The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 3, 1906, Page 6

THE N F RANCISCO CALL, SATURDA MARCH 3, 1906 YO THNT OF gL OVER ATHLETE SR Sordid Promoters Are Ever Ready to Corrupt Boys Who Show Skill in Prize Ring ol e not listen 1 debts to which club to who come ager agrees to pay a After the fight ect his pittance and e amount agreed ns at the thievery of take that or be soclation and card as an amateur The Hawthorne Jub makes cialty of heavy-weight figh brings out the c wd and crowd epe oney. It is a suspicious fact at all these fights last but one round: it is openly med - th men are picked up t streets, who krow nothing of boxing. and are prepared for the g€ in a few days. Their chief £ to bave their photographs r advertising purpo Vis: not welcome &t their “tr The impression is give re in line to succeed Jeffries" nd their style of fight- not become known Eome of dly knew how to hold their were knecked out with a punch no tragedy resulted is not the fa f the management A Chinese boxer was an here and in order to maintain his pres- tige as an advertisement his fights were always fixed for him to win. One night his opponent, after being paid to lose by one set of men, was paid by others to win. He won easily and his back- ers also won some $500. Another boxer was paid liberally to lose. He took the bribe and wagered it on- himself and then went in and won, giving his friends the double cross. The immature youths who sin in ath- leties are hardly to be blamed when the papers are full of the sin of educated men- holding positions of great honor and responsibility. 31 the_officials of the Pacific Athletic Assoclation ‘can keep amateur boxing clean and honkst they will have accom- plished a remarkable feat and will be entitled to the thanks of the com- munity. The greed which is eating the heart out of Boxing is seen in every sport in which money-can be made. Each per- @on connected with these sports seems SPORTS | | : ™ | ker and the tournament winner: © | Foley, attraction | H W CLOSE MATCHES RE EAPECTED e Championships at Gate Park Will Exeiting = Sport Sy | Tennis Golden i Provide among’ tennis players cen- Alameda County champion- be completed 3 : Golden Gate Park hardly likely the singles ed, but doubles ‘will the n in the doubles and : good matches. In f Fred Adams and Charles »e opposed to Guy Lytton N. Whitney, while in the lower Carl Gardner and Melville Long meet Herbert Long and Neil Ba- iast named player, with his jeorge, holds the dou- bles championship. Whitney - and Lytton have already disposed of two of the strongest teams entered look te have an eoxcellent ce to win, They will meet a strong in Adams and Dunlap. - is in great condition and can de- i upon good support from Dunlap. he other semi-final match prove a close one. The two tcams are 1ly matched and it would be a dif- It matter to-pick the winner. Adams Dunlap look to be the strongest of the four teams, although Whitney and Lytton thus fer have shown by r the best form. fve players are left ing the singles four of them hold championship In the upper half State Cham- Adams& will meet Bay Counties pion Foley. They played two sets Sunday, but the entire mateh will bably be played over tomorrow. ir match of last Sunday was one of best ever played at the park and one of the closest. Adams scems to e regained his form of last summer will make & strong bid for the first championship of the year. 1 the lower half are Coast Champion , San Francisco Champion Gard- and Clarence Grifin. Janes and Grifin will meet first and the winner will play Gardner. The Janes-Griffin | match should prove one of the best in Y | the tournament. Gardner has not been at his best | since his collision with an automobile and is not expected to beat either Janes | or Griffin in his present condition. ®| The final match of the singles is sure to be a good one and will prove more | interesting than the challenge match. | The latter will be between George Ba- Baker | beat the game players a year ago, but & 14t will be a great surprise if he suc- defends - his title. Adams, Grifin _and Jgnes are much stronger than they wefe a year ago, | while Baker has gone back some. > |- There will be no tournament at the | California Club until after the comple- { tion of the events at the park. | The young ladies of the third class have a handicap €ingles to play the first | Saturday