The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-11

Club. The bylaws were so amended as to
leave it to the directors as to whether prizes
or purses will be given, and allowing pro-
fessional drivers to participate in races
Thursday, May o. was fixed as the date
of the next matinee, and entries will close
on the goth.
There will be three-minute trot, . $40
pace and free-for-all race. These races
will be run in heats, best two in three.
The prizes will be 500 for the first, $40 for
. the second and SIS for the third. There
Will also be a special race and exhibition of
speed by 0ttinger, Our Boy, Steve and
Bob Mason. Several entries have already
been made and it is certain there will be
from seven to twelve entries in each of the
races.
The next five-mile handicap roadrace of
the San Jose Road Club will be held on
Sunday, May 10, over the course in East
San Jose.
Members of the Garden City Cyclers have
organized a baseball club, with J. A. Del
mas as captain. The club is composed OF
the best ball-players in the county. and is
doing hard work getting in shape for the
coming summer. The team is composed
as follows Kent and Doyle, secretary
J. A. Delmas, J. B. Carey, Al Barker
Robert Leaman, w. w. Needham, Dan
Flannery, Dick Moody, Jack Errick, Jack
Dermoody, Bert Tnorndyke, James Nc
Herman, Wallace Lipsett and W. B. Ham
ilton.
Bicycle riders are circulating petition
for the removal of the hill near Coyote. If
the Supervisors viii have the hill removed
the stretch OF road between here and Gill
roy will be the finest thirty mile course in
the State.
On Sunday the Road Club will hold a
run to Alum Rock.
The Tribune CycIers of Gilroy will hold
~ OF
race track. The events will be as follows
Half-mile handicap, mile handicap and
two-mile handicap. The Tribune Cyelers
have erected a new grandstand at the
track, and great interest is being taken in
the coming races.
On Sunday, May 10, a road race
from here to Gilroy, distance OF
thirty miles, will take place between
teams made up from the employees OF
the City Store, the Arcade, I. w. Hobson
and Spring d Son. The teams will be
composed of five men each. The first rider
10 arrive in Gilroy scores 20 points, the
next 10 and so on. The team scoring the
greatest number of points wins the race.
Francis A. Schilling was born in San
Jose in 1863 He is member OF the Car
den City Gun Club and one OF its team IN
the series of matches with the Gilroy
Sportsmen's Protective Association. al,
as he is more commonly known, has al
ways taken great interest in shooting
and fishing and athletic sports in general.
Mr.. Schilling is a graduate of the law
department of Ann Arbor, but at pres
ent he is deputy in the County Clerk :
Office.
Albert Minor Barker was born in Wis
consin in 1859 and came to this State when
10 years of age. He is a member of the
Garden City Cyclers' Gun Club and is
recognized as one of the best shots in the
county. While Mr.. Barker is interested
in all kinds of athletic sports his favorite
pastime is hunting the larger game, such
as deer, elk and bear. Each summer he
takes vacation and seeks the remote
sections of the country where game is
plentiful. -Four years ago, far up on Mount
Shasta be killed one of the largest CHINA
mon bears ever taken in that section. Last
summer Mr.. Barker, in company with
Messrs. Roof of GiIroy and Fallon of st.
Louis, hunted in the Olympic Mountains, in
the State of Washington, and succeeded in
taking a couple OF elk, each of which
weighed in the neighborhood of 800
pounds.