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Sportsmen have turned their attention
from the traps to the Held, where dove
shooting is now in full blast, the season
having opened on the Ist inst. "Wheel
men and athletes enjoyed a first-class
day's sport on Thursday last at Stockton
and San Jose and will now take a well
earned rest of a few days. Rifle-shooters
have become very much enthused over the
successes that have been achieved in the
East by local members of the Schuetzen
Club and several matches are talked of.
The anglers are enjoying the cream of the
fishing season; camping parties are leav
ing this City for the mountains daily.
THE WHEELMEN.
Byrne May Be Forced into Class B.
Will He Join the Olympics?
CLUB EVENTS TO-MORROW.
Bay City Wheelmen— Yacht ride around
the bay.
California Cycling Club— Run to To
caloma.
Camera Club Cyclietg — Bun to San
Leandro.
Crescent Itoad Club— Run to Stockton.
Golden Gate Cycling Club— Run to
Garcia.
Pacific Cycling Club— Run to Center
ville.
San Francisco Road Club— Bun to Camp
Taylcrr.
The racing at San Jose on July 4 at
tracted the greatest attention the past
■week. J. E. Edwards of the Olympic Club
Wheelmen surprised his most ardent ad
mirers by his wonderful bursts of speed.
Wells, the Bay City crackerjack. -was in
splendid form and won both class B events.
By the cheers he received one would think
he was a resident of San Jose, and his vic
tories were surely very poDular. Captain
Delmas of the Garden City Club has not
raced for several years, but decided to try
his hand at the garue again, and showed
he had not lost his speed, by winning the
one-mile handicap class A quite handily.
The accident in which Byrne and Langue
tin fell was quite unfortunate, but both are
receiving the best of care and will soon re
cover from their bruises.
There will now be a lull in cycle track
racing for some little time. In fact it
seems improbable that there will be any
meet of importance in this part of the
State prior to September 9, when the Gar
den City Cyclers will hold another meet at
San Jose. This will be a big affair and
will doubtless draw the best racing talent
of the State. It is possible, also, that some
of the Eastern men may be here about that
time, in which event it would be doubly
interesting.
The \cme Club Wheelmen will hold a
ten-mile road race over the Fruitvale-
Haywanls course on July 28. This will be
a big event, as th" Acmes are noted road
riders, and it would not be at all surpris
ing if they lowered the existing record.
Captain John Kitchen Jr., J.W.Wright,
C. J. Hannan and J. H. Creeley of the
Acme Club Wheelmen will start next week
on a wheeling trip to Lake Tahoe, and will
be on the road two weeks.
The Golden City Cyclers spent July 4 at
Sonoma as the guests of the Sonoma
Wheelmen. They'returned Friday morn
ing, having had a delightful time.
There will be a big w-heeling event in the
East early next week, the occasion being
the annual meet of the League of Ameri
can Wheelmen at Asbury Park, from
July Bto 13. As there will be several pop
ular Californians contesting wUh the East
erners the reports of the races Will be
watched with interest. From all accounts
E. C. Bald of Buffalo seems to be the star
class B rider on the National circuit this
year, but he has to fight every inch of the
way when he races against such men as
Cabanne, Coulter, Ziegler, Dirnberger,
Macdonald or Terrill.
Captain L. L. Korn has called a run of
the San Francisco Road Club for to-mor
row to Camp Taylor. Members are re
quested to assemble at the clubrooms, I'll
Golden Gate avenue, at 8:30 a. m. sharp.
The Camera Club Cyclists go to San Le
andro to-morrow under the guidance of
Lieutenant Goodrum, starting on the 9
a.m. boat. They will be the guests of Dr.
L. C. Harmons at San Leandro, who has
promised to give them carte blanche with
his peach and pear orchards. They will
have a jolly time purely. Last night the
club went on a moonlight run to the
beach.
Captain Paulsen has called a run of the
Pacinc Cycling Club for to-morrow to Cen
terville, leaving on the 8 o'clock boat. This
trip is very pleasant and has added charms
on account of the excellent accommoda
tions afforded at Centerville to wheelmen.
The Crescent Road Club members will
tako the 5 o'clock boat for Stockton to
nieht and ride back to-morrow. This is a
long but very pleasant trip if the roads are
not too dusty. George Thompson has been
elected vice-president of the Crecents, vice
H. Hecht, resigned. Captain A. Bearwald
and E. Cohn started yesterday on an ex
tended trip through Lake County on their
wheels.
The Bay City Wheelmen should have a
merry time to-morrow. At a loss for some
new wheeling trip to take the men upon,
Captain Dodge decided that for once the
wheels should be left at home, and the
members will embark on the sloop-yacht
Annie E for a ride around the bay and out
to the heads. There will be several invited
guests aboard, plenty to eat and a suffi
ciency of those beverages so dear to the
hearts of every yachtsman.
The Golden Gate Cycling Club will have
a run to Garcia to-morrow, and while
there will be the guests of Camp Sazerac.
Members will take the 8 o'clock Sausalito
boat and train to San Anselmo, riding
from that point to Garcia, whieli is five
miles above Camp Taylor. The trip is a
delightful one, through one of the prettiest
parts of the State. The club has engaged
clubrooms in the building of Mission Par
lor. N. S. G. W., on Seventeenth street,
and will hold the first meeting there on
July 12.
