The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-06
SACRAMENTO SPORTS.
Sportsmen Among the Doves.
Wheelmen and Tennis Players.

lSIn6ll HHiOhS lilS DOVSSs
Wheelmen and Tennis Players.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, July 5.-The
opening day of the dove season was very
disappointing one to Sacramento sports
men. The day was cool and the birds
hung in the heavy liveoak scrub border
ing the streams and rivers and did not put
in an appearance in the passes of former
years until late hour in the afternoon,
and then flew at scattering intervals that
made the shooting very uncertain. A dove
going with the wind, especially after having
had stray load of shot thrown in it's near
vicinity, is travelling with velocity hard
to gauge.
There were no very large bags made by
cracks shots on the opening day, as far as
heard from, indeed, many of them killed
but six to eight birds, while shooting on
pass. The celebrated Studuras dove pass,
situated twelve miles from the City, on the
Folsom road, was fiat failure for birds on
Monday last as they seem to have deserted
it. but possibly later in the season it may
be again frequented.
Sportsmen IN the vicinity of Penryn, in
the foothills of the Sierras, claim that the
provisions of the present game law debar
them from the pleasures of dove shooting
as the birds desert that locality for the
valleys before the season opens, and they
further claim that there should be super
visorial rights enabling Boards of Supervis-
ors to establish the opening of game sea-
sons to conform with localities, so that all
sportsmen could enjoy equal advantages.
During the past week Meps Fitzgerald
and Fish Commissioner Morrison left the
City at P. NJ, and in two hours shooting
bagged thirty-tive birds. Both are crack
shots and birds have little license to es-
cape their guns. W. z. Gerber and Charles
Burnham made record of forty birds.
Whittenbrock and Damn bagged four
dozen on Monday last. Captain Bohn of
the Spoonful Club killed tifty-four birds,
and probably heads the list for the open
ing dav. These birds were killed near
Penryn. Stewart Epson bagged thirty-five
birds on his first days hunt.
The new line of electric-power trans
mission wires from Folsom to Sacra-
mento is proving a veritable trap for
doves, numbers being killed by flying
against the wires. Game Warden Helmo
states that he saw pair, flying with great
velocity, strike the wire almost simultane-
ously, and one of the birds had its breast
laid open and the other had its head cut
off
A party of ten sportsmen will leave the
City on their bicycles next Sunday for
will carry lunch and full outfit, and hope
for good sport.
Camping parties are leaving the City for
the hills, every day, and large numbers
are making preparations. John Breuner
and family leave for Straw berry and
party composed of Fred Burnham, George
White, Lon Eckhart and John McCue
will leave Folsom for Wrights Lake on the
Georgetown Divide, where they will camp
for six weeks or two months,
Russell Flint and party have returned
from their jaunt into the McCloud River
district. Mr.. Flint reports the trout fish
ing as excellent in that locality although
the fish are not of extra size, two and
half and three pounds being the largest
caught. One raid upon the salmon re-
suited in the catch of ninety pounds of
fish within an hour; he states that the
largest fish caught this season weighed
fifty-fve pounds.
A party composed of Charles Flohr,
Wittenbrock, Damn, Chapman, Mold,
Bryant and Rose made trip down the
river last Sunday and caught over 400 Blue
Channel catfish.
The Capital City Wheelmen's Club will
make the run to Stockton tomorrow and
the scorchers of the club will have a chance
to try their staying qualities. One hun
dred and sixteen members of the club
turned out in the parade on the Fourth
with handsomely decorated wheels. They
were accompanied by several lady riders,
led by Miss Jessie Shaw, Sacramentos =
year-old girl rider. 1t is expected that
nearly 1000 wheelmen will be in line on
Admission day in September next, in
honor of the N. S. G. W. celebration.
The Sacramento Tennis Club has had its
courts placed in excellent condition for
the approaching tournament. Stewart
Epson is rapidly coming in form and will
give visitors and members close call for
trophies. RUTHERFORD.