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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-25
THE OARSMEN.
Crews That Are Training Hard for
the Regatta.

Next Thursday the greatest regatta ever
held in the West will be rowed at Ell Campo
and the senior and junior four-oared barge
championship of the Pacific Coast will be
decided
The Stockton crew has engaged quarters
at Tburon and will put on their finishing
touches there. They intend to walk over
the Marin County hills between Tiburon
and Ell Campo and then on reaching the
latter place take a spin over the course
which has been selected for the race. This
method of training will be pursued every
day, beginning with next Monday morn
ing. Manager Manchester reports that
his crew is in frst-class trim, and when
questioned as to its chances for victory in
the senior race smiles and his face assumes
a knowing look, as if to say-just wait and
see. This crew is regarded as the dark
horse.
The South End senior crew. champions
for many years past, for some unaccounta-
bic reason is not regarded very favorably
by the sporting fraternity. They have a
good team, with Frank Duplissea as stroke
and Bode in the bow and Carson and
Horstmeyer in the waist.
The senior race, as judged by the sport
ing element, rests between the Pioneers
and Dolphins, with the Stocktons as the
dark horse. The Pioneers and Dolphins
doubtless nave good crews, so have the
Ariels, StOcktons and South Ends, and it
seems to be any ones race.
In the Junior race, owing to the number
OF entries, it seems to be even harder to
pick the winner than in the senior. At one
time it was thought the race would be be-
tween the Olympics and South Ends, but
the South Ends stock has greatly de-
preciated during the past week, and with
Its decline the ST. Mary's, AGNES and
Arlels have risen and even gone above that
OF the Olympics, and now the general
opinion seems to be that the first place is
between the st. Mary's and Acmes, with
the Olympics and Ariels battling hard for
third place, A week ago the St. Mary's
were not considered as being very promi-
nent factors in the race, but during the past
week their improvement has been so
marked that it is pretty safe to say, if they
continue to Improve proportionatelv during
the coming week. that Mr. Jaunet, their
general manager, will have the pleasure oil
conveying the beautiful silver trophy and
the Junior championship to st. Mary 8
classic shades.
The South Ends are, from a knowing
ones idea, TOO light to put much force in
their stroke, and if they seek better than
last place 1t would seem proper for them to
select heavier crew.
The honor of the boom in rowing circles
properly belongs to the energetic mem
ticularly Messrs. Fritz and Herget and the
other mem bers of the regatta COMMITTEES
Had 1T not been for these mem bers row
ing would have remained back number
in sporting circles.
Patrol-boats have been secured by the
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that those interested in shooting will take
the necessary steps to hold a State shooting
meet here during the summer. A good
range could be secured near the city for
both rife and gun shooting, and the offer
ing of suitable prizes would attract large
number of frst-class shots from all over
the State. Not only would the city and
county be benefited by such tournament,
but 1t would awaken an interest in le-
climate sports that would tend to secure
better legislation for fish and game. Let
the Cyclers' Gun Club or the Gilroy Sports
mems Protective Association take hold of
the matter, and the interest awakened
through the State will be such as to make
it success.
The Union Rifle Club will shoot prize
match with the Verein Schuetzen Club in
the near future.
The weather of the past two or three
weeks, has made trout-lshing good, and
there has been rush of fishermen during
the week to the various streams of the
county. From the Llagas and Ysabel
come reports of big catches, while those
returning from the Calaveras and other
streams are equally as loud in praise of the
tine basket taken. The Los Gatos Creek
being easily reached from this city, has
been visited by large numbers of sports
men, and while NO large catches have been
made, good-sized messes were the rule.
Charles P. Owen, Rick Pfster, Chris
Quicker and Curtis Barker have lust re-
turned from fishing trip to Mill Creek
and Pescadero River. They report the
sport good in that vicinity and catch of
$40 in two days.
B. M. Gregory of Los Gatos took eighty
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KNOWLEDGE