Those in touch with the wheeling events
of last year will remember a match race in
September at Los Angeles between Thomas
McAleer, the long-distance champion, ana
Casey Castleman, who is now racing in
this part of the State. It was at twenty
five miles, paced, and both men being
about evenly* m itched the race was very
close and exciting. On the last lap Mc-
Aleex had the pole, with Castleman on the
j outside and a pacer in front. The pacer
j should have withdrawn, but did not, and
j either he or McAleer crowded Castleman
| completely off the track. Referee Allen
| awarded the prize, a $230 diamond, to Mc
j Aleer, but Castleman filed a protest, claim
i ing a foul. The matter was referred to the
I National racing board, and after all these
i months word has just been received that
j the protest has been allowed and McAieer
must turn his prize over to Castleman, who
jis awarded the race. If he was like some
of the pure amateurs that one hears of he
wouldn't have it to return — it would have
been hypothecated long ago. It is possible
I that another race may now be arranged
between the two men, and it would be a
very interesting contest. Castleman is
DICK MOODY OF THE GARDEN CITY CYCLERS.
very popular in the north and has made
lots of friends. McAleer we have never
seen up here, but he has a great reputation
as a long-distance rider.
The California Cycling Club has several
pleasant outings scheduled for this month.
To-morrow Captain Burk will lead a club
run to Tocaloma, leaving on the 8 a. m.
Sausalito boat. On Sunday, July 14, the
club will have a run to Walnut Creek, and
the following Sunday to Napa, starting the
night before. The Californians are getting
in many new members, and the time
within which applicants may join under
the reduced initiation fee has been ex
tended to July 24.
The Olympic Club Wheelmen will prob
ably hold a five-mile road race on either
the 14th or 21st of this month. Should
Foster, Edwards, Jones or Long start
there is a likelihood of Alexander's record
of 12:03 and a fraction being a thing of
the past. Foster may try for the twenty
five mile record over the San Leanaro tri
angle about the middle of August, and
should set it if he is properly paced.
Frank M. Byrne, the popular Imperial
Club class A man. may find himself in
class B very soon unless he can satisfac
torily explain a little tire deal in which he
was interested. R. M. Welch, representa
tive of the racing board, has written him a
letter requiring an explanation, but owing
to Byrne's accident at San Jose Thursday
will suspend action until he has recovered.
It is generally thought, however, that
Byrne's class A standing is safe.. A rumor
was current around the training quarters
at San Jose that Byrne had applied for
membership in the Olympic Club Wheel
men at the express solicitation of several
of its members, and if this is so the Im
perial Club will suffer a distinct loss.
The party of Camera Club cyclists now
touring through Lake County are having a
most enjoyable trip. They were at Bart
lett Springs over the Fourth and will be at
Vichy to-day. Lake County is a delight
ful touring ground for wheelmen at this
time of the year.
H. W. Eisert and J. F. Burns of the Im
perial Club started for Los Angeles awheel
yesterday. If they follow the advice of
others who have been over the trip recently
they will ride as far as Santa Barbara and
then taue the steamer, as the balance of
the wheeling is bad owing to poor roads.
Everett Moody, better known as "Dick,"
is one of the best class A riders the Garden
City Cyclers have. He has been riding
about a year, and is looked upon as a com
ing man. He rode second to Edwards at
the league meet on July 4 from a handicap
of fifteen yards, which necessitated him
passing a large field. He has never yet de
veloped bis l>est speed, it is thought, and
when thoroughly trained will rank with
the top notchers. His likeness accom
panies this article.
The San Francisco Young' Men's Chris
tian Association Cycling Club will hold
two races for members only on the Central
Park track July 20. The events will b« a
half-mile scratch and a one-mile handicap.
The riders are now in active training for the
contest. Spalding.
THE ANGLER.
Pleasure-Hunters Who Are Having
Sport In the Mountains.
As the months of July and August are
held in great esteem by anglers — those be
ing the banner or flower months of the
angling season — it is no wonder that the
most favorable reports are daily arriving
from stream and lake concerning the very
excellent fishing that is at the present time
being enjoyed.
Angling parties are leaving this City daily
fur the shaded and balmy mountain re
sorts where the game fontiuales and steel
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1895.
SUMMER SPORTS
heads are waiting in the cool and sparkling
i waters of the ice-fed rivers and lakes to
i give the lovers of the sport of fly-fishing an
! idea of what they are capable of accom
plishing in the pugilistic way, so to speak.
It can be truly said that as a fighting
fish, backed by an astonishing amount of
vitality and cunning, there is not a trout
; in any of the streams of this coast com
' parable to the rainbow of the swift-flowing
I Truckee River. Any angler who has stuck
I a fly into the mouth of a two-pound
j Truckee River trout will not hesitate to
j relate an incident of sport which cannot
! readiiy be forgotten. The river in question
! is an ideal trout stream which catches the
; eve of anglers who pass in the trains that
skirt its banks between Truckee and Ne
! vada. The large piles of drift wood that
! accumulate in many parts of the stream
S after the spring freshets are considerable
! of annoyance to anglers, who must use
■ quick thought and excellent judgment
so as to defeat the aims of fighting
fishes that invariably make mad runs for
■ those places of refuge as soon as they feel
I the sting of the sharpened steel. However,
if the game and much-sought-after fishes
had no avenues of escape there would not
be, by any means, the element of sport
and excitement in it that makes trout fish
ing a real pleasure.
