well almost as could be expected of them, with the exception of the ends. The quarterback’s position is a trifle weak, but Kitrelle and other candidates for the place are getting plenty of work cut out for them. A few tricks have been learned and are being tried occasionally on the sec- ond eleven. Altogether the situation is quite sat- isfatory to those who hope for a victory for California this year. TENNIS MATCH STIRS CONMENT Players Discuss the Contro- versy Between Ex-Cham- pions Smith and WhitneyI A LRI The :chief topic of conver!allon! among the tennis players this week is the match between R. N. Whitney and Grant Smith which was started but not completed on the park courts last Sun- day. It was a clever exhibition of ten- nis, and throughout the first two sets | there was absolutely no display of ill- feeling between the contestants. The first set was close and went to Smith by a small margin. He also won the second set by a score of 6-4. The third set was started after 5 o'clock when darkness was but a few minutes off. Whitney won the first point of the opening game, and Smith won the second, making the score 15-15. At this stage of the game Smith got| a bad cramp in his leg and retired to the club house. After Smith had commenced to dress he was told by one of the committee that Whitney demanded the third set by default. To say Smith was sur- prised when he heard this would be putting it mildly. Even if the players had not agreed to cease playing at a certain time and If darkness had not been imminent Whit- ney’s demand is one that has never been made. before. In the history of tennis no man has ever insisted on his right to a default when his opponent has been disabled. Even if Smith had been able to con- tinue it is doubtful if one more set could have been played before dark, and surely not one like the first set. Smith has been afflicted with cramps for the last six years, as every one who has followed tennis at all closely knows. In the tournament for the State champiopship held a year ago at San Rafael, Whitney, in his match with Harry Wiehe, committed a worse of- MANAGER BRINGS CROSS SUIT AGAINST EMPLOYERS W. F. Clark, Claiming Catton, Bell & Co. Are His Debtors, Asks for an Accounting. An answer in cross-complaint will be filed this morning in the suit lately begun in the Superior Court by Cat- ton, Bell & Co., shipping and commis- sion merchants, 406 California street, against their former manager, W. F. Clark, for $7681 48 alleged to have been advanced to Clark while in their employ. Clark answers that during the term of his service he was to receive $7500 per annum salary, with the privilege to draw against the same at any time during the year, provided that he did not draw beyond the stated amount. Instead of being in debt to the firm Clark says he allowed his employers to use a large part of his salary in their business, which they promised to repay as soon as they disposed of a certain gold mine in Mexico. The mine, Clark alleges, was sold and had there been an accounting it would have disclosed a large balance due him. He now demands an accounting | fen%€ than Smith did last Sunday. The under the direction of the court. match, like that of last Sunday, was His attorneys are George H. Perry | started late in the afternoon. Welhe won and Canfpbell, Metson & Campbell. the first set 6-1 and had a slight lead in the second set when Whitney declared Alleged Bunko Men Charged. the light was poor and walked off the Five of the victims of the alleged courts. This without consulting either bunko garmhe at the Ocean Beach, his opponent or the committee. Whit- which was raided on Thursday night | 087 Was not defaulted, but played the by Detective Ryan and Taylor, swore followin day and won. to complaints before Police Judge Ca- ‘Whitney will meet Morris Botehkllg baniss yesterday cl ng Bdward | [® the semi-finals to-morrow. Mac- Williams with petty larceny; three of Gavin will play the winner of the Code- them charging John Williams and two | OT/n match. of them charging J. C. Holly with a PRI g R similar offense. They -fi: yx.e.,m Morley After Christy Matthewson. Luppoc, 64 Sharon street, who lost $2; | SEATTLE, Oct. 21.