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SPORT
The wheelmen are more than pleased
with the change of weather, and a great
outpouring of cyclists from the surround
ing country will be present to witness the
races held at Oakland in aid of the Fabiola
Hospital fund. Several races are booked
to take place this month.
Amateur baseball is having a slight
boom. This afternoon the Olympic and
Stanford teams will meet in Central Park.
The bench show, which has attracted
much attention to the Pavilion, will close
this evening.
The oarsmen are industriously training
for the regatta at El Campo.
According to the latest news from in
terior towns angling in coast streams has
greatly improved.
THE WHEELMEN.
Will The National Racing Circuit
Reach California In November?
Imperial's Road Race.
There will be some good bicycle racing
to-day at Oakland at the meet given for
the benefit of the Fabiola Hospital Asso
ciation, which was postponed from May
day on account of rain. All of the best
men of both classes have entered the
various events and the programme prom
ises some excellent sport. The entries and
SOME OF THE WATSONVILLE WHEELMEN WHO TAKE PRIDE IN
DELIVERING THE SAN FRANCISCO "CALL.."
handicaps have already been published,
and there is no change in this respect ex
cept that the recent departure for the East
of E. C. Bald and W. A. Terrill, the class
B flyers, who had intended to ride, leaves
them out of the race, but there will be no
lack of good class B men on the track.
The management of the races held at
Santa Rosa last Thursday was excellent,
and the success of the meet was largely
due to the untiring efforts of President
M<<>regor. Secretary Bronks and L. W.
Burris of the Santa Rosa Wheelmen.
Captain A. C. Thornton has called a run
of the Olympic Club Wheelmen to Peta
luma to-morrow. If the present warm spell
continues this will be a "scorch" in a dif
ferent sense from what the wheelmen un
derstand it.
The California Cycling Club recently j
held its semi-annual election of officers
with the following result: W. 0. Johnson,
president; J. W. Harvey, vice-president;
H. F. Wynne, recording secretary; D. J.
Wren, financial secretary; A. N. Karl,
treasurer; William Reid, sergeant-at-arms.
The road officers continue the same, be
ing elected for yearly terms. Captain
Burke announced that there will be no run
to-morrow, but instead the club will run
another of its one-mile handicap races on
the Central Park track, open to club mem
bers only. This is the third of a series and
the three winners will then race among
themselves to decide who shall possess the
prize offered by the club.
The local railroad and ferry companies
should have the attention of the officials
of the League of American Wheelmen
now. I hear it is proposed to charge for
the transportation of all bicycles shortly.
On the steamer Piedmont cyclists are no
longer permitted to stand with their
wheels on the forward deck outside the
rope, which has always been a great con
venience, as tne riders were the first off the
boat and did not have to wait until all the
passengers had disembarked. An or
dinance at San Leandro, requiring
riders to carry lighted lanterns through
that town, also deserves attention. Re
cently several parties have been arrested
and "fined $5 for a violation of this law, I
•which they did not know was in effect. 1
However, there is a way around this. If a
rider does not dismount in San Leandro,
but keeps on his way along the county
road, he will not be molested. If you are
on the county road going through with
out a stop, the Constable has no right to
stop you. But he takes delight in round
ing up all unwary cyclists who stop for a
rest or refreshment, and at the rate of $5 a
time such luxuries come high.
J. C. Crooks of Haywards and J. M.
Hamilton have been added to the roll of
the Bay City Wheelmen.
The Liberty Cycling Club will have a
run to-morrow to San Mateo, principally
to witness the Imperial Club's roadrace.
On May 26 the club will give a picnic at
•Tamalpais Villa, Marin County, to its
members and their friends and families.
The club emblem, formerly a torch and
crescent, has been chanced to a libsrty
bell, which is more in keeping with the
name of the organization.
The Garden City Cyclers of San Jose
have a club run to-day to Oakland to wit
ness the races. They will come up in
charge of Captain Delmas, paced by the
Seybolt brother? on a tandem, and expect
to "make very fast time. Under the same
conditions, six members of the club made
this trip on Mayday in two hours and ten
minutes, actual riding time, which is
pretty fast going for forty-three miles.
