The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1905, Page 10

10 THE SAN Fi{ANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY DECEMBER. 2. 1905 ' <pr | OITUI GRACE CUP COMPETITION [;[][f[fls M[[T DRAWS FLEET HOUNDS . Kennels of Cartter Contain Good Material Richard Anton Is Fastest of the Coast Dogs. aster’s $300 imemara, s For'| n Park, Curt! nlon Park, D. Walsh rtis & Son's Beaco Park, D. Walsh’'s Sacra- Park, G. Lacy Crawford's on Park, -Henry Waddington's -two entries re- | stake attracted thirty ear, the Bast being strongly rej by D. K. Cartter’s grevhounds. lude Spiit a Bottle, Patched Up Lord Se niey’s Richard Anton, con- | coursing men the fast- | grevhound in America, will be one of | )ngest representatives of Califor- F. P. Clark's consistent performer, z is expected to cul quite a ake. Wil aiso start his great Roman Actor, by Roman Athlete- Face.. This puppy has not been ssed in training, but from his public and . private triale he is considered the best of this season’s young dogs. Judge J..P. Rellly has recovered from | lis recent iliness, and will -be in the sad- dle for this important event. The recent rains have placed-the field' in excellent condition and the trials should be first | ciase. Special trains will leave Third and Townsend streeis for the park at 10:15 a. | m. and &t 1 p. m. A train will return| from the park immediately after the last course. The dogs defeated in the first | g round of the Cup stake will run in the | Purse. Those defeated in the first round The of the Purse will run in the Plate. likely winners in the first round: 3oty Grace Challengs Cup— Renegade Apache, Patoh ® 347 Amio. Bpitice Totte. Devy | rockett, Agile Spurt, Humboidt, Lord Sefton, Freeport, Richard” Anter, Hudson, Wild Tur . The usual two-day meeting will be heid | to-day and to-morrow at Ing!mde Park. | The likely winvers: Open_stake—Pagiiacol, May Tunison, ‘Loret- ta: Bright Prom Flaw, ng Johnny Yuchess. J R, Royal Friend, Idieness, Merk Twaln, Polkadot, D Pippin, Pure Egarl, Water, - Yellowtaf, L ,“Galveston, Our Black | R, Young Gueen's’ Motto, Golden Buck, wiid teserve stake—Princess Savoy, Master Gar- Paul Dunber, Lancashire Lad, Bartagus, ecn's Beauty, Frank Dunn, Mickey Free, The Rival, Belle Marle, Boutouniere, Fiery Rock. Frank C. Clean; Wid Crazy-Jane, Black Coon, The Duke, — Robbed by a Woman. Donner, 412 Minna street, re-- »orted to the police yesterday that he | er. Her ry met a woman on Minna street, between Fifth and Sjxth, shortly before mid-~ night Thursday night, who' said she was sick and asked him.to assist ‘her|. to her room. He-lpd her to an aley- | way off Minna street, where she said| she lived, and there she_ pratented to faint and threw her arms around him. Me left her and when he.reached home | he- discovered t $25 in gold and a 20614 nugget, valued at $18 50, had been <aken from his pockets. He gave a description of- the woman. ———e——— Bunkeo Man Is Arvested. Following out -the Chief Dinan ©6- bring in all - krown | bunko men, Policemen -Hayden and Meredith grrested Charles Nash, alias #id Nash, *yesterday morning and locked him up, He wiHl bs held pendm‘ lnveni‘nuon. Fear : 4 | thelr patriotism when this sort of thing | comes off. If Morley loses Atz and Schlaf- | — AT FAIR OAKS Home - and - Home Match Between Representatives of Menlo and Burlingame CLOSE GAME EXPECTED The second half of a thirty-six-hole home-and-home golf match between teams representing the Burlingame Coun- try Club and -the Menlo Golf and Coun-, try Club will be played to-morrow on the Fair Oaks course. The players will travel to Fair Oaks by SPORTS | 'GREYHOUNDS TO RUN FO JANES COUNTS Tennis Expert Expects to Win the Challenge Cup for the Second Time TASK IS A H\RD ONE pleted on' the courts to-morrow and both should bring out some cxcellent play. At Golden Gate Park the handi- cap doubles event, commenced two weeks ago, will be completed. At the Cnlitornia Club the finals of the first ON A VICTORY Two tennis !Durnamcn(s will be com-, R RIC FUNSTAN ENIOYS [TWO MATCHES A DAY AFIELD, (N THIS CITY Military Man Proves a Good |Santa Cruz Football Team Shot on the Monterey Pre-! Pays First Visit to San, serve Once He Gets Range Franclsco This- beason { EMPIRES ‘-\RE SUCCESSFU VAM.PIRES PLAY “I\DIES" Th membacs of the Empire Gun Club are reveling in the splendid shooting af- i forded