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SPORTS
The new directors of the Olympic Club
are certainb determined to put life into
the big athletic institution. Their first
action was to weed out something like
sixty members who were behind in their
payments of dues. Athletic sports of all
kinds will be fostered, and as a means of
encouragement to the boys, handsome
medals and other prizes will be given com
petitors in boxing, handball, cycling, trap
shooting and other kinds of amateur
sports.
The angling season is drawing to a close
and in a few weeks sportsmen who fancy
duck and quail shooting will have an inn
ing.
The sports of to-morrow will include a
four-oared barge race over the long bridge
course; tennis tournament at the Olympic
grounds; coursing at the parks; rifle
shooiing at Shell Mound Park; pigeon
shooting at Oakland track and Alaraeda
mole and handball games at the profes
sional courts.
THE WHEELMEN.
The Bay City Wheelmen's Five-Mile
Road Race To- Morrow.
CLUB EVENTS TO-MORROW.
Acme Club Wheelmen — To Park.
Bay City Wheelmen— Road race Hay
wards.
California Cycling Club— To Bolinas.
"Call" Bicycle Club— To Park.
Diamond Cycling Club— Park.
Golden Gate Cycling Club— Park.
Imperial Cycling Club— run.
Liberty Cycling Club— To Park.
Outing Road Clvb — Haywards.
Pacific Cycling Club— Camp Taylor,
Petaluma Wheelmen— To Park.
San Francisco Road Club— To Park.
Road racing still continues popular with
the cycling clubs, and while there is not
much to see at the finish of one except a
dozen or more men riding through a
gauntlet of wheelmen , usually in Indian
file, separated anywhere by from one to
lOu yards, still the riders like to be there
and talk it over and make up amateur
Paris mutuals on the possible winners.
There were two road races last Sunday,
both finishing at Haywards. This after
noon, at 3 o'clock, the cyclers of the Young
Men's Christian Association will hold a
five-mile event from San Mateo to San
Carlos, for which there are ten entries,
who, with their handicaps, are: J. E. Ed
wards, scratch; J. Sims, 1 mm.; F. Han
cock, I} 4 mm.; J. Keller, I}.£ mm.; F.
Stackpole, 1% mm.; P. Burr, 1% mm.; F.
Crowell, 2 mm.; B. Waterman, 2 mm.; J.
D. Cardinell, 2% mm; F. Kahn, 2y, mm.
Of these riders, Edwards, the scratch man,
is by far the best, and should make fast
time, as he is a very speedy man both on
track and road. Sims, Hancock and Burr
may be looked to for fast riding, while the
others are all well trained and with the
handicapping should stand about an even
chance. The time prizes will be gold and
silver medals, and there are four valuable
place prizes as well.
The Bay City Wheelmen will hold a five
mile handicap road race to-morrow over
the San Lcandro-Haywards course. There
are twenty entries, whose names were
exclusively published in The Call last
Monday. The handicaps have not yet been
announced, but will be made up to-night.
A club run has been called to witness the
race, leaving on the 9 a. m. creek-route
boat. In announcing this run by postal,
the secretary facetiously says: "This will
be the first run under command of our
newly elected captain, Sanford Plummer,
and it is the duty of all Bay Citys to turn
out and show him that we appreciate a
good thing," a somewhat questionable
compliment to Mr. Plummer.
Harry Larkin of the Bay Citys, whose
terrible fall was mentioned in The Call
Thursday, is still unconscious, and but i
little hope is entertained for his recovery, j
Should he pass away at any hour before !
the road race, it will be immediately called ;
off, as will several other contemplated j
trips and entertainments the club had in
prospect.
The date of the proposed theater party
for the benefit of the California Associated
Cycling Clubs is announced for Thursday
evening, October 3. The Columbia The
ater has been secured and . the play will be |
"The Magistrate," a light comedy, thor- |
oughly suited to the occasion. It will be
presented by the Dixey-Barrymore-Stock
well-Coghlan troupe of players, whose
names are a sufficient guarantee of the ex
cellence of the performance. All of the
prominent clubs will take blocks of seats,
the Olympics and Bay Citys alone requir
ing over 300. San Jose and Oakland will
be well represented, particularly the latter
city, whence the Acme and Reliance
clubs will come over in a body. The box
office will be open for the sale ot tickets
next Monday. Full particulars may be
had of Secretary J. F. Hancock, at his
office in the Nucleus building. The profits
from the sale of tickets will go toward the i
purchase of valuable prizes for the associ
ation's annual ten-mile road race around
the San Leandro triangle on October 13.
which will be the greatest cycling road
event since the 100-mile relay race in April, i
To-morrow the Pacific Cycling Club will j
ride to Camp Taylor, taking the 8 a. m. |
boat.
