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great deal of interest She will have one
to two tons of lead ballast, which is cast in
holes cut in the deadwood and keel.
Her mast is % feet, gaff 81 feet, boom "a
feet, spinaker boom IS feet, hoist of main
sail 81 feet, leach 40 feet. The spars,
which are hollow, were made by f. Fa-
bian OF Bayonne, n. j. They are fitted
with slides, and'there will be no hoops or
acing on the maiusall With the after
board down, which will be of TobiB
bronze three-eighths of an inch thick, her
draught will be 4 feet inches. The rud-
der-post comes up in the center of the
cockpit and the wheel will be an the
steering-gear
The name of this novel craft will be M.
Ella, and in her construction it has been
the builders aim to make her light as pos
sibie and still have her staDch and strong.
Her sail plan. although very liberal, is diff
ferent from the Eastern boats of her class,
being more over tie boat and not so large
on the boom or gait as the others. She
will be lighted by electricity supplied from
storage battery.
The owners are promising young anna
teur sailors. Their schooling has been of
the best, as their father the veteran Cap
tain Joe Ellsworth, never had a superior in
sailing yacht, and to him 1t was always a
matter of sport only.
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back of it. The red ball is placed at
the further end of the table, about six
inches from the rail, and the players
string" for lead.
The player who gets the lead puts his
ball inside of the balk space and the other
man holds his ball in his hand until miss
by his opponent enables him to get it into
play" The accepted form OF first shot
for crack player is carrom on the red
with the cue ball so that the players ball
will go into the pocket marked 80" This
stroke. II cleverly made, will drive the red
around the table about as shown in the
dotted lines and bring it back TO almost the
same position it occupied at first.
This shot counts three points. The
player takes his ball to balk again and en-
beavers to do the same thing over and over
again. When he misses the second PLAYER
starts from balk, making carroms or peck
citing his own ball. or the red ball, or a II the
balls. as opportunity offers. When the
red ball is pocketed it is always spotted in
the same place as at the opening of the
game.
The second player now has both the red
and white ball to shoot at, unless the ball
OF the player who missed rolls inside the
chalk line across the table. When this
happens the first players bali cannot he
hit EXCEPT by carrom from the red ball.
An opponents ball inside the line is never
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GAELIC FOOTBALL.
High Expectations of Successful
Season.

Iilgn expectations or a SuCCeSSiui
Season.
Ehe Emmets and a team of Company 4,
Third Regiment, N. G. c., had made ar
rangements to play game at Golden Gate
yesterday afternoon, but owing to the
unexpected death of Mr.. T. Mclnerny,
brother of Andrew McInerny, one OF the
Emmet's best players. it was the unani-
nous wish of both teams that the game be
postponed until some further date.
The Emmett Club is making extensive
preparations to make the game success
this season. and will play match with
the Sarsfelds at Benicia on the 18th OF June
in preparation for the second annual foot
ball contest to be held on the 4th of July
at Golden Gate Park.
The club will suffer materially the loss
of F.. j. O'Keefe, who met with an acct
dent on the field about two weeks ago, and
as he cannot resume active play the club
hopes TO secure his services as coaeher for
the coming season.
Secretary Mellett has received COM
munication from Dublin saying that the
hurleys ordered by Captain Palmer are
ready awaiting Mr.. L. Crowley. whom the
Emmett CLUB has commissioned to convey
the hurleys to San Francisco. Mr.. Crow
ley leaves this city on June l and will re-
turn on September l, when Captain Fred
Palmer will introduce to the people OF San
Francisco Ireland's great game.
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HANDBALL GALORE.
Lively Tossing Between Amateur
Contestants i'm the Courts.

FrequenterS of Ryan's Court saw some
good sport yesterday and amateurs had
their fill of handball. An unusually large
crowd filed the benches and witnessed
some well contested games and close scores.
The days sport was opened with a rat
Ting single between. Barrett and Morris,
the former winning with a close score !:
1910, 11-15, 15-9. Morris defeated his
opponent In a second game. Score: 21-17
In the doubles Nelson and Leary played
Morris and Connolly, each team winning
one rub Score: First rub, 15-10 7-15
Alb; second rub, 12-15, 1913. 10-15.
y splendldlv. contested single-point game
between Slattery and Harlow. the latter a
contestant for honors with Jones and
other professionals, followed. The former
won after an unusually exciting contest
Score: 15-12. 10-15, 1918.
