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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-06
A SLAVE FROM BOYHOOD.
(Froua be "a W1nq llNinrI Repubztca,..I

from The Red Wing (AianI Repubucayl.I
'1 am now twenty -four years old" said Edwin
Swanson of White Rock, Goodhue County,
Mimi, to Republican representative, 'and as
you see am not very large of stature.
When was eleven years old became afflicted
with q sickness which baffied the skill and
knowledge OF the physicians. was not taken
suddenly i'll, but on the contrary, can hardly
state the exact time when it began. The first
symptoms were pains in my back and rest
less nights. The disease did not trouble me
much at first, but it seemed to have settled in my
body to stay, and my bitter experience during
the last thirteen years proved that to be the
case. Twas OF course child and never dreamed
OF the suffering in store for me. l com planned
to my parents, and they concluded that in
time would outgroW my trouble, but when
they heard me groaning during my sleep they
became thoroughly alarmed. Medical advice
was sought but to no avail. grew rapidly worse
and was soon unable to move bout and finally
became confined continually to my bed The
best doctors that could be had were consulted,
but did nothing for me. l tried various kinds
of extensively advertised patent medicines
with but the same result.
"For twelve long years was thus sufferer
in constant agony without respite. Assesses
formed on my body in rapid succession and
the world indeed looked very dark to me-
About this time, when all hope was gone, and
nothing seemed left but to resign myself to nv
most bitter fate, my attention was called to
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People Like
a drowning man grasping at straw, in sheer
desperation l concluded to make one more
attempt-not to regain my health Il dare not
to hope so much], but if possible to ease my
pain.
81 bought box of the pills and they seemed
to do me good. l felt encouraged and con-
tinued their use. After taking six boxes was
up and able to walk around the house. 1 have
not felt so well for thirteen yeals as during the
past year. Only one year have l taken DR..
Williams Pink Pills, and am able now to do
chores and attend to light duties
.Do hesitate to let you publish what have
said? No. Why should 1? 1t is the TRUTH
and am only too glad to let other sufferers
know my experience. 1t may help those whose
cup OF misery is as full to-day mine was in
the past"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain, in con.
densed form, all the elements necessary to give
new life and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves. They are also specific for
troubles peculiar to females, such suppress
slons, irregularities and all forms of weakness.
They build up the blood, and restore the glow
OF health to pale and sallow checks In men
they effect radical cure in all cases arising
from mental worry, overwork or excuses Of
whatever nature. Pink Pills sold in boxes
lnever in loose bulk at 80 cents box, six
boxes for 81 so, and may be had of all drug.
g1sts, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, n Y.
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of last year will remember a match race in
September at Los Angeles between Thomas
McAleer, the long-distance champion, ana
Casey Castleman, who is now racing in
this part of the State. 1t was at twenty
five miles, paced, and both men being
about evenly" matched the race was very
close and exciting. On the last lap Nc
Aleer had the pole, with Castleman on the
outside and a PAGER in front. The PAGER
should have withdrawn, but did not, and
either he or McAleer crowded Castleman
completely off the track: Referee Allen
awarded the prize, $3.50 diamond, to Nc
Aleer, but Castleman filed protest, claim
ing a foul. The matter was referred to the
National racing board, and after all these
months word has just been received that
the protest has been allowed and McAieer
must turn his prize over to Castlem an, who
is awarded the race. If he was like some
of the pure amateurs that one hears of he
wouldn't have it to return-it would have
been hypothecated long ago. 1t is possible
that another race may now be arranged
between the two men, and it would be a
very interesting contest. Castleman is
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heads are waiting in the cool and sparkling
waters of the ice-fed rivers and lakes to
give the lovers of the sport of fiy-fshing an
idea of what they are capable of accom-
plishing in the pugilistic way. so to speak.
1t can be truly said that as fighting
fish, backed by an astonishing amount OF
vitality and cunning, there is not trout
in any of the streams of this coast com
parable to the rainbow of the swift-tiowing
Truckee River. Any angler who has stuck
a fly into the mouth of a two-pound
Truckee River trout will not hesitate to
relate an incident of sport which cannot
readily be forgotten. The river in question
is an ideal trout stream which catches the
eye of anglers who pass in the trains that
skirt its banks between Truckee and Ne
vada. The large piles of drift wood that
accumulate in many parts OF the stream
after the spring freshets are considerable
of annoyance to anglers, who must use
quick thought and excellent Judgment
so as to defeat the aims of fighting
fishes that invariably make mad runs for
those places of refuge as soon as they feel
the sting of the sharpened STEEL However,
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very popular in the north and has made
lots of friends. McAleer we have never
seen up here, but he has great reputation
as a long-distance rider.