by their extensive game preserve in Monterey County. Kach Sunday an | average of twenty members shoot over i the ponds. with excellent results. The { preserve is being improved steadily, both | Four matches will be played to-mor- row for the 1905-1906 championship of the California Assoclation Football | League, two of them taking place on‘. the Presidio athletic ground in this’ city. The Santa Cruz eleven, which has | played four matches on its own | HIGHLY BRED YOU. 1> WHICH 18 PRONOUNGED THE ¥ OF COURSERS OUT TR{S SEASON. tAflufl FUC cations Point’ to. Tame Indi Post Season Series Between Morley’s Men and TlgersI — Khe Picific Coast League baseball sea- son of 1905 is being .ushered out with Iit- tle noise and not even as much cerémony. It looks like the most ordinary finish this league has ever known. Something has surely gone wroug with the baseball pub- lic or the haseball magnates. When the former get what they think is the goods, there is always excitement.and interesi in the national pastime and as no one is worrying about the situation this season the fault must rest with the magnates. The season drags too long in the first place., The race here was practically set- | tled two months ago, yet-the teams have | been going through the same old stunts | over and over again. The fans forgot continued and gradually the crowds feli away till at the present time it is im- possible even to get a’respectable cor- poral's guard to turn out to sce the fun. Many fans will probably regret the post | serles will not be played in this city. Fisher and Morley are wise manipulators and they probably figured the teams would draw as well if not better in the southern city than here. Then they will save the expense of carting the tossers | some 500 miles. Fisher needs every cent he can take in at the gate and he is not going to overlook any bets in order to gather every particle of change. It dope figures at all in baseball—and sometimes it does—the Angels should rush right through that Tiger bunch. Morley's |- pitchers are all working right, while Fisher has not any reaily rellable box artists on his staff save Keefe and he cannot win all the games. The Angels have been playing consistent ball for some time past, while the Tigers seem to have lost their snap and ginger. THis has tended to make the once all-star ag- gregation g sort of in and out flock. ~ Fisher is still complaining agalust the trade Morley made with McCreedle. It is up to President Bert to decide this mat- ter before the big post season series ley it seems he will also lose the series | 10 the Tigers and also a big portion of the ! gate receipts. 1f Los Angeles enters the series with a weak, patched.up aggrega- tion it is a 10D-to 1 bet the southern fans will not turn out fo see the slaughter. There Is already some talk. of Uncle | Hank'’s signing up Heine Heitmuller next | season to take the place of Joe- Nealon. This is about the best thing Uncle cdn ' | @6, fer-the former blue and gold star is a fast ball player and a high grade sticker. Good first basemeén are hard to | pick up at present, go Harris would do | were: the train which leaves San Francisco at 9 a. m. The results of to-day’s match will be reckoned’ with those of the first half of the contest, which took place last Sun- | day on the links of the Burlingame Coun- try Club. Each match counts one point to the winner's team, irrespective of the number of holes by which it may be won. | If a couple ties on eighteen holes, a hole | or holes.are played until one secures an 2 last | Sunday’s contest was that between E. B. | advant: The "closest match in Murj and Dr. W. and Country eighteen holés. halv were won by Dr. Moss. shown in the table | ‘Burlingame Country ‘{Menlo Golf and Coun- €lub. - try Club. H. Moss of the Menlo Golf The details are Poins. Points. 1 |Perry Eyre .. 3 B. Willamson. leriel Dunn . W. \1urpm otal . 5 Total iast Sunday was exactly. even, each team consisting of ten men and winning five matches. As the Menio men held their own oh _the Burlingame links, they ought | to have the best of the encounter on their own course. Untfl the recent rains thej Fair Oaks course, which is of adobe, was seamed and cracked in every direction, rendering play uncertain, but its condi- tion is probably considerably improved. ‘The Thanksgiving day handicap over eighteen holes against “bogey” on the links of the San Francisco Golf and| Country Club at Ingleside attracted thir- ty members. The hour being late before all the returns were fade and the pl ers -being desirous of getting home dinner, _the -scores were not reckoned. This has been. doné sincé and the resvit will be made public at the clubhouse lhis afternoon. The competitors and thelr hand!