A double, In which Feeney and Vogel-
sang, the Twin Peaks champion, defeated
Haskins and Kelly followed. Score; 15-6,
1915. 1913. In second game the latter
team defeated their opponents. Score ::
15-13, 1o-15, Ill.
Slaltery and Kelly next won a game
from Huskns and Feeney in two straight
rubs. Score: First rub, 15-7, 12-l5,
15-9; second rub. 15-10. Ills. 15-l3.
The usual triple handicap between John
Jones. the champion of Australia, and
James Harlow and Joe Lawless. was
played.
The game was exciting throughout, some
fine point plays being made. Jones al
lowed his opponents only one game IN
four. Score: 1871, 21-16, 21-11, 21-17.
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THE TROPHY WON.
Scotland Is on Top in
Football.
THISTLES WIN THE PRIZE.
A Large Audience Sees the Hilbert
Cup Won From the Wanderers
at Central Park.
he Thistles have won the Hilbert

The Thistles have won the Hilbert
trophy.
After long fight with the Wanderers
for first place, the two clubs being tied for
the prize until yesterday, the Thlstles. by
mastery play and great streak of good
luck won the final game. and added
another cup to their collection, and are
now the champions of the Pacific Coast in
the game known as association football.
One of the largest crowds of the season
went to Central Park yesterday afternoon
TO see the two best clubs of the league
struggle for the final victory. The game,
although very one-sided affair. was well
worth seeing for both clubs were on their
mettle, and resolved to win if possible
But for some reason known only to
themselves, the Wanderers decided to put
in three new men, who had only bean in
practice for little over week. These
were Pomeroy, Leal and Morse. who,
although they may make tirst-class players
in time, certainly weakened the Wanderers
eleven yesterday. and helped to bring on
the Overwhelming defeat that they
suffered.
Pomeroy especially, member of the
Oakland Athleti Club, who was known to
The crowd on the bleaching boards as
"Whiskers" on account of his luxurious
beard, was especially active in getting in
the way of the ball. He would fall down
without the slightest provocatlon, and
made himself particularly agreeable by
always falling down at critical moments
when be should have been kicking the
leather sphere.
Int of hn Ipbt a
that. They were there to win the trophy
and they did 1t with plenty to spare.
From the opening of the game till the
close the Wanderers had no possible show
of winning. being completely outplayed by
their Scottish rivals.
The Wanderers won the toss and kicked
eff. Lumsden of the Thistles Immediately
gained possession of the ball and carried it
down to the goal. After a few minutes
sharp play Ferguson got the sphere and
made a long shoot for goal. Gray, the
Wanderers goalkeeper, tried in vain to stop
its course, and first blood was awarded the
Thistles.
This gave the admirers of the Thistles
the chance that they had been waiting for
I ey almost howled themselves hoarse
with their cheers for the Scotch boys. and
the friends of the Wanderers looked blue
They looked bluer yet when Lumsden
kicked a goal, and made the score to 0
in the Thistles' favor.
The Wanderers braced up trfle after
the second goal had been scored again ST
them end gra1uailysl worked the bah
toward their opponents quarters. But
their work was undone in a very short
space of time by Ferguson, who rushed
the ball down the center and made a long
try for goal which was successful
This completely demoralized Gray, the
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to calculate just how he may manage to hit
two balls for carom and estimate the force
necessary to bring them back for another
shot would be at total loss for mode of
making the balls roll into any three Of six
given spots on pocket table. and even if
Ives meets with fair measure of success
in a game that will probably resolve itself
into cross between English. French and
American balk-line billiards. the curious
and apparently trivial features Of pocket
ing everything in sight for the sake of
pushing the buttons" will find little favor
in. American eyes.
There is one feature of the English game
which has not been touched upon. This
is called the spot shot. This shot is made
by player who has his stroke ball nearly
on line with the red ball when spotted
and corner pocket.
English players have become highly
skilled in pocketing this ball with draw
shot. which puts their ball into position
when the red is spotted again. Or, again,
they make half follow, so as to put the
red into the other corner on the next play.