In lake fishing, for instance, a trout that
is firmly hooked has no hope for its life if
struck by an experienced angler. Of course,
a tyro will lose many fish and considerable
tackle also all because of rough and un
skilled handling of the rod.
Trolling for trout or salmon from a boat
is considered by many people to be superior
sport to fly-fishing. This may be so in one
respect, and that is in point of numbers of
nsh taken, but for real, good pleasure troll
ing is a beastly practice as compared to
fly-fishing. By the former method a trout
when hooked will make a few rushes, then
it will gradually permit itself to be bawled
— no better word can be used — toward the
boat in which sits the troller. The fish,
unless it be a very large one, is almost
dead from suffocation when it is wound up
to within landing-net distance of the
angler, and as a final effort it makes a few
farewell splashes and the fight is over.
What a difference in the style of lighting
when a game trout is hooked by the fly
caster. Down goes the tip of the rod as
the fish makes its first mad rush for free
dom. Then out of the water it leaps.
Another rush and a leap, and so on — leap
ana rush from the moment it is hooked
until it lands finally in the net of the
angler, after having been given a good race
for life.
As exclusively stated in The Call on
Wednesday last anglers who have been
figuring on many pleasant nights' sleep at
Kerr's residence, on the banks of San
Andreas Lake, during the angling season
have calculated wrongly, as on and after
the 15th inst. the keepers of the San
Andreas, Pilarcitos and Crystal lakes will
not be allowed to either house or feed
anglers.
The new rules further state that the
keepers must not convey fishermen by
team to or from any railroad station. This
news was not by any means welcomed by
the angling fraternity, who must, in future,
concoct some scheme whereby they can
catch the early morning's fishing on the
lakes.
John Butler and family arrived from
Lake Independence last Thursday. Mr.
Butler is highly delighted with his outing
and speaka most favorably of the grand
sport he enjoyed. He is of the opinion
that the trout of Lake Independence can
not be equaled in flavor, and as to their
game qualities they can be compared only
to the famous steelheads of the Eel River
during the months of September and Octo
ber, when the run from the ocean occurs.
Al Cumming, the noted shark catcher, in
the company" of Mr. Newcomb of New
York; H. M. Landsberger, Ed Hinckley
and Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hinckley left this
City a few days ago for Lake Indepen
dence. They will certainly enjoy good
fishing, as recent reports from there are to
the effect that the trout are taking the fly
in good style.
Among the anglers who have enjoyed
grand fishing in the mountains recently
are Edward B. Wilson, Frank H. Moon,
Ed^ur Teeter, Charles Lewis, John Brandt,
J. Hill, J. P. Gilinas, John Ballard, R. M.
Gorrill, C. D. Cameron, J. A. B. Finch, J.
E. Moffatt, C. M. Wing, William Darrell,
J. Shane, Miss Etta Butler, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Smith, Mrs. J. Cavitt, Mrs. M. A. Teeter,
Miss Maggie Teeter, Miss Clara Wartell
and Miss Hazel Cavitt.
Anglers who cannot afford a trip into the
Sierras can now enjoy first-class fishing in
Squaw, Sulphur, Pieta and Warm Spring
creeks, which are near the line of the San
Francisco and North Pacific Railway.
Over 800 trout were taken from Pieta Creek
last week and as the trout are now of good
size the sport is all the more interesting.
The trout of the )San Andreas Lake act
rather peculiar at times, as for instance on
the- opening day of the lake every angler
who had wet lines was awarded witri a
grand catch of trout and all of good size.
On Thursday, the 4th inst., the wind was
blowing from the south and as a result few
fish were taken notwithstanding that sev
eral of the most expert anglers of this City
worked hard for a mess.
It has been the experience of many
anglers that trout-fishing is not good on a
day that follows a bright moonlight night.
In an article on this subject an angler
writes as follows: "Last year it so hap
pened that I waf compelled to reverse the
usual order and take my fishing trip during
the dark of the moon or not at all, and my
success was so abundant in the number of
fishes caught that I am almost persuaded
to think that the moon had something to
do with it. True, I was fishing in waters
new to me, and had it not been for a re
mark made by my guide I would probably
have attributed my good luck to there be
ing more fishes in those waters than in the
waters heretofore fished.
"I had for a guide an old and experi
enced fisherman, who had more good
horse sense (crude though it was) about
fish and fishing than any man I ever met.
He seemed to know to a nicety the very
whims of the game we were after, and
where, when and in what manner it was
necessary to cater to their fastidious appe
tites, and before my trip was over I learned
to rely on his judgment almost implicitly.
He assured me that he had noted the fact
during all the years he had been acting as
guide that fishes were most voracious in
the daytime during the dark of the moon.
His theory was that fishes of the genus
Esox gorged themselves with small fry on
bright moonlight nights, and as a conse
quence were logy and not inclined to bite
very freely during the day following."
FISH AND FISHERMEN.
Dan O'Connell's Weekly Budget of
News Caught on the Fly.