The Call Bicycle Club will meet to
morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at Truewor
thy's cyclery, on Fulton street, near D.
After the meeting, at which uniforms,
clubrooms, etc., are to be discussed, the i
club will have a run through the park, and
if only half of the seventy-four members
turn out, they will make a big showing. .
To-morrow the Golden Gate Cycling
Club of this city and the Diamond Cycling
Club of Alameda will have a joint run
through the park. A large attendance
from both clubs is expected.
Captain Maass and Lieutenant Qu'adt of j
the Golden Gates have just returned from !
a trip through the San Joaquin Valley.
The recent rains made the roads in some
instances very bad. From Stockton to
Sacramento it was impossible to ride the
road, so for a distance of thirty miles they
were, compelled to ride the narrow patn
alongside the railroad track. Nevertheless
they both declare they had a jolly time
and an interesting trip.
The Outing Road Club will hold a run to
Haywards to-morrow to ! witness the finish
of the Bay City Wheelmen's road race.
Last night' the club held a smoker for
members only at the clubrooms on O'Far
rell street. N. Brown of this club, who
was thrown in the road race last Sunday,
had his left shoulder dislocated and will
not be able to ride again for some little
time.
Henry L. Day, George Dyer and George
H. Newman of the Bay City Wheelmen,
who went East with California Command
ery, Knights Templar, of which they are
members, have returned after a most de
lightful trip. They did some little wheel
ing while in New England ani New York.
The Liberty Cycling Club has a run
called for the park to-morrow, while the
ladies' annex will ride to Camp Taylor.
The latter body is composed of some of the
best riders in the City, and their appear
ance together awheel is particularly inter
esting. The Libertys have moved into
their new Quarters on Folsom street, and a
house-warming is proposed for the near
future.
Next Friday evening, at Metropolitan
Temple^ Charles Albert Adams, president ;
FLOYD A. McFABLAND OP THIS SAN JOSE ROAD CLUB.
i of the Camera Club cyclists, will dearer an
| interesting lecture in his inimitable style,
i entitled "With "Wheel and Camera
Through the Switzerland of America,"
illustrated by a great many slides made
i from snapshots taken by himself, Pro
fessor J. J. B. Argenti, H. C. Owens and
Byron D. Bent during their recent trip
i through that section. A few of the slides
i were shown at the Camera Club rooms last
! evening by Mr. Adams, and as a forerun
! ner of what is to be expected at the big
! lecture, they promise exceedingly well.
! Tickets for Mr. Adams' lecture may be ob
tained from any member of the' Camera
; Club, admission being free, as is invariably
1 the case with all the club's entertainments.
The Bay City Wheelmen will attend the
lecture in a body, to applaud vociferously
when any pictures by their fellow-member,
j Bent, are shown. The Californias will be
■ there to do the same for Argenti, and Mr.
; Adams may depend upon the Olympics
j and the Camera Club for his enthusiasm.
! He is a particularly interesting speaker,
: and a very pleasant evening's entertain
j ment is in etore for those fortunate enough
to secure tickets.
Al Jarman of the Garden City Cyclers
went East last Monday night. He will go
on the National circuit for a few weeks,
joining his clubmate, J. E. Alexander, and
Charles 8. Wells and the Terrill brothers
of the Bay City Wheelmen. Later on he
will go to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he
j proposes to attend college for a few terms.
Captain Burke will lead the members of
I the California Cycling Club to Bolinas to
morrow, starting on the 8 o'clock Sausalito
j boat and taking the train to Rosa station.
j A week from to-morrow there will be a run
to Centerville.