(‘aps Arthur Owen 6, R. i, Bentley 7, H. F. Dutton 14, F. H. Beaver 6, Warren Gregory 10, Edward Chenery §, T. M. W. Draper 14, L. B. Edwards 10, A. M. Shields 10, Dr. J. R. Clark 5, Captain J. S. Oyster 5, C. W. Bennett 12, Dr. T. G. McConkey 5, Rolla V..Watt 9, John Lawson 2, B. D. Adamson 2, H. C. Golcher 2, A. 8. Porter 14, J." A. Folger 5, R. Gilman Brown 5, R. D. Girvin 10, Captain A. H. Payson 10, W. J. Dutton 12, L. F. Monteagle 10, Charles Page 6, H. A. Blackman 5, G. F. Downey 6, P. McG. McBean 14 nnd H. C. Breeden 1. The semi-final round of the competition for the Chesebrough cup for the Women of the San Francisco Golf ‘and Country Club has been played/ Mrs. R. Gilman Brown, scratch, beating Mrs. R. D. Gir- vin, receiving ten strokes, and Mrs. J. R. Clark winning from Mrs. Leroy Nickel, who received nine strokes. Mrs. R. G. Brown and Mrs. J. R. Clark wiil play the final round on Monday, Mrs. Clark re- ceiving a handicap of three strokes. The name of the winper and the date of the competition will be engraved on the tro- phy. ’ FEDERAL JURY SETS FREE OLD CRIMINAL William Green, Alias Fred Wilson, Is ]found Not Guilty. William Green, alias Fred Wilson, was tried before a jury vesterday in the United States District Court on a charge of having attempted to pass a $1 silver | certificate raised to the denomination of ! $20. To August H. Gerstmann, a grocer at | the corner of Turk and Polk streets, the tender was made on August 23 of this year. The testimony showed that Green after having made a small purchase ten- to | dered the raised bill In payment. Gerst- mann at once covered him with a revolver and delivered him into the custody of a policeman. Ida Green, a sister of the prisoner, swore that she had sent a $20 bill to him from Seattle a short time previously, but she was not positive whether or not 4t was the raised bill. * Green is a member of t_he criminal class. Under the name of Fred Wilson he was arrasted on April 25, 18%, by De- tectives T. B. Gibson and George Gra- ham on five charges of burglary and sent to the Whittier Reforni School during the term of his minority. On May 17, 1899, he was sentenced to six.years' imprisonment “well to get the youngster: —_—— |" Shots Fired on Stanyan Street. Sergeant ‘O'Day was notified’ late . been fired at Stanyan and Seventeenth streets. ‘Accéompanied by Policeman Judge, the sergeant made a thorough search of the ndghbornood, but could obtain mo information as to who. had fired the shots oz (or what purpon. I in the penitentiary at San Quentin for, burglary, his arrest having beeu ‘made by Detectives Ryan and O'Dea. The jury retired at 4 o’'clock to deHber- instructions eh Thursday night that several shots had ate upon the case and at 8 e'clock re- turned- a verdiet of-not’ guilty. ——————————— PARIS. Dec. L.—Pymier Rouvier to-day an- nounced to the mummmm:fi. mmuu— until January, the delay in the arrival hy of the Burlingame Country Club! Club, who were all even on | The nineteenth hole was | , hut the.fwentieth and the match | shown in lhe foregoing, the play on’. | | | * ground at Santa Cruz’ (having. receiy ed Visits from the Albion Rovers, the In- | dependents, the Oakland Hornets and the Vampires), will meet a league team | 1on a city ground fer the nrst.time dur- | ing the present season. At 12:30 p..m. ! “the Présidio athletic * sro\md the | lball will be kicked off fdr the match | between the San Francisco and Santa | Cruz teams, A. W. Wilding .being the | referee., -At 2:30° p, m. ‘the Uflvklzl\di Hornets will play against thé Sacra- mento elevea, John Camercn being the | referee. i | On the ground at l-‘re«‘msn" . Park, Golden Gate, the Adbion .Rovérs willy play against the Eagles, €. W. Irish being the referge. On the ° cricket ground at Alameda the Vampires will meet the Independents, Arthur Robin- son being the referee. In both’these matches the ball will be_ kicked off at | 0 p. m. ! The most intefesting game will be | lthe one between the Vampires.and If-.