Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-19

| There should be a more thorough, not to
say cordial, understanding between the
clubs, and less of exclusiyeness. With
slight reforms the archery organizations,
by strict attention to business, will soon be
able to face the best coast archers.
NOTES.
The Phoenix Football Club at San Fran
cisco has proven the best player in the
matches with the Wanderers.
The Washington boating-men are earn
estly at work endeavoring to have the
National Regatta held on the Potomac.
Checkers are just booming" in
Elmira, N. Y. a club of the players is to
be organized at once.
G. Taylor won the champion medal in
the tournament of the Chester Eng
Draught Club.
Andover, n. Y, has a large number of
checker players, who pride themselves on
their knowledge OF the game; but a
stranger dropped in ON them few days
since who ''scooped them in so lively
that they came to the conclusion there was
mistake somewhere.
The game law became operative for the
season last Tuesday, and quail and ducks
must now be left severely alone until Sep
TENDER 18th. 1t behooves the sportsman's
clubs of the interior to see that the law is
rigidly enforced.
Saratoga viii probably be the scene of
some fine rowing this season. There is al
ready some talk of giving a regatta. For
So, GOO worth of prizes week OF most ex-
citing aquatic sport could be had there.
Let the SaratogIans push the matter to
successful end.
The greatest living demolisher of cole
leather is pedestrian Weston. He has
walked 30, coo miles since be first took to
pedestrisnlsm in 1867. 0'Leary has COW
cred about half that distance since he
began his career as walker at the old
Westside Rink at Chicago in 1874. It
would take a deal of time to calculate just
how much leather both have used up.
They are the shoemaker's friends.
In Christmas week there was regatta
pie crowded the banks of the Great Royal
Lake. and shrieked and yelled, rushing
into the water up to their necks when the
finish was close. More excited than the
men were the women, who tossed their
arms, beat their breasts, and wildly hustled
one another.
An international regatta on the Danube
is being organized at Vienna by the united
committees of the four national rowing
clubs. TIE four clubs contain about six
members all told, who usually get some
fishermen to row their boats for week or
so in spring, and watch the proceedings,
snugly sheltered from drafts in their hand
some pavilion opposite the Kahlenberg.
Wanted, few Anglo-Saxoh oarsmen to
carry away the prizes. None but amateurs
can enter their names for competition.
Foreigners may row against the stream, if
they are so minded. Natives are not bound
to take the challenge.
A new problem chess tourney is an
nounced in the Nationaitidende of Copen-
hagen. Each competitor is to enter one
three move problem, direct mate, with
usual motto and sealed envelope. Ameri-
can composers must mail their entries be-
fore June lst. Address, " Reduction de
la ealonne d'echecs du NGtionaHideade,
We'd Stranden, is. Copenhagen, Denmark"
The first prize is $50, the second prize is
$40 a special prize of five volumes of
g Nordisk Skaktidende," 1876 so, will be
given to the best problem by Scandins-
Wan author not one of the chief prize win
ners. The judges win be S. A. Sorensep,
of Copenhagen, and F. Soborg, of Aalborg,
who viii make the award in September.