The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1904, Page 10

SCOTTISH BOWLING THE SAN THREE FIELDS | FOR FOOTBALL CANPIONSEIES Games at Idora Park, Golden Gate and Alameda. Oakland Hornets Are]| Matched Against Occidentals. | FRANCISCO” CALL, — SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1904. DRAWS MANY ENTHUSIASTS TO GOLDEN GATE PARK GREEN WHERE IT CAN BE ENJOYED UNDER PLEASANT CONDITIONS IVETERANS BOWL, WITH THE ARDOR OF YOUT% F his forward the matches | | n the sche of the California Asso- a 4 League fc he cham- hould be played gularly unds are avail- | t n's Park, Golden | e 1 Oakland; the ground | | Eighth ar eets and the | | ket field | The thr for to-| | a us Pick-’ | ks, at F rk Vampires s r t Alameda, and ) | e H s us Occidentals, at ' k hree tches the I - ; t p. m. T : | | sh will be | | -Pickwick | I t and Pickwick teams | | I following order i v Al atch the the following posi- | | | | | g - | | | Important Match to Hor ) 1 match ‘hn} ¥ ollowing posi- | T D | Be Bowled To-Day | g | | at Oakland. “Bowling on the green,” or Scottish bowls, was introduced in San Fran- Tanior | CiSco about two years ago by a few Hodge | enthusiastic Scotchmen. In that pe- we r for the|riod of \time it has become an im- nt game | mensely popular pastime among men 8 score | of 1 nationalities and ages. The | larger ypeals more strongly to men .' A by meridian of life, but it also | t & has some youthful followers. H b Seves At present there are several Scot- kick a ng it | tish bowling clubs on the coast, the | d cen- | largest being here and in Oakland. ’ The home club t a membership of | 3 v about 100, while the club across the | e | bay numbers about half that many | ng of the clubs for the| members. The Claremont Cauntry | s f the present seasom is| Club has laid out a splendid green, th { which will be used to-day for the first | > | time in an inter-club match. Tvdmi‘ | from the San Francisco and Oakland | clubs will meet and formally open the | new green. i . | This match is unusually interesting | because of the fact that San Fran- | | cisco won the last inter-club contest . on the Oakland green, while the pre- vious match was won by Oakland on the San Francisco green. This will o be the first meeting of the clubs’ rep- | resentatives on a neutral green. Each = B club will send its best twelve men N season is over | INto the fray. San Francisco will pin o t “Club, which, | its faith to the following: Y. C. Law- | = % |son, W. R. Eaton, H. L. Tickner, J. - cund at Ninth and| o "yepgter, A. A. McViear, J. C. Mof- | . o paggen v fatt, Judge Lucien Shaw, AMdrew Mec- 3 S nd. The ground. ot |Nair, Thomas Aitken, Robert Park, T. | Hiarison streets i this city | Millar and T. McNaught. | ' from December 1 to The Oakland s 1 Idora Park for the end of the e T ' CRICKETERS WANT GAM WITH AUSTRALIAN TEAM Antipodean Cracks Will Pass Through | N tournament matches will be! ed on the park green to-day, as! t of the cracks will be across the bay. Play will be resumed next week. | The doubles® tournament which has | been under way for some time will be | completed as soon as possible. Y Lawson, the man who intro- | duced Scottish bowling here and an | enthusiastic worker in its cause, will | Jeave for New York next month. Mr. | Lawson was the first president of the | pla Ran Francieco on Thelr Way club and its first champion. The suc- | to England. cess of the club and popularity of the | neeting of the California Cricket | game is due in a great extent to his | seociatior be held in this city | untiring efforts. H. L. Tickner. the | 3 g. The chief mat- | new club president, is another en- | e fon 1 be the pro-|thusiast, who will prove a worthy suc- quisition of a new ground for | Cessor to Mr. Lawson. M. L. Crowe e visit of the Australian | Was the second champion, J. C. Mot- to this city next spring. | fatt the third and Dr. Hamilton the stralians will be on their | Present champion. & cey fid, which they expect to re : i of March, their open- | h to be played early in April. | If satisfactory arrangements can be made with Major Wardill, the man- r of the Australian team, a match | 1 be played here between the Aus r and an eighteen of Califor- | ' The secretary of the California Cricket Association has addressed a | letter to Major Wardill, in which the suggestion is made that a game be| played in San Francisco. ! Lovers of cricket in this city and the hood would be glad to| s from the Antipodes and | tralians would probably be e andl e willing after three weeks on board | C'o°bones and intimating tha | ship to stretch their legs on a cricket | WOUld soon be in his coffin. He sub- field. The Californians will be quite ! mitted the letters to Theodore Kytka, o r as the earliest games the handwriting expert, who pro- 2 are not played = until " nounced the handwriting that of Beat- April, whereas the Australians are e ,},K‘v‘\] superb I_m‘.,,:;’ :‘u[ "v:.