| fdependents, both being strong .teamis | and well matched,:ine Hornets having | beaten the Vamplires two goals to-nofh- ing and having scored two goals to one against the Independents. -Fhe Vam- pires, moreover, generally play better on the Alameda ground than elsewhere. The match between the San Francisco and Santa Cruz elevens should be & close one, neither team having scored a point as'yet in this season's games. In lhe Hornet-Sacramento and . Rover- Eagle games the resuits hardly admit ‘|of any doubt.” . The Oakland 'Hon'le!sM by defeating the independents .in ’last." Sunday’s match on the.- ‘Presidio athletic ground, reached the head of -the ‘table of results for the champiomnship of the California Associatien Football League. | Though-the Independents:and -Vampires | have the same number of poirts (§) as | the Hornets, each of "those teams has | played four matches, whereas the Hor- nets have taken paft in only fhree, all of which they have won. The Hornets. are practically certaln to beat Sacra- mento to-morrow, wheréas the .Vam: pires .and Independents, if they play & drawn. game, will each add only- one [ point to_their sceres, and if either team wins thie -other will Have played five matches and made only, six points. The | contest for- this.season’s championship | will be interesting, as the four lez\dlng4 teams are all strong and-po one of them_is gertain’ of beating ‘the others. The standing of the clubs - for the championshlp is'shown in the.table: cLUBS. - Oakland Hornels Independents- Vampires ... Alblon Rovers . — | class will be played in the morning. The contestants in the last match will be George Janes and Melville Long. Janes has won the cup once and feels confident he will take Long into camp and thus score his second victory. The coast champion naturally has a right to feel confident, but he | will find young Long a greatly im- proved player. The latter has not done much in singles up to date, except his | casy victory in the last singles tournament. Janes is expected to win, but he will probably tfind his task a harder one than he anticipated. | At the park the.concluding rounds of the handicap doubles tournament should result in some close matehes. | The handicaps are about right and it would be a diffticult matter to pick the - winner. In the lower half there are but two teams, while four remain in the upper half. Charles Foley and Melville Long (owe 153-6) vs. Peck and Vensano (15 3-6) will be the first match of the day. Long and Foley played together for the first time last Sunday, and, as | they are a clever pair of youngsters, a | strong_team should be added to the list. They will be called upon to give big odds to Peck and Vensano, but will probably emerge victors. The other third-round match will be | between Clarence Griffin and Herbert Long (owe 15) vs F. Guerin and E. Finnigan (scratch). Grifin and Long should win easily, as their opponents look to have too small a handicap to be successful. If Long and Foley and Long and Griffin meet in the semi-finals a good match will l'elulL Griffin and ‘Long would receive “owe 3-8’ The two teams appear evenly matched and the handicap should give victory to Griffin and Long. In the lower half Gcorle Janes and Fred Adams (owe 153-6) will meet the Guerin brothers (15). The odds are large, but Adams and Janes are expected to win. The doubles championship of the bay eounties has. been awarded to R, N. Whitney and .Charles Foley by de? fault. Carl Gardner will not be able to play for some time and the com- mittee decided to défault Dunlap and Gardner, In future Foley and M. Long will play together, Whitney and Foley | having decided to split up. The next tournament of importance will be held on Christmas day. | The Golden Gate and California clubs {will both hold events, but just what | they will be has not been decided. It is safe to say the last named club will ]nol hold a “draw” double: 1 Officials Lose a Point. Judge Seawell has overruled the de- | murrer of, ' Secretary of State Curry, State Printer Shannon and Assistant Attorney General Post, constituting the State Printing Committee, to the com- i plaint of Bonestell, Richardson & Co. to cancel a contract awarded A. Zeller. bach & Sons for paper te be used in the printing of school books. The offi- cials named have been given ten days’ in which to answer the complaint. The restraining