The Oak Leaf Wneelmen of Stockton will
shortly go out of existence. All the club's
furniture and property has been sold to the
Stockton Athletic Association, which will
occupy the wheelmen's old quarters on
June 1. However, Robert Inglis, once
president of the club, writes me they ex
pect to organize a live wheeling annex in
the association composed of all the old
members of the wheelmen and many new
ones. The local wheelmen here always
had a fancy for Stockton, and delighted
to visit and race there at leastonce a year,
and after the change has taken place some
arrangement for a meet will be made to
which the cyclists from all the bay cities
■will hi* invited.
The San Francisco Road Club will have
their weekly run to Haywards to-morrow,
ana from promises expect to have about
40 members. The club is in a very flour
ishing condition, having seven new mem
ber* come in on last meeting night.
Captain Davis, Lieutenants Meusdorffer
and tkllomoa and Messrs. Stamper, Cook,
tfrown.Mack, Kayser and Mayer of the Out
ing Road Club made a century around the
bay last Sunday. Mayer's performance is
particularly creditable*, as he is but 16 years
of age. William Christ of the Olympics
paced the party to San Jose in good time.
To-morrow the Outings will enjoy a run
to Centerville, a twenty-two-ruile ride,
with prospects of an excellent dinner at
the other end.
The following officers were elected by the
Imperial Cycling Club last Monday even
ing: W. H.Tooker, president; W.W. Earle,
vice-president; A. ID. Stealey, recording
secretary; C. H. Dannals, financial secre
tary; W.W. Wilson, treasurer.
Considerable interest is attached to the
road race to be run over the San Leandro
course May 26, by four teams of live men
each, from the business houses of Dun
ham, Carrigan & Hayden Co., Baker &
Hamilton, Neustadter Bros, and Leyi
Strauss & Co., as exclusively announced in
the Call last Wednesday. It is said that
there is the most material to pick from in
the Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Co., but
the others assert that it is quantity, not
quality. Each man who goes on a team
will have to prove his ability to ride twenty
five miles at a three-minute gait, or he will
not be accepted. All the clubs will turn
out to witness the race.
Should Oscar Osen make up his mind to
ride in France this year with the pro
fessionals he will rind himself in the fast
est company it has been his lot to meet.
James Joyce Jr., who represents the Co
lumbia people here, is personally ac
quainted with many of the foreign and
American racing men now over there, and
he tells me that they are all crackerjacks.
Banker and Wheeler, the Americans, com-
pare favorably with Bald, Ziegler, Dirn
berger or any class B men, and when Zim
merman and* Johnson get there our colors
will be represented by a quartet of world
beaters. The French racing men are all
very fast and Italy has some flyers of
world-wide reputation. But there is al
ways room for one more, and as Osen's
suspension debars him from ever racing
under the League of American Wheelmen's
rules again he will have to cross the water
if he wants to continue in the sport, and
Oscar is not slow by any means. lam in
clined to think he would win his share of
the purses, which, by the way, are very
liberal.
Captain Joseph Quadt, Lieutenant Siebe
and Messrs. Stiegler, Schwartz and Maassof
the Golden Gate Cycling Club rode a cen
tury, to San Jose and return, last Sunday.
For to-morrow Captain Quadt has called a
club run to Camp Taylor.
R. M. Welch, chairman of the local rac
ing board of the league, has issued his
bulletin No. 7 as follows:
The California meetings of the National
Racing Circuit thus far arranged are as
follows: San Francisco, Bay City Wheel
men, November 1 and 2; San Jose, Garden
City Cyclers, November 4, 5 and 6; Los
Angeles, Los Angeles Wheelmen. These
are not sufficient to warrant the extension
of the circuit to include California, and
unless other meetings can be arranged
California and the Pacific Coast will have
to be left out. The time within which
definite conclusion must be reached is
limited. Clubs in California desiring
dates are requested to at once notify R. M.
Welch, the representative of the National
Racing Board, 532 California street, San
Francisco. The circuit cannot reach Cali
fornia earlier than November 1.
