The morning call., 1894-04-18
SPORTING NEWS.
Amateur WrestlerS Under
Training.
The Great Austin Professional and
Amateur Regatta Bicycling
and Athletics.

A wager of S25 was made last Sunday at
Camp Taylor by an angler who proposes
to net every pool from the headwaters of
Lagunitas to the mouth of Paper-mill
Creek and escape arrest. The man who
made the bet thinks that there is no mere
easy way of finding money, as there is no
one to look after poachers in this county.
The Andrews and EckhardG wrestling
match. which will take place on May s, is
creating considerable talk In amateur ath-
letic circles. Joe Acton is giving An
drews points in The game and Mcleod is
teaching the Olympic lad tricks that will
be of value. George Miehling, the in-
structor of wrestling at the Olympic Club,
cannot understand why Eckhardts friends
have secured Dan Mcleod to give him the
final lessons. Miehling is of the opinion
now that Andrews will win. The men
will contest for $500 trophy. which is the
largest induce ment that has ever been
offered to amateur wrestlers to contest for.
John Elliott has resigned the office OF
official handicapper of the Pacific Coast
Athletic Association and George D. Baird
has resigned from the club owing to busi-
ness matters which will detain him IN the
East for some time.
Elliott will handicap the athletic games
which will be held at the fair grounds
next month and this will be his final effort.
On the 28h inst. entries for the athletic
and bicycle events booked for May 5 will
close at the Olympic Club. The events are:
100-yard handicap run (opeD); 220-yatd
handicap run Open; 440-yard handicap
run (open); S00-yard handicap run (open) !;
one-mile handicap run (open); 12e-yard
hurdle race. handicap (open); running
broad jump, handicap (oprn); pole vault
for height. handicap (npen); putting six
teen-pound shot. handicap (open); throw
ing sixteen pound hammer, handicap
(open); half-mile bicycle race, handicap
CLUB: one-mile bicycle race. handicap
(club); one mile bicycle race. open
(scratcn); two-mile bicycle race, handicap
(open).
Many of the bicyclists who had pro-
posed to enter for the wheeling contests at
the fair grounds on May have changed
their minds. They say that ii the man
ayers think well enough TO refuse them
permission to train at the grounds they
can think well enough to do without en-
tries for the events announced.
Joe Acton, the crack wrestler. and his
sloop, Crotch Lock. had a wet old time
of il last Sunday. Acton and his crew, Fred
Carter, S. Carter, Oscar Davis. Wallace
and Archie Taylor, E. O'Malley and Jack
Ballin left this city bright and early on
the day in question for sail TO the oyster
beds of San Bruno. The little sloop ac-
tually flew down the bay, and the captain
and his crew ate oysters until the shells
turned over in surprise. Loaded down
with crustacean sweetmeats, which were
washed to their final resting places by goud
OLD ale, the sptain and his crew set sail
once more for nome. The wind whistled
down the bay and the gallant sailors made
several attempts to keep the nose OF the
Crotch Lock to the wind. but the good
little ship could not stand the blow, and
after hours of hard wrestling with the sad
aud angry sea size managed somehow to
get neck lock on old Boreas, and holding
the storm king in tight place, she ar
rived at her destination. foot OF Third
street. exactly as the hands on CAPTAIN
Acton's watch denoted the hour OF II mid
night. 1t took the 'pleasure-hunters''
eight hours to sail from San Bruno to this