The California Cycling Club has several
pleasant outings scheduled for this month.
Tomorrow Captain Burk will lead club
run to Tocaloma, leaving on the A NJ.
Sausalito boat. On Sunday, July IA, the
club will have a run to Walnut Creek, and
the following Sunday to Napa, starting the
night before. The Californians are getting
in many new members, and the time
within which applicants may join under
the reduced initiation fee has been eX-
tended to July "a.
The Olympic Club Wheelmen will prob
ably hold a tive-mi1e road race on either
the 14th or 21st of this month. Should
Foster, Edwards, Jones or Long start
there is likelihood of Alexander's record
of :03 and fraction being a thing of
the past. Foster may try for the twenty
five mile record over the San Leanuro tri-
angle about the middle of August, and
should get it if he is properly paced.
Frank M. Byrne, the popular Imperial
Club class A man. may find himself in
class very soon unless he can satisfac-
torily explain little tire deal in which he
was interested. r. M. WEIGH, representa-
tive of the racing board, has written him a
letter requiring an explanation, but owing
to Byrne's accident at San Jose Thursday
will suspend action until he has recovered.
1t is generally thought, however, that
Byrne's class A standing is safe.r A rumor
was current around the training quarters
at San Jose that Byrne had applied for
membership in the Olympic Club Wheel
men at the express solicitation of several
of its members, and if this is so the I'm
perial Club will suffer distinct loss.
The party of Camera Club cyclists now
touring through Lake County are having a
most enjoyable trip. They were at Bart
lett Springs over the Fourth and will be at
Vichy to-day. Lake County is delight
full touring ground for wheelmen at this
time of the year.
II. w. Eisert and J. f. Burns of the I'm
perial Club started for Los Angeles awheel
yesterday. If they follow the advice of
others who have been over the trip recently
they will ride as far as Santa Barbara and
then take the steamer, as the balance of
the wheeling is bad owing to poor roads.
Everett Moody, better known as "Dick,"
is one of the best class A riders the Garden
City Cyclers have. He has been riding
about year, and is looked upon as a COM
ing man. He rode second to Edwards at
the league meet on July 4 from handicap
of fifteen yards, which necessitated him
passing large field. He has never yet de-
veloped his best speed. it is thought, and
when thoroughly trained will rank with
panies this article.
The San Francisco Young Mems Chris
tan Association Cycling Club will hold
two races for members only on the Central
Park track July 20. The events will be a
half-mile scratch and one-mile handicap.
The riders are now in active training for the
contest. SPALDING.
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rather peculiar at times, as for instance on
the opening day of the lake every angler
who had wet lines was awarded with a
grand catch OF trout and all of good size.
On Thursday, the 4th inst, the wind was
blowing from the south and as a result few
nsh were taken Notwithstanding that sew
eral OF the most expert anglers of this City
worked hard for mess.
1t has been the experience of many
anglers that trout-fishing is not good on a
day that follows a bright moonlight night.
In an article on this subject an angler
writes as follows: Last year it so hap
pened that was compelled to reverse the
usual order and take my fishing trip during
the dark OF the moon or not at all, and my
success was so abundant in the number of
fishes caught that l am almost persuaded
to think that the moon had something to
do with 1T. True, | was fishing in waters
new to me, and had it not been for re-
mark made by my guide | would probably
have attributed my good luck to there be-
Ing more hshes in those waters than in the
waters heretofore fished.
81 had for guide an old and expert
enced fisherman, who had more good
horse sense (crude though it was) about
fish and fishing than any man l ever met.
He seemed to know to a nicely the very
whlms OF the game we were after, and
where, when and in what manner it was
necessary to cater to their fastidious appe-
tltes, and before my trip was over | learned
to rely on his Judgment almost implicitly.
He assured me that he had noted the fact
during all the years he had been acting as
guide that fishes were most voracious in
the daytime during the dark of the moon.
His theory was that fishes of the genus
Esox gorged themselves with small fry on
bright moonlight nights, and as conse-
quence were logy and not inclined to bite
very freely during the day following"
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AMATEUR ATHLETICS.
Who VIII Be the Next President of
the Olympic Club-Sprinting.