It is to be hoped that sufficient dates
can be arranged to warrant the National
circuit being extended to California. It
would bring with it all the prominent
racing men of the East, many of whom
might stay here for the winter, "and would
give the sport a wonderful impetus on this
coast. The fact that such stars as the
Eastern racing men are known to be would
ride would draw a crowd to any race meet
and make it a great success^ and clubs
need have no fear'on that score when they
apply for sanctions. Who wouldn't at
tend a meet in which a mile race brought
to the scratch such men as Bald, Sanger,
Tyler, Dirnberger, Macdonald, Bliss, Ter
rill, Ziegler, Coulter, Harbottle, Cabanne,
Titus and dozens of men of equal racing
ability who follow the circuit for several
months, always racing and always fighting
out their races in the endeavor to get a
prize. That's when the sport becomes
exciting, and the spectators at the National
circuit meet are usually numbered by the
thousands. By all means, let us do "what
we can to bring the circuit out here next
fall.
The picture presented this week repre
sents the Call carriers at Watsonville.
They have become well known to the resi
dents of that thriving city in Pajaro Val
ley. A streak of dust is all that is seen
two minutes after the morning train ar
rives, and although the routes take the
boys all over the city all the papers are
delivered within twenty minutes after the
train is in. No. lin the picture is the re
liable Tommy Lennard, who delivers all
south of town; No. 2 is John Miller, who
carries all the extras to the Call agency ;
Victor Tuttle is the third, and the fourth
if Bert Weston, who carries all of the out
side routes. The people of Wataonville all
iike the Call and are pleased with the
prompt delivery afforded by the wheel
men, and the paper has many friends in
the valley. The dog in the picture is
Nancy Hanks, a thoroughbred terrier from
Montana, the property of George P. Martin.
A party of Olympic wheelmen, com
posed of A. H. Russ, C. Euier, B. Hav
ward.W. B. Wegener, H. S. Russ, A. G
Russ Jr., Ed Russ and R. R. Ru» s en
joyed a trip to Redwood City Sunday. The
party were much concerned, when, on the
way down, they discovered the absence of
A. H. Russ, who had been with them as
far as San Mateo. They feared some acci
dent might iiave befallen him, and a
search was made, but he did not turn up
The next day he was met on the street,
and 9aid he had only stopped for a drink,
and had then rode on to Redwood and
back that afternoon. But Bob Russ doubts
this story, and thinks he took the train
home from Redwood.
The Imperial Cycling Club will hold a
five-mile handicap road race to-morrow at
2 p. M., over the course from San Mateo to
San Carlos. Frank M. Byrne and J. E. Ed
wards will ride from scratch, and endeavor,
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1895.
by pacing each other, to lower the coast
five-mile record of 13 minutes 10 seconds,
wbich Edwards now holds. The other en
trants are: B. P. Heard, 3o seconds; J. W.
Harvey, 30 seconds; W. Reid, 45 seconds;
E. Barley, 45 seconds; J. P. Jaegling, 45
seconds f W. Fox, 1 minute; F. Stackpole,
1 minute: W. Radke, l} 4 minutes; A. L.
HolHng, Hi minutes; W. T. Johnson, 1%
minutes; U.S. Egan, VA minutes; J. F.
Burns, V/i minutes; R. Margary, 1)4 min
utes; G. Geary, \% minutes; C. Vanderbos,
1% minutes; *W. L. Wilson, \)i minutes:
G. Panario, 1% minutes; J. Pike, 1% min
utes; H. N. Roche, 2 minutes; G. W. W.
Roche, 2 minutes; G. H. Dannals, 2 min
utes; George Ciabrough, 2 minutes.
With such a large entry list the race will
surely be well worth witnessing. The
riders will go down to the start on ihe
11 :45 a. M. train to-morrow. The following
will be the officials: Starter, J. Catanich ;
referee, E. W. Adams; timers— H. F.
Wynne, T. F. Egan, W. L. Elliott, W. W.
Wilson, J. H. Millett, C. H. Dannals, J.
R. Cook ; judges— W. W. Earle. E. C. Doug
las, W. H. Tooker, H. W. Eisert, W. Joost,
G. E. Tooker; clerk of course, R. Talfour;
marshal, F. McCarty. Spaldixg.
Oscar Lewis of the County Clerk's office
has joined the ranks of the wheelmen.
Oscar has purchased a wheel with the very
latest improvements, and on Thursday
evening he took his first spin. He left the
City Hall with some expert riders, and
after riding a few hundred yards he grew
tired and weary and wanted to dismount.
He found that the task of getting off his
wheel was not so easy as he had antici
pated, and rather than have any altercation
with the rocky road should he come to a
sudden stop. Oscar headed his wheel for
the Cliff House.