the weatheér permits. It wés I'set for two weeks ago. but had to be | postponed on account of. rain. It will | be played today if the. weather permits. e | intent on collecting -each day /his -pit- | tance -of -a salary with no thought of | the morrow. This is seen in the- slow | strangulation of baseball and cours- |ing. The baseball officfals thought they | should be presenting that sport on | every sunny day, winter and summer, cessfully They lengthened the Season until it ran almost from January to January. ach-day on which no game wasg sched« | uled they cotnted. up their losses, fig- | uring what thé receipts would have been. When they had squeezed. thé last, lingering drop: of blood out of the great | American pastime they withdrew. | Their successors are now confronted with the problém of of trying to restore a semblance of life to what was once | a great throbbing, living thing. Base- | ball gamblers have been taught times | without number that the most profitable | baseball is that of the highest class and the cleanest. With these lessons before | them they sate the public appetite with | too much baseball of inferior class and | with. the taint of gambling running | through it. | The players whose livelihood depends |upon the game add thelr mite to its | destruction. They play listlessly. care- { lessly, and then to crown it all indulge | continuously in unseemly jwith the umpire. This disgusts the | men who have paid at the gate to wit- | mess baseball. Coincident with the decay of semi- professiopal sport comes the awaken- ing of interest in ’cross-country walk- ing and racing and in the sports of the athletic flield. The grammar, schools, high schools and the universities are producing clear-eyed and stout-limbed athletes, who have not been tainted by contact the sordid profes- ) wi Tne for- | will also | wrangles | of LickK GRIFFITl 3 | | | | | - .._. sz I— RKELEY ¥ 'WitrreRoinG A, KNICKERBOCKER & Wicmenving | - { | STURDY YOUNG HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES WHO ARE EXPECTED TO PLAY PROMINENT PARTS IN THE FIRST FIELD DAY OF THE YEAR = THIS WILL TAKE PLACE TODAY ON BBERKELEY OVAL. UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE SAN FRANCISCO ATHLETIC LEAGUE. { _— CIROINAL HEN N TRANIG Baseball, Boating and Track Athletes Rounding Into Form for Competition g STANFORD NIVERSITY, March 2. —The recent rain caused a Ctessation in all the branches of athletics at Stan- ford University, with the exception of boating. Now that the athletes have recovered from the fear that the arti- fical Lake Lagunita was going dry, matters are moving smoothly. The crews have shown much improvement in the new stroke Dan Murphy has in- troduced. Baseball fans have transferred their cttention from the doings of the var- sity to the interclass series, which will commence on Saturday with the clash of the freshman and sophomore nines, Much rivalry always attends this match and as the two teams are particularly good this year the contest will be more interesting than.usual. The 1908 team would scem to have a slight advantage, as it has three members of the varsity nine Included in the squad, while has but one and several substitutes. In the upper classes the contest will be close. .The .varsity line-up is un- altered from that of the eanjler part of the €eason. Sales and Theile as twirl- ers and Stott and Dailey as catchers are the battery stars. Dad Moultor bes his sauad well in hand, despite the rainfall.’ Many pre- liminary tryouts have beén held and fast men are continually cropping up in most of the events. €. D. Hussey, 09, is creating a sensation in the qua: ter-mije. He covered the distance re- cently in :53 1-6 seconds. Cope is the star in the -sprints and Miller ia the distance runs. B. J. Nash, '07, is lead- ing the two-mile squad over the course i fast time with Fergueson; '09, a close second. Severey, '08, and Russel, '06, are running the half-mile close to two minutes, The tennis followers are busily en- gaged in getting in a few practice matches between showers. At present a tryout for the varsity is in progress. As the squad is unusually large the end is far distant. ————e % ‘sfonal promoter who would .coin the ability nature has given them into soiled money. The fresh young athletes are in such a large majority that they will un- doubtedly act as a leaven to purify the body athletic. LITTLE