Who VIII Be the Next President of
the Olympic Club-Sprinting.
The Olympic Club athletes who have not
won much distinction on the cinder path
will have an opportunity tomorrow of
spreading their neither limbs, as a pro-
gramme of games has been arranged for
their special pleasure. 1t is thought that
number of the boys who fancy outdoor
sports will be at the grounds this afternoon
to compete for the prizes that have been
offered
A few days ago THE CALL stated that the
unpleasantness that exists at the present
time between the patrons of boxing and
those who look upon the manly art as
beastly and degrading will not assist to
swell the membership of the club. 1t can
be, therefore, easily seen that when club
members fall out upon any proposition,
harmony and prosperity take wings for
other parts, and without both no club
can hope to sail to a safe harbor. The
directors of the Olympic are evidently in
quandary as to what is most needed to
revolutionize things and bring the mem
bers back to their old ways of thinking.
That opinions on various club matters
differ there can be no gainsaying. The
fact that in the last year the clubs men,
bership tumbled from 2600 to 100 is evil
dence conclusive that something must be
very wrong in Denmark, and that the
loose screws of the club require immediate
attention. A decidedly live and energetic
president and board of directors are a
necessity. Something more than the
usual weekly convention of officers for the
purpose of hearing and to be heard is
needed. The members, seemingly, require
more for the amount of money they ex-
pend in dues, ETC., to hold them in the
club Times have been a little severe from
financial point of view on many of the
old and, in fact, new members, who, to
save few dollars, resigned from the club.
There is no doubt but that the depres-
sion in business affairs. which existed dur
ing the winter months, has had con-
siderable to do with the falling off of the
membership, yet when it is considered
that the Olympic Club provides equal if
not possibly better facilities for enjoyment
and health-giving than many of the far
famed institutions of New York at much
smaller outlay, one would be inclined to
think that such thing as decrease in
mem bership would be out of the question.
Considering the small tax that is imposed
on the members of the Olympic Club, there
should be very little grumbling heard con-
corning dull times.
The monthly dues of the Olympic
are not half the sum the members of the
New York Athletic Club are taxed. Still,
there are objections heard. About year
ago representative of the last-named
club visited the Olympic, and, after he
had seen everything, he inquired what
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the initiation fee and dues were. He was
the most surprised of men when his ques-
ton was answered.
"Why, you people live in luxury for al
most nothing" was his answer. 81 cannot
understand how you can possibly keep
this club ON such a magnificent footing
and tax your members so lightly"
The speaker was clerk in one of the
wholesale dry-goods houses of New York,
and received salary of SIS month; still
he was prominent member of the New
York Athletic Club, and was seemingly
proud to have the pleasure and honor of
being in position to say so.
What the Olympic Club actually re-
quires is a board of directors who will take
the trouble of ascertaining the pulse of
the members and providing means whereby
obstacles can be removed when they make
their appearance.
John D. Spreckels is spoken OF very
favorably as a man who would make q
most excellent presiding officer.
Mr.. Spreckels is great admirer Of clean
sport, and as president of the great Olym-
pic Athletic Club, he would certainly prove
to be the right man in the right place.
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Lamplighter: J. Graces Nellie Conroy beat j..
J. Edmond's Olden w; D. D. Roche's Lillian
Russell beat ]. J. Edmonds Marine; d: Kelle-
hers Bran beat j. O'Shea's Fearless; NJ. Dough-
erty's Flying Buck beatJ. McBride's Flashlight;
H. P. Heney's Plunger beat w. Reids Belle b;
G. Smarts Glenade beat c. Anderson's Fairy d.;
NJ Dougherty's Daisy Crest beat Gopher Boy I;
G. Smarts Belle beat ]. O'FarrelPs Eyeline; G..
Smart's Occidental beat w. Perry's Coomassie;
J. Kerrigan's Nancy Till beat T. Kelly's Mary
X NJ. Tiernans Tom Hayes beat V. w. Guer-
rero's Electric; R. Shea's Unknown beat c.
Hayes Black Chief; NJ. Hallihan's Governor
Jim beat j. O'Farrell's Sacramento Belle; P.
Ryan's Maggie beat ]. MeCormiek's Freestone
monds Vida Shaw; J. Murphy's Redlight
beat J. Dunea's Nellie D; William Healey's
Nellie M beat G. H. Burfend's Ida w;
Dublin Stout; R. sheas Lady Fitzgerald beat
w. Kerrigan's Dashaway; J. O'FarrelPs So So
beat D. d. Roche's Gold King; Ed Canavan's
Fred Lees beat J.; H, Perigo's Longfellow; T.