Roberts, Peale and Cook had become so
sure Of this play that counting by il be-
came que stion of endurance rather than
skill. This shot is now barred in all big
gamaS
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known just what features of the English
game will be dispensed with in order that
the contest may be made close, and there
fore interesting.
The English game is very little known
here and has never been tried IN bona
fde match by an American player OF any
prominence. Some of them have tried it
for their own amusement. and when Cook,
one of the great players, was here In 1855,
Rudolphe. the French player. tried conclu-
sions with him. The game attracted no
particular attention at that time and has
never been seriously considered here
since.
The system Of counting used in the Eng
lish game is bewildering to the American
player, who can at his favorite three bali
game make but one point for each shot. In
this English game. played on a six pocket
table, an expert can make anywhere from
two to ten points on each play.
The table is 6 by IL feet. with very
speedy cushions, and the balls are only 2k
inches against our 2B inches. OF course
with so small ball the cue tips are small
In proportion, but in the game now being
arranged the players will use 2A inch
ball, which arrangement is practically
concession to Ives, as an American expert
can handle larger ball TO better adyan-
tage than he could smaller one.
With regard to the general features of
the English game as played by Roberts
and others without any of the moditica-
tions which thetwo champions may pro-
vide for, diagram l will give a good
idea of the opening play. A chalk line is
drawn across the table at the point where
The spot" is seen on American tables
and semf-cireular balk line is marked
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the jolly taTs were proud OF their ability
to hold their respective breakfasts down
as they cruised about
But. oh my! the hour of reckoning came
little later, when the baimy sea breeze
and smooth surface of the water eoaXed
them outside.
D The Aggie. Charlie Wieland's crack
yacht, had party aboard. There was not
single individual, however. who did not
take the precautionary measure of
nouncing the minute he came on deck that
he was due in the city at an early hour
Somehow all had early dates to fill, but
thought spin out on the bay would fill in
the time q fcelv.e --e,, - 'ge~ 500
There were Billy Waters, Varney Gas
kill, Frank Belcner. William Hsttish Ed
Angelo and john Fl. Ropke. the jolliest
crew seen aboard the Aggie for many
moons back.
Belcher, Angelo and Ropke, formed an
excellent trio Pheir voices blend most
charmingly.Ia song, and when segregated,
they enchanted their listeners with solos
that waited over the placid waters and
could be h. ard in lovely melody as far as
the house on the cliff neal, Sutra's Heights.
Once in while " arney GaskiIl and
Billy Waters chipped in. They are not
exactly song birds, but then they know
how to "vamp" in chorus, and Hettish
beat time so as to keep them all in proper
measure.
There seemed TO be some method in
allowing the hampers" to get in once in
while, because themusIc sounded so much
sweeter when they ceased.
The latter stage OF the proceedings ar
rived very early. after the lovely weather
coaxed the bold yachtsmen to head outside
tie bay and south of the Seal Rocks.
They got that far without much incon-
venience, as it was almost a before the
wind sail, but the story was entirely
different on the home trip.
This thing of beating pack in the face
OF pretty stiff breeze, when ones stom-
ach is full of chicken salad and ham sand
witches. to say nothing of cumulative
sebooners of beer, is not exactly the thing
that is conducive to comfortable state of
feeling. But that is in the ordinary lands
man, not in old tars, such as -trod the deck
Of the Aggie.
They all felt splendidly and declared
thai they had never felt better. However,
Beicher, the bass of the party, was
very tired on the return trip. His voice
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was pretty much strained by singing in
the open air on the outward trip and he
sought the seclusion of the cabin, where
he was Joined by Ed Angelo, who felt tired
likewise. fs
They remained there but short while,
as the heat was oppressive, and they soon
Joined Mr.. Ropke forward where they
sang an entirely different trio to that
which was heard by the people on the
cliff On the way out.
Billy Waters. who is the finest looking
man on horseback seen in. Golden Gate
PARK, cut sorry. figure with Gaskill. both
leaning over the poop and heaving away
at a misunderstanding gait. But, after all,
the sorrowful hour passed as soon as inside
waters were reached, ana the bold mar
insrs began to sing again:
Life on the ocean wave?