Horace B. Sperry of the Bay City Wheel
men was married last evening to Miss
Mitschler of Oakland. They have gone to
Coronado for their honeymoon, and upon
their return will reside on Pacific Heights.
I Mr. Sperrv was secretary and a director of
I the Bay Citys for several years, and be
i came very popular with the members. He
is connected with the Bperry Flour Com
pany. The bride is a charming brunette
resident across the bay and has many
friends.
The racing board of the league has issued
its bulletin. No. 21, dated September 19,
1895, as follows:
SANCTIONS GRANTED.
September 14, Lowell High School Cycling
Club, San Francisco.
Sept -mber 17, Ban Bernardino Wheelmen,
San Bernaidino.
September 19, 20 and 21, Napa Cycling Club,
Napa City.
October 1, 3 and 4, Fresno Trotting Associa
tion, Fresno.
October 12, Young Men's Christian Associa
tion, Lob Angeles.
PACIFIC COAST RECORDS ACCEPTED.
One-quarter mile, flying start, paced, class A,
E. A. Moody, Eureka. Cal., July 20, 1895, :27.
Half-mile, flying start, paced, class A, B. L.
Waite. Eureka, La!., July 20, 1895, 1:03 3-5.
Half-mile, competition, unpaced, class A, E.
A. Moody, Eureka, Cal., July 20, 1895, 1:07 4-5.
Half-mile, competition, paced, class A, F. M
Byrne, San Jose, Cal., September 9, 1895, 1 :01.
Two-thirds of a mile, competition, unpaced,
claw B, \V. F. Foster, San Jose, Cal., September
9,1895,1:28 1-5.
One-mile tandem, flying start, unpaced, class
A, D. E. Whitman and F. A. McFarland, Eu
reka, Cal., July 22, 1895, 2:12.
One-mile tandem, competition, class A, R.
E. Dow and C. M. Smith, San Jose, Cal., Sep
tember 9, 1895, 2:11 4-5. ' r
SUSPENDED.
For pacing a female rider at unsanctioned
races, 17th inst., W. Jamison and Jobeph
Macabee of San Jose are suspended for an in
definite period at the pleasure of the board.
The attention of race promoters is called to
the recent ruling of the Doard, that orders for
merchandise to be selected by the winners
will not be allowed as prizes. The articles
offered as prizes must be distinctly specified,
on programmes and the identical articles so
specified, and nothing in their stead, delivered
to the winners. R.M.Welch,
Representative National Racing Board.
Captain Humphreys, the newly elected
captain of the Acme Wheelmen, has called
a run of his club to the park to-morrow,
and the Acmes, noted for taeir propensity
to turn out en masse on all runs, will
probably be spread out all over the
people's pleasure ground before the day is
over. You will know them by the emblem
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1895.
of a winged acorn, usually in white on a
black sweater. They'll all be out there ex
cept ex-Captain Kitchen, who goes to Hay
waras to referee the Bay Citys' road race.
The San Francisco Road Club has a run
called to the beach to-morrow, when they
will be accompanied by the Petaluma
Wheelmen. All will assemble at the club
house, 720 Golden Gate avenue, at 10 A. m.
The members are actively training for the
tlub road race next Sunday, and expect to
make fast time.
The present cycling season, which is
now more than two-thirds completed, has
demonstrated more conclusively than any
of its predecessors that the simpler the
construction of the bicycle and its equip
ment the more practical is its utility.
This feature is particularly noticeable with
pneumatic tires, and where a comparison
is made between the light, resilient single
tube products of to-day, which are without
j doubt the most practical of all tires, and
1 the heavy, complicated tires of previous
• seasons, the progress made in the manu
| facture of these indispensable features of
| the cyclist's comfort is shown with start
i line distinctness. The simpler the tire
the better, and the single tube idea is the
: living embodiment of this axiom.
One hears some funny things occasion
i ally when riding by or behind other wheel
■. men. I was going out the avenue Thurs
i day night toward one of the clubs, and as
• it was windy I tacked on behind two
; riders who were going at a pretty fast clip,
so they might pull me through. They
were talking and I could not help over
j hearing the following: »Say, Bill, did you
! hear about Foster's new half-mile mark at
j Napa to-day ?" "No," replied William.