GIRL FRACTURES SKULL. Charlotte McKeon, six years of age, was 109" FIRST FIELD DAY OF T WILL BE HELD AT BERKELEY Sturdy Young Athletes "Meet Today on Cinderpath. Many hotly contested - fleld ‘meets have taken place since the San Fran- cisco Athletlc League was started, but today's meet on the Berkeley cinder- path promises to surpass any of. its predecessors. The meet won by the Lick High School last fall proved the closest on record, the Potrero ‘school capturing the day by a margin of eight points. They can hardly dupll- cate that score. Lowell High School has acquired new talent and its rep- resentatives feel confident they will be able to turn the tables on their oppo- nents and regain their lost honors. To say the Brittian cup will go to either Lick or Lowell by a margin of two or three points is not exaggerat- ing the keen competition between the two schools. The fact that Lick has two consecutive’'wins on this cup will make the fight for supremacy all the keener. If the supporters of the black and gold are victorious to-day the cup will remain in their possession perma- nently. If it goes to Lowell, it means another sik months betore Lick will be able to try to redeem it. The athletes from the Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts are not figur- ing on trying for first or second place, as they have not a full ¥eam. The men who are entered may proye trouble- some to the Lick and Lowell repre- sentatives. The most likely point win- ner is John Willison, who is entered in the 880-yard dash, the hammer throw and the high jump. In all these events Willigon has captured points in former fleld days of the San Francisco Ath- letic League. A. Knickerbocker, who will run the low and high hurdles for this school, has also earned points before. He may prove .a dangerous man to his rivals. Barkeley, their two-miler, is in better form than neretofore. Lousley, who is entered in the 440-yard dash, is an un- certain quantity, However, he has been running that race in- fast time lately, which entitles him to a place with the top-notchers. Of all the schools in San Fraheisco the Lowellites have the best individual men. Read in the 60-yard; Garvin in the two-mile; Maundrell in the 880 and mile; Buttgenback in the 100; Caldwell in the 440-yard; Leib in the 120 and 420 hurdles and broad jump, and Bressi in the -high jump, constitute their best men for each event. Most of the second and third places will g0'to the Lick School. As was evi- | dent In the swimming meet last Friday night at the Olympic Club, the swim- mers who made a wonderful showing for their schools, as in the cLe’o( Lick and Lowell, failed to carry off the final honors, which were taken by Poly- technic. “The same condition was seen in Jast fall's San Francisco meet. Low- ell men made the best showing in in- diyldual’ work, but were sty on second and third places. If Lick wins in today's mee: it will e under these conditions, as individual point-getters since Freéd Moullen left are a scarcity. Liok’s most likely point + HE YEAR — ATHEETES SHOW (LEVER WORK University - of = California Men Will Soon Be Ready for Tests of Skill ey .BERKELEY, March 2.—Trackmen and baseball men are in their glory on’ thg campus, the fine wegther permitting active work and Jots'of it, under the watchful eyes of Coach Jack McCarthy and Trainer Walter Christie. The baseball men are being put: through ‘their “paces with _vigor. Everybody with a chance to make the team finds himseélf "at some time or another on the field,” so that -whatever of value there is in the squad is being shown up. Four pitchers were used in the game against Alameda last Wednesday aft- ernoon. Newman, | Reinhardt, Jordan and West all went in the box for -an inning or two. Newman is the veteran, having pitched last year against Stan- ford. Rheinhardt is the big freshman, who made a - good showing on the freshman football team, and is 3 prom- ising candidate for slab honor®on the varsity baseball nine. West Is from the dental college in San Franeisco. While his opportunities for practice work have not been of the best he has a chance to get in the game, his form being promising. L The biggest game yet to be tackled by the varsity nine will. be encoun- tered tomorrow afternoon. when Coach McCarthy will pit his crew against the crack Gantner-Mattern aggregation from San Francisco. There are a num- ber of star players in the visiting team and the varsity men will have their work cut out to win. The ‘‘prep” school teams have fallen easy victims to the university players, but the | Gantner-Mattern game will be a new proposition. It will serve to give Coach McCarthy a good line on the results of the practice games that have been played. 