order heretofore issued pro- hibiting the officlals proceeding under ‘the contract awarded A. Zellerbach & Sons will remain ° in effect -until tl case’ i finally -disposed of, providing the plaintiff files a bond to insure A. Zellerbach & Sons against loss.im event the suft is finally decided in, thelr fa- NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—Percy Kuttroff, lhs student S + weoks and for whom a reward of has been has handicap ! Eagles . Sar Francisco . Sacramento Santa Crua. As.shown in the table; sixty-three goals have been sc¢red during the present season; the Independents hav-. IRg nineteen, or nearly ong-third, te their ¢redit. The attack’ of the Vam- pires is -thé.next strongest, they hav- ing put the ball in the ret of their op- | ponents thirteen times. The Oakland | Hornets' defense .is remarkably goed, only one goal having been madg against in its attractiveness for the members and also for the ducks and other feathered game, not to mention the striped bass in the sloughs. A new clubhouse, which includes a large dining-room and quarters for the keeper, will be occupied to-day for the first time. The former dining-room, which is a cheer- ful apartment twenty-five feet square and fifteen feet high, will be fitted up as a re- ception and lounging room. General Frederick Fungtnn shot over the preserve last Sunday as the guest of Louis H. Allen. Genera] Funston, who is N e 0 | cocmempe | in | . them. {-an excellent’'shot, bagged twenty-five teal. Th L H e league clubs are Acunllnuglly 13 Sbouid.not getthe FngtoRt irat, (ei e taking in new members. The follow-" ai d not lead them far enough. Once he ing are the recent registrations of pla; corrected this defect his aim proved deadly. This wag his first yisit. Hia en- | 5 qualified to play in league matere joyment S Oakland Hornets—J, McGregor, Ha ird, joyment was so Keen he Is Expected down s Bemeroy. Hobert Wb drrv L again shortly. The great artificial pondsfon the pre- serve, one of which covers thirty acres, seem to attract the mallards. More “of these fine birds are in the county now than were ever seen there before. To show the variety of ducks killed by the members the tireless secretary, John B. Hauer, offers the list of the birds he killed last Sunday out of one blind.. The total was forty-four and was made up as Higgins, Edward Dawson, Herbert Falk, John McKenzie, Elmer Householder and O. Lowell, the two last being undergraduates of the University of California. Albion Rovers—W. F. Sharp, David Milng (the second of the name to enter the elub), ‘William Somervilfe and James Milligan; the last named having been transferred from the San Francisco Club. - Vampires—Robert H. Turner, Frahk Ber- nard, George Browlenhine Fred R. Harwood and David M. Lees. The iast named has been’ transterred from the Alblon Rovers and _is follows: Three sprig, nine widgeon, wsl: klro'n :! a IEO-uAdlslt‘lnlcuo dmrmcl;"e s twenty-one teal, four mallard, one can- s ttipder ~ vasback, * three spoonbills, one gadwell, | Cr. o BT, P Eon. David 8. Tux- lor, Elmer L. Hill, C. O'Brien, Humphrey Cal- laghan, H. Betts ind Jobn W. Kirvin. - Eagles—Joe Collez, transferred frvm the Al blon Rovers. Sacramento—Frank McShane, W:lur Bow+ den and Fred Tutner. Santa Cruz—S. C. Kerr, Pltrkk Sawyet, B F. Anderson and Clarence M. Bf Independents—Arthur Nor\on “Duncan For- nle, Willlam Dwyer, Edward Alien and John Ripley. In accordance with = retmes( made by the Santa Cruz club, the matches set down on the schedule for December 31, 1905, will be played on .anuary 28, 1908, and those arranged for.January 28 will take place on December 31. The match between San- Francisco and Santa Crus, set dewn (according to the new’ ar- rangement) for the last day-of the old year, will be played at Santa Cruz on the-first day of the new year, if the San Francisco team will consent to' this plnn. one wood.duck and one butterball. The preserve also affords excellent quail and snipe shooting, -while the nearby sloughs are full of striped bass. W. W. Van-Arsdale, a member of the club, who has done so much for the de- velopment of the Ejglish setter on this coast, will shoot over the preserve next week with Secretary Hauer. For quail they will have the invaluable services of the champlon pointer Dr. Danpiels, over whom it is a treat to shoot. They will devote one day to quail and snipe and an- other to the ducks. Edward Donohoe and Julius Brums, his guest, each secured lmit bags of mal- lard at the former's preserve on the Sui- sun marsh last Wednesday.