• "what was it?" '-Fifty and four-fifths.'*
> "My, but that's fast; who were the
timers?" "Oh, Varney and Dick Ayl
ward, I guess." "I thought as much. Did
, they 'sight' him from scratch at the half
! mile pole?" "I reckon yes." "Well, what
| I'm surprised at is that they didn't give
out his" time as ten seconds faster." At
this point I rode ahead to see who they
were, and will yon believe me, they were
j Olympics. I nearly fell off my wheel from
, astonishment. Truly they were wise be
| yond ray expectations.
Captain Caianich will lead the Imperial
| Cycling Club on a blind run to-morrow
i for which he promises some new features,
I but tnat old-time and popular feature
established by years of precedent of a
hearty well-prepired dinner at the end of
ride will positively not be overlooked.
The club's new quarters at 614 Van Ness
I avenue are very homelike and the club is
; adding new members at every meeting, H.
| C. Henning, W. J. Strange. A. Windt, P.
Morrin, Hi N. Sessions, E. Leghse, D. J.
! Williamson, F. A. Bidemann and F. J.
j Driscoll being the latest additions to the
I roll.
Floyd A. McFarland of the San Jose
Road Club, who has been appropriately
dubbed the '"California Zimmerman," is
known as one of the greatest handicap
class A racers on the coast. He is very
tall and sinewy and rides at a speed which
soon brings him up with the limit men, for
he is always placed on the scratch with
Byrne, Terriil, Whitman and the other
class A cracks. He suffered a bad fall at
Petualama some weeks ago, bat soon
recovered and has been riding this week at
Napa. With a httle more training and
experience he will be eligible to class B
and will easily hold his own with the best
of them. Spaldino.
♦
THE OLYMPIC CLUB.
Boxers Who Are in Training—Boat
ing: and Handball.
The superintendent of the Olympic Club,
W. Kennedy, is being congratulated daily
by the members of the club who delight
to witness boxing contests, on the very ex
cellent programme he has got up for
the October boxing night. The Payne and
Carter bout should certainly prove of par
ticular interest, as it will decide the ques
tion of superiority between the 145-pound
champion boxers of the Olympic and San
Francisco Athletic clubs. Carter's friends
do not hesitate to say that, unless their
champion will be in first-class condition,
the Sacramento man will certainly get the
decision. Joe Reay of the Olympic Club
will have his hands full in keeping Brown
of the Acme Club at safe distance. Brown
is a good stiff puncher and will stand se
vere treatment. Reay is confident, how
ever, of putting his opponent to sleep be
fore the limit will be reached. They are
booked to enter the ring at 157 pounds.
J. A. McGinley, who is still recognized
as an Australian, although he has been a
member of the club for a year or more,
will toe the scratch with W. Birdsall of
the Sacramento Athletic Club. The latter
is an exceedingly clever boxer and the
bout should be most interesting — that is,
from a scientific point of view. .
Jones, the champion handball player of
the coast, states that he has a friend who
recently arrived from Australia who would
have no objection to a meeting with some
clever boxer. The new arrival is an ama
teur, and if Smith, the very clever Olympic
boxer, is still looking for a match against
a man of his own weight and inches he
may be accommodated. Jones says that
his countryman and Smith would make a
very interesting set-to. If Smith is willing
to go on with the new 'un, the Olympic
members will certainly witness a "grand
exhibition of clever hitting and ducking.
The oarsmen of the club are very en
thusiastic over the promising outlook'for i
good season's aquatic sport. Julie Morton,
Ned Allison. Jack McCarthy, James Mc-
Elroy and Charles Sullivan are the bone
and sinew of the club. They will look out
for the rowing end. and it is safe to say
that they will be heard from in a most
favorable manner in the near future. John
Mallon is proposed for coxswain. In all
probability a boathouse over which will
float the Olympic colors will be constructed
in Tiburon.
The players who will represent the club
in the handball tournament which will
soon be held at the outdoor grounds, and
who are now in training, are James Mc-
Vicker, Coffin, Bush, McElroy, Hampton.
Mallon, Eugene Kelly, Shea, Collins and
Kennedy. The latter two have been try
ing to figure out the result of a match
against Hampton, who has offered them
ten points in each game. Kennedy in
good condition is a dangerous man in a
ball court.