The man who wrote 1T was green;
He never had been to sea,
Or a storm he never mad seen.
Charlie Wieland took no chances on the
briny outside the heads; he let the boys
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CYCLISTS AT YOSEMITE.
The Great Trip Made by Five Local
WheeImen.

I have just returned from trip to the
Yosemite Valley. made on bicycle, in
company with four others-S. E. Seymour
George Beanston, w. Walker and r. B.
Scott-three of them in wagon with our
camping supplies, and the other on horse
back.
The start was made from Stockton on
the 7th inst. going by way of Pennington.
Knights Ferry was made the first day
Above Knights Ferry some very rough
travelling was found.
We passed through Chinese Camp, Big
Oak Flat, Groveland and on to Smiths,
where we found that the road was not vet
open, there being seven feet of snow near
the Tuolumne Big Trees.
A cut was therefore made across the
country to Dudleys. on the Coulterville
road, and the valley was entered over the
McLane grade by way of Bowers Cave,
Big Meadows and the cascades, the ford
ing of which took our wagon MP to pretty
near the wagon-bed.
Three and half days were spent in
the valley. and the return trip made over
the Coulterville road.
Crossing the cascades proved to be more
Of an undertaking than when entering the
valley, the water coming up six or eight
inches over the BED of the wagon, but as
we had slowed our baggage with view TO
this we suffered no damage beyond wet
feet
There is not much riding to be done
going into the valley or in it, for there the
roads are very sandy, but there are some
very fine long coasts coming back.
Our route lay through COulterville. La
Grange, Oakdale and direct into Stockton.
We were the third party this season to go
in over the road we went. and | was the
first cyclist to enter the valley for this
season. There is considerable snow in the
valley on the higher trails, such as Glacier
Point aud Sentinel Dome. People were
just beginning to come into the valley
when we left
The party reached Stockton at 10 80 yes
terday morning and came down to San
Francisco on the steamer.
TIE total distance Travelled is about $50
miles. The roads in the San Joaquin
Valley from La Grange to OakdaIe are
sandy and make very poor W heeling, but
otherwise on the whole fairly good roads
were encountered. ALEX 5. GARDINER.
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on one play, you pocket the white and your
own white, or make a carrom and pocket
opponents ball, or make carrom and
pocket your own ball, the opponents ball
being the first ball hit. Five is made by. a
carrom and pocketing the red, or a carrom
and pocketing your ball after having first
hit the red. A six count may be made by
a carrom off your opponents ball to the
red, pocketing the two white balls or strik-
ing the red ball and pocketing it and then
your stroke ball.
Diagram No. shows how the balls NAV
Toll into position which will make the
latter shot possible of execution. In this
diagram the opponents white is not In
direct play. Seven points may be made
by first hitting opponents ball, pocketiDg
it, carrom to the red and pocketng the
red. or by making a carrom and pocketing
the red and the opponents ball, or by
playing at opponents ball first and pocket
ing all the balls without making carrom.
Eight is made by striking the red first,
pocketng it, making carom and pocket
ing the stroke ball, or by hitting the red
first and pocketing all the balls without
making carom.
total OF nine may be made by striking
an opponents first ball. making carom
and pocketing all the balls.
Diagram No. shows how ten may be
made. The white ball of your opponent
has to be found very near pocket, and
the red and stroke ball very nearly on a
line up the table. To make this stroke
the player must force the red into pocket
No. 2, carom to the opponents ball, put il
into the pocket and follow it in. This is
the highest possible count, carom and
all the balls in.
The oldest feature of the game, our near
est approach to which is fifteen ball pool,
is the pocketing of the stroke ball. It
seems funny to get points for shot which
in our pocket game subjects the player TO
the indignity OF a scratch which counts
three off" or the placing of ball already
won back upon the table for your opponent
to gather in.
A new hand at the game would find it
difficult matter to keep run OF his count
where the possibilities are so great al
though If not somew hat expert, six, seven
and ten shots would come to him more
through ''fukes." as scratches are called
over there, than by any method of his own.
In all of the famous runs of great English
players high counts have been frequent
and very many of them were the results of
the very incest calculation. For instance,
in Peale's run of 1904. made last year,
sevens and Fights occurred very often.
3 The average American player who has
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A Long-Coming CabIe-Road.

