The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-27
FOR A SHARE OF STOCK,
How the CaIedonian Club
Helps Along the Valley
Railroad.
Offers Its Stock as a Prize for the
Coming Annual Tug
Of-War.

The Caledonian Club has found a new
way TO boom the San Francisco and San
Joaquin Valley Railroad. At last night $
meeting the committee arranging for the
annual games at Shell Mound Park on May
30 conceived the happy idea of offering as
a first prize for the great tugofwar con-
test which is usually the most exciting
feature of the celebration, share OF stock.
AS the par value OF share is 500, it can
be easily divided among the ten men COM
posing the winning team.
1t looks, too, as if the Irish would accept
the tug-of-war challenge of the Scotch.
President Jerome Donovan of the Gaelic
Athletic Association can easily pick out
ten good pullers. The Scotch team will
have for its captain Thomas ID. Carroll, a
splendid athlete and champion one-arm
hammer thrower of the world Counting
upon substitutes the Caledonian team will
be picked from the following, besides Mr..
Carroll: D. r. Campbell, Joseph Mckay,
J. II. Cunningham, Daniel A. Mcdonald,
Reid, John Sexsmith, George Mcdonald,
William Mitchell and Hector Mcdonald.
If the Irish team accepts their pullers
may De SeleCleu from Tie IOlIOWIHS SOOQ
material. j. w. Hardneddy, Patrick Ed
minister, Michael Casey, Thomas Smith,
Michael Edminster, Arthur Mcmahon,
Joseph Mcmahon, Peter Gavin and NJ.
O'Dowd
Thesestwo Celtic races have enjoyed q
healthy rivalry IN athletics from time i'm
memorial. Annually the Glasgow and
Dublin police have had an international
pull, and at Glasgow, two years ago. the
I'm lin, Il ba fire
the Irish had bested the Scotch in the
great international tug. The coming tug
of-war for the valley road stock will be
pulled like that famous one was-on the
tnrf and on cleats.
Last year the Danes pulled the Caledo-
mans good tug. and it is reported that
Captain n. Larsen is ambitious to try it
again.
The idea of offering share of valley
road stock was the happy thought of Chief
D. r. Mcneil, and was enthusiastically
adopted at once by the games committee,
which is composed of Mr.. Mcneil, A
Lauriston, George Davidson, James H.
Duncan, William Mitchell, d. A. McDon-
aid, w. G. Burnett, John McLaren, John
Reid, John Donaldson, Angus Mcleod, G.
Chisholm, Daniel McPhee, William +.
Eaton, John w. Cameron and z. Nc
1ntyre.
The Caledonian Club was organized by
Donald McLennon, George Davidson,
Hugh Davidson, Thomas Ross, Colin Nc
Intosh, Glen Dixon, Angus Mcleod, John
Balm, George 7. Scott, Joseph Austin, R.
S. Falconer, Andrew Foreman, Christopher
Chisholm and a few others in the sixties,
and has always manifested much public
spirit.
1t gave $500 toward the Midwinter Fair
last year and whenever great calamity
has happened to any comm unity, like the
big fire in Seattle or food in Johnstown, it
has always freely loosened its purse strings.
Some years ago ii contributed sum of
money toward the establishment of
Gaelic chair in the Edin burgh University, a
chair which was filled by the able Pro-
lessor Blake. 1t is very solid organiza
ton, and owns the Scottish Hall property
on Larkin street, jointly with the st. An
drew's Society. One of its quaintest char
acters is Colin Mcintosh, who has played
many pibroch, strathspey and reel on the
bagpipes in different parts of the world.
Another innovation at the annual games
this year will be the amateur games, under
the auspices OF the Amateur Athletic AS
ISOLATION, conducted by Andrew Wilkie Jr.