—James Morjey, F. Kuhne, 116 First street, who lost | ™anager of the Los Angeles Pacific $45; F. Luchun, 116 Folsom street, | COast League team, has closed deals who lost $15; George Rosenberg, 125 | With Hans Wagner of the Pittsburg Grove street, who lost $48, and Fabian | National League team and with Frank Olsen, Commercial and Drumm streets, | Chance of the Chicago Nationals. He who lost $19. Charles W. Vosmer, the | I 2180 after Christy Matthewson of the proprietor of the game, and James|NeW York Nationals, F R E Tyler are still in “the tanks.” Chance and Wagner have already . |been signed for the balance of the MEMORIAL TREB.—Or- | ¢850n and a telegram received to-day D. G W. yesterday peti.|Says Matthewson has sent his terms ‘WOULD inda Parlor, N. tioned s | and that they will be accepted by Mor- | - val SPACE IN PARK FOR CRICKETERS Harold Ward Stands at Head | of Club Batting List and Has Captured Most Wickets Captain John Metcalfe, first president; Arthur Inkersley, secretary of the California Cricket Association, and Dr. O. N. Taylor, vice-captain of the Pagific Cricket Club, conferred with John McLaren, superintendent of Golden Gate Park, recently about the cricket ground which the Park Com- missioners propose to provide in the people’s playground. The site proposed is on the south side of the Park, to the south of the Spreckels music stand and to the west of the polo field. When some trees have been cut down and grubbed out and the ground leveled a fair ground can be made. Work will begin scon. ‘When the great athletic ground is ready for use, which will not be for more than a year, there will be a large, perfectly level space of 450 feet by 350 feet inside the running track and the superintendent says that this might be available for cricket players. Meanwhile, however, the ground to the west of the polo fleld will be prepared. This is sheltered by well grown trees and will make a suitable spot for the game. Cricketers resident in this city will be ' delighted to have a ground within easy reach for practice and more accessible to spectators than any field on the Alameda side of the bay. Henry Ward, secretary of the Ala- meda Cricket Club, has prepared the batting and bowling averages of the members for the season just ended. G. Harold Ward, the captain of the team, heads the batting averages with 25.50 runs per innings. The details are shown in the tables: ALAMEDA' CRICKET CLUB ERAGES, 1904 BATTING AV- IR 3|z1218 § 21=|c|8 5 H ® LAE B BATSMEN. - g z 18| E . 121el: =l 58] 4of + ".\1 e Tt e 2N 204(71 | 4/25.50 12/219]50¢ 2(2150 11(215(41 | 0/19.55 4 3819 | 2(19200 204(30 | 0118.55 87 54°| 2|l7.40 (40 | 0/14.83 86,27 | 0{14.33 54(45 | 0/14.00 33124 | 0)11768 9720 | of 9.70 3814 | 0| .00 93 | 1| 1.80 8/ 8115 . *Not. out. ALAMEDA CRICKET CLUB BOWLING AV- ERAGES, 1904, 3 Runs. |Wickets.|Average. 510 4 12.48 135 1 2.2 355 13.80 163 8 20.37 168 5 33.60 —_—— SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21.—Fierce fires are sweeping the mountains and.can- yons in the wicinity of Escondido and are approaching the town from two sides. % 2 —_———— of crime 1s . vice | would drive the birds back to the preserves in search of food. The bay is fairly carpeted with ducks down about Alvarado. They remain out in the smooth water during the day with nothing to disturb them. At night they go inland in quest of feed. As indicating the number of guns afield Jast Sunday seven car loads of | lower | sportsmen returned from the Alameda marshes. Down at Redwood City one hotel. The 1members of the Alameda Gun Club, who have an extensive preserve on the Sonoma marsh, had poor shoot- ing on the opening day. The average for twenty-two guns was only twelve | birds. The Montezuma Club, which is something of a family organization, had a successful opening day at the | Collinsville preserve. The wives of three members were on hand with six- teen gauge guns and enjoyed the sport. President W. W. Richards and wife secured twenty ducks. Six of these were “red heads,” a species of canvas- back, but a rarer bird. George H. Newman and wife had a splendid string of mallard and canvasback. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Walsh, J. F. Nickels and W. C. Swain all had moderate sized strings of big birds. The ponds are full of feed and “cans” wers fly- ing about, but.the shooters had not eighty men were registered at| X3 preserve. A. M. Cumming secured forty splendid birds. A. D. Harrison brought down nineteen and A. F. Hop- ke twenty. Mr. Cumming saw six “cans,” but they were out of range. Nine members of the Pastime Club secureq limit bags at Mount Eden on opening day. Charles Shaw had a good shoot at Alvarado. Joe Bickerstoff and Pete McRae were among the men who se- cured limit bags at Mount Eden. J. Harvey killed twenty-six ducks near Vallejo. R. C. Reed