The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-30
MANY KINDS OF SPORTS,
Rowing, Yachting, Athletic and
CourSing Events of
To-Day.
CYCLING AT CENTRAL PARK.
Interstate Coursing Meet at Ocean
VieW-Rifle and Shot
Gun.

The lovers of outdoor sports will have
an opportunity to-day of selecting from
variety of pastimes an afternoons amuse-
ment which should please the most fas-
tidious of pleasure-seekers.
Not in many years have there been such
excellent programmes of manly sport as
are slated for to-day. The bill of athletics
and aquatics reads:
Regatta, consisting of barge and shell races
at Ell Campo under the auspices of the South
End Rowing Club; Caledonian games at Shell
Mound Park, which will commence at A. N.
and end at P. NJ; Corinthian Yacht Club re-
gatta; rife shooting under the auspices of the
San Francisco SchuetZen Club at San Rafael
races at Bay District Track; interstate coursing
meeting at Ocean View coursing demesne;
bicycle racing at Central Park under the
auspices of the Bay City Wheelmen; trap
shooting tournament at Alameda Point; hand
all contests in all of the professional courts.
1t would appear from this extensive pro-
gramme that the people of this City thor
oughly understand how to enjoy them
selves when an opportunity is offered for
an outing and day away from the grind
of business. The rowing events which will
be held near 81 Campo will probably draw
the largest gathering. as all of the promi-
nent rowing clubs of this City, Vallejo and
Stockton will be represented. AS a pre-
caution to people planning a visit to Ell
Campo in special tugs and craft it may
be said the railroad company will not al
low any landings to be made at Ell Campo
excepting the boats OF the company,
which will carry passengers in season to
see the races.
The CALIFORNIAN games will be witnessed
as usual by thousands of people. Two
special handicap races for amateur ath-
letes have been added to the long pro-
gramme of professional events. The royal
chieftain of the club, D. R. Men ell, has
promised all those who will attend first
class afternoons entertainment.
The Corinthian regatta should prove a
most enjoy able affair. The officers of the
club are royal entertainers and, as one Of
them remarked yesterday, eff we succeed
in catching on to a breeze the grandest
fight of white-winged flyers ever seen on
the bay will be witnessed" Tugs will be
at Powell-street wharf at las A. N. in
readiness to convey sightseers to Tiburon
and vicinity.
The interstate coursing meeting which
will undoubtedly be the most interesting
event OF its kind ever held in this State
will draw largely from the fraternity OF
sportsmen who love good racing on the
green. The park can be reached by taking
he electric cars of the San Francisco and
San Mateo line or py the Southern Pacific
trains which leave Third and Townsend
streets.
Trap-shooters will enjoy them selves at
Alameda Point, where series of bluerock
shoots will take place. Among the lovers
of rife-shooting the event of the year will
be decided at the Schuetzen Club ranges
near San Rafael All of the expert marks
men of this city will be on the grounds to
shoot for special excursion trip ticket to
New York and return, and it goes without
saving fhat tho ~ will
sent California in the big Eastern Schuetzen
Bund festival will make some wonderful
scores to-day. Handbail and other minor
sports will be we'll attended.
The WheeImen.
The interest of all the wheelmen of the
coast WILL of course, be conferred on the
races at Central Park. It will be the first
bicycle race meet ever given in this City
where the advance sale of seats assured
success the day before the races were run.
There will be a larger crowd in attendance
than at any similar event of the kind ever
held here, and as the Bay City Wheelmen are
noted for the efficient manner il which
they handle race meets, everything points
TO an especially fine afternoons sport.
The races will start promptly at p NJ
The track surface has been carefully scru-
tinized and all defects removed; the racers
are all trained to the day and ready to ride
as for their lives. An efficient corps of
officials will be on hand, and altogether
there should not be hitch to mar the
pleasures of the riders and spectators.
Much of the credit due for the excellent
way this meet is being handled is due
Judge F. FL. Kerrigan, w. D. Sheldon, F.
II. Waters Jr., R. NJ. Welch. G. P. Wet
more and W. II. Toepke, directors of the
club, who have been untiring in their
efforts to make the affair success. Their
reward will come this afternoon when they
see all their expectations realized.
The Garden City Cyclers and San Jose
Road Club will ride up from San Jose to-
day to attend the Bay City Wheelmen's
races. The Acme and Reliance clubs will
come across from Oakland also.
Stockton's Racing Crew.
The following letter in reference to the
able oarsmen of the Stockton Athletic
Association, who will wear the blue and
white colors of their club in to-day's re-
gatta, was received last evening:
The racing crew of the Stockton Commercial
Association lett Tuesday evening on the
steamer. They took with them the barge jim
arrival in the City. The men are in the pink
of condition, having trained conscieutiously
for the past six weeks under the careful coach
ing Of Dave Creanor, veteran professional
oarsman. He accompanies the men to look
after them up TO their start in the senior race
on Thursday at Ell Campo.
The crew is composed of: F. Butler, stroke,
15S pounds; H. C. Van Meter, forwardwa
165 pounds; C. B. Hart, afterwaist, 100 pounds :
j. Perrott Jr., bow, 158 pounds; D. B. frahern,
coxswain, ITO pounds.
The men have rowed over the distance of
Thursdays race in 10:4o with ease, loafing for
the last few hundred yards. What they can do
when pressed remains TO be seen when they
are pitted against such men as are in the crews
of the South End, Dolphin, Pioneer and Ariel
clubs. They pull very pretty stroke and have
plenty of muscle and wind to keep them up in
a hard race. The Stockton crew is, however
handicapped by having very poor barge
The barge Oriel, belonging to the club here.
is much faster boat than the Jim Budd the
one selected for the race, but is very slow to
start, and the men rely on their strength and
skill to cut a warm pace if they can only get
away quickly, which is the only redeeming
feature of the boat they have taken with them.
If they had more modern boat they could
show their heels in speedy company. To-
morrow the men will take a spin over the
course at Ell Campo to get accustomed to it. 1t
is hardly thought here that they will win. es
the others will outboat them, but they are
expected to get place in the race.
Governor Budd, who is a member of the club
and who presented the club some years ago
with the barge to be used Thursday will he
present to cheer for the StOekton hove p,,+,o-