The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-15
SPORT In GENERAL.
Another Wrestling Match at the
California Club.
h. ID. johnson, tbs Splinter, Said to Be Dying
in Grass Valley-Serious Rumors From
Shasta County.

A recent cable dispatch from Berlin, Ger
many, states that Philo Jacoby and John
Utschig, the two well-known marksmen of
the San Francisco Schuetzen Verein, won
twenty prizes out of the 500 competed for
at the great German national shooting fes-
tival As about 5000 marksmen took part
in the shoot it will be seen that the Cali
fornia representatives secured large pro-
portion of the prizes.
To REVIVE WRESTLING.
An attempt is to be made to revive the in
terest in wrestling. and Parson Davies will
soon be here with a select band Of athletes,
including Lewis, the stranger, who, when
he once gets mis- favorite hold, causes his
opponent to give up the contest at once or
be choked to death. Davies thinks that
slogging exhibitions are done with for good,
and fances that wrestling can be made to
take the place of pugilism. While the cler-
icaily named gentleman is admittedly one of
the shrewdest of show managers, he will
find that for once in his life he has made
mistake. The San Francisco public have
been SO outrageously gulled and robbed by
wrestling exhibitions that the interest in
the sport is as dead as the proyerbial door
nail and can never be resuscitaJed.
ANOTHER EXHIBITION.
The California Club Directors met last
night and received q communication from
their legal advisors, q. w. Knight and w.
W. Foote, stating that they desired to con-
suit with the club on Thursday evening
next knight is out Of town at present,
but will return tomorrow, and Foote has
been unwell for couple Of days, hence the
delay in consultation. The Directors
agreed last night to give another exhibition
before the end of the month, at which Gus
Ungerman and Merte5 Will wreStle ioT
suitable medal.
All rumors to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, Mike Lueie LETT yesterday morning for
Seattle, where he Is TO fight Joe Filings
worth to finish on the 24th of next llOnth.
HAND-BALL MATCHES.
a great deal of interest is now taken in
hand-bali playing, and on Sunday last
large number OF matches were played in the
various local courts. Several matches were
made out of last Sundays play and will be
decided next Sunday.
A meeting of the Olympic Club Directors
was called for last night, but no quorum
being present, an adjournment to next
Monday evening was taken.
TO wRESTLE OFF.
1t has been decided that Cole and Haber-
ley shall wrestle for the first and second
medals offered at the last Olympic Club
tournament for the heavyweight class,
some time between the 1st and 10th of
August. The medals won at the tourna-
mentS will also be then presented to the
winners.
ARE THEY GUILTY?
Some very alarming reports have been
received during the past TWO weeks from
ranchers and others in Shasta County.
Hen-roosts have been daily and nightly
robbed of their occupants and their 0ccu-
pants best products; honest but poor
Portuguese dalrymen state that their milk
pans have been continually emptied of
their contents and that their best milk cows
have been shot full Of bird-shot, impair ting
a metallic taste to such Of the milk that
was not apstracted; the modest daughters
of hard-worklng rancherS have blushingly
told their parents that rude, bold men have
Winked at them as they rOyed guilelessly
over the hills, and wnistled ''Chippy, get
your hair cut as they passed through the
woods, and buXom farm-wiyes report the
mysterious disappearance of large quantities
of salt maekerel and dried cod. There are
rumorS that two attempts were made to
stop the stage and rifle the treasure-boX,
but the robbers were evidently very nervous
and retired in disorder when the driver
shouted out "shoo" at the bandits. All
these reports date from the time that we'll
known sporting writer and some friends
left for couple OF weeks vacation at
Mount Shasta and returned quite recently
OF course they may be perfectly innocent
but il does seem most curious coincidence
when they did. Perhaps the tourists were
COMPOUNDED with a lot of tramps that were
known to be in the vicinity.
WHAT HIS LANDLADY FOUND.
There is, however, one strong piece of
evidence against the tramp theory, and that
is that in the yalse of one Of the party, who
for two hours told of the wonderful catches
of fve-pound trout in endless quantities
made. the six deer killed daily by the party
and the immense numbers of small game
daily bagged by them-that the narrator's
landlady, in emptying his valise, found two
big dried Goldfish
BLUE ROCK SHOOTS.
Last Sunday afternoon blue-rock shoot
took place at Florentines Bay View
Grounds between members Of the Alta Gun
Club. There was considerable rivalry
manifested by the contestants and the
matches were pronounced the best had for
some time.
The matches resulted as follows:
L. ohbers .....'...'.. ................."..4 3-11
I. HOlueh 5-l4
W. 6rlnn IS j.
A match for purse of $50 took place be-
tween J. Roche and w. Griffin. Each shot
at ten birds. Roche ''pInked" eight to
Grif1in's seven and won the money.
II. NJ. Johnson, the well-known sprinter,
is said to be lying in most dangerous con-
dition from typhoid fever in Grass Valley
and his death is expected at any moment.
he went up there recently to arrange a