The property-owners along Page and
Frederick streets are wondering " hat is to
be done with the cable roadbed which has
now for two years past been laying unused
along Page street from Baker to Masonic
avenue and on Frederick from Masonic
avenue to First avenue.
They are asking whether II was ever in
tended that cable-road should be orerated
on those streets by the Southern r cific
the railroad company to KEEP the Omni-
bus Company from extending its lines out
Frederick by way Of Stanyan to the district
south If the park.
Many Of the 'pr0perty-owners are of the
latter opinion, as the roadbed has now
been on the street for two years, while an
cid turntable has been left at First ave-
nue. lying for all this time without being
put in position.
The franchise for the cable-road was
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THE CABIN CAT.
1t Is Modelled by Ellsworth and Has
Two Centerboards.

1t is Modelled by Ellsworth and Has
Two Centerboards.
At the yard of l.. n. Toms, Staten
Island, there is building a cabin cat for
two of the sons of Captain Joe Ellsworth.
from model by his brother. Captain Phil,
that promises to be quite novelty in the
cabin cat line and. if everything turns out
as expected. will be very speedy. Toms
has the craft almost completed. She has
double frames, knees of backmatack, deck
of white pine and her cabin will be I'm
ished in mahogany. Her dimensions are
as follows: Length on load line % feet.
over all 81 feet, beam u feet, draught feet
5 inches. She will be fitted with two CEN
terbOards. One will work in the dead
wood aft and will be used in~sieadying her
off the wind, while the n;her is the ordj-
nary board and will be used going TO wind
ward. The diagram herewith shows the
positions of these boards. This, it is be-
lieved is the first attempt at placing two
centerboards in a cablncat, and the expe-
riment will no doubt be watched with
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enjoy themselves without his company,
and he met them on their return.
Commodore Harrison, on the Frolic,
started early in the morning with party
consisting of Fred Green and wife, Miss
Green, Miss May Green and A. W. Pooley.
they had pleasant cruise until the mid
die of the afternoon.
Commodore Cutie was out with the
Chispa and q jolly party consisting OF
Harry Gibbs. Fred Perkins and a couple
more jsvial individuals.
Mr.. Cutie is quite musician and caters
to the nusically inclined. His friends
joke with him a great deal on account of
his musical craze. 1t absolutely makes no
difference TO him whether a fisherman. q
dude or banker comes along, the COM
modOre insists upon him getting aboard
and taking horn. Providing the guest
blows hard enough, there is nc limit to the
commodore's liberality.
Talk about flowers, all you have got to
do is to blow ia the instrument he fur
nishes and You get covered with them.
No. 1912 was initiated yesterday in Com
modore Gutte's band.
John d. Spreckes had Herman Oelrichs
out yesterday morning and afternoon on
the Lurline. With them were AL Stetson,
Downie Harvie, Captain Smith and Mr..
Cunningham.
The regatta committee of the Corinthian
Yacht Club. consisting of c. W. Plat
chairman. II. j. Kelly and Charles A.
Graham, was out with II. Fl. Gorter, the
ffical measurer, classifying the yachts
that are to start on the 30th in the annual
regatta.sThey did not complete their work.
but. SO far as they have gone. the results
are as follows:
First class. 35 feet on load water-ine-
Ella, Linda, Clara, schooner Petrol. yawl
Ripple.
Second class. over % feet and under 50
feet-Freda, Truant. Duke Edna, Folly.
Third class, over twenty feet and under
twenty-five feet-Cupid, May, Yolante,
Fawn.
Fourth class, twenty feet and under
Ceres, Cisne. Cornelia, Dart.
The course will be from Meiggs' Wharf
to the Preside shore buoy, around
Blossom Rock out TO a stake boat between
Goat and Angel islands. From the latter
point the third and fourth class boats
will go home and the first and second-class
boats will contiaue. rounding Preside
shore buoy and back TO the starting point
The course, therefore. will be twelve
miles for the first and second class yachts
and nine miles for the two Others
The Encinai Boat Club made their an
nual cruise to Redwood City on Saturday
afternoon, returning yesterday. They
we're rendered a reception by the citizens
of Redwood at Prices Hotel. Terminating
with grand ball Saturday evening.