‘m”]?:\r_’o- Lucas explains that some time ago their country at the height of the | Btaltic made a statement in his pres- summer cricket son there. jence that he was in fraternal societieg ————— Woman Fights for Her Children. A sad sight presented itself yesterday to Secretary White of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Police Officer Young when they tried to fake the two little children, respective- ly two and four vears old, from Mrs.l Goldberg at her neglected hovel, 21% Hayward place. The woman, who is feeble minded, clung to the children with the tenacity of a wild animal. The husband and father of the household is 2 confirmed opium fiend and was re- moved to the City and County Hospi- tal for treatment while the mother was placed in a cell in the Detention Hos- pital for examination touching her mental condition. The children were taken in charge by Secretary White &nc¢ will be looked after, [{A. E. Lucas Obtains Warrant for Ar- ———— CHARGED WITH SENDING THREATENING LETTERS rest of J. W. C. Beattie for Disturbing the Peace. A. E. Lucas, private detective, got a warrant from Police Judge Cabaniss yesterday for the arrest of J. W. C. Beattie, former secretary of the Hall | Assoclation of the Knights of Pythias, on a charge of disturbing the peace. Lucas has been receiving anonymous | letters recently bearing the skull and [ o | |only for what was in it for himself. | Lucas checked him for it at the time 1and also took occasion, he says, to de- nounce him in the lodgeroom of the Knights of Pythias. | —_—— | Sidewalk Elevator Ordinance. The Merchants’ Association yester- day filed with the Supervisors the draft of a section which was inad- vertently omitted in the adopted or- dinance regulating the safety of side- walk elevators. The section provides that the elevator doors shall be kept open for the actual receipt and deliv- ery of merchandise anhd for thirty minutes thereafter and that suitable guards at railings shall be placed around the sidewalk openings, to- gether with a lighted lantern after dark. DUCK SHOOTERS ARE HOPEFIL Improvement in Sport Is Expected With Cool Weather. Ml It is evident from the returns made by the cleverest duck shooters - that conditions on the various marshes last Sunday were not favorable for good sport. Otto Feudner, who rarely re- turns with less than the limit, brought down only thirty-five. Clarence Nau- man shot on the U. M. C. preserve at Collinsville and bagged but twenty- two. Charles Long secured sixteen at the same place. A. M. Shields acknowledged the ownership of a string of twelve. The shooting throughout the Suisun district was poor. The best reports come from the vi- cinity of Alvarado, where Dan Os- trander, C; and others had marked succ ng secured. The moon now being obscured, bet- ter sport is expected this week™The birds were in the habit during the moonlight nights of coming in from the bay and enjoying the hospitality afforded by the heavily baited ponds. They would then return in the early morning to their favorite haunts out of reach of the gunners. The bay is full of fine canvasbacks, but they do not work well for the guns. Those that are killed are pro- nounced of fine flavor. Frank Mas- terson, Tom Lewis and Mr. Barber killed twenty-two ‘‘cans” at Collins- ville on Wednesday out of a total bag of twenty-eight. Down San Bruno way and about Vallejo and San Pablo the sportsmen are getting a large proportion of blue- biils. The full flight of northern birds has not set in yet, according to well irformed gunmen. Most of the birds killed are not in the full plumage usually found in birds known to have , several limit bags be- { come out of the north. The members of the Empire Gun Club found a large number of birds on the ponds and sloughs of thelir Monterey preserve last Sunday, but the