ANGLING.
Rivers That Were Stocked With
Largre-Mouth Bass.
The season for angling is rapidly draw
ing to a close and the gun will soon take
the place of the rod, which has afforded so
much pleasure since April 1.
Al Hall of Point Reyes has a small steam
launch at Inverness, on Tomales Bay.
One day last week Hall and a friend trolled
for several hours in the hope of hooking a
salmon, as the bay was literally alive witli
sardines, but not a single strike rewarded
their perseverance, ana with the exception
of a few large smelt caught with worms
the anglers returned with empty baskets.
Hall is now of the op inion that the steel
heads do not remain in the bay during the
summer months, but seek the deep blue
ocean after leaving the fresh water.
S. T. Burton of Weber Lake Hotel caught i
some splendid cv tthroat trout on Thurs
day last. The fish are now taking the fly
well, and some good fishing will be had
until the end of the season.
John Butler and Dr. yon Hoffman will
leave in a few days for an outing on the
Eel Kiver, near Scotia. This is the time of
the year when fly-fishing is at its prime on
the Eel.
The following tourists have been enjoy
ing good sport recently in the vicinity of
Weber Lake: A. Curuming, J. Coleman,
Mr. and Mrs. Wright, Landsberger, Has
lett, Thompson, P. J. Donohoe and Ed
ward Long. Independence Lake will be
closed for the season at the termination of
this month.
Through tho kindness of A. C. Bingham
of Marysville The Call is in a position to
give the readers of the angling notes some
valuable information concerning the stock
ing of the Feather River with bass and
other game fish. Mr. Bingbam writes:
The fish planted in the Feather Kiver have
been as follows: /
In December, 1891, near Gridley. about
eighteen miles above Marysville, by the United
States Finn Commission, through the efforts of
our then Congressman, Hon. Marion Biggs,
4000 two-year-old fish, consisting of large
mouth black bass, ring or yellow perch, red
eye or goggle-eye, also called warmouth bass;
pike (Es-ex lu'cius), erroneously called pick
erel. What proportion of each I am not ad
vised, except thet half the number were large
mouth bass.
In the spring of 1893, aDout four miles above
Marysville, by the *ish Commission,
twelve pairs of small-mouth black bass. These
were full grown fi?h and ready soon to spawn.
In spring of ]fSJS, about, six miles above
Marvsville, by State Fish Commission, 20,000
pmnll Eastern brook trout (S. fontlnalis). The
last two plants were made through the efforts
ot Thomas J. Sherwood, editor of the Marys
ville Democrat, and a former member of the
State Fish Commission.
Thus far the fish have furnished no sport,
though one or two have been taken near nero
by men fishing with worms for catfish, and I
have heard of a few being taken on the same
bait near Oroville, one of which, a bass, I am
told weighed three pounds. Whether they
have made their home in some stretch of the
river that has not been fished (it's over thirty
miies by river from Marysville to Oroville) or
are so well supplied with food as not to be
tempted by any lure so far offered theio. or
have not increased to any extent, I am isot
prepared to suy, but I still have hopes they will
in time furnish sport to angler*.
One of a party of anglers who enjoyed a
Dr. Bowhill, a Noted Angler.
fishing trip outside the heads last Sunday
told a very good story yesterday on the
veteran, Frank Dolliver. It appears
that Dolliver and a man named Smith dis
puted the weight of a large rockfish which
Dolliver had taken. The latter incident
ally asked Smith what he thought the fish
might weigh and was quickly answered
"Five pounds." "I'll bet you a good din
ner that the fish will Bcale ten pounds,"
remarked Dolliver as a smile added color
to his always handsome countenance.
Smith immediately accepted the wager
and the fish was weighed when the anglers
returned to the City. Dolliver, however,
tooK advantage of Smith's absence for a
few seconds on the voyage home and
quietly slipped a five-pound sinker down
the rockhfrh's throat— the fish itself
weighed by± pounds. The tmrprise of
Smith can be better imagined than de
scribed when the fish turned the scales at
10»^ pounds, and it had to stand a test of
being weighed five times before Smith was
willing to acknowledge that he had never
before in his life been fooled so badly in a
fish's weight. He paid for a dinner, but it
is pretty safe to say that when he reads the
story of how Dolliver hoodwinked him,
the noted bait provider will have reason
to wish that he had not partaken of a free
dinner.