3 The freshman baseball team will go against the Alameda High School nine on the campus tomorrow morning. Trainer Christle put the freshmen through their tryouts Thursday after- noon, the weather being clear and fine. The races were pretty warmly contest- ed, and Christie was highly pleaseds s. —_— & getters are: Knox and .Befit.oll in the 50-yard; Lodge and Holmes in the two. mile; Mayes and L. Thompson in the | Samuels, 1843 Larkin XKnox in the 100- | rant $80-yard; Golcher and yard; Johns and Black in the high hurdles; B. Thompson, Johns and Black in the low hurdles; May: and L. Thompson ‘in the mile:, Hol: Johnston in the hammer: Grifith and | Butler in the pole; Bettoll, Knox, Grif- fith in the broad; Jol ' the high juma : i UNG ATHLETES WILL COMPETE e e DRSS - RS SIS 4 i mes. and | he in | §30 o AT INGLESIDE Two Competitions Are to Be Decided Today With the Scores as Returned The sixth and last competition for the “bogey” handicap cup of the San Francisco Golf and Country Club will be held this afternoon on the links at Ingleside, over eighteen holes, match play. The winners of the five competi- tions already held for the trophy will | represented. The deicgates present mani- be barred from this afterneon’s con- test. The qualifying round, over eighteen holes, medal score, of the competition for the Council's cup for men of the San Franclisco Golf and Country Club wili take place this afternoon, the same cards being reckoned as for the “bo- gey” handicap contest. The efght play- ers who return the lowest scores: will qualify for the first match play round of the Council’'s cup contest, and the elght players returning the next low- est scores will enter a competition at match play for a “second eight” tro- phy. The first match play round will take place on the afternoon of Satur- day, .the 10th inst. The second match play round may be played at the con- venience of each pair of players, but must ‘be finished not later than the evening of the 16th inst. The final rounds must be played on the afternoon of Saturday, the 17th inst. All the matches will be over elghteen holes. The competition for the open cham- pionship of Southern California will be held on the links of the Los Angeles Country Club on Friddy and Saturday, the 9th and 10th inst. the play being over seventy-two holes, medal score. All golfers, professionals and ama- teurs, whether members of the South- ern California Golf Association or not, are invited to enter. The entrance fee of $3-must be paid to Frank Griffith, the secretary and treasurer of the Southern California Golf Association, 204 Bradbury building, Los Angeles, before Saturday, the 10th inst. The first eighteen holes will begin at 9 o'clock on Friday morning, the 9th ihst.,, and the second eighteen at 1 p. m. of the same day. The third eighteen holes will begin at 9 on Saturday morn- ing, the 10th inst. and . the fourth eighteen at 1 p. m\ on the same day. The competition for the women's championship of Southern California will be held on the links of the Los Angeles Country Club on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th irst. Entries with the entrance fee of $3 must be madé with Frank Grifith, 204 Bradbury building, Los Angelés, at or before 4 p. m. on Tuesday, the 13th inst. The drawing of partners for the qualifying round will be made at this time by the executive committee. e e i He remarked that the showing made by a number of the freshmen indicates that a number of varsity track men will have. to hustle to hold their places on_the team. / S Coach Garnett is drilling the boating men daily in the gymnasium, with oe- casional trips to the estuary. The boat club is to have its annual entertain- ment on March 7-on the steamer Ama- dor, the boat which the club purchased last year and refitted | for clubhouse purposes. “ It lies in the Qakland es- tuary. Professor George C. Edwards, chgir- man of the faculty athletic committee, has forwarded to Stanford the list of men eligible to take part in the inter- colleglate baseball game with the Palo Alto men. California men were ineligible because of an alleged professional taint seems to have been disproved by Professor Edwards' recent inquiries. The list of eligibles follows: "07, L. F. er '08, R. H. f. 108, 5 % 08, V. ‘o9, L A B wyer ‘00, J. G, ‘08, W. B. Smit ‘00, D. Swartzel ‘00, F. P. Tatush ‘07, B & ‘Tho! 109, C. A. Wayne ‘07, L. C. West ;:;n”.l.?, W. L. Wharton 07, H. W. Whit- ALLEGES SHE WAS SWINDLED. -Albert m Police Judge the arrest of Willlam money them, and Samuels «goresentations were false. 5 The suggestion that certain | COLFERS MEET |OARSMEN EXPECT A BIC SEASDN Boat Clubs Make Aective Preparations = for Races and for Excursions The prospects for an active rowing sea- son are better than they Hve been for some years past. At the last regular meseting of the Pacific Association of Amateur Oarsmen tifere was a good at- tendance, all the clubs being strongly fested much enthusiasm. The only club not yet a member of the assoclation is the South End Rowing Club. According to the report made by the committee appofnted to confer with the directors of that club it is probable. the South Ends will soon Join the assdelation. At the associdtion meetiig two new committees were appointed. One of these, consisting of A. G. Bell and F. V. Thorn- ing of the Alameda Boating Club and €. M. Farrell of the Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club, Will confér with the direc- tors of the Manticello Steamship Companty with regard to making the rowing regatta at Vallejo an annual event, te be held on Thanksgiving day or Admission day. The other committee, consisting of A. G. Bell of the Alameda Boath Club, ‘J. J. von Staden of the Arfel Rowing Club ‘and J. Thurman of the Dolphin Swiiming and Boating Club, will have in charge the arrangements for the Fourth of July championship regatta on Lake Merritt. It is intended to hold an interclub banquet on April 28 for the purpose of bringing the members of the various rowing clubs together and making them ‘better” ac~ quainted with each other. : The oarsmen of the Dolphin and Ala< meda clubs were classified at_ the last meeting of the P. & A. O, The senior bargemen-of the Alameda Boating Clyb are. F. W. Ayres, John Lewis, George Lewis, Willlam Burnham, C. J." Hague, M. H. Ryap and George Tupper. Those of the Dolphin Club are Alex W. Pape, S. P. Vicipi° L. D. Welnand, C. M. Farrell, A. A. Bertrand, W. F, Harris and Thom- as Harris. The Alameda bargemen in the intermediate class are P. B. -Hackley, George Postel, A. Rettiz and H. Neflson. The intermediate bargemen of the ‘Dol phins are George Baker, W. L. Bush, H. R. McKevitt, W. O. Patch, L. €. Rich- mond ¥nd Dr. A. W. Ward. F. J. Sherry and T. R Keenan of the Doiplins are in the junior barge class. Eighty-four mem- bers of the Dolphin Club are in the junior barge*and junior shell classes. Fred W, Ayers of the Alameda Boat<lub is In the senior outrigged skiff class, and Charlés A. Quitzow of the same club-is a junior skiffman. The senior scullers of the Dolphin Clubr are A. W. Pape. W. O. Pateh,. F. J. Sherry, Leo D. Weinand, George Baker, Thomas Harris and T. R. Keenap. The Junior Bcullers of the Doilphin Club are W. L. Bush, A. ‘A. Bertrand, C. M. Far- rell and W. F. Harris. The last three are senior bargemen. Alexander W. Keegan and Charles Wil- son of the Arfel Rowing Club, having won senior single races during 1905, are now in the class of seniet scullers. The race around Angel Island jn big barges will be-held on Sunday, April 1, between crews representing the: Arfel, Dolphin and Alameda clubs. The distance is about twelve miles. The Atiel and Ala- meda. barges will be towed to the Dolphin clubhouse, opposite which the race will start and finish. " The annual house party of the, Dolphin Club was held on Tuesday night at.the clubhouse and ‘was one of the best that has ever taken place there. The electric light Gisplay, arranged by W. l!rm and others, was brilllant, and the eéntertain- ment, prepared by J. J. Crénin and W. Remensperger, was enjoyed greatly. About 300 people were in attendance. Re- I(mhments were served Quring the even- ng. i e The annual barge races for members of the Dolphin Club will be held at the end of March or early in April. As the crews six furlongs—Sweet Favor won, H second, .King's Gem third. Time, three and a_ half furlongs— Dorothy M second, Ligle " mile—Uncle Henry_won, Lemon Girl third. Time,