ducks disappeared at the first shot. Jighteen was the largest bag secured during the day, although all the mem- bers brought home some birds. There were sixteen guns out, including L. M. McRoskey, J. B. Hauer, Bert Patrick, J. Peltier, C. A. Bennett, Con Roman, Dr. George G. Gere, F. 8. Judah, Guy T. Wayman, F. Blair Turpin, F. L. Houp{, Dr. Clyde S. Payne and F. B. Surryhne. Fully as many will be out to-morrow and better sport is ex- pected. A writer in Forest and Stream pays the following tribute to duck shooting, which will be appreciated by all sportsmen: You may go duck shooting and the sun may shine and the sea be calm and the ducks re- fuse to .fly and vour gun bs useless from dawn to dark. Or it may blow great guns and the sea may surge and the old boat tug at the anchor and the rains drive and the ducks go to Jericho. And so with onme un- toward condition or the other or both your leave of absence may be frittered away and your baggage checked for home and your train boarded with never a duck to show for it all. And yet shall the outing not have been fruit- less nor without its substantial good. You come home refreshed in body and soul,. to eat with an appetite you have not known for monthe, an _elasticity” of step, a fuller ex- pansion of the chest, a clearer head, a keener mind, a stouter grip on the- day's 'work -and a more genial feeling toward your fellow men, 1t pays to go duck shooting when you gei ducks: it pave sometimes when you get none. —_————— DISSIPATES PROPERTY.—George Golder, at the request of relatives of Margretta M. Brady, yesterday petitioned for letters of guar- dianship over the latter's person and estate, alleging that she had siready dissipated more an worth of her property and was th: under the influence of artful and designifig per- sons who would get the remainder unless the court intervened. S WHO ENJOY PASTIME ON \ \ v HE SCOTTISH iE PARK GRE] TF o | | P! OARSHEN FXJOY SHOOTE WATER O i BAT Dolphins and South Ends Are Active. The nominating committee of the Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club has drawn up the following list of ncminees for the various offices during the coming term of six months: T. J. Kennedy, president; J. J. Cronin, vice president; August Bertrand, recording secretary; Frank Staib, financial sec- retary; Adam Schuppert, treasurer; Charles Bartheld, sergeant at arms; Val Kehrlein, captain; C..M. Farrell, licutenant captain; Willlam Remens- perger, Henry Pernau and C. C. Ken- niff, members of the board of direc- rs; W. Harris and Steve Vicini, mem- bers of the executive committee; A. P. Rothkopf, A. W. Pape and W. O. Patch, delegates to the Pacific Asso- ciation of the Amateur Athletic Union; H. McKevitt, T. R. Dixon and W. Har- ris, delegates to the Pacific Association 0 Amateur Oarsmen. The Dolphins will have .a ladies’ night at the clubhouse at the foot of Hyde street Thursday evening next. There will be a programme of vocal and instrumental music and recita- tions, followed by dancing. The an- nugl masquerade ball of the club will be given at Saratoga Hall on Wednes- day evening, December 14. The club is manifesting a good deal of activity, Every Sunday two or three barge crews and several scullers in shells or outrigged skiffs go out from the clubhouse. On a recent holi- day C. M. Farrell and C. McKevitt, who were out for a row in the gig Co- lumbia, found two men in a boat off the Powell-street wharf drifting out to sea on the strong ebb tide. Their boat was partly waterlogged and their chances of getting back to shore were slight. The two Dolphin oarsmen took matters in hand and brought the men and the boat back to land. On Sunday last the water on the bay was unusually smooth and pleasant for rowing. A crew of South End oars- men, A. Simpson, bow; Matt Harris, No. 2; Charles Jenkins, No. 3, and T. Barry, stroke, rowed round Goat Island and back-to the boathouse. Judge A. J. Fritz enjoyed a swim and a pull ip an outrigged skiff. The nom- inations of candidates to hold office, if elected, for the coming half-year will be made at the next meeting of the South End Rowing Club. —_—_————— Sues Mining Direcgors. J. E. Manning, a stockholder in the | La Palma Mining Company, operating in Mexico, has sued all the directors of the company, except E. A. Norton, for an accounting. He alleges that George E. Davis, president, and