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l, accompanied by Mr.. Winship of STAN
ford. Edwin Mohrig, wife and two chill
dren, will ride their wheels from here to
Paso Robes about June Is. At the same
time w. H. Stinson and James Coffroth of
the Olympic Club and Joseph B. Carey
of San Jose will start on trip from here
to Los Angeles.
Horace B. Sperry was in the City last
week. but left Tuesday for Fresno. He
carries his wheel wherever he goes, and
rides all the time.
Thomas H. Doane is contemplating rae
ing once more.
The proposed race to-day over the tri-
angle, between teams from Oakland, San
Jose and San Francisco Boys H Ugh schools,
has been indefinitely postponed. The
team from this City first withdrew, as they
could not train, having to take examina-
tons for Berkeley and Stanford. And now
the San Jose team has withdrawn, as they
think the Oaklanders altogether too
speedy for them. The Oakland team con-
sisted of Messrs. Gooch, Childs, Mahoney,
Baker, Ora and Colby, all speedy young
riders.
Entries for the race meet of the San Jose
Road Club on June will close tonight
with the last delivery of mail at San Jose.
large list is expected and valuable prizes
have been offered in the various events.
Captain Delmas has called a run to Gil
roy tomorrow to witness the finish of the
business-houses' race. The run is divided
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IlNINl0gQll lQO00P000 d99e

the middle of November. 1t is to be hoped
Marysville, Dixon, Redding, Fresno,
Bakersfield and other live wheeling towns
in this State will apply for dates on the
National racing circuit, thus making more
of an inducement for the racers to come
here.
l present this week likenesses of Percy
r. Mott and Walter Jamison. Mott is a
new lumlnary in the cycling sky, but his
few performances have been brilliant and
his future as racer is bright. In build,
manner and countenance he much resem-
bles Julian Pye Bliss, the great Chicago
racer. He rides for the A eme Club Wheel
men of Oakland, and added to the clubs
great list of victories at the Fabiola fete in
Oakland, May II, by winning the one-mlle
handicap, class A.
Walter Jamson is another new rider and
halls from San Jose. From large field of
starters he won the mile novice at the
Garden City Cyclers' meet on April 19,
which was good performance. He will
ride at the Bay City meet on May 30, ana
should show up well in class A handicap
events.
The Garden City Cyclers and San Jose
Road Club have both called runs to this
City on Decoration day to attend::the Bay
City Wheelmens races. An attempt will
be made on the world class A competi-
ton record in the mile scratch event at the
road clubs meet. Tandem pacing will be
used.
The California Associated Cycling Clubs
will hold regular meeting next Saturday
night at the rooms of the Reliance Club
Wheelmen in Oakland. All delegates are
requested to be present. There is
"joker" in one of the amendments to the
bylaws offered at the last meeting which
will be sprung on the unsuspecting dele
gates, am told.
The Southern California racing circuit
has turned out grand fizzle, owing to the
mismanagement of Charles Fuller Gates,
and the class B racers who went down from
here have returned. Walter Foster of the
Olympics, Allan Jones of the Garden Citys
and Burke and Castleman of Los Angeles
have entered in the Bay City Wheelmen's
races. The latter two intended to ride at
Los Angeles on May 80, but say the track
is dangerous so they are coming here.
The Acme Club Wheelmen of Oakland
will have run tomorrow in conjunction
with the trampers' annex of the athletic
club to Lake Chabot, where picnic lunch
will be served, and then they will have a
scOrch home over the hills.
The Bay City Wheelmen's race meet at
Central Park on May so, Decoration day,
promises to be the most successful event of
its kind ever held in this City. No pains
have been spared to make it so, and the
club is deserving of success. The entry
list, published elsewhere in to-day's CALL,
is large and representative, containing the
names of all the prominent class A and B
riders of this part Of the State. 1t is
questionable if the grand stand will be
large enough to accommodate all those
who wish reserved seats, the demand al
ready has been SO large. Clabrough,
Golcher & Co., COS Market street, have the
reserved list. San Jose and Oakland will
be represented, and every cyclist in this
City who wants to be sin it' will be at
Central Park next Thursday.
SPALDING.
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Observation-Disclosures ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
H. Fischer, J. Waterman, G. James and