Arriving at the beach in an exhausted
condition, he permitted his poor anatomy
to lodge itself in an inviting sanddune.
Some people who were passing in a car
riage on seeing the body of a man stretched
at full length on a hill of sand reported
their find when they arrived at the Cliff,
and the ambulance wagon was sent for the
supposed corpse. Lewis had sufficiently
recuperated, however, to take the cars for
home, and as a consequence the ambulance
driver was cheated out of a passenger.
Oscar is now thinking what kind of exer
cise is necessary for a fat man to ride a
bicycle against wind and sand without
having to stop over for refreshments.
FAIR WHEELWOMEN.
"The Girl" Discusses the Ladles'
Cycling Club of San Jose and
Other Matters of Interest.
I have so enjoyed the past few days spent
in interviewing members of the Ladies'
Cycling Club that I propose to share my
enjoyment with you and to the best of my
ability describe this very pleasant organi
zation.
"We are not very business-like," one of
them said with a little sigh. "You see we
missea our official meeting this month on
account of the rain, but then," she added
brightly, "we all know what business would
have been transacted, for we see each other
so often." Bless their hearts, what bank
directors they would make !
The club costume is at once practical and
pretty. It consists of Eton jacket, long
skirt and bloomer of dark blue storm ser^e,
with cap or sailor hat of corresponding
hue. \V T hen the members enjoy a country
run, they usually discard skirts after leav
ing the city and ride in bloomers and
leggins.
The latter I consider ungraceful and un
necessary. They certainly restrict the
muscles, besides being uncomfortably
warm. The L. C. C. emblem is a wheel
and crescent. Their colors blue and white,
"just like Eddie Bald's," as one rosy
cheeked lass remarked.
Every Monday at 6 p. M., weather per
mitting, a club run is held. For some time
the interest necessary to keep an organ
ization of this kind alive seemea to have
been lacking among the damsels fair, un
less the boys were invited to participate,
when, of course, they turned out in a body;
but the run held last Monday evening
fully demonstrated to your correspondent
the fact that the club was as full of life as
in the old days. The brightest and wit
tiest of the members were there, and after
a most enjoyable spin in the moonlight all
returned to the Home of a fellow-member,
where they were royally entertained for a
Hiss Gladys Carlisle, a Prominent
Wheelwcman of the Garden City.
number of hours. The president, Miss
Laura Jones, is both charming and popu
lar—certainly to be envied— while Captain
Celine Delmas, with her winning ways,
manages this band of beauty with a firm
but friendly hand, thus proving herself
quite as able a captain as her genial brother
Joe of the G. C. C.'s.
This week I send you a picture of one of
our most prominent wheelwomen, unat
tached. This costume is an exceptionally
neat one and the fair rider presents a very
graceful appearance as she spins by on her
'95 featherweight.
Do you know I wish people would over
come the idea that simply by wearing
bloomers a woman lies herself liable to
comment. A modest woman is modest in
any garb, be it bathine suit, bJoomers or
tailor-made street gown.
Because we are unfortunate enough to
have upon our streets the be- jacketed, be
bloomered female, with yellow hair and
drugstore complexion, it does not follow
that the suit itself is immodest. A true
woman never loses her womanly sweetness
and purity, and the girl of to-day who rides
the picycle, plays golf, polo and tennis,
and is capable of walking ten miles
before breakfast is better fitted for wife
hood and motherhood than the spoiled
darling who sits with hands daintily folded
until a fond mother orders the carriage
and exhibits beneath dainty parasol this
bit of Dresden china to that sorry audi
ence—the world. Girls, wake up to tthe
fact that the men of to-day want merry
hearted, level-headed chums. Don't think
you must be masculine to meet this de
mand ; rather be sweetly feminine — not
weakly so. Meet them on a common level
until, by subtle influence, you raise them
to yours. Next week I hope to have a
number of pictures of unattached riders,
showing you at least two styles of costume
favored by "The Girl."
THE ANGLER.
Some Streams Which Should Be
Whipped This Month— Local
Casts.