picked up twenty-three at Napa. Down at the Empire Club thers were a lot of birds, but they moved out in a hurry when shooting began. F. Blair Turpin, J. B. Hauer and a ‘(hlrd member secured a joint bag of | ninety. | Ed. Kerrison shot at Antioch and | secured a string of mallards and some | English snipe. Dave Herefleld, shoot- ing in the same district, killed twen- ty-four, principally mallard. He secured one ‘“can.” Julius Bruns, Jack Karney and Charles Breitenstein shot at Sears Point. The weather was too mild for good sport. Quail are.reported numerous, but they will not lie close. They take to the trees 'at once. It is expected they will provide better sport after they are shot at once or twice. v GREYHOUNDS TO RUN The officials in charge of the John Grace Challenge Cup stake for grey- heunds, which will have a value of $3500 this year, have given heed to the repeated requests of Eastern own- ers and have postponed the event for two weeks. It will be run on November 12 and 13. The Montana coursing men respond- ed liberally with entries immediately upon learning of the change in dates. Blake and Smith reserved three nom- inations; D. Doherty, two; George Macdougall, three, and Wilkinson Noall, three. George Dayton of Lincoln, Neb., will have Lucy Clair, which is competing in the Waterloo, returned here for the cup event. ~ Wilson and Allen of Victor, Iowa, will send on the dogs in thelr string which make the best showing in the Futurity and in the Waterloo. Against these Eastern dogs ccast owners will pit a formidable list of tried performers. Sacramento will have Pocatelli, the fastest greyhound on the coast, together with Barge, Friendless Boy, Charter Member, Belle Free, Fillle R, La Rosa and Valley Pride. George Sharman will start six, in- cluding Carlow Boy, High Born, Aeolus and Lost Chord. Lacy Crawford will le Spurt, Tom Hooker and Paul Dunbar. James Sweeney will be represented by Richard Anton, McVey, Belle Marie, Rocked Asleep and Raby Aurora. John Dennis is putting a sharp edge on Renegade Apache, The Referee, Story’s Sister, Sherman and Racing Auto. T. J. Cronin and Pat Reilly, both veterans .at .the coursing game, will have unusually strong strings in the ‘running. | The first round of a ninety-six-dog stake will be run to-day at = Union the start Agile | — OF MONTANA ON THIS COAST |stop at Valencia street. The | winners look to be: Class stake—Frisky Barbara, Valley Pride, Agile Spurt, High Born, Pomona, Richard An- ton, Tom Hooker and J B H. Reeerve stake—Moonbeam, John Heenan, Mi | Amigo, Queen's Motto, Master Garrison, Lulu | Girl, Vandal, Tralee Boy, Hermis, Sacramento Boy, Fancy Free, Ouida, Jack Short, Poincet- | tia, Sofala, Aggle W, Panoche, Star Sylvanus, | False Alarm, Aeolus, Miss Domestic, Amandan, | Mollte Mec, Galveston, Ready Address, Miss Brummel, Ione Hill, Fearless Lad, Paul Dun- bar, Sherman, Lord Brazen, Gold Chain, Im- perious, Story’s Sister, Racing Auto, Red Rock, Daisy Rocket, Haphazard, Honest John, Rapid Water, Dorothy M, Silver Cloud, Young Tpm- i my R, Remisso Animo, Rose of Gold, Run- | away Actress, Apple Blossom and Orsina. A champion stake with Pocatelli, Barge, Full Moon, Friendless Boy and other noted hounds will be run to- {morrow at Ingleside Coursing Park. | Three rounds of one stake will be run to-day. The likely winners: Beaten dogs stake—Brewery Maid, Free | From Flaw, Courtly Guest, Cavalette, Erma Hotfoot, Flannigan. Idsho Boy, Bella Lioyd. ! Lady Menlo, Jerry Wright, Pepper Jack, Roil- | ing Boer, Amella Cascade, Agitator, Concord JBoy, Mald of the Glen, Good as Gold, Richo- | chet, Her Boy, Pure Pearl, Little Freda, | Sttent Water, Gold Lily. Red Brick, Haughty Helen, Haddington, Dartaway. Reserve stake—Colored Lady, Old Ironsides, | May Tunison, Mellinwood, 'Aerodh, Frank likely Dunn, Pleadiily, Tom Hurlick, Commercial Traveler, Vina, Choo Choo, Loretta, Lucky | Shamrock, Mabel S, Fretter, Pasha t ohamplon stake—Full Moon. Pocatelll, Fair Trajee. Berge, Duhallow. Princess Savay, Fair —_———— " Game Law Violators Fined. Justice of the Peace Baldwin of Eureka has fined Roy Epps $25 for Ihlllng ducks during the close season. Judge Austin of Los Angeles flned D. Levy $20 yesterday for having under- sized striped bass in his possession. Justice of the Peace Craighill of San- ta has fined George and Charles Amaya $25 each for shooting ducks after dark. Bert Littlefleld, Charles Brashear and G. Peterlin have been Park. A class stake will 'be run to- [fined 325 each in Amador County