The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-21
AMATEUR SPORTS.
An Olympic Club Football Team
Organized.
Popularity Of nd.Ball-Roxing Tourn ament.
Points in the National Athletic Games.
What Bicyclis.s Are Doing.

sion and q large gathering OIL ladles ana
gentlemen will undoubtedly be present to
encourage the boys in their good work.
Next Sunday the Olympic and the Ala
media Olympic clubs will have cross
country run from Alameda. Athletes who
intend to take part In the race will leave by
the 10 o'clock broad-gauge boat ON that
morning.
Professor Tronchet, assisted by w. B.
Easton of the Olympic Club, will instruct
the ladies' fencing class which has been re-
Gently organized, and of which Mrs. Z. Ran
some is President The class will meet
three times week at 124 O'Farrel street.
alternating with the Gentlemen's Fencing
Club.
Leader Kolb of the Olympic Club has ar
ranged with Professor Smyth for juvenile
athletic exhibition! in the Olympic Club
gymnasium some time in February. The
programme will consist of performances on
the bars and rings, wrestling, boxing, fen
cling and acrobatics.
THE BOXING TOURNEY.
The informal boxing tourney tomorrow
evening at the Olympic Club will in inca
sure give the spectators an opportunity to
guage the boxers, many OF whom Will CON
test at the annual tournament. Among
those who are training for the event and
weak points during professors nights"
are Kitchen, McCord, Gallagher, Laferty,
Treat Boyd. Graney. Cooley. Creighton,
Leighton, Hampton, O'Brien, Burns and
Others. There is said to be among the out
siderS boxer who will represent the Alpine
Club in the November tournament, and who
will create an impression on his opponents.
Ii the Alpiner's reach speaks for aught he
will get there" in hurry.
Alfred Huber, member of the Nereln
nj hos cd al mis- Si n
Olympic Club. Huber is a very clever
wrestler and is anxious TO try his mettle
with some Of the athletes who will enter for
the wrestling tournament.
A Portland Oregon exchange says that
Dave Campbell the heavyweight pugilist,
has announced his Intention OF retiring
from the ring to open bar-room Could 1t
be possible that Corbetts letter caused
such a sudden change in the mind OF DavY?
However, Campbell, by resigning at this
hour when trouble is brewing, shows good
judgment.
Billy Daley, who is undoubtedly the best
writer and authority on matters pugillstc
in this city, has written to New Orleans re-
garding a match between Dannie Needhem
and Jimmy Carroll. The former recently
defeated Billy Mahan at Seattle, and his
many friends are anxious TO see him
matched with Carroll.
A fencing club has been organized at
Seattle and Captain Dillon, formerly of this
from the north mention is made OF an
athletic club which has just been organized
at Seattle.
sToCKToN's PUGLIsT.
The Stockton colored pugilist Charley
Turner, has run down in pocket and has
finally concluded to take a trip to Portland
and Seattle. Turner says that he will issue
4 challenge in the Portland papers to all
middle-weiEhts and will go so far as to in
wife Dave Campbell, "Portiand's pet, to
meet him III finish fight.
The California Athletic Club test case will
come up before Judge Shafter tomorrow,
but as there are 4 number of cases on the
calendar to be first disposed of, it is quite
probable that the California Club will have
to remain in suspense for some weeks yet,
unless It's attorneys can run 1t through the
blockade.
The Alameda Bicycle Club has procured
new quarters on Railroad avenue. The
clubs officers are: r. G. White, President;
tary and Treasurer; Harry Potter, First
Lieutenant; Harry Williams, Second Lieu
tenant; Burt Burrell, bugler.
Robert Vaudercook, an Evanston 0lls)
wheelman, returned to his home last week
after spending several weeks In this State.
Prior to his visit to this city he toured
through Yellowstone Park and much of the
surrounding country, covering some 500
miles. He has brother. (. z. Nandercook,
living in Oakland.
The new officers of the California Division
League of American Wheelmen for 1590-9l
are as follows: Chief Consul, Thomas l..
Hill. San Francisco; Vice Consul, Arthur Z.
McKenney, San Jose; Secretary Treasurer,
| tiyeS at laTge-Frcderick c. Gift, Oakland;
| G. c. Moore. Stockton; Frederick X. Cook,
| San Francisco; a. c. Mckinney. San Jose.
HINTS TO CYCLERs.
| A st. Louis paper gives the following val
liable hints TO cycling tyros:
| First catch your bicycle
Teach yourself TO ride. knowledge obtained
| by ones own efforts is more valuable than what
| others Will teach you. That is because II costs
| more.
| Make your first essay on crowded street. II
| there are plenty OF small children aud few
| trenches for sewer pipes, so much the better.
Ii you find Il impossible 10 keep your balance
| at first alghl as gracefully as possible but aght
! somehow Then try II again. Alter few trials
| you VIII be able to fall OIL with apparent uncon-
| Germ and a dozen bruises (also apparently.
| Don't Try to beat lie record Tor fast riding the
| first day you experiment.
Don't Try 10 tide over seven-rail fence or
| through brick house Ii takes an exert 10 do
| this successfully.
| bout take a header until you come TO grassy
| place.
Five hundred and five members are now
embraced in the California division of Amer
! lean Wheelmen, the latest acquisition beng
three ladies, all from Los Angeles, namely
| Mrs. Frank L. 0lds and the Misses Angus
tine Berger and Tessa kelso.
| Thomas Stevens, the well-known cyclist,
is now travelling i'll Russia. He states that
| the Russian army has adopted cycles for
war purposes.
| NATIONAL ATHLETIC GAMES.
| The points made at the national athletic
| championship games of.the A a. u, on the
grounds of the Columbia Athletic Club,
! Washington, ID. c., on October 18th, are as
| follows Manhattan Athletic Club rs, New
| York Club So, Detroit IS, Acorn Is, Schuyl-
| kill Navy II, Boston T. Pastime 3, American
| Nm III 11ol<r otoI
Splinter, who won the 100 and go, is a men,
Der of the Detroit Club, and now holds the
| best amateur record in the world for the
frst-named distance, but Lou Myers and
| some other sprinterS say that he broke over
the mark before the pistol cracked
| Vice-President Rix of the Olympic Club,
WHO witnessed the games, spoke to some OF
the officers Of the A. A. U. of holding the
next championship in California believing
| that this city would subscribe Literally
| A. A U. thought fayorably of the PROPOSE
ton, and may select San Francisco after
| the next meeting, which will be held at
Buffalo.
| A. Henderson, the amateur Splinter, has
| entered for the 75-yard race at the invita-
ton field-day games. The athlete is, how
| ever, in poor Tx at present, but his friends
expect that he will give good account of
himself.
Mr.. Frank Cavalli of the Jersey CITY Ath-
letic Club visited his old friend, Professor
Smyth, at the Olympic Club last evening.
He was agreeably surprised with San Fran
cisco'S representative .athletic. club, and
pleased to note tue interest the members
took in athletics.
|. JOE DANDY AT IT.
The athletes of the Olympic Club, whose
pictures and biographies appear occasionally
in an evening exchange, are seriously con-
templatiBg the holding of an indignation
meeting, at which it VIII be moved to present
the pugiistic sporting oracle with a paste-pot
and shears and a primer which will treat on
general athletics. This oracle is known
among his pugilistic acquaintance as
Young Jumbo" and when not using his
shears culling from Eastern exchanges the
latest pug news, covers space by attempt
Ing TO write athletics and other sports.
To use the words of an amateur athlete
Jumbo is Joe Dandy at tile business"
Speaking Of the wei known amateur
walker, Mr.. James Jeryis of the Olympic
Club, Jumbo says: I'm 1884 he journeyed to
Scotland and made the best scratch record
for nlile-I minuteS and s secnndS-.run-