E. Worth, secretary, have sold several thousand shares of the company's stock and appropriated the proceeds to their own use and that the various boards of directors have allowed the expenditure of more than $20,000, for which no vouchers. have been ren- dered. Besides the accounting the plaintiff asks for an injunction to prevent the sale of stock for assess- ments —— | { | | | CLAREMONT CLUB OPENS ITS DOORS Giolf, Tennis, Bow= ling and Trap Shooting. | The Claremont Country Club, the | successor of the Oakland Golf Club, i formally opens its clubhouse and grounds to-day from 1 to 5 p. m. There | will be an eighteen-hole medal play competition on the new golf course, with prizes for the winner and runner- up. There will also be competitions, with prizes, in Scotch bowling, lawn tennis and trap-shooting. Cards of vis- itation have been sent to many of the members of the. San Francisco Golf and Country Club and to others inter- ested in outdoor sports, and a good at- tendance is expected. Visitors from San Francisco should travel by the Key route, changing cars at Broadway and Fortieth street for | the grounds of the Country Club. Vis- itors from Alameda should go to Oak- land and thence proceed, as the Oak- landers will do, by the Piedmont cars to Fortieth street, then change to the | club car, which will leave at 2; 22 and 42 minutes past each hour. Pas- sengers from Berkeley should transfer to the Pledmont train on the Key route and change to the club car at | Fortieth street and Piedmont avenue. | Mrs. R. Gilman Brown of the San| Francisco and San Rafael Golf Club| and Miss A. N. Smith of the Los An-| geles Country Club and the San Diego | Golf Club, two of the strongest golfers | of their sex in the State, have been| active in the organization of a proposed | “‘California Women Golfers’ Associa- | tion,” which will begin operations in | January, 1905. The association is on| the same lines as the Women'’s Western | Golf Association, which has greatly in- | creased the interest of ladies in golf around Chicago and through its secre- | tary and organizers has given the ben- fit of its experience to the leading spir- | its of the C. W. G. A. Most of the members of the executive committee of | the Pacific Coast Golf Association, | ith many secretaries and leading ! members of the golf clubs, have signi- | fied their approval of the proposed | women's association. The dues of each club to the C. W.; G. A. are to be $10 a year. A handicap tournament on the links of each club is to be played about every six weeks, and a team match bétween north and south is to take place at each regular yearly championship event. The women | golfers of each club will be expected | to vlay in as many tournaments as! possible and to encourage others to do S0, their only exvenses being lunch- eons, fares and caddie fees. There will be no regular prizes at| [ + | LEASHMEN AIM FOR STANDARD WANT PURE BLOOD Some Promising Grey- hounds Change Owners. From the registrations and other de- tails of breeding filed with the Cali- fornia Coursing Committee it is evident the standard of greyhounds on this coast will not deteriorate for years to come. The number of greyhounds bred is large while the quality is of the best. The sires which stand highest among the winners are in strong de- mand, showing the coursing men want the best strains available. George Nethercott of Sacramento, whose kennels have produced some sen- sational performers in recent years, has registered a litter of ten puppies by Rocker-Freda C. Six of them are dogs. Tommy Hall, the veteran coursing man of Merced, has registered a litter by Rocker-Clara Barton. The latter was a_gcod performer on the plains. ‘W. D. Murphy has purchased Idaho Boy from G. Lacy Crawford. S. Mahoney has bought Lydia, a promising puppy by Rocker-Bumble Bee. W. P. Spencer has bought Yellow- stone, a puppy of the same litter, which performed well last week. Dr. F. P. Clark of Stockton has pur- chased from James Sweeney the six- teen-month-old puppy Creole Sue. She is of the second litter of Rocker-Fiery | Face. The first litter included such fast ones as Richard Anton, Rocker Arm, Raby Aurora and others. Dr. Clark will start it at Stockton for the Lonjer Cup, which is run for each year in Decem- ber by young greyhounds owned in the San Joaquin Valley. Wilson and Allen of Victor, Iowa, are preparing to send a