During a few hours "pleasant" fishing
on San Andreas Lake, and in the teeth of
a heavy storm, Billy Robertson states that
Dr. Bowhill made a discovery which the
angling fraternity will 'be k more than
pleased to learn" The doctor > landed ' a
three-pound trout and also f five pounds of
weeds which had tangled around the fish
while it was struggling ; tor liberty, iOf
course, like all good surgeons, the doctor
opened the fish, in the hope of discovering
what it had . been feeding on, ' and he
quickly struck it rich. %*-•.- ,
• "Come here, Billy, my boy I can see
now what we must have for bait," said
Bowhill. "Those fish are feeding upon
email worms, and : » they : have crammed
themselves so full of grub that \ the wig
glers^ are actually coming ■ through their
£1J IS.
■ Robinson laughed heartily, but when he
pointed out to the doctor his mistake the
latter was more than surprised that para
sites could possibly be so numerous on
fresh-water hshes.
In the State of Maine there is a law pro
hibiting the capture of trout under five
inches in length, whicn has done much
good in the way of protec;ing baby fash.
A law of a similar kind is very much
needed in this State. This is what an
Eastern paner says :
We are advised that the law protecting trout
less than five inches in length and landlocked
salmon less than nine inches in length, has
been disregarded in the State of Maine to such
an extent as to make it necessary to call the
■ pecial attention of the wardens to this viola
tion. Much has been done during the past
few years in educating people to the impro
priety of taking short sir.c fish. As a cons-e
--quence, many of the waters of M aine aiirt else
where have improved wonderfully in tishing.
Too much attention cannot be paid to the pro
hibition of taking baby fi?h, and no true sports
man will intentionally violate this law.
CRICKET CHIRPS.
Notes From Abroad, From Philadel
phia and Local Cricket Centers.
From time immemorial August has been
the cricket month par excellence, and the
usual heavy list of important events is
forthcoming. All the famous grounds in
England have been the daily scenes of
intercounty matches, to which ideal
weather has attracted thousands of en
thusiastic spectators. To select the most
important of these contests:
Lancashire defeated Middlesex by an
inning and 100 runs at Manchester; Hamp
shire beat Leicestershire by 3 wickets at
Portsmouth; Kent beat Notts by 2 wickets
and 53 at Nottingham, score 308 — 225;
Derbyshire vs. Essex, a draw in favor of
the former, at Derby ; Gloucestershire vs.
Surrey, a draw in favor of Surrey, at Clif
ton; Lancashire beat Notts by 10 wickets
at Manchester; Somerset beat Yorkshire
by 2!) at Taunton, scores 539—510, the
fourth victory in succession for this county.
Other interesting events from various
parts of the world are worthy bf mention.
At Malta the Sixtieth Rifles beat the Sec
ond East Surrey Regiment by an inning
and 201; at Seychelles the East Indian
Squadron beat the Islands by 16, and were
defeated by H. M. 8. Cossack by 9, on the
shores of Recherche Bay. At Spitzbergen
H. M. S. Active and Calypso beat H. M. S.
Volage and Ruby by 2; Yokohama de
feated the fleet by 21.
In the Gloucester-Yorkshire match
Billy Robertson.
! above-mentioned, the record gate receipts
i of the season was reached — amount, £700.
i When it is stated that the admission fee
I was sixpence and that one of the four days
I of the match was a rainy one, some idea
! of the daily attendance will be had.
The Citrus Colony Cricket Club of Pen
ryn is busily preparing for its carnival
week, which is set for the end of next
month. It is just possible that one of the
j visiting clubs, the Lake County, may come
lto this City afterward. Mr. Mr Xuity. the
I manager of Mrs. Langtrv's Middletown
i ranch, was in town this week and promised
to try to induce Captain Reeling's men
to extend their tour in this direction.
The only cup match scheduled for to
morrow is between the Bohemians and
Californians, at Klinknerville, which is
likely to be a most interesting one. The
Webster-street grounds trill be given up to
the Alameda, B division. The season will
terminate October 20, when it will have
lasted thirty-one weeks.