H. Fischer, J. Waterman, g. James and
A. Mains.
Durham, Carrigan, Hayden Company
"a. F. Coffin, W: A: Landry, ]. s. Egan, W.
A. Scott and ]. R. Knight
Tillman & Bendel entered team at first,
but withdrew to attend the picnic of the
Retail Grocers.
Redington & Col. Mullen, A Goddard,
]. Van der Bos, w Eskin and C. Weber
The distance of the race has not yet been
fully decided upon, but it will probably be
for twenty-five miles, being three times
around the triangle. Much enthusiasm is
manifested in the event among the houses
represented, and as one recognizes in the
entries the names of several riders who are
prominent in racing circles no doubt the
affair will furnish good sport.
j. J. B. Argent, w. R. Phillips and
Walter n. Brunt of the California Cycling
Club took long trip last Saturday. They
left here at 6 A. NJ. and rode. to Mountain
View, thirty miles, without dsmount
Then continued on to San Jose, where they
had lunch afterward resuming their Jour
ney, arriving in the evening at Gilroy, hav-
ing travelled thus far eighty miles. Not
tedious climb up to the Hot Springs,
fifteen miles further, which point they
reached at Z P. NJ, making nearly 100 miles
in thirteen hours.
The Gem City Cyclers is the name of a
new club now being organized by the
wheelmen of Los Gatos
j. E. Alexander of San Jose contemplates
trip to the Yosemite Valley about June
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into two sections, the first of which will
ride lejsurely to destination, while the
second Will be a scorch, led by two tan
dem teams in an endeavor to lower the
San Jose-Gilroy record of 1 hour 80 min
utes. Impromptu races will be held on
the Gllroy track Sunday afternoon.
The following are the dates and loca-
tons on the National cycle racing circuit
for 1895: May go Plainteld; June 1,
Trenton; June s, Clinton, Mass; June IL,
Rochester; June II and ID, Syracuse !;
June Ia and Is, Brooklyn; June II, Bos-
ton; June 10, Waltham; June %, Phila-
delphia; June "a, Scranton, Pa; June %
ana and 70 WIlkesbarre; June p, Carbondalee;
June 70, brooklyn; July 3, Paterson, n.
j.; July 4. Bridgeport and Waltham; July
8, New York; July to Ii, Asbury Park
IL: A. W. meet; July Is to 49, vacation !;
July 70, Baltimore; July %, Williamsport;
July 70, Steubenville; July 81, Cleveland !;
july 81, Dayton; August l, Wauseon; ;
,, August 8, Toledo; August 5, Fort Wayne |;
Chicago; August IL and IA, Minneapolis !;
August Is and II, Marinette, Wis. August
Is and 20, Milwaukee; August % and
70, Mount Clements; August "a to 30,
trips to Canada; 51st, Buffalo; September
2, Hartford; 11th, 18th and 18th, Spring
Waltham; 18th, Paterson, n. j.; 18th,
Reading, Pa; 21st, Philadelphia; 9th and
18th, Baltimore; October l and 2, Nash
vile; 9th and 9th, st. Louis; 18th and 18th,
Council Bluffs; 18th. Omaha; 18th, 18th and
18th, Denver; 22d, Pueblo; 18th and 26th.
Salt Lake; 18th and Both, Hot Springs
Utah; November 1 and 2, San Francisco !:
9th; 9th and 18th, San Antonio, Tex; 10th.
Ell Paso, Tex.
The intermediate dates will be added
from time to time if sanctions are applied
for early; the circuit may go from Utah to
Washington and Oregon before reaching
California if arrangements can be made
in which event it would reach here about
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-25
"GLADYS," THE WHEEL.
Miss Frances E. Wizards Elk.
periences With
BiCvcla