The past few days of tropical weather
should improve the sport of angling in
coast streams. If there are any trout
worthy of a place in an angler's creel now
hiding under bowlders and sunken logs
this weather should certainly stir them up
to a feeling of acknowledgment for floating
insects of the winged variety. The cun
ning old warriors that have in the past
month refused to partake of the most
tempting of lures— nicely scoured worms
must now look up from their dark and
gloomy retreats at something more fascin
ating and suitable to their fastidious taste
than drifting larvae.
The "June bug" is now on the wing, and
anglers who are expert in fly casting snould
enjoy some good sport on many coast
streams that have been reported barren of
trout. It is said that the Fish Commis
sioners intend to stock some of the coast
streams this year with young steelheads
and rainbow trout. It is hoped that at
least a few of the Loch Laveu trout that
are now enjoying the freedom of a moun
tain lake near the Sisson hatchery will
be liberated at the headwaters of the same
stream adjacent to this City.
The Country Club has received 20,000 fry
of the German brown trout from Captain
Doherty of the Hoopa Valley reservation.
The captain secured from United States
Fish Commissioner McDonald some of the
eggs of the brown trout a few years ago,
and now the streams in the reservation
contain large numbers of these fine game
fish, which, unlike the steelheads, remain
in the sweet water during all the year.
Anglers who are desirous of good fishing
should now visit some of the following
streams in Marin and Mendocino counties,
as excellent reports from them have been
recently received : Redwood Valley Creek,
ten miles from Ukiah; Walker Valley
Creek, Mill Creek, Seward Creek, Forsyth
Creek, Cold Creek, Ackerman Creek, Orr
Creek, McClure Creek and Mill Creek, all
of which are within a pleasant drive of
Ukiah. Robertson Creek, which gives
eight miles of good fishing, is convenient
to El Robles station on the San Francisco
and North Pacific Coast Railroad. Then
there are Morrison, Parson and McNabb
creeks, near Largo, which should pan out
well now. McDowell Creek, near Hopland,
is a favorite spot, also Feliz Creek and
Wise Creek.
Pieta Creek, which flows within short
distance of Pieta station, is probably the
most productive of any stream on the line
of the railroad and the fishing there now is
first-class. The Pulton River and its trib
utaries—opposite Clo verdale — com prising
Devils Den, Little Sulphur and Squaw
creeks, furnish twenty-five miles of excel
lent fishing, and now 'is the time to give it
a trial. Small flies are best, but if the
angler does not fancy leaving his hooks
and feathers in good fish he should not go
away from home for flies that are not con
structed on lines equal to any emergency.
It must be said that the fishing in Paper
mill and Lagunitas creeks is not worthy of
notice. What fish remain are small and
certainly unworthy of a place in any ang
ler's basket. The fishing stillhig her up on
the line of railroad, that is in and around
Cazadero, is worse and will not repay any
angler for the time and money he must ex
pend in giving the old waters a trial.
Arthur Weston, an English gentleman
who is visiting San Francisco, has a ranch
in Colorado, through which a gray
ling stream runs. This game and delicious
fish is not found in any Pacific Coast
waters, and there are only a few streams
in England where it inhabits, principally
the Dove. It was, so the legend goes,
orieinally brought from France by the old
monks to give variety to their Lenten
dinners. The grayling always suggests
Tennyson's brook:
I wind about and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
Aud here and there a grayling.
It might be placed to advantage in Cali
fornia streams, for no fish requires more
skill in capturing than the grayling. The
lightest of tackle, the utmost cautious
ness in approach, and the most delicate
handling when hooked, will alone make
the angler successful. Omitting any one
of these qualities, and he may lish all day
without securing a tin. The plan of the
grayling is not unlike the pompano. It
is, excepting the mullet, the most delicate
of fresh-water fish. When hooked the
grayling makes a gallant fight for the first
few minutes, but has not the staying quali
ties of the trout, though more ingenuity
in devising plans to disgorge the hook and
foul the line.
The sea-trout anglers^ have had good
sport along the Sausahto and Tiburon
shores this week. A favorite point is the
bench of rocks fronting the fog whistle on
the reservation at the Sausalito peninsula.
Shrimp is the most taking bait. Then a
short, stout rod and a light-running reel
for a long cast make the angler's outfit
complete. This sort of fishing is just about
as good sport as one can expect along
shore. The sea trout is certainly a lirst
cousin of the speckled inhabitant of the
brook. He can show his spots to prove his
relationship.