The greatest excitement reigned at Wis
sahickon, Pa., during the Oxford-Cam
bridge vs. Philadelphia University match
on the 14th and 15th inst. Commenting
on the social feature of the game the Times
generously remarks:
No occasion offered itself for protests or
hearings or bickerings or bad blood, nor is
there likely to beany. The young men of
England here are scholars and gentlemen
as well as athletes, and are not given to
going out of their way to pick quarrels.
There never has been anything of the sort
in any cricket game here* with English men
and there have been a good many of them.
A novelty in scoring has been adopted
in Eastern clubs which is taken from our
baseball brethren and is likely to be gen
erally adopted. This is to record all the
fielding errors under the various heads
fumbles, catches missed and wild throws.
Before our clubs adopt the innovation,
however, it may be necessary to order
greatly enlarged score books and to engage
a special staff of scorers.
Interested Inquirer — The members of
local cricket teams are all amateurs. I
could not recommend you to cultivate the
game with a view to your financial benefit.
Try baseball. Umpire.
THE GUN.
Alameda County's Game Warden Is
After the Poachers.
The Olympic Gun Club will hold a trap
shooting contest os Sunday at the Oak
land track, and the Empire Club will
smash clay birds at Alaraeda Point.
Among trap-shooters the principal topic
relates to the initial tournament of the
California Inanimate Target Association,
which will be held at the Oakland race
track on October 6 and 7. On the first day
j there will be five special events, and many
handsome prizes have been given for com
petition. On the second day there will be
j four events. Sportsmen from different
| parts of the State will be on hand to con
j test for the prizes and trophies; in fact,
I already practice shoots are a daily occur
rence. The American Association rules
will govern the shooting in all particulars
not otherwise provided for. A bird must
pc smashed in order to score. Class-shoot
ing will be the rule in every event, and. as
a means of saving time, ties will be shot
off in the succeeding match or matches
until decided. It is expected that between
800 and 400 sportsmen will participate in
this— the greatest event of the season.
Horace Orear has returned from a long
vacation in the mountains. He had some
splendid grouse-shooting in Sierra County
and caught several hundred trout in the
streams and lakes.
Sam Williams of Uoca ia authority for
the statement that the two water spaniels
owned t>y A. Cumming are the greatest re
trievers on earth. This is what Williams
has written to Donald McCrea:
"Cumming and a friend were shooting
at grouse near Independence Lake a few
days ago, and after a brace of birds had
been knocked over into a deep canyon
Cumming ordered his dogs to go and
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BaJking Powdei*
fetch the dead birds, at the same time
throwing a couple of small stones into the
canyon near where the grouse fell. The
dog's, true to their teaching, dashed into
the covert and were out again in a few
seconds, each dog carrying a rock in its
mouth.
"Cum mine was angry and talked strong
Gaelic to his pets, but they were true to
their teaching, as previously stated, and
refused to retrieve anything less solid
than a rock. They may be good duck
retrievers, but grouse is evidently beneath
their notice. Friend AI will give you
fuller particulars on his return to the
City."
Judge Hale Rix, F. Joost, Fred Feisel,
George Muller and Pete Walsh had a
most successful rabbit shoot a few days
ago near Half Moon Bay. Walsh relates
the following story of a new style of rabbit
hunting: "The game were under cover
and we did not know how to get them out
of their holes. The Judge proposed to
smoke them out. Feisel suggested shoot
ing guns in the hope that the noise would
startle them, bat when it came to George
Muiler's turn to speak I expected to hear
something good and I was not mistaken.
Muller moved that the company must
tramp to the beach, capture a number of
small crabs aud then return to the rabbit
grounds.
"This was done, and Muller quickly took
from an old box half a dozen candles.
These were cut into small pieces, and every
crab packed on his back an inch of lighted
candle.
"Well,. when the crabs era wled to the hid
ing-places of the game with the flaming
candles on their shells there was a rumble
underneath our feet, and presently rabbits
were seen running in all directions. Shoot
ing was lively that afternoon, and the total
bag amounted to 125 cotton-tails, with Mr.