The New Y DIRK Critic in its current issue
devotes some space to a review of book
by Miss Frances e. Willard entitled "How
| Learned to Ride the Bicycle"
Miss Willard, in particularly bright
and interesting manner, relates her ex-
perience with the wheel and compares it
to that greater Wheel" the universe, de-
duclng from its use many lessons which
are ordinarily considered to be in the
province OF the preacher in his pulpit
The following is an extract from the
Critics article:
Her reflections by the Way" should he
sufficient inducement to anybody to buy and
read Miss Frances E. Wizards book. They
give the machine a standing in literature
hardly lower than that of the horse or the ship,
ana Will doubtless be responsible for many
broken nose and dislocated kneecap. Miss
Willard commenced to learn to ride by con-
ce1v1ng a vast respect for her wheel. which led
necessarily to her personifying it. Gladys
such Is the name of her mettlesome steed-
acquired soul, voice, and spoke to her
minds ear, like Baalams beast, she says; OF,
as we should prefer to put it more comprehen-
sively, like Dutch uncle, or like the talking
plank OF the good ship Argo. 81 did not ask you
attempt, "but since you have done so, you must
now learn the laws of balance and exploita-
ton. Strange as the paradox may
seem you will do this best by not trying to do
1t at all. You must make up what you are
pleased to call your mind-make it up speedi-
ly or you will be cast in yon mud-puddle and
no blame to me and thanks to yourself.
Do not look down like an imbecile
upon the steering wheel in front of you.
1t is the curse of life that nearly every
one looks down. Look up and off and
on and out; get forehead and foot into line, the
latter acting as rhythmic spur in the TANKS of
your equilibrated equine: so shall you win
and that right speedily" In addition to pay
ing strict attention to these and other
oracles, Miss Willard engaged the ser
vices Of three stout young Englishmen to hold
her fiery charger while she mounted, and as
many bu1om English lasses to keep it from
dancing around too wildly when it was started.
But the main thing. she found is will. 1t is
the webbing will that makes the wheel to
wobble. 'The bicycle" says Miss Willard, "is
like the world" When the world downs you
you get down on it; but with patience and de-
termination all comes right again. The wheel
is a means of pleasure, means of health, a
means of grace. 1t is temperance reformer
a dress reformer. 1t images in its course the
greater whee!-the universe. For these and
other reasons, plenty as blackberries, she has
learned to ride il at the age of So, and her ad-
vice to the reader is, $50 thou and do likewise"
And do not forget, we would add, that she is the
first to give the machine life, to make it q SYM
Dol, winged word, myth.
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seven large-sized trout from Los Gatos
Greek, above Wrights, in couple of hours
last Wednesday.
Game Warden Mackenzie has been busy
during the past few weeks supervising the
erection of fish ladders in the streams and
notifying those using water for irrigation
purposes from the streams to place screens
at the mount OF the bitches to keep the
young trout from running into them. If
the same precautions had been taken
years ago the streams would now be
abundantly supplied with fish.
Sgd Vincent, a Bay City Wheelman, and
Armstrong, a novice of Alameda, have
entered for the Road Club races
Belloli, Hogg, Hardenbrook, Benson.
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THE FAITHFUL DOG.
Pacific Kennel Clubs Election of
Officers.

The outlook for "warm-belt" discus
sion between the members of the Pacific
Kennel Club at their next meeting is
promising. The general opinion of dog
fanciers is that talk will be discovered a
very cheap commodity when dog topics
will be argued among those of the mem
bers who retired minus blue ribbons at the
late bench show.
1t is an unique stionable fact that Judge
of bench show cannot please all exhibit
ors, but. then, there is such a thing as
fsvoritism, too. which judges have been
accused of, and it is said that ''Honest"
john Davidson did not look through his
glasses at every dog that came before him
for judgment
Some people will be surprised if strict
harmony will prevail at the next meeting
of the club.
The following matter of interest to the
dog-fanciers of this coast appeared in the
American Field of the 18th inst:
The report of the A. X. C. quarterly meeting
shows that several matters of more than ordi-
nary interest were attended to, and the amend
ments recommended by the committee on
rules cannot but attract notice; however, it
appears that the only one yet adopted was
that in regard to kennel clubs OIL the Pacific
Coast organizing committee or board 10 in
vestigate charges and attend to objections
raised out there. The plan is almost exactly
gard to coursing matters, in the Ameri-
can Field of April IA, 1894, and it is
probable that the A. K. C. will not find the
Pacific Coast fanciers as backward in respond
ing to its suggestion the coursing men of
that section have been in accepting ours, for
it is an open secret that the California kennel
clubs have "got it in for" the A. K. C. in a mild
way. The latter in aceeding to the request,
which almost amounted to demand, that the
stipulation for 500 entries should be waived,
as far Pacific Coast shows are concerned,
might as well have been generous and eX-
tended the grant to shows held west Of 100
deg. west longitude, thereby including the
Colorado fanciers, who really are more isolated
than the members OF the California kennel
clubs; their only show tDenver) never has ap.
preached the 500 mark, and the nearest show
to them is at Omaha, some 600 miles away.
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half pound trout near Point Reyes last