A tidy little stream which empties into
the Alameda, near the second railroad
bridge in Niles Canyon, will always yield a
good fish in the middle of the season to
the careful angler. Stony Brook, for this
is its name, used to be preserved some
years ago, but the owner of the property
abandoned the effort in despair. The can
yon is tilled, with campers all summer,
and a dozen keepers, with eyes all over
them, would not be sufficient to keep these
amateur gypsies off the stream. All the
trout brooks of Alameda County have de
teriorated. The Alameda itself, near the
headwaters of the Wild Cat Canyon, used
to afford capital fishing. But the pools are
now only tenanted by a few fingerlings,
and only the memory of the plump half
pounders remains.
The Calaveras, a right beautiful stream,
at its junction with the Alameda still
holds a few — a very few — good fish. This
is an ideal river, not unlike the Yuba in
the vicinity of Cisco in character and
volume. It has sharp falls, long reaches
of broken water and deep pools. But this
year the angler who takes half a dozen
fish in a three-mile tramp is fortunate.
It has been stocked, but the great
trouble is that no matter how the trout
prosper they are never permitted to attain
a respectable size. At four and five inches
they are lively, hungry and incautious.
Then they are pouched by the hundreds
by those vandals of the brook, those
conscienceless Herods who will spare
nothing that has fins.
Will Kittle and Joseph Quay spent &
portion of the Fourth on Trout Lake, on
the County Club's preserves. They caught
some of those tine speckled fish with
which the lake is stocked, and also some
"cutthroats." This fish is a grand fiphter.
No trout that swims gives as hard a battle
as the cutthroat — which, by the way is not
a nice name for them, and has its sole rea
son in the red marks in the fishes' throat.
Their growth is phenomenal. The cut
throats caught Thursday weighed a pound
and were only a year old. A full pound in
a single year "from the egg conclusively es
tablishes the desirability of cultivating
this game fish.
The sport that can be had with rod and
line in bay fishing is not appreciated by
the majority of anglers. Indeed, those
who have made a study of the sporty ways
of this pastime are largely in the minority.
To many it will be a new thing to learn
that the blue rockcod will take the spoon
trolling. This is a daily occurrence in
Monterey Bay, where salmon trollers fre
quently take half a dozen rockcod in suc
cession on the sardine or spoon. In this
harbor in clear water the same results can
be obtained, and with light tackle there is
a lot of fun in this sort of fishing. Smelt
and psrch will take a fly, so the fly fisher
man need not confine himself to the lakes
and streams.
The new and excellent provision which
interdicts trolline with the spoon on Lake
Lagunitas has cut down the big catches
made in this water in the early part of the
season. The man now who tills his creel
will have the satisfaction of knowing that
he has worked for the fish.
An angler at San Andreas on the Fourth,
while his rod lay on the bank, a steel one,
heard the whir of his reel and saw his
tocker disappear. Shortly afterward he
booked a fish on another rod and landed
a nineteen-inch trout and also the lost rod,
to his delight and surprise, which the
other line had fouled. Mr. Nel Vogel is
the name of this fortunate fisherman.
Dan o 'Con xell.
AMATEUR ATHLETICS.
Who Will Be the Next President of
the Olympic Club— Sprinting.
The Olympic Club athletes who have not
won much distinction on the cinder path
will have an opportunity to-morrow of
spreading their nether limbs, as a pro
gramme of games has been arranged for
their special pleasure. It is thought that
a number of the boys who fancy outdoor
sports will be at the grounds this afternoon
to compete for the prizes that have been
offered.
A few days ago The Call stated that the
unpleasantness that exists at the present
time between the patrons of boxing and
those who look upon the manly art as
beaEtly and degrading will not "assist to
swell the membership of the club. It can
be, therefore, easily seen that when club
members fall out upon any proposition,
harmony and prosperity take wings for
other parts, and without both no club
can hope to sail to a safe harbor. The
directors of the Olympic are evidently in a
quandary as to what is most needed to
revolutionize things and bring the mem
bers back to their old ways of thinking.
That opinions on various club matters
differ there can be no gainsaying. The
fact that in the last year the club's mem
bership tumbled from 2600 to 1700 is evi
dence conclusive that something must be
very wrong in Denmark, and that the
loose screws of the club require immediate
attention. A decidedly live and energetic
president and board of directors are a
necessity. Something more than the
usual weekly convention of officers for the
purpose of hearing and to be heard is
needed. The members, seemingly, require
more for the amount of money they ex
pend in dues, etc., to hold them in the
club. Times have been a little severe from
a financial point of view on many of the
old and, in fact, new members, who, to
save a few dollars, resigned from the club.
There is no doubt but that the depres
sion in business affairs, which existed dur
ing the winter months, has had con
siderable to do with the falling off of the
membership, yet when it is considered
that the Olympic Club provides equal if
not possibly better facilities for enjoyment
and health-giving than many of the far
famed institutions of New York at a much
smaller outlay, one would be inclined to
think that such a thing as a decrease in
membership would be out of the question.
Considering the small tax that is imposed
on the members of the Olympic Club, there
should be very little grumbling heard con
cerning dull times.
The monthly dues of the Olympic
are not half the sum the members of the
New York Athletic Club are taxed. Still,
there are objections heard. About a year
ago a representative of the last-named
club visited the Olympic, and, after he
had seen everything, he inquired what
the initiation fee and dues were. He was
the most surprised of men when his ques
tion was answered.
"Why, you people live in luxury for al
most nothing," was his answer. "I cannot
understand now you can possibly keep
this club on such a magnificent footing
and tax your members so lightly."
The speaker was a clerk in one of the
wholesale dry-goods houses of New York,
and received a salary of $75 a month ; still
he was a prominent member of the New
York Athletic Club, and was seemingly
proud to have the pleasure and honor of
being in a position to say so.
What the Olympic Club actually re
quires is a board of directors who will take
the trouble of ascertaining the pulse of
the members and providing means whereby
obstacles can be removed when they make
their appearance.
John "D. Spreckela is spoken of very
favorably as a man who would make a
most excellent presiding officer.
Mr. Spreckels is a great admirer of clean
sport, and as president of the great Olym
pic Athletic Club, he would certainly prove
to be the right man in the right place.
BOXING.
Heavy-Weights Who Will Fight Be-
fore the Colma Club.
The Coima Athletic Club has matched
the heavy-weights Billy Smith and Sailor
Starkey to fight twenty rounds at the next
entertainment. Smith is well known in
this City, where he has won many battles
when boxing as the leading sport. His
last defeat by Childs, a colored pugilist of
Los Angeles, almost broke Smith down in
spirit and in purse. He thought Childs
was an easy game and played his money
freely on himself to win — something that
Smith was not in the habit of doing.
Smith is now working at his trade, but
will take a vacation in a few days and go
into training. Good judges think that
Smith has seen his best fighting days and
that he will prove an easy mark for Starkey,
who has proven himself a first-class
fighter by having defeated some of the
principal boxers in the class he represents.
At any rate the sailors of the warship
Philadelphia will go broke in clothes and
money ii Starkey should fail to whip
Smith in a canter.
THE RIFLE.
A Team Shoot Between Companies
of This City and San Jose.
The great success achieved by California
marksmen in the East has aroused consid
erable interest in rifle shooting here among
the military and lovers of target shooting.
Already there is talk of matches between
some of the crack shots of the several com
panies, and it can be truly said that it is
only through a spirited and friendly
rivalry that precision in rifle shooting may
be attained. In rifle shooting as well as in
any other pastime there must be some in
centive attached to stir up interest in the
game, and no better inducement can be
offered to increase and make popular the
sport than prize competitions between men.
Company F of the First Regiment of
Infantry of this City will leave Third and
Townsend street at "6:3o p. m. this evening
for San Jose, where it will meet in a team
shoot Company B of the Fifth Infantry
Regiment of San Jose. The contest will
be held on Sunday, and, according to the
agreement entered into between the re
spective companies, twenty men from each
company will contest. Members of Com
pany F of the First Infantry are cordially
invited to accompany the marksmen of
this City on their trip to the Garden City.
This is what Sporting and Fishing says
of the "jacketed bullets": The extraor
dinary penetrative power of metal jacketed
bullets has made it apparent that the ordi
nary rifle range is not likely to be a safe
place to practice with the new army rifle.
We understand that it has been decided by
those in charge of the great Bundesfest, to
be held at Glendale Schuetzen Park, Glen
dale. Long Island, in July next, not to
permit the use of any jacketed bullets
there. Several other rifle ranges are re
garded as unsafe wiien these projectiles
are used.
THE KENNEL.
Valuable Information to Owners of
Dogs— The Field Trials.
The Call was the only paper to publish
the Derby entries for the Pacific Coast field
trial meeting which will be held at Bakers
field in January next. Among the en
trants are some very highly bred young
sters that should do good work if properly
trained.
Every sportsman loves a good dog and
is always pleased to learn anything that
may prolong the life of an affectionate
animal or kill pain. It is a well-known
fact that eye diseases are by no means un
common among dogs, and especially is
this true when the canine is suffering from
distemper. A lotion of coal tar, weak in
strength, and which may be obtained from
any chemist, is a very excellent remedy.
A common wash frequently used with
good success is a lotion of sulphate of zinc
dissolved in rose water. A very bad prac
tice some people indulge in is throwing a
young dog into the water for the purpose
of teaching it to swim or retrieve an object.
Frequently animals of high breeding and
timid nature die from such treatment from
attacks of asthma or inflammation. Tape
worm in dogs will yield to nothing so well
as oil of mule-fern" This is a nasty thing
to give a beast but its objectionable taste
may be avoided in a measure by having
each dose done up in gelatine capsules.
Mule-fern is a sure shot on tape worm, but
as it lias a tendency to cause sickness in a
dog it would be well not to have recourse
to it unless other remedies, such as areca
and the like, shouid fail. When puppies
are being reared, it is most essential that
both they and their dam should be housed
on wood" Nothing will tend more to rickets
in the youngsters or to milk troubles in the
darn than sleeping on a brick floor.
The better bed for dogs is made by
spreading an old sack on the floor or some
heavy brown paper lightly saturated with
carbolic acid or coal tar fluid, as either will
act as an inswHifuge and a healthy disin
fectant. Boards should be laid over this
and then a bed of straw. Of course an oc
casional change in fefee bedding is a neces
sity, or the festive flea and other trouble
some insects will, in time, assert them
selves.
A Kansas City sportsman writes the
American Field a story about a good
natured fat dog that is by no means un
interesting. He says:
"There is a dog here, a big, fat sort of
water spaniel, that has taken care of a
brood or motherless chickens. Bob is the
dog's name, and he is nearly always ac
companied by the chickens. When he
lies down they climb upon his back, which
is so broad as to resemble the big, flat pad
en the back of a circus horse. They
crawl upon his head and peck at his ears.
He does not shake them off, and they
hang on wnen he walks slowly around the
yard in his lazy way. When he lies
down they nestle in near his paws, and
he will remain motionless there for half an
hour at a time. The motherless brood are
getting to be big fellows now, but they
have not deserted him, although a brood
of younger chickens have come up to
climb his back and peck at his tongue and
the end of his nose. It is astonishing to
see the care and srentleness of the old fel
low when the chickens are near him."
COURSING.
The Successful Dogs of Thursday
That Will Run To-Morrow.
There was a very enthusiastic crowd of
sportsmen at Kerrigan's coursing park
last Thursday, and as the day was fine and
the hares in good running form the sport
was consequently good. The result is as
follows:
M. Dougherty's Royal Daisy ran a bye ; E.
Dunne's Regent ran a bye; J. Quane's Captain
Morse beat V . W. Guerrero's Tempest; Alameda
Kepnel's Emm Pasha beat J. O'Shea's Salvator;
J- U, Perigo'eWee Lassie beat T. O'Brien's
Lamplighter: J. Grace's Nellie Conroy beat J.
J. Edmond's Olden W; D.D.Roche's Lillian
Russell beat J. J. Edmond's Marine; D. Kelle
her's Bran beat J. O'Shea's Fearless; M. Dough
erty's Flying Buck beatJ. Mcßride'a Flashlight;
H. P. Heaey's Plunger beat W. Reid's Belle B;
G. Smart's Glenade beat C. Anderson's Fairy D;
M. Dougnerty's Daisy Crest beat Gopher Boy;
G. Smart's Belle beat J. O'Farrell's Eveline; G.
Smart's Occidental beat W. Perry's Coomassie;
J. Kerrigan's Nancy Till beat T. Kelly's Mary
X; M. Tiernan's Tom Hayes beat V. \V. Guer
rero's Electric; R. Shea's Unknown beat C
Hayes' Black Chief; M. Halllhan's Governor
Jim beat J. O'Farrell's Sacramento Belle; P.
Ryan's Magpie beat J. McCormick's Freestone;
Tim Cronin's Dottie Dimple bent J. J. Ed
mond's Vida Shaw; J. Murphy's Redlight
beat J. Dunea's Nellie D; William Healey's
Nellie M beat G. H. Burfiend's Ida W;
P. Kerrigan's Chicopee beat D. Tweedie's
Dublin Stout; R. Shea's Lady Fitzgerald beat
W. Kerrigan's Dashaway; J. O'Farrell's So So
beat D. D. Roche's Gold King; Ed Canavan's
Fred Lees beat J. H. Perigo's Longfellow; T.
McDonald's Lissak beat T. Trout's Little
Beauty ; C. Jennings' Red Rose beat G. Smart's
Nellie Bly; V. W. Guerrero's Bonnie Lass beat
C. L. Milan's Empress; W. Dalton's Famous
beat P. Lenahan's Menlo Lass; P. Carney's
Mission Boy beat J. H. Perigo's Kitty Scott; D.
D. Roche's John Mitchell beat P. Kerrigan's
Lillie W.
The finish of the coursing meeting
which was held on Thursday at Kerri
gan's Park will take place to-morrow, and
the first ties will be as follows: Royal
Daisy vs. Regent, Captain Morse vs.
Emini Pasha, Wee Lassie vs. Nellie Con
roy, Lilian Russell vs. Bran, Flying Buck
vs. Plunger, Glendale vs. Daisy Crest,
Belle vs. Occidental, Nancy Till vs. Tom
Hayes, Unknown vs. Governor Jim, Mag
pie vs. Dottie Dimple, Redlight vs.
Nellie M, Dublin Stout vs. Lady Fitz
gerald. So So vs. Fred Lees, Lissak vs,
Red Rose, Bonnie Lass vs. Famous,
Mission Boy vs. John Mitchell. The
judges will be John Grace and James
Wren.
HANDBALL.
Championship Games That Will Bo
a Feature of Sport.
The handball games that have been
slated for to-morrow afternoon at Phil
Ryan's court are :
D. O'Brien and Jean Vogelsang to play C.
Buttertield and J. Brown; Ben Collins and F.
Smith to play G. Maguire and W. Roberts; P.
Ryan and J. Rodgers to play M. McNeil and G.
McDonald; I*. Barrett and H. Moffett to play
J. Brannick and R. Shea; C.Johnson and D.
Connolly to play A. Hendry and E. Foy; final
game, J. Harlow, the coast champion, and
George Hutchinson against M. J. Killgallon,
the Denverchampion, and J. Lawless, the;well
known amateur. The game will be the best
three out of live, twenty-one aces.
SACRAMENTO SPORTS.
Sportsmen Among the Doves.
Wheelmen and Tennis Players.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., July s.— The
opening day of the dove season was a very
disappointing one to Sacramento sports
men. Tne day was cool and the birds
hung in the heavy liveoak scrub border
ing the streams and rivers and did not put
in an appearance in the passes of former
years until a late hour in the afternoon,
and then flew at scattering intervals that
made the shooting very uncertain. A dove
going with the wind, especially after having
had a stray load of shot thrown in its near
vicinity, is traveling with a velocity hard
to gauge.
There were no very large bags made by
cracks shots on the opening day, as far as
heard from, indeed, many of them killed
but six to eight birds, while shooting on
pass. The celebrated Studuras dove pass,
situated twelve miles from the City, on the
Folsom road, was a flat failure for birds on
Monday last, as they seem to have deserted
it. but possibly later in the season it may
be aeain frequented.
Sportsmen in the vicinity of Penryn, in
the foothills of the Sierras, claim that the
provisions of the present game law debar
them from the pleasures of dove shooting,
as the birds desert that locality for the
valleys before the season opens, and they
further claim that there should be super
visorial rights enabling Boards of Supervis
ors to establish the opening of game sea
sons to conform with localities, so that all
sportsmen could enjoy equal advantages.
During the past week Meps Fitzgerald
and Fish Commissioner Morrison left the
City at 4 p. M., and in two hours' shooting
bagged thirty-rive birds. Both are crack
shots and birds have little license to es
cape their guns. W. E. Gerber and Charles
Burnham made a record of forty birds.
Whittenbrock and Damm bueged four
dozen on Monday last. Captain Bohn of
the Spoonbill Club killed fifty-four birds,
and probably heads the list for the open
ing day. These birds were killed near
Penryn. Stewart Upson bagged thirty-rive
birds" on his first day's hunt.
The new line of electric-power trans
mission wires from Folsom to Sacra
mento is proving a veritable trap for
doves, numbers being killed by flying
against the wires. Game Warden Helmo
states that he saw a pair, flying with great
velocity, strike the wire almost simultane
ously, and one of the birds had its breast
laid open and the other had its head cut
off.
A party of ten sportsmen will leave the
City on their bicycles next Sunday for a
day's shooting among the doves. They
will carry lunch and a full outlit, and hope
for good sport.
Camping parties are leaving the City for
the hills, every day, and large numbers
are making preparations. John Breuner
and family leave for Strawberry," and a
party composed of Fred Burnham, George
White, Lon Eckhart and John McCue
will leave Folsom for Wrights Lake on the
Georgetown Divide, where they will camp
for six weeks or two months.
Russell Flint and party have returned
from their jaunt into the McCloud River
district. Mr. Flint reports the trout fish
ing as excellent in that locality although
the fish are not of extra size, two ana a
half and three pounds being the largest
caught. One raid upon the salmon re
sulted in the catch of ninety pounds of
fish within an hour; he states that the
largest fish caught this season weighed
fifty- five pounds.
A party composed of Charles Flohr,
Wittenbrock, Damm, Chapman, Noki,
Bryant and Rose made a trip down the
river last Sunday and caught over 400 Blue
Channel catfish.
The Capital City Wheelmen's Club will
make the run to Stockton to-morrow and
the scorchers of the club will have a chance
to try their staying qualities. One hun
dred and sixteen members of the club
turned out in the parade on the Fourth
with handsomely decorated wheels. They
were accompanied by several lady riders,
led by Miss Jessie Shaw, Sacramento's 7
year-old girl rider. It is expected that
nearly 2000 wheelmen will be in line on
Admission day in September next, in
honor of the N. S. G. W. celebration.
The Sacramento Tennis Club has had its
courts placed in excellent condition for
the approaching tournament. Stewart
Upson is rapidly coming in form and will
give visitors and members a close call for
trophies. Rutherford.
SAN JOSE SPORTING.
Twenty-Five Thousand Young Trout
for the Country Streams.
SAN JOSE, Cal., July 5.-Those who
are interested in hunting and shooting
I wear a happier look, now that the close
season for doves has expired. During the
past week a great many hunting parties
have gone out and returned with well-nlled
bags. Yesterday the country was well
scoured in search of doves and every likely
place beat over and over again. Doves
seem to be as plentiful this year as ever.
Lovers of angling are jubilant over the
fact that the streams of Santa Clara County
are to be stocked with trout. The Board
of Supervisors, at its meeting Monday, in
structed Game Warden Mackenzie to pro
cure 200,000 trout for distribution among
the streams of the county. With the rigid
enforcement of the fish laws now existing,
in two or three years' time fishing should
be first class on all the streams.
Game Warden Mackenzie in his quar
terly reports filed with the Board of Super
visors fast week says he has had erected
fifteen iieh ladders and served notices on
seventeen parties to place screens over the
mouth of their irrigating ditches to keep
the trout from entering.
The following have been appointed dep
uty same wardens, and will keep a sharp
lookout for violators of fish and game laws
in their vicinity: Mat Arnerich, *rqnm;
S. H. Clark, Mountain View; Charles
Derby, Almaden ; Robert Kincaid, Mount
Hamilton; Robert Menzel, Santa ra ;
George Tavlor, Mountain View; Josepn
McClellan.'WestSide; Dan Bulmore, Al
maden: D. J. Flannery, Santa Clara;
Charles Morris, Edenvale; Alix Carrick,
Milpitas; George ßollinger, San Jose; John
Parker, Milpitas; Jules Pelh, Alviso; V.
Poncelet, Llagas; George Roop, Gilroy;
Henry Spring, San Jose; Fen Mansol, Los
Gatos; Peter Mayer Mayheld; H. A.
Flickinger, Berryessa: M. tostello, Guada
lupe; H. J. Cattermol. Wrights; D. J.
Prindiville, San Jose; Thomas Fitzgerald,
Edenvale. . .
The Fish Commissioners have allotted
50 000 trout to this county— 2s,ooo Lake
Tahoe trout and the rest rainbow trout.
The fish will be placed in the streams the
latter part of this month.
The first number of Cycling, a weekly
paper devoted to cycling and athletic
sports, made its appearance yesterday.
Joseph B. Carey, one of the best authori
ties on cycling matters on the coast, is its
editor. The paper is handsomely printed
and its illustrations are of a high order.
It contains photos of Mr. and Mrs. George
Owen on a tandem.Wilhur Edwards, Allan
Jones, Tony Delmas and Henry bnnth.
The wheelmen of Los Gatos held an il
luminated parade last night, in which
about fifty wheelmen participated. lUe
wheels were all prettily decorated.
The San Jose Road Club gave a success
ful wheelmen's ball last evening. The
grand march commenced at 9 o'clock and
was led by Charles High and Miss Ella
Scott. I. A. McCaslin was floor manager
and was assisted by John T. Bailey and
Charles High. The entertainment com
mittee consisted of the following: L. J.
Belloli, Charles E. Warren, A. Schweitzer,
L. Desimone and John T. Bailey.
What He Caught
With a $10 00 rod
And a ti 00 reel,
With a i! 00 line
And a 400 creel,
With book full of 200
4 00 flips—
Away with hia 19 00 ticket he hlei.
So he spends 40 00 ere he goes out.
Returns in a week with 10 worth of trout,
And the $39 90 the sum he is shy
Is just the cash value of his bix fishintr lie.
lorn Gbegobt.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION.
Clerks, Storekeeper)* and Gangers for
Internal Revenue Service Wanted.
The following notice has been issued by
the secretary of the Board of Examiners of
the internal revenue service:
The Civil Service Commission at Washington
has ordered that an examination be held iv
this City on Thursday, August 3, 1895, com
mencing at 9 A. m., for the grades of clerk,
storekeeper, gauger and storekeeper-gauger.
Only citizens of the United States can be
examined. The age limitations for this exami
nation areas follows: For clerk, not under 18;
for all other grades, not under 21.
No application will be accepted for this ex
amination unless filed in complete form, on
the proper blank, before the hour of closing
business on July 22, 1895.
The Civil (Service Commission takes this op
portunity of stating that the examinations are
open to all reputable citizens who may desire
to enter the service, without regard to their
pc.itkal atliliations. All such citizens.whether
Democrats or Republicans, or neither, are in
vited to apply. They shall be examined, graded
and certified with entire impartiality, and
wholly without regard to their political views
or to any consideration save their efficiency, as
shown by the grades they obtain in the exami
nation.
The blanks and all necessary informa
tion in regard to the examination can be
obtained at the office of the internal reve
nue agent in the Appraisers' building.
A SLAVE FROM BOYHOOD.
(From the. End Wing (Minn.) Bepublicnn.)
"I am now twenty-four years old," said Edwin
Swanson. of White Rock, Goodhue County,
Minn., to a Republican representative, "and as
you can see I am not very large of stature.
When I was eleven years old I became atllicted
with a sickness which baffled the skill and
knowledge of the physicians. I was not taken
suddenly ill, but on t"he contrary, I can hardly
state the exact time when it began. The first
symptoms were pains in my back and rest
less nights. The disease did* not trouble me
much at ft rut, but it seemed to have settled in my
body to stay, and my bitter experience during
the last thirteen years proved that to be the
case. I was of course a child and never dreamed
of the suffering in store for me. I complained
to my parents, and they concluded that in
time I would outgrow my trouble, but when
they heard me groaning during my sleep they
became thoroughly alarmed. Medical advice
was sought but to no avail. I grew rapidly worse
and was soon unaule to move about and finally
became confined continually to my bed. The
best doctors that could be had were consulted,
but did nothing for me. I tried various kinds
of extensively advertised patent medicines
•with but the same result.
"For twelve long years I was thus a sufferer
in constant agony without respite. Absees<=eg
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the world indeed looked very dark to me.
About this time, when all hope was gone, and
nothing seemed left but to resign myself to my
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Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Like
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to do me good. I feJt encouraged and con
tinued their use. After taking six boxes I waa
up and able to walk around the house. I hare
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past year. Only one year" have I taken Dr.
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chores and attend to light duties.
"Do I hesitate to let you publish what I have
said? No. Why should I? It is the truth,
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know my experience. It may help those whose
cup of misery is as full to-day as mine was in
the past."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a con
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They build up the blood, and restore the glow
of health to pale and sallow checks. In men
they effect a radical cure in all cases arising
from mental worry, overwork or excesses ol
whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes
(never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box, or six
boxes for $2 50, and may be had of all drug
gists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams'
Medicine Company, Sehenectady, N Y.
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