™ Charles McDonald bagged twenty teal at Sears Point last Sunday, which was a good day’s shooting under the prevalling conditions. The majority of the men who spent the day en the marsh last Sunday had but poor returns. The conditions have' im- proved since then, and with a continuance of the prevalling cold weather the sport | Sulting a woman, was booked at the should be good to-morrow. The bifds are | City Prison yesterday by Detective here and merely require to be set in mo-, Coleman on a charge of burglary. tion to furnish the best possible sh¥bting. | About two ‘years ago Thude was em- ————e———— . ployed by John Buttler, butcher, 782 Haight- street, and It is alleged that he broke Into the shop om the night of j December 14, 1903, and stole a sack containing $240, which Buttler had hid- den on top of an icebox. Thude went to New York and Buttler swore out a warrant for his arrest on a charge of burglary. Buttler says Thude wrote him from New York that be had stolen the sack, but to take no action against him as he would repay the amount. Coleman had been searching for him and found him in prisen. . ‘ —_————— Loses Valuable Fur Scarf. Miss Lillle Wurkheim, 2367 Sutter street, reported to the police yesterday ! that she attended the performance at the Grand Opera-house on Thursddy afternoon and lost a fur scarf, valued at $560. were seated behind her of takirg the scarf. She did not know who they were. —_—— ‘Thude Charged With Burglaiy. Ernest Thude, who was arrested in | Golden Gate Park on Tuesday for in- ‘Webb Released From Custody. Robert Webb.' one of the suspected safecrackers arrested by Detectives Taylor and Braig, was released yester- day morning, as he is suffering from an incurable disease. It was believed by-the police that he and two others had obtained nitroglycerin from Isaac Sellinger at 10 St. Charles place and one of the others had returned it to Sellinger after Webb was arrested, The police said yesterday that they-had : dropped the investigation into the Sell- inger explosion early Wednesday morn- ing, as they are satisfled it was acci- dental. | e Poolseller In Arrested. Isadore Arendt was arrested at a. cigar store, 137 Mason street, yesterday | afternoon for violating. the poolselling ' ordinance. He sold a pool to Policeman John Porter and was promptly arrested by Porter and. Policerhan Peshon. After i being booked at- the City Prison he was ‘released on $50 cash bail. ——e——————— PESION ATTORNEY ARRESTED.—John K. rtholomew was taken to the Oonnly Jail 1ast evening by Deputy United States It yuu desire a good appetite and wish | Pinsley. sho n on and recelved as a FIREA A meal you eat, take 's | ver Bitters, shomrdi U o e . ot wilk PllLUISTS SEEK A NEW FIELD Aflsoemtlon Oflieia.ls Want- Publlg Grounds Under “Their Own ° Direetion MAY TAkL OVER CLARK'S - Polo hls beén unusually slow. to start at’ Burlingame this year, but the of- Aclals of the California Polo and Pony Racing Association are determined not to let this greatest of all feld sports dis out in ‘this district. The annual meeting of the associa- ‘tion will be held on Monday or Tues- day, when itls possible the club will take over ‘both the polo field and the private track of Charles W. Clark at San Mateo.. The apparent lack of inter- ‘@t in the game just how is laid to the fact that the Burlingame Club. has mry field. " Its grounds near . Burlingame were looked upon as 4 public field and visitors-had nd lresitancy id playing there. With the Clark field under the direction of the polo- association the |.same conditions .will prevail. Owing to the lack of a publi £y near thie city. it is understood the Eng- lish players who are due here soon will make their headquarters at Hotel Det Monte. All the faeilities. are availabis there and the. players ean come and go Major Neil Haig will be-in-the v, who will agaim head the sers, has his ponies in trai Burlingame,. The members of will bring thelir. popfes. with them.: Among the players is.an Aus- trian Count, who has -distinguished himself this year. Walter Hobart has some exception- ally fast ponles which he will introduce this year. Amorig the pumber is his racing pony Marigold, which will be hard to