half pound trout near Point Reyes last
Sunday.
Al Wilson is engaged in the pleasant oc-
cupatlon OF catching small bass near the
mouth OF Russian River Wilson predicts
that thls Will be great bass year.
Gaslonally visit some of the prominent
french and Italian restaurants and ask
Tor quall on toast or venison steak.
deputy commissioners Mcfarland and
DAVIS have had a 4O0-mile ride down the
sacramento River recently in a canoe. II
any one should ask him, Mcfarland can
gNe very interesting story OF his trip
ments
James Watt is very much perturbed
over an article which appeared in last Sat
urdays CALL in reference to a catch of
small trout which he made recently in
Paper-mlll Creek. Why any man of good
common-sense should feel aggrievedover a
niue truth1ul statement in connection with
an outlng on the stream in question IS
somewhat of a puzzle to all followers of
the angie IN view OF the fact that for some
weeks past the trout taken from the Paper
mill and Lagunitas creeks were all of a
SIZE less than six or seven inches.
MT. watts catch compared favorably
with the creels of other anglers who had
whipped the stream this month, conse-
quently the very popular Scottish angler
cannot have any reasonable right to OBJ
lect to the truth. 1t must be said, how
ever, OF the gentleman in question that
there are few men on this coast who can
handle rod and cast a fly with the same
skill as MI Watt, and it goes without say
ing that when he encounters a brother
angler on stream or lake where large fish
dwell, the race for high hook is generally
won by the gentleman who had "cast'' an
objection against statement that his creel
contained number of small fish at the
end OF a recent days outing on the we'll
logged Paper-mill Creek.
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LADY CYCLISTS.
A Clique In the San Jose Ladies'
Cycling Club.

- OA4NO III li]S Sdn jose LADIES'
Cycling Club.
War! knewit. My woman's intuition
told me so. Denials thick and fast are
heaped upon the assertion that there is a
lack Of interest in the Ladies' Cycling
Club.
The club, am informed, is in a most
prosperous condition except for the exist
ence within Its sacred confines of a
Clique" This is the "rift within the
Lutte" That all men are created equal is a
historical fact, but you see they did not
mention women, and until the precious
creatures are included in this statement
they will be club members in name only.
Dainty shoulders will be shrugged and
penclled eyebrows uplifted in the same
feminine manner whenever one outside of
the 'cllque exclusive" puts in an appear
ance.
Truly these cliques are abominable
things and do much toward running a
club, 1t is surely objectionable for any
member or members to wilfully disregard
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The sport of cycling is still in the
ascendency, and, as will be seen in the
CALLS department of wheeling, club runs
on Sunday are becoming a very popular
fad. Oarsmen are training like beavers for
the regatta, and the lovers of coursing are
anxiously waiting for the big meeting on
Thursday. The ri1e-shooters will have
some spirited contests at the San Rafael
ranges on the Both inst, and the winners
will go East to participate in the big shoot
ing festival. Anglers, athletes and sports
men are having considerable enjoyment in
their respective forms of sport.
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THE CRICKET FIELD.
The Citrus Colony Club Defeats the
Pacific Club.

On Friday evening, May II, an eleven of
the Pacific Cricket Club journeyed to
Placer County to fulfill an engagement
with the Citrus Colony Club of Penryn.
The night was spent in Rocklin, and
next morning the team was driven out
to the ground of the Citrus Colony Club.
The home team went to the bat first and
made lac runs. Against this total the WISH
tors, who seemed to break down unac-
countably, were able to make only 56.
Being more than so runs behind the Pa
citic Club men followed on" but in the
second inning were able to make only So
runs. The home team thus won by an
inning and 50 runs. The score was as fol-
lows: