The morning call., 1891-11-22
ATHLETIC.


will take place at Khnknerville, Berkeley.
ATHLETIC.
Champi onship Games-A New League
Association.
The Pacific Association, A. A. w, seems
10 have abandoned all intention of appoint
ing an official Handicapped. This Office is
the most important one in the association,
and should be filled at once. Perhaps the
strongest reason is that the association does
not want to incur the expense of such an
official when it can have the work done for
nothing. This thing of letting every club
handicap its own games is not right, as
there is Away room for the statement that
there is fayoritism shown, while if there
was paid official no such assertion could
well be made. There should be no trouble
10 find good man for this position. Robert
Macarthur of the Olympic Club might posi-
bly, take it, and no better selection could be
made. In Macarthur would be found one of
the best posted men on athletic records, hav-
ing, moreover, a thorough knowledge OF
what every local athlete IS capable OF doing.
The appoint ng of MI Macarthur TO the pO-
sltion would not prevent him from COM
petinG in the championship games for his
club, as Carter, the official handicapper in
the East competed in the A. a. W. cham
pionshlp this year al S I. Louis.
There is 10 certainty yet that a. s. Hen
oerson aud +. Mays Will meet IN the three
shot distances on Thursday, as it is an
open secret that Henderson is only too will
Ing TO settle tie existing contention in both
clubs as 10 who is the speediest Splinter.
Mays holds the 100 and 440 yard local
cham pioDs ships and Henderson the 22O-yurd
distance. Henderson has improved so
much since May Seth that he is reported TO
have made even time for 80 yards.
That the Olympic games on Thank givinC
day will be success IS a foregone con clu-
sion. There are more athletes in trai ming
for them than at any other time during the
year, aud tile entries promise to be the great
est in number that have ever been seen on
the Coast. The club will give to the win
Ders for each event handsome gold and sill
yer medals, which will be presented on the
grounds on the day of The games.
a. Mahoney is training, and report saga
that lie is going faster than he has at any
other time this year. 1t is about time he
won fret place, and If given good mark
he will do so. Mahoney says that there was
jonah on him at the recent meeting and it
fell 10 the lot of Easy" Espinosa to dis
cover 1t. Easy" says that the reason why
Mahoney did not win was that his locker at
the grounds was No. 13 but now that he las
changed lockers with TrOmboni, no doubt
the jonah Will be removed.
Easy" EsplnOsa, who has returned from
the country, where he had a two weeks
vacation, Is looking frSt-clasS, but VIII not
popular athletes on The Coast, and it is no.
ticeable that he has competed in all games,
win or lose. IL IS material of this kind that
Is the bone and slnew of amateur athletics.
?. ID. Splllman %. c. IS in good condition
and lie will, 1t IS expected, make an effort
to break the Coast record on Thursday in
the one-mle event. II the weather is fine
AMI the track in good condition there is no
doubt but he Will accomplish the task
William \. McCaw is training hard for
fhan hat in mr. - J.,
seen in the 40, $50 and one-mile handicaus.
1t is a certainty that lie will make good
showing.
Phil Wand %. c. is in great fix, and has
done some fast trials Of late. Wand should
be more careful, as he is liable to go stale
before Thursday. Three or four days rest
before the gam7s would be a beBeht 10 him.
There is expected 10 be quite crowd at
the Olympic Hand ball Court to see the rub
between Glhuly and Buckley This forenoon.
1t will be a treat
The Manhattan Athletic Club is claiming
as a record for Luther II. Cary 9 4-5 seconds
for the 100 yards in which Cary, who was
not timed. ran only foot and half behind
John Owen Jr.
On Tuesday, the oath inst. the Olympic
Club will hold ladies night" ana good
programme of athletics has been arranged.
The boxing and wrestling tournaments for
the Championship of the Coast VIII be held
on the 80 prOX. and on January 18th, 1892,
respectively.
a Eymnastic exhibition ana ball will be
given by thu Nerein Eintracht Turn Sec
ton al 80 Post street. on the 22d inst, for
the benefit OF Fl. G. L. Stahl, the Turner's
Instructor, who has been confined TO his
room through sickness for some time. An
excellent programme Of events has been
arranged.
Al Lean, the eX-amateur champion wres-
tier, was pTactcing pitching weights in the
cellar Of his house on Harrison street, in this
city, few evenings ago, and woman who
lived in an adjoining house rushed into the
street in a frightened state and asked the
neighbors if they had felt the earthquake.
Leans weights will be cun1scated.
a New York sporting journal says that
Secretary W. R. Yard Of the Berkeley Ath-
letic Association is organizing team to go
to England next spring to take part in the
athletic contests there. Victor Mapes who
has running brOad-jump record of % feet
1lA inches; Wendall Baker, the fast
sprinter; Bcyclst Windell Clark Mellen
and 7. j. Stead both very fast quarter
men, are among those who will probably
represent the Berkeley Association on the
other side.
TIE Staten Island Athletic Club proposes
to form new association, to be called
The United States League of Athletic
Clubs" which will be in the nature of a
close corporation and limited to wealthy
members only A blow is aimed at the
smaller clubs, and the scheme will be
worked out under the belief that the large
clubs owning property are tired Of being
governed and dictated TO by the smaller ath-
letic associations. This is a proposed list
of league clubs, showing Approximate mem
bership and property OF each, as estimated
Members, Property