The Pescadero will be a late stream this
season. The waters from the last rains
are still high and muddy.
The trout of the Pi larcitos are reported
in fair condition. Henry Skinner, the
champion fly-caster, worked the lake the
latter part of the week, but has not yet
made up his record.
The (Jorte Madera and its tributaries are
full of carp and cattish. Some large speci
mens of the latter fat, oily, but goou-to
eat fellow were taken on the marsh this
week.
Dan O'Connell, Ed Bosqui and Rev.
Dr. Miel had a few days' sport on Lake
Lagunitas this week. The trout are fat
and gjamey, and rise freely to any sort of
fly with a red streak in the body dressing.
They will average, the best of tnem, about
rive to the pound.
THE OARSMEN.
How the Amateur Scullers Train
for the Big Regatta—Spoon
ing at Night.
The rowing fraternity is all agog over
the great regatta to be held at El (Jampo
on May 30, and the rejuvenated activity
and enthusiasm which is manifested by
the various clubs entered indicates that
the affair will be a great success.
All the crews and single-scullers are
training l'ke Trojans, and nightly may be
seen plying their shell-like crafts through
the placid waters of Mission Bay with
fervid vigor, under the guidance of their
several coaches.
Several old-time oarsmen and past
masters with the spoons were noticed
alon.ir the bridge Sunday and during the
training nights of last "week. They were
favorable in their comments of the worKof
the various crews, and expressed the
opinion that it will be no easy matter to
predict the winner.
Word from Stockton and Vallejo tells of
the diligent manner in which the up
country Doys are training, which seems to
have set the crews about the bay here to
work with renewed energy, for they look
upon the Stockton boys and the Vallejos
as dark horses from the showing they
made with the South Kiwis some years ago.
Bob McArthur's Olympic Club crew is
going to make a strong bid for the junior
race. Bob is not content with allowing
his men to simply train with the oars, but
makes them go through regular exercise
at the Olympic Club nightly. He says he
is going to have them trained down as tine
as granulated sugar when they enter the
race.
The Acmes, under the tutelage of Henry
Tank, now row in perfect rhythm, and
while they say nothing they are neverthe
less determined, win or lose, to make the
other crews know they were in the race.
St. Mary's Collece crew handle their oars
as if they were toothpicks, and the way
they make them bend in their practice
spins needs but a second thought to con
vince one of the muscular development of
the men.
\V. A. La Chapelle (bow), Jim Fickett
(forwardwaist), I). Connely (afterwaist), P.
La Chapelle (stroke) and George McGrill
(cockswain) will comprise the bouth Ends'
junior crew.
Although the lightest men in the race,
the Bouth Ends repose great confidence in
them and expect them to carry off the
honors of the day. They are strong little
fellows and possess that qualification so
essential to a good oarsman— sand.
The La Chapelle brothers are black
! smiths and the swinging of a 25-pound
sledge for ten hours a day nas given them
muscle and wind power to withstand the
most killing pace in any race. Jim Fickett
is a trained athlete, having been a member
of the Olympic Club; D. Connely has dis
tinguished himself as a Whitehall rower
on more than one occasion and their cox
swain, George McGrill, is considered with
out a peer. They train regularly, and
neither smoke nor drink, and the way they
go over the three-mile course, keeping up
a3B-minute stroke from start to finish, is a
safe presumption that they will make their
heavier opponents hustle" to keep out of
their wake.
Jack Dunphy, the noted single-sculler,
has taken the junior and senior crew of
the Pioneers in hand and will, no doubt,
have them in fine fettle on the day of the
race.
The various other clubs boast of the
prowess of their crews, and it is safe to say
that from the word "go" a most exciting
and interesting race will be rowed and the
cleverness of the coxswains will be called
to play in keeping their course among the
many entries. W. H. McGbill.
GUN AND GAME.
Sportsmen Who Will Have Inland
Preserves—Curlew-Shoot
ing-.
This afternoon the Alameda Gun Club
will hold its monthly shoot at the Oakland
Trotting Park, ana to-morrow afternoon
the Olympic Gun Club members will try
their skill on artificial birds. It is said
that the Olympic sportsmen have made
complete arrangements with the owners of
the property through which the Lagunitas
Creek flows for its lease for one year. At
the expiration of the term it will be op
tional with the sportsmen if they intend to
hold the land under lease for a further
term of years. It is said that keepers will
be detailed on the Ist of June to keep ang
lers and sportsmen off the grounds.