strong string of greyhounds to this coast. H. D. Lowe of Kansas has sent two and will send on some more. The two already on the ground are Peerless Beauty and Lan- cashire Lad. They have shown great speed and cleverness and much is ex- pected of them. The management of Union Park is already making arrangements for the Inaugural Stake, which is run annually on January 1. The entrance fee will be $25 and an entry of sixteen is expected. A class stake and a reserve event will make up this week’s card at Ingleside Coursing Park. The meeting will com- mence to-day and will be concluded to- morrow. There will be no coursing at Union Park this week owing to the iliness of Judge P. J. Reilly. A strong card will be presented next week when Ingleside Park will be closed. The likely winners at Ingleside: Class stake—Renegade Apache, Modest Beauty, Jigamaroo, Titiie R Grmy: Golden Fortune, Firm Feliow, Freeport, The Referce_ Honest John, Rocked Asleep, Princess | while Janes will be * | These od | completed. | Presidio yesterday. PLAYERS REST - AFTER SEVERE NN WORK No Tournaments Are on Schedule for This Week. Popular Drummond MacGavin Leaves for Europe. After the strenuous play of last week the tennis cracks will be given a chance to rest up for a time. No tournaments are scheduled and only a few matches held over from last week’'s events will be played to-day and te-morrow. The continuous tournament will be started to-morrow, but this will be easy on the -players, as they play but once a week. The principal event will be the match between George "anes ard Al. Kenyon They met in the finals of the Thanks- giving day handicap tournament and each had won two sets when darkness put g stop to play. Instead of resum- ing play where it was left off the men have agreed to play two sets out of three to-morrow. s Kenvon will receive odds of “1§ * behind scratch s are about right as the match last Sunday proved. Ithough the match was a tie Janes looked have a little the best of the argument Kenyon is an erratic player and if he happens to have a “streak” on to-mor- row the scratch man will be kept busy. Janes is a steady player and seems at his best under handicap conditions. This fact is rather remarkable because Janes, unlike most successful handicap players, hits the ball hard and takes all kinds of chances. The boys of the Golden Gate Junlor Club have two tournaments to finish to to-day. One is a singles for a three- time loving cup. M. McLaughlin has reached the finals and will meet the winner of the W. Mitchell-H. Getz match. Both matches will be played in the afternoon. In the morning the handicap doubles tournament will be In the fina® A. Martinez and M. McLaughlin will meet H. Getz and L. Levinson. The fourth class singles tournament eommenced on the park courts last Sunday will be completed to-merrow One match remains to be played in the second round. The contestants will be Darns and Martin. The others who will compete in the third round are: Peck, Fuller, Martin, Turner, Vensano, Brown and Miller. The continuous tournament which will be started on the California Club courts will prove an Interesting affair and also a novelty to most of the play- ers. Events of this kind have been held in the past, but the last was about five years ago, before many of the present cracks were in the game. It will de- cide who is the best player in the club. A man’'s position will be determined strictly according to his ability. The best players will eventually rise to the top, while poorer ones who may draw well will soon be where they belong. While the entries close to-day any club member has the right to enter when he desires. If he enters later than to-day, however, he will be compelled to start at the bottom of his class. MacGavin, Hardy and Smith will not be in the competition, and it is a matter of spec- ulation as to who will come to the top with these men out of it. Dr. McChes- ney looks to be the best man, although such players as Dr. Hill, H. Long, S. H. Adams, G. H. Busch, W. Collier and G. Janes are about as clever as Mc- Chesney. Drummond MacGavin, coast cham- pion, State champion and bay counties champion, leaves to-day for a trip around the world. He will arrive in London in June and may live there for several years. Thereafter he expects to reside in South Africa. Mac one of the most popular champ ever played tennis