Joost as the leader of the string. Judge
Rix says that Muiler's scheme of unearth
ing rabbits beats ferrets all to pieces. Try
it some time. You will find it great sport.
The Game Warden of Alameda County
has evidently an eye to business. Last
Saturday The Call stated that poachers
were killing rail and duck on the Alviso
and Alvarado marshes, and on the follow
ing day the Warden captured one of the
law-breakers who had rail in his posses
sion. There were as many as thirty men
shooting rail last Sunday on the San Ma
teo marshes.
The following letter from Game Warden
Donovan of Alameda County speaks for
itself:
Last week I succeeded in making two arrests.
One party had 150 pounds of salmon in his
possession out of season. He claimed that the
salmon was caught in Santa Cruz and shipped
to the American Union Fish Company, San
Francisco, then to him. The other party I ar
rested near the bridges at Alviso for illegal rail
ghooting. Both parties pleaded guilty and paid
their fines. Yours respectfully,
J. L. Donovan.
Frank Angonnet is a target for iris
friends, who have been teasing him ever
since his return from the mountains east
of Cloverdale. Angonnet purchased the
half of a goat from a professional hunter,
who sold it for venison. He shipped sev
eral steaks to his friends and then had his
hunting experiences written up in a Clover
dale paper. The best part of the joke is
that those who ate the goat meat pro
nounced it the sweetest venison tney
had ever tasted. Angonnet contends,
however, that it was the meat of the black
tail deer, but the professional hunter says
different.
The yacht Kover will cast anchor on the
15th of* October in Midshipmans Slough,
Suisun marsh. The craft has been en
gaged for the duck-shooting season by a
chib of duck-shooters, and Billy Rice,
alias Friar Tuck, is authority for tfie state
ment that next year the Kover will be
drydocked, trimmed up in good shape and
sent to England in charge of Commodore
Bruce, who will sal her against many of
the leading yachts of Old England in the
racje for the Prince of Wales' cup. Rice says
that the Rover can't be beaten, and Jack
Sammi, another great yacbtsman, is of the
same opinion.
In refutati6n of the charge that many
small birds are not useful as destroyers of
insects, an extended plea for their preser
vation has been published by Jonathan
Periam in a recent issue of the Chicago
Inter Ocean. The writer asserts that the
robin, the crow, the much-berated English
sparrow, in fact, many of the birds that
farmers decry and destroy as enemies of
their crops of fruit and grain, are really
vast consumers of insects that would
nearly exterminate the crops were not
their numbers decimated by those very
birds. The article is illustrated by cuts
of the weevil, Hessian fly, wheat midge,
jointworm and other insects destructive to
grain, and of the curculio, codling moth
and peach-tree borer. The writer makes
good his plea for the bird?, and his indict
ment of all persons desirous of destroying
the birds is based upon facts regarding the
usefulness of the winged workers which
have been demonstrated by investigation.
It is shown that the agriculturist or fruit
grower is greatly indebted to birds and
should be their protector.
OLYMPIC CYCLERS.
Organization of the New Club Per
fected Last Evening.
The long-expected split in the Olympic
Club Wheelmen has finally occurred, and
an organization of the dissatisfied element
was perfected last night, which promises
to soon eclipse the annex in numbers and
already does in enthusiasm.
The fact of the proposed formation of
the new wheeling club was exclusively
published in The Call Thursday.
At tne meeting last night fifty-three
were present. A uniform was adopted,
consisting of a blue suit, white cap and
maroon sweater, with the letters 0. C.
intertwined in white upon it, emblematic
of the name adopted— Olympic Cylers.
When the membership-roll was opened
there was a rush to sign it and it was not
long before it contained sixty names. The
members are:
Charles F. Morel, M. P. Hayes, E. Schnuten
haus Jr., T. S. Mulvey, B. W. Bernhard, How
ard Smith, O. W. Conroy, D. L. Conklin, F. G
O'Kane, George Gillony, T. G. Knight J H*
Sheehan, W. D. Shea, T. B. McGinness, H. J Mc-
Ginnesa, Stewart Carter, J. F. Baker, L Pock
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H. M. Collins, J. F. Cooney, J. J. Cathcart E*
H. Lewis, A. E. Pinching, Dr. O. B. Burn?'
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