Beauty; C. Jennings Red Rose beat G. Smart's
Nellie Bly,; V. w. Guerrero's Bonnie Lass beat
C. L. Milan's Empress; w. Dalton's Famous
Mission Boy beat J. II. Perigos Kitty Scott; D.
D. Roche's John Mitchell beat P. Kerrigan's
Lille w.
The finish of the coursing meeting
which was held on Thursday at Kerri-
gan's Park will take place tomorrow and
the first ties will be as follows: Royal
Daisy VS.. Regent captain Morse vs.
Emini Pasha, Wee Lassie VS.. Nellie Con-
roy, Lillian Russell VS.. Bran, Flying Buck
VS.. Plunger, Glendale VS.. Daisy Crest,
Belle VS.. Occidental, Nancy Till VS.. Tom
Hayes, Unknown VS.. Governor Jim, Mag
pie VS.. Dottie Dimple. Redlight VS..
Nellie NJ, Dublin Stout VS.. Lady Fitz-
gerald. So So VS.. Fred Lees, Lissak VS..
Red Rose, Bonnie Lass vs.. Famous,
Mission Boy VS.. John Mitchell. The
judges will be John Grace and James
Wren.
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BOXING.
HeaVy-Weights Who VIII Fight Be-
fore the Coima Club.

The Colma Athletic Club has matched
the heavy weights Billy Smith and Sailor
Starkey to fight twenty rounds at the next
entertainment. Smith is well known IN
this City, where he has won many battles
when boxing as the leading sport. His
last defeat by Childs, colored pugilist of
Los Angeles, almost broke Smith down in
spirit and in purse. He thought Childs
was an easy game and played his money
freely on himself to win-something that
Smith was not in the habit of doing.
Smith is now working at his trade, but
will take a vacation in a few days and go
into training. Good judges think that
Smith has seen his best fighting days and
that he will prove an easy mark for Starkey,
who has proven himself a tirst-class
fighter by having defeated some of the
principal boxers in the class he represents
At any rate the sailors of the warship
Philadelphia will go broke in clothes and
money if Starkey should fail to whip
Smith in q canter.
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THE RIFLE.
A Team Shoot Between Companies
of This City and San Jose.


of This City and San Jose.
The great success achieved by California
marksmen in the East has aroused consid-
cradle interest in rife shooting here among
the m ilitary and lovers of target shooting.
Already there is talk of matches between
some of the crack shots of the several COM
panies, and it can be truly said that it is
only through spirited and friendly
rivalry that precision in rife shooting may
be attained In rifle shooting as well as in
any other pastime there must be some in
centive attached to stir up interest in the
game, and no better inducement can be
offered to increase and make popular the
sport than prize competitions between men.
Company f of the First Regiment of
Infantry of this City will leave Third and
Townsend street at $3.50 P. NJ. this evening
for San Jose, where it will meet in team
shoot Company B of the Fifth Infantry
Regiment of San Jose. The contest will
be held on Sunday, and, according to the
agreement entered into between the re-
spective companies, twenty men from each
company will contest. Members of Com
pany F of the First Infantry are cordially
invited to accompany the marksmen of
this City on their trip to the Garden City.
This is what Sporting and Fishing says
of the "jacketed bullets: The extraor-
binary penetrative power of metal iacketed
bullets has made it apparent that the ordi-
nary rife range is not likely to be a safe
place to practice with the new army rifle.
We understand that it has been decided by
those in charge of the great Bundesfest, to
be held at Glendale Schuetzen Park, Glen
dale, Long Island, in July next, not to
permit the use of any jacketed bullets
there. Several other rife ranges are re-
garded as unsafe when these proiectiles
a nSpd
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SAN JOSE SPORTING.
Twenty-Five Thousand Young Trout
for the Country Streams.

rOr the Country Streams.
SAN JOSE, CAL, July 5.-Those who
are interested in hunting and shooting
wear a happier look, now that the close
season for doves has expired. During the
past week a great many hunting parties
have gone out and returned with welI-filled
bags. Yesterday the country was well
secured in search of doves and every likely
place beat over and over again. Doves
seem to be as plentiful this year as ever.
Lovers of angling are jubilant over the
fact that the streams of Santa Clara County
are. to be stocked with trout. The Board
of Supervisors, at its meeting Monday, in
structed Game Warden Mackenzie to pro-
cure 100000 trout for distribution among
the streams of the county. With the rigid
enforcement of the fish laws now existing,
in two or three years time fishing should
be first class on all the streams.
Game Warden Mackenzie in his quar-.
terly reports filed with the Board of Super
vlsors last week says he has had erected
fifteen fish ladders and served notices on
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Sportsmen have turned their attention
from the traps tG the field, where dove
shooting is now in full blast, the season
having opened on the LIST inst. Wheel
men and athletes enjoyed a first-class
days sport on Thursday last at Stockton
and San Jose and will now take we'll
earned rest of few days. Rihe-shooters
have become very much enthused over the
successes that have been achieved in the
East by local members of the Schuetzen
Club and several matches are talked Of
The anglers are enjoying the cream of the
fishing season; camping parties are leav-
ing this City for the mountains daily.
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THE ANGLER.

Pleasure-H Who Are Having
Sport In the Mountains.
AS the months of July and August are
held in great esteem by anglers-those be-
ing the banner or flower months of the
angling season-it is no wonder that the
most favorable reports are daily arriving
from stream and lake concerning the very
excellent fishing that is at the present time
being enjoyed.
Angling parties are leaving this City daily
for the shaded and balmy mountain re-
sorts where the game fontinales and STEEL
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HANDBALL.

OHdTn pIOnST1Ip GdIrlGS ITldI WIFI Dc
Feature of Sport.
The handball games that have been
slated for tomorrow afternoon at Phil
Ryan's court are:
D. O'Brien and Jean Vogelsang TO play c.
Butterfeld and ]. Brown; Ben Collins and F.
Ryan and j. Rodgers to play NJ. Mcneil and G.
Mcdonald; P. Barrett and H. Moffett to play
J. Brannick and R. Shea; C. Johnson and D.
game. !. Harlow, the coast champion, and
George Hutchinson against NJ. J. Killgallon,
the Denver champion, and ]. Lawless, the.well-
known amateur. The game will be the best
three Out of FIVE, tWenty-one aces.
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seventeen parties to place screens over rc eno
mouth of their irrigating bitches to Keep
the trout from entering. ,5 dor-
The following have been appointed oep-
uty game wardens, and will keep SHARP
lookout for violators of fish ana game Jaws
in their vicinity: Mat Arnerlch, fTohin
s. III. Clark, Mountain View; CharleS
Derby. Almaden; Robert Kincald, Mount
Hamilton; Robert Mcneil, Santa Clara;
George TAYLOR, Mountain View; Joseph
Mcclellan, West Side; Dan Bulmore, At
MAIDEN; D. J. Flannery, Santa cara;
Charles Morris, Edenvale; Allx CarTlck,
Milpitas; George Bollinger, San Jose; John
Parker. Milpitas; Jules Pelli, Alviso; V.
Poncelet, Llagas; George Roop, Gilroy;
Harry Snring- San Jose; Fen Mansol, Los
Gatos: Peter Mayer, Mayfield; II. A.
Flickinger Berryessa: M. Costello, Guada-
lupe: Fl. ]. Cattermol, Wrights; d. J.
Prindiville. San Jose; Thomas Fitzgerald
Edenvale.
The Fish Commissioners have allotted
so 900 trout to this county-25,OOO Lake
Tahoe trout and the rest rainbow trout.
The fish will be placed in the streams the
latter part of this month ;.
The first number of Cycling, a weekly
paper devoted to cycling anu aInietnc
sports. made its appearance yesterday.
Joseph B. Carey, one of the best authors
ties on cycling matters on the coast, is us
editor. The paper is handsomely printed
and it's illustrations are of a high order.
It contains photos of Mr.. and Mrs. George
owen on tandem, Wilbur Edwards, Allan
Jones, Tony Delmas ana Henry Smith. =,
The VIII eelmen of Los Gatos held an IL
Illuminated parade last night, IN whIcn
abont fifty wheelmen participated. The
wheels were all prettily decorated.
The San Jose Road Club gave a success
full wheelmen's ball last evening: The
grand march commenced at o'clock and and
Was led by Charles High and Miss Ella
Scott. l. A. McCaslin was floor manager
Charles High. The entertainment COM
mittee consisted of the following: G. J.
Belloh, Charles E. Warren, A. Schweltzer,
t. Desimone and John T. Bailey.