here. He has ways been a generous opponent, a good loser and bears his laurels lightly. As a token of their esteem MacGavin's club- mates have presented him with a hand- some diamond watch charm. When MacGavin sails to-day he will take with him the good wishes of every man and woman on the coast who handles a ten- nis racket and of many who do not. —_———— PROTECTED RIFLE RANGE AT PRESIDIO COMPLETED General Moore Inspects the Canton- ment and Finds Quarters of Troops in Good Shape. The new protgcted rifle range at the Presidio is now 'practically completed. The finishing touches are being put on and the range will be in readiness to be inspected by General Moore on Tuesday. Captain Charles R. How- land, under whose instructions the range was constructed, feels confident that it will meet with General Moore's approval. General Moore made a thorough in- spection of the cantonment at the He found every- thing about the quarters in good shape, but it is hoped by the officers and men that he will make a recom- mendation to Washington that new permanent quarters be bullt commen- surate with the demands of this im- portant post. ——— To Overhaul the Limited. Savoy, Runaway Actress, Lost Chord, In Time, Full Moon, La Rosa, Carlow Boy, .V:‘mmt Rose, Richard Anton, Fretter, Miss Lu- cllle. Reserve stake—Doc Burns, Dear Gaston, J R, May Tunison, Annie Ryne, Tom Hurlick, Mark Twain, Muggsy. Old Ironsides, Peerless Beau- ty, Concord Boy, Wedgewood. Picadilly, Fid- dler, Romping Girl, Commercial Traveler, Bob R, Belfast, Don Pedro, Lancashire Lad, Icel- Hudson, | the Pullman company is building and 1 will have ready for delivery in the lat- ! ter part of December new equipment each tournament, but there may be an | associatioh medal or an assoeiation cup. If a medal is decided on the player winning the largest number of | medals during a year will be handicap | champion for the succeeding year. If| a cup is decided on the name of the| winner will be engraved on it and her club will hold it till it is won from her. A standard system of handicapping will be adopted, by which each club can handicap its players so that they may have their regular standing at ail tournaments. William Robertson, formerly a pro- fessional of the San Francisco Golf Club, was at the links of the Santa Catalina Island Golf Club during the | summer. Recently he laid out a course at East San Gabriel for the San Gabriel Country Club. An extension of the car line from Los Angeles en- ables players and visitors to reach the club in about thirty-five minutes from that city. ; lus, Presto, Queen's Motto, General Dewet. ————— Property Owners Seek Relief. stree: petitioned the Supervisors yes- terday for relief in the matter of a tunnel near that street, just east of View avenue, which was once used as a source of water supply and now causes damage to surrounding proper- ity from dammed up waters. The pe- | titioners say the Department of ‘Works has been appealed to to no purpose and ask that Heyman & | Weissbeins, who abandoned the water sunply, be compelled to stand the ex- pense of remedying the existing con- ditions. e TO SURRENDER BONDS.—Edith Boswell Kinge administratrix of the estate of M. Norris, was authorized by the court yes: terday to surrender $75.000 worth of Natoma Vineyard Company bonds and invest the pro. ! ceeds for the benefit of the estate. Property owners on Twenty-third | The Harriman lines announce that for the Overland Limited train, which will be practically a counterpart of the famous Twentieth Century Limited, running between New York and Chi- cago. The present composite library- buffet car is to be discontinued, as well as the compartment sleeping car. A composite observation car will be at- tached to the rear of the train. In place of the compartment sleeping car there will be a ten-section double draw- ing-room car, leaving Chicago by way of the Northwestern. —————— Oester’s Patent Void. By instruction of United States Cir- cuit Judge Morrow a jury yesterday re- turned a verdict for the defendant in the case of Charles H. Oester vs. West- ern Sugar Refining Company. Oester, who is the patentee of a sweeping de- vice to clear the drum of a sugar sifter, sought to recover $25,000 damages for infringement of his patent. Judge Mor- row decided that the evidence proved that the patent was void on Its face for want of patentable novelty.