The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-06
SPORTING NEWS.
The Only Man Who
Whipped Jim Corbett.
The Amateur Handball Tournament.
1t Is a Useless Fish and Game
Commission.


of the month, and the first game will be
played between the representatives of the |
Acme and Reliance clubs in an Oakland |
court. The Acme Club will. in all rrob-
ability. be represented by Daily and Fem
essey and Muller and Champion. aud an |
other team which has not yet been Sc |
iected. The Reliance Club teams will be: |
Mahouey and Cairo, j. 3. Smith and |
Greeley, c. +. Smith and Young. The |
Olympic Club teams have already been
announced.
The Reliance Athletic Club of Oakland
will be represented in few days by a
Juvenile class. whose members will begin
10 exercise on the 10th inst. The class
days will be Tuesday afternoons and Sat
urday mornings. Boys between and IS
wears of age will De admitted. Professor
Robert Leandro. hIst-class gymnast,
who will be the chief Instructor Of the
boys, will be assisted by the well-known
amateur athlete and wrestler, Eugene 5.
Van Court. With such frst-class teachers
the Reliance Club boys should make fast
progress in gymnastics and general in
door athletics.
AT a recent meeting of the officers of the
Northern California Division, League of
American Wheelmen, the question of
having the term amateur wheelmen"
divided into two classes-the pure anna
ieur and the mi-professiOnal-was dis
cuSsed.
This question will, il is thought be de-
cided al the annual meeting of the league
TO be held at Louisville on the 10Th. 20th
and 21st of this month, and the objects of
the California meeting was parposey to
instruct the delegates sent East how to
vote on it. 1t was unanimously decided
that Northern California wheelmen are
70 ahr fnu do iprn hair
ranks who has any of the faint of the pro-
fessional about him. They favored only
a strictly amateur class, and the delegates
were soIinstructed to vote. If profession
ais are allowed footing in the league,
it was con sidered by the directors that it
would affect the standing of the same.
Notwithstanding the fact that Jim Cor
bett, the famous DugIlist, Is a native of
this city. there were some residents who
had hoped to hear of his defeat at the
hands or fists, more properly speaking,
of Charley Mitchell. Among those who
looked tor his defeat was a young Oak
lander who went to school with Corbett
ten years ago. In speaking of the man who
had lowered the colOrs of the once famous
john l.. Sullivan, Charley Mitchell and
others OF lesser note. the schoolmate of
Pompadour jim said: "Corbett was one
of the most disaereeaole fellows while at
school that l ever met with. He was
big, tall fellow then. but did not have
much more than enough flesh o cover his
big bones. He pretended TO be something
Of 'scrapper, but didn't have the
strength that he has since developed. Jim
Mcdonald, the baseball umpire, went to
the same school with US and was very Dup-
ular among the boys He was not very
tall, but lie was very stout for his size, and
could handle himself in fue style.
Zone day Csrbett aud Mcdonald had a
dispute over some trivial matter and it was
fhnv shOnlH inro III
yard and have it out. A ring was formed
by the boys and the two young fellows
went at each other. Mcdonald at once
showed himself far ahead If Corbett, al
though fully head shorter than the latter
He was humping the present champion
in the most approved style and would
soon have knocked him out had not the
teachers come out of the school and
separated them. Mcdonald after that was
the hero of the hour ana became more
popular than ever.
Mcdonald is said to be the only person
who ever su ceeded in whipping "Pompa-
dour JIM" except probably his father or
his mother.
Jim Corbett prides himself on being the
greatest 6stic gladiator who had ever
pulled gloves over his hands. why"
said Jim, while discussing the fight at
Jacksonville. Il just kn+eEns cit two
Mitchells in the same day. One was the
pugiist and the other the Governor OF the
State" jim has been since then downed
by Professor la Grip.
Although George Dixon and young
CRITIC of Australia are matched it may be
some time before they will find place
where their troubles can be decided with
out police interference If Critic is the
Critic OF old and will step into the ring ir
good condition the colOred champion will
meet his waterloo.
A few weeks ago it was announced in a
morning paper that Captain Jack Will
liams, the famous naratOr, was lying dan
gerously i'll from severe attack of
rheumatism in the City and County Hos
pital. Mrs. Thompson of Bergman sta
don, Berkeley, whose daughter the cap
tain had rescued at one time from watery
grave. learned OF the swimmers condition
and had him Immediately removed to her
house, where he was given the very best
OF care and treatment. Captain Jack has
now fully recovered and is now ready to
defend his reputation as champion scien-
tific swimmer of the world against all
corners.
More than fifty anglers cast their lines
In the tdewaters OF Paper Mill Creek on
Sunday last, and of that number only three
men were successful in catching a fish
each. The continual spearing of steel
heads at the headwaters of the stream has
almost decimaied the river of its finny
inha bitants. The Fish Commissioners are
too much taken up with the hatcheries to
give the rivers any attention. 1t is not by
any means unlikely that at the next meet
ing Of the Legislature the office of Fish
Commissioner will be abolished. 1t has
not imported any game birds, it has not
made any arrests of men who slaughter
game out of season, it does not protect the
| streams during the season when fishes are
spawning, yet it employs men at big sal
aries to journey from one place to another
under the pretense of hunting Doachers.
and these men invariably report that
everything is beautiful and that the law Is
being. observed. What nonsense this is
when every angler and sportsman knows
that the law is being openly violated under
the very noses of the commissioners.
Might Be Worse.
Detroit Free Press.