Some sportsmen of this City and San
Rafael have leased the De Long ranch,
which includes 14,000 acres of good shoot
ing and fishing for a term of five years.
The land is situated north and about fif
teen miles from San Rafael, and affords
good deer shooting during the season open
for that kind of sport. Sydney Smith, a
prominent business man of this City.is
one of the leading members of the club.
Within the last ten days there has been
some fair sport on the marshes along San
Leandro Bay, and also the low lands run
ning from Waldo Point to Alta on the
Sausalito and San Rafael Railroad. Cur
lew and plover and the sand snipe have
been shot in these localities, not in any
great numbers, but enough to make a bag.
Charles O'Connell bagged nine curlew
near Victors, on the Richardson Bay side,
on Tuesday, and knocked over twenty
eight plover, which was not a bad day's
work.
There is a certain sportsman from San
Francisco, name unknown, who would
take a prize as a champion curlew-caller.
With his lingers to his mouth he can ar
rest the Hight of a flock of curlew and
bring them within gunshot. Even after
the discharge he is able to keep them
within range. The weird and plaintive
cry of this shy bird he imitates to perfec
tion, and it is interesting to watch the
flock pause when they hear it, waver a
moment on the wing and then wheel back
toward the destroyer who is calling them
to their death. The yellow-leg plover and
the gray sandpiper afford lots of tun these
summer days, and by a judicious treat
ment they can be prepared for the table
without a trace of the marshy taste. The
curlew should be hung at least three days
before eating. A hot bath in salt water in
which a lump of charcoal has been dis
solved will improve the meat.
THE RIFLE.
Marksmen of This City Who May
Compete In the Big Eastern
Shooting Festival.
The thirty-sixth annual May festival and
grand prize eagle shooting of the San
Francisco Schuetzen Verein will take place
Sunday and Monday, May 19 and 20. The
amount set out for prizes on public and
company targets is $1850, and is the largest
amount ever before offered at a May
shooting festival. The first day will be
devoted to company and public prize
shooting and the second to the Eagle King
shooting. There is also $175 set out for
bowling and a large amount for raffle
Drizes.
The challenge issued a few weeks ago by
Gus Zimmerman of New York in behalf of
Mr. Ross to shoot Mr. Vandeusen of
"Winona one or three matches, $1000 a side,
at 200 yard?, oft" hand, 25-ring target, has
been accepted by Mr. Vandeusen. The
conditions will be made known soon.
Among the marksmen of this City who
might go to the American Bundes shoot
ing festival in New York are Messrs.
Jungblut, Faktor, Strecker, Helm, Young,
Bendel, Gams, Ehrenpfort, Schuster and
others.
To-morrow at Shell Mound Park the
San Francisco Schuetzen Verein will hold
its regular monthly medal shooting. The
reerular monthly medal shooting of the
Germania Schuetzen Club and the Xord
deutscher Schuetzen Club will also take
place.
President Cleveland has accepted the
honorable presidency of the forthcoming
great Bundes shooting festival in New
York. He will review the procession on
the first day of the festival. June 30 next.
HANDBALL.
Games That Will Be Closely Con-
tested In the Courts
To-Day.
The following games of handball will be
played in the San Francisco ball court to
morrow. As will be noticed among the
players are some of the leading experts of
the State:
First game — W. Darius and J. Brown to
play C. Butterfield and G. Ward.
Second game — W. Kennedy and J. Far
rell to play J. McCarthy and M. Smith.
Third game — P. Ryan and G. McDonald
to play M. McNeil and J. Kodgers.
Fourth game — Jean Vogelsang and W.
Fuller to play H. Moffett and P. Barrett.
Fifth game — J. Sullivan and D. O'Neil to
play J. Fitzgerald and Thomas Kiley.
Sixth game — J. Jones, the Australian
champion, to play J. Harlow (the coast
champion) and Al Pennoyer the Dest three
out oJ: five, 21 aces.
At the Union court the games an
nounced for to-morrow are: Riordan
against Pennoyer and McManus; Lynch
and Johnson against Hendry and Haus
man: Dillon and Wren against Feeney
and Lenilsan.
