The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-24
OUTDOOR SPORT.
The Olympic Clubs Great Field
Day Meeting.
A Football Team Organized Which Will OPP
pose the University Club-Duck
Shcoting-Coursing.

The grand programme of events which
will be held at the Olympic Club Grounds
tomorrow is creating quite an interest
among the athletes. Several hundred invita-
lions have been issued, and one of the larg-
est gatherings of ladies and gentlemen ever
seen at an athletic meeting on the Coast is
expected.
The athletes who have been training for
the games for many weeks past are feeling
first class, and, as the handcapping is
looked upon as being very fair, the finishes
should be well worth witnessing.
One of the most important matters con-
nected with an event Of this kind is the
handicapping. When this is done by man
who thoroughly understands his business,
and who has a knowledge Of the athletic
qualities of the contestants. then the games.
from an athletic point of view, must he a
success.
A DIFFICULT TASK.
Within the past six months several new
men have joined the different clubs con-
nected with the 7. G. A. A. A, and as a
consequence it is by no means an easy mat
ter for any man, unless he has become
familiariZed with the running qualities of
the men, to handicap them so as to bring all
of the starters punched when the winner
breasts the tape at the finish. To-morrow's
racing will prove whether the handicapping
of Mr.. Jordan, who has been away from the
city for several weeks, has been well or
badly done.
FOOTBALL.
The San Francisco Football Club was Or
ganzed last night at the Office of A. Tobin,
Montgomery street. Shafter Howard was
elected President, j. B. SherraTd Secretary
and Frank Tobn temporary Captain. IL is
the in tentiOn to play series of games with
the University aud Oakland clubs. The
club will practice each Saturday afternoon
at Central Park and will play an exhibition
game for the benefit of some charitable in-
stitution on Thanksgiving day.
HAREs AND HOUNDS.
A drawing for coursing meeting, which
will be held next Sunday at Ocean View
Park, took place last evening. The follow
ing is the result; Cronfn's Dan Bys. Cana
vans Freestone, Edmonds' Soldier Boy VS..
Caravans Maud Jones, EdmOnds' Bones
VS., Redemaker's Al Farrow, billions Sydney
Dick VS.. HoCgh's Dexter, Cronia's Chicopee
Lass VS.. Caravans Examiner. Walters
Daily Stock Report VS.. EdmondS' Pippin
Jr. John Grace was elected judge and
James Wren slipper.
The ground is very hard at present and
many valuable dogs that are now being
trained for the MERGED meeting will not APP
pear, as their owners have no desire to take
may belall the animals.
A TEST TO BE MADE.
The Directors of the Sportsmen's Pro-
tective Association met last Wednesday
evening and decided to alter their
former plan of chartering stern-wheel
steamer for the purpose of carry
ing a number of members to Susun
and other points on the Sacramento River
where good duck shooting may be bad. At
the next meeting of the association the
Directors will move that a committee be ap-
pointed to go to Susun by railroad for the
purpose of testing the legality OF the shoot
ing rights claimed by the lessees of the vast
tracts of marsh land now commonly known
as duck preserves.
A sportsman who returned from SuiSun
recently was Informed that the farmers
sons, who had been ordered off the marshes
by game keepers, were strongly opposed to
the preserve system
COMPLICATIONS MAY ARISE.
The residents of the country towns main
tain that the lessees of the marshes have no
legal right to prevent any sportsman from
shooting game on tide water lands, and that
during the coming winter complications may
arise between the gentlemen sportSmen Of
San Francisco and the farmers young sons
who live in the neighborhood of grounds
which they have been shooting over for
laany years past
Billy Malan. the pugilist, who was de-
feated by Needham at Seattle recently, has
returned to this city. His face shows the
hard punishment he received from the clever
Eastern fighter.
Herman Reed, a market hunter, who re-
fused TO obey the order of keeper who was
in charge of vast tract of land near Stock
ton recently, was arrested for treSpass, and
his case will be tried In Stockton next week.