beat In a race of &ny distance after the ball T..A. Drisecoll, the most dashing of the. players, has retamed his splendid string of. ponies. ‘They have not been taken up yet, but they : would come quickly to hand once he decides to re- turn to his faverite game. F. J. Carolan, master of Crossways, will return about January 1. from an extended European trip. C. Raoul- Duval is also-expected here and will be-in. the saddle. Paul Clagstone will be on_hand to play and will have some, fast ponles. . Two of them are in trals } ing at-San Mateo and-are already fit play. R. M. Tobin, & veteran of the game, has returtied from Europe, where he witnessed mapy matches, also taking part in a number. Polo is prospering throughout South- ern Californta, clubs having been ot- ganized in- various ecitles. - There are a mumher of fields there and others are tp be.constructed. INSOLVENT JAMES ACCUSES ( ES CREDITOR Says That George H. Butler Would Defraud Other People. a resident ing_at his party, Claude James, of North | Berkeley, file@ a peguliar petition in in- solvency yesterday In the United States District Court. He gives -hls occupation as that of a painter and his Wabilities at $4139, with'no assets. He sets forth in his petition- that on August 8, 1905,.he con~ ‘| veyed 40 one of his créditors, George H. Butler of Rio Vista, in part payment of a debt of $2403, his crop of grain, valued at $2000, grown on Sullivan’s ranch, near Denverton, Solano County. The petition adds: “Butler kmew wheén I cenveyed this property to him that it was all the property I -possesed in the -world with which to pay off my debts. He also knew that 1 owed .the greater portion of the money w0 unsecured creditors, Butler now claims gll this property as. his own and has refused to pay any of my éreditor: and §t.le for. this reason I file this pe: tion {n. bankruptey, - in order .that m creditors may gei their pro rata share. Johanna Bolte, a schoo! teacher, who has been conducting @ French boarding- school in this.city, also filed a petition in insolvency. Her MHabilities aré $1335 and she has no assets. .Among her creditors are Misses Ida Morrill, Ida Stabb, Roee McGrath, Ethel Lewjs; J. AMard and Miss d'Ancona, whom Miss Boilté¢ men- tions as a sister of*Supervisor d"Ancana. These ladles are school teachers,. to whom Miss Bolte owes balances o sal- ary. Ce——————— POLICE, DO NOT CREDIT ‘REPORTED BARTO ROBBERY Detective T. B. Gibson, Whe Was De- tailed ‘On the Case, Sxys Stowy Is = Rank Fake. Detective T. B. Gibson, who was de- tailed to investigate the story’of J I Barto, proprictor of the . Larchmont House, 361 Sutted street, that he had been held up and robbed in his foom of $600 by two men early yestetday morning and tied hand and foot, re- ported to Captain Byrnett yesterday that, ‘after talking with Barto for nedr- 1y two hours, he*had come to the con- clusion that the lodging-house’ ‘keeper's story was a “rank fake." Barto told Gibson that he had a sus- plicious feeling whén- {he knock camse to his door and he placed $400 unde his bed cover, yetaining $130 in . pockets. The two robhers first tov! th' $150 from his pockets and ome of them then took the $400 from under the bed cover. Gibson asked ‘him why he had not placed the whole 3558 under the bed cover, but he could not give a sdtlsfactors answer. Gibsen wanted Barto to show him the man who cut the cerds that bound him, but he at first refused. Finally 1he said it was one of the lodgers nlmod Flamber,-and Gibson says that mber denied doing anything of the kl‘d. Then Barto said it was another lodger, but he did not know his nahe. In his report Gibson sald that B.rm a dealer in ° ledging-fiouse: throughout the country and had "4 fused to say where he was born or waen he came here. Besides, all of his personal effects were packed in two grips as If he had intended leaying the city. * F ———————— Itallan Bunke Mar Arrested. . Dominic Castinelli was arrested yes- terday by Detectives Matheson. Mul« cahy and Rlordan and locked up in the City Prison. He is accused. with two others, of tricking Lulgi Dapoli, a deck- . - to Oakland, where the trick wad ~ flo‘..:ninnondflnumngg the police here, tnlnking it was out- side their jurisdiction. Matheson learn- ed of the affalr on Thursday and Casti- nelli was arrested yesterday. He will be ‘charged with grand larceny. m- are .arclh. for the 8