OLYMPIC CLUB SPORTS.
Baseball at Central Park—Swim
ming and Boxing
Contests.
The exclusive article published in the
Call in regard to the fence of the Olympic
Club grounds being crushed down by the
contractors who are finishing the roads
around the grounds, is causing consider
able conjecture as to what the club will do
about the matter.
Mr. Kennedy, the superintendent of the
Olympic Club, said yesterday that at pres
ent no effort would be made to repair the
fence which had been destroyed, but that
the club would immediately commence
suit against either the contractors or the
City for damages.
ATHLETICS AT STANFORD.
A Good Day's Spvt Is Promised for
This Afternoon— Ladles' Tennis
Tournament.
On the evening of May 9 the first gym
nastic exhibition ever given by Stanford
gymnasts took place in the college gym
nasium. The skill shown by most of the
athletes was surprising, and it is quite
likely that a permanent gymnastic team
will be formed similar to that at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. The programme
was made up of work on the bar. rings,
parallel bars, tumbling mat, horse, club
swinging and a hotly contested fencing
match. The pyramid work was especially
well done, considering the time that has
been given to that form of exercises here.
Among those who took most prominent
part were: Farmer. '95; Gamer, '98;
Fleming, '98; Raisch, '98; Howell, '97;
Ames, '97: Carle, '98; Kaufman, 96; Heth
erington, '9o: Baldwin, '97, and many oth
ers. The performance was given to a
"crowded" house, for hundreds of students
turned out to witness the initial exhibition
of the gymnasts.
On Wednesday last the San Mateo
School baseball "nine was defeated on the
Stanford diamond by the freshmen team.
Score: 9to 7. The visitors put up good
ball, but were poorer at fielding than their
opponents. The "freshies" hit San Ma
teo's pitcher for further orders, and had
little trouble winning out.
The field day to be held on the field and
track here next Saturday, May 11, is going
to be an event of the sason. Most of the
athletes are keeping in elegant condition
and have been training conscientiously for
the past three weeks. The prizes for the
various events amount to a total of $150,
besides the honor coming to an athlete
who heips to gain the championship for
his class. It will be strange if the coast
mile running record is not broken. Brown
ran an unofficial mile in the city recently
in 2:33 2-5 and is expected to lower the
present 4:36 record to 4:33. If Copeland,
'95, runs in the half another record may
come down. Dole, '98, may possibly lower
the coast pole-vault record, and is going to
give Culver a hot run on the hurdles.
Watsqn, '95, threw the sixteen-pound ham
mer 107 feet in practice, and Fickert, '97,
has made an equally good showing.
Following is a list of events to occur:
100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 440-yard
dash, 880-yard run, one-mile run, 120-yard
hurdle, 220-yard hurdle, one-mile walk,
two-mile bicycle race, running broad jump,
running high jump, pole vault, throwing
16-pound hammer, putting 16-pound shot.
The championship tennis tournament
for the ladies of the university begins a
week from to-day and will end on the
Saturday afternoon following. The pres
ent list of entries shows a decided interest
in the game and promises an excellent
tournament. Those looked upon as among
the best players are Misses "Williams, Mar
tin and Brown, but there are a number of
other ladies who play a sharp accurate
game who may surprise the prophets. At
any rate the finals will be a most exciting
series.
The Ladies' Bicycle Club, after a bril
liant beginning, seems to have come to a
temporary halt. The club members re
ceived professional instruction as to the
management of the iron steed and are as
proficient as most male riders. The
bloomer costume has not been adopted by
the club, notwithstanding contrary re
ports. S. B. Osborne.
SAN JOSE SPORTING.
What the Wheelmen, Horsemen
and Sportsmen Are Now
Doing.
SAN JOSE, Cal., May 10.— Sports of
all kind are dormant in the Garden City,
save for the interest awakened among the
sportsmen by the matches arranged be
tween the Cyclers' Gun Club and the Gil
roy Sportsmen's Protective Association.
The riflemen have been aroused by the
Albert M. Baker, a Leading- Member of
the Garden City Gun Club.
interest manifested in the gun clubs, and
there is talk of a tournament being ar
ranged for the members of the different
rifle clubs. There are plenty of good rifle
shots in this county, and an open tourna
ment would draw